CINE A LA CALLE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
OPEN CALL
Our call is open to all individuals, agencies, art collectives or producers that own the rights of short length audiovisual work, including documentary, argumentative, experimental and/or video-art. Short films must have been produced in film, video or animation format.
FICICA will take place from 12th to 16 th of August in Barranquilla, Colombia and through virtual channels. You are all welcome to visit us!
¡This is what you need to know to participate!
First: Please make sure that your short film fulfills the following requirements:
- The length limit of the short film is 25 minutes; no exceptions will be admitted.
- There are no restrictions on the topic of the short film.
- Short films spoken in a language different than Spanish must include subtitles in Spanish, either embedded or in SRT submitted in an attached document. The translation must be professional, accurate and coherent in regards to the language. The subtitles must be in a convenient size and a color appropriate to the background that makes it easier to read.
- The call is open only for short films produced during 2024 and 2025 before the closing of the call.
- You are able to participate with multiple shorts. Just make sure all of them have been released during 2024 - 2025.
- Short films must have an excellent quality in image and sound.
Second: If your short film fulfills all requirements, please submit it as soon as possible! Instructions as follow:
- Visit www.festhome.com / www.filmfreeway.com and submit your short. These three online submissions platforms will be the only ones where the films will be received and selected. Other reception channels will be enabled only for films that come from countries with legal web access restrictions, these cases will be evaluated individually by the festival management and programming team, if this is your case please write to info@cinealacalle.org
- Take into account that for 2025, the festival will charge the submission of some shorts in addition to the platform fee. This charge is stipulated as follows:
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- Short films with Colombian production or coproduction will have a $2 USD submission fee.
- Short films with international production will have a $5 USD submission fee.
- Submission platforms will be open for submissions until March 07th 2025 6:00 PM (18:00) Colombian time. 24timezones.com
- Upload your short film(s) in any of the following platforms www.festhome.com / www.filmfreeway.com and attach:
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- Short Film Poster.
- 2 high resolution stills.
- Technical sheet
- Synopsis in Spanish and English. Both languages, text length no more than 600 characters.
- Spanish subtitles .SRT file in case the film does not have them embedded.
Third: Wait patiently until May 30th, 2025 when we will publish on our official webpage: www.cinealacalle.org the short films that have been selected. Remember, having submitted your short does not mean it has been selected.
Fourth: If you short is selected, we will contact you to the email you specified in your registration, informing you of the steps to follow in the process of participation in the festival. All official communication will be made through email, we ask you to please check your inbox and spam box permanently.
Fifth: A curatorial selection team will evaluate and choose the works that will be exhibited during the festival. In addition to this, a selection will be made that will enter competition and will be evaluated by a team of qualified judges in the following categories:
- Best Local Short Film *Aimed to short films of Directors from Barranquilla or residents of the city.
- Best National Short Film
- Best International Short Film
- Short film for Children Award *This award is given to the best short film with content aimed for children. (This is an additional award, not a category).
If you are selected in any of these categories, you will receive an email notifying you that you have been nominated to compete for the possibility of winning the Statuette "María Mulata" and $400 USD.
Sixth: The winners will be announced during the closing night on August 16th, which will be broadcast live through our web channels, the names of the winning films will be published on our social media, in addition to our website. After its publication, the organization will contact those responsible for the winning works via email, in order to inform them of the steps to follow to receive their award.
Please take into consideration:
The owners of the rights to the short films officially selected for exhibition and / or competition authorize FICICA (International Short Film Festival Cine a la Calle) to show the short films during the event. For this reason the official selection can be exhibited at a venue in the city of Barranquilla and/or virtually through channels provided by the festival. the process of exhibition rights of all the selected films will be carried out through email, depending on the case.The short films received and selected will remain as material in the Festival's video library, if there are exhibitions of a purely cultural and educational nature after the festival, they will only be made if the owners of the rights grant approval, they will be informed of these events previously.
For any question regarding this call please contact us:
Email: info@cinealacalle.org
Webpage: www.cinealacalle.org