Paris Art and Movie Awards, PAMA

PARIS, France, Europe

01 - 05 Sep, 2020

Category

Feature, Short

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Paris Art and Movie Awards, PAMA

PARIS, France, Europe

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🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

We are taking YOUR questions for the MASTERCLASSES with
- NATASCHA MCELHONE (Truman Show, Designated Survivor, Solaris, Californication...)
- JAMES MORRISON (Revenge, 24, Jareh, Catch me if you can...).

Send them by email in writing or video, right now.
Details:
http://parisartandmovieawards.com/program/

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠𝗦 𝗪𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗚𝗢𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘
Game Changer won an 𝗢𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗥, his director Aviv Mano then worked on Disney’s COCO and TOY STORY 4 (2018).
The Wishgranter, won an 𝗢𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗥, an EMMY AWARD, and a 𝗕𝗔𝗙𝗧𝗔 (2016).
Curpigeon got selected to 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗔, won the AMAZON VIDEO DIRECT Film Festival Stars (2016).
Sgt Stubby, an unlikely hero, got a distribution deal at 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧 (2018).
MYSTERY SKULLS – ENDLESSLY is over 1.3M 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪𝗦 on YouTube (2018).
Whisper screened at FILMQUEST (2015).
None of That was STAFF PICK by 𝗩𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗢 (2015).

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

"An unforgettable amazing award show in a great location, lots of press, big crowd, cool after-party, professional and witty hosts: all you can possibly ask for!" - Steffen Hacker, 2018 winner, best director.

“The PAMA team did an amazing job to take the festival in a few years to a very well exposed cultural event” - Attila Rostas, winner 2018, best short script.

"One of the most organized and professionally run festivals I've been to! The official selections were of a high standard and the networking was incredible" - Jami Ramberan, winner 2015, best student short.

"Other nominees included already famous people! It really was an honor to be nominated alongside such great nominees" - Lisa Hurel, winner 2018, best score.

"Very nice place and lot of spectators. Good press release and interesting networking with the different events during the festival" - Arnaud Bettan, winner 2015, best actress / producer fo a feature.

😎 𝗝𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗥𝗦
Jury 2020 includes:
- Paz de la Huerta -Boardwalk Empire, Enter the Void...
- Monica Cruz -Pirates of the Caribean: on stranger tides, Un Paso Adelante...
- Emily Carmichael -Pacific Rim 2, Jurrasic Worl: Dominion
- Steven E. De Souza -Die Hard I & II, K-2000 Knight Rider, Beverly Hills Cop III...
- Brent Huff -The Rookie, NCIS, The West Wing...
- Melora Walters -Magnolia, The Butterfly Effect, Venom...
- Max Markson -rep. A. Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, JCVD, Bill Clinton...
- Genevieve Buechner -X-Files, Supernatural, Jennifer's Body...
- Cole Sibus -Stumptown, Spare Room, Olympic Gold Medal Athlete
- Julie Nolke -TallBoysz, Workin' Moms...
- Gian Marco Tavani
- Danielle Geathers (MIT)
- Natascha Lewin

More on them:
http://parisartandmovieawards.com/2020-judges/

#️⃣1️⃣ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗨𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗦 👑
The Paris Art & Movie Awards (PAMA) is the leading film festival in Paris for independent filmmakers.
We celebrate in 2020 our 10th edition with an international, high-quality slate, during a multi-day run.

2020 edition is scheduled on the Champs-Elysees (like 2019 and 2017) and in the historical venue Bastille (at the Majestic Bastille).

Our line up included through the years: 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗘, Kirsten Dunst, 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗔 𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗘𝗢𝗨𝗙, Sam Rockwell, 𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧, Vladimir Cosma, 𝗟𝗔𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗔, Kristanna Loken, Mark Dacascos, Caterina Murino, Andrew J. West, Hugo Becker, Jansen Panettiere, 𝗧𝗘𝗧𝗦𝗨𝗢 𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗧𝗔, Leslie Bibb, Melanie et Alain Doutey, Macarena Gomez, French Prime Minister Edith Cresson, French Minister Frederic Lefebvre, Emma Bell...

🇫🇷 𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘
The City of Paris serves as host to the Festival since its inception, with screenings and special events all over the city, including red carpets, movie premieres, parties, filmmaker’s networking, numerous Q&A's, international spotlights, industry talks and masterclasses, art performances and exhibitions, live music…

We celebrate those who are passionate about their creations. We focus on the humans making the movies : each director/attendee gets to talk about his movie.
We warmly welcome filmmakers and artists from all over the world to gather in Paris to meet new audience, screen and show their latest work, connect with fellow professionals, share their passion.

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

You are a movie maker, you aspire to keep making movies, your goal is to step up to the next level in the movie business with each film you make: come to the PAMA.

We are grounded, we have fun, we create connections, we push the movies within our international network and support the filmmakers with our Alumni Network.

We accept short films and feature, in a wide range of categories including documentaries and animation.

Our goal is to help independent filmmakers screening their films, awarding them, show their films to high level industry talents and public figures. We close each year festival by an award ceremony, giving away trophies and certificates and gifts to films, and to filmmakers, cast and crew.

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

2019 took place on the Champs Elysees (Gaumont movie theater) and Bastille (Majestic).
2018 edition took place at the Grand Rex, the biggest movie theater in Europe, as well as in many other venues.
2017 edition took place on the CHAMPS ELYSEES, at the BALZAC movie theater.
2016 edition was at the historic UGC movie theater in Saint-Germain des Pres, heart of Paris.
The Festival runs screenings and events since 2011.

Our partners and sponsors include : Grand Rex, BNP Paribas, Final Draft, Etoile Casting, le Blog du Cinéma, Cine Séries Mag, Mulderville, Closapp, Atlantys, Book.fr, We Film Good, Garel, UGC, Radio Campus, Proarti, les Jardins d'Osmane, Script City, Fontenille...

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

CHARITIES: La Voix de l'Enfant, the American Legion (Paris and L.A), Time's Up and the Me Too Movement.

The « PAMA » has been ranked, as soon as its second year, the second festival not to miss in Paris, by The Culture Trip Magazine. The festival is today the best festival in Paris, the only one to be held in english for international attendance, and the sole offering a real award ceremony.

We keep supporting and promoting winners and nominees long after their nomination or their win : we follow you on Facebook and Instagram, we share your work… We also have a policy of inviting former winners to become Judges, and former nominees to walk on stage to give away awards to their fellow filmmakers.

We are a human scale festival, often compared to the hottest New-York underground and dynamic events. We have partnerships with media, established companies, and the screening always takes place in grand historic venues in Paris.

We are proud to work with the French national charity CHILDREN’S VOICE. We offer free screening to very young kids, who often never went to a movie theatre before, and to young adults, some with difficult family backgrounds.

You can reach us if you have a question using the email address on the left side. We try to answer each email asap, priority always being given to films and filmmakers in actual competition or already having submitted.
Please note we do not grant free submissions.

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

♦ AN INDEPENDENT MOVIE FESTIVAL WITH
- Awards
- Photocall
- Artistic Recognition
- Networking
- award ceremony

OUR MOTTO
We ourselves are a team of directors, actresses, DOP, managers and producers, who experienced the creating path of making a movie, and screen it, and struggling to turn it into a success.
We create a large and serious range of awards to reward the best, more originals and more passionate projects we receive.
With this Festival and Award Ceremony, we want to build a moment for artists to connect, and get back home with rewarding experience and for the better : an award from Paris.

😷 COVID-19 NOTICE
Our event is scheduled mid-September 2020, specific dates To Be Confirmed.
Due to changing local regulations, we are securing our 10th edition anniversary mainly as an online celebration.
Our program is being enhanced to make it an interactive event.
🎁 Our gifts the filmmakers are being adjusted to make them redeemable in a realistic way. We already secured new sponsors to give away valuable digital gifts and prizes that can ship internationally.

If local safety options allow a live event with decent preparation time, we'll announce it as it becomes a serious and safe option.

We will celebrate anyway short and feature films, independent filmmakers, and ambitious creative minds.
In the end, we'll all get ready to celebrate our 10th anniversary!

GALLERY
previous years: http://parisartandmovieawards.com/#gallery

Our awards are recognized by the movie industry, Imdb & Imdb pro qualifying.
We are:
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - reviewed 5/5 stars
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - ranked by The Culture Trip best event not to miss in Paris
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - ranked by Time Out best local event
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - labeled GOLD by FilmFreeway
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - labeled best reviewed festival on FilmFreeway every season
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - ranked Festival of the Month (May 2020) on WFCN.

🏆 More than 20 awards distributed every year. See categories on the right submission column.

❄ 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟
We created 4 years ago a winter festival in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Art & Movie Awards. Next one January 2021.

🎓 𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗡𝗜
Being a winner or just even selected to the PAMA opens you the door to enter our Alumni Network that lists Sharon Stone, Robin Wright, Sam Rockwell, Vladimir Cosma as members to name a few.

🥇 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦, 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗭𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗚𝗜𝗙𝗧𝗦 🎁
2020: Steel and metal, custom-made, artist made, unique Eiffel Tower trophy (will be ready for the 2020 award ceremony) + Framed award certificates + numerous gifts
2019: Steel and metal, custom-made, artist made, unique Eiffel Tower trophy + Framed award certificates + numerous gifts
2018 : Cristal Plaque laser engraved with a Serge Gainsbourg portrait + Framed award certificates + numerous gifts
2017 : Cristal Plaques laser engraved with a Brigitte Bardot portrait + Framed Award Certificates signed by the 2017 Judges + Letter by the festival's director.
2016 : Bronze Tour Eiffel trophies + Cristal Plaques laser engraved with a Audrey Hepburn portrait.
2015 : Bronze Tour Eiffel Trophies.

2018 PRIZES (full list on our website):
- Final Draft Softwares
- Editing Softwares
- VFX Software
- Books
- DVDs & Blu-Ray of short film MEDIATION (nominated PAMA 2015), one copy signed by Freddy Rodriguez.
- Digital download of THE LOOT award winning Score at the PAMA 2017

2017 prizes :
Brigitte Bardot cristal plaque, framed award certificate
All nominees won : one year submission to Book.fr
Best Actress won : one year submission to Etoile Casting
Best actor won : one year submission to Etoile Casting
Best scriptwriter (feature) won : a Final Draft software
Best scriptwriter (short) won : a Final Draft software

+++ Previous winners here : http://parisartandmovieawards.com/#awards

>>> IMPORTANT <<<
=> Your presence at the Award Ceremony is the core of the festival and the essence of your submission.
Covid Notice:
🎁 We are welcoming and recruiting many new sponsors in 2020 to give away digital gifts and prizes that can ship internationally.

+++ See the Award in pics : http://parisartandmovieawards.com/#awards
+++ Also check our Facebook Gallery : https://www.facebook.com/thepama/photos_stream?ref=page_internal

SELECTION PROCESS
1) submission
2) nomination, with laurel. You get featured on our website, and listed in the program and all the press documents.
3) Judges watch all the nominated films. Their vote is final.
4) screening in Paris
5) you walk on stage to claim your award. You make a speech.
6) you become a PAMA Alumni.

About

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

We are taking YOUR questions for the MASTERCLASSES with
- NATASCHA MCELHONE (Truman Show, Designated Survivor, Solaris, Californication...)
- JAMES MORRISON (Revenge, 24, Jareh, Catch me if you can...).

Send them by email in writing or video, right now.
Details:
http://parisartandmovieawards.com/program/

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠𝗦 𝗪𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗚𝗢𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘
Game Changer won an 𝗢𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗥, his director Aviv Mano then worked on Disney’s COCO and TOY STORY 4 (2018).
The Wishgranter, won an 𝗢𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗥, an EMMY AWARD, and a 𝗕𝗔𝗙𝗧𝗔 (2016).
Curpigeon got selected to 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗔, won the AMAZON VIDEO DIRECT Film Festival Stars (2016).
Sgt Stubby, an unlikely hero, got a distribution deal at 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧 (2018).
MYSTERY SKULLS – ENDLESSLY is over 1.3M 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪𝗦 on YouTube (2018).
Whisper screened at FILMQUEST (2015).
None of That was STAFF PICK by 𝗩𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗢 (2015).

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

"An unforgettable amazing award show in a great location, lots of press, big crowd, cool after-party, professional and witty hosts: all you can possibly ask for!" - Steffen Hacker, 2018 winner, best director.

“The PAMA team did an amazing job to take the festival in a few years to a very well exposed cultural event” - Attila Rostas, winner 2018, best short script.

"One of the most organized and professionally run festivals I've been to! The official selections were of a high standard and the networking was incredible" - Jami Ramberan, winner 2015, best student short.

"Other nominees included already famous people! It really was an honor to be nominated alongside such great nominees" - Lisa Hurel, winner 2018, best score.

"Very nice place and lot of spectators. Good press release and interesting networking with the different events during the festival" - Arnaud Bettan, winner 2015, best actress / producer fo a feature.

😎 𝗝𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗥𝗦
Jury 2020 includes:
- Paz de la Huerta -Boardwalk Empire, Enter the Void...
- Monica Cruz -Pirates of the Caribean: on stranger tides, Un Paso Adelante...
- Emily Carmichael -Pacific Rim 2, Jurrasic Worl: Dominion
- Steven E. De Souza -Die Hard I & II, K-2000 Knight Rider, Beverly Hills Cop III...
- Brent Huff -The Rookie, NCIS, The West Wing...
- Melora Walters -Magnolia, The Butterfly Effect, Venom...
- Max Markson -rep. A. Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, JCVD, Bill Clinton...
- Genevieve Buechner -X-Files, Supernatural, Jennifer's Body...
- Cole Sibus -Stumptown, Spare Room, Olympic Gold Medal Athlete
- Julie Nolke -TallBoysz, Workin' Moms...
- Gian Marco Tavani
- Danielle Geathers (MIT)
- Natascha Lewin

More on them:
http://parisartandmovieawards.com/2020-judges/

#️⃣1️⃣ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗨𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗦 👑
The Paris Art & Movie Awards (PAMA) is the leading film festival in Paris for independent filmmakers.
We celebrate in 2020 our 10th edition with an international, high-quality slate, during a multi-day run.

2020 edition is scheduled on the Champs-Elysees (like 2019 and 2017) and in the historical venue Bastille (at the Majestic Bastille).

Our line up included through the years: 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗘, Kirsten Dunst, 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗔 𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗘𝗢𝗨𝗙, Sam Rockwell, 𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧, Vladimir Cosma, 𝗟𝗔𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗔, Kristanna Loken, Mark Dacascos, Caterina Murino, Andrew J. West, Hugo Becker, Jansen Panettiere, 𝗧𝗘𝗧𝗦𝗨𝗢 𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗧𝗔, Leslie Bibb, Melanie et Alain Doutey, Macarena Gomez, French Prime Minister Edith Cresson, French Minister Frederic Lefebvre, Emma Bell...

🇫🇷 𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘
The City of Paris serves as host to the Festival since its inception, with screenings and special events all over the city, including red carpets, movie premieres, parties, filmmaker’s networking, numerous Q&A's, international spotlights, industry talks and masterclasses, art performances and exhibitions, live music…

We celebrate those who are passionate about their creations. We focus on the humans making the movies : each director/attendee gets to talk about his movie.
We warmly welcome filmmakers and artists from all over the world to gather in Paris to meet new audience, screen and show their latest work, connect with fellow professionals, share their passion.

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

You are a movie maker, you aspire to keep making movies, your goal is to step up to the next level in the movie business with each film you make: come to the PAMA.

We are grounded, we have fun, we create connections, we push the movies within our international network and support the filmmakers with our Alumni Network.

We accept short films and feature, in a wide range of categories including documentaries and animation.

Our goal is to help independent filmmakers screening their films, awarding them, show their films to high level industry talents and public figures. We close each year festival by an award ceremony, giving away trophies and certificates and gifts to films, and to filmmakers, cast and crew.

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

2019 took place on the Champs Elysees (Gaumont movie theater) and Bastille (Majestic).
2018 edition took place at the Grand Rex, the biggest movie theater in Europe, as well as in many other venues.
2017 edition took place on the CHAMPS ELYSEES, at the BALZAC movie theater.
2016 edition was at the historic UGC movie theater in Saint-Germain des Pres, heart of Paris.
The Festival runs screenings and events since 2011.

Our partners and sponsors include : Grand Rex, BNP Paribas, Final Draft, Etoile Casting, le Blog du Cinéma, Cine Séries Mag, Mulderville, Closapp, Atlantys, Book.fr, We Film Good, Garel, UGC, Radio Campus, Proarti, les Jardins d'Osmane, Script City, Fontenille...

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

CHARITIES: La Voix de l'Enfant, the American Legion (Paris and L.A), Time's Up and the Me Too Movement.

The « PAMA » has been ranked, as soon as its second year, the second festival not to miss in Paris, by The Culture Trip Magazine. The festival is today the best festival in Paris, the only one to be held in english for international attendance, and the sole offering a real award ceremony.

We keep supporting and promoting winners and nominees long after their nomination or their win : we follow you on Facebook and Instagram, we share your work… We also have a policy of inviting former winners to become Judges, and former nominees to walk on stage to give away awards to their fellow filmmakers.

We are a human scale festival, often compared to the hottest New-York underground and dynamic events. We have partnerships with media, established companies, and the screening always takes place in grand historic venues in Paris.

We are proud to work with the French national charity CHILDREN’S VOICE. We offer free screening to very young kids, who often never went to a movie theatre before, and to young adults, some with difficult family backgrounds.

You can reach us if you have a question using the email address on the left side. We try to answer each email asap, priority always being given to films and filmmakers in actual competition or already having submitted.
Please note we do not grant free submissions.

🎥. 🎞️ 📽️

♦ AN INDEPENDENT MOVIE FESTIVAL WITH
- Awards
- Photocall
- Artistic Recognition
- Networking
- award ceremony

OUR MOTTO
We ourselves are a team of directors, actresses, DOP, managers and producers, who experienced the creating path of making a movie, and screen it, and struggling to turn it into a success.
We create a large and serious range of awards to reward the best, more originals and more passionate projects we receive.
With this Festival and Award Ceremony, we want to build a moment for artists to connect, and get back home with rewarding experience and for the better : an award from Paris.

😷 COVID-19 NOTICE
Our event is scheduled mid-September 2020, specific dates To Be Confirmed.
Due to changing local regulations, we are securing our 10th edition anniversary mainly as an online celebration.
Our program is being enhanced to make it an interactive event.
🎁 Our gifts the filmmakers are being adjusted to make them redeemable in a realistic way. We already secured new sponsors to give away valuable digital gifts and prizes that can ship internationally.

If local safety options allow a live event with decent preparation time, we'll announce it as it becomes a serious and safe option.

We will celebrate anyway short and feature films, independent filmmakers, and ambitious creative minds.
In the end, we'll all get ready to celebrate our 10th anniversary!

GALLERY
previous years: http://parisartandmovieawards.com/#gallery

Our awards are recognized by the movie industry, Imdb & Imdb pro qualifying.
We are:
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - reviewed 5/5 stars
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - ranked by The Culture Trip best event not to miss in Paris
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - ranked by Time Out best local event
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - labeled GOLD by FilmFreeway
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - labeled best reviewed festival on FilmFreeway every season
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - ranked Festival of the Month (May 2020) on WFCN.

🏆 More than 20 awards distributed every year. See categories on the right submission column.

❄ 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟
We created 4 years ago a winter festival in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Art & Movie Awards. Next one January 2021.

🎓 𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗡𝗜
Being a winner or just even selected to the PAMA opens you the door to enter our Alumni Network that lists Sharon Stone, Robin Wright, Sam Rockwell, Vladimir Cosma as members to name a few.

🥇 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦, 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗭𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗚𝗜𝗙𝗧𝗦 🎁
2020: Steel and metal, custom-made, artist made, unique Eiffel Tower trophy (will be ready for the 2020 award ceremony) + Framed award certificates + numerous gifts
2019: Steel and metal, custom-made, artist made, unique Eiffel Tower trophy + Framed award certificates + numerous gifts
2018 : Cristal Plaque laser engraved with a Serge Gainsbourg portrait + Framed award certificates + numerous gifts
2017 : Cristal Plaques laser engraved with a Brigitte Bardot portrait + Framed Award Certificates signed by the 2017 Judges + Letter by the festival's director.
2016 : Bronze Tour Eiffel trophies + Cristal Plaques laser engraved with a Audrey Hepburn portrait.
2015 : Bronze Tour Eiffel Trophies.

2018 PRIZES (full list on our website):
- Final Draft Softwares
- Editing Softwares
- VFX Software
- Books
- DVDs & Blu-Ray of short film MEDIATION (nominated PAMA 2015), one copy signed by Freddy Rodriguez.
- Digital download of THE LOOT award winning Score at the PAMA 2017

2017 prizes :
Brigitte Bardot cristal plaque, framed award certificate
All nominees won : one year submission to Book.fr
Best Actress won : one year submission to Etoile Casting
Best actor won : one year submission to Etoile Casting
Best scriptwriter (feature) won : a Final Draft software
Best scriptwriter (short) won : a Final Draft software

+++ Previous winners here : http://parisartandmovieawards.com/#awards

>>> IMPORTANT <<<
=> Your presence at the Award Ceremony is the core of the festival and the essence of your submission.
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SELECTION PROCESS
1) submission
2) nomination, with laurel. You get featured on our website, and listed in the program and all the press documents.
3) Judges watch all the nominated films. Their vote is final.
4) screening in Paris
5) you walk on stage to claim your award. You make a speech.
6) you become a PAMA Alumni.

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

SUBMISSION & SUBMISSION FEE
We accept all genres and nationalities and language for all international categories.
You are allowed to have multiple entries and submit to multiple categories, with the same or different films. Each category requires its own fee.
Entries are non refundable.
Please check the recommended lengths.
We do not provide free submissions.
We do not provide free submissions to movies from Iran.
We sometimes offer discounts : follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
We do not review movie submissions sent directly to us by email, unless we requested it. We only accept online digital submissions via selected platforms.
Each entry and submission category must have its own submission fee. 

Films or pieces submitted to the PAMA must be dated from 2 years maximum before the date of the festival.
If you submitted to the wrong category, contact us (there may be a fee).
If selected, you grant the PAMA the right to utilize any image, excerpt, titles, words you submitted to us, for promotion purposes.
The festival organizers may refuse any illegal, non-artistic, fake, false, incomplete entries.
Each student film submitted has to provide proof of studies. If you do not provide, your entry may not make it to selection and be set to incomplete or end up disqualified.
Animated short films (even student made) must submit to animated category.
Animated features (even student made) must submit to feature category.
A documentary (even student made) must submit to the documentary category,
Works in progress are not accepted.

OFFERS
Special offers, discounts, invitations do not guarantee a selection.
The 50% discount code 50ACTORS is exclusive to the Best Actress and Best Actor categories. Any other use of this code will be considered fraud and result in an immediate disqualification with no refund.

MATERIAL
You FilmFreeway profile must include :
- your country
- a poster of your project (whether it is a film, a script, or any piece of work. You don’t have one -> We can recommend a couple of designers).
- minimum 5 lines about your project (synopsis)
- a biography of the director or the artist.
- at least 2 pictures from the film with no watermarking.
- a trailer will be used. Your trailer must be on YouTube OR any other platform so we can embed it to our website and to our press releases. If you have no trailer: we can recommend several editors.

If an element goes missing: contact us.

Your FilmFreeway profile must NOT include
- the type of work next to the title of your film.
Examples : “ASTONISHING CLIFF EDGE -Music Video-“ is wrong.
“THE LIFE OF JAMES I a short film by Benny Lugosi” is wrong.
“ASTONISHING CLIFF EDGE” and “THE LIFE OF JAMES” are correct.

The names, title, country and all elements you fill your FilmFreeway profile with will be used if you get selected to the festival. Fill your profile fully and careful.
ALL communications are sent to the email address you provide. The festival is not responsible for any lost communication whatsoever.

Your FilmFreeway profile must provide a direct access to your work (video, film, photo) at all times. If your film or video disappears from your profile, your submission may be set to incomplete or even disqualified, if the incident happens after the official selection.

SOCIAL
We strongly recommend you have a Facebook and/or Twitter and/or Instagram page for your project or film so we can fully promote you.

SCREENINGS
Screenings at movie theaters like the Grand Rex require a DCP. We offer very accessible DCP services via our Paris studio, ask us.
Screenings at other venues require a HD digital file, sent by WeTransfer, following these specifications : .mp4, H264. Films below 5 minutes : less than 500MO. Films 5 to 10 minutes : less than 1G. Films 10 to 30 minutes : less than 2G. Feature films : less than 5G.
NO .mov will be used.
It is your responsibility to provide with the proper screening file, whether this demands a DCP or a special format. If you do not provide, you will be disqualified, regardless you have been nominated or not. Example : the movies CONTACT and AVE MARIANNE in 2018 were disqualified for not providing the files and DCPs.
French subtitles are mandatory for ANY screening film not french speaking that has dialogs by May 30. We may contact you in advance of that date if the selection committee of the festival feels you may provide the subtitles sooner. If you do not provide, your film may be selected, but will not screen, nor win.

ALUMNI NETWORK
The festival management alone validates the past and present Alumni Members. For more on this, please check our website.

DISQUALIFICATION & PLAGIARISM
Over the years, we dealt with some disqualification cases and some rare cases of plagiarism.
If your film raises some concerns about illegal copy or plagiarism, the case will be discussed. You may face public announcement. If the management team feels so, the submission platform will be alerted.
Once the decision of the festival is made on a case, it is definitive. Our decisions are made and remain public.

ATTENDANCE
If you are selected or win, you are expected to attend the festival and the Award Ceremony. If you cannot attend the ceremony, you must find someone in Paris to represent you and claim your award, on stage.
We do not ship trophies.

ACCOMMODATION & TRANSPORTATION
The festival does NOT take care of travel nor accommodation expenses. We provide with a list of serious addresses.

AWARD CEREMONY
Award winners are responsible for picking up (or a representative) trophies or covering the shipping costs if delivered.

SELECTION & NOTIFICATION
We may announce the first nominees before the notification date. This does not mean the selection is complete, this means we may make a first wave of selection to facilitate attendance.
When you receive the first platform update as a selected submission, that means you are selected, and you get an Official Selection Laurel. The selection does not grant a screening in every case, please check our website.
We cannot give each submitter a personal answer regarding their selection.
The selected talents receive an email with a link to the laurel center and all information about the festival.
If you're not selected, your movie status will be updated on FilmFreeway, and the platform will send an automatic notification at due date.

SCRIPTS
Accepted scripts are un-produced and produced, if your film is of 2017, 2018 or 2019. If your film is produced, you have to send us the script.

SCORE & SOUNDTRACK
When you submit a score or a soundtrack, we judge the music, not the film, this is why we request music only.
You must then submit with a single .mp3 file within FilmFreeway. No other format is accepted.
If your score or soundtrack includes more than one track, please have all the songs / tracks rendered in the same single final bounce as a .mp3 file.
If you submit to score and/or soundtrack with a movie : you will not be considered to this category.
If you want to submit your film as Best Film and the score of your film as Best Score, you must submit two times, with two different profiles.

SPECIFICS
The New Media category includes : Web Series / New Medias / Phone Made / 360° / Extreme GoPro Made / Virtuality / Other special production linked to new media, new technology.
Soundtrack means pre-existing music used in a new film. You must have the rights.
Soundtrack song is a song, with lyrics, composed especially for a film. You may submit the film that includes the song, or the music track itself.
Score is original music composed for a film.

LENGTHS including credits.
- shorts > 30 minutes max, recommended under 15 minutes
- features > 105 minutes max, recommended 80-90 minutes
- music videos > 10 minutes max, recommended is the usual 3-4 minutes
- documentaries > under 15 minutes for short docs, under 85 minutes for feature documentaries.
- experimental and visual arts in motion > under 5 minutes
- animation > under 10 minutes
- scripts : feature > under 120 pages ; shorts > under 10 pages
- score and soundtrack > submit your MUSIC ONLY. No length limit.

We accept short movies, feature, short script/screenplay, feature script/screenplay, drama, horror, fantasy, comedy, web-series, documentary, animation, student, music video, experimental...

Ratings & Reviews

Categories and fees

? Best Feature of the year
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $35
Late (7th March, 2020) $45

We allow movie with distribution and movies looking for distribution opportunities. Any country, any language.

? ? Best International Short
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $30
Late (7th March, 2020) $40

House of Cards and Wonder Woman Robin Wright directed THE DARK OF NIGHT competed in this category... But lost to THE JUDGMENT OF KYLE NOBLE by an upcoming director. Any country except France.

? ?? Best French Short
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $19
Late (7th March, 2020) $25

**** 2019: Crystal Frog starring Gerard Depardieu, directed by Slony Sow, wins. Only French films, French speaking, directed or produced by French people.

? Best Documentary
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $20
Late (7th March, 2020) $30

Sharon Stone produced "An Undeniable Voice" won against "Behind the Cove" (Japan), "The Unknown Soldier" (Israel), "A Dying King" (USA), and several others (2018). Any country. Student documentaries must apply here, not in the student short category.

? Best Music Video
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $22
Late (7th March, 2020) $27

Any country. **** 2015-2019: Mystery Skulls, Rob Cantor, Alain Chamfort, Contrails, Son Lux, Delta (Universal)...

? ? Best Student Short
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $14
Late (7th March, 2020) $19

The PAMA work with many schools, colleges, institutions around the world. If your school is handling submissions, talk to them. If not, or if you want to do it yourself, you can submit directly on your own here. *** 2019: Salomé Starcelli wins with CONSOMMABLE.

? ? Best Feature Script
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $30
Late (7th March, 2020) $40

No video media allowed into this category. You must submit a .pdf document. If you submitted your film (with digital video screener), and now want to submit the script of your film: MAKE YOUR SCRIPT A SEPARATE ENTRY, with a .pdf of your script instead of your video media file. No video submission will be considered to the scripts categories. English or french written only. No more than 120 pages.

? ? Best Short Script
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $15
Late (7th March, 2020) $22

No video media allowed into this category. You must submit a .pdf document. If you submitted your film (with digital video screener), and now want to submit the script of your film: MAKE YOUR SCRIPT A SEPARATE ENTRY, with a .pdf of your script instead of your video media file. No video submission will be considered to the scripts categories. English or french written only. Less than 15 pages.

? Best Director
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $20
Late (7th March, 2020) $30

If you submit to this category, you will be considered to Best Director category, regardless the genre or your film, or its style. If you submit your film to any other category, the festival or the selection committee or the Judges MAY decide to add you in the Best Director Category anyway. **** 2019: male winner (China-USA), 2018: first time director JULIE BOEHM won for her work on PARIS YOU GOT ME (Germany).

? ? Best Actress
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $15
Late (7th March, 2020) $25

Leslie Bibb (Iron Man, Tag), Emily Baldoni (Agents of SHIELD competed in this category. If you submit to this category, you WILL be considered to its selection, regardless the genre or your film, or its style. If an actress appearing in a film submitted to the festival in another category strikes the eye of the festival, the Judges or the selection committee, it MAY be decided to add this actress to the Best Actress anyway. **** 2018: Esther Mabb (Germany) won the prize.

? ? Best Actor
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $15
Late (7th March, 2020) $25

Sam Rockwell (Oscar Winner) won this category in 2018. If you submit to this category, you WILL be considered to its selection, regardless the genre or your film, or its style. If an actor appearing in a film submitted to the festival in another category strikes the eye of the festival, the Judges or the selection committee, it MAY be decided to add this actor to the Best Actor anyway. **** 2018 competition included Jean-Pierre Kalfon (Cesar Award Winner in France), and 3 up and coming talented performers.

? Best Editor
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $9
Late (7th March, 2020) $13

If you submit to this category, you WILL be considered to its selection, regardless the genre or your film, its style, its duration. **** 2018 and 2019 selections included competitors from USA, UK, Spain, Germany, France, Greece.

? Best DOP Director Of Photography
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $15
Late (7th March, 2020) $18

If you submit to this category, you will be considered to Best DOP category, regardless the genre or your film, or its style. **** 2019: VIACHESLAV KAZANTSEV wins for THE STOP (RUSSIA). 2018: MALIK BRAHIMI won for his work on BY BLOOD (France).

? Best Production / Producer
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $15
Late (7th March, 2020) $18

This is a category to reward talent in the production area, aiming for a quality project that looks good, attractive, fits the market realities of your field, regardless of budget. If you submit to this category, you WILL be considered to its selection, regardless the genre or your film, or its style.

? Best Web Series / New Media
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $15
Late (7th March, 2020) $17

This category accepts all web series, also all new medias, films shot with phone, 360°, drone film, sports film, Virtual reality. Web series must upload one episode of their choice and offer links to watch the other available episodes out of the submission platform.

? Best Animation Short
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $20
Late (7th March, 2020) $27

**** The PAMA has a history of selecting animated films that later are listed to the Academy Awards (Oscars), the BAFTA, TIFF and SUNDANCE. Any country.

? Best Visual Arts in Motion / Experimental
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $22
Late (7th March, 2020) $27

Any country. Any form, any style. No boundaries! BUT: you need to have a message, or a story to tell, or something to make us feel.

? ? Best Dance Film
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $20
Late (7th March, 2020) $30

Dance must be at the heart of your narrative. Dance is the way to tell the story.

? ? Best Soundtrack Song
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $10
Late (7th March, 2020) $12

If is a category for ONE SONG you want to submit. The song has to be composed and written especially for a film. You must submit a .mp3 track, NOT the film. NO video will be considered for this category. NO music video will be accepted UNLESS it is edited with some footage from the film. The song has to be in current used in a film, short or feature.

? ? Best Score (Best Composer)
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $15
Late (7th March, 2020) $17

**** 2018: Jeanne-Peri Foucault won against Vladimir Cosma and David Michael Frank with her work on "THE BIRD". Best original score for an original film. A Score is composed of original music with no lyrics, used as background music to sustain the storytelling. You MUST submit an .mp3 track compiling your full score, or a zip file with every .mp3 track from your score. NO video will be accepted to this category.

? Best Trailer
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $9
Late (7th March, 2020) $11

Trailers and Teasers are accepted. Less than 3'30. We are looking for trailers matching the industry and distribution expectations.

? Best Poster
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $9
Late (7th March, 2020) $11

We are looking for Artworks matching the industry and distribution expectations.

? Best Visual Effects
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $10
Late (7th March, 2020) $11

Each year we receive movie with astonishing visual creations. This year we create a category to award these special effects.

? ? Best Still Photographer (art)
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $12
Late (7th March, 2020) $16

Our name is Paris ART & Movie Awards. Since our inception we offer a dedicated category so photographers, artists, images creators can submit their STILL / ART PHOTOGRAPHY. This is NOT a category for best video photography: please submit to Best DOP for that. For Art Photography: No theme, we're just expecting beauty, art, composition, message, inspiration. Submit ONE to FIVE stills.

?  Best Drone Video
Early Bird (13th December, 2019) $25
Late (7th March, 2020) $35

Regardless of genre and length. Can be a commercial, a time lapse, a narrative, experimental, dance... Must be 90% made with a drone.

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