B-RETINA Festival de Cinema de Sèrie B de Cornellà (8)

Festival start: 12 September 2023      Festival end: 17 September 2023

In B-Retina festival we want to find out what the Series B means, and as so emergent talents, consecrated artists and difficult to classify characters will show us how they understand and see the world around us using their inventiveness and boldness.

During the days of the festival we will become a showcase where everything has room, classic films, premieres, web series, lectures, interviews and many surprises. As talent should be appreciated but also recognised, we hold a contest with a 500 Euro prize for best short film, and indeed the worst will also be rewarded.

Best short film, 500€ + trophy (public vote)

Second Best Short, pack of presents + trophy. (Public vote)

Best/worst short film, pack of local craft beer Cornèlia + trophy (award selected by the staff)

8th B-Retina Short Film Contest

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1-. Works from all around the globe will be accepted.

2-. All participants must be 18+.

3-. Participation can be either individual or collective. We accept more than one work per author.

4-. Classic B-Series elements (such as martial arts, terror, trash, science fiction and/or any other element associated with B-Movies) will be especially appreciated.

5-. The staff has the right to not accept the works if, once they’ve been checked, they’re not suitable for projection because of their quality, format or any other issue that may be considered.

6-. The staff will be allowed to screen any of the received works during the festival. Any work will not be published on our website nor on our social networks or shared with third parties.

7-. Selected works can’t cancel their participation under any circumstance.

REGISTRATION

1-. Registrations will be made through one of the Festival partner platforms: either FESTHOME.

2-. The short films must register from November 1 to June 1 at the latest.

3-. All works must be in Spanish or Catalan or, alternatively, must contain Spanish and/or Catalan subtitles.

4-. An internal Festival committee will assess the productions fitting the minimal requirements and will decide which of them can be part of the Festival’s Official Section


SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS

1-. All sent works will have a maximum length of 15 minutes (including credits) and their production date can’t be earlier to 2019.

2-. All qualified short films will be announced and their authors will be advised by e-mail and/or phone.

SELECTION OF FEATURE FILMS

1. All sent works will have a minimum length of 40 minutes (including credits) and their production date can’t be earlier to 2020

2. There’s no inscription fee for feature films, but they won’t opt to prizes.

1. All qualified feature films will be announced on our website and their authors will be advised by e-mail and/or phone.


JURY AND AWARDS

1-. This contest has no jury, the main awards will be delivered by public vote the same day of the screening.

2-. The prizes are established as follows:

Best short film, 500€ + trophy (public vote)
Second Best Short, pack of presents + trophy. (Public vote)
Best/worst short film, pack of presents + trophy (award selected by the staff)

All sent works are eligible for the different prizes.

3-. Staff decisions are unappealable.

4-. staff may declare any prize null and void if they consider so.

5-. Award will be delivered during the Festival only to the work’s director or, alternatively, to another person previously authorized by him/her. In case that the winner/s fail to show up, shipping costs will be at his/her charge.

6-. All cash prizes are subject to taxation established by law.

OTHER CLARIFICATIONS

1-. Entry in this contest implies full acceptance of this rules.

2-. Joining the competition grants the Festival the right to promote the pieces, using only partial reproduction on its broadcast (in no case will the pieces be fully exhibites on any social network: Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, etc…).

3-. Works that not meet the requirements will not be accepted nor returned.

4-. The Festival reserves the right to modify the terms, previously noticing it to the participants, and the right to cancel the competition in case of low turnout.