Festival de Cine Rural y Montaña de Cervera de Pisuerga (3)

Festival start: 09 May 2025      Festival end: 16 May 2025

Third edition of the Rural and Mountain Festival of Cervera de Pisuerga.

This festival was born out of the need to give visibility to rural and mountain works. To value the natural environment from a rural, ethnographic, sporting and heritage value point of view.

Best Rural and Mountain Short Film Award.

Award for the Best Rural and Mountain Short Film of Castilla y León.

Award for the Best Rural and Mountain Director.

Best Rural and Mountain Director Award.

Award for the Best Short Film shot in the Palencia Mountains.

Terms and Conditions III Rural and Mountain Film Festival, Cervera de Pisuerga

From May 9 to 16, 2025

Purpose

The City Council of Cervera de Pisuerga together with Evenmedia Producciones announce the II Festival de Cine Rural y Montaña de Cervera de Pisuerga, whose objective is to promote short films with rural, ethnographic, ecological, mountain, adventure and nature themes under artistic criteria based on the script and filmmaking.

2. General Conditions
The Festival is open to fiction, documentary and animation short films, with the theme being the rural world (its social, cultural, anthropological, sporting aspects), the mountain, mountain sports, heritage and nature. Those of a touristic or advertising nature are excluded.

Each author may submit as many short films as he/she wishes. The registration fee by the Festival will be free (independent of the cost of the Festhome platform service) during this year, therefore only the cost of the platform must be paid.

Participation is open to all Spanish short films produced and made from January 1, 2024 until the final date for entries, April 15, 2025.

Films must be submitted in their original language. Those whose original version is not Spanish or english must be submitted with Spanish subtitles.

The maximum length shall not exceed 59 minutes.
A plural and qualified team of jurors will be in charge of selecting the short films that will be part of the competition. The result of this selection will be communicated to the contact person indicated on the registration form.

3. Entries
All short films entered must comply with the following rules:

The deadline for registration will be 23:59 hours on April 15, 2025.

Registration will be done online through the “Festhome” platform at www.festhome.com, filling in all mandatory sections.

The participant will assume the costs derived from this platform.

On this platform, an account will be created and the video file will be uploaded with embedded subtitles in english, in the case of works whose original version is not Spanish or english.

Those participants who, due to their geographic location and conflicts in the country, have problems with on-line registration may request their participation in the short film contest through the following e-mail address: cerveraescine@gmail.com.

4. Selected short films, shipment and screening copies
The Selection Committee, formed by professionals from the world of audiovisual arts and the organization, will be in charge of selecting the works for the different sections of the festival.

If a work is selected, the organization will contact the representative to request all the necessary material.

The screening copy of the selected works will be sent within the period and form requested by the organization. In any case, the sending will be on-line before April 27, 2025.

Technical requirements:

Mandatory clean copy of subtitles.
The corresponding dialogue subtitles must be attached in SRT format files, in Spanish
*.mp4 / *.mepg 4 H264 - Full HD resolution (1920×1080)
*.mp4 / Apple ProRess 442 - Full HD resolution (1920×1080)

Those selected should send to the address: cerveraescine@gmail.com(if they did not previously upload the material to Festhome) Press Kit consisting of:

Poster and/or Three representative stills or photographs of the short film and photograph of the director. The preferred format will be a digital file, 300 dpi, JPEG or Tiff with an approximate size of 10×15 cm,
Biofilmography of the director in a maximum of 600 characters.
Trailer (Link or File)
And complete the registration form that will be sent within the requested deadline.

Participants authorize the Festival

organization to use fragments of the selected works for their diffusion in any media in order to promote the Festival. Likewise, the Festival may use photographs of the short films and the directors in the press and other media, as well as for the elaboration of the Festival catalog.
The selected works will be screened in competition on the scheduled dates of the Festival (May 9 to 16, 2025) in Cervera de Pisuerga, Palencia to be viewed and evaluated by the members of the assigned jury.

The selected short films will become part of the archive of the Festival de Cine Rural y Montaña de. Cervera de Pisuerga and private consultation is authorized for educational or research purposes.

Any work that does not offer the necessary technical guarantees for a good public screening may be rejected.

Participation in the Festival implies the authorization to broadcast fragments of the works presented on Spanish television channels and on the Internet.

Copies of the selected works may be used in limited screenings for the selection committee and in the Festival's awards Ceremony organized by the Festival, always for cultural and non-profit purposes, with prior notification to the producers of the use to be made of them.

5. Jury
A qualified jury will decide the awarding of prizes and trophies among all the short films selected for the official section. Their decision will be final.

6. awards
Best Rural and Mountain Short Film Award.
Award for the Best Rural and Mountain Short Film of Castilla y Leon.

Works that comply with any of the following considerations are eligible for the Castilla y Leon Award:

- Work directed or produced by a person born in Castilla y Leon.

- Producer based in Castilla y León.
Award for Best Rural and Mountain Director.
Award for Best Rural and Mountain Director.
Award for Best Short Film shot in the province of Palencia and the Palencia Mountains.

- Work shot in a substantial part or in its entirety in the province of Palencia and the Palencia Mountains.

In the inscription it will be necessary to point out that the short film and accredit this condition if the organization requires it.

None of the prizes outlined in the contests may be awarded ex-æquo, nor may they be deserted.
The short films that have been awarded prizes must include the Festival's award in their credits in subsequent public screenings and in any medium.

7. Final considerations
Participants will be responsible for not violating the rights of third parties linked to the production of the film entered.

Registration implies the acceptance of these rules, as well as the decisions of the organization, selection committee and juries.

Any issue not foreseen in the rules will be resolved by the festival organization.

The organization reserves, exceptionally, the right to admit works that do not meet some of the above criteria.

The organization is committed and obliged to ensure that personal data belonging to the data file of the participants will be treated in accordance with Article 12 of Law 15/1999, of December 13, Protection of Personal Data (LOPD).