Festival start: 28 September 2017
Festival end: 01 October 2017
To give visibility to films made by WOMEN of Mediterranean countries.
To promote awareness and knowledge of different cultures in order to better understand the Other.
Jury award
- Best feature film
- Best short film
Audience award
- Best feature film
- Best short film
"Começar a Olhar" Award – School film:
Best school film in competition
Other competitve sections the Festival may see fit to create
This is NOT a HORROR/SUSPENSE Festival
This is not a specifically LGBT Festival
Films of WOMEN in one of the following credits:
- directed
- production
- argument
- photography (DOP)
- editing
OLHARES DO MEDITERRÂNEO – CINEMA NO FEMININO
4th EDITION | 2017
REGULAMENTO
1. The “Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Cinema no Feminino” festival is a project of the group
‘Olhares do Mediterrâneo’ and ‘CRIA – Centre for Research in Anthropology’.
2. The Festival intends to promote the exhibition of films from the Mediterranean basin, stimulating the knowledge of these cinematographies and to publicize the women's role in the induztry, their work to the public and promoting interchange with Portuguese film professionals.
3. The 4th edition of the Festival will be held from September 28 to October 1, 2017, at
‘Cinema São Jorge’.
4. The Festival accepts submission of films, of any genre and length (except institutional,
corporate or advertising films), which meet the following criteria:
a) Mandatory:
- Having a woman responsbile for one of the main credits: directed, co-directed, produced
written, direction of photography or edited;
- Produced by, at least, one of the Mediterranean countries (Albania, Algeria, Bosnia, Cyprus,
Croatia, Egypt, Slovenia, Spain, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Morocco,
Montenegro, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey) or Portugal;
- Produced after January 2015;
- Not previously released in Portugal by commercial distribution (sales or rent), theatrical
exhibition or broadcasting on television;
- Screening copy available in one of the following formats: 35mm, DCP, Betacam Digital PAL,
Dvcam (if previously arranged, films might be send in MP4 or Mov files, from which the
Festival will provide the transfer to DCP for exhibition purposes);
b) Preferential:
- Not previously screened in Portugal in festivals or other similar events.
c) The Festival might select films that do not meet some of the criteria referred above.
5. All the films screened during the Festival will compete for the Public Award. However, the
Festival has competitive sections with a jury and sections which are non competitive. The
selection of the films to each of this sections is defined by the Festival Programmers.
The selected films may be in competition for one of the following awards:
a) Audience award:
- Best feature film screened,
- Best short film screened,
b) Jury award:
- Best feature film in competition,
- Best short film in competition,
c) Começar a Olhar Award – School film:
- Best school film in competition
d) Others competitive sections the Festival may see fit to create
e) The Festival may chose not to include the film in any competitive section
5.1. The Jury may decide to confer Special Mentions, duly justified.
5.2. The awards will be made by an artist and don't have a monetary value.
6. The deadline for submission is April 20, 2017.
6.1. The submission of the films must be done exclusively by electronic way, through the form
nade available on the Festival's website www.olharesdomediterraneo.org
6.2. The films must be supplied with a link and password.
6.3 The links and passwords must be active until at least August 1, 2017. Otherwise, the film may not be considered.
6.4. With the exception of the Portuguese films, all the screening links submited must be
subtitled in English, French or Spanish.
7. The official selection shall be announced until one month before the beginning of the
Festival.
8. Selected films must not be withdrawn after the oficial announcement of the Festivals’
programming.
9. The Festival shall not pay any screening fees for the exhibition of selected films.
10. Each film selected will have one or two exhibitions throughout the Festival.
a) The selected films may be screened in other contexts associated with the Festival.
11. If selected, the following materials shall be made available to the Festival within the
deadline stated in the invitation to the selected film:
- Film stills and photo of the relevant woman of the credits (300 dpi);
- Bio-filmography of the same said woman;
- Principal cast and production credits listings;
- Synopsis;
- Dialogue list;
- Screening copy without subtitles AND with English, French or Spanish subtitles in one of the accepted formats;
- Technical specifications of the screening copy;
- Promotional materials (posters, trailer, postcards, press kit);
- Awards and festivals career listings;
- Exhibition release (to be supplied by the Festival).
12. Shipping costs of the screening copy to Portugal will be covered by the participant. If
applicable and provided that the Festivals’ instructions are followed, the Festival will cover custom duties in Portugal. The Festival will also cover shipping costs of the screening copy from Portugal to the country of origin, but won’t be responsible for any custom duties due in the destination.
13. The participant assures that she/he is the rights owner of film submitted or that she/he is
legally authorized to submit the film and, in case of selection, vouch for the legitimacy and
legality of the public screening of the film at the Festival.
14. In case of selection, the Festival is authorized to reproduce stills and inserts (max. 3 minutes) of the film for festival publications, press and television broadcasts, as well as any of the material sent by the participant for promotional purposes.
15. The submission of films and the participation in the Festival implies the Reading and acceptance of these regulations.
16. The Festivals’ organization committee shall decide any matter not stated in these
regulations.
Lisboa, March 2017
Contacto: submissions.olhares@gmail.com
www.olharesdomediterraneo.org
