Overlook 2014 - 5th CinemAvvenire Film Festival

The Overlook 2014 - 5^th CinemAvvenire Film Festival is launching its Call for Entries, inviting filmmakers around the world to submit feature films, shorts, documentaries, animation and experimental works. Overlook 2014 will run from December 12 – 21, and deadline for submission is the 23 August 2014. 

5th CinemAvvenire Film Festival carries on and strenght the International/European dimension of the Associazione Centro Internazionale CinemAvvenire, a project managed with enthusiasm and determination since 1992 through the starting idea by Gillo Pontecorvo.

Overlook 2014 signs a crucial step forward, supported by the experiences of the last editions, by a broader view that a strong cultural player as CinemAvvenire has the cards for playing.

The word itself – overlook – claims the will and the need to get ready every tool at disposal for the discover and the exploration of new styles and talents, assisting and supporting the independent productions setting a European platform for their expectations. Archeology and recovery won’t be ignored –bringing to light some unpopular zone of Cinema History – as they belong to the logic of discovery too.

Moreover, for the 2014 edition, we have concluded many deals with several partners around Europe.  This partnerships are  planned to decentralize the event with the aim to promote young talents inside a European web allowing audiovisual works to get a broader circulation around EU.

This European direction led us choosing the platypus as logo for our festival. It unites different parts from different animals and this feature makes it unique. It has a duckbill, the tail as rodents, the paws as reptiles and it lays eggs notwithstanding it is a mammal animal. Its skills let it free form any categorization and guardian of a precious metaphor: united in diversity.

Festival

Rome 12-21 December   

Sections

a)     The Overlook 2014 competitive categories are:

-         International Feature Film: International feature films competition

-         EU Feature Film: European feature Films competition

-         International Short movies: International Shorts Competition

-         EU Short movies: European Shorts competition

-         Wild Card Italia: Italian competition

-         Il Cerchio non è rotondo: Films on social issues

To enter, works must be unpublished in Italy. “Unpublished” means that work has never been distributed or projected in any cinema or screened in any festival in Italy before the starting date of Overlook 2014. Only regarding the “Wild Card Italia” category,  it is sufficient that the submitted films have never been distributed in any Italian cinema. The Direction Board reserves the right to waive this latter rule in case of works of unique value.

Based on the availability of submitted films, and their quality as well, the Direction Board reserves the right to increase, decrease, add or cancel some of the above mentioned categories

b)     The Overlook 2014 non competitive categories are:

-         Cinema in Piazza: National previews.

-         Oltreconfine: Retrospective on a foreign country latest filmography.

-         Generazioni allo specchio: Double tribute focused on a long career director and a new talent of the Seventh Art, matched together on the base of a series of similarities between their respective works.

-         Fuori Formato: Space for works that can not  be formally categorised.

Based on the availability of submitted films, and their quality as well, the Direction Board reserves the right to increase, decrease, add or cancel some of the above mentioned categories