Violeta Film Fest - VFF (1)

Festival start: 28 November 2023      Festival end: 03 December 2023

The Violeta Film Fest (VFF) is an international film festival "For Sorority and the Reduction of Gender Gaps", in its first edition it aims to make known women and men in the film industry who are committed to transforming narratives and actions that allow greater participation of women in the industry, as well as collaborative work between women and men.

CALL FOR ENTRIES
1st INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL VIOLETA FILM FEST - VFF NOVEMBER 28 - DECEMBER 3 | 2023


DESCRIPTION

The international film festival Violeta Film Fest (VFF) is a festival "For Sorority and the Reduction of gender gaps", whose objective is to make visible women and men in the film industry who are committed to transforming narratives and actions that allow greater participation of women in the industry, as well as collaborative work between women and men; a Festival that in its first edition will be developed in the month of November 2023.

It is our intention to give recognition to the best films through votes made by the audience after their samples, the festival would be a combined modality of an open call and public competition to generate recognition during the final event of the festival: The VFF awards.

Once selected, all the curated films will have access to screenings, educational workshops, talks, exhibitors, contact with the press, a networking room, and all the advantages of being hosted by the festival.

The dates to apply to our categories through the www.festhome.com platform are:

*Opening call:
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

*Closing call:
Monday, June 12, 2023

*Selection notifications:
Friday, September 29 , 2023

All the categories convened on this platform will receive projects until 11:59 p.m.: 59 seconds: Colombian time, (BGT), on Monday, June 12, 2023.

It is necessary to inform the projects participating in this call that their application does not imply acceptance until they are selected by the Festival Curator Committee.


THREE OFFICIAL Categories.

All sections will be curated by a Committee made up of Colombian moviegoers and filmmakers. The Curation Committee will be free to invite any film to participate in sections other than those that have been applied for if it deems it appropriate.

Said Curation Committee will be free to place the participant's work in the category that most closely resembles the content of their proposal.


1. MADE BY HER

Documentary, fiction, animation, and experimental feature films and short films of all nationalities whose contents have been developed from female leadership: creative development, production, and post-production.

2. MADE BY THEM FOR HER

Documentary, fiction, animation, and experimental feature films and short films of all nationalities whose contents have been developed from a male perspective and leadership (creative development, and production) focused on themes of female empowerment and closing gender gaps.


2. MADE BY THEM FOR THEM

Documentary, fiction, animation, and experimental feature films and short films of all nationalities whose contents have been developed from a male perspective and leadership (creative development, and production) focused on themes of female empowerment and closing gender gaps.

3. COMPANIES IN EQUALITY ACTION

Documentary, fiction, animation, and experimental feature films and short films of all nationalities whose contents have been developed towards the theme of closing gender gaps and female empowerment.

BASES AND LEGALITIES

A call is an Association Contract and whoever registers a film in any of the sections proposed by the Violeta Film Fest on this platform, signs that contract under the terms published here.

It is assumed that the contract is law for the parties, in accordance with article 1602 and S.S. of the Colombian Civil Code, so when registering your film you are bound to the conditions established in this call and in those provided by the regulations governing film activity Law 397 of 1997, Law 814 of 2003, Decree 1080 of 2015 and Resolution 1021 of 2016.


GENERAL CONDITIONS

All sections without exception must be subject to the following general rules:

Comply with the condition of being feature films or short films, fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental, in accordance with the requirements of the call.

Submit to all the decisions that the Curator Committee adopts, be they to include feature films or short films, fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental, in the category that the committee wishes to place them or not to include them in any section of the festival edition, this, taking into account the power of the Curator Committee to redefine the category in which it must participate.

All audiovisual pieces must have a screening copy in one of the following formats: DCP, Apple ProRes 4444, Bluray, or H264 Full HD or higher.

Only audiovisual pieces produced and/or premiered worldwide in the years 2022 and 2023 will be considered.

Productions spoken in Spanish must have English subtitles; those spoken in English must have subtitles in Spanish; and those spoken in languages ​​other than Spanish or English must have subtitles in Spanish and English.

All productions must register through Festhome (www.festhome.com).

Once the call is closed, the Curator Committee may freely and at its discretion invite productions to be part of the festival categories and special programs, even if they have not been entered through the Festhome platform.


CONTACT AND MORE INFORMATION info@violetafilmfest.com