The international festival Academia Film Olomouc accepts applications for competition sections from September 1st 2014. The jubilee 50th edition of the biggest European festival of science documentary films and programmes will be held from 14th to 19th April 2015.

 

Films can be submitted via the online form by their producers, distributors or creators. Deadline for submissions is set to December 19th 2014. Preview copies must be delivered not later than by January 9th 2015, either physically to the following address: AFO, Lucie Klevarova, Univerzitni 3, 77147 Olomouc, Czech Republic or electronically by a download link sent to email address: klevarova@afo.cz.

 

All film submissions into competition sections are FREE OF CHARGE.

 

Competition sections:

• The Best International Science Documentary Film Award 
• Award to the Best Czech Science Documentary Film 
• The Best Science Documentary Short Film Award

Overview of all the awards can be found HERE.

 

AFO currently ranks among top European festivals focusing on science documentaries. Its major goal is to present topical information from all spheres of knowledge, and thus promote science in general public, young audiences, and film and television professionals. Its unique focus combines competition screenings of new Czech and world science documentaries, with lectures and presentations of scientists, creating a unique atmosphere, where filmmakers meet with scholars and enthusiastic audiences. Academia Film Olomouc is the oldest festival in Central Europe devoted to a consistent mapping of science documentary film and TV production. It was founded in 1966 as a joint initiative of Short Film Prague, Palacky University in Olomouc and the Czechoslovak Academy of Science. Among the festival guests in recent years were Richard Saunders, Sonya Pemberton, Lawrence M. Krauss, Robert Winston, Martha Holmes, Jeff Lieberman, Jennifer Gardy, Derek Muller, Andrew Holtz, Nigel Marven, Christine LeGoff, Robert Rosenstone, Timothy Boon, Albert Barillé, Alison Griffiths, Lisa Cartwright, Alison Leigh and others.

You can also watch a short video capturing the 49th AFO atmosphere.

 

Before you start filling in the FILM ENTRYFORM, please, pay attention to the SUBMISSION GUIDELINES.

 

Good luck to all filmmakers!