REGULATION RULES 2020

XXII SORIA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FEST

Since the Soria Short Film Fest (SOIFF) considers at all times Short Films CINEMA in capital and appreciates as essential culture dissemination, our purpose is to promote as mean of audiovisual expression; the contribution to acknowledgment and dissemination. This format must be essentially and basically a part of CINEMA.

SOIFF ONLINE.

12-22th November 2020

GENERAL RULES

-This festival is open to Filmmakers from the entire world.

- Any filming system is permitted as well as genre: Fiction, Animation or Documentary.

-Running time will be no longer than 30 minutes; credits included.

-Shorts must be sent before July 31st, 2020.

-Shorts films production must have ended their production not before January 1st, 2019.

-It is ESSENTIAL Shorts which in their original language version are not in Spanish to be subtitledto that original language or where those are not possible in English subtitled version.

-Every Short must be subtitled to English language; including those which original version isSpanish.

-Selection of Shorts will be in charge of the Organizing Committee and announced in our Websiteon September 30th, 2020.

-Selected Shorts will be screened in any of their sections in contest or in the festival parallelsection. This festival must communicate to all participants in which section is their Short to be screened.

-Participating Shorts must not have been screened at any exhibition, festival inside theprovince of Soria.

-For promoting Shorts and Festival, the Organizing Committee will use for no more than 1minute movie clips from selected Shorts.

-Short films can only be submitted on line, through theplatforms www.festhome.com or www.shortfilmdepotcom. Until MAY 1, registration for the festival will be free (except for the platform fee) for Spanish short films and €5 for short films from the restof the world. From May 1st to June 30th (final submission deadline), the registration fee, includingthe platform fee, will be €5 for Spanish short films and €10 for foreign short films. In July € 1O forSpanish short films and €15 for foreign short films.

-All Short screenings will be in digital format regardless their filming system.

-The Organizing Committee will put in contact with all selected films in order to request the sendingof projection file.

-The Official Jury will consist of Cinema, Culture and Communication Professionals and in chargeof giving the awards. Their resolution is conclusive.

-Shorts will compete for different prizes awarded by different juries: Official Jury, “Young Jury, Elderly Jury, Jury Soria City (composed of the Selection Committee), Jury “One of Ours”bandAudience Jury. All awards will be known in the awards Ceremony.

-It is hereby remained the creator´s permission or right owners to screen selected Shorts duringFestival Contest. No privity of contract neither with Ayuntamiento de Soria (City Council of Soria), the company La Boca Espacio de Cultura nor with any management company related to principal or authorship.

-The short films screened at the festival may assign all rights in order participation in the Cine a los Cuatro Vientos. A project is carried out in different places of our country and in collaboration withother national and international festivals for promotional purposes and with the main objective of creating new audiences around the short film.

-To be submitted to Festival involves express acceptance of this rules.

AWARDS

The attendance shorts in the competition section will compete to the following awards according to their nature:

• Awards

• AWARD SHORT FILM NATIONAL PRODUCTION

National Short Film* ....................... € 1.000 

Award RCSERVICE
Best photography direction ............ € 2.500 (In shooting rental material)

*Award NACIONAL Short Film: This award is aimed at short films whose director has Spanish nationality

AWARD "SORIA CITY"

This award is given by the members of the Selection Committee and has no funding.

• AWARD "ONE OF OURS"

Short Film* ................................. € 800

*Award "One of Ours": This award will be given by the Short´s selected in Festival. 

//IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER// AWARD "UNO DE LOS NUESTROS" ("ONE OF OUR OWN")

Within the Festival there is an special award that it is given by the selected short filmmakers named "Uno de los nuestros" ("One of our own") where the jury will be yourselves: you will vote one of the short films among the ones presented by theselected directors. This award is an economic prize of 800€.

You will have access to the Festival webpage so you will be able to watch the short films and you will receive a voting form at the end of the Festival.

• AWARD "OLD JURY" (without financial endowment)

​Best national short film

​Best international short film

• AWARD "YOUNG JURY" (without financial endowment)

Best national short film

​Best international short film

• PNR AWARD

Best spanish debut short film. A free year in PNR association

OUT OF OFFICIAL SECTION

• PREMIOS ESPECIALES A LA PRODUCCIÓN LOCAL "SORIA IMAGINA" Imagina lo que puedes hacer en Soria *

–Temática Libre 500 €  

–Soria Vaciada 500 €

–Soria Arqueológica 500 €

• PREMIO “CORTOS DE MEMORIA”

–Mejor Cortometraje 200 €

Otorgado por miembros de la Asociación Soriana Recuerdo y Dignidad

• PREMIOS CONCURSO “HISTORIAS DE CUARENTENA”

-Premio Categoría Adulto – 1000 €

-Premio Categoría Joven – 500 €

-Premio Categoría infantil – 250 € en material educativo

· PREMIO EN PRECARIO

–Mejor Cortometraje 200 €

• PREMIO “ÁVALON” TEMÁTICA MUSICAL

–Mejor Cortometraje 300 €

REGISTRATION TO FESTIVAL

Deadline: July 31st, 2020

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