Submissions deadline
05 Jun 23
1.44€
ULASTRE · SELECTED THE MILLEST DOCUMENTARY CUT METRATGE TO THE OFFICIAL SELECTION
ANNOUNCEMENT
12 short documentaries will be selected that will be shown in Catalan or subtitled. These will be finalists and will be part of the official film program of the MDF 2023 festival. Four of the finalist documentaries will be selected to be part of the educational project Aula Doc, directed by educational centers. Aula Doc proposes a series of activities to work on transversal themes to the audiovisual of documentary genre and, specifically, to the short film in questió. In addition, I would like to emphasize that there will be a first prize for the best documentary i, with a maximum of two works being able to obtain a mention of honor from the jury.
The publication of the finalist works selected for the festival program is public on September 1, 2023. While the verdict of the Ullastre award for the best short documentary is public during the central days of the festival. The jury will be made up of a team of filmmakers and documentary film specialists, in addition to the author of the curt guanyador in the previous edition.
Participation requirements
Producers, directors and distributors from any country can participate, as long as the holders of all the rights of the works with which they compete, along with the images and audio that they are satisfied with, follow.
Each participant may present a maximum of two films that are being made during or after 2021.
-The duration must be a maximum of 35 minutes.
-The films may be shot in any language.
-Once you select the short film, it is an essential requirement to deliver the archive of subtitles in Catalan and/or Spanish. (The file format must be .srt)
-They may not have continguts that are missing in respect to any person, group, col·lectiu or entitat.
-They cannot induce proselytism, nor a political, concrete religious or d'odi discourse.
Registration procedure
Festhome, fill in the participation form of the digital platform. If any given is missing, the participation of the work will not be valid.
Once the work has been selected, together with its subtitles in Catalan or Spanish in .srt format, it can be sent by WeTransfer or any other download service that does not expire. Projection quality in .MP4 format and H264 compression at 8MB/s or higher.
Send to the email: produccio.mdf@gmail.com
Please indicate in the mailing letter the title of the work, the name of the author and the electronic mail to contact you in the registration.
Termini de presentation fins on June 5, 2023 at 11:59 p.m.
retribution
-Official selection of finalist films: €50 per short film under author's rights.
-Selection for the educational project “Aula Doc”: €80 per short film in concept of author's rights (accumulative to the selection as a finalist).
-Premi millor curt documentary: €700 in concept of author's rights/exhibition (not cumulative to the selection as a finalist). The winner of the award will form part of the jury of the V edition of the --Menorca Doc Fest and will be invited to the 2024 festival.
-The prize may be deserted if the jurat així esteems it.
Conditions
-All the remunerations per rights d'autor are both included taxes.
-The fees are charged after the festival and només mitjançant invoice.
-The organization will send the billing data once the festival is over. All the invoices will have to be presented before November 1, 2023. Otherwise, it will be understood that the author rebuts this compensation.
ACCEPTANCE OF THE BASES
-The presentation in this call implies full acceptance of these bases and their terms and conditions. Plus:
-The organization reserves the right to change the bases or aspects of the exhibition, which will be carefully informed, if there are exceptional circumstances that require it.
-The organization reserves the right to make a selection of the works presented on the basis of technical and creative quality criteria.
-The people who present the works in this contest are responsible for the possible claims by third parties of the works presented.
It is the authority of the visual and sound documentation for communication purposes and as the archive of Menorca Doc Fest and of the organizing entity, Es Far Cultural.