| Announcement
The Cuban
Institute for Art and Film Industry (ICAIC), the Ministry
of Culture, and the local governments of Holguín
and Gibara, with the support of a group of national
and international collaborators, announce the holding
of the Sixth International Non-Budget Film Festival,
chaired by the Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás.
It will not be enough to strive for a liberating and
independent cinema in spite of market pressures and
the ideologies consistent with them; it will not be
enough to make identity films, at times transgressive
and experimental, often within the golden rules of dramaturgy
(because this is not a battle of the metastory against
iconoclasm); it will not be enough to drown in the messianic
role of forerunners.
A systematic
theoretical and critical body of work, confronting the
well remunerated elite film literature, should accompany
our Non-Budget Cinema, whether invisible or marginal
or swimming against the tide. If we want to endow our
cinema with presence and consistency, we must find new
vehicles for audiovisual distribution.
It would
be worthwhile to make our small-scale events available
to this other cinema, so as to create an alliance for
the distribution of awarded works here and there as
institutionalized and lasting sections.
Sections
of the Event
I.
Feature Film Unfilmed Scripts and Rough Cut Contest.
Rough
cuts (maquettes) should show more than 50%
of their editing and an audible, albeit provisional,
soundtrack. They should be sent in DVD format together
with an e-mailed copy in Word.
Scripts
should be at least 80 and no more than 120 double-spaced
pages. Two printed copies of the script in Spanish,
English or French and an e-mailed copy in Word are required,
together with a production analysis and a dossier proving
that contacts for production are already underway.
Unfilmed
scripts and rough cuts will
enclose a production analysis confirming that the cost
of the film is less than US$300 000 and its length no
more than two hours.
Works should
be sent to the Festival Office from May 1st,
2007 to January 15th, 2008.
II.
Feature and Short-Length Films Contest.
Films that,
being a legitimate artistic alternative, have been made,
especially until the shooting stage, with a low budget,
may participate. Accepted original formats are analog
or digital video, 16 mm or 35 mm.
A DVD copy
should be sent to the Festival Office from May
1st, 2007 to January 15th, 2008.
III.
Documentary, Experimental Film and Video-Art Contest.
All works that, being
a legitimate artistic alternative, have been made with
a low budget, may participate. Accepted original formats
are analog or digital video,
16 mm or 35 mm.
A DVD copy should be
sent from May 1st, 2007 o January 15th, 2008
to the Festival Office.
IV.
New Technology Sample and Theoretical Forums.
As is the
case every year, respected international firms and specialists
will deal with topics of the utmost interest in the
audiovisual world. Technological advances will be exhibited,
lectures will be offered and debate forums will be held
every morning.
V.
Samples and Tributes.
The Festival
will render a deserved tribute to personalities in world
cinema who laid the historical basis for our present
work. Audiovisual samples and screenings of films made
with modest resources, but with a high ethical and cultural
intent, will be held together with the contest.
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