Festival Internacional De Cortometrajes Sobre Personas Mayores (FICMA Salamanca) (8)

Festival start: 01 October 2023      Festival end: 31 October 2023

The International Festival of Short Films on the Elderly (FICMA) was born within the Federation of Associations of the Elderly of Salamanca (FAMASA) with the aim of providing a cultural offer that contributes to improving the quality of life of the elderly by bringing them closer to a full citizenship and offering the cultural heritage of which they are protagonists. It is celebrated every year between September and October since 2016 in the city of Salamanca, being a meeting of intergenerational culture

The Festival poses as a place of debate and discourse for questions such as: How has cinema treated old age? How does it reflect the role of the elderly in the family, sentimental, emotional and social relationships, the process of deterioration and the proximity of death, in a society where the average age of the population is increasingly high? Does the influence of cinema negatively or positively affect the stereotypes and beliefs that society generates about the elderly and the elderly? Do you treat men in the same way as women?

The old age is heterogeneous, as much as older adults exist in the world and this is what aims to demonstrate this cinematographic event.

OBJECTIVES

The goal of FICMA is to get Salamanca people to come to the cinema from the perspective of people over 65 and / or with dependence. Thus, it is an excellent opportunity to offer a festival of cinema to the city and an active and positive vision of this sector of the population. The goal of the festival is for society to take a vision that highlights the positive aspects of old age and reinforces intergenerational relations.

communication to the participants of the selected works will be done through
phone or email. At the same time, said selection will be published in the
Festival website and social networks.

Awards to which all related short films are eligible, whether or not they are finalists:

 Fiction Category: € 500 and trophy

 Documentary Category: € 200 and trophy

 Special Audience Award: € 100 and trophy

 Charrito Gold: € 100 and trophy


The jury reserves the right to award ten special second prizes to any of
the works presented to the Festival.

All awarded short films will receive an accrediting diploma.
The Festival Committee reserves the right to modify the prizes awarded to
each category as long as it represents an improvement.

The amount of the awards does not include the reduction that the Tax Agency
could apply to them according to article 7 of Law 35/2006 of 28 of
November on Personal Income Tax and
Partial modification of the laws on Corporation Tax, on Income
of non-residents and on the patrimony.
In order to receive the award, the presence of the person who has awarded it is necessary.
realized, if it were not so, it would be deserted.

FICMA SALAMANCA 2023 RULES

The Federation of Associations of the Elderly of Salamanca (FAMASA) announces the VII Edition of the International Short Film Festival on

The bases of the contest are the following:

General conditions

 Individual or collective filmmakers who wish may participate.

 Two short films per participant, original, free fiction and animation.

 All the short films presented, including those in the Spanish language, must be incorporate subtitles in Spanish regardless of the language of the dialogue (if had).

 It will be positively valued that the works focus on the promotion of values positive about the members of the third age, thus avoiding thematic focused on death or loneliness. Even so, works by drama.

 Works whose final production date is prior to September 1, 2023.

 Short films that have participated in previous editions of the Festival.

 The works will have a maximum duration of fifteen minutes, not including the
credits.

 The mandatory presentation formats will be .MP4 and .MOV with compression H264.

 The title of the short film and the name of the author must appear in the name of the file.

How to take part:

 Email

The following information is mandatory for registration and should be sent to
through the WeTransfer or Google Drive platforms to the email address
electronic ficmainscriptions@gmail.com with the title of the short film and the name of
the producer or distributor as "Subject":

 Registration form and artistic record, both correctly completed.

 Photocopy of the DNI or Identification Card of the author / s in .pdf or .jpg.

 Three frames of the short film in .jpg format.

 Photograph of the author / s.

 Poster of the short film.

Once the short film is received, its reception will be confirmed by the organization via email. Likewise, the WeTransfer platform will issue an email the moment the organization downloads its documentation.

 Festhome (https://festhome.com/es)

The following information is mandatory for registration and should be sent to
through the Festhome platform:

 Registration form and artistic record, both correctly completed.

 Photocopy of the DNI or Identification Card of the author / s in .pdf or .jpg.

 Three frames of the short film in .jpg format.

 Photograph of the author / s.

Committee and jury:

 The works sent will be subject to a pre-selection by the Committee of the Festival to decide if they are finally chosen to compete and conform to the established bases.

 The organization reserves the right to reject a work for reasons of poor picture or sound quality.

 A selection will be made by this same Committee of the number of short films deemed appropriate.

 Regarding the contest, an official qualifying jury will be appointed to the prizes that will be composed of seniors, advised by professionals in video, television, music, the arts and communication, (as well as professionals close to the field of the elderly).

 The votes of the jury will be secret and unappealable.

 The members of the jury may declare an award void if they consider that the candidates do not reach the necessary quality.

 The jury has the power to decide on any doubt not foreseen in the bases.

awards;

The Closing Gala and awards Ceremony will be held on October 1 in Salamanca, if the health situation allows it. Otherwise, it will be done by
streaming.

The authors of the awarded works or, in their absence, legally representatives authorized by them and under prior notice to the Festival organization, must be present at the Closing Gala for the awards ceremony (from face-to-face or online).

Guarantees and responsibilities of the participants:

 The organization may use a short fragment of the works for the purpose promotional events of the Festival, without this having any relation to the selection of the same in any of the sections, since that is the exclusive decision of the jury.

 The works participating in the Festival will remain the property of the organization, that they may choose to screen them in specialized centers and rooms of a non- commercial, and reserve the right to publish and reproduce them, always under mention of the authorship of the same.

 The selected short films will be screened publicly and free of charge at the different sessions prior to the Closing Gala and awards ceremony.

 The Festival management reserves the right to obtain copies of the
short films presented for the promotion, publicity and projection of the
non-profit material.

 The Festival assumes that the headlines of the short films presented show
all the rights of exhibition and promotion of the works and materials that
represent, and declines any responsibility regarding the infringement of this
rule.

 Participants will be responsible for the fact that there are no rights to third parties of the works presented, as well as the claims for image rights
that these could arouse.

 The awarded works will remain the property of FAMASA, and may be used or exhibited in subsequent editions, as well as in appropriate media; all without profit or commercial exploitation.

In accordance with the provisions of Law 15/1999 on Data Protection Of Personal Character, the data provided will be incorporated into the file of the Federation of Associations of the Elderly of Salamanca (FAMASA) intended to provide information and fulfill obligations legal. At any time, the data can be consulted, rectified or canceled by the interested party in FAMASA; Corregidor street Caballero Llanes, 15, under 37005 Salamanca. Telephone: 923 12 30 26 -
federacion.famasa@gmail.com