1. ORGANIZATION
The Festival is promoted by Associazione culturale Ennio Flaiano and Premi Internazionali Flaiano.
The Festival will take place in Pescara (Italy), from 21st to 22nd of March 2025.
2. SECTIONS
Multimedia works may be admitted (shorts movies) in competitive section. A jury of experts will select shorts for competitive sections.
The competitive sections are:
1 - SCRITTURA E IMMAGINE
Fiction works, topic free.
Prize: 1.000 euros
2 - ANIMACORTO
Animated short film section. Every animated shorts must be subscribed in this section.
Prize: 500 euros
3 – SPAZIO ABRUZZO
Shorts set and/or shooted in Abruzzo, a region of Italy, or shooted by directors from Abruzzo.
Prize: 500 euros
4 – CORTOAMBIENTE
Shorts focused on environment and environmental sustainability, pollution and environmental protection.
Prize: 500 euros
5 – CORTOSCUOLA (ONLY ITALY)
Shorts realized by students from elementary school to high school.
The topic is free.
Prize: 200 euros
3.ELIGIBLE WORKS
The duration of the shorts must not exceed 15 minutes, excluding titles and credits, anyway not over 16’.
Shorts must be subtitled (in Italian or in English).
The Festival accepts only short films and documentaries produced after 1st January 2023 and shorts not registered to previous editions of the Festival.
Each work can only be entered for one section, and the choice must be clearly indicated.
Each director could be subscribe only one short movie.
Submission is free of charge.
4.SUBMISSION METHODS
Materials sent for the competition will not be returned and will be part of the Associazione culturale Ennio Flaiano and Mediamuseum archive. Shorts will used also for public projections after the Festival.
For the selection the authors have submit their shorts on line using FilmFreeway.
File must be downloadable.
Submitter must necessarily indicate the following data:
Title
Competition section (Scrittura e Immagine OR Animacorto OR Spazio Abruzzo Or Cortoambiente)
Country
Production and distribution year
Running time
Direction and email of director
Story and screenplay
Actors
Email
Deadline: 8th FEBRUARY 2024
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COPIES SUBMITTED WILL BE USED FOR SCREENING.
In absence of one or more required conditions and if the short’s link is not accessible, expired or incorrect, selection committee can decide to not evaluate the short.
5.SCREENING
Finalist works and winner works will be screened during the Festival (21-22 March 2025) at the S.Andrea Cinema, Pescara.
We’ll notify by mail only if your short will be selected.
6. GENERAL ISSUES
Winners will be contacted by email.
The awarding of the prize depends on the presence of the prizewinner.
Award ceremony will take place in Pescara, on Saturday 22nd March 2025.
The Jury’s decision will be final and incontestable.
Once they are submitted, all participants fully accept our rules and regulations for participating.
Shorts submitted may be used for future events of Associazione Flaiano.
For any controversy the Italian text is the authoritative version.
The settling of any other controversy lies in the competence of the Court of Pescara.
Associazione culturale Ennio Flaiano
International Short Film Festival "Scrittura e Immagine"
Piazza Alessandrini, 34 - 65127 Pescara - ITALIA
festivalcortopescara@gmail.com
