The Sea Film Festival has the sea as its central theme with the aim of transmitting the expression of a sea seen, felt and experienced as an environment and ecology, work and resource, nucleus of literature and moods and represented according to emotions, the images, sounds and meanings given by various directors to their cinematographic expressions

Categories:

1. MARINE ENVIRONMENT
2. MARINE PROFESSIONS
3. ART AND CULTURE
4. SCHOOL PROJECTS (Students, classes, schools, interscholastic groups)

What is evaluated:

I. Relevance to the category
II. Video quality
III. Emotions aroused

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Il Sea Film Festival ha come tema centrale il mare con l’obiettivo di trasmettere l’espressione di un mare visto, sentito e vissuto come ambiente ed ecologia, lavoro e risorsa, nucleo di letteratura e stati d'animo e rappresentato secondo le emozioni, le immagini, i suoni e i significati dati dai vari registi alle loro espressioni cinematografiche

Categorie:

1. AMBIENTE MARINO
2. PROFESSIONI MARINE
3. ARTE E CULTURA
4. PROGETTI SCOLASTICI (Studenti, classi, istituti scolastici, gruppi interscolatici)

Cosa è valorizzato:

I. Attinenza alla categoria
II. Qualità del video
III. Emozioni suscitate

The best videos in the four categories (environment, professions, art and culture and school projects) will be rewarded: among these four, one will be the overall winner of the Festival, the other three will be winners of their respective categories.
There will also be two special mentions reserved for:
- the best film made with cartoon technique
- the best film that talks about the Province of La Spezia.

Exclusively for schools or individual students of the Province of La Spezia who will participate in the competition in the School Projects category, the Montemarcello Magra Vara Park, Sponsor of the event, has made available a special prize for the work that best interprets the theme of ecology and marine and environmental protection relating to the La Spezia area.

The winners of the categories and the overall winner of the Festival will receive a work of local craftsmanship, finely decorated by hand and personalized, a prize whose economic value will depend on the availability of our supporters and the possibility to be host in La Spezia on the occasion of the award ceremony.

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Saranno premiati i migliori video delle quattro categorie (ambiente, professioni, arte e cultura e progetti scolastici): tra questi quattro uno sarà il vincitore assoluto del Festival, gli altri tre saranno vincitori delle rispettive categorie.
Ci saranno anche due menzioni speciali riservate a:
- migliore filmato realizzato con la tecnica cartoon
- miglior filmato che parla della Provincia della Spezia.

Esclusivamente per le scuole o i singoli studenti della Provincia della Spezia che parteciperanno al concorso nella categoria School Projects, il Parco di Montemarcello Magra Vara, Patrocinatore dell'evento, ha messo a disposizione uno speciale premio per l'opera che meglio interpreterà il tema dell'ecologia e della tutela marina e ambientale relativa al territorio spezzino.

I vincitori delle categorie ed il vincitore assoluto del Festival riceveranno un’opera di artigianato locale, finemente decorata a mano e personalizzata, un premio il cui valore economico dipenderà dalla disponibilità dei nostri sostenitori e la possibilità di soggiornare a La Spezia in occasione dell'evento di premiazione.

Requirements:

• Documentaries, animations, music videos and short films are allowed (maximum duration 10 minutes)
• Each competitor will be able to send as many videos as they wish.
• Each short film must be entered in only one category
• A description must accompany each video.
• All videos that are not dubbed into Italian must be accompanied by the script with the time code, for translation and subtitling. SRT format required.
• Scenes suspected of mistreatment or manipulation of the species containing obvious copyright violations will not be permitted.
• All material must be free from copyright protection restrictions

Regulation:

• The jury expresses itself according to the parameters of judgment and the result is not contestable. The prizes to be awarded may be subject to change based on the availability of the event's supporters.
• The organizers, the jury and all the staff believe that the short films presented at the Sea Film Festival are free from any artistic property rights or any other rights that may belong to third parties. All authors who decide to submit their short film to the Sea Film Festival must guarantee the organizers that the works presented are free of copyright. All responsibility for any complaint or dispute that may be presented against the signed short films lies solely and exclusively with the authors. The organisers, the jury and all the staff of the Sea Film Festival cannot in any way be held responsible in the event of a dispute or dispute.
• All participating videomakers authorize the saving of their short films and their use during the final evening of the Sea Film Festival, as well as being able to show them in whole or in part to promote the Sea Film Festival and/or activities related to it (always quoting the name of the author, but without giving rise to the payment of royalties and/or compensation of any kind).
• The jury's decisions are unquestionable. Participation in the Sea Film Festival implies acceptance of all the conditions established in these Regulations.

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Requisiti:

• Sono ammessi documentari, animazioni, video musicali e cortometraggi (durata massima 10 minuti)
• Ciascun concorrente potrà inviare quanti video desidera.
• Ogni cortometraggio dovrà essere iscritto ad una sola categoria
• Una descrizione dovrà accompagnare ogni video.
• Tutti i video che non sono doppiati in lingua italiana dovranno essere accompagnati dalla sceneggiatura con il time code, per la traduzione e il sottotitolaggio. Richiesto il formato SRT.
• Non saranno ammesse scene sospettate di maltrattamento, manipolazione della specie contenenti palesi violazioni di copyright.
• Tutto il materiale deve essere esente da restrizioni di protezione del copyright

Regolamento:

• La giuria si esprime secondo i parametri di giudizio ed il risultato non è contestabile. I premi da assegnare potranno subire modifiche in base alla disponibilità dei sostenitori dell'evento.
• Gli organizzatori, la giuria e tutto lo staff ritengono che i cortometraggi presentati al Sea Film Festival siano liberi da qualsiasi diritto di proprietà artistica o da qualsiasi altro diritto che possa spettare a terzi. Tutti gli autori che decidono di sottoscrivere il proprio cortometraggio al Sea Film Festival devono garantire agli organizzatori che le opere presentate sono libere da diritti d'autore. Tutta la responsabilità per ogni eventuale reclamo o contestazione che dovesse essere presentato contro i cortometraggi sottoscritti è solo ed esclusivamente quella degli autori. Gli organizzatori, la giuria e tutto lo staff del Sea Film Festival non potranno in alcun modo essere ritenuti responsabili in caso di controversia o contenzioso.
• Tutti i videomaker partecipanti autorizzano il salvataggio dei loro cortometraggi e il loro utilizzo durante la serata finale del Sea Film Festival, nonché a poterli mostrare in toto o in parte per promuovere il Sea Film Festival e/o attività ad esso legate (citando sempre il nome dell'autore, ma senza dar luogo a pagamento di royalties e/o compensi di sorta).
• Le decisioni della giuria sono insindacabili. La partecipazione al Sea Film Festival implica l'accettazione di tutte le condizioni stabilite nel presente Regolamento.

Overall Rating
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  • Logan Mock

    Thank you for everything! Appreciate the hard work and kind organizers.

    June 2024
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks Logan for your feedback. We are happy that you appreciated the work that goes into organizing the Festival and we thank you for participating with one of your short films. We hope to have you again as a participant in the next edition of the SeaFilmFestival. See you soon!!!

  • Merícia Lucas

    We're really grateful that our short film ‘We're All Involved On This’ was included in your festival. Congratulations to the entire Festival organisation for their professionalism. Thank you very much from Madeira Island, Portugal.

    June 2024
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you Mericia for your feedback and thank you for participating with your original and creative short film in our Festival. We really hope to have you again as a participant in the next edition of the SeaFilmFestival. We are waiting for you!

  • Thank you for selecting our short film Axinos to be part of your prestigious film festival. It was a great honor!!!!

    www.creativeiconfilms.com

    June 2024
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you Calliopi for your message. We were very pleased to receive your feedback at our Festival and congratulations on the video you made... very tender and nice... We hope to be able to have you again as a participant in our Festival and to receive another beautiful video on the sea for the next edition of the SeaFilmFestival We are waiting for you!!!

  • Elisabetta Zavoli

    SEA Film Festival has been very well organized and truly dedicated to oceans and seas topics. Even if I couldn't join because of working reason, the communication has always been clear and prompt. Next year, I will for sure join the Festival that is becoming the festival of reference for oceans issues in the Italian and international film festivals panorama. Highly recommended!

    June 2024
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you Elisabetta for your comment on our Festival. It was very nice for us to read your message and it was a pleasure and an honor for the jury to be able to receive and vote for your video which was selected as the best in the marine professions category. We really hope to be able to have you again as a participant in future editions of the SeaFilmFestival and to receive a new video from you. Thanks again and congratulations!!!

  • Stéphane Berla

    Thank you to the team of the Sea Film Festival for the award and the great organisation !!!

    May 2023
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you Stéphane for your feedibak and for you participation in the Sea Film Festival. Congratulation for your beautiful work and for the award!