Ribalta Experimental Film Festival

Vignola, Modena, Italy, Europe

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Ribalta Experimental Film Festival

Vignola, Modena, Italy, Europe

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About the festival

Ribalta Experimental Film Festival is a new event completely dedicated to experimental cinema in Italy. The festival will take place in Vignola (MO), Emilia-Romagna, on the 16th and 17th of January 2021 at the headquarters of the Ribalta club, under the direction of Giovanni Sabattini. Its purpose is to give voice to a kind of cinema that doesn't have one. A cinema that is new, innovative and avant-gard.

RIBALTA (the Limelight)

Being in the limelight means to stand in the most exposed and visible part of the stage, and thus it can mean "to hold an important part of the scene" But in Italian "Ribalta" also refers to the verb Ribaltare: "To turn upside-down", or "to put in perspective". Ribalta Experimental Film Festival has the ambition to be a visible and relevant proscenium for the kind of cinema that changes our minds, defies our bon ton watching habits.

EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental cinema is hard to define. A cinema that breaks the narrative, and most of all visual, bounds to wich we're used. A cinema that elaborates on film medium to its fullest, by including even the most extreme possibilities. John Cage said it well: an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not forseen; the cinema we're looking for is a cinema of the unpredictable.

FILM

Ribalta Experimental Film Festival is a contest for short-lenght experimental films. We chose to focus on short films in order to give voice to young, non-institutional, explorational cinema. The kind of cinema that silently prepares the future of the "seventh art", by experimenting upon new forms of expression.

FESTIVAL

The festival will take place in Vignola (MO) on the 16th and 17th of January 2021 at the headquarters of the Ribalta club and is a newly-born event: a new festival of experimental cinema in Italy, the first in the area of Modena, in Vignola. The Ribalta club is a small no-profit association run by passionate amateurs that for the last 10 years has been differenciating itself for a cultural offer both, important and marginal, new and avant-guarde.

The first edition of Ribalta Experimental Film Festival will feature an outstanding jury, made of 7 passionate cinephiles and experts in the field. We're going to introduce to you the members of our jury through brief interviews every saturday, starting from June 20, on the festival's Facebook page.

The following awards are to be assigned:

- Golden Arrow for best film
- Arrow for best director
- Arrow for best script/concept
- Arrow for best actor
- Arrow for best actress
- "Freak" Arrow for best folly/comedic contribution

Since the Ribalta Experimental Film Festival is held by amateurs and passionate cinephiles, who believe in culture as a pluralistic and intangible value, the awards assigned by the jury are purely symbolic. The selected films are going to be judged by an exceptional jury, and seen by a vast audience of film lovers.

There's more! The 6 winners will have the chanche to participate in Nonantola Film Festival, between April and May.

About

Ribalta Experimental Film Festival is a new event completely dedicated to experimental cinema in Italy. The festival will take place in Vignola (MO), Emilia-Romagna, on the 16th and 17th of January 2021 at the headquarters of the Ribalta club, under the direction of Giovanni Sabattini. Its purpose is to give voice to a kind of cinema that doesn't have one. A cinema that is new, innovative and avant-gard.

RIBALTA (the Limelight)

Being in the limelight means to stand in the most exposed and visible part of the stage, and thus it can mean "to hold an important part of the scene" But in Italian "Ribalta" also refers to the verb Ribaltare: "To turn upside-down", or "to put in perspective". Ribalta Experimental Film Festival has the ambition to be a visible and relevant proscenium for the kind of cinema that changes our minds, defies our bon ton watching habits.

EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental cinema is hard to define. A cinema that breaks the narrative, and most of all visual, bounds to wich we're used. A cinema that elaborates on film medium to its fullest, by including even the most extreme possibilities. John Cage said it well: an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not forseen; the cinema we're looking for is a cinema of the unpredictable.

FILM

Ribalta Experimental Film Festival is a contest for short-lenght experimental films. We chose to focus on short films in order to give voice to young, non-institutional, explorational cinema. The kind of cinema that silently prepares the future of the "seventh art", by experimenting upon new forms of expression.

FESTIVAL

The festival will take place in Vignola (MO) on the 16th and 17th of January 2021 at the headquarters of the Ribalta club and is a newly-born event: a new festival of experimental cinema in Italy, the first in the area of Modena, in Vignola. The Ribalta club is a small no-profit association run by passionate amateurs that for the last 10 years has been differenciating itself for a cultural offer both, important and marginal, new and avant-guarde.

The first edition of Ribalta Experimental Film Festival will feature an outstanding jury, made of 7 passionate cinephiles and experts in the field. We're going to introduce to you the members of our jury through brief interviews every saturday, starting from June 20, on the festival's Facebook page.

The following awards are to be assigned:

- Golden Arrow for best film
- Arrow for best director
- Arrow for best script/concept
- Arrow for best actor
- Arrow for best actress
- "Freak" Arrow for best folly/comedic contribution

Since the Ribalta Experimental Film Festival is held by amateurs and passionate cinephiles, who believe in culture as a pluralistic and intangible value, the awards assigned by the jury are purely symbolic. The selected films are going to be judged by an exceptional jury, and seen by a vast audience of film lovers.

There's more! The 6 winners will have the chanche to participate in Nonantola Film Festival, between April and May.

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

SUBMISSION

- Applications will be open from June 15 to October 15, 2020. The applications to Ribalta Experimental Film Festival are received and validated only via the FilmFreeway platform

- The act of applying implies the automatic and full agreement with the norms and conditions expressed in these regulations

THE SELECTION

- The selection will be conducted by artistic director Giovanni Sabattini and a selection committee made up of young cinephiles.

- The artistic director and the section committee of Ribalta Experimental Film Festival are the only authority on the selection process.

- The results will be made available on the official Ribalta Experimental Film Festival Facebook page.

- The producer/artist whose work is selected for the festival will be contacted via e-mail.

- There is no limit to the number of selected works.

- The works which don’t respond to all the requirements of these regulations will be declined.

- There will be no kind of financial compensation for the selected artworks.

- The application form requires, among others, the following information:

1) Applicant General Information, such as full name, stage name, date of birth, place of birth, address, e-mail, and phone number

2) Producer or Representative Information, such as stage name, date of birth, place of birth, address, e-mail and phone number

3) Film information including title, summary, technical file, length of the work

4) Distribution Information such as official website and social media, if available

5) Film images, still and/or posters in high definition for marketing purposes

6) Film rating

7) All the movies have to be subtitled in English, even though the English spoken movies

The submissions which don’t correspond to all the requirements of these regulations will be declined.

THE SELECTED WORKS

- The artists/producers of the selected artworks must turn in the following documentation up to two weeks after being made aware of the successful application via e-mail:

a) a digital file of the audiovisual work in .H264

b) the work’s dialogue list, in English or Italian, in .SRT or .DOC format, for the purposes of subtitling and closed-caption

c) summary of the work, technical sheet, cast, and filmography of the film director(s), in a .PDF file

d) the work’s promotional material for the purposes of marketing and press: at least three images of the artwork and one picture of the director, in .JPG or .PNG format with an image quality of at least 300dpi or 2MB properly identified and credited.

THE COMMITMENTS RESPONSABILITIES

- Applicants must commit to the following:


a) To send all the material requested for the selected works


b) To concede to Ribalta Experimental Film Festival the right to use the images of the work and other materials for marketing purposes


Ribalta Experimental Film Festival commits to the following:


a) To post on the Facebook page the selection results


b) To publicize the selection to press organizations and on digital mediums


- The applicant with submitted work on Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, according to these regulations, must be the creator or co-creator of the artwork and/or possess the moral and material rights associated to it, committing to respect integrally the rights of intellectual property of others and responding fully and with exclusivity for any violation, losses and moral or material damage that may occur.


- For the purpose of disclosing the selection result, the applicant with work submitted to Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, authorizes the festival, without charge, exclusively, temporarily, irrevocably, and irreversibly, with no restriction in terms of territory, quantity of samples, number of mediums, number of emissions, transmission and retransmissions, to share and use their name and the one of their work exclusively for the festival’s marketing purposes.


- It will be the applicant's responsibility to attest the authorship of the artwork, freeing the festival of any responsibility concerning incoherencies on that matter.

MORE INFORMATION


- Doubts about these regulations can be sent to electronic address:
giovannisabattini.ribalta@gmail.com


- Further information and insights can be found on Ribalta Experimental Film Festival’s official Facebook page

Ratings & Reviews

Categories and fees

Experimental Short
Early Bird (15th June, 2020) €5
Regular (3rd November, 2020) €5
Late (16th January, 2021) €5

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