Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio

V COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION OF BLACK CINEMA ADÉLIA SAMPAIO PUBLIC NOTICE 2/2022

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REGULATION

I – THE PURPOSE

1.1 – The purpose of this CALL FOR PROPOSALS is to select and disseminate audiovisual productions made by Black Women to participate in the V Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio, to be held from November 6th to 12th, 2022. This edition will be in a hybrid format, with the films screened online and in a live event. Its goal is to promote the interchange among black female directors of world cinema. The V Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio will select short, medium, and feature films and telefilms that have been made by black female directors (cis and trans), starting in January 2019 in digital format. In the case of productions whose audio has not been captured in Portuguese, the film must be subtitled in Portuguese.

II – THE ORGANIZATION

2.1 – The V Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio is a production of Sebastiana Mídias e Produções.

III – COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION

3.1 – - The IV Black Film Festival Adélia Sampaio - will consist of a competitive screening of films in the following categories:
3.2 – Short Film - For this notice, short films are considered to be cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and music video, with a maximum length of up to 29 (thirty) minutes, finalized in .MOV or MP4 digital format, Codec h264 (content and credits);
3.3 – Medium-length or Telefilm - For this notice, medium-length films are considered cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, with a minimum running time of 30 (thirty) to 69 (sixty-nine minutes), finalized in .MOV or MP4 digital format, Codec h264 (content and credits);
3.4 – Feature Film - For this notice, feature films are cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, with a running time exceeding 70 minutes, finalized in digital format .MOV or .MP4, Codec h264.

IV – APPLICATION PROCEDURES

4.1 – The application will be made through the FilmFreeway platform or form available on the website (only for Brazilian films).
4.2 – The data required for registration are:
a) Completion of the registration form;
b) 03 (three) photos / frames of the film in .jpg, 300 dpi resolution.
c) 01 frontal photo of the director's face in .jpg, resolution 300 dpi.
d) Digital poster of the film in .jpg, high resolution, if any.
e) Declaration of copyrights
f) Copy of the film for viewing, if in a foreign language, it must be subtitled in Portuguese. g) Teaser or trailer of the film, if any.
4.3 – It is forbidden the participation - in the V Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio - of works that may characterize any kind of institutional or corporate promotion and contents of any kind of prejudice and discrimination.
4.4 – Films made in other languages will only be accepted if subtitled in Portuguese.
4.5- – The films selected for the 2022 edition of the V Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio will be screened online in a platform to be announced later and in the face-to-face event to be held in Brasília, Federal District.
4.6 – The selected films will be part of the collection of Exhibition Adélia Sampaio and may be shown in itinerant exhibitions in schools and other educational institutions. The production of the Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio undertakes to inform the directors of the participation of their works in these events, under the commitment that they will never be used for exhibitions for commercial purposes.
4.7 – The registration of the work will only be validated if the film (whose link must be informed on the registration form) can be viewed during the selection period.
4.8 - Submissions to the festival are free for Brazilian films submitted through the online form. For films submitted through the FilmFreeway platform, a registration fee of five (5) euros will be charged.

V – THE SELECTION PROCESS

5.1 – The selection of films for the V Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio will be conducted by a Curator, appointed by the organizing team of the event.
5.2 – The coordination of the IV Black Cinema Competitive Exhibition Adélia Sampaio will disclose the selected productions through email, its official website and social media.
§ 1o – The email through which the inscription was done will be the communication channel of the Exhibition’s organization with the selected productions. Therefore, the coordination of the V Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio is exempt from any responsibility for failure to receive.
5.3 – The selection of films for the V Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio implies the exhibition of the same during the event. Being forbidden to the proponent the possibility of withdrawing it from the competition.
5.4 – - Will be accepted productions completed from January 2019.
5.5 - Will be accepted entries of films that have not been selected in previous editions
5.6 – After being selected, the director should send an email, identified with the name of the work to the address cineastaseprodutorasnegras@gmail.com, with the link to download the film, as well as other information requested.

VI – CALENDAR

Online registration: from June 20 to August 20, 2022.
Notification of selected applicants until October 3, 2021.
Deadline for sending the e-mail with a link to download the film until October 20, 2022.
Exhibition's Date: 06 to 12 November 2022.

VII – GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS

7.1 – The organization of the V Competitive Black Film Festival Adélia Sampaio - reserves the right to display on any media excerpts of the films - up to 1 minute of each and / or trailer - of the participating films for the purpose of disclosure of the Exhibition.
7.2 – It is up to the Director and the Coordination of the V Competitive Black Film Festival Adélia the solution of any case omitted in this call.
7.3 – The participation in the V Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio implies full acceptance of these regulations.

VIII – ABOUT THE AWARDS

8.1- The directors of the V Black Cinema Competitive Exhibition Adélia Sampaio will be responsible for appointing the members of the Award Jury.
8.2 - The selected films will compete in the following categories:

Best Feature Film
Best Medium Length Film or Telefilm
Best Short Film
Best Film Popular Jury
Best Direction
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Soundtrack
Best Screenplay
Best Actress

8.3 – The Award Jury may, separately, grant honorable mentions, as long as it is in agreement with the direction of the V Black Film Festival Adélia Sampaio Adélia Sampaio, and may also refrain from granting any award or trophy when it considers it necessary.
8.4 – The Award Jury may grant trophies to guests, people, or institutions connected to the event.
8.5 – The trophies will be sent by mail to the winners.
8.6 - The Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio is responsible for one attempt of sending the trophy. In case of return by the post office, the re-sending will be the responsibility of the person responsible for the film.
8.7 – In case of works where the responsibility is of a team, in any competing categories of this announcement, the trophy will be unique, being up to the team to decide about its ownership.
8.8 - The jury will not necessarily award all the categories listed.
8.9 – The list with the winning films in each category, chosen by the Award Juries, will be homologated and announced at the closing ceremony of the V Competitive Black Film Festival Adélia Sampaio and then published to the community at large, the official website and social networks.

IX – APPEALS

9.1 – The selection and award jury is sovereign, there being no appeal from its decision.

V Black Film Competitive Exhibition Adélia Sampaio
Brasília, June 2022.