MAMMA ROMA E LE CITTA' METROPOLITANE ()

Festival start: 13 June 2019      Festival end: 01 September 2019

The 25th edition of the "L'Isola del Cinema" Festival renews its appointment with the short film contest "MAMMA ROMA" with the will to give it a national importance that fits ideally into the institutional territory of the 14 Italian Metropolitan Cities1 and calls it MAMMA ROME and the Metropolitan Cities.

Arrived in 2019 at the 8th edition, the Competition is organized by L'Isola del Cinema, in collaboration with Maiora Film and is aimed at young filmmakers (under 35 years) and film schools who intend to participate with a short film that has as central theme a of the 14 metropolitan cities of Italy. A Cinema of Reality, from the Center to the Suburbs, to which young filmmakers and videomakers are invited to participate, who with their short film recount places, people and emotions, like so many digital pieces of a great and extraordinary mosaic of Italian cities.

Through the audiovisual works the authors will discover and narrate the territory interpreting and representing the urban scenarios made significant by the gaze of those who focus on them to return them to the attention of the general public.

The national contest MAMMA ROMA and the Metropolitan Cities will also aim to involve the authors in the project of the Web TV "METROPOLIS" 2 both with the inclusion of the finalist works in the programming of the Web TV, both with a direct involvement in the Editorial.

The competition is hosted within the Film Island, a film and cultural festival whose XXV edition will take place on the Tiber Island from June 13th to September 1st 2019.

Participation in the competition is free of charge.

The Festival Jury, composed of qualified film industry professionals chosen from directors, actors, journalists, film critics, producers, distributors, will decide the winning short which will be awarded the cash prize.

PRIZES
● MAMMA ROMA Award: equal to € 500 assigned to the best short film
● MAIORA Award: distribution of short finalists on web platforms

Submitted films must be directed by filmmakers under 35 years of age, and they must have been filmed in metropolitan areas in Italy.. They can be experimental or fiction films, or creative documentaries. They cannot be longer than 10 minutes in running length.

All films produced in Italian must be subtitled in English. All films produced in languages other than Italian must be subtitled in Italian and English.

All films must be produced after January, 1st, 2018.