Sky Film Festival (2)

Festival start: 23 June 2016      Festival end: 25 June 2016

The Sky Film Festival is a project for an Audiovisual Festival (cinema, television and advertising) organized by MultiSignes producer with all sides of sky, air and flight as a theme.
During the 24th - 26th of June Castelló d'Empúries-Empuriabrava will be filled with audiovisual screenings and side activities (conferences, fair, air sports exhibitions, children workshops...) with the themes of sky, air and flight as the central concept. In short, the intention is to create an international meeting point, both for specialists and those interested on these subjects.

Alt Empordà, and specially Castelló d'Empúries, are reference sites in the world of sky and aerial leisure and sports. Since the year 2012, Empuriabrava hosts the "Windoor real fly" wind tunnel, one of the biggest free fall simulators in Europe and the first that was installed in Spain. Also the Parachuting Centre SkyDive Empuriava, which has been operating since 1985.

The nature will be one of the festival's highlights, given that birds are the kings of the sky and the air, and hence the importance of the Aiguamolls de l'Empordà, a protected wetland zone for its rich ecosystem. We must not forget the tramuntana north wind, which creates a unique climate and is one of our country's distinguishing features.

Fiction Cinema Prize 1,000.00 €

Nature Prize 1,000.00 €

Air and Sky Sports Prize 1,000.00 €

Television Prize 1,000.00 €

Advertising Prize 1,000.00 €

SKY FILM FESTIVAL

RULES FOR PARTICIPANTS 2016

1st edition: from June 24th to June 26th 2016

PARTICIPANTS

All audiovisual works (cinema, TV and advertising) about the sky, the air and flight in every of their aspects can participate.

All audiovisual works with any aspect of the sky, the air and the flight as a leitmotiv will be accepted.

Sport films and aerial competitions: paragliding, hang gliding, skydiving, balloons, free fall, aerial acrobatics, base jumping, kites, kite surf, indoor flight, etc.

Films about flight in nature.

TV shows concerning the festival's leitmotiv.
TV spots concerning the festival's leitmotiv.

This festival is open both to professionals and amateurs.

Registration is free of cost. All shipping fees for the films registered will be paid by participants.

GENERAL CONDITIONS

The registered copies will be incorporated to the Festival's video file with the purpose of creating the festival's film library.

The festival will hold the right to totally or partially use the films shown at the official selection for the festival's promotion or dissemination, always without commercial or profitable purposes.

The festival will hold the right to upload a trailer or a maximum of 30 seconds of each registered film to the web and the festival's social networks pages.

The festival will hold the right to use, free of cost, a maximum of two minutes of each selected film in TV channels or other audiovisual platforms, with the only purpose of presenting and advertising the festival.

For the official catalogue, a photograph of the film's director in high resolution, the synopsis and credits and any information considered of interest must be sent by e-mail.

If the films are not dubbed or subtitled in Catalan or Spanish the scripts or dialogues in English must be sent by e-mail so that the film can be translated and subtitled in Catalan.

The short-listed films to be screened at the festival, will be adapted into Catalan sign language. The Organizing Committee will make the films accessible to the deaf community. This will not represent any additional charge for participants.

Those participants interested in attending the festival will assume all subsistence, transportation and lodging expenses, although promotional prices will be applied if they inform the organization of their attendance.

The Organizing Committee can solve any question not foreseen by these conditions. Its decisions will be final.

TECHNICAL CONDITIONS

Films may be filmed in any format.

In order to be pre-selected for the festival's official selection, a link to watch the film online or the film in a digital file must be sent through the Sky Film Festival website's online registration.

If the movie is selected, the festival will ask for a high-quality, clean, non-subtitled copy of the film.

The highest screen resolution at the festival is 1920x1080 (1080 p) and the lowest one is 1280x720 (720 p).

The video files for screening must be:
File extension: *.mov o *.mp4.
Video Codec: Apple ProRes 422 o H264/MPEG-4, AVC.
Audio Codec: AAC o PCM.

Resolution in pixels:
- Highest resolution: 1920x1080 (1080 p)
- Lowest resolution: 1280x720 (720 p)

The festival will hold the right to re-code the original films in order to adapt the image so its screening will have the highest possible quality.

All film files must be sent before April 15th 2016 to registration@skyfilmfestival.com to be downloaded via WeTransfer or Dropbox, or may be uploaded to the Festival's FTP. If so, the festival will provide the name of user and password.

The Organizing Committee will inform the participants if their films have been short-listed. If so, they must send a hard drive with the movie in its original format before June 1st 2015. The hard drives must be sent to: Multisignes, carrer Llibertat 155, 3r B-E 17820 Banyoles, Girona, Spain.

Each participant will pay the shipping fees.

The copy must be clean and non-subtitled or with Catalan or Spanish subtitles.

Distributing and producing companies may also give the festival access to their FTP's so the festival can download the movies in their original formats and according to the technical conditions mentioned above.

ONLINE SUBMISSION PLATFORMS

The Sky Film Festival will also accept the submission of films through the online submission platform Festhome. Those participants who submit their film through Festhome will not be asked to send any other item, neither by email nor post.

SCREENINGS

From June 19th to 21st 2015 on the Empuriabrava Beach, at the Santa Clara Convent in Castelló d'Empúries, and at the Ciutadella de Roses.

AWARDS

Fiction Cinema Prize 1.000 €
Nature Prize 1.000 €
Air and Sky Sports Prize 1.000 €
Television Prize 1.000 €
Advertising Prize 1.000 €

The final amount of these prizes depends on the correspondent taxes.

The Official International Jury and the Organizing Committee may give away special awards that are not included in these conditions. To get the prize, either the film's director or producer must attend the awards ceremony. If neither of them attends the ceremony they will not receive the prize amount.

JURY

The Organizing Committee will appoint the members of the Official International Jury, which will be formed by people linked to the worlds of cinema, the audiovisual sector, air sports, nature and culture.

The Selection Committee will previously watch and select the registered films.

The Official Jury will evaluate a selection of the nominated and short-listed films in each category.

By participating in the festival, the participants agree to these conditions and accept them entirely.