ART200 Festivalul International de Film Queer ()

Festival start: 26 October 2020      Festival end: 31 October 2020

ART200 is the queer (umbrella term for the LGBT community: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) film festival in Bucharest. The festival’s main purpose is to encourage Romanian queer filmmaking, expression and collaboration between local queer artists, to encourage just and complex representations of LGBTQ+ characters in movies, to promote equality and solidarity through art and culture. The project has the following components: a queer film workshop for youth, a queer poetry workshop, a Pitch project contest, along with the festival per-se, which will include screenings, a poetry reading, a visual art exhibition.

We are organizing ART200 because we realize how important it is to encourage queer film-making in Romania. LGBTQ+-themed film production is almost inexistent in Romania: only two or three queer shorts are produced every year. Regarding feature films, only five-six LGBTQ+ films have been produced in the last 30 years. We believe that the existence of the festival itself will encourage more filmmakers to produce queer film because of the fact that there is a space dedicated to them, where they can create collaborations, exchange ideas and discuss their works.

At the same time, ART200 aims to show the general public complex and just representations of LGBTQ+ people, in the context in which this group constantly faces discrimination, violence and stereotypes.

ART200 does not have a competition and does not offer awards/ prizes.

Rules & Terms

1. Organizers:
ART200, the international queer film festival is organized by Istodor-Berceanu Eugen PFA. The directors of the festival are Cristina Iacob and Luca Istodor. For any questions regarding the festival, you can contact them here: hello@art200.ro.

2. The goal of the festival
ART200 is a queer film festival (umbrella term for the LGBT community: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) based in Bucharest, which is now at its first edition. The festival aims to promote queer film in Romania, freedom of speech and the collaboration between queer artists from the local scene, to encourage the just and complex representations of LGBTQ+ characters in cinema and to promote values as equality and solidarity through art and culture.

3. Project components:
The project has the following components: a youth queer film workshop, a queer poetry workshop, a Pitch project contest, as well as the festival, which will have film screenings, a poetry reading, an art exhibition gallery and parties.

4. Important dates
The festival will take place between the 27th and the 31st of October, in Bucharest. The call for entries will be open The film submissions will take place between the 10th of July and the 1st of September 2020.

5. Submitting films to the festival
5.1. The submitted film must have an LGBTQ+ theme. We accept any film on this theme, from any country. The film creators must as well be part of the LGBTQ+ community.
5.2. We accept both short-films and feature length films. Short films must not be longer thant 40 minutes.
5.3. International films will be submitted through the online platform, and the submission of Romanian films will be made through a Google form posted on the ART200 site. There is no entry fee.
5.4. In regard to the Romanian films, we accept any themes. Regarding the international short films, we accept films that tackle the following themes: Queer Mental Health; Trans & Non-binary; Poly & Kink; Sex Work. For international feature films, we accept any themes.
5.5. The deadline for submitting the films is the 1st of September 2020. We don’t accept films submitted after this date, except in the case that we extend the deadline with 10 more days, which will be announced beforehand if it will be the case. The selected films will be announced on the 1st of October.
5.6. All films, including those in Romanian, have to be subtitled in English (either hard-coded or externally through a .srt file). We also accept a list of the dialogue translated in English.
5.7. The festival doesn’t include a competition. We will not reward the screened films.
5.8. Once registered, the film cannot be withdrawn from the festival. Once the films have been selected, the directors must be ready to provide additional information and the film in the following screening formats: MP4 or MPEG, depending on the requirements established by the technical department coordinator.
5.9. The directors of the selected films will be able to take part in the festival. ART200 will cover part of the traveling costs/accommodations in Bucharest for Romanian and Moldovan directors, if the participants are not based in the city. The percentage covered will be established after the final list of directors has been established. For directors outside of Moldova in Romania, the festival will not be able to cover travel or accommodation costs.
5.10. ART200 can use snippets from the films (maximum 2 minutes and maximum 30% of the submitted movie) for promotion purposes. The information sent is for the catalog and for our site/blog.
5.11. The films can’t be screened more than 5 times during future screenings and ART200 retrospectives.
5.12. We don’t accept films that incite to hatred or discriminate against certain people or social groups.