Semana de Cine de Lugo (45)

Festival start: 18 September 2023      Festival end: 23 September 2023

45th Lugo Film Week (Spain). Celebration from 18 to 23 September 2023 (SECILUGO 45).

OFFICIAL PRIZES


Better Film of the Official Section (Prize of the Public).

Prize of the Jury to the Best Documentary Film.

Prize of the Public to the Best Galician Film (feature film).

Prize of the Public to the Best Galician Film (short film).

Prize of the Public to the Best Short film.

Prize of the Jury to the Best Film of the “Eixo Atlantic” (feature film).

Prize of the Jury to the Best Film of the “Eixo Atlantic” (short film).

Prize of the Jury to the Best Documentary Film of the “Eixo Atlantic”.

Rules and regulations 45ª Week of Cinema of Lugo (Spain). Celebration of the 18 to 23 September 2023 (SECILUGO 45).


ANNOUNCEMENT


OBJECT


This announcement has like main objective detect and spread the talent of the emergent film-makers, putting special emphasis in the cinema of character autoral and the regulation of the Prizes to films: Feature films (Official Section Week of Cinema). Feature films, Short films, Documentary (Cinema of the “Eixo Atlantic”). Galician cinema (Feature films, short films, documentary). Documentary cinema (Feature films, short films). Short films (Reward the short also are cinema), of the 45ª Week of Cinema of Lugo (Spain), organised by the Group Fotocinematográfico Fonmiñá and under the auspices of the Xunta de Galicia, Provincial Deputation of Lugo and City council of Lugo , that will take place in Lugo (Spain) of the 18 to 23 September 2023.


PARTICIPANTS


They will be able to concursar the physical or juridical people with capacity to act (producing, directors, distributors) that possess the owed legal control on the works that present to contest.

The person or entity (or his representative) that firm the form authorising the registration will be considered by the Festival like only valid speaker to treat appearances related with the participation of the film in the event and as only responsible in front of other people or companies that have taken part in the production of the film.


REQUIREMENTS OF THE FILMS


They will have to have been produced in the years 2022 and 2023. They will not be able to have exhibited neither edited commercially in Spain in public rooms (except in Festivals), television, VoD or Webs before 18 September 2023 (The Jury Seleccionador sera strict in this sense).

The works will have to be of fiction (real image or animation) with more than 60 minutes of length in feature films. The short films will not be able to exceed of 30 minutes. It will be indispensable the subtitulado in Spanish in those copies whose original language was Galician, English or another any one. The films that do not fulfill this requirement will remain out of this announcement. Some of the titles that select in any one of the sections and of agreement among both parts (Festival and Representative), will be able to exhibit in streaming (on-line) through the official canals of the Festival.


PREFERENCES


Will have a SPECIAL PREFERENCE those films that treat the genders and following subjects and have like main objective detect and spread the cinematographic talent of the emergent film-makers, putting special emphasis in the cinema of character autoral:


International independent cinema.
Cinema of the “Eixo Atlantic”.
Portuguese cinema.
Paths of Santiago.
Galician cinema.
The cinema inside the cinema.


CINEMA OF THE “EIXO ATLANTIC”.

In 2023, Lugo has been chosen, like Capital of the Culture of the “Eixo Atlantico”. Thus, the Week of Cinema of Lugo in his 45 Edition, wishes to give to know and improve the cinema made in Portugal and Galicia, in the cities and in the pertaining villages to the “Eixo Atlantic”.


REGISTRATION IN THE CONTEST


ON-LINE REGISTRATION:


To inscribe the film will have to do through the form of registration of the corresponding digital platform of Festhome and of Click For Festivals.

The term of on-line registration will close on 10 May 2023 to the 24:00 hours (local hour of Lugo).


TRADITIONAL REGISTRATION:


Will be able to inscribe the film requesting it always to: secilug@gmail.com

The Jury Seleccionador will accept or refused the selection once viewing the work presented.

The term of registration in this case will close on 10 May 2023 to the 14:00 hours (local hour of Lugo).


PRESCRIPTIVE DOCUMENTATION:


To complete the registration, will have to include the following data and material:

- Data of contact of the owner of the rights and cession of rights of exhibition in the Week of Cinema.

- Cession of rights of exhibition in Streaming (On-line) through the own canals of the Festival.

-Chip filmográfica of the film (Cartel, technical chip, artistic, synopsis, length, etc) and cession of rights for his use in social nets.

- A copy of the film with subheads in Spanish (indispensable, if the original language is Galician, English or another any one).

- Trailer. In case of not having trailer, can send a selection of images extracted of the film (minimum: 30 seconds).

- Fotogramas Of tall resolution of the film, in digital format (300 dpi or more).

- Photograph of tall resolution of the director (or directors), in digital format (300 dpi or more).

- The organisation of the 45ª SECILUGO will not maintain correspondence (neither oral neither written) about the originals sent. Only it will do it through the corresponding distributor (digital or traditional).


OBLIGATIONS OF THE INSCRIBED


The registration in the 45ª Week of Cinema of Lugo will involve:

- The total acceptance of the present bases by all the participants, his agents and representatives.

- The permission so that, in case of not being selected for the competition, the organisation of the festival can project his film in one of the parallel sections no competitive, benefiting of the advertising and promotion of the festival.

- The permission to spread material of the films inscribed (fotogramas, posters, chips, fragments of guion, texts of press, etc.). The participants authorise the diffusion of until three minutes of images of said films in any media.

- The acceptance that, in case to obtain any of the prizes awarded in the contest, will include a reference written to the concession of said prize to the beginning of all and each one of the copies gives film that distribute for his exhibition in commercial rooms and/or in audiovisual contests, as well as in all the informative and promotional material form (press-books, posters, etc.). Said reference will consist in a text with the type of prize awarded, accompanied invariably of the corporate image (logotype and name) of the Festival.


SELECTION


A commission of selection designated by the Committee Organiser of the Week of Cinema of Lugo will have like committed advise in relation with the films that will compete in the distinct sections. Likewise, it will be able to propose those no selected films for the competition but that considered of special importance for his exhibition in parallel cycles.

The selection will make take that the contest is a sample of the most stood out productions of the independent cinema of all the world, betting by the films more tematicamente committed and formally innovative.

In any case, the final decision of the competitive sections will correspond him to the committee of direction.


OBLIGATIONS OF THE SELECTED


The participants whose films are selected for the competitive sections will be obliged to fulfil the following disposals and behaviours:

-The producers and distributors will yield the rights for the exhibition in streaming (On-line) of determinate titles selected of his films through the own canals of the Festival and always with one accord.

-The producers and distributors of the films selected will facilitate all the necessary material for the preparation of the catalogue of the Week of Cinema of Lugo that was them requested by the organisation of the same.

-The producers and distributors will yield the rights for the public exhibition of his films without cost any for the organisation.

-They will facilitate gratuitamente to the organisation the copy of projection. All the films inscribed and no selected for the Official Competitions (Feature films, Documentary and Short films), will be considered to include in other sections of the programming of the Festival.

-They will allow the incorporation of the films selected at the end videográfico of the Week of Cinema, allocated to the non-profit audiovisual diffusion, always of cultural character. In any case, Fonmiñá (entity organiser) will communicate to the participants the use that do of these films.

-They will not remove the film of the programming neither will present it commercially in Spain before his projection in Lugo.


EXHIBITION


The projections of the 45ª Week of Cinema of Lugo will make in the formats or the system that consider the Festival. During the celebration of the contest, of the 18 to 23 September 2023, the organisation reserves the right to exhibit the films selected in the cinematographic rooms and spaces linked to this event in those that public sessions estimate convenient. The organisation will establish the order, date and schedule of exhibition.


JURY


A Jury chosen among professionals of the cinematographic world, audiovisual, press and culture, will be the attendant of the selection of the distinct films for the competitive sections.
The Best Film of the Official Section, will be the own public assistant to the projections, that will vote each one of the films that exhibit .


OFFICIAL PRIZES


Better Film of the Official Section (Prize of the Public).

Prize of the Jury to the Best Documentary Film.

Prize of the Public to the Best Galician Film (feature film).

Prize of the Public to the Best Galician Film (short film).

Prize of the Public to the Best Short film.

Prize of the Jury to the Best Film of the “Eixo Atlantic” (feature film).

Prize of the Jury to the Best Film of the “Eixo Atlantic” (short film).

Prize of the Jury to the Best Documentary Film of the “Eixo Atlantic”.


FINAL RESOLUTION


The doubts that can arise on the interpretation of these bases, as well as the conflicts that could produce derived of his application, regarding the organisation or operation, will be resolved by the Committee Organiser of the 45ª Week of Cinema of Lugo.

The decision of the juries will be unappealable.

The Festival (Week of Cinema of Lugo), will run unicamente and excepcionalmente with the costs or helps of those invited to the Festival concernientes to trips, stays and maintenance of the days that agree . There will be any another type of credit by costs or helps of trip, any one that went the origin, if it is not through the timely invitation.

If the future situation demanded it, the committee organiser of the Festival will congratulate all those actions that guarantee the measures promoted by the sanitary authorities and the different administrations; although this supposed to alter the design and development of the Festival.