SUNCINE International Environmental Film Festival with Prize Pool of $7.500

FilmFreeway is inviting filmmakers to take part in SUNCINE International Environmental Film Festival competition, formerly known as FICMA, was first held in 1993 and is positioned as the oldest Environmental Film Festival in the world; it is a reference in its genre. SUNCINE is a multi-screen festival (in-person, online and televised). Its primary objective is to promote, disseminate and publicize environmental audiovisual works to raise awareness about the state of the environment, biodiversity and the planet’s sustainability.

1. The Golden Sun has been the top SUNCINE award since its inception in 1993, and is the oldest award for environmental cinematography in the world. Together with the statuette, the sum of USD 4,000 is awarded to the winner of the Official Section.
2. Other Festival awards are:
3. “Panda WWF” (USD 2,000), “Monarca" (USD 1,000), “Human Ecology Award” (USD 500). In the event of other new prizes, the organization will notify the participants in advance.

1. All films produced after January 1, 2021 that deal with different social and environmental situations and circumstances anywhere in the world are eligible to participate in the 29th SUNCINE Festival.
2. The Festival will be adapted to the social-health circumstances and, in order to ensure the celebration of the event and access to the programming, there will be screenings for a live audience, and others on the Festival’s geolocated platform and on public television.
3. In the pre-selection, priority will be given to those productions that agree to be screened on the Festival’s platform.Documentaries of all nationalities at least 50 minutes long are eligible to participate, aspiring to win the Festival’s top award, the Golden Sun. Priority will be given to all those productions that are premières in Spain and, exceptionally, non-competing productions may be included in this section, by decision of the Festival Management.20-50 minute documentaries of all nationalities that are competing for the “Panda WWF” Prize are eligible to participate.
4. The Festival will ask the directors of the films entered in this section to participate in a special program on public television. Documentaries, fictions and animations of all nationalities up to 20 minutes long are eligible to compete for the Monarch Prize.
5. The Festival will ask the directors of the films entered in this section to participate in a special program on public television.
6. Registration for the 29th SUNCINE FESTIVAL is FREE and is open until June 1, 2022.
7. Participation requires completion of the Registration Form (available on the Festival website, www.suncinefest.com), which must then be sent in by email to: entry@suncinefest.com. UNSIGNED registration forms will not be considered valid. The Festival will communicate the results of the selection through the registration platforms and will notify selected entries directly by email. The official selection will be published on the Festival website and its social media.

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