Festival start: 23 October 2025
Festival end: 25 October 2025
The Cultural Department of the Guadalcanal City Council (Seville) announces: the 7th edition of the Guadalcanal Short Film Festival "Smile, Please," which will be held from October 23 to 25, 2025.
Cash Prizes: 2,500€
The competition will award the following prizes in the "Classic" category:
● Guadalcanal Short Film Award "Smile, Please" for the best short film, including a statuette and €1,000.
● Guadalcanal Short Film Award "Smile, Please" for the second-best short film, including a statuette and €500.
● Canal Sur Radio and Television Award for Andalusian audiovisual creation, symbolized by the bronze statuette "The Dilemma," which will be shown on Andalusian public television, according to the agreement signed with the winner. There will also be a prize of €300 and a statuette from the Guadalcanal City Council.
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● Best Animated Short Film Award, including a statuette and €500.
● Audience Award for the best short film. Short film voted for by the audience, awarded with a statuette and €200.
● Mention for Best Female Performance, awarded with a statuette.
● Mention for Best Male Performance, awarded with a statuette.
The competition will award the following prizes in the Amateur category:
● 1st Guadalcanal Prize, awarded with a statuette and €300.
● 2nd Guadalcanal Prize, awarded with a statuette and €200.
● "Semillas de Cine" Mention for the Best Short Film created by minors (at least 60% of the group must be under 18 years old).
● "Overflowing Imagination" Mention for the most original script.
RULES FOR THE 7TH GUADALCANAL EN CORTO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
1. The theme of the Guadalcanal en Corto Festival is comedy and animation. All short films must be Spanish, except for animated films, which may be international as long as they are subtitled in Spanish.
2. Short films may be silent or with built-in sound, with Spanish as the language used. Short films in a language other than Spanish must have Spanish subtitles.
3. The organization assumes that the owners of the submitted short films hold all exhibition and promotion rights to the works and material they represent, and declines any responsibility for violations of this rule.
4. The Jury will be composed of a group of people chosen by the organization; its verdict will be final, and it may declare the prize void if it deems appropriate and address any questions not addressed in the rules.
5. The decisions of both the Selection Committee and the Official Jury are final.
6. The organization reserves the right to reject a work due to poor image and/or sound quality.
7. Submitted short films must not have been presented
at previous editions of this festival.
8. Submitted short films must not be associated with any member of the event's organizers or jury.
9. The short films selected in the 7th Guadalcanal en Corto Short Film Competition "Smile, Please" may be screened as part of the cultural and non-profit activities organized by the Department of Culture of the Guadalcanal City Council, such as the presentation of future festivals and the screening of the finalist short films in neighboring towns.
10. The Guadalcanal en Corto Short Film Festival "Smile, Please" will take place from October 23rd to 25th, 2025, with the screening of the selected short films in free public sessions at the Guadalcanal Municipal Cinema-Theater.
The details for participating in this seventh edition of the festival are explained below.
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CLASSIC MODALITY
A. The characteristics of the short films must comply with points 1 and 2 of these rules.
In addition, the short film must be completed after January 1, 2024.
B. The length of the short films may not exceed 15 minutes, including the credits.
C. Participation in the short film festival is open to
all filmmakers over 18 years of age, both individually and collectively, provided they hold Spanish nationality.
D. The deadline for submitting works begins on April 1, 2025, and ends on June 30, 2025 (both inclusive).
E. Short films may be submitted through the following means:
● Distribution platforms: Festhome.
● Email: festivalcortosguadalcanal@gmail.com
● Regular mail or courier, sending the material to the following address: Guadalcanal Town Hall, Department of Culture, VI Guadalcanal Short Film Festival.
Plaza de España, 1 - 41390 Guadalcanal (Seville)
● Submit to the Guadalcanal Town Hall Registry, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, in a sealed envelope containing, in addition to the work, the information referred to in point F.
F. All submissions must clearly include the author's information, a photocopy of their ID or similar document; a technical sheet, the author's filmography, the short film poster, and a brief synopsis.
Submit in digital format or through the aforementioned distribution platforms.
G. The organization will make a pre-selection. Once the screening is complete, the authors will be notified and must send a screening copy of the selected short films along with their poster, which must be sent by September 1, 2025, via Wetransfer or other platforms to festivalcortosguadalcanal@gmail.com for screening in the official section.
H. The mandatory submission formats are: .MPEG or .MP4. .MOV (H264 compression)
and 48kHz 16-bit audio.
GUADALCANAL MODALITY
A. This category is aimed at groups with less professional experience in the sector, limited resources, and film enthusiasts.
B. The characteristics of the short films must comply with points 1 and 2 of these rules.
C. Participants may be adults or minors. If they are minors, they must present a signed authorization from their mother, father, or legal guardian, which will be provided by the organization.
D. Participating groups must contain a maximum of 10 members.
E. Short films entered into the competition must include a minimum of three recognizable locations in Guadalcanal, although a short film shot entirely in Guadalcanal is highly valued. The maximum duration of the short film will be 10 minutes, including credits.
F. The registration period will be from April 1, 2025, to August 15, 2025.
An email must be sent to festivalcortosguadalcanal@gmail.com with the registration form, which will be made available to anyone who requests it on the festival's social media channels.
G. When contestants record their filming in Guadalcanal, they must notify the festival organizers so that a member of the organization can attend and record the recording.
H. The project must be submitted to the festival organizers via the festival's email address: festivalcortosguadalcanal@gmail.com.
I. All submissions must include a technical sheet, a short film, and a poster. Minors must include legal authorization for their participation.
J. Participating groups must apply to the Guadalcanal City Council for authorization to record in public buildings, such as the Cultural Center, the Food Market, the Library, etc., regardless of whether they record during public opening hours or not, as well as
during street closures, if necessary.
K. The mandatory submission formats are: .MPEG or .MP4. .MOV (H264 compression). 48 kHz 16-bit audio.
The organization reserves the right to modify any point of these rules if circumstances so require; appropriate publicity will be given.
All participants, by virtue of their participation, accept these Rules in full, as well as the resolution of any problem not covered herein, as deemed appropriate by the organization.
In Guadalcanal, on the date of electronic signature.
So far, music, dance, theatre or literature have become strong in this town. It is the turn of the cinema, which strikes with force the doors of the locality with a project that dreams to consolidate and to become the epicenter of the Sierra Morena Seville in what the seventh art refers to.
