CALL FOR ENTRY
POP CORN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2024
RULES & REGULATIONS
The Argentario Art Day Association, in collaboration with the Municipality of Monte Argentario, is promoting Pop Corn Short Film Festival, a short film competition open to all national and international video-makers.
Deadline: February 1st – June 2 2024
Submission fee:
Early Bird Deadline - free entry - February 28
Regular Deadline - 10 € - April 15
Late Deadline - 15 € - May 20
Extended Deadline - 20 € - June 2
Festival dates: July 25-26-27, 2025
Festival venue: Piazzale dei Rioni, Porto Santo Stefano, Monte Argentario (GR)
THE FESTIVAL INCLUDES THREE CATEGORIES:
Italian Short Movie
International Short Movie
Animation Short Movie
Length: not exceeding 20 minutes, including opening and closing credits.
Theme: all short films must follow the theme “"Lightness, the weight of happiness”, suggested by the Festival.
Language: Italian and foreign language with Italian or English subtitles.
Format: all kinds of formats are accepted, extension MOV, AVI, MP4, BLUE-RAY including short films shot with mobile phones, smart phones, go-pro and so on.
Short films that have already won or have been presented at other festivals are also eligible. Each applicant may submit one or more works.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
NO LATER THAN JUNE 2, 2025 submit your work via filmfreeway.com platform.
Selected works that will participate in the Pop Corn Short Film Festival will be evaluated by an Artistic Jury composed by industry professionals that will be announced at www.popcornfestivaldelcorto.it.
SELECTED SHORT FILMS:
Applicants whose work(s) will be selected to participate in the Pop Corn Short Film Festival on July 25-26-27, 2025 will be notified by e-mail by June 10, 2025 and must fill out and sign the participation form we will send them.
SELECTED SHORT FILM MUST:
Be sent NO LATER THAN JUNE 15, 2025
Provide an English and/or Italian dialogue list if the short is in a non-italian language
Contain promotional material such as: photos of the director, scene photos, short film poster, synopsis, director’s biography, trailer ecc. All material will be used for the Festival catalogue and the social media promotion. The decisions of the Artistic Jury are final. The film shorts in competition could be screened according to the procedures and the schedule of the exclusive responsibility of the Festival Management.
AWARDS
Best Italian Short Movie":
- cash prize of € 1.000
- Pop Corn Festival Trophy
Best International Short Movie:
- cash prize of € 1.000
- Pop Corn Festival Trophy
Best Animation Short Movie:
- cash prize of € 1.000
- Pop Corn Festival Trophy
- "Raffaella Carrà" prize to the short film with the most original idea will receive a cash prize of € 4.000. The short film with the best original idea will be awarded with a cash prize of € 4.000. The short film will be also screened at Sudestival, the Film Festival of the City of Monopoli twinned with the Pop Corn Festival.
- Audience Award: Pop Corn Festival Trophy.
- Panalight Prize € 8.000 for film and television equipment rental
- Mujeres del Cinema Prize to the short film made by a female author or to a story focused on a theme related to the female universe
Prizes will be awarded to authors or their representatives who guarantee their presence at the award ceremony.
By submitting a work to the Festival, the applicant assumes the responsibility for owning the rights to it and authorizes this Festival to register it in its archives and to submit it to technical and artistic collaborators.
The Festival disclaims any responsibility for the reproduction of audiovisuals containing copyrighted material for which the SIAE position has not been regularized. Joining the competition implies full acceptance of the regulations. The Court of Grosseto has jurisdiction for any cases and/or disputes.
Finally, the Festival organization reserves the right, if necessary, to make any changes to these Regulations without prior notice.
Application to the 2025 Pop Corn Short Film Festival competition implies full acceptance by the author of this call for entry.
Pursuant to Articles 13 and 14 of EU Regulation 2016/679 of 27/04/2016 (GRDP) all personal data that are provided for the competition or are related to it are processed by the organizers for the sole purpose of the conduct, management and control of the competition itself and the dissemination of its final outcomes.
