Festival Internacional De Cortometrajes De Pineda De Mar (8)

Festival start: 26 September 2022      Festival end: 01 October 2022

The CINEMART Organizing Committee, in a meeting held on November 17, 2021, approves to convene the 8th edition of the Pineda de Mar International Short Film Festival for the year 2022

The prizes will be the following:
VILLA DE PINEDA Award with € 600.
ANIMATION Award with € 300.
A COMEDIA Award with € 300.
PUBLIC Prize with € 300.

The Festival is organized by the CinemArt Association of Pineda de Mar, it is an international festival with the aim of promoting a specific space for the discovery, screening and dissemination of short films.

The VIII Pineda de Mar International Short Film Festival will be held during the first fortnight of July 2022.

The program of the Pineda de Mar International Short Film Festival of 2022. It will integrate different activities focused on publicizing the selected short films and promoting different aspects of the world of cinema in Pineda de Mar, with the collaboration of the Pineda de Mar City Council and entities local.

The closing ceremony and the awards ceremony of the Festival will take place during the first fortnight of July.

Any person or legal entity can participate, individually or collectively, with no age limit, and it can be done with any of the following formats: Full HD and 4K. (mpg, mp4, ...)

The productions must have been made after January 1, 2021.

Each distributor, director or director can register a maximum of 3 works.

They can be done in any language, but subtitled in Spanish or Catalan.

The duration of the short films will be less than 30 min. Credits included.

The main thematic axis of the festival is that of comedy; however, the theme and genre of the productions is free. Quality and originality will be prioritized as the main objective, and that the production is unpublished.

Works of an advertising or tourist nature, or those that use non-original material in more than 10% of the totality of the work, will not be admitted. Nor will works that do not have the technical quality necessary for correct viewing will be accepted.

Authors must ensure that the content of their work does not infringe the rights of intellectual property, image rights or other rights of third parties, exonerating the Organizing Committee of any legal responsibility.

The selected productions will be publicly screened during the days of the Festival, understanding that their authors or producers authorize the screening. In no case is the payment of screening fees contemplated. Entrance to the screenings in the Auditorium by
part of the Festival is completely free.

The Festival may use the images of the shorts to promote the festival regardless of the year.

The judge:
The CinemArt Organizing Committee will appoint a Jury made up of 6 or more people.

The Jury will have the power to vacate the prize or prizes it deems appropriate, as well as to award a special trophy to highlight technical and / or artistic aspects of any of the works in competition. Your decisions will be final.

The OFFICIAL SELECTION will be made public on the Festival website during the month of May 2022. The works of the works presented may remain in the possession of the organization, which reserves the right to use them as promotional material for the Festival.

The production companies accept that, in the case of obtaining any of the awards granted, they will include a written reference of the awarding of the award at the beginning of each and every one of the copies of the film that they distribute for exhibition in theaters and / or in audiovisual contests, as well as in all printed informative and promotional material. This reference will consist of a text with the type of award received, invariably accompanied by the image of the record that will be provided by the Organizing Committee.
The expense will not be paid by the Festival.
The closing ceremony and the awards ceremony of the Festival will take place during the first fortnight of July 2022.

It is an essential condition to receive the amount of the prizes that you attend the closing gala of CINEMART. In the event that the interested party cannot attend, a representative must attend on her behalf and send us a video of thanks.

The economic endowments will be made effective within a maximum period of 1 month from the official ceremony of delivery of the prizes and by bank transfer. Withholdings and taxes determined by current law will be deducted from the amount of the prize. Travel, accommodation and other expenses are not included.

Any question that appears during the Festival, not contemplated in these RULES, will be decided by the Organizing Committee and the Jury. Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these RULES.

More information on the festival website www.cinemartpineda.org and email info@cinemartpineda.org