Concurso Exprés - Festival De Cine Con Acento (1)

영화제 시작: 14 10월 2025      영화제 끝: 18 10월 2025

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2025 “CON ACENTO” EXPRESS SHORT FILM COMPETITION AWARDS

✔ Área Sur Award for Best Express Short Film: €600

✔ Área Sur Award for Best Original Express Script: €400

✔ Área Sur Award for Best Express Performance: €300

*These Express Short Film awards will be presented at the Yelmo Cinemas in the Áreasur Shopping Center after the screenings on Wednesday, October 15th.

The awards will be presented by members of a jury selected by the Festival Organization, made up of representatives from the audiovisual and cultural sectors. The jury's decision will be final.
Winners will include a descriptive legend of the award along with the Jerez Film Festival “con Acento” logo (provided by the Festival) at the beginning of the short film for screening at festivals, venues, and competitions.

The Jerez Performing and Audiovisual Arts Association, El Espejo Producciones, and the Áreasur shopping center are announcing the CON ACENTO EXPRESS SHORT FILM COMPETITION as part of the 3rd edition of the Con Acento Film Festival.

1. REQUIREMENTS
All film crews that meet the following requirements may apply.

Be of legal age.

❖ From all the entries received, the Festival will select 10 projects. Of these, 3 will be awarded prizes.

❖ The synopsis will be considered for the pre-selection, highlighting thought-provoking themes and addressing issues of social interest.

❖ There is a total of 24 hours for filming, editing, and submission.

❖ Short films must be made at the facilities designated by the Áreasur shopping center (see image of the filming locations), with a maximum filming duration of 8 hours and another 16 hours for editing and submission.

❖ Each film crew will be assigned a day for filming, editing, and submission, which cannot be changed. (Assigned days can be Monday through Friday, from September 22 to October 3, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Filming outside of business hours is prohibited.)

❖ During filming:

 No shots of store signs may be taken, nor may shots be taken inside stores, as these are private spaces.

 At least one shot must be taken in the shopping center's food and beverage area, including a visit to the terrace.

 No shots of shopping center staff (cleaning, maintenance, security, gardening) may be taken.

❖ The rules must be followed without exception.

❖ Any inconveniences that may arise during filming will be resolved by the registered filmmaker.

❖ Authors will be responsible for the rights to their works.

❖ To promote inclusion, subtitles will be considered.

❖ Stories that promote values ​​that contribute to improving society will be favorably considered.

❖ The maximum length for express short films will be 5 minutes.

2.- REGISTRATION
Start date: September 5, 2025.
The deadline for registration is September 15, 2025.
PROJECT registration must be formalized through the DIGITAL PLATFORM

EXPRESS COMPETITION FOR THE CON ACENTO FILM FESTIVAL

REGISTRATION must include:
❖ Project name.
❖ Estimated duration.
❖ Address details (full name, place of birth, and place of residence).
❖ Production details (name of the production company or the people in charge of the production, address, website (if applicable).
❖ Motivation letter from the registrant (maximum one page).
❖ Brief synopsis. (Maximum one page)
❖ Contact information of the person submitting the entry (full name, phone number, and email address)

❖ Projects selected by the Festival that are filmed at the Áreasur facilities must upload their finished short film to the platform in digital format in a timely manner, following the organizers' instructions.

3.- DATE AND LOCATION
The 2025 edition of the "Con Acento" Express Short Film Competition will be held in Jerez de la Frontera as part of the 3rd edition of the Con Acento Film Festival, which will take place from October 14 to 18, 2025.
Filming will take place at the Áreasur shopping center on the date designated by the organizers, from September 22 to October 3.

4.- SELECTION
A committee appointed by the Festival Organizers will select the finalist works to be screened at the festival. The selection committee's decision is final. The selection of the finalist short films will be published on October 7, 2025, on the Instagram profile @festivaldecineconacento and on the website www.festivaldecineconacento.com.
The short film management team will be notified of the selection in advance by phone or via the email address used to register.

5.- SCREENING AND AWARDS
The selected short films will be screened on Wednesday afternoon, October 15, in a Yelmo Cines theater in the Áreasur Shopping Center. For the public screening, the selected short films will cede the screening rights at no cost to the Festival.
After the screening of the selected films, the winners will be announced.

2025 “CON ACENTO” EXPRESS SHORT FILM COMPETITION AWARDS

✔ Área Sur Award for Best Express Short Film: €600

✔ Área Sur Award for Best Original Express Script: €400

✔ Área Sur Award for Best Express Performance: €300

*These Express Short Film awards will be presented at the Yelmo Cinemas in the Áreasur Shopping Center after the screenings on Wednesday, October 15th.

The awards will be presented by members of a jury selected by the Festival Organization, made up of representatives from the audiovisual and cultural sectors. The jury's decision will be final.
Winners will include a descriptive legend of the award along with the Jerez Film Festival “con Acento” logo (provided by the Festival) at the beginning of the short film for screening at festivals, venues, and competitions.

6.- ACCEPTANCE AND PAYMENT OF PRIZES
The prizes in this section are fully sponsored by the C.C. Áreasur.
Payment of the prizes is subject to current tax regulations in Spain. From the closing date of the event, the Festival will send the winners a communication (via email) with the address of the appropriate Areasur department, requesting that they contact the winners and receive the necessary documentation to receive the prizes. The C.C. Áreasur will proceed with the payment of the prizes within approximately 90 days after the Festival. The documentation required for payment will be as follows:
● Copy of the ID or passport of the person responsible for the production.
● IBAN code of the bank account designated for the payment.

After receiving the notification of the prize and requesting the indicated documents, the winners will have a period of 10 days to submit their acceptance of the prize and the required documentation. If this requirement is not met after this deadline, the prize will be deemed rejected. Once payment has been received, the winners agree to send a signed receipt confirming receipt of the prize.

7.- ARCHIVE

The short films received will become part of the Festival's audiovisual archive, intended for non-profit audiovisual dissemination, and always for promotional, cultural, and/or educational purposes.
The Festival will request permission from participants before scheduling the screening of their works in non-official Festival sections, accepting their decision.

8.- ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES

For the purposes of Organic Law 15/1999 of December 13, on the protection of personal data, you are hereby informed that all personal data collected during this competition will be included in an automated or manual personal data file. The Jerez Performing and Audiovisual Arts Association, located at Calle Porvera 36, ​​Jerez, as the data controller, guarantees the exercise of the rights of access, rectification, erasure, and objection to the data provided. Likewise, it undertakes to respect the confidentiality of the data included in the file and to use it in accordance with its purpose.
Registration implies acceptance of these rules, as well as the decisions of the Organization and Selection Committee. Any issue not covered in these rules will be resolved by the Festival Organization.
The Festival Organization reserves the right to change any of the rules if it deems it necessary or obligated.