Festival Internacional BioBioCine (11)

Festival start: 12 June 2023      Festival end: 18 June 2023

BioBiocine, International Film Festival of Concepcion, is an intercultural gathering of knowledge and wisdom expressed through cinema, which aims to be a space for dialogue and contemplation, as well as to disseminate, promote, support and place value on National and International Cinematography from a Territory and Identity that is established as the context for its annual meeting.

BioBioCine International Festival calls for works from all countries and cultures for its eleventh version. Its program includes competitive and non-competitive categories of Fiction and Non-Fiction Feature and Short Films, with a focus on auteur cinema, new filmmakers, experimentation, intercultural dialogue and first nations.

The juries for the different categories will be persons linked to the national and international audiovisual and cultural industry, who will be disqualified from submitting works to the competition.

The juries of each category will issue an unappealable and final decision, awarding the "Tokicura", BioBioCine's highest award, to the winners of the prizes listed below.

Feature Film Competition
- Best Feature Film: "Tokicura" Trophy
- Special Jury Mention

Short Film Competition
- Best Short Film: "Tokicura" Trophy
- Special Jury Mention

1. DATE OF THE EVENT
Due to the current global health context, the meeting will be held in person in the city of Concepción, Chile, and virtually via the FESTHOME TV platform for the Chilean territory during the month of June 2023.

2. CATEGORIES IN COMPETITION
- Feature Film Competition: Chilean or international films that are spoken or subtitled in Spanish with a minimum duration of 60 minutes.

- Short Film Competition: Chilean or international films that are spoken or subtitled in Spanish with a maximum duration of 30 minutes.

3. NON-COMPETITIVE CATEGORIES
- Made in Chile: National works from any region of the country that are spoken or subtitled in Spanish. Maximum length of 120 minutes.

- Made in BioBio: Works made in the BioBio region that are spoken or subtitled in Spanish. Maximum length of 90 minutes.

- Made for Children: Chilean and international works spoken in Spanish that target children's audiences and rescue values such as equality, respect, integration, and self-acceptance. Films must have been completed after December 2019, in fiction, documentary or animation genres. There is no limit to the length of the film.

- Cin(E)xperiencias: Chilean and international works that aim at the dialogue of languages such as dance, visual arts, and performance. Films must have been completed after December 2020. Maximum length of 30 minutes.

4. APPLICATION PROCESS
- Any work completed as of December 2021 may participate, except for works applying to the Made for Children and Cin(E)xperienca categories.

- All registered works will be subjected to a pre-selection process by the festival's programming team.

- All participants in this call must register on the FESTHOME web platform.

- The registration fee for both feature and short films is USD$2.00. Chilean films can apply for free.

- All works that are not originally in Spanish must be subtitled in Spanish or english for the selection period. If selected, the film must be subtitled in Spanish by the applicant and any costs associated with subtitling will be the applicant's responsibility.

- Any associated shipping costs are complete responsibility of the applicant.

- No material received will be returned.

- The call will be open until January 29, 2023 at 23:59 hours (Continental Chile time).

5. SELECTION AND PARTICIPATION
- The works received will be subjected to a selection process by the festival's programming team.

- Selected films will be notified via email and published on the BioBioCine International Festival website (www.festivalbiobiocine.cl) and its social networks during the second week of April 2023.

- Acceptance of the rules authorizes the festival production to a maximum of 3 non-profit screenings outside the festival under the brand "Muestra Oficial BioBioCine 2022". The organization will inform the place, day, time and context of the exhibition in advance.

- The festival reserves the right to use excerpts of the selected works for the purpose of promoting the event and without prejudice to the fact that the copyrights of the works remain with the owners of the works.

- The exhibition copies must be subtitled in Spanish if they are in another language.

- Promotional material (trailer, film stills, photos and directors' biography) must be submitted no later than March 30, 2023.