Serão admitidas para selecção, filmes que reúnam as seguintes condições:
- Produzidos após 1 de Janeiro de 2014;
- Inéditos em Portugal;
- Não disponíveis na Web.
Aceitam-se inscrições nas seguintes categorias:
- CINEMA: curtas e longas-metragens de ficção e animação;
- TELEVISÃO: documentários;
- VÍDEO: vídeo experimental com a duração máxima de 20 minutos.
As línguas do festival são o português e o inglês.
1 - Conditions of Admission
Works admitted for selection must join the following conditions:
- Be produced after January 1, 2014;
- Unreleased in Portugal;
- Not available on the web.
- Works that have not been presented for selection in earlier editions of this festival.
Registrations in the following categories are admitted:
CINEMA: short and feature films in fiction and animation;
TELEVISION: documentaries;
VIDEO: experimental videos less than 20 minutes long.
2 - Submission
The works must be registered until March 31, 2016 by completing the online registration form available on www.avanca.com.
For the selection, each candidate must send a preview in DVD/Blu-ray format by post mail for the Festival address or upload the films using one of these services:
Wetransfer/ My air bridge
Movibeta
Festhome
Click for Festivals
Film Freeway
Film Festival Life
Entry Fee: 12€ (euros)
FREE ENTRY FEE FOR:
- Portuguese films or from countries with official Portuguese language.
The payment can be done by Paypal (avancafilmfestival@gmail.com), or at the mentioned platforms above.
3 - Selection for competition
The organization committee carries out the selection of the submitted works and informs the applicants with selected works. The selection results will be available in www.avanca.com, from 31 May 2016.
4 - Transport and Insurance of Works
The organization will inform the candidates with selected works and will give out instructions for the shipment of final copies.
The delivery of the works is on the candidates’ responsibility.
Note: The preview DVD and Blu-ray copies will not be sent back, for they will become part of the Festival Mediateque Archives. We guarantee they will not be used for commercial purposes.
5 - Others
Festival languages are Portuguese and English.
Any possible doubt or questions that may arise will be clarified or solved by the Organization Committee.
The selected works may be object of non-commercial exhibitions for the festival's promotion.
1 – Prizes
A prize will be attributed to the best work of each category: Cinema (feature film), Cinema (short feature), Television and Video.
Prizes, among others, will also be given to the best Animation, best Actor/Actress and best Cinematography Direction.
In the Cinema category (feature film), since only a maximum of 4 works are selected, all of them will automatically receive a special mention.
The international jury is composed by cinema professionals invited by the organization.
The selected films may be object of acquisition proposals for the Portuguese market (cinema, television and video).
2 – World Premiere Prize
Films that have their world premiere in the AVANCA 2016, regardless of submitted category, are also candidates to the World Premiere Special Prize. Candidates must indicate in the entry form if the film is a world premiere.
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Standard Fee
12€
Preço da inscrição: 12 € (euros)
