Barents Ecology Film Festival

Petrozavodsk

01 - 03 Aug, 2020

Category

Short

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Barents Ecology Film Festival

Petrozavodsk

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General Information

edition

9th

Contact details

Chcalova Str. 49-24 Petrozavodsk 185002 Russian Federation

185002

beffest@gmail.com

+7925-636-5951

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About the festival

The Best Ecology Film Festival (BEFF) unites those who are intersted to learn something new, to share their opinions and to find creative problem solutions. We show the positive sides of the environmental issues. Acting is better than talking!

Each year, we select 5 Fiction-length films, 5 Documentary length films, 10 Short Films to play in each of our Festival programs. However, you may not submit your film directly to any one specific program. Instead, you must select from one of six submission categories

Fiction-length films
Documentary length film
Short Feature
Short Documentary
Animation

About

The Best Ecology Film Festival (BEFF) unites those who are intersted to learn something new, to share their opinions and to find creative problem solutions. We show the positive sides of the environmental issues. Acting is better than talking!

Each year, we select 5 Fiction-length films, 5 Documentary length films, 10 Short Films to play in each of our Festival programs. However, you may not submit your film directly to any one specific program. Instead, you must select from one of six submission categories

Fiction-length films
Documentary length film
Short Feature
Short Documentary
Animation

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

1. The film’s subject matter, the production itself or the film’s director should have a connection to ecological topic, environmental, environmentally friendly technologies, urbanistics, road movie, nature and minority people, protection of nature.
Instructions for film submission
2. Screenings formats are films delivered as files.
3. The film should be finalised during the last years ( 2019-2020).

There will be competition of movie:
Fiction-length films
Documentary length film
Short Feature
Short Documentary
Animation

Films of more than 50 minutes can be considered for the festival’s film programs:
Feature-length films: Fiction film with a running time of 50 minutes or more.
Documentary: Any non-fiction film with a running time of 50 minutes or more.
Only films of less than 49 minutes will be considered for Short Film Program.
Short Feature
Short Documentary

International Films that have been or will be exhibited publicly at one or more non-festival screenings in Russia, broadcast or streamed on Russian TV or the Internet before May 7th, 2020 are not eligible for any of the Institute’s Festival programs.

Screening copies must have English subtitles (and Russian subtitles even better), unless they are in English Selections will be made by the festival’s administration. Decisions of refusal will not be commented. Preview copies will not be returned.

Deadlines 
1. Submissions are done with application form BEFF  from our web site. Use our submission form from. The form must be submitted by June 1 , 2020
2. Preview copies (digital file) must be sent to us by June 1, 2020. If the film is not complete, a temporary version can be sent instead upon agreement with the festival.
3. The selection will be announced by July 1 st, 2020.
4. Screening copies should be sent to us before festival starts.

More info:  http://beffest.com/film-competition/

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Categories and fees

Fiction-length films
Early Bird (11th March, 2020) $15
Regular (1st July, 2020) $15
Late (1st August, 2020) $15

The film’s subject matter, the production itself or the film’s director should have a connection to ecological topic, environmental, environmentally friendly technologies, urbanistics, road movie, nature and minority people, protection of nature.

Fiction short
Early Bird (11th March, 2020) $15
Regular (1st July, 2020) $15
Late (1st August, 2020) $15

The film’s subject matter, the production itself or the film’s director should have a connection to ecological topic, environmental, environmentally friendly technologies, urbanistics, road movie, nature and minority people, protection of nature.

Animation
Early Bird (11th March, 2020) $15
Regular (1st July, 2020) $15
Late (1st August, 2020) $15

The film’s subject matter, the production itself or the film’s director should have a connection to ecological topic, environmental, environmentally friendly technologies, urbanistics, road movie, nature and minority people, protection of nature.

Documentary length film
Early Bird (11th March, 2020) $15
Regular (1st July, 2020) $15
Late (1st August, 2020) $15

The film’s subject matter, the production itself or the film’s director should have a connection to ecological topic, environmental, environmentally friendly technologies, urbanistics, road movie, nature and minority people, protection of nature.

Documentary short
Early Bird (11th March, 2020) $15
Regular (1st July, 2020) $15
Late (1st August, 2020) $15

The film’s subject matter, the production itself or the film’s director should have a connection to ecological topic, environmental, environmentally friendly technologies, urbanistics, road movie, nature and minority people, protection of nature.

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