The Rovereto Civic Museum Foundation, as part of its many cultural activities, has organized an International Film Festival annually since 1990, from 2020 on called Rovereto DOC Fest (once International Festival of Archaeological Film). The Festival aims at reaching and informing the general public about the preservation and enhancement of the world heritage and the archaeological research.
In the Festival are shown works of every nationality and it is open to producers, film directors and cinema and television authors who have made films in the sector of archaeological, historical, paleoethnology and anthropological research with the aim of preserving and enhancing cultural features and the world cultural heritage, material and immaterial (cultural sites and also natural sites when closely related to peoples and cultures). Documentaries, full-length, middle-length and short films and animated films of any length.
All screenings, events and activities are free admission.
The Rovereto DOC Fest, organised by the Civic Museom Foundation, grew, thanks to the introduction of informal moments of in-depth analysis with the protagonists of archaeological research and heritage protection, movie-makers, producers, scholars, lecturers, and scientists from all over the world.
The current media partners are National Geographic and the Italian magazine Archeo.
Compared to the first editions, Rovereto’s Festival has grown and it is now part of a regular effort to cultivate a broad and complex cultural project that continues beyond the week of the Festival itself.
documentaries and docufictions in the following areas:
> archaeology
> ancient art
> ancient religions
> anthropology, etnography
> experimental archaeology
> history
> educational
> geophysics and new technologies applied to the cultural Heritage
> investigation of looted archaeological and cultural heritage
> paleontology
> reportages on archaeological sites
Thanks indeed to its rich audio-visual heritage, the Festival has always been engaged in creating and weaving a broad network of cinematographic events in Italy and abroad, providing documentaries for the Italian edition edited by its own staff. The collaborations with bodies, institutions and museums are really numerous: from Turin to Sicily, to Egypt, Turkey and many more.
In 2010 along these lines, the summer Festival CinemA.Mo.Re. started. It is a joint project with the Trento Film Festival and the Religion Today Film Festival, promoted by the Department for Culture of the Autonomous Province of Trento. It spreads the richness and variety of cinematographic materials from the archives of the three festivals to the whole of Trentino, to promote knowledge of films and original and innovative styles, often absent in commercial circles.
There are various international collaboration projects, such as those with the Italian Institutes of Culture in Belgrade, Cairo and Istanbul and with the Iranian Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and the Italian Embassy in Teheran.
The Festival also became a founder of FEDARCINE, the European Foundation of Archaeological Cinema and Cultural Heritage based Athens (www.fedarcine.com).
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International Festival of Archaeological Film
REGULATIONS 2020 EDITION
Art. 1
The Rovereto Civic Museum Foundation, as part of its many cultural activities, has organized an International Film Festival annually since 1990. The Festival aims at reaching and informing the general public about the preservation and enhancement of the world cultural heritage and the archaeological research.
Art. 2
In the Festival are shown works of every nationality and it is open to producers, film directors and cinema and television authors who have made films in the sector of archaeological, historical, paleoethnology and anthropological research with the aim of preserving and enhancing cultural features and the world cultural heritage, material and immaterial (cultural sites and also natural sites when closely related to peoples and cultures). Documentaries, full-length, middle-length and short films and animated films of any length.
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Participation in the Festival is open and free of charge. The Festival Directors assess and select the films to be accepted for the Festival and the secretary's office will inform all those who took part in the selection of the results.
Art. 4
Every year during the Festival the "Rovereto DOC Fest Award" is presented to the film receiving the best rating from the audience which is asked to express a vote. Films whose subject corresponds to the themes cited in article 2 of these regulations compete in this award.
Art. 5 (not valid for 2020 edition)
Every 2 years the competition for the "Premio Paolo Orsi" is held. The Paolo Orsi award is assigned to the work considered most deserving for its high artistic and scientific quality by an International Jury made up of renowned representatives of the world of archaeology, cinema and culture.
Admission to the Paolo Orsi competition is deliberated incontestably by a selection commission. NOT admitted are: a) works judged to be of insufficient artistic, scientific and technical quality; b) works not corresponding to the aims of the Festival, not conforming to the regulations or unaccompanied by the duly compiled document of participation; d) works produced before a specified date.
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To take part in the Festival, it is necessary to observe the following indications:
- fill in the entry form online on the Festival site from January 15 2019
- attach a digital copy of the work to the form; alternatively it can be sent on a data carrier device (DVD, storage media) in two copies directly to the Rovereto Civic Museum Foundation. Postage expenses are to be paid by the applicant; the Festival Directors, while guaranteeing that works received will be treated with the maximum care, take no responsibility for any damage they might suffer during transport.
- films may also be sent via We transfer or other services for giga-mail, or set to download on any platform (drive, vimeo or other) in HD, within 10 giga dimensions. (Where possible, this method is preferred as it does not involve costs for sending or customs duties, either for the sender or the Festival).
- works in languages other than Italian must be accompanied by a transcription of the texts, preferably in Italian or if that is not possible, in English, German, Spanish or French.
- Every work will become part of the Festival archives. DVDs or other storage media will be returned only if specifically requested.
Art. 7
Texts, images and short extracts from the work, no longer than two minutes, may be used for promotional purposes of the Festival, for the web site, social channels and printed programmes as well as information media.
Art. 8
As part of its normal activities, the Rovereto Civic Museum Foundation offers the possibility of widespread dissemination among cultural organizations and institutions of all the works accepted at the Festival and officially catalogued in the data bank.
Title-holders of rights to the works authorize the Rovereto Civic Museum Foundation – International Archaeological Film Festival – to use their works for cultural and scholastic activities and for dissemination promoted by the Civic Museum Foundation or carried out in collaboration with it. Use for commercial purposes is excluded.
The title-holders of the rights to the works will be opportunely notified each time by the Festival's office of their use for dissemination and cultural promotion of their works.
Art. 9
Participation in the Festival means the acceptance of all the norms contained in these regulations.
