Cryptshow Festival (19)

Cryptshow Film Festival



Deadlines

16 Oct 2024
Call for entries

01 Jan 2025
Early deadline

28 Feb 2025
Standard deadline

10 Mar 2025
Late deadline

15 Mar 2025
Extended deadline

2
mths

01 May 2025
Notification date

21 Jun 2025
06 Jul 2025

Address

C/Santa Maria 71 1º,  08911, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain


Festival description
Fantasy & Horror Films
Short film festival 25'<


Festival requirements
 Film festival
 Fiction
 Documentary
 Animation
 Fantastic
 Terror
 Experimental
 Music Video
 Other
 Genres
 Any Theme
 Has submission fees
 International Festival
 Physical Location
 January 2023
 Production countries: Any
 Shooting countries: Any
 Director nationalities: Any
 Debut Films 
 School projects 
 Short Films  25'<
 Any language
 Subtitles 
Catalan Spanish French Galician English Italian
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Festival start: 21 June 2025      Festival end: 06 July 2025

Cryptshow Festival is an initiative that promotes the fantasy genreand terror. Every July fill Badalona de Zombies, aliens, vampires and serial killiers most infamous. And to much horror ... the horror!

Cash Prizes: 666€

Official Competition Section Jury Award: a fabulous festival trophy, a mechanical saw made by the Catalan ceramist Marta Martínez i Hortet, and an awesome prize of €666

RULES FOR ENTERING THE XIX “SERRA CIRCULAR” COMPETITION FOR FANTASTY CRYPTSHOW FESTIVAL

Short film application dates: From OCTOBER 1, 2024 to March 15, 2025.

We accept short films with a running time of less than 25 minutes. Films must have been made after January 2023 and belong to the genre of fantasy. All films received before April the 1st will take part in the selection. If you want to register (FROM NOW ON THE REGISTRATION) your short in our festival you can do it through this link: festhome.com.

Once you have uploaded the film and completed the form you will be registered in the Cryptshow Festival and can apply for the “Circular Saw” JURY prize of €666.

The short films may be filmed in any format but must be submitted on digital video format. Short films not in Catalan or Spanish must be accompanied by a Catalan, Spanish, Galician, english, French or Italian transcript including time code of the dialogues. A photograph or screenshot of the short film must be enclosed with the registration for festival advertising purposes. We would also appreciate a press release.

The short films selected will be shown in the Cryptshow Festival 2024 Official Section Competition (FROM NOW ON THE OSC). The names of the winners will be announced during the closing ceremony of the Cryptshow Festival 2025. Participants are responsible for claims, including but not only for royalties, copyright and property rigths, from third parties regarding the WORK presented. The organisers of the festival reserve the right to resolve any eventuality not specified in the rules. Once the registration is done, the film cannot be removed from the programming or projection except upon payment of a penalty of €100.


CRYPTSHOW FESTIVAL AWARD

The Cryptshow Festival selection jury will be included in the OSC. the best film will be awarded with the "SERRA CIRCULAR" prize voted by the festival's official jury.

OCS (FORA Official Competition Section) Jury Award: a fabulous festival trophy which consists in a mechanical saw made by the Catalan ceramist Marta Martínez i Hortet, and an awesome prize of €666. The wine of the jury's prize commits himself or herself to give the necessary bank data to transfer the €666 before october 30TH 2023. In the case he or she does not give that data the organization reserves the right to use that money to other editions.The festival will not take responsability for exchange rate if the awarded does not use €euros in his or her country.

Official Section Audience Award: a fabulous festival trophy WHICH CONSISTS IN a mechanical saw made by the Catalan ceramist Marta Martínez i Hortet.


TAC AWARD

All Catalan-produced short films taking part in the Cryptshow Festival are automatically eligible for PREMI TAC, awarded by Federació d'Entitats Cinèfiles Terror Arreu de Catalunya.

Small Print: all short films received will become part of the festival’s video library. The festival organizing committee reserves the right to use all material received, totally or partially, for non-profit purposes when advertising the Festival. By submitting the registration of your work it is automatically implied that you accept the above conditions.

Any physical delivery of short films as well as posters, postcards, promotional photos or gold bullion, should be sent to:

Cryptshow Festival

C/Santa Maria 71 1º
08911 
Badalona

Barcelona (España)



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