PLEASE DONT' FORGET, SEGNINCORTO 2022 - MAKING FOOD IN THE ALPS, IS AN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO ALPI'S FOOD, AGRICULTURE, BREEDING, TYPICAL PRODUCTIONS, EVERYTHING RELATED TO MOUNTAIN FOOD. IT ONLY ACCEPTED FILMS RALATED ON THIS TOPIC.

Valle Camonica, a large Alpine valley located in northern Italy, has distinctive features of cultural and environmental uniqueness that have allowed it to obtain two important UNESCO awards.
The Borgo degli Artisti Association, together with the Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica, as managing body of the Cultural District, with the collaboration of the "Restaurateurs of Valle Camonica - Sebino" and the active support of the Ethnography and Social History Archive of Lombardy Region, promotes the international short video competition SEGNINCORTO 2022. The competition is dedicated to the memory of Pierfausto Bettoni, inspirer and tireless animator of the Borgo degli Artisti and promoter of the first few editions of Segnincorto.

The peculiarities of the environment and landscape of the Alps have created the conditions for extraordinary biodiversity, enriched by the pastoral and agricultural activities of the people who have settled in these places since the Paleolithic. Different people, united by a macro-regional identity significantly represented by the food heritage, composed of material elements (raw materials, rural buildings, work tools, kitchen utensils) and intangible elements (folk festivals, farming practices , cultivation, food and wine traditions).

The theme for the 2022 edition of Segnincorto will be "MAKING FOOD IN THE ALPS", a simple way to represent the richness and complexity of the Alpine communities’ life.

The prizes up for grabs for each winner are as follows:
● Category Cortostorie: € 2.500,00 (two thousand five hundred) to the first classified
● Category Documentari: € 2.500,00 (two thousand five hundred) to the first classified
● Category Cortissimi: € 1.000,00 (a thousand) to the first classified.
The Jury has the unquestionable faculty to award non-cash prizes and special mentions to short videos selected for particular merits and they will motivate this choice.

Please don't forget, Segnincorto 2022 - MAKING FOOD IN THE ALPS, is an international film festival dedicated to Alpi's food. It only accepts films related to this topic.

The SEGNINCORTO 2022 International Competition is open to the participation of authors and directors of short videos divided into the following categories:

A. Cortostorie: for narrative, recitative and poetic videoproductions lasting from 3 to 20 minutes (including opening and closing credits);
B. Documentaries: for video productions of a maximum duration of 30 minutes that will document, represent or exemplify production processes or techniques, institutional or social processes and projects;
C. Very short: for micro productions, reels, commercials with a maximum duration of 1 minute.

All useful information and the complete rules can be found in the competition announcement, which can be downloaded on this page http://www.borgoartistibienno.it/segnincorto/

To register, please send the participation form, completed in its entirety, to the e-mail address bdasegnincorto2022@gmail.com. You can write to the same e-mail for all questions and requests related to the competition announcement.
The deadline for the delivery of the films is set without fail at 15 September 2022