International competition for the new poster for the Locarno Film Festival and win $ 5,000

Locarno Film Festival is offering a design competition for graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and artists from all over the world, with no age restrictions, to interpret the Festival’s spirit for the next edition’s poster. It is an essential means of communication, conveying the Festival’s identity and the current meaning of the historical leopard, and thus inspiring the Festival’s supplemental information and advertising materials. For over 70 years, the Locarno Film Festival has been not only a great live event, but also a meeting point for artists and audiovisual professionals from all over the world. It is the place where, every year, they unveil a selection of the best global independent and experimental productions and host innovative outlooks and projects, to create previously unseen images together, freely.

Requirements:

• The poster must evoke the identity of the leopard of the Locarno Film Festival and the event’s nature as a meeting point for different visions and images.
• The poster must be original. Its maker owns the rights to it and grants them to the Locarno Film Festival exclusively, with no territorial, temporal or media restrictions (including but not limited to digital use). 
• The Locarno Film Festival also reserves the right to license the image to third parties..
• The Locarno Film Festival is entitled to modifying the content of the poster in case this is required for its use by the Festival.

Prize:

The chosen project will receive a cash prize of 5,000 Swiss francs (5,000 US dollars).

Required Documents:

• Personal biography (1,000 characters maximum)
• Concept description (1,000 characters maximum)
• Poster in vertical A2 format (420 x 594 mm), as a PDF (300dpi in CMYK)
• Written declaration of granting rights to use of the poster, as per the section “REQUIREMENTS”
• Optional: other image formats (e.g. square, horizontal)
• Optional: examples of applications (e.g. merchandising or social media)

Selection Criteria:

The selection will be based on the image’s adherence to the identity of the Locarno Film Festival, as well as its originality and versatility. 

About Locarno Film Festival:

Locarno Film Festival is a film competition for graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and artists from all over the world, with no age restrictions, to interpret the Festival’s spirit for the next edition’s poster. It is an essential means of communication, conveying the Festival’s identity and the current meaning of the historical leopard, and thus inspiring the Festival’s supplemental information and advertising materials. For over 70 years, the Locarno Film Festival has been not only a great live event, but also a meeting point for artists and audiovisual professionals from all over the world. It is the place where, every year, they unveil a selection of the best global independent and experimental productions and host innovative outlooks and projects, to create previously unseen images together, freely.

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