43° Paladino D’oro Sportfilmfestival (43)

Inicio Festival: 20 noviembre 2023      Fin Festival: 26 noviembre 2023

The Paladino d'Oro Sport Film Festival is the oldest in the world of sports cinema (1979) promotes the diffusion of sports films and videos, the festival is an international showcase for the large distributions of world cinema, which can meet the productions during Sports Film Week.
The Paladino d’oro is awarded by the Academy of Sports Cinema, is composed of illustrious personalities from cinema, journalism and sport. Here are the prizes awarded in each edition. Four main categories: best Olympic film, best Paralympic film, best football film and best E-Sport film. The awarded sections are for best feature film, best short film, best documentary, best fiction, best direction, best actor, best sports protagonist, best editing, best screenplay, best sound, films are also awarded with special prizes: social award, prize “Vito Maggio”, the “Altro Cinema” award (non-sporting subject) and the “School & University” award. All the films that have been selected will receive an award during the final ceremony of the festival.

Award: Paladino d'oro to:
The Award Commission will assign the nominations among the selected films for the following categories:

Best Feature Film
Best Short Film
Best Documentary
Best Fiction
Best Paralympic Film
Best Football Film
Best E-Sport Film
Best Foreign Film
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Picture
Best Editor
Best Sound-mixing
Best Leading Role
Special Award

43° Paladino d’Oro SportFilmFestival – Regulation/Regolamento
Art. 1 – ORGANIZERS
The Paladino d’oro Sport Film Festival (SFF) is organized by Toros Centro di Comunicazione Visiva, that nominated yearly a Movie Commission to select the best films focused on sports. The Festival is directed by Roberto Oddo.

Art. 2 – PURPOSE
The SFF wants to promote the values of sport (respect for rules, fair play, overcoming limits, team play, etc.) through the best films all over the world that are focused on sports. The “SFF promotes the diffusion of sport films that, in different ways, contribute to the development of artistic and cultural trends in the cinema business. The goal is to promote the best quality in sports films; to stimulate, thanks to the mass media and the partnership with schools and universities, the interest in sport and cinema, fostering didactic-cultural meetings.

Art. 3 – WHEN AND WHERE (Sport Movie Week)
The 43st Paladino d’oro SFF will be held in Sicily from 20-26 November 2023. The festival program includes film screening, meetings with productions, conference and awards ceremony. The SFF ends with the awards ceremony (Grand Gala). During the Grand Gala the prize named “PALADINO D’ORO” will be assigned to the best films in competition; the direction can be assign some special “PALADINO D’ORO” to the most important figures of movie and sports.

Art. 4 - ELIGIBILITY
All films produced between 2019 and 2023 with sports or non-sports subjects, already published, distributed or previewed, can participate in the festival. Films that have already participated in the SFF are excluded.

Art. 5 – REGISTRATION
The registration is active between the November, 2022, the registration deadline to July 31th, 2023.
If by July 31th 2023, the registered productions do not comply with all the requests of the organization, they will be automatically excluded. To complete the registration, after completing the online form, producers must send the following material no later than June 2023 to: production@sportfilmfestival.it:
– 1 copy of the movie file in HD MP4, to download, with subtitled in Italian or English;
– a 2-minute (max) file of the trailer in HD MP4, to download, with subtitled in Italian or English;
– a summary (synopsis) of the film in English and Italian.
– a bio film of the director and / or the main actors, in English and Italian ;
– a good resolution poster
– the Regulations Form, printed, completed and signed, for the free use of all the material provided for publications, for the Official Catalog, for the Press Office and for the promotion of the SFF.
– The payment of 50 euros for the secretarial expenses contribution by bank transfer, to: TOROS CCV – Via Olivella, 32 – 90100 Palermo – IBAN: IT60X0306909606100000164071. Or with paypal with paypal to robertooddo9@gmail.com. If the film’s documentation is incomprehensible or incomplete, the film will be excluded from the SFF.

Art. 6 – SELECTION
The Sports Cinema Academy, has foreseen a first selection among all the films entered, if in order
with the registration (art. 5), All selected films are invited to the festival. The Sports Cinema Academy will assign the nominations, the communication will take place by 31 August 2023. A second selection, for the assignment of the nominations, which provides for the mandatory presence of a production representative at the award ceremony (art. 10) , the productions will have to confirm the presence of a representative by 30 September 2023. The communication of the nominations will take place by 15 September 2023, with publication on the official website of the festival www.sportfilmfestival.org.
All the selected films are invited to the festival, the organization will pay for a stay for two people in B&B hotel formula for the night of the final on November 25, 2023. The Golden Paladin is awarded by the Sports Cinema Academy, made up of illustrious personalities cinema, journalism and sport. Here are the prizes awarded in each edition. Four main categories: Best Olympic Film, Best Paralympic Film, Best Football Film and Best E-Sport Film. The awarded sections are for best feature film, best short film, best documentary, best fiction, best direction, best actor, best sports protagonist, best editing, best screenplay, best sound, films are also awarded with special prizes: social prize, "Vito Maggio" prize, the "Altro Cinema" prize (non-sporting subject) and the "School & University" prize. All nominated films will receive an award during the final ceremony of the festival.

Art. 7 – SOCIAL AWARD
The “Social Award” is the only “Paladino d’Oro” awarded by the public. All the trailers of the films selected by the Management will be published on the official website and on the official social pages of the Festival. The winning trailer will be the one with the most views on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, the final total of all views will be counted on 30th October , 2023, views obtained after this date will not be valid. Here are the links of the official social pages:
https://www.facebook.com/sportfilmfestival
https://www.youtube.com/c/SFFSPORTFILMFESTIVAL/featured
https://www.instagram.com/sportfilmfestival/channel/

Art. 8 – SCREENING OF CANDIDATE FILMS
The films that have been nominated and that will be present at the festival with at least one production representative at the award ceremony will be screened at the festival, the screening billboard will be published on October 30, 2023, on the official festival website. Films not represented at the festival during the ceremony will not be screened.

Art. 9 – UTILIZATION OF PARTICIPATING FILMS AND COPYRIGHTS
The films will be used by the festival exclusively for cultural ends and promotional ends of the SFF, before, during and after the SFF, also in collaboration with Public authorities, private society, media, schools, universities, etc. For a further promotion, the participating films can be shown during other events. They cannot be supplied for other uses without the expressed authorization of the producer. Who enters his/her film to the festival declares him/herself owner of it according to this Regulation and undersigning the Regulation, he/she authorizes:
the maximum distribution of the film (it means that it’s not subjected to any right or to other compensations);
the vision of the film by the delegates, accredited journalists, observers, pubblic etc.
the deposit, in SFF’s archive, of the copies of the film only for study, as documentation and for institutional activities.
The participants will directly be responsible for any demands or claims of reimbursement by third parts, as they have entered their films to the SFF. The TOROS CCV has the right to use the names of the participants to the Festival for its own promotional activity.

Art. 10 – GENERAL RULES
The productions of the selected films will have the right to hospitality in a hotel for one night in a B&B (November 25, 2023) for two people indicated by the film production, on the occasion of the awarding ceremony of the Golden Paladins on November 25, 2023, at the Theater and their transfer to and from the airport, further stays will be paid for by the film productions. The productions that will not be present at the final ceremony will not be entitled to any prize. Any disputes and anything not covered by this regulation will be governed exclusively by Italian law. The final decisions are the responsibility of the Festival management. For any complaint relating to the meaning of the articles of these Regulations, only the original text in Italian of the Regulations published on the official website of the Paladino d'Oro Sport Film Festival will be the basis for any dispute.

Art. 11 – UPDATES
The TOROS CCV reserve the right to make decisions on matters not specified herein. The CCV can change this Regulation at any time and without notice.