:::::FESTIVAL AVANCA 2004:::::

REGULAMENTO

Entry Form

Free registration.
Deadline: April 27, 2005

1 - Objectives

The objective is to trace a global perspective of the contemporary features in cinema, television, video and multimedia.
The Festival will occur from 27 to 31 July.

2 - Conditions of Admission

The works admitted for selection are those produced on January 1st, 2003 or after and cannot not yet been screened in Portugal.Inscription in the following categories are admitted:
CINEMA: short and feature films in fiction and animation;
VIDEO: videographic production of less than 20 minutes;
TELEVISION: documentaries for television broadcasting.
MULTIMEDIA: films produced for the web in the following categories: fiction, experimental and animation.

The AVANCA'05 accepts the submission of works in 35mm, 16mm, Betacam SP (PAL), DV (PAL) and DVD (multisystem). The works submitted in the multimedia category must be available in the web.

3 - Submission

The works should be registered until April 30, 2004 (stamp date) through a registration form, accompanied with photography of the film and of the director, synopsis and text or list of the dialogues (in one of the following languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish or French).

For the selection, each candidate should send a preview video tape (VHS multisystem, DV or BETACAM SP in PAL system) or DVD.

4 – Selection for Competition

The organisation committee makes the selection of the submitted works and gives notice to the applicants with selected works. The Selection results will be available online on the festival website www.avanca.com .

5 - Prizes

A prize will be attributed to the best work of each category: Cinema (feature film), Cinema (short feature), Television, Video and Multimedia. Prizes, among others, will be also given to the best Animation, the best Actor/Actress and the best Cinematography Direction.

In the Cinema category (feature-film), since only up to 4 works are selected, all of them will receive automatically a special mention.

The international jury will be composed of fit professionals invited by the organisation .

The selected films may be object of acquisition proposals for the Portuguese market (cinema, television and video).

6 - Transport and Insurance of Works

The organisation will inform the candidates with selected works and will give out instructions for the expedition of final copies.

The delivery of the works is of the responsibility of the candidates, as it is of the organisation's responsibility to return the film copies in 35 mm and video copies in BETACAM.

The organisation is responsible for the insurance of the copies from their arrival to their return.

Note: The preview VHS, CD-ROMs or DVDs will not be sent back, for they will become part of the Museum Archives of the Festival. We guarantee they will not be used for commercial purposes.

The selected works may be object of non-commercial exhibitions for the festival's promotion.

7 - Others

The languages of the Festival are Portuguese and English.
Any possible doubt or question that may arise will be clarified or resolved by the Organisation Committee.

Entry form


	APOIOS

Câmara Municipal de Estarreja

AVANCA 2005
Cine Clube de Avanca
3860-078 AVANCA
Portugal
tel: 351234884174
fax: 351234880658
festival@avanca.com