Aquerò, lo spirito del cinema ()

Festival start: 16 November 2019      Festival end: 29 November 2019

Aquerò is looking for the “cinema of invisible”, in the form and in the content. Movies that have the courage to confront themselves with foundamental question (meaning, beauty, truth, justice), with depth or levity. To search, to experience, to question ourselves.

The second edition of Aquerò film festival present the international short movie competition, reserved for short movies (max 15 minutes), with a strong theme (the invisible) and an important jury representing excellence in entertainment journalism: Cineforum editor Adriano Piccardi, FilmTv editor Giulio Sangiorgio, MyMovies editor Giancarlo Zappoli, journalist and movie critic Alessandra De Luca (Ciak and Avvenire), and festival and competition artistic director Fabrizio Tassi with ACEC Milano president Gianluca Bernardini.

Aquerò hunts for talent, but mostly it is searching for a cinema that is able to narrate the inner dimension of man. To evoke the trascendental as defined by Paul Schrader; to use the creative power and digital innovation to face questions ancient like the world itself. To reason about spirituality, not in a confessional way, but secular, open, free, curious.
Aquerò is the word used by Bernadette of Lourdes to point “that”: the apparition to wich she couldnt’ yet give a name, the invisible that became image. A word that seems made to evoke presence (the incarnation) of something beyond us. We do not want to identify a style or a way of doing “spiritual cinema”, but bring to public attention movies with an unique look on the world and on the reality. Movies that face “high” and complex themes without simplify it.

Aquerò’s competition is open to works of any format and genere, published or unpublished (but made after January 1st 2018), shot in high definition or in low definition (smartphone or other device), made by professional or aspiring videomakers. You have time to participate up to 10 october 2019.
The rules and the registration form can be found on the site https://www.sdcmilano.it/acec-milano/aquero-iscrizione-concorso-cortometraggi-edizione-2019-8507.html

Finalists (minimum ten, maximum fifteen) will be chosen among all the films that have arrived that will be screened in an evening yet to be established in a cinema in Milan. Winners will also receive awards for their artistic value (1000 euros for the first, and 500 for the second), as well as the opportunity to be screened in ACEC cinemas. On the final evening the “Audience Price” will be awarded

Cash Prizes: 1,000$

The winning author will receive a check for 1000 euros as recognition of artistic value. The second 500€.
Other works can be indicated for technical, artistic and thematic values and can be included among the works shown and diffused in ACEC cinemas.
Is provided also the assignment of a symbolic prize that will be awarded by the audience.

1 - Aquerò competition is open to authors of all nationalities, who can participate with published or unpublished films, produced after January 1st 2018.
2 – Maximum length of the short movie is 15 minutes. There are no limits by any genre or format. Competition is open to live action fiction movie, documentary, animation, video art. They will compete all in the same category. The proposed theme for the competition is: the invisible.
3 – To participate the candidate have to pay 15€ (secretarial expenses of the competition) an send the movie within October 10th 2019 (in case of physical expedition the postmark will attest the date). Payment can be made by bank transfer to Acec Diocesi di Milano, IBAN IT37X0521601631000000002474 or by check or cash through insured mail to send. Check received must be attached to the registration form or sent by e-mail.
4 – Short movies can be sent in electronic format (WeTransfer or similar) to the following address: concorsoaquero@gmail.com. They can be sent with physical support on DVD or USB at the following address: CONCORSO “AQUERÒ”, Acec Milano c/o Itl, via Antonio da Recanate 1, 20124 Milano. The Work must be accompanied by the registration form which must be downloaded from the website https://www.sdcmilano.it/acec-milano/aquero-iscrizione-concorso-cortometraggi-edizione-2019-8507.html or by an email with data requested in the registration form.
5 – The content of the works and the compliance with the Italian copyright law is responsibility of the author (also, the work will not be sent back to the author after the contest ends). Authors accept that movies submitted to competition could be screened on the final evening of the competition, such as in movie theatre participating in the initiative.
6 – A selection committee, led by the critic and artistic director Fabrizio Tassi, will chose the work that will be screened in the final evening of Aquerò Festival, in which there will be announced the winner and the special discovery (at least ten films, maximum fifteen). The winning author will receive a check for 1000 euros as recognition of artistic value, the second 500€, other works can be indicated for technical, artistic and thematic values and can be included among the works shown and diffused. Is provided also the assignment of a symbolic prize that will be awarded by the audience.
7 – The artistic direction and competition’s jury reserve the right to not assign the first and the second price in case there will be no valuable work. In this scenario 1.500 euros will be allocated to next year’s price.
8 - Registration for the competition, with the signing of the presentation form, implies acceptance of the present announcement and of the privacy rules specified on the registration form. To further information contact Aquerò direction, tel. 3494964716. or ACEC communication office , number 02 67131657 in the following time: Monday from 14:30 to 17:30, Tuesday from 9 to 17:30, Friday from 9 to 17:30.