Festival start: 07 October 2024
Festival end: 11 October 2024
The objective is to present a selection of the best short films in the fiction, animation, experimental and documentary genres in order to allow the dissemination, dialogue and evaluation of the development and importance of the short film within audiovisual production. .
It is a non-competitive selection.
1. OBJECTIVES
The objective is to present a selection of the best short films in the categories of fiction, animation, documentary, community, indigenous, Afro, experimental and children's films in order to allow dissemination, dialogue and evaluation of the development and importance of the short film within filmmaking.
2. GENERAL CONDITIONS
• Accepted categories: Documentary, Animation, Fiction, Experimental.
• Accepted formats: Digital
• Minimum duration 3 minutes
• Maximum duration: 30 minutes.
• Spoken or subtitled in Spanish, if Spanish is not the original language.
• Comply with the technical standards that ensure its reproduction and projection on screen.
• Completed or released after January 1, 2023.
3. REGISTRATION
• Registration deadline: Until June 30, 2024.
4. RECEPTION OF THE WORKS:
• Acceptance of the short film will be confirmed via email to the selected participants. Those selected will be announced in September 2024.
• Selected participants must send a quality digital file for exhibition during the Festival. If possible, a full HD H264 mp4 file
• Those selected will be able to send advertising material (posters, banners, still photos, postcards, dossier, etc.).
• Registration of a Short Film implies accepting the Festival rules.
• The organization reserves the right to suspend or modify the Festival if appropriate. If this happens, participants will be notified. The Popayán Short Film Festival will resolve in its sound judgment, without appeal, any eventuality not specified in these Regulations.
5. LICENSING
Licensing provisions for short films registered in the Popayán Short Film Festival
• The Popayán Short Film Festival will hold a maximum of two screenings in physical space and with an audience during the days of the festival.
• Time: These screenings will take place between October 7 and 17, 2024. The programming will be announced in advance on the festival website and its social networks.
• Licensing modality: the use of the work will be permitted in the modalities of reproduction, public communication, making it available to the public, for free access to users, through physical projection with the public. Likewise, I authorize the use of the film information in different formats and media only for advertising purposes regarding the Popayán Short Film Festival.
• Type of access: Free access to registered users at the Popayán Short Film Festival.
• It is also authorized that the film may be available in an exclusive video library for agents in the film sector during the days of the festival, however, no copies will be delivered nor will any infringement of copyright or property rights be permitted.
• The Cine Corto Corporation is authorized to keep the copy of the short film and additional materials in its private archive for the purpose of research, conservation and memory.
• In the event that the Festival wishes to hold cultural screenings at other times and spaces other than the Festival, it will make direct communication to sign said authorizations.
• Indemnity: I agree to hold harmless the directors of the Popayán Short Film Festival for said event from any type of claim, demand or litigation in which the violation of copyright, image rights, related rights, fundamental rights or any other class in relation to the work and/or each and every one of the elements that compose it in its broadest terms.
6. PRESENTATIONS
The short films are an official part of the Festival and will be presented in the rooms, auditoriums and projections in open spaces located for the development of the Festival, at previously informed times. In addition, they may be part of special Festival samples, held in other locations, dates and times; The filmmakers will always be informed of said projections.
The short films received will be part of the archive of the Popayán Short Film Festival, which will be used, solely and exclusively, for cultural and educational exhibitions, and non-profit investigative, training and didactic activities. Such screenings outside the festival will be informed and will require acceptance by the rights holders.
Non-competitive exhibition of International Short Films
Short Films >3' 30'< (2023+)
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Non-competitive sample of international short films. Short films of high technical and artistic quality that propose valuable cinematographic narrative constructions and that wish to be part of a non-competitive selection that shows the best of international short films. Spoken or subtitled in Spanish