WHICH FILMS ? : Rock This Town festival is looking for films with a musical thematic that focuses on current music : rock, jazz, pop, electro, reggae, blues, hip hop or their derivatives. The Rock This Town festival accepts all types of films. They can be fiction, documentary, stop motion, cartoons or experimental or a mix of several types. The running time of the movies must be more than 45 minutes to be accepted. Each film will be screened twice in public at different times. For the 2020 edition, we are looking for films released in 2019 or 2020. With or without a french distributor.
WHO CHOOSES MOVIE ? : The festival Rock This Town is organized by the arthouse cinema theater Le Méliès in Pau and the selection is made by Xavier Le Falher, in agreement with the director of the cinema Philippe Coquillaud. The films can be sent by the director of the film or the producer or the distributor. But not by other festivals
INVITATION : our festival invites directors to come and present their film (from 11 to 19 April 2020) and will take care of travel accommodation and meals. The city of Pau has an airport at 1h15 from Paris and close to Toulouse, Bordeaux, Biarritz or San Sebastian
HOW TO SEND THE MOVIE ? : You can send a watch link or a DVD or Blu Ray or DCP for the movie to be seen by our team in very good projection conditions. Here is the email address where to send the movie : xavier.lefalher@lemelies.net. Please send us a copy under English title and specify if the film has French subtitles.
COMMUNICATION : Once your film is selected or not we will notify you by email. Thank you to send us all the documents that can be used to promote the film: photos, synopsis, trailer, poster or visual.
SCREENING : Our festival began 13 years ago with 35mm film but has since opened up to other formats. Our cinema can project DCP, DVD, Blu Ray, MP4, MOV... (and 35mm !!). If your film is selected, please send us the film as soon as possible in one of these formats. A specialized technical team is in charge of transforming the films into DCP, to ensure the subtitling of the films if it is not on the copy.
The address of the venue : Cinema Le Meliès 6 rue Bargoin 64000 Pau - France
AWARDS CEREMONY : The closing ceremony will take place on Saturday, April 18th at 8pm. Both awards will be announced. And the award-winning film will be screened the next Sunday