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April 30, 2020 Final Deadline

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The 12th annual SiciliAmbiente Film Festival will take place in July 2020: July 3 – 10, 2020.

The aim of SiciliAmbiente Festival is to promote independent documentary cinema and to encourage creative exchange and networking among the directors.
This Festival is organized and sponsored by Demetra Produzioni SAS and CANTIERE 7 Cultural Association, with the support of the City of San Vito Lo Capo and many other sponsors who share the same principles of the Festival.
Films dealing with the following themes may participate: Environment, Anthropology, Human Rights, Biodiversity, War, Integration, Civil Rights, Sustainable Development and the Relationship between Man and the Environment.

The Festival is divided into different sections:

• Documentary Film contest (minimum rt: 31 minutes)
• Fiction Feature Film contest (minimum rt: 70 minutes)
• Short Film contest for Fiction and Documentary shorts (maximum rt: 30 minutes)
• Animated short film contest (maximum rt: 30 minutes)
• Overview of documentaries, fiction, short films and several tributes, retrospectives, seminars and panel discussions

The Selection Committee will choose based on the quality of writing and images and the general use of a creative language identifying artistic documentary cinema.

DOCUMENTARY CONTEST – FICTION FILM CONTEST - SHORT FILM CONTEST - ANIMATED FILM CONTEST

Submission requirements
Documentaries (31’ or more), Feature films (70’ or more), Short and Animated films (30’ or less) of any nationality may be submitted for the selection process, provided that they were completed after January 1, 2018.

If selected, the format for the projection of the film may be:
• Unencrypted DCP
• Blu-ray DVD
• Apple ProRes File
• File H264

Other formats must be approved by the Festival Management.
Screening fees may not be requested and will not be paid for the contests.

Films in any language other than Italian must be subtitled in English or Italian and, if selected for the final phase of competition, they must be sent to the festival with the requested presentation materials and the English dialogue list.

Films to be presented in the Short film and Animated film sections must be shorter than 30 minutes or they will be excluded.

Some of the films not admitted to the contests for Shorts and Animated films may be selected for a non-competitive section.

To submit a film for competitive selection, with the exception of the “Fiction Feature Film” category, it is required to register and pay the entry fee. Failure to pay the entry fee will result in the film being excluded.