Retrokultfest. Festival de cine y cultura audiovisual retro de Alicante ()

Festival start: 04 February 2025      Festival end: 25 February 2025

Participate in the festival with your audiovisual piece. Create a video in the format of TikTok, a reel, a YouTube shot with a free theme but including some kind of reference to retro audiovisual culture (movies, songs, culture from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s).

Another period will be open to the general public between December 17 and February 1, 2025.

A meeting point for film fans, film industry professionals and audiovisual dissemination professionals that aims to share knowledge and generate synergies between all those interested in cinema and audiovisual production from the second half of the 20th century (especially B-series and genre films) but also, and with special emphasis, on current productions that draw on the sources of retro and cult cinema from the 60s onwards.

Cash Prizes: 300€

The following prizes will be awarded:

Best audiovisual piece for social networks, with a prize of 300 euros

Best performance (diploma)

Best direction (diploma)

Best use of retro culture (diploma)

Registration can also be done by filling out the form that you can find at the end of these rules.

https://retrokultfest.com/bases/

The deadline for submission is between December 17 and February 1, 2025. Only one piece may be submitted per person, although it may be made by several people.

The Festival will take place in Alicante between February 4 and 25, 2025.

Audiovisual productions, especially designed for social networks, may participate.

The festival has a free theme but it must be taken into account that the audiovisual piece must include some reference to retro culture, whether in the narrative, aesthetics, production design, music, etc. Retro culture is understood to mean music, cinema, television, video games, comics and other forms of popular culture from the 60s to the 90s of the 20th century.

All people or private spaces that appear in the pieces must do so with their consent. In no case will those pieces that attack a group, contain discriminatory material and/or violate the dignity of people be accepted.

The pieces must be original by the authors who submit them.

The length of the pieces must be in line with the conventional length of the videos on the social network for which they were conceived and in no case may they exceed 1 minute in length.

The works must be submitted in mp4 format.

To participate, it is mandatory that at least the person submitting the piece is at least 18 years old. People of any nationality, whether or not they are residents of Spain, can submit their entries.

The audiovisual pieces must be made in either of the two official languages ​​of the Valencian Community: Spanish or Valencian. If they are made in another language, they must be sent with subtitles embedded in either of the two previous languages.

Audiovisual pieces for social networks submitted after the indicated dates will not be included in the current edition of the festival, and may be reserved for future editions if, due to their quality, they deserve it.

The following prizes will be awarded:

Best audiovisual piece for social networks, with a prize of 300 euros

Best performance (diploma)

Best direction (diploma)

Best use of retro culture (diploma)

The decisions of the Official Jury will be final, and may be declared void. The prizes awarded will be presented at the closing gala of the festival. Registration implies acceptance of all the rules. Taking part in the festival presupposes acceptance of these rules.