No Fee
Submissions deadline
28 Feb 23
0€
Medium-length film
FIMMER
09 Jan 2023
Call for entries
28 Feb 2023
Festival closed
08 Mar 2023
Notification date
31 Mar 2023
02 Apr 2023
Festival start: 31 March 2023 Festival end: 02 April 2023
With the aim to encourage the creation of meeting spaces for the world of medium-length films, as well as fostering interest in cinematographic creation, the Manzanares El Real City Council's Department of Culture has created the First International Festival of Medium-Length Films of Manzanares El Real called FIMMER.
All those films with a duration between 30 and 60 minutes produced after January 1, 2021 may be submitted to the contest. And each author or producer may submit up to a maximum of two works.
Entries can be submitted online, through the festhome.com platform or by email to fimmerfestival@gmail.com, where the documentation required in the bases must be included, and where the technical characteristics of the files to send.
The deadline for receiving the files is open on January 9, 2023 and will close on February 28, 2023.
The Manzanares El Real International Medium-length Film Festival establishes three paid prizes:
Jury Prize: €500 for Best Medium-Length Film
Audience Award: €500 for Best Medium-length Film
Opera Prima Special Price: €250 for the Best Medium-length First Work
The awards ceremony and closing of the festival will take place on April 2, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the “El Rodaje” room, in Manzanares el Real(Madrid, Spain).
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2nd INTERNATIONAL MEDIUM-FILM FESTIVAL OF
Manzanares el Real (Madrid, Spain)
REGULATORY BASES
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Culture area of the City Council of Manzanares El Real convenes the I International Festival of Medium-Length Films of Manzanares El Real called, FIMMER 2023.
This festival will be held in Manzanares El Real from 31st of March to 2 of April 2023.
PURPOSE
The aim is to encourage the creation of meeting spaces for the world of medium-length films, as well as to promote interest in cinematographic creation.
PARTICIPANTS
All those natural or legal persons who wish to do so, regardless of their physical or fiscal domicile, may apply without the need to be registered in Spanish territory.
CHARACTERISTICS
The Festival offers a section for competition, in which three prizes will be awarded:
• Jury Award
• Audience Award
• Opera Prima Special Price
All those films with a duration between
between 30 and 60 minutes (both inclusive) whose production end is after January 1, 2021.
Each author or producer may submit up to a maximum of two works.
REGISTRATION
To participate in the Festival, the participants or producers must register through one of the forms provided below:
• Online, through the platform festhome.com
• By email to fimmerfestival@gmail.com
The deadline for receiving the files will open on January 9, 2023 and will close on February the 28, 2023.
The information that must be provided in the registration will be:
• Registration form (Annex 1)
• Dossier of the film
• Online link to viewing
A Selection Committee, designated by the organization of the festival, will make the selection of the works that will participate in the contest.
REQUIREMENTS
The films must have a duration between 30 and 60 minutes.
They must be produced after January 1, 2021.
All those medium-length films whose dialogues are not in Spanish must include subtitles in Spanish.
Once the competition selection has been published, the medium-length films selected to participate in the First Edition of the Manzanares el Real International Medium-length Film Festival must provide the following material:
1. Digital support with medium length.
It must have sufficient quality to be projected on a large screen and occupy between 1 and 4 GB. The following characteristics are accepted:
1st Container: Mov/Mp4, Codec: H.264
1 B. Resolution: 2K, 1080p, 720p.
1 C. Sound: Stereo PCM or Dolby Digital 5.1
2. Medium-length film trailer in Mov or Mp4 (H.264) Full HD (1080) file
3. Minimum 3 frames and poster of the work in digital format in high resolution (300
dpi)
The deadline for the delivery of this material will be March 15, 2023.
SELECTION AND COMPETITION
The Organization will create a Selection Commission of all the applications received. Once the election has been made, the election will be communicated to the participants. Only selected participants will be contacted. This communication will take place
in any case, before February the 28, 2023. Likewise, the list of selected candidates will be published on the website of the Manzanares El Real town hall
www.manzanareselreal.es
The medium-length films not selected for the competition for the 2023 edition will become possible candidates in the next edition of the festival as long as they meet the criteria of the new call.
The organization will not make any payment to the director, producer or distributor for projecting their work at the festival itself, nor for exhibition rights or for any other concept.
The projections will always be in the original version with subtitles in Spanish.
The authors of the participating works give permission to the festival organization to use part of their works in promotional uses of the festival.
The authors of the award-winning medium-length films give permission to the festival organization to screen their works in future editions or activities of the festival.
The costs of sending the works and their attached documents will be fully borne by the participating authors.
Once a medium-length film has been selected to compete at the festival, it cannot be withdrawn before its last screening.
If, for reasons beyond the control of the organization, the festival changes its dates or does not take place, the organization will notify the participants as far in advance as possible.
TECHNICAL VALUATION COMMISSION.
A Technical Commission will be constituted that will act as a jury for the evaluation of the works. The designation of said commission will be in charge of the Organization. This Commission will be made up of various professionals from the film industry and the world of culture and will be in charge of awarding the prizes.
The jury's decision will be unappealable.
AWARDS
The Manzanares El Real International Medium-length Film Festival establishes three paid prizes:
• Prize of the Jury: €500 for the Best Medium-Length Film
• Audience Award: €500 for Best Medium-Length Film
• Opera Prima Special Price: €250 for the Best Medium-length First Work
The awards ceremony and closing of the festival will take place on April 2, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the "El Rodaje" room (Manzanares el Real, Madrid, Spain). Before collecting the prize, the winners must prove that they are up to date with the Treasury, the City Council de Manzanares and with Social Security, through the provision of the corresponding certificates.
PUBLICITY OF THE AWARDED PRIZES.
The National Database of Subsidies operates as a publicity system for the prizes awarded by the City Council, for this purpose, in accordance with article 18.1
of Law 38/2003, of November 17, general subsidies, information will be sent on the resolutions of concession relapsed in the terms established in article 20 of the rule.
DATA PROTECTION
Participation in the Festival, through the corresponding registration, is
subject to the personal data protection regulations, whose treatment activity is specified in the register of treatment activities of the City Council of Manzanares El Real whose purpose is the participation in activities whose basis of legitimacy is the consent of the interested party. As an interested party, you can exercise your rights in data protection such as access, rectification, deletion, opposition, limitation of treatment and, where appropriate, portability of data at the postal address of the City Council located at Plaza del Pueblo, 1, 28410, Manzanares El Real or at the email address of the data protection officer: dpd@manzanareselreal.es
Likewise, the interested party has the right to file a claim with the control authority (AEPD)
An informative clause on the processing of your personal data with additional information is attached to the registration form for your reference.
FINAL PROVISIONS:
The omission of part of the required documentation may lead to the elimination of the medium-length film from the Festival. The Organization reserves the right to change the programming due to the needs of the
service, as well as to cancel the first edition of the Manzanares El Real International Medium-length Film Festival, FIMMER 2023, if any situation arises
discourage celebration.
Any circumstance not foreseen in these rules will be resolved by the Organizing Committee.
The presentation of the required documentation implies full acceptance of these bases.
No Fee
Submissions deadline
28 Feb 23
Medium-length film