Festival de Cine Espacio Queer (0)

Festival start: 04 November 2016      Festival end: 06 November 2016

Espacio Queer is established as a cultural space guided by the queer theory. It’s a place for debate, reflection and artistic expresion to developes open activities about sexual diversity and gender.

Our search focuses on finding and promoting artistic works that expose a queer point of view which doesn’t establish stereotypes but opens for analysis and reflection. A view where to be a lesbian, bisexual, gay, transexual or intersexual is not a pose, fashion or, still less, a label, but an identity built up constantly wihout static or normaive parameters.

Located in La Plata city, this festival includes proyections of feature-films and short-films, official copetetion and showcase sections, debates, workshops, visual arts exhibitions and live music. In its 3rd edition, Espacio Queer will take place on November of this year.

The call for entry for international feature-films and short-films is open from 16th of April to 1st of July 2016. We are looking forward to see your work!

- Best Short Film
- Jury Mentions
- Audience Award

RULES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The 3rd Espacio Queer Film Fest takes place in the city of La Plata, during the month of November 2016. The festival is a platform for showing independent film that has topics related to sexual and gender diversity, bringing to the audience diferent proposals and new points of views on the screen.

The Festival was created as a place for communication and debate, where you can critically think on various subject as sexual identities, culture and society in different contexts and realities. The festival will focus on films that expose a queer perspective, where identity is thought of as a constant construction, with no established parameters, and where the sexuality is expressed in everything we think, feel and do.

Festival categories:
- International Competition of short films.
- international showcase of feature films.

SUBMIT AND SENDING OF WORKS

The call is open to all film makers over 18 years old.

International films may participate in the Short Film Competition if they have a leght of no more than 25 (twenty five) minutes and if they have been made after January 1, 2014. For the feature Film Showcase may participate all productions longer than 40 minutes.

To participate in the Festival, international film makers must complete the registration on Festhome.

The reception of the material will be until July 1, 2016.

SELECTED WORKS
Once selected, participants must send a file in Quicktime format 1920x1080 at 25 fps (h264 codec, ProRes, DNxHD). Films that are not Spanish-speaking, should be subtitled in Spanish compulsorily (subtitles pasted on the image preferably).

The sending of the material shall be made within 20 (twenty) days from notification of selection, and it can be made by digital plataforms such as Drive, Wetransfer, etc.

All works submitted will be part of the video library of the Festival, with the possibility of being projected in the future on special functions or itinerant exhibitions of Espacio Queer´s activities. In case of projection, it will be required a prior approval of the responsible of the film, knowing that no compensation can be demanded for the exhibition of the film.

All activities organized by Espacio Queer are made open, free of charge and with non-profit proposes. The selection of works will be informed by private notification by telephone and/or e-mail and then publicated on the web.

The mere fact of participating in this call for entry implies knowledge and acceptance of these Terms and Regulations.

JURY
The jury in charge of competition will consist of suitable personalities in the audiovisual field, who will be in charge of choosing the winning films. Among them there will be: filmmakers, journalists, LGTBI activists, teachers, critics, writers and other personalities. Jury's votes will be secret.

The committee members agree not to publicly express their opinions of the films submitted for consideration before the official announcement of the prize. The decision of the jury is final.

PRIZES
Awards from Short Film Competition are:

- Best Short Film
- Jury Mentions
- Audience Award

PROJECTION RIGHTS
By registering, these Terms and Conditions and the transfer of rights of projection of the material presented to the effects of diffusion in this edition of the Festival is considered accepted. The participants authorize the Festival so that, without any compensation and / or payment, it can make public disclosure of their names and / or voices and / or images in any media for promoting the exhibition of the film within the Festival.

The participants declare to have all the rights involved in the film, leaving the Festival harmless for any claims of ownership of the work and / or lack of authorization to the rights contained therein.

CONSULTATIONS
For questions, please contact the festival's organization at queerespacio@gmail.com, or via Facebook (Espacio Queer) or Twitter (@espacioqueer)