Mostra Competitiva de Cinema Negro Adélia Sampaio ()

Festival start: 17 October 2021      Festival end: 23 October 2021

The purpose of the IV Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio is to select and disseminate audiovisual productions made by Black Women realized in different parts the world. The Competitive Exhibition will select short, medium, and feature films and telefilms that have been made by black female directors (cis and trans). After three editions only with brasilians female directors, this years the exhibition became international, with the objective to expand the debate of Feminin Black Cinema .

● Best Feature Film
● Best Medium Length Film or Telefilm
● Best Short Film
● Best Film Popular Jury
● Best Direction
● Best Cinematography
● Best Editing
● Best Screenplay
● Best Actress
● Honorable Mention

IV COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION OF BLACK CINEMA ADÉLIA SAMPAIO PUBLIC NOTICE 4/2021

READ CAREFULLY THIS REGULATION

REGULATION

I – THE PURPOSE

1.1 – The purpose of this CALL FOR PROPOSALS is to select and disseminate audiovisual productions made by Black Women to participate in the IV Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio, to be held in 2021. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, this year's edition will be completely online. Its goal is to promote the interchange among black female directors of world cinema. The IV Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio will select short, medium, and feature films and telefilms that have been made by black female directors (cis and trans), starting in January 2019 in digital format. In the case of productions whose audio has not been captured in Portuguese, the film must be subtitled in Portuguese.

II – THE ORGANIZATION

2.1 – The IV Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio is a production of Sebastiana Mídias e Produções.

III – COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION

3.1 – - The IV Black Film Festival Adélia Sampaio - will consist of a competitive screening of films in the following categories:
3.2 – Short Film - For this notice, short films are considered to be cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, with a maximum length of up to 29 (thirty) minutes, finalized in .MOV or MP4 digital format, Codec h264 (content and credits);
3.3 – Medium-length or Telefilm - For this notice, medium-length films are considered cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, with a minimum running time of 30 (thirty) to 69 (sixty-nine minutes), finalized in .MOV or MP4 digital format, Codec h264 (content and credits);
3.4 – Feature Film - For this notice, feature films are cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, with a running time exceeding 70 minutes, finalized in digital format .MOV or .MP4, Codec h264.

IV – APPLICATION PROCEDURES

4.1 – The application will be made through the Festhome platform or form available on the website (only for Brazilian films).
4.2 – The data required for registration are:
a) Completion of the registration form;
b) 03 (three) photos / frames of the film in .jpg, 300 dpi resolution.
c) 01 frontal photo of the director's face in .jpg, resolution 300 dpi.
d) Digital poster of the film in .jpg, high resolution, if any.
e) Declaration of copyrights
f) Copy of the film for viewing, if in a foreign language, it must be subtitled in Portuguese. g) Teaser or trailer of the film, if any.
4.3 – It is forbidden the participation - in the
IV Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio - of works that may characterize any kind of institutional or corporate promotion and contents of any kind of prejudice and discrimination.
4.4 – Films made in other languages will only be accepted if subtitled in Portuguese. 4.5- – The films selected for the 2021 edition of the IV Black Cinema Competitive Exhibition Adélia Sampaio will be exhibited on line on a platform to be announced later. 4.6 – The selected films will be part of the collection of Exhibition Adélia Sampaio and may be shown in itinerant exhibitions in schools and other educational institutions. The production of the Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio undertakes to inform the directors of the participation of their works in these events, under the commitment that they will never be used for exhibitions for commercial purposes.
4.7 – The registration of the work will only be validated if the film (whose link must be informed on the registration form) can be viewed during the selection period. 4.8 - The exhibition registration is free, however, as everyone knows the cultural sector in Brazil is one of the segments most affected by the pandemic and the dismantling of public policies. In this sense, we ask that you spontaneously contribute with any amount when you register. With this gesture, you will be strengthening black female cinema. The contribution data are available on the event's page.

V – THE SELECTION PROCESS

5.1 – The selection of films for the IV Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio will be conducted by a Curator, appointed by the organizing team of the event. 5.2 – The coordination of the IV Black Cinema Competitive Exhibition Adélia Sampaio will disclose the selected productions through e-mail, its official website and social medias. § 1o – The e-mail through which the inscription was done will be the communication channel of the Exhibition’s organization with the selected productions. Therefore, the coordination of the IV Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio is exempt from any responsibility for failure to receive.
5.3 – The selection of films for the IV Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio implies the exhibition of the same during the event. Being forbidden to the proponent the possibility of withdrawing it from the competition.
5.4 – - Will be accepted productions completed from January 2019.
5.5 - Will be accepted entries of films that have not been selected in previous editions 5.6 – After being selected, the director should send an email, identified with the name of the work to the address cineastaseprodutorasnegras@gmail.com, with the link to download the film, as well as other information requested.

VI – CALENDAR

Online registration: from June 13 to July 31, 2021.
Disclosure of selected until September 5, 2021.
Deadline for sending the e-mail with a link to download the film until September 20, 2021. Exhibition's Date: October 17 to 23, 2021.

VII – GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS

7.1 – The organization of the IV Competitive Black Film Festival Adélia Sampaio - reserves the right to display on any media excerpts of the films - up to 1
minute of each and / or trailer - of the participating films for the purpose of disclosure of the Exhibition.
7.2 – It is up to the Director and the Coordination of the IV Competitive Black Film Festival Adélia
the solution of any case omitted in this call.
7.3 – The participation in the IV Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adélia Sampaio implies full acceptance of these regulations.

VIII – ABOUT THE AWARDS

8.1- The directors of the IV Black Cinema Competitive Exhibition Adélia Sampaio will be responsible for appointing the members of the Award Jury.
8.2 - The selected films will compete in the following categories:
● Best Feature Film
● Best Medium Length Film or Telefilm
● Best Short Film
● Best Film Popular Jury
● Best Direction
● Best Cinematography
● Best Editing
● Best Screenplay
● Best Actress
● Honorable Mention
8.3 – The Award Jury may, separately, grant honorable mentions, as long as it is in agreement with the direction of the IV Black Film Festival Adélia Sampaio Adélia Sampaio, and may also refrain from granting any award or trophy when it considers it necessary. 8.4 – The Award Jury may grant trophies to guests, people, or institutions connected to the event.
8.5 – The trophies will be sent by mail to the winners.
8.6 – In case of works where the responsibility is of a team, in any competing categories of this announcement, the trophy will be unique, being up to the team to decide about its ownership.
8.7 – The list with the winning films in each category, chosen by the Award Juries, will be homologated and announced at the closing ceremony of the IV Competitive Black Film Festival Adélia Sampaio and then published to the community at large, the official website and social networks.

IX – APPEALS

9.1 – The selection and award jury is sovereign, there being no appeal from its decision.
IV Black Film Competitive Exhibition Adélia Sampaio

Brasília, April 2021.