Festival Internacional de Cine de Bosa ()

Festival start: 30 April 2024      Festival end: 04 May 2024

FICBOSA is a festival that arises from the need to promote awareness about environmental and social rights, through education, sensitization, and reflection through cinema. This festival's main objective is the care of the environment and seeks to promote an environmental culture in the Bosa community and its surroundings.

At Bosa Film Fest, the aim is to promote critical cinema that contributes to social transformation regarding environmental protection and animal rights. The relationship between humans, animals, and the environment will be explored through movies and documentaries that demonstrate the importance of taking care of our common home.

This festival aims to be a space for reflection and learning, where new ways of understanding and acting regarding the environment and the protection of social and environmental rights can be visualized.

Cash Prizes: 120$

National Competition

Bosa Film Fest will award $100 to the winner in the National Short Film category Tingua Azil.

Prize Conditions

I. The winner of the category must be the rights holder to receive the prize.
II. Each winner will be selected by a jury composed of Bosa Film Fest.
III. Short films must have music rights, image use, among others.
IV. If the chosen winner does not meet the requirements expressed here and others considered by the committee and jury, the prize may be declared void.

International Competition

Bosa Film Fest will award $120 to the winner in the International Short Film category Copeton .

Prize Conditions

I. The winner must be the rights holder to receive the prize.
II. The winner will be selected by a jury composed of Bosa Film Fest.
III. The short film must have music rights, image use, among others.
IV. If the chosen winner does not meet the requirements expressed here and others considered by the committee and jury, the prize may be declared void.

The short film selection will be open to works produced between 2019 and 2024, with a maximum duration of 15 minutes, not including the end credits, and addressing environmental issues in a free narrative format. The categories aim to stimulate and promote audiovisual proposals from people without defined previous experience.

Students, amateurs, and industry professionals are welcome to participate in "Seeing Things Differently: Untold Stories of Flora and Fauna." The only essential condition is that the story exposes environmental issues.

FICBOSA will include different film genres in which the environment is the central content of any of the pieces presented through the website www.festhome.com. The following genres will be accepted through the application:

Short Film
● Documentary (author, essay, experimental, ethnographic)
● Animation
● Drama
● Comedy
● Science Fiction
● Experimental

The curatorial committee of Bosa Film Fest will have three judges who must choose a National and International short film that satisfactorily meets the technical and creative requirements such as relevance, duration, originality. *This certificate is not mandatory to participate in the call.

FESTIVAL, RULES, LEGALITIES

A call is a contract by association, and whoever registers a film in any of the sections proposed by Bosa Film Fest on this platform signs said contract under the terms published here.

It is assumed that the agreement is fair for the parties, in accordance with article 1602 and SS of the Colombian Civil Code, so by registering your film, you are obligated by the conditions established in this call and by the rules governing cinematographic activity: Law 397 of 1997, Law 814 of 2003, Decree 1080 of 2015, and Resolution 1021 of 2016.

FICBOSA reserves the right to make modifications, additions, deletions, or any adjustment to the initial conditions agreed upon in this call, and such adjustments cannot be subject to subsequent claims by third parties, in accordance with the rules of the Colombian Civil Code and the special regulations that govern cinematographic activity in Colombian territory.

GENERAL CONDITIONS

All works, without exception, must comply with the following general rules:

i. Meet the condition of being short films, fiction or non-fiction, as required by the call.

ii. Submit to the fact that the curatorial committee considers them short films, fiction or non-fiction, or not, as required by the call to which they apply, and the considerations that the committee deems relevant, which the participant must accept.

iii. Submit to all decisions made by the committee, whether to include short films, fiction, or non-fiction in the section where the committee decides to place them or not include them in any section of the I edition of Bosa Film Fest, taking into account the committee's power to redefine the category in which the work should participate.

IV. Every film or audiovisual piece must have a screening copy in HD.

v. Only films or audiovisual pieces produced and/or released worldwide between 2021 and 2024 will be considered.

vi. The cultural nationality of films or audiovisual pieces will be decided by the committee according to the criteria it deems pertinent.

vii. Decisions made by the curatorial committee to include, exclude, reclassify, program in various sections, or not include in any section will be final.

viii. The committee is a group of cinephiles and experts who share criteria with the general direction and are responsible for visualizing and deliberating on which films or audiovisual pieces will or will not be part of the programming.

ix. language and subtitling: films not spoken in Spanish must have subtitles or transcripts of dialogues in Spanish and english (SRT format).

X. All films or audio