17 International Film Schools Festival - Call to participate
The Film School of Uruguay (Escuela de Cine del Uruguay) and Cinemateca Uruguaya invite you to participate in the 17 International Film School Festival, to be held in Montevideo from 10 to 13 August 2017.
Participation is open to students short films completed after 1st January 2016 as long as they are selected by schools and institutions of secondary or higher level of any country in the world. The short films should belong to one of the following categories: fiction, documentary and/or animation. Each institution may submit up to five (5) short films for selection in each category. Maximum length accepted is 30 minutes per film.
Deadline for submissions is May 22, 2017.
To read the rules of participation and submission form please visit our page in the free platform Film-salad.com: http://film-salad.com/festival/festival-internacional-escuelas-cine-2017
About the Festival
Since the year 2000, the Uruguayan Film School (ECU) organizes the International Film Schools Festival (FIEC), the only space in Uruguay dedicated exclusively to the exhibition of the best works from professional audiovisual training centers at local, regional and international level. In the past 16 years, the FIEC has gathered works from more than 80 film schools from all over the world, adding in each edition new institutions and countries.
Its mission is, in the first place, to allow public access (with free entry) to a type of non-commercial production that usually has no diffusion beyond the academic field. Secondly, to maintain a direct link with other training centers in the country and abroad through the dissemination of their best works, encouraging the exchange of different experiences in audiovisual training and film production, both among students and between teachers, professionals and the audience.
The FIEC is held every year in August, during four days in which a selection of student short films (fiction, documentary and animation) is exhibited. An international jury chooses the best works in each category, including the best Uruguayan short film. And since 2014 there is also a student jury (composed by representatives of three public and private audiovisual training institutions) that selects its own awards. At the same time, workshops, round tables and conferences by filmmakers, producers, academics and industry professionals, both local and foreign, are held for students and graduates of all audiovisual training centers in the country.
During the four days of the festival, Sala Pocitos of Cinemateca Uruguaya becomes a true meeting point for film and audiovisual students, filmmakers, producers, friends and the public in general, where cinema and, above all, the future of young filmmakers (who are showing their first works) are celebrated.
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