Tricky Women International Animation Filmfestival (0)

영화제 시작: 02 3월 2016      영화제 끝: 06 3월 2016

Tricky Women is the first and only festival of animated film that is dedicated exclusively to animation by women filmmakers. Since 2001 it has been held in Vienna each March.

The festival offers an international competition of animated short films finished after January 1st, 2014 and realised by female artists (male co-directors are welcome). We want to open the festival to trans*inter* filmmakers and would be delighted to receive your entries. Each filmmaker, producer or distributor may submit as many films as they like. Each film submitted must be accompanied by an entry form and sent on a separate DVD. No films entered in prior Tricky Women Festivals shall be admitted.

The deadline for applications for the preliminary selection is October 10th, 2015.

Moreover, we welcome shorts entitled “work” (working conditions in the digital era, work-life-balance, desired workplaces, ...) and Animated Feature Films for our non-competitive sections; these films can also have been produced earlier than 2014.

The entry can be up-loaded via www.festhome.com

-Tricky Women Award of the City of Vienna worth 4000 Euro.

-3-month scholarship to live and work at quartier21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence Program

-Sawczynski-Award worth 1,000 Euro

-Sielecki Award worth 500 Euro (for an Austrian animation)

-Tricky Women Audience Award

-Awards and prize money will go to the directresses of the films.

CONDITIONS OF COMPETITION

Tricky Women 2016, Vienna
March 2 – 6

Tricky Women is the first and only festival of animated film that is dedicated exclusively to animation by women filmmakers. Since 2001 it has been held in Vienna each March.

- Awards:
Tricky Women Award of the City of Vienna worth 4000 Euro
3-month scholarship to live and work at quartier21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence
Program
Sawczynski-Award worth 1,000 Euro
Sielecki Award worth 500 Euro (for an Austrian animation)
Tricky Women Audience Award
Awards and prize money will go to the directresses of the films.

- The festival offers an international competition of animated short films finished after January 1st, 2014 and
realised by female artists (male co-directors are welcome). We want to open the festival to trans*inter* filmmakers and would be delighted to receive your entries. Each filmmaker, producer or distributor may submit as many films as they like. Each film submitted must be accompanied by an entry form and sent on a separate DVD. No films entered in
prior Tricky Women Festivals shall be admitted.

- The deadline for applications for the preliminary selection is October 10th, 2015.

- Moreover, we welcome shorts entitled “work” (working conditions in the digital era, work-life-balance, desired workplaces, ...) and Animated Feature Films for our non-competitive sections; these films can also have
been produced earlier than 2014.

- The entry can be up-loaded via www.festhome.com or sent by snail mail directly to Tricky Women.
For snail mail applications:

- One application form must be filled in completely (2 pages!) for every competition entry.

Applicants must enclose documentation material (one or two film stills as jpeg or tiff in 300dpi and biographical information on the directress and details of her filmmaking history CD-Rom welcome).

The selection committee shall refuse any entries that fail to comply with these conditions.

For every film to be presented at the preliminary selection a clearly labeled DVD must be sent in together with an application form. The DVD must CLEARLY show the title and the name of the directress as well as the running time of the production. Each DVD shall contain one work only.

- Non-English movies should be applied with English subtitles.

- Screening Formats: Films to be screened at the festival must be in one of the following formats:
- 35 mm
- DCPs*
- Files with Codec DNxHD and ProRes (23,976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30 fps)
- Files with Codec h.264 (23,976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30 fps)
*DCPs will only be accepted in the following format settings:
- Frame Rate 24, 25, 30 fps
- Aspect Ratio: 1998×1080 px (1:1,85 = „Flat“) or 2048×858 px (1:2,39 = „Scope“)
- Image Format: JPEG2000-XYZ in 2K, SMPTE or Interop compatibel.
- USB-Hard Drive, CRU Bay
- Hard Drive Formatting: ext2/3 oder NTFS (1 partition with uncompressed DC packages only – no other data).
- All fields for the „Composition Parameters“ must be filled in and must comply with the Digital Cinema Naming
Convention http://digitalcinemanamingconvention.com/: Content Title, Content Annotation Text, Content Kind,
Reel Annotation Text.

- The screening copy must arrive no later than February 1st, 2016 at the festival office (Tricky Women, culture2culture, quartier21/MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, Austria). Film/video copies from abroad must
bear the label “temporary import – for cultural purposes only – no trade value” on the package.
Dispatches from non-EU states must contain a pro-forma invoice (amounting to a maximum of 20 euro).

- The costs of transport (to the festival) as well as customs duties, etc. are the sole responsibility of the sender. DVD videos for selection will not be returned and will become part of the non commercial archive of the
festival organisation culture2culture. The festival organisation will cover the costs of returning the screening copies.

- During the festival the productions are insured for their print value. The insurance is valid from the time of postal
receipt of the film until it is sent back.

- In case of the copy being lost or damaged only the material value can be refunded.

Compensation claims must be
made within 10 days after the film has been returned.

- The preliminary selection committee decides on the details of competition programming.

- The directress/contact person will be informed of the preliminary selection committee’s decision before the start of the
festival.

- Applicants grant the festival the right to show on television and/or internet broadcaster parts of their production to a maximum of 3 minutes.

- By submitting a film, the makers consent to include it in the competition programme or the other non-competitive programs.

- Applicants acknowledge and accept these conditions.

All materials (see below) must be sent to the address of the festival organisation:
Tricky Women, culture2culture, quartier21/MQ, Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Wien, Austria

Please contact office@trickywomen.at, if you have any questions.
> DVD (PAL/NTSC) of the film
> filmstills (300dpi as jpeg or tiff)
- press kit (synopsis, dialogues in English, Cast&Credits, Awards, Festivals, etc.)
- biography and filmography
Transport:
- The DVD must CLEARLY show the title and the name of the directress as well as the running time of the production.
Each DVD shall contain one work only.
- Film/video copies from abroad must bear the label “temporary import – for cultural purposes only – no trade value” on
the package. Dispatches from non-EU states must contain a pro-forma invoice (amounting to a maximum of 20 euro). The costs of transport (to the festival) as well as customs duties, etc. are the sole responsibility of the
sender.

By submitting the application the applicant accepts the conditions of competition.