Rock This Town (music film festival)

Pau, France, Europe

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Rock This Town (music film festival)

Pau, France, Europe

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About the festival

As an international music festival, Rock This Town has been exploring rock and pop music (in a large meaning) since 2007. For 13 years, our festival has presented documentaries, fiction, short films, video clips, biopics are selected on the screens of Le Cinéma le Méliès in Pau (64 - west south). Cult films, unreleased, underground works or local films are programmed. Rock This Town also invests, in collaboration with faithful partners, other places and other spaces by becoming itinerant. Around the movies : concerts (international live bands), DJ sets, art rock exhibitions, masterclass, record shop and conferences have become essential events of this festival. A large tent next to the cinema offers bar, catering and entertainment throughout the festival. The directors and public mix and can meet easily. School and student sessions are organized and the students of the University and Art School are involved in the preparation and organization of this festival. The cinema becomes during the festival a place of celebration and concerts, DJ set, performance are proposed.

- Prix du Public Rock This Town / Rock This Town Audience Award
The public choose their favorite film from the selection and a 500 € will be awarded to the film.

- Prix du Jury Rock This Town
The jury is composed of professional film, audiovisual, or music people. He will choose a film that will receive a reward of 1000 euros with the help of the city of Pau

About

As an international music festival, Rock This Town has been exploring rock and pop music (in a large meaning) since 2007. For 13 years, our festival has presented documentaries, fiction, short films, video clips, biopics are selected on the screens of Le Cinéma le Méliès in Pau (64 - west south). Cult films, unreleased, underground works or local films are programmed. Rock This Town also invests, in collaboration with faithful partners, other places and other spaces by becoming itinerant. Around the movies : concerts (international live bands), DJ sets, art rock exhibitions, masterclass, record shop and conferences have become essential events of this festival. A large tent next to the cinema offers bar, catering and entertainment throughout the festival. The directors and public mix and can meet easily. School and student sessions are organized and the students of the University and Art School are involved in the preparation and organization of this festival. The cinema becomes during the festival a place of celebration and concerts, DJ set, performance are proposed.

- Prix du Public Rock This Town / Rock This Town Audience Award
The public choose their favorite film from the selection and a 500 € will be awarded to the film.

- Prix du Jury Rock This Town
The jury is composed of professional film, audiovisual, or music people. He will choose a film that will receive a reward of 1000 euros with the help of the city of Pau

Awards & Winners

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Terms and rules

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

Ratings & Reviews

Categories and fees

Musical documentaries, fiction, experimental, stop motion…
Early Bird (15th October, 2020) €1,270
Regular (10th March, 2021) €1,270
Late (27th April, 2021) €1,270

Short
Early Bird (15th October, 2020) €846
Regular (10th March, 2021) €846
Late (27th April, 2021) €846

Documentaries, fiction, experimental, video clip

Video clip
Early Bird (15th October, 2020) €5
Regular (10th March, 2021) €5
Late (27th April, 2021) €5

Video clip from international band. Rock, pop, metal, punk, Hip-Hop, electro music...

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