Competition for Filmmakers from the Zabut International Animated Short Film Festival
Applicant criteria
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
Zabut International Animated Short Film Festival invites all creative filmmakers all over the world to participate with their films and compete within the festival to win a prize of €1000.
About the Festival:-
Zabut Festival aims to have the ambition to achieve an international appeal, to propose a path of strong cultural innovation and to become a reference point for fans, insiders and audience of animation films.
Zabut shows special interest to the soundtracks of animation films and to “drawing” and aims to create an archive/museum of operas by directors, animators and designers selected by the Festival Committee.
The event is organized in four evenings. In the first three evenings will screen the films selected by the Committee, and will be given to the audience the chance to vote and be an active part of the event.
Last evening will occur the award ceremony of the winner films awarded by a jury of three professionals among filmmakers, illustrators, cartoonist, distributors, journalists, musicians.
There will also be performances of artists who will create live soundtracks of animated silent short-films carefully selected.
Awards and Prizes:-
- ZABUT 2021 Best Film Award + 1000 € (VAT included).
- Best Original Soundtrack Award + 400€ (VAT included).
- Audience Award.
Rules and Terms:-
- Film running time must be no more than 17 minutes (all credits included).
- Each film submitted must be accompanied by the relative Entry Form filled in each part. Each author can submit up to three films.
- Films selected for the previous editions of the Festival will be automatically excluded.
- Only films realized by using traditional animation and/or digital animation techniques and produced after 1st January 2018 will be accepted.
- Foreign films submitted to the Festival must be subtitled in Italian. Alternatively, the Italian (preferred option), or English, or French dialogue list must be provided. Italian films with dialect dialogues must be subtitled in Italian.
- Music video clips are not eligible to apply for the contest.
- All the material sent to the Festival will not be returned and will be collected in the Festival archive.
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