Festival start: 03 November 2025
Festival end: 08 November 2025
The purpose of this CALL FOR PROPOSALS is to select and disseminate audiovisual productions made by Black Women to participate in the VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio, to be held from November 3rd to 8th, 2025. This edition will be in a hybrid format, with the films screened online and in a live event. Its goal is to promote the interchange among black female directors of world cinema. The VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio will select short, medium, and feature films and telefilms that have been made by black female directors (cis and trans), starting in January 2023 in digital format. In the case of productions whose audio has not been captured in Portuguese, the film must be subtitled in Portuguese.
Best Feature Film
Best Medium Length Film or Telefilm Best Short Film
Best Animated Film
Best Film Popular Jury Best Direction
Best Art Direction Cinematography Best Editing
Best Soundtrack
Best Screenplay
Best Actress
VII COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION OF BLACK CINEMA ADELIA SAMPAIO PUBLIC NOTICE 01/2025
READ CAREFULLY THIS REGULATION REGULATION
– THE PURPOSE
1.1 – The purpose of this CALL FOR PROPOSALS is to select and disseminate audiovisual productions made by Black Women to participate in the VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio, to be held from November 3rd to 8th, 2025. This edition will be in a hybrid format, with the films screened online and in a live event. Its goal is to promote the interchange among black female directors of world cinema. The VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio will select short, medium, and feature films and telefilms that have been made by black female directors (cis and trans), starting in January 2023 in digital format. In the case of productions whose audio has not been captured in Portuguese, the film must be subtitled in Portuguese.
– THE ORGANIZATION
2.1 – The VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio is a production of Sebastiana Mídias e Produções.
– COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION
– The VII Black Film Festival Adelia Sampaio - will consist of a competitive screening of films in the following categories:
– Short Film - For this notice, short films are considered to be cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and videoclip, with a maximum length of up to 29 (twenty nine) minutes, finalized in .MOV or MP4 digital format, Codec h264 (content and credits);
– Medium-length or Telefilm - For this notice, medium-length films are considered cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, with a minimum running time of 30 (thirty) to 69 (sixty-nine minutes), finalized in .MOV or MP4 digital format, Codec h264 (content and credits);
– Feature Film - For this notice, feature films are cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, with a running time exceeding 70 minutes,
finalized in digital format .MOV or .MP4, Codec h264.
– APPLICATION PROCEDURES
– The application will be made through the festhome platform or form available on the website (only for Brazilian films).
– The data required for registration are:
Completion of the registration form;
03 (three) photos / frames of the film in .jpg, 300 dpi resolution.
01 frontal photo of the director's face in .jpg, resolution 300 dpi.
Digital poster of the film in .jpg, high resolution, if any.
Declaration of copyrights
Copy of the film for viewing, if in a foreign language, it must be subtitled in Portuguese.
Teaser or trailer of the film, if any.
§ 1 - if links such as googledrive or similar are inserted, they must be open for consultation until the date of the final result of the selection of the exhibition.
– It is forbidden the participation - in the VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio - of works that may characterize any kind of institutional or corporate promotion and contents of any kind of prejudice and discrimination.
– Films made in other languages will only be accepted if subtitled in Portuguese.
– The films selected for the 2025 edition of the VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio will be screened online in a platform to be announced later and in the face-to-face event to be held in Brasília, Federal District.
– The selected films will be part of the collection of Exhibition Adelia Sampaio and may be shown in itinerant exhibitions in schools and other educational institutions. The production of the Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio undertakes to inform the directors of the participation of their works in these events, under the commitment that they will never be used for exhibitions for commercial purposes.
– The registration of the work will only be validated if the film (whose link must be informed on the registration form) can be viewed during the selection period.
– THE SELECTION PROCESS
– The selection of films for the VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio will be conducted by a Curator, appointed by the organizing team of the event.
– The coordination of the VII Black Cinema Competitive Exhibition Adélia Sampaio will disclose the selected productions through email, its official website and social media.
§ 1o – The email through which the inscription was done will be the communication channel of the Exhibition’s organization with the selected productions. Therefore, the coordination of the VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio is exempt from any responsibility for failure to receive.
– The selection of films for the VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio implies the exhibition of the same during the event. Being forbidden to the proponent the possibility of withdrawing it from the competition.
– - Will be accepted productions completed from January 2023.
- Will be accepted entries of films that have not been selected in previous editions
– After being selected, the director should send an email, identified with the name of the work to the address cineastaseprodutorasnegras@gmail.com, with the link to download the film, as well as other information requested.
– CALENDAR
Online registration: from June 9th to July 31st, 2025
Notification of selected applicants until October 1st, 2025.
Deadline for sending the e-mail with a link to download the film until October 11st, 2025.
Exhibition's Date: November 3rd to 8th, 2025.
– GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS
– The organization of the VII Competitive Black Film Festival Adelia Sampaio - reserves the right to display on any media excerpts of the films - up to 1 minute of each and / or trailer
- of the participating films for the purpose of disclosure of the Exhibition.
– It is up to the Director and the Coordination of the VII Competitive Black Film Festival Adélia the solution of any case omitted in this call.
– The participation in the VII Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio implies full acceptance of these regulations.
– ABOUT THE AWARDS
8.1- The directors of the VII Black Cinema Competitive Exhibition Adelia Sampaio will be responsible for appointing the members of the Award Jury.
- The selected films will compete in the following categories:
Best Feature Film
Best Medium Length Film or Telefilm Best Short Film
Best Animated Film
Best Film Popular Jury Best Direction
Best Art Direction Cinematography Best Editing
Best Soundtrack Best Screenplay
Best Actress
– The Award Jury may, separately, grant honorable mentions, as long as it is in agreement with the direction of the VII Black Film Festival Adélia Sampaio Adelia Sampaio, and may also refrain from granting any award or trophy when it considers it necessary.
– The Award Jury may grant trophies to guests, people, or institutions connected to the event.
– The trophies will be sent by mail to the winners who are unable to attend the face-to-face event.
- The Competitive Exhibition of Black Cinema Adelia Sampaio is responsible for one attempt of sending the trophy. In case of return by the post office, the re-sending will be the responsibility of the person responsible for the film.
– In case of works where the responsibility is of a team, in any competing categories of this announcement, the trophy will be unique, being up to the team to decide about its ownership.
- The jury will not necessarily award all the categories listed.
– The list with the winning films in each category, chosen by the Award Juries, will be homologated and announced at the closing ceremony of the VII Competitive Black Film Festival Adelia Sampaio and then published to the community at large, the official website and social networks.
– APPEALS
9.1 – The selection and award jury is sovereign, there being no appeal from its decision.
VII Black Film Competitive Exhibition Adelia Sampaio Brasília, May 2025.
Curta-Metragens
Short Films 29'< (2023+)
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Submissions deadline
31 Jul 25
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Short Film - For this notice, short films are considered to be cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, with a maximum length of up to 29 (thirty) minutes, finalized in .MOV or MP4 digital format, Codec h264 (content and credits)
Medium-length or Telefilm
Short Films (2023+)
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Submissions deadline
31 Jul 25
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Medium-length or Telefilm - For this notice, medium-length films are considered cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, with a minimum running time of 30 (thirty) to 69 (sixty-nine minutes), finalized in .MOV or MP4 digital format, Codec h264 (content and credits.
Feature Film
Feature Films >70' (2023+)
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Submissions deadline
31 Jul 25
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Feature Film - For this notice, feature films are cinematographic works in the genres: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, with a running time exceeding 70 minutes, finalized in digital format .MOV or .MP4, Codec h264.
