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CALL FOR ENTRIES
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The
5th edition of the Tirana
International Film Festival will take place
from November 26 - December 02, 2007, in Tirana,
ALBANIA.
On our web site
www.shortfilmdb.com/tiff07/entry_form2007.pdf
you'll find the Entry Rules and Regulations to
participate in this international competition.
To be registered in our online database, please fill the form
that you can find at
http://www.tiranafilmfest.com “submit”
and send to us the signed Entry Form and completed checklist.
Postal address:
TIFF
Tirana International Film Festival
P.O. Box 8361
Tirana, Albania
Label the outside of the package:
FOR FESTIVAL ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL VALUE
DO NOT courier tapes to Albania via
EMS or other couriers, as you may be liable for customs'
duties which the Festival will not pay and your tape will be
returned.
Preview tapes/discs will not be
returned.
The stills,photos(in tiff or
jpeg), dialogue list and the bio-filmography in
Word you may send for safe and by email:
info@tiranafilmfest.com
The deadline for film submission is September 30th 2004.
Should you have any question or require further information
about the festival, please do not hesitate to visit our
website:
www.tiranafilmfest.com or, alternately you can email us
at:
info@tiranafilmfest.com
Looking forward to see you in Tirana, we thank you
for your interest and collaboration.
See you soon!
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
is the first and the only international cinema festival in
Albania created in 2003.
TIFF is the member of the European
Coordination of Film Festivals (ECFF), consequently, TIFF aims
to respect the Code of Ethics deriving from ECFF.
The competition program combines short films of all formats
and categories, alternated between them, in order to make it
more eclectic and exciting.
Tirana International Film Festival is open to well-known
artists as well as students, representatives of all schools,
contemporary, independent and alternative cinema from
throughout the world.
Part of the Festival is also a special program which includes
all forms of film production - feature, documentaries and
animated films more than 30' length.
A particular interest is shown in retrospectives of different
authors or countries.
TIFF reserves an important space to the seminars and
workshops, which prove necessary for the Albanian filmmakers
and young artists.
The free of charge newspaper of TIFF, published both in
Albanian and English, will enable a daily briefing with the
latest news over the Festival through interviews, photos and
programs, as well as will offer hints on the artistic life of
the capital of Albania.
A press conference is organized every morning in the premises
of one of
Tirana's most prestigious hotels where the guests will be
accommodated.
The program is completed with an important Talk Show at Night,
broadcast by the Public Television, where the journalists, art
critics, participants and guests are invited to debate about
the Festival.
An international jury will evaluate over 100 shorts, latest
international and Albanian productions, that in the last night
will announce the winners’ awards and prizes in a gala
ceremony broadcast live in TV.
Albania is a solar, enthusiastic and friendly country and
besides the “strong competition” TIFF aims at the same time
to be a meeting point of cultures, where people of Tirana, the
guests and all those who love the short film will have a
cinema-language-communication week.
TIFF aims to create in Albania, as well as in the Balkans, a
cultural center of worldwide alternative and independent
cinema.
"Think Different, See
Alike" is the slogan and motto of TIFF.
Awards & Prizes - Over 20,000 Euro in cash and prizes is
awarded to winners.
Awards will be offered in each category as well as Best Film
of TIFF '04, Best
Albanian Short, Public and Media Award with additional awards
to be
announced in the lead up to the Festival. Every prize is
accompanied with
the Festival cup, an art piece in bronze, by an Albanian
well-known artist.
Accommodation -TIFF offers full board accommodation to the
director or
producer representing the selected film during seven days of
the Festival.
Other guests will be provided with facilities for
accommodation and tariffs.
Entry Rules and
Regulations
Categories
Entries are invited in competition all formats of films, video
and digital in the following categories of short film:
Fiction, Animation, Documentary,
Experimental.
Conditions
Films in competition must have been
completed after September2005.
Films must not exceed 30 minutes in length ( including
credits).
Signed Entry Form should be accompanied by an English language
dialogue list.
Entries must be submitted on VHS preview tape (Pal) or DVD for
pre-selection.
All non English language films must have English subtitles.
To qualify for selection, all non English language films must
have an English language print/tape available.
Films must be available for festival screening on 35mm,
Betacam SP(Pal only) or Mini DV.
A separate Entry Form must be submitted for each film.
Illegible or incomplete Entry Forms will not be accepted.
There is no entry fee.
Entries must be submitted by September 30, 2007.
Notification / Shipping
Participants will be notified via email and in our website of
the selection results approximately six weeks before the
Festival.
Shipping instructions for films selected for the Festival will
be included.
The Festival will pay for one-way shipping of all prints/tapes
by forwarding them to their next destination within 2 weeks of
the conclusion of the Festival.
Selected prints/tapes must arrive at the Festival by November
23,
2007 or, by prior arrangement, prints may be delivered by hand
by the filmmaker.
Label the outside of the
package:
FOR FESTIVAL ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL
VALUE.
DO NOT courier tapes to Albania
via EMS or other couriers, as you may be liable for customs'
duties which the Festival will not pay and your tape will be
returned.
Preview tapes/discs will not be
returned.
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