MECAL CHILE, Festival Latinoamericano e Internacional de Cortometrajes (0)

Festival start: 10 November 2015      Festival end: 15 November 2015

Born in Barcelona in 1998 MECAL Pro, International Short Film Festival of Barcelona. Currently with 17 editions and recognition of Creative Media program of the European Union, Chile reaches its fourth edition.

The Festival aims to provide and create a platform for Chilean Short Film Festival, which collaborates with other European and Latin American festivals level and serves as a showcase for Latin American filmmakers to project the European market. Mecal Chile is an opportunity for the Chilean public to watch quality cinema with all the art scene.

International programming Chile Mecal Mecal is in charge of Barcelona.

Mecal Chile Festival is organized and produced by the prestigious agency of Arts and Culture, Causes Agency, whose management involves the development of a cultural bridge between the cities of Barcelona and Santiago de Chile.

Welcome to Mecal Chile.
Jaime Carmona Daroch, Director.

** Official Awards for Mecal Chile Festival 2015:


- Mecal Chile Award for Best International Short Film, fiction.

- Mecal Chile Award for Best International Short Film, animation.

- Mecal Chile Award for Best Latin American Short Film, fiction.

- Mecal Chile Award for Best Latin American Short Film, animation.

- Mecal Chile Award for Best Latin American Short Film, documentary.


- Mecal Chile Award for Best Chilean Short Film, fiction.

- Mecal Chile Award for Best Chilean Short Film, animation.

- Mecal Chile Award for Best Chilean Short Film, documentary.


- Audience Award for Best Chilean Short Film.

- Audience Award for Best Latin American Short Film.

ONLY FOR LATIN AMERICAN FILM-MAKERS

General rules and regulations, Mecal Chile 2015 (November 10th to 15th)

Only short films from Latin America in fiction, animation and documentary genres.

International film-makers were already considered by the MECAL BARCELONA Festival, which received more 5.000 short film submissions.


* MECAL Chile will have two competitive categories, of which only one will now open its call for entries:

II.- LATIN AMERICAN
Official selection for the Latin American short films section: fiction, animation and documentary.

1.1- For Chilean and Latin American film-makers, the competition is Latin American.

1.2- Each entrant may submit as many films as they see fit, spoken or silent, dubbed or subtitled in Spanish.

1.3- All submitted films must have been produced after January, 1st, 2014.

1.4- Submitted films cannot be longer than 30 minutes.

1.5- All film-makers may submit their films with no entry free until August, 10th, 2015, via www.festhome.com.


2.- Films which are not shot in Spanish must be submitted with Spanish language subtitles.

The festival direction recommends that films spoken in a variety of Spanish language which is too local to be generally understood should be submitted with subtitles in a more general type of Spanish, so that they can be understood in any Latin American community.


3.- Theme is free.


4. This call for entries will end in September, 10th.