Festival start: 19 August 2025
Festival end: 23 August 2025
LUCES CAMEROS ACCION is a short film festival with two sections.
1 – “Rural World" Section
International section of short films in Spanish or Spanish subtitles.
Recorded in villages in rural areas or dealing with rural idiosyncrasies.
Premiered from January 1, 2024.
2 – “Cameros" Section
The works submitted will be original pieces that are not accessible through Internet.
With 30% of the "footage" recorded in recognizable places of Cameros (New and old Cameros located in La Rioja Spain).
Deadline for submission of works:
"Rural World" section: before May 31, 2025.
"Cameros" section: before July 21, 2025.
Screenings and Awards Ceremony:
19,20,21,22 and 23 of August in villages of Cameros, La Rioja, Spain.
Cash Prizes: 5,800€
The prizes of this festival form a total of 5.800€, plus other prizes of non-quantifiable value. They will be distributed as follow:
"Rural World Section":
● 1.000€. Prize for best spanish short film awarded by the town council of El Rasillo de Cameros.
● 1.000€. Prize for best foreign short film awarded by the town council of El Rasillo de Cameros.
● 500€. Prize for best foreign short documentary awarded by the town council of El Rasillo de Cameros
"Cameros Section":
● 1.000€. Prize for best short film.The winner of this section will also be selected for the OCTOBER SHORT 2025 festival in the RIOJA SECTION.
● 500€. Award for best production.
Special awards. These awards are valid for both sections and compatible with other awards.
● Best actor: 500€.
● Best actress: 500€.
● Best photography: 500€.
● Audience Award: 300€.
The prizes are subject to the corresponding tax withholding as established by law.
REGULATIONS
1.- Sections.
The festival LUCES CAMEROS ACTION has two sections: RURAL WORLD and CAMEROS. In both sections any individual, collective or company may submit a short film entry. The short films must comply with the following features for each of these sections:
1.1 "Rural World" Section
International Short Film Section. The short films must be in Spanish or have
integrated subtitles or .srt file format in Spanish. Only short films released from the first of January 2024 will be accepted, and will have a maximum duration of 30 minutes. An additional requirement is that they be filmed in rural areas (surrounded by countryside, mountains, nature, etc.) or that they deal with the idiosyncrasies of rural life.
1.2 "Cameros" Section
In this section, the main requirement is that 30% of the final footage be shot in recognizable locations in the Cameros Mountain Range (La Rioja, Spain), both in Camero Nuevo and Camero Viejo. Created after the completion of the eighth edition (September 1, 2024). The works submitted will be original pieces and without public access on the web. The length of these short films will be between 3 and 8 minutes.
They will have to contain the official bumpers of the festival, both at the beginning and at the end. These bumpers will be available on our website https://lucescamerosaccion.com
2.- prizes.
The prizes of this festival are a total of 5.800€, plus other prizes of non-quantifiable value. They will be distributed as follows:
"Rural World Section":
● 1.000€. Prize for best spanish short film awarded by the town council of El Rasillo de Cameros.
● 1.000€. Prize for best foreign short film awarded by the town council of El Rasillo de Cameros.
● 500€. Prize for best foreign short documentary awarded by the town council of El Rasillo de Cameros
"Cameros Section":
● 1.000€. Prize for best short film.The winner of this section will also be selected for the OCTOBER SHORT 2025 festival in the RIOJA SECTION.
● 500€. Award for best production.
Special awards. These awards are valid for both sections and compatible with other awards.
● Best actor: 500€.
● Best actress: 500€.
● Best photography: 500€.
● Audience Award: 300€.
The prizes are subject to the corresponding tax withholding as established by law.
3.- Technical requirements.
3.1 The works submitted will have a minimum quality of Full HD.
3.2 Format: .MPEG-4 .MP4 .MOV. If the format is not suitable, the submission will be disqualified from the competition.
4.- Registrations and deliveries.
4.1 All persons who wish to participate, individually or in groups, may do so.
4.2 Short films must be submitted through the platform https://festhome.com/es
in the corresponding section:
“Rural World” section: before 11:59 p.m. on May 31, 2025.
“Cameros” section: before 11:59 p.m. on July 21, 2025.
Accompanied by the mandatory data of the platform (technical and artistic data sheet, locations, director's portrait, synopsis, poster (.jpg) and making off photo.
Making of photography will be mandatory for the cameros section.
This information may be used for the festival's programming, on social networks, media, etc...
5.- Selection and Jury.
5.1 Among all the works received, the organizers will select films from both the "Rural World" (with the exception of the documentary short films) and "Cameros" sections for viewing at the screenings and for the jury to deliberate on the winners.
5.2 Among all the short documentaries submitted to the competition, the organization will make a first screening before their public projection in different villages of the Cameros area. In these screenings, the audience will vote to decide which documentaries will be elegible for awards during the week of the festival.
5.3 The jury will be composed of several people linked to the film industry and audiovisual productions.
5.4 The jury for the audience award will be the audience itself. The prize will be awarded by counting the votes obtained on the screenings.
6.- Screenings and awards ceremony.
6.1 The screenings will be held in El Rasillo Cameros (La Rioja, Spain) August 19 to 23, 2025(may undergo variations).
6.2 awards ceremony:
Attendance will be mandatory by at least one member of the team of the selected short films in the "Cameros" section.
In the case of the RURAL WORLD section, it will be possible to send a video the same day of the awards ceremony.
7.- Legislation.
7.1 The organization will upload the short films only from the section "Cameros" to the networks two years after the deadline. period so that the participants can submit their short films to other contests.
7.2 Images and/or music from archives may be used, provided that the participants own or are assigned the rights to the audiovisual material used in their works, including music, effects, and animations. Under no circumstances may the works violate any law of intellectual protection, and the Festival Organization is not responsible if any short film does not comply with this rule.
7.3 The organization is not responsible for any offence committed by the participants, being them responsible for any type of action and / or claim, judicial or administrative.
7.4 Works that denigrate women will be disqualified, Denigration of any social group because of their sexual condition, gender, race, or economic status, and/or that advocate terrorism or animal abuse in the short films will mean automatic disqualification from the competition.
7.5 In short films in which minors participate in any way (in front of or behind the camera), it shall be the responsibility of the directors or producers to have parental permission.
7.6 Participants agree to be interviewed by the organizers of the event.
7.7 Participation in the competition implies the screening of the short films at the festival and in possible parallel events.
7.8 The participants must be the authors of the works submitted to the competition and agree to grant broadcasting rights for the duration of the festival to both the organizers of the event and its sponsors to be used later by different channels such as:
Internet, movie theaters, television.... In the case of the section "Cameros" they must agree to grant the broadcasting rights of the short films (two years after their screening at the festival) and in the case of the "Rural World" section, only the trailer will be broadcasted.
7.9 The organization may record on video and photograph the activities related to the competition.
7.10 The prizes are subjected to the corresponding tax deduction established by law.
The organization may declare the prizes void if it considers that the works submitted do not meet the minimum requirements desired by the festival.
7.11 If the organization considers that the requirements for participation are not being met, it may request original files or justification from the participants, if the organization is not satisfied, the work will not be eligible to compete.
7.12 Participation in this contest implies full acceptance of these rules.
7.13 These rules are subjected to the necessary changes by the organization and will be communicated with the necessary advance notice.
Sections "Cameros"
Short Films >3' 8'< (2024+)
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Submissions deadline
21 Jul 25
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Short films created after the completion of the eighth edition (August 1, 2024) with 30% of the "footage" recorded in recognizable Cameros sites (New and old Cameros located in La Rioja Spain).
Duration of short films from 3 to 8 minutes.
Deadline for the delivery of works on July 21.
Section "Rural world"
Short Films >3' 30'< (2024+)
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Submissions deadline
01 Jun 25
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International Short Film Section. They must be in Spanish or have Spanish embedded subtitles or in .srt format. only those short films premiered after January 2024 will be accepted.
section of Spanish-speaking short films.
Premiered after January 1, 2024.
With a maximum duration of 30 minutes.
Recorded in towns in rural areas or that deal with the idiosyncrasies of rural areas.
