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Sguardi Altrove International Film Festival - deadline 30th December

Sguardi Altrove International Film Festival 

24th Edition

March 12th -19th , 2017

RULES OF APPLICATION

The 24th edition of Women’s Director Festival “Sguardi Altrove International Film Festival” will be held in Milan (Italy) from March 12th to March 19th, 2017.

The Festival main theme for 2017 Edition will be: 
Women’s Empowerment: Working to Overcome Gender Inequality

1. The Festival’s aim is to encourage, through cinematographic art and expression, a reflection on relevant issues for women related to their specific cultural, political and social context but also according to a multicultural and global perspective. Therefore, the Festival itself wants to be a place for intercultural dialogue and dialectical comparison between different cinematographies as well as an opportunity to promote distribution of films that, in spite of their quality and thematic relevance, are unlikely to have access to commercial circuits. The Festival pays also particular attention to emerging cinemas and young female filmmakers.

2. The Festival is divided into 4 competitive sections:

  • Nuovi Sguardi, for fiction feature-length films;
  • Le Donne Raccontano, dedicated to documentaries;
  • Sguardi (S)confinati, international short films competition;
  • #FrameItalia – 2017 Audience Award, italian section dedicated to documentaries, fiction feature lengh and short films directed by both male and female filmmakers.

The festival also includes non-competitive sections such as:

  • Human Rights, Today (international section dedicated to documentaries and “docu-fiction” – directed by both male and female filmmakers – focused on human rights and their violation all over the world in peacetime as well as related to wars and other conflicts);
  • Other special sections and/or focus on particular countries or geographical and political areas, decided by the Festival.

A special focus on ‘Women Chinese Directors’ will be organized within the 2017 Festival Edition.
3. Competitive sections are open only to films made by female directors and completedafter March 1st 2015.
Juries will consist of a minimum of three members coming from Italian as well as International film or cultural industries.

4. Non-competitive sections are open to both male and female directors.

5. There is no charge for submitting films to the Festival. The festival will not cover rental fees for the movies chosen in the international competition. Shipping costs to and from Milan will be covered by the entrant, except when other agreements have been made with the Festival organizers.

6. Copies for film selection (DVD or file or downloadable links ) must be sent to the Festival’ s office by 30 December 2016, after having filled the online entry form at www.sguardialtrovefilmfestival.it website.
The organizers do not cover the transport costs of preview copies submitted for selection.
Please send your material to:

sguardialtrovefilm@gmail.com

Sguardi Altrove Film Festival 
c/o Lattanzio-Abbascia 
Via Privata Bassano del Grappa, 32 
20127 Milano – Italy

More info: http://www.sguardialtrovefilmfestival.it/nw/2017-application/





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