Food Film Fest 2016 (0)

Festival start: 13 September 2016      Festival end: 17 September 2016

The FOOD FILM FEST, sponsored by Montagna Italia Association and the Chamber of Commerce of Bergamo, with the artistic direction of Festival Internationale del Cinema Association, is an international competition dedicated to food and film. The event aims to promote a culture of food through conscious films, shorts, documentaries and animations that develop around the taste, culinary art, the issues related to a proper nutrition and food production, to biodiversity and gastronomic memory as a collective heritage to be preserved.

There are 4 contest sections:

FOOD MOVIE section is open to films in any format, short and long movies. The works should present food as an expression of culture and knowledge, as passion or obsession, as a representative of a social condition.

DOCUMENTARY section is open to documentary works in any format, that have to subject agribusiness issues, issues related to nutrition, the memory of ancient recipes, the culinary traditions of a given territory, the production of particular products, food as passion or resource, nutritional education.

ANIMATION section is open to works in which pictures, graphic line, sculptures or materials come to life through a variety of techniques, becoming long and short animated films, dedicated to food.

ERG EAST LOMBARDY
Open to works in any format, films that deal with farming, cultivation, companies, enogastronomy landscapes linked to the eastern Lombardy territory (specifically Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona, Mantua). The competition is part of the European Region of Gastronomy project, born as an instrument to improve local valorization, integration and international trade.

Films must be submitted not later than 20.06.2016.

Read the regulation for any further information.


The works must be sent to:
Festival Internazionale del Cinema Association
press@festivalcinemadarte.it www.festivalcinemadarte.it

FOOD MOVIE – 1st prize
DOC - 1st prize
ANIMATION - 1st prize
ERG EAST LOMBARDY - 1st prize

REGULATION


Art. 1 - The Organizing Commitee of Food Film fest organizes Food Film Fest – 3nd edition, with the aim of contributing to greater disclosure and affirmation of the values of Culture and Food through the language of film.

The festival brings together films and docufilms with this format: short and long films, documentaries and animated films; films in which the topic of food is explored from the perspective of art and culture, investigated as an inquiry or a research.

The Festival is open both to foreign and Italian producers, as well as cinema companies, associations and singles, and includes the following competitions:

- FOOD MOVIE
Open to works in any film format, narrative works that talk about the world of food as an expression of culture and knowledge, as a representative of a social condition, as passion or obsession.

- DOC
Open to documentary works in any film format, which have as main topic agribusiness issues, problems related to nutrition, memory of ancient recipes, culinary traditions of a specific territory, production of particular products, food as passion or resource, nutrition education.

- ANIMATION
Open to works in which pictures, graphic line, sculptures or materials come to life through a variety of techniques, becoming long and short animated films, dedicated to food.

- ERG EAST LOMBARDY
Open to works in any format, films that deal with farming, cultivation, companies, enogastronomy landscapes linked to the eastern Lombardy territory (specifically Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona, Mantua). The competition is part of the European Region of Gastronomy project, born as an instrument to improve local valorization, integration and international trade.

Films for the competition must have been produced after 1/1/2011.


Art. 2 – Producers and directors may participate in the competition with one or more films.


Art. 3 – The Festival will take place from 13th to 17th September 2016. The projection schedule will be decided by the Festival Organizing Committee.


Art. 4 – The Organizing Committee designates the artistic direction, only responsible for the admission in the competition and the Jury, only responsible for awarding or not the prizes to the films.


Art. 5 – If suggested by the Jury, the Organizing Committee has the right to evaluate the correspondence between selected films and the category they have been selected for.


Art. 6 – The films in competition will be judged by a Jury that may award the following prizes:

FOOD MOVIE – 1st prize
DOC - 1st prize
ANIMATION - 1st prize
ERG EAST LOMBARDY – 1st prize
Jury’s special prizes (optional)

The awards will be given during the awarding ceremony.


Art. 7 - Videos sent to the Jury cannot be withdrawn or replaced, except if the Organizing Committee thinks it is better not to keep them, in the interest of the Festival itself.

The application shall be accompanied, by pain of ineligibility in the competition:

- An unprotected copy of the film in digital format (MPEG4, H264).

- Technical and artistic sheet, filled and signed

- Synopsis of the film in Italian and English

- 3 photos of the film 300 dpi, color and / or black and white with the rights for free to be included in promotional materials of the Festival and to be made available to the press.
Trailers are welcome.


Art. 8 – The works for selection should be sent in digital format (MPEG4, H264) together with the entry form to: press@festivalcinemadarte.it or loaded on the platform FESTHOME no later than 20/6/2016.

Will be omitted works without the data requested in the application form or contact information. All the works submitted to the selection are implicitly authorized for free for the screening during the festival.

Art. 8.1 –Subtitles in Italian are mandatory for films not spoken in Italian.


Art 9 – From 10/7/2016 the Organizing Secretary will communicate the result of the selection.


Art. 10 - Insurance transport and delivery costs of foreign films are to be charged to candidates.


Art. 11 – The filmmaker and/or the film production authorise the publication of their data on the web-site and on the official catalogue and their circulation for the press and for cultural promotional purposes.


Art. 12 – The filmmakers and/or productions allow the screening of the works, the diffusion (TV, on-line, cinema) of their films or pieces and the publication of the photos for promotional purposes of the event.


Art. 13 The Festival Management informs that the material will not be returned. The films submitted for the selection will become part of the Festival Cinematheque, which collects all entries in the various editions of the Festival Internazionale del Cinema and has as its goal the preservation and circulation of its film heritage. The circulation of works of the Cinematheque for commercial purposes is forbidden, with absolute prohibition of video playback as well as partial or total sale to third parties.


Art. 14 - In order to take part in the Competition, candidates must agree completely to this regulation.


Art. 15 - Possible cases and disputes, not covered by this regulation, are pertaining to the Festival Organizing Committee.


Art. 16 – The Organizing Committee reserves the right to make, if necessary, any amendment to this regulation without prior notice.