Concurso Internacional Cortos de Murchante (2)

Festival start: 01 October 2020      Festival end: 07 October 2020

International festival of fiction short feature films

- Best Short Film Award: 500€ and a trophy.
- Best Acting Award: 200€ and a trophy.
- Special Jury Award: 200€ and a trophy.
- Murchante Award, Best Local Short Film: 150€ and a trophy. Only new filmmakers from
Navarra who haven’t produced more than three Short Films will be elegible for this
category. Also, It will be taken into account wether the topic or the shooting is related to
our village, local actors/actresses star in the film or local technical/artistic staff take part
in the shooting.
- Audience Choice Award: 100 € and a trophy.
- Best Young Local Short Film (Centro Juvenil Murchante): Trophy and prizes valued at
100€.
- Best Children Local Shortfilm (Colegio Murchante): Trophy and prizes valued at 100
euros.

THE COMPETITION:
The competition is organised by Asociación Marte. The First Edition of the Murchante International Short
Film Festival (CICOM) will be held in Murchante from 8rd to 13th June 2020. The festival aims to become
an annual event which encourages filmmaking and promotes cinematographic culture through short
films.

GENERAL CONDITIONS:
- All national and international short films shot on traditional film (35 mm o 16 mm) or digital video
will be admitted.
- The festival is open to all fiction short films covering any topic.
- Short films need to be 20 minutes or less (credits included).
- Works produced after January, 1st 2018 may be submitted.

TERMS OF SUBMISSION:
- Each entrant may enter as many short films as desired.
- Work will be submitted using one of these platforms: Festhome.
- If your work is selected for the contest, you will be asked to submit a copy of your short film (or a
downloadable link) in Full HD, 2K or 4K quality.
- Works will be submitted in their original languages. If it wasn’t Spanish, it will need to include
Spanish subtitles.
- The submission deadline is May, 10th 2020.
- We will only select films that have not previously been selected or awarded before in CICOM.
- Selected short films will be chosen by the members of the Jury among all the work submitted.

SCREENING & AWARDS:
The shortlist will be shown at Casa de Cultura (Murchante) from 3
8rd to 8
11th June 2020, The Finalists and
Winners will be shown at the CICOM’19 Ceremony that will be held next June, 13th.

AWARDS:

- Best Short Film Award: 500€ and a trophy.
- Best Acting Award: 200€ and a trophy.
- Special Jury Award: 200€ and a trophy.
- Murchante Award, Best Local Short Film: 150€ and a trophy. Only new filmmakers from
Navarra who haven’t produced more than three Short Films will be elegible for this
category. Also, It will be taken into account wether the topic or the shooting is related to
our village, local actors/actresses star in the film or local technical/artistic staff take part
in the shooting.
- Audience Choice Award: 100 € and a trophy.
- Best Young Local Short Film (Centro Juvenil Murchante): Trophy and prizes valued at
100€.
- Best Children Local Shortfilm (Colegio Murchante): Trophy and prizes valued at 100
euros.

- Cash awards are subject to the tax withholding established by law.

JURY:
- A qualified Jury wiil review the selected Short Films. Their decissions are not subject to appeal.
Their decissions will be notified to the selected contestants and will be published on our social
media and different media the organization will decide.
- The Jury will decide on giving the awards and trophies after reviewing all the selected Short
Films for the festival. The jury will award any remarkable features observed on the films.

SHORT FILMS & RETURNS:
- A copy of each selected Short Film will become part of the Festival’s archive.
- When submitting a physical film, it will be the producer’s or director’s responsability to collect it
at the end of the festival. Otherwise, those short films will become part of our archive.

COPYRIGHT:
- The selected participants authorise the organisation to screen their short films during the Festival and
waive the royalties they could receive for it. Moreover, the Festival tmay use fragments of the selected
works for their dissemination in any media in order to promote the Festival in the press and other media,
- The short films will be only showcased at the screenings during the festival. They will never be shown
in other media or platforms.
- By submitting an entry into this project, each entrant warrants and represents that the entrant owns all
rights to the entry he/she is entering in this festival, including, without limitation, the video or digital
recording, music and the performance contained in each entry. In any case, the organisation of the
Festival, Asociación Marte and Murchante Council are exempted of any responsabilty that could derive
from the infraction of this rule.
- Any particular issues not considered on these terms, will be solved by the organsation of the festival.

Organised by: Asociación Marte
Collaborator: M.I. Ayuntamiento de Murchante