Festival De Cine Ituango ()

Festival Start: 06 November 2024      Festival Ende: 10 November 2024

The Ituango Film Festival is a space for meeting, reflection and training around the cinema. Children, young people and adults see in this important event the possibility of valuing and recognizing their history, their territory, their present and their future through the seventh art and the audiovisual in general. Currently, the community of Ituango works on processes of memory reconstruction and tell their own stories and artistic and cultural strategies that promote territorial peace are consolidated. At the same time, the festival is presented as a space for the protection and reconstruction of the social fabric of vulnerable populations.

A series of audiovisual, cinematographic and complementary activities will be part of the official program with the possibility to bring the film festival activities to diferent villages of the municipality. Among them are:

•Audiovisual Creation and Experimentation Laboratory.
•First Meeting of Regional Producers.
•National Feature Film Competition NUDO DE PARAMILLO.
•National Short Film Competition NARRATIVES OF THE REGION.
•GUEST COUNTRY Cultural and Cinematographic Exhibition.
•Thematic Forums.

The festival, in addition to being included in the Municipal Development Plan “Ituango Nos Une y merece Salir Adelante” 2024 - 2027, manages resources through public calls and alliances with public and private sector entities.

Best national feature film.

Best national short film.

12th ITUANGO FILM FESTIVAL

Call for entries 2024 sections.

National Feature Film Competition "NUDO DE PARAMILLO".
National Short Film Competition "NARRATIVAS DE REGIÓN".

Ituango, 6 to 10 November, 2024.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

• People over 18 years of age, born in Colombia or foreigners who have lived in Colombia for more than two years may participate.

• The owner must send the fully completed registration, including the link for viewing the film.

• The owner may register a maximum of three audiovisual works (he must fill out the online form three times, if applicable by this way), filmed in Colombia.

• Works of any subject will be received, however, priority will be given to productions whose contents address the themes proposed for the ninth version: A COMMUNITY EFFORT.

• The duration of the audiovisual work must be a minimum of 5 minutes and a maximum of 45 minutes for short films and more than 70 minutes for feature films, including credits.

• The production date of the postulated audiovisual work must be after January 1, 2022 and it may have participated in other films festivals without any inconvenience. The film cannot be published on the internet.

• The selection criteria for audiovisual works will be based on the technical quality of the film, relevance and narrative proposal.

• The ITUANGO FILM FESTIVAL is not responsible for copyright infringements of the registered audiovisual works; therefore, any type of legal claim will fall on the owners of the work.

• In this call for entries, audiovisual works that explicitly and offensively address acts of racial discrimination, violence, sexual abuse, animal and environmental abuse will not be accepted.

• The ITUANGO FILM FESTIVAL will notify the selected audiovisual works via email.

• The owners of the selected audiovisual works must send by wetransfer, vimeo, google drive or any other digital platform chosen, the original file of the work in MP4, .MOV, .AVI, HD (720P), FULL HD ( 1080p) or 2K.

• With the registration, the owner of the film grants the ITUANGO FILM FESTIVAL the respective exhibition license for the screening in the 12th ITUANGO FILM FESTIVAL.

• The selected audiovisual works will be part of the ITUANGO FILM FESTIVAL archive and may be presented in itinerant exhibitions that are organized in the municipality of Ituango and any other place in the country, prior agreement / negotiation with the owner of the exhibition licenses.

• The owner authorizes the ITUANGO FILM FESTIVAL to use images of his audiovisual work for promotional and outreach activities of the festival, such as: catalogs, programming, promotional video clips, among others.

• By submitting the registration through FESTHOME or the online form, the participant confirms the registration of film. Declares that the information provided is true and authorizes the organizing team of the 12th ITUANGO FILM FESTIVAL to verify the data provided. Any inconsistency that may arise regarding the veracity of the information, including infringements related to copyright, would automatically leave the postulated film out of competition.

• Registration is free.

• Call opening date: August 16, 2024. Deadline: September 20, 2024.

• Publication of selected works: October 6, 2024.

• The registration of an audiovisual work means the acceptance of all the TERMS AND CONDITIONS.