The festival is open to authors from all around the world. The term "author" means the person (individual or group) that produced the film personally or has run production using contributions from third parties and is the one to present it to the contest. All works received here:
https://www.sirenefotografia.it/sirenewavemovie/partecipa/
will be reviewed by the Selection Committee. The Selection Committee will determine acceptances at its discretion. The works have to be no longer than 15 minutes. It is possible to show some works without time limit, by invitation only.
1. PROXIMITY CINEMA DEFINITION
Stan Brakhage writes about his home movies, in his "In defense of amateur":
“As these home movies have come to be valued and grown into a public life, I, as their maker, have been called a “professional”, an “artist” and an “amateur”. Of those three terms, the last one –“amateur”– is the one I am truly most honored by.”
Video must bring attention back to the subjectivity and individuality of filmmaking. Like cinema, it allows to enhance the qualities of the physical / material texture of the image, its fabric, but it’s accomplished through a gesture that appears inherent in the recording device itself. Video has a specific grammar, which gives a new meaning to the peculiar grammar of film.
Proximity cinema is therefore a possibility implicit in the same act of filming through digital video tools. Proximity cinema means a transversal path that links family cinema and experimental cinema, in the name of innovation, freedom from industrial and market conventions; an expressive need of the author, free from external productive influences, drawing on already existing or expressly created images, without implying a script, based on an extreme, extemporaneous subjectivity, where the proximity to the treated topics is affective, emotional, but also geographical and economic.
The camera becomes an extension of the author's gaze, allowing a sort of filmed diary.
2. FEATURES OF SUBMITTED SHORT FILM
The short films submitted must meet the following essential requirements:
• They must be self-produced works;
• The topic is free. We are looking for projects of an artisanal and experimental nature, attentive to research into the expressive language of video. The presentation of works that deviate from the usual narrative is encouraged;
• Importance will be given to the originality of the soundtrack: therefore, works in which audio and video complement and enrich each other, avoiding relegating the entire soundtrack to the accompanying music, will be privileged;
• Each author can submit up to TWO film;
• The duration of each single film shall not exceed 15’ including titles;
• Film with original languages other than Italian shall be subtitled in Italian or English;
• Video art or any work made for commercial purposes will be excluded.
The festival does not oppose the "professional" to the amateur, which is intended in its etymological sense, i.e. lover. Therefore, the discrimination between professional and amateur works will not be based on the funding of the production, but rather on the idea of cinema expressed in the short film.
3. SELECTION COMMITTEE
The Selection Committee is composed of three people with proven experience in the cinematography field.
The members of the organizing committee and their families are not eligible to take part in the contest.
4. CALENDAR
The screenings and the debate with the authors, whether live or online, of the selected works will take place on the dates of the festival via communication via email provided, on the website http://www.sirenefotografia.it and on the social channels of the “Gruppo Fotoamatori Sestesi and “Sirene wAve Movie”. The authors of the selected works will be notified well in advance to participate in the awards days.
5. ORGANIZATION
The organizer, Gruppo Fotoamatori Sestesi, via Dante 6, Sesto San Giovanni – (Milan) will take care of:
• publication of the notice of the contest and the registration form on the site for the www.sirenefotografia.it, www.gieffesse.it as well as in their social channels ;
• collection of all the requested material via:
https://www.sirenefotografia.it/sirenewavemovie/partecipa/
To get your film involved it is INDISPENSABLE to fill out the entry form and accept the rules on our website.
• communicate to the authors of all the decisions taken by the selection committee regarding selection and relative scheduling of events.
Gruppo Fotoamatori Sestesi will have the unappealable right to reject works that do not comply with technical and administrative requirements. These include among others, the correct completion of registration form.
6. WORK SUBMISSION
Each author must complete the entry form for free on or website.
To get your film involved it is INDISPENSABLE to fill out the entry form and accept the rules HERE!!!!!!11!1!:
https://www.sirenefotografia.it/sirenewavemovie/partecipa/
Each film must be downloadable by appropriate check when registering the film. The audiovisual file must be of the mp4 type, H.264 compression, min. resolution HD ready 720p - max 2gb.
If the work is not downloadable and / or the required documentation is not sent via our website by the deadline for sending the works, admission to the final phase will be forfeited.
7. COPYRIGHT
Films submitted to the contest must be free from any kind of rights held by third parties, about the videos and soundtracks. Participants must fully accept the rules and release the organizers from any liability in this regard.
8. PRIVACY POLICY
Pursuant to Italian Legislative Decree 196/03, the collected data will be used exclusively for Gruppo Fotoamatori Sestesi archive. They will not be disclosed to third parties. The provision of data is optional, but without references it will not be possible to provide some services. The sending of information by e-mail does not guarantee the anonymity for which the interested party must make an explicit request. The interested party may exercise the rights referred to in Article 7 of Legislative Decree 196/03. The owner of the data processing is Gruppo Fotoamatori Sestesi - via Dante, 6 - Sesto San Giovanni (MI).
9. AUTHORISATION FOR PUBLIC PROJECTIONS AND STREAMING
By signing the registration form, authors give their consent to playing of their work in events related to the contest and to the use by the organizers for any other projections, upon notice to the authors.
10. INFO AND CONTACTS
For more information about the contest please visit www.sirenefotografia.it or send an email to sirenewavemovie@gmail.com
