2013 Edition

01 – Sedicicorto International promotes the 10th Annual of SEDICICORTO International Film Festival, that will take place in Forlì (Italy) from 5thOctober 2013   to  12th October 2013.

02 – The Film Festival is divided into 3 competitive sections and accepts submissions of any short film produced after 1st January 2011. The maximum running time allowed is 35 minutes (including credits).

1. a)MOVIE- International Fiction Films, Documentary Films
2. b)ANI&LAB- International Animation & Experimental Films
3. c)CORTITALIA- National Films of any genre

03 – Submissions are free and the deadline is 5th June 2013 (the postmark will be considered proof of the date of mailing).

It is possible to submit works by filling in and signing the Entry Form you find on the website: www.sedicicorto.it or on the following websites: www.shortfilmdepot.com – www.festhome.com – www.movibeta.com

Each author is entitled to more submissions, sending the following material:

1. a)a DVD copy of the film (more films in a same DVD are admitted)
2. b)a copy of the filled-in online Entry Form for each film submitted.

04 – Short films in languages other than Italian must include English or French or Italian subtitles, otherwise a complete dialogue list is required.

05 –  The material – whose shipping costs will be paid by the sender – must be mailed to the following address:

SEDICICORTO International

C.P.  n°8 –  S.Martino in Strada

47121 Forlì (FC)

ITALY

06 – The Festival Organization is not responsible for the copyright protection regarding the work(s) presented.

The Festival Organization is not responsible for any loss or damage to the material during the shipment to the festival.

The Festival Organization also reserves the right to suspend or change the organization of the event whenever it is considered to be necessary.

07 –  The Festival Jury, consisting of members from the artistic and academic fields, will decide the prize awards and the decisions of the jury are final.

The list of the selected films will be published on the Festival web site by 5th September 2013. The films selected will be screened during the Festival, whose program will be published on the web site by 5th September 2013. All the selected films will be included in the Festival official catalogue.

08 –  The first prize (open to all competitive section) consists of the trophy 16ORO (16GOLD) + 1,000€

and will be awarded to the best film from each of the following sections: MOVIE – ANI&LAB – CORTITALIA

As far as cash prizes are concerned, they will be validated only with the presence of a film representative during the award ceremony, and they must be considered gross of withholding tax (20%), according to what established by the tax laws in force regarding cash prizes won in ability contests. The Jury reserves the right to cancel, vary, integrate awards and mentions and has the authority to suspend the prize in case the winners or their delegates do not participate in the award ceremony. Prizes in money will be sent to the winner by bank transfer within 60 days from the end of the Festival, subject to prior communication of the bank account details by the recipient.

09 – Hotel accommodation and a fixed lump-sum refund of the travel expenses are offered only for the final two days of the Festival to Italian authors and for the final three days to foreign authors, and only one representative for each of the winning films will be entitled to it, although exceptions may be considered by the Organization.

10 – The participants authorize the Festival Organization to process the personal data (according to the Italian law 675/96) contained in their works and complementary material. They also authorize the Festival Organization to register their work(s) in the archives of the Organization Offices, where they will be catalogued and made available for any screening, event, and broadcast promoted by the Association Sedicicorto, solely for cultural and not for commercial purposes (unless otherwise specified in the Entry Form at the moment of the submission). The participation implies full acceptance of all the above-mentioned conditions. The author of the film must specify if he/she is in the register of SIAE or similar Authors’ Society for the protection of copyright. These regulations are available in Italian and in English. In case of interpretation problems, the Italian version must be considered. For further information, please contact: info@sedicicorto.it

All notifications will be published on the Festival web site, together with any information that may not be explicitly provided in the announcement: www.sedicicorto.it

Roger Gonin (born in 1952, France). Festival director Roger Gonin has worked for one of the main short film festivals in the world since its 1979 inception – the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. This festival screens around 450 films in 14 venues for more than 150,000 spectators and attracts 3,300 industry professionals each year. Roger oversees the festival’s international and market section. As a member of its International competition Committee, he scouts for films from USA, Asia, Iran, Italy and Australia. Also in charge of the festival and market database, he directs the website and the digitization for the market video library and of video archives for the Festival’s Documentation Center. Roger, whose dream is to one day establish a museum dedicated to magic lanterns and stereoscopic viewers, has directed two shorts and worked on several others.
Per Fikse is the Director of Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim (Norway) from 1999 to date, a festival he has programmed for since 1994. Simultaneously engaged as a Software Creator and Project Manager in the field of public environment surveillance. He has also commited a few shorts and written film articles published in Norwegian and international media.
Céline Masset, after studying Art History, starts her postgraduate studies in screenplay analysis and writing at Université Libre de Bruxelles. In this context, she meets Pascal Hologne, with whom she will found the Brussels Short Film Festival and, in 1998, the association Un Soir…Un Grain. She is a member of the Selection Committee for the Film Center of the French Community of Belgium and is part of the Oscar’s selection committee and the Magritte award for Belgium.
Martin Bargiel was born in 1980 in Poland but grew up in Germany. After spending a year in the USA and graduating from high school, he returned to his home town of Hannover to finish grammar school. For three years he was a photo assistant on location shoots around the world and also worked as an intern on different TV news productions. He started studying screenwriting and film directing at the Hannover University of Applied Science & Arts and even before graduating from film school with a diploma in screen-writing and film directing he had established his own company ‘into focus’, which specializes in film and photo productions.
Adam Selo, filmmaker and actor. Eclectic and outgoing, he loves the poetry of cinema, he is able to find also in the hilarity of comedy and in the rhythm of the music video. He naturally moves from his deeply real short films and Mexican documentary Playing Maruata to the dreamlike world of his music videos. His works, whatever the genre may be, are always characterized by irony or comic element, in which he feels himself perfectly at ease also as an actor.
Edo Tagliavini (Ferrara, 1971). National Skateboard Champion in 1990 and “professional” traveller (he collaborated with Clup Guide preparing some texts and photos for travel guides), after graduating from DAMS of Bologna and having some experiences in the dance theater, he obtains his diploma in filmmaking from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Subsequently, he works at various spots, music videos, and short films.
Claudio Tedaldi, Coordinator of Atelier del Cartone animato (Atelier of Cartoons) he founded in 1981 together with Tiziano Giulianini, Guerriero Cortini, Flavio Montanari, and Riccardo Conte. Since then, he has organized courses, screenings, exhibits, and seminars, and he has been invited as a speaker in various public events (IBTS, Digital Culture, Cartoons on the Bay, Computer Space…) on issues linked to animation, pedagogy, and multimedia. He worked in various communication sectors (video, graphics, illustration, pedagogy, photography, screen printing, infographics, multimedia, 2D and 3D animation).
Alessia Travaglini (Recanati, 1982), graduated in Graphic Design at I.S.I.A. of Urbino and with a Master’s Degree in Light Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, but it was during the Erasmus programme experience in England, at the Cumbria Institute of the Arts, and after attending the Cinema and Animation specialization course at the Art Institute of Urbino, that the technique of moving images and its role in the Film and Animation first appealed to her. Since then, she went on researching ways to explore that world as a powerful form of communication.
Simone Massi was born in Pergola (Pesaro-Urbino, Italy) in May 1970. Ex worker, of peasants origin, he studied Film Animation at the Art School of Urbino. Independent animator, he has been trying for 17 years – in a clean way – to transform his passion for drawing into a job. Despite the difficulties, he has conceived and realized (alone and entirely by hand) a dozen of small animation films that have been shown in 55 countries of 5 continents and have collected over 200 awards.