MUFF / Mieres Under-60’ Film Festival (2022)

Festival start: 27 May 2022      Festival end: 05 June 2022

MUFF / Mieres Under-60' Film Festival is a fresh, young and groundbreaking international short film festival that is committed to new talent. It is the biggest short film festival in Asturias (Spain) and is held in Mieres.

It is made up of various competitive sections (International, European Schools, Llabor), complemented with parallel sections and training and industry activities.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
The International Jury of the Official Section will award the following prizes:

• Award for Best Short Film of the Festival (Best of the Fest): endowed with € 1,000 + 20% income from registration fees + trophy
• Award for Best Animation: endowed with € 500 + trophy
• Award for Best Direction: endowed with diploma
• Award for Best Actress: endowed with diploma
• Award for Best Screenplay: endowed with a diploma
• Award for Best Photography: endowed with a diploma
• Award for Best Editing: endowed with a diploma
• Two Honourable Mentions from the Jury (optional: Best of the Fest and Animation)

The following prizes will also be awarded:
• Audience Award: endowed with € 500 + trophy, awarded by voting by the audience. All the short films in the competitive sections of the festival are eligible for this award.
• Young Jury Prize: endowed with a diploma
• Critics Award for Spanish Short Film: endowed with a diploma. All the
Spanish short films from all competitive sections of the festival
• Award for the Best Spanish Short Film Directed by a Woman: endowed with a diploma. They opt for this
award all the Spanish short films of the Festival competitions
• Mieres Underground Award, for the Best Original Soundtrack: endowed with a diploma. They opt for this
award all the Spanish short films of the Festival competitions.

EUROPEANFILM SCHOOLS COMPETITION
The European Film School Competition will award the following prizes:
• Award for Best Short Film: € 500 + 10% income from registration fees + trophy
• Honourable Mentions (optional) to the Best Short Film

LLABOR. INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE AND LABOR COMPETITION
The Llabor Section Jury will award the following prizes:
• Best Short Film Award: € 500 + trophy
• Special Mention of the Jury (optional)

The Jury may optionally award a Special Mention for each of these categories. All the prizes with economic endowment will be subject to the corresponding withholdings.

1. GENERAL RULES

The 2nd edition of the Mieres Under-60 'Film Festival / Mieres International Short Film Festival (MUFF'22) is taking submissions. MUFF will take place in Mieres (Asturias, Spain) from 27th May to 5th June 2022, and it is sponsored by the Mieres City Council.

Participation is open to all Spanish and international short films produced and made from 1st January 2020.

The duration may not exceed 60 minutes (including credits).

All genres (fiction, animation, documentary, experimental), themes and original production formats are allowed. Short films must not have been submitted to previous editions of the festival.

The works will be presented by a person, organization or company that holds the rights over them or that legally represents them. The person who submits short films to the competition will be responsible for making the copyright payments generated by their works.

2. REGISTRATION AND FEES

The registration period will open from 1st January to 10th April 2022.

The works must be register through the official platforms of the festival:

www.festhome.com

The following registration fees are settle to be paid by the participants:

Regular Period: from Janaury 1 to February 28, 2022: € 3
Extended Period: from January 1 to April 10, 2022: € 6

For the consideration of their works, the participants will provide the platforms with viewing copies of their short films in the original version. If their language is different from Spanish or Asturian, it will be presented with subtitles in one of these languages or, failing that, with english subtitles.


3. SELECTION

The Selection Committee, made up of professionals from the world of audiovisual arts and the organization, will be in charge to select the works for the different sections of the festival.

The organization will notify the final result of the selection by e-mail to the contact person. If selected, the organization will contact the personal representative to request the necessary material.

Then, the screening copies will have to be sent within the time and form requested by the organization. In any case, the shipment will be online.

The screening format will be digital. The technical details are:
Container: .mov / mepg 4 H264 or Apple ProRess 442
Resolution: Full HD (1920 × 1080)
Bitrate: up to 20,000kbps
Audio: Stereo AAC

The screening copies of the selected works will have to be sent in the original version. If it is a non-spoken Spanish or Asturian film, it will have to attach subtitles in one of these lenguages or a list of dialogues in english (preferably .srt format).

The copies of the selected works may be used in limited viewings for the selection committee and the samples of the Festival's Awarded films, organized by the festival always for cultural and non-profit purposes, prior communication to the producers of that use.

MUFF'22 will take place on the dates indicated in a face-to-face format within the physical venues of the festival and its extensions. The festival may carry out part of its programming in an online format as a complement to its face-to-face offer, always with the knowledge and consent of the rights holders.

The selection of any work in different competitions of the festival will not imply the automatic transfer of its rights for online broadcasting through the official platforms or channels of the festival. This possibility only could be considered if the festival needed to cancel its face-to-face activity due to reasons beyond the organization.

The selected films will be screened at the times and places that appear in the catalogue and on the festival's official website (www.mieresfilmfestival.com).

With the registration, the selected films give the festival the right to screen them - always for exclusively cultural and non-commercial purposes - throughout the year and a half after the festival. These screenings could take place in activities occasionally organized to promote the MUFF.

In any case, these projections will always be notified to the person who owns the film.


4. SECTIONS

Mieres Under-60 'Film Festival 2022 will have the following sections:

4.1 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
In the International Competition, international and Spanish short films * will compete on equal terms. All of them compete for the prizes in this section indicated below.

The Official Section will have its own specific International Jury, which will award the corresponding prizes independently to the rest of the sections.

4.2. EUROPEAN FILM SCHOOLS COMPETITION
International and Spanish short films *, produced in an audiovisual training centres from an European country, will compete on equal terms in the European Film Schools Competition. All works are eligible for the prizes in this section indicated below.

The Official Section will have its own specific International Jury, which will award the corresponding prizes independently to the rest of the sections.

4.3. LLABOR. INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE / WORK COMPETITION
This international competition is open to all works whose theme focuses on industrial, cultural, tangible and intangible heritage, cultural landscapes, trades or industrial work.

It is a transversal section and works may also compete in other sections of the festival.

This section will have an independent Jury that will award the corresponding prizes, detailed below.

4.4. PARALLEL SECTIONS
MUFF'22 completes its programming with a series of parallel and informative sections out of competition.

*Spanish or Asturian short films: all Spanish or Asturian productions, co-productions where Spanish or Asturian participation is more than 40% and those works directed by filmmakers of Spanish nationality, natural born or residents in Asturias, even if they have been produced by other countries.