Festival del Cinema di Senigallia (11)

Festival start: 07 June 2024      Festival end: 14 June 2024

Corto Circuito was created in Senigallia in 2013 by Confluenze, an environmental organization with a great passion for short films. The collaboration with other festivals has been crucial for the realization of the past nine editions. With the X edition of the festival Corto Circuito is conferimed becoming a competition, with the name "Festival del Cinema di Senigallia".

Chaired by Giancarlo Zappoli, it aims to discover new talents with particular attention to short films (and their authors), reserving also a special section of the festival for productions made in Marche.
The Festival also aims to promote and seek new perspectives, opening up to different visions of cinema.

60 Seconds Award: the short film selected as the winner will become the official theme song for this edition of the Festival

Rivers/Seas Prize: €500

Short Circuit Prize: €500

Best short film: €500

Comedy Prize: €500

Graduation film prize: €500

Genius Loci: €500

Best International Short Film: TBA

Trailer Award: festival evening dedicated to the screening of the film linked to the trailer

TO RECEIVE THE PRIZE THE PRESENCE OF AT LEAST ONE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WINNING WORK IS REQUIRED.
Reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses paid by the festival.

REGULATION

Organizers

The Senigallia Film Festival (formerly Corto Circuito Cinema Festival), now in its

Italian Short Film Competition:

The Senigallia Film Festival, chaired by Giancarlo Zappoli, aims to discover new cinematic talents with particular attention to short films (and their authors) and a specific section relating to short films made in Marche.

The Festival aims to promote and seek new perspectives, opening up to different visions of cinema.

The Festival is divided into nine sections, namely:

• 60 second prize

The 60 Seconds Award is dedicated to short films that are exactly one minute long, including titles.

The theme is free. The short film must have been produced no earlier than January 1, 2019.

The short film that wins the 60 seconds Award, as specified later in the awards paragraph, will be used as the official theme song for this edition of the Senigallia Film Festival.

• Rivers/Seas Award

All short films that include the presence of a river or sea within them, either as a scenographic or narrative element, or as the actual protagonist, are admitted to the Rivers/Seas Award section.

The theme of the short film is free, as is the genre: you can participate with documentaries, fiction, or experimental films.

The duration must be between 2 and 30 minutes, including titles.

The short film must have been produced no earlier than January 1, 2019.

• Short Circuit Award

The Corto Circuito Award is dedicated to short films lasting between 2 and 20 minutes, having a narrative structure that undergoes an upheaval of the action, a sudden plot twist that arouses dismay, surprise and disbelief in the viewer. As the title suggests, there must be at a certain point in the story a real short circuit that shocks the viewer by taking him by surprise.

The short circuit may be found in the narrative structure (the classic plot twist) as well as in other less conventional elements: unexpected and inadequate music that accompanies the scene, completely out of place characters that fall into the middle of the scenography, and so on, provided which, once introduced, remains until the end of the short film.

In other words: films that at a certain point break without the possibility of being fixed will be rewarded.

Theme and genre are free. The short film must have been produced no earlier than January 1, 2019.

• Trailer Award

Trailers of Italian feature films released during the year 2021 or 2022 are eligible to participate, without distinction of duration and genre.

• Best Short Film Award

The Best Short Film Award is dedicated to short films lasting between 2 and 20 minutes, of any genre (fiction, animation, documentary...)

• Diploma Award

The Diploma Award is dedicated to the valorisation of the works created by students as exam evidence. Short films lasting between 2 and 20 minutes.

• Genius Loci Award

The Genius Loci Award is dedicated to short films lasting between 2 and 20 minutes, of MADE IN MARCHE production of any genre (fiction, animation, documentary...).

• Comedy Award

The Comedy Award is dedicated to short films lasting between 2 and 20 minutes, in the comedy or absurd genre.

The Best International Short Film is dedicated to short films with a duration between 2 and 20 minutes, of any genre (fiction, animation, documentary...) not produced in Italy; english subtitles are mandatory

General rules

a. Works received incomplete or illegible will not be taken into consideration.

b. The signatory of the registration declares to be the owner of all rights to use the work and each of its components; ensures that the contents of the same are available to it and do not violate the laws or regulations in force or the rights of third parties and in particular copyright, image rights, distinctive signs and patents for industrial inventions; Furthermore, it ensures and declares that the work does not contain defamatory content. In any case, the participant indemnifies the organization from all losses, damages, liabilities, costs, charges and expenses of any nature that may be incurred due to the content of the work and its public screening.

c. The registered works will not be returned and will constitute part of the archive assets of the Festival Organisation. They may be shown for non-profit cultural and educational purposes. The Organization reserves the right to use the material received for any subsequent events with the obligation to cite the source and inform the authors or holders in advance golds of rights.

d. All registrations are non-refundable and must be made via the Festhome online platform. The films and the payment of the related registration fee must reach the Festival secretariat no later than 00:00 on 10 April 2024.

GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

1) Each author will be able to compete in all sections with a maximum limit of two works in each section category. Payment of the registration fee allows you to send a work.

2) For all competitions, works by authors resident or domiciled in Italy (Italian or foreign), or even Italian citizens resident or domiciled abroad, even with works in a foreign language, are admitted to the competition, provided that they are subtitled in Italian. Finally, works by foreign citizens, resident or domiciled abroad, can participate, as long as the works are subtitled in Italian.

3) When registering, you are required to fill in all the fields provided in the form (personal data, contact details, bio, synopsis, film photos, director photo).

4) Regardless of the section in which a work is registered, if in a language other than Italian, it must always have subtitling in Italian.