MARATEALE - PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE BASILICATA (15)

Festival start: 25 July 2023      Festival end: 29 July 2023

GREEN AWARD

10 international feature films of fiction, documentaries and animation, related to environmental and sustainability issues, will be selected to participate in a competition with numerous awards.

The films we will show will propose viable and concrete visions or examples of successful initiatives, always with the aim of instilling hope and promoting innovative initiatives that can contribute to improving the world.

The section MARATEALE IN GREEN will award the prize Champion of Sea and Earth (For commitment to the environment and sustainability).

1. ORGANISERS AND PROMOTERS. The MARATEALE is organized by the Mediterranean Cinema Association (https://www.marateale.com) and will be held in the amphitheater of the prestigious Santavenere Hotel and other places of Maratea.

2. MARATEALE IN GREEN - ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA. Marateale in Green is a new section of the Marateale Festival that promotes environmental sustainability in compliance with the objectives set out in the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda. Ten feature films with environmental themes (animation, documentaries, fiction) will be selected to participate in the competition MARATEALE IN GREEN. All submitted works must be of recent production, completed not before 1 January, 2019.
PLACE - DATE. Marateale will take place in Maratea (Pz) from 25-29 July 2023.

3. JURY. The direction of the Festival will appoint a Jury composed of personalities from the world of Cinema and Art.

4. LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE :. The person who registers the film assumes the responsibility of being the legitimate representative authorized by all entitled to the work. The statement made by the person who signed the registration form. therefore exempts the Mediterranean Cinema Association from the verification of the legitimacy of the same to register the film that will in fact be understood as ascertained, exempting it from any relative responsibility.

5. REGISTRATION. The competition provides admission to the selection of national and international works produced after. 1/1/2019 and realized with any support dealing with environmental issues, unpublished in Italy. The registration of the films to the section MARATEALE IN GREEN can be made by downloading the card from the site (https://www.marateale.com) and sending it in word format to the address: maratealegreen@gmail.com, within. and no later than 15/6/2023. It is imperative that the sending of the film via vimeo link or any other form of. have a password valid until 7/31/2023. The deadline for sending recordings is 15/6/2023. Alternatively, you can send a DVD, Blu-ray or DCP to: Associazione Cinema Mediterraneo - Piazza Duca Degli Abruzzi, 9 - 85042, Lagonegro (PZ). The dvd must also be received by 15/6/2023. Pre-selection films must be without subtitles if the original version is in Italian; with subtitles in english or Italian if the original version of the film is in a different language.

6. SELECTED FILMS. The official selection of films will be announced by 1/7/2023. Subsequently, distributors international and/or manufacturers must send by 8/7/2023 the following material: posters, brochures, press kit, synopsis, DCP (high resolution file via email).

7. HOSPITALITY. The organization will offer room and board to a maximum of two people for the presentation of films selected for the section MARATEALE IN GREEN. Will be privileged directors and actors protagonists.

8. Awards. The section MARATEALE IN GREEN will award the prize Champion of Sea and Earth (For commitment to the environment and sustainability).

9. GENERAL RULES. The registration of a film in the section implies the total and unconditional acceptance of this regulation. The acceptance to participate in the contest and the sending of the materials, implies the authorization, not exclusively. to the organizers of the festival to disseminate and make available to the public - through their own site and. by any other means or other known form some sequences of the presented works (max 20 sec.), without. claim any compensation. The sending of photographic and/or informational material (backstage photo, author’s photo, bio and filmography, film synopsis, author’s statement, poster...) related to the film implies the authorization not exclusively to the organizers of the Festival to disseminate and to place publicly available – through the publication on the catalogue and on the official website of the Festival and with any other means or other known form - images and information related to the submitted works. The decisions relating to the awards are final. This regulation is drafted in Italian and english. In case of interpretive problems, the Italian version is authentic.