Muestra Internacional Documental De Bogotá (24)

Festival start: 25 October 2022      Festival end: 30 October 2022

The Bogota International Documentary Film Festival (MIDBO), organized by Colombia’s Documentary Filmmakers Guild ALADOS, is a non-fiction cinema specialized event that throughout the last 23 years has been consolidated in Colombia and Latin America as a fundamental space of the exhibition, dialogue, and thinking around non-fiction audiovisual.

Regarding the 24 MIDBO, we would like to invite latin and iberoamerican filmmakers and producers to submit their audiovisual works in our 2022 call for films and to participate in the varied formative and debate spaces that will take place virtually and on-site throughout the festival.


24 MIDBO:
Emotion of the Real
Real Emotions

For the 24th edition of MIDBO we want to deeply explore Documentary from its capacity of generating and conveying emotions. Documentary emotion, in the sense of moving, but also of capturing the reality in movement.

This year we aim to challenge the idea of a format that communicates information, which is often understood as rational or analytical, and we seek to connect the documentary with various ways in which affection is expressed in the cinema of the real.

With this approach, we seek to dismantle prejudices and reduce distances around the format to communicate to broader audiences, as well as further develop these issues with specialized audiences. At the same time, aspects such as sound experimentation, music, and voice in documentaries will be essential in this call.

Recognizing the tradition of the Colombian documentary, we want to open the call to the affections generated by belonging to or displacement from the territory. We observe this affection for the land and nature from the number of transits and forced displacements that populations, communities and individuals make through it. The current environmental crisis in protected places of the planet, considered legal entities, relate this call to the thoughts of non-urban communities and in a global environment.

The special program Espejos continues with a series of films that show emerging cinema produced by collectives and communities or films that deal with social and political problems. In relation to the general call, in this section we seek to emphasize the consequences of climate change and the environmental crisis.

1. Registration categories
The filmmakers and / or producers can register their films in the following categories:

1.1. National films
Recent documentary films by Colombian authors, residing in Colombia or abroad.

1.2. Iberoamerican films
Recent documentary films by authors from any Iberoamerican country, residing in their countries or abroad.

1.3. Films by emerging directors / filmmakers
A space open to Iberoamerican directors / filmmakers, whose works have been produced as part of an academic program. This category also includes the first documentaries of self-taught or empiric makers.

1.4. National films produced in community processes
A space open to Colombian films that have been produced in community processes.

*Films of any length and format may be accepted in all the registration categories. The subject is free.

2. Conditions of entry
The participants of the the MIDBO’s 2022 call for films, must accept the participation conditions bellow:

2.1. Films must have been produced after January 1, 2020.

2.2. Films in any language other than Spanish must have subtitles in Spanish. Films not subtitled in Spanish will not be considered for the selection process.

2.3. There are no restrictions as to the format used for shooting the footage but we request the exhibition copies of the selected documentaries in a Full HD 1920x1080 minimum resolution.

2.4. Neither journalist coverages nor brand documentaries nor institutional videos will be considered.

2.5. When registering for the call, the directors / producers agree to present their films in the Bogota International Documentary Film Festival MIDBO without the collection of exhibition fees.

2.6. When registering for the call, the directors / producers commit to sending the advertising material, authorization, and exhibition copies on the dates and formats indicated by the 24th Bogota International Documentary Film Festival, MIDBO 2022. Participants that do not fit this condition won't be considered for the selection process.

3. DATES
Call for applications:
April 10th, 2022
Registration deadline:
May 20th, 2022
23:59 Colombian time.
Notifications:
July 29th, 2022

4. Film registration
The film registration process must be done in the following way:

4.1. The film registration in the categories: National films, Iberoamerican films, Films by emerging directors / filmmakers will be made through the online platform Festhome.

4.2. The film registration in the category National films produced on a community processes may be registered at no cost through the following Link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9akKjFxy_2mNFxyzKXCYUwBoezP-5I19RA6m-vT5WjsFu3Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

5. Registration fees:
5.1. National films: registration for national documentaries has a fee of 4 USD, which must be paid through the platform.

5.2. Iberoamerican films: registration for Iberoamerican films has a fee of 5 USD, which must be paid through the platform.

5.3. The category of Emerging directors / filmmakers has a fee of 2 USD, which must be paid through the platform.

5.4. In order to encourage the participation of National films produced in community processes and keeping in mind the production conditions of it, registration for this category is free of charge.

6. Final dispositions

The selection of films will be the responsibility of the programming Board.

By submitting a film, the participant agrees to all terms and conditions explained.

Once the selection has been announced by MIDBO 2022, no documentaries can be retrieved from the festival MIDBO 2022.


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