Festival De Cine Fantástico Y De Terror De Gijón (5)

Festival start: 16 October 2025      Festival end: 19 October 2025

FantasticGijón was born with the illusion of filling a space that we believe empty in Asturias, to accommodate national and international productions of the Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction genres that, due to the genre to which they belong, have less chance of reaching our community within of the programming of the rest of regional festivals.

Cash Prizes: 250€

-FANTASTIC GIJÓN Best Movie Award

-FANTASTIC GIJÓN Best Short Film Award

RULES

V FANTASTICGIJON 2025
16th to 19st October 2025

1. The Rules are valid for all participants of FANTASTICGIJÓN 2025.

2. There is no limit to the number of works per author, as long as they have been made after 1st August 2024. And, in the case of short films, their duration must not exceed 60 minutes.

3. All works submitted to the competition must be original. The participants ratify by signing these legal bases that they own the authorship and therefore the intellectual property rights (or the authorised licence for the use of the piece by its owners), as well as the cession of the right to the image of the people who appear in it.

4. In case of breach of authorship, the person responsible will be solely and exclusively the person who has submitted the short film, assuming, therefore, the consequences derived from any kind of claim or legal action. Consequently, the organisation is exempt from any conflict derived from the non-authorship of the works presented.

5. Two sections will be established within the festival.

5.1. Official Feature Films Section: Competition for international feature films.

5.2. Official Short Films Section: Competition for international short films.

6. prizes.
There are two main prizes.

6.1 FANTASTIC GIJÓN Award for best feature film.


6.2 FANTASTIC GIJÓN Award for best short film.
Two hundred fifty euros prize
6.3 The Jury may declare the prizes void.
Two hundred euros prize

In addition, the organization reserves the right to award special mentions or any other prize it considers.

7. The sending of the works and their registration can only be done through Festhome (www.festhome.com).

8. Works may be submitted until 15 August 2025.

9. The Festival will communicate to all participants by e-mail the works that make up the official selection 2 weeks before the beginning of the competition. The screening copy in digital format will also be requested to each selected film by e-mail.

10. The theme of the work to be presented is free, as long as the subject matter falls within the fantastic genre.

10.1 The organization of the festival reserves the right to disregard those works that do not comply with the rules, do not present a minimum of quality (we will be rigorous with those that do not respect the format of sending the works or exceed the time established for the duration of the screenings).

10.2 subtitles.
If it is necessary to subtitle the film, the company providing the film must provide the appropriate material: reference link, DVD or Blu-Ray and list of dialogues and/or subtitles. The Festival will not return these materials, which will be destroyed at the end of the Festival. If the film is distributed in Spanish territory, the distribution company must provide the Festival with a copy of the OV screening with Spanish subtitles.
10.3 Screening Formats.

The theatrical screening formats for the selected works will be:

Feature films:
DCP on physical support (hard disk) or digital transfer. If the film is encrypted, the Festival will not be responsible for the costs derived from the generation of the DKDM or KDMs necessary for the screening at the Festival.

Short films:

Digital file with HD quality (.mov or .mp4). The file provided must be the final, unsubtitled version of the film. subtitles must be provided as separate files in .srt format. Codecs must be h.264 or h.265.

10.4 The copies submitted for the competition will be kept by the festival organisation indefinitely, forming part of the archive material, and may be used for non-profit purposes.

10.5 The decisions of the Selection Committee and the Jury are final.

10.6 Voting and the jury's decision are secret, personal and irrevocable. Voting will be by simple majority and will not be made public until the awards ceremony. Subsequently, it will be published through the different channels belonging to the festival and other media.

11. The contestants cede to the festival the rights of total or partial reproduction of the works presented, both within the scope of the competition and through any of the media used by this festival to make itself known and promote itself. This does not imply the loss of copyright by their owners, but rather the transfer of these rights for non-commercial purposes linked to the festival.

11.1. The contestants authorise the festival to use, reproduce and distribute their name, as well as the works that participate, the images and stills contained in these pieces for any event that the organisation carries out throughout the calendar year as long as they maintain the essence of being non-profit making.

11.2. Any additional information or clarification will be provided by email.

12. All participants, by the fact of being participants, accept these rules in their entirety, as well as the resolution by the Organisation of any problem not covered by these rules. In the event of possible doubts, the criteria of the Festival Organisers will prevail.

13. The Organisation reserves the right to modify these rules.