Premio Atlantide di sceneggiatura ()

Festival start: 01 November 2024      Festival end: 03 November 2024

The first Atlantis Award dedicated to all Dreamers skilled in writing is announced in Atlantis, in collaboration with the Anonima Sognatori.

The initiative is designed to discover new unpublished works of quality and to try to help and support, as much as we know and are able, the respective authors.

To participate in the Award authors must abide by the following rules, which should be read carefully.

The awards available for the first three winning entries, in addition to our and everyone's applause, will be as follows:

FIRST AWARD: Gold doubloon. Plus editing, cover artwork and pre-printing of the book resulting from the competing work. Plus publication, in ways to be determined. Plus a 90" promotional film (booktrailer) suitable for social.

SECOND CLASSIFIED: Silver doubloon. Plus a 90" promotional film (booktrailer) suitable for social.
THIRD CLASSIFIED: Bronze doubloon. Plus a certificate of merit from the Minister of Culture of Atlantis.

SPECIAL SCREENPLAY AWARD: Silver doubloon. Plus a 90" promotional film (booktrailer) suitable for social.

To these Awards we will add as much as we can from the sponsorship search activity that is ongoing.

- Awardees will also have the incipit or excerpt of their work published in the first position on the Award website and social media, with photo and biographical summary. Other incipits or excerpts may be published on the website under the "showcase" section, and on social media, at the editorial staff's sole discretion and regardless of the ranking.

- All finalists will also be sent an evaluation report of their work.

- Realizations of Award services (editing, booktrailer, etc.) will be arranged with individual winners.

REQUIREMENTS OF WORKS AND AUTHORS

- Each author by simply participating in the Atlantis Award declares total authorship and originality of the work submitted and its content.

- Works that never have been published, that is, unpublished, are eligible for the Award.

Works may still have been published on the web or in any other way, but NOT by national or international publishing house, so they must not have an ISBN code. The author then declares that he/she owns, under his/her own responsibility, all rights of use of the work he/she submits, and this until the deadline of the Award.

- Any type of work that is coherent with the four Sections of the Award is allowed.

- Any author who is of legal age may participate.

- Works must be in the Italian language. For screenplays, see the section below.

- Works must contain on the first page: author's first and last name + the title.

- Submitted works must NOT contain images of any kind, including the cover.

- NO other type of work that is not included in the sections of the Award is allowed.

- NO works are allowed that are completely or in part the result of Artificial Intelligence however understood and/or used.

- It is NOT allowed to participate with the use of pseudonyms in place of own name.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SCREENPLAYS ONLY

- Screenplays can be entered only through the FestHome portal at the link at the end of the page.

- Screenplays in addition to Italian are also accepted in english, French, Spanish.

- The minimum length of screenplays is set at 30 pages formatted according to the American standard, and submitted in PDF.

- The author of the screenplay shall arrange for any registration with the relevant bodies on his own.

Details on the website: Atlantis.at