Con i minuti contati, the International Short Film Festival, born in 2010 in Montefalco, a wonderful medieval village in the Italian region of Umbria.

Year after year, the Festival increases its visibility and relevance in Italy and in the rest of the world: in 2012 we received 400 short films from more than 40 nations.

Con i minuti contati wants to spread the film culture and the knowledge of the short film, as a unique and precious art form.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF  COMPETITION

II edition  of

Filmfestival sul Paesaggio

Filmfestivl about Landscape

“We capture and relate the essence of a country. The landscape is a common good to be preserved. The human face as a landscape tells a tale of encounters”.

Since 22 to 29 May 2011

at Polizzi Generosa (Palermo)

 

        Aims of The Film festival about Landscape

Landscape is also a primary good that  the very Constitution safeguards; that’s why by cinematographic art, with the “Filmfestival sul Paesaggio / Filmfestival about Landscapes” the “G. A. Borgese Foundation” intends to exploit this resource and this function it plays, and at the same time to describe the human aspect as a landscape.

Under these circumstances, without forgiving that landscape is able to recall an atmosphere, a dream, a fantasia, the storyline of a tale and some romancing, by carrying out a “Filmfestival sul Paesaggio / Filmfestival about Landscapes” we want weave the perfect development to narrate the reality of the world with his human and cultural weight by enhancing his real dimension.

Beyond words and perhaps even more than words images communicate through an universal, immediate and direct language that perceive and catch the very strength of

landscape. Our eyes capture the images of the reality through objectivity, or thanks to  photography and cinematography we can catch them indirectly.

Through an image we can contemplate a panorama, and at the same time we are allowed to see and interpret a region, to observe and interpret the signs stuck that express the development of nature and the creative strength from our hand, to elevate more and more our spirit and enjoy the beauty spread through a wide range of landscapes.

The “Filmfestival sul Paesaggio / Filmfestival about Landscapes” wants to function as a situation that gathers several visions of a place and of life, to direct the different evocative facets that the mastery and the creative fantasy of participants want propose in the most independent way with the aim to propose this resource as a common good that everyone can enjoy and understand thanks to the heterogeneous and polychrome colors of his panorama, and that with the details of his peculiarity and identity belong permanently to the cultural horizons of everyone.

In this way by experiencing the gratuitousness with a conscious look and observation we achieve a best quality of life for everyone, including ourselves, that states a right for each of us to improve the quality of life when we get harmony and happiness.

CONTEST SECTIONS D

                            

I) “Landscape is a common good to be preserved”

The section is reserved to videos that pay attention to places and communities and that convey the universally spread right to beauty that should be peculiar to every human being and implied in every landscape.

Preserved landscapes that transmit  emotions, feelings, tales, myths and stories that mould the cultural identity of a  population and others one usurped and disfigured that affect human and cultural development attest that it is  common good to preserve and to hand down for the next generations.

Artists can develop subjects as: safeguard of landscape, biodiversity, the pastoral and

agrarian societies and the medieval castles and villages, water, the cementification of the region, landscape in connection with ceramic, sacred, writing, tales.

We accept fiction and animation footages,  documentaries and docufictions whose duration doesn’t exceed 15 minutes for the animations one and thirteen minutes

for the others one. We don’t accept any video but these ones sent on support DVD.

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II)“The human face as a landscape tells a tale of encounters"

 “Our landscape is what we eat, produce, build, breathe and meet”

Every day we encounter faces: on the street, on train, on workplaces. Often we don’t pay attention to these familiar faces that diary become for us a geographic landscape, although they bear  personal and collective histories, as well as ideas, projects, whose cultural identity is strong. To widen our horizons and “to see the others” as point of

departure to elaborate a new ethical vision and a  paradigm for a new social and political conviviality. This other can be the foreigner whose rights aren’t very much or absolutely preserved because we see him as a danger for our identity and for our  well-being, or also someone we won’t ever meet because he died in a desperation trip, or he  returned just to these countries from which he tried to escape,

in violation of that right of asylum that should constitute one cornerstone of

the European juridical culture and that the Italian constitution (Art.10) safeguards as a fundamental human right.

To narrate the landscape of faces underlying when we meet them, to tell their histories, means to draw a panorama of a renewed human geography opened to  comprehension and sharing.

We accept fiction and animation footages, documentaries and docufictions whose duration doesn’t exceed 15 minutes.

We don’t accept any video but these ones sent on support DVD.

 

PARTICIPATION  RULESP

We don’t accept any video but these ones sent on support DVD. You can’t send more than a fiction footage for every DVD, and as concerned as fiction footages each of them can’t exceed 30 minutes; as concerned as documentaries and docufictions

presented in the first concourse section, as well as the animation ones presented in the same section and each of them presented in the other contest sections, they can’t exceed 15 minutes.

Total duration must include the titles.

Every artist can’t send more than a piece of work for contest section.  

Foreign footages must be subtitled.

We won’t take in consideration any industrial, publicity and advertising film, as well as these ones produced by national networks.

Send your DVD with your entry form and with your consent to the treatment of your personal datas (a confirmation that your  personal datas can be processed into our data system, as it prescribes the Italian law) by letter, parcel or express courier, within and not beyond the 20th of April 2011 to:

Fondazione “G. A. Borgese” - Via Garibaldi, 13 - 90028 Polizzi Generosa (PA).

You can download the documents in www.madonie.info

Furthermore, please send a copy by email to:fondazioneborgese@libero.it

Delivery costs will be in our charge.

Applications must be postmarked by this date, and any video sent after this deadline won’t be considered. No exceptions will be made. Please when you complete your participation report take the precaution to write in a readable way and to firm your authorization to process your personal details. Please have also the courtesy to send an high-definition image (300dpi) to this E-mail address: press@comunisolidali.org.

The subscription to the Festival is free. The artistic direction of the Festival will select, to his unquestionable judgment, the works selected to participate. At the end of the pre-selection winners will be informed by phone or by E-mail. Moreover works and artists selected will be published on the site www.madonie.info Given that artists by their application to participate to the contest and by the sending of their  work authorize  the “G.A. Borgese” Foundation to project their footages for promotional or study reasons that can take place in a different situation, without purpose of profit, any footage or work whether or not selected won’t be returned and will be in the archives and at a free disposal of “G.A. BORGESE” Foundation. Any footage delivered at the screening evening won’t be accepted.

The cash prizes will be paid as soon as possible in connection with the time of public

contributions.

INFO: www.madonie.info - e-mail: fondazioneborgese@libero.it

 

 

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