Festival de Cine Corto de Popayán (15)

Festival start: 09 October 2023      Festival end: 13 October 2023

The objective is to present a selection of the best short films made in Colombia, in the fiction, animation, experimental, documentary and videodance genres in order to allow the dissemination, dialogue and evaluation of the development and importance of the short film within audiovisual production. .

Prizes will be awarded to winners in the categories:

Best Short Film in the Documentary genre
Best Short Film in the Fiction genre
Best Animated Short Film
Best Experimental Short Film
Best Videodance Short Films

* The jury will be free to award mentions to other shorts if it deems it necessary.

15 POPAYÁN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2023
SHORT FILMS SELECTION REGULATION

OBJECTIVES
The objective is to present a selection of the best short films made in Colombia or by Colombians abroad, in the categories of fiction, animation, documentary, community, experimental and videodance in order to allow the dissemination, dialogue and evaluation of development and importance of the short film within filmmaking.

GENERAL CONDITIONS
Accepted categories: Documentary, Animation, Community, Fiction, Experimental, Videodance

Accepted formats: Digital
Minimum duration 3 minutes
Maximum duration: 30 minutes.

Spoken or subtitled in Spanish, if Spanish is not the original language.

Comply with the technical standards that ensure its reproduction and projection on the screen.

Completed after January 1, 2022.

Direct registration through the festival website is free of charge.

Registration through the platforms used have a cost and generate a cost.

REGISTRATION
Registration for the Festival has no value if it is done through the festival website, through external platforms it has a cost.

Registration period: Until June 30, 2023.

Fill out the official registration form on the Festival website or through the platforms used by the Festival.

RECEPTION OF THE WORKS:

Send files of the registered short films through Vimeo links, dropbox, wetransfer, drive, mega or other means, as long as the link is private or password protected and has the download option enabled. The address of the link must be attached to the registration form.

The acceptance of the short film will be confirmed via email to the selected participants. Those selected will be announced in September 2023.

The selected participants must send a quality digital file for exhibition during the Festival.

Those selected may send advertising material (posters, banners, still photos, postcards, dossier, etc.).

The registration of a Short implies accepting the bases of the Festival.

The organization reserves the right to suspend or modify the Festival if appropriate. If this happens, the participants will be notified. The Popayan Short Film Festival will resolve, in its own right, unappealable, any eventuality not specified in these Regulations.

JURIES
It will be made up of national representatives of the academic, audiovisual, artistic and cultural media chosen by the Festival Directorate, whose decisions regarding the award will be final. In due course, the members of the jury will be announced to those registered.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

prizes will be awarded to winners in the categories:

6.1. Best Short Film in the Documentary genre

6.2. Best Short Film in the Fiction genre

6.3. Best Animated Short Film

6.4. Best Experimental Short Film.

6.5. Best Videodance Short Film

6.6. Best Community Short Film.

* The jury will be free to award mentions to other shorts if it deems it necessary.

The official record with the results will be delivered at the closing ceremony of the festival.

PRESENTATIONS
The short films are an official part of the Festival and will be presented in theaters, auditoriums and projections in open spaces located for the development of the Festival, at previously informed times. They may also be part of special samples of the Festival, held in other locations, dates and times; The filmmakers of such projections will always be informed.

The short films received will be part of the archive of the Popayán Short Film Festival, which will be used solely and exclusively for cultural, educational, and non-profit activities of a non-profit investigative, training and didactic nature. Said projections outside the festival will be informed and will require acceptance by the holders of the rights.

The fourteenth version of the Festival will be held from October 9 to 13, 2023