Festival start: 05 December 2022
Festival end: 09 December 2022
The Iquique International Film Festival was founded in 2009, finding to create a platform of cultural cooperation.
This is a free event and we try to expand the cinema to people that do not have access to commercial cinemas.
During these 13 years, we have created a place where the audience can access to see a different kind of films, assist in workshops, and lectures with authors, filmmakers, producer, scriptwriter, and all kind of audiovisual workers.
The awards will be announced closer to the event dates.
The Iquique International Film Festival Ficiqq 14, financed by the Regional Government of Tarapacá, executed by the Tarapacá Mutual Cultural Social Center and produced by Volcánica Films, is pleased to announce the official contest rules.
BASES 2022
The festival, which will take place in December 2022, has the main objective of promoting and disseminating cinema in the Tarapacá Region, through a free and international cultural event. The consolidation of the venues in Iquique and its surroundings, added to the outdoor exhibitions, are framed under the responsibility that we have as cultural managers, to expand culture to cities that have little access to events of such magnitude.
All official information will be published on our website www.festivalcineiquique.com, official Facebook www.facebook.com/festivalcineiquique, official Instagram @ficiqq and associated media.
In our fourteenth version, the festival opens the call for the following lines of competition: International Feature Film Cine de los Extremos, National Feature Film, International Short Film and Regional Short Film from the Great North.
1.- GENERAL CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
The general conditions that participants of all categories of Ficiqq 14 must meet are described below:
All audiovisual works may participate, whether they are made by professionals, students or amateurs in the field of cinema.
They must comply with the requirements of each competition, detailed respectively in points 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4; in addition to completing the registration data set out in point 3.
The works may not be published for exhibition on the Internet or have been premiered in the region.
Works that have participated in previous versions of the festival, whether for pre-selection, exhibition or competitions, are excluded.
The submission of the works for the pre-selection will be as indicated in point 3.
2.- ABOUT THE COMPETENCES
2.1 INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION CINEMA OF THE EXTREMES
Audiovisual works completed as of January 2021 will be accepted, without having been released in Chile.
The works can be fictions and/or documentaries. The fundamental and exclusive requirement is to address the issue of extremes, be they geographical, political, community and/or social. Works produced in the same places portrayed will be privileged.
Feature films must have a minimum duration of 40 (forty) minutes without credits.
Works that are not spoken in Spanish must be subtitled in Spanish.
The works must meet the minimum technical standards for their exhibition. These conditions will be informed when the official selection is announced.
2.2 NATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
Audiovisual works completed as of August 2021, in fiction and/or documentary format, produced in Chile, will be accepted.
Co-productions will be accepted, as long as at least the director and/or the main executive producer are of Chilean nationality and/or residents in the country.
Feature films must have a minimum duration of 40 (forty) minutes without credits.
Works that are not spoken in Spanish must be subtitled in Spanish.
The works must meet the minimum technical standards for their exhibition. These conditions will be informed when the official selection is announced.
2.3 INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Audiovisual works completed as of August 2021, in fiction and/or documentary format, produced both in Chile and abroad, will be accepted.
Short films must have a maximum duration of 30 (thirty) minutes, credits included.
Works that are not spoken in Spanish must be subtitled in Spanish.
The works must meet the minimum technical standards for their exhibition. These conditions will be informed when the official selection is announced.
2.4 NORTE GRANDE REGIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Audiovisual works completed as of January 2021, in fiction and/or documentary format, produced in the Region of Tarapacá, Arica and Parinacota, Antofagasta and Atacama, will be accepted.
Short films must have a maximum duration of 30 (thirty) minutes, credits included.
Works that are not spoken in Spanish must be subtitled in Spanish.
The works must meet the minimum technical standards for their exhibition. These conditions will be informed when the official selection is announced.
In case of not obtaining a minimum number of works in competition, the festival reserves the right to create a non-competitive sample with the submitted works.
3.- ABOUT REGISTRATION
Opening: from the publication of the bases, July 11, 2022
Closing: reception of applications until August 31, 2022
WORKS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE INDICATED DATE
The works will be sent through the Festhome platform, completing the data requested by the platform and respecting the competition bases, through the following links:
https://festhome.com/f/iquique or
https://festhome.com/f/295
4.- SELECTION
Those selected will be notified by email during the month of October 2022, with the official selection list being published during November 2022 on the festival page www.festivalcineiquique.com, official social networks and associated media.
SELECTION CRITERIA
The organization reserves the right to select the works that participate in the festival. The selection will be made by the Ficiqq programming area and competent professionals in the field. The following are excluded from participating in competitive instances:
Any work directly or indirectly related to any member of the Ficiqq organization.
Any work directly related to any sponsor or associated media, in relation to the festival.
Any work that has been exhibited and/or premiered on the Internet.
Any work that does not comply with the published bases.
SELECTED WORKS CONDITIONS
Once the representatives of the selected works in the different categories have been contacted, it is the duty of the participants:
Comply with the submission guide for selected works, which will be sent at the time of selection, to the email with which the work was submitted on the Festhome platform.
The exhibition copies must be sent digitally within two weeks of the selection notification, following the instructions sent by the programming team.
In the event that the city's health authority determines that face-to-face events cannot be held due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the selected works will be scheduled online through a digital platform.
5.- FESTIVAL JURY
The jury will be composed of people with experience in the cinematographic field. Different juries will be established for each category in the contest. The decisions of the jury will be final.
Any member who has a direct or indirect relationship with any of the works in competition in their category is excluded from being a jury. However, they can be juries of another category, since each committee acts independently of each other.
The decision of the jury is a common agreement between its respective members and is not necessarily governed by voting or unanimity, but as each committee deems appropriate. This decision is unappealable. His verdict will be public and known by all the participants and the public of the festival, being published on the website, social networks and associated media. The organization of the Ficiqq has no interference in the decisions of the jury.
6.- ABOUT THE WINNING WORKS
The organization reserves the right to add or withdraw prizes according to its criteria. Prizes will be announced on dates close to the event.
One winning work will be chosen per category and at least one special mention from the jury.
The winners must incorporate the logo and laurels corresponding to the prize obtained in the contest to their future copies and dissemination material.
The prizes obtained that are related to the participation and attendance at other contests will have an execution agreement that will be signed once the festival is over, whose clauses once accepted must be respected.
7.- LICENSES
The contest will be able to exhibit the short films of the selection for their projection in itinerancies in the Region of Tarapacá and special samples with educational and promotional purposes of the event.
In the case of feature films, authorization will be requested for each possible exhibition instance. In case of any exhibition to promote the festival abroad, authorization of each work will be requested from the respective holders of the exhibition rights.
The festival must ensure that these activities are completely free, non-profit and with the sole objective of exhibiting the works in places with little access to cultural goods and activities.
8. ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
The organizers reserve the right to modify the date and format of the event for reasons of force majeure.
The selected films will not be returned. The organization reserves the use of these for purely advertising purposes of the festival, without commercial purpose and without any charge for the exhibition or for the public.
Questions and doubts:
info@festivalcineiquique.com
NATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
Feature Films >40' (2021+)
No Fee
Submissions deadline
31 Aug 22
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Audiovisual works completed as of August 2021, in fiction and/or documentary format, produced in Chile, will be accepted.
Co-productions will be accepted, as long as at least the director and/or the main executive producer are of Chilean nationality and/or residents in the country.
Feature films must have a minimum duration of 40 (forty) minutes without credits.
Works that are not spoken in Spanish must be subtitled in Spanish.
The works must meet the minimum technical standards for their exhibition. These conditions will be informed when the official selection is announced.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION CINE DE LOS EXTREMOS
Feature Films >40' (2021+)
No Fee
Submissions deadline
31 Aug 22
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Audiovisual works completed as of January 2021, without having been released in Chile, will be accepted.
The works can be fictions and/or documentaries. The fundamental and exclusive requirement is to address the issue of extremes, be they geographical, political, community and/or social. Works produced in the same places portrayed will be privileged.
Feature films must have a minimum duration of 40 (forty) minutes without credits.
Works that are not spoken in Spanish must be subtitled in Spanish.
The works must meet the minimum technical standards for their exhibition. These conditions will be informed when the official selection is announced.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Short Films >1' 30'< (2021+)
No Fee
Submissions deadline
31 Aug 22
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Audiovisual works completed as of August 2021, in fiction and/or documentary format, produced both in Chile and abroad, will be accepted.
Short films must have a maximum duration of 30 (thirty) minutes, credits included.
Works that are not spoken in Spanish must be subtitled in Spanish.
The works must meet the minimum technical standards for their exhibition. These conditions will be informed when the official selection is announced.
CHILEAN NORTHERN REGIONS SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Short Films >1' 30'< (2021+)
No Fee
Submissions deadline
31 Aug 22
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Audiovisual works completed as of January 2021, in fiction and/or documentary format, produced in the Region of Tarapacá, Arica and Parinacota, Antofagasta and Atacama, will be accepted.
Short films must have a maximum duration of 30 (thirty) minutes, credits included.
Works that are not spoken in Spanish must be subtitled in Spanish.
The works must meet the minimum technical standards for their exhibition. These conditions will be informed when the official selection is announced.
In case of not obtaining a minimum number of works in competition, the festival reserves the right to create a non-competitive sample with the submitted works.