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Call for entries for the 2014 edition of VIDEO CONVERSATIONS International Documentary Film Festival on Art and Architecture 20 -24 October 2014 Casa dell'Architettura (House of Architecture) Piazza M. Fanti, 47 - Rome | Italy Video Conversations is a cultural project curated by Art Doc Festival and promoted by the Casa dell'Architettura. The 2014 edition of the Festival will take place in Rome, at the Casa dell'Architettura for 5 days in the month of October 2014 and it will feature the best documentary productions in cinema and television from 2011 to the present. The Festival is divided into three sections: 1. ART This section comprehends documentaries produced all over the world between 2011 and today on the theme of visual arts. Documentaries featured in this section portray painting, sculpture, photography, performing art, art installations, land art, graphic, design, new trends in contemporary art, great exponents in the arts and their exhibitions, restorations, events, inquiries and historical investigations on art. 2. ARCHITECTURE This section comprehends documentaries produced all over the world between 2011 and today on architecture. Documentaries featured in this section portray architecture, design, city planning, restorations, monuments, churches, museums, palaces, cities, neighborhoods, contemporary and historical constructions, restorations, landscaping, architectural installations, biographies of architects and archival footage on the art of building and rebuilding. 3. PERIPHERAL VISION - SPECIALE SECTION ON THE THEME OF OUTSKIRT This section comprehends documentaries produced all over the world between 2011 and today the theme of outskirt, intended as a reflection on the relationship between men and urban environment interpreted as a place of growing and sharing. Documentaries featured in this section portray the expansion of cities and their boundaries, real suburbs and imaginary outskirts, new ways of using urban spaces, suburbs and urban planning, the city revised through the new multimedia languages, architecture, visual arts, cinema, theater, music, dance, literature, philosophy. Participants are kindly requested to specify for which section they are submitting their film. The selecting committee reserves the right to move any of the submitted films from one section to another. During the last evening a jury of experts will award a prize for best documentary in each section. All the documentaries received through this call for entries will be kept in the Art Doc Festival's archive and will be available to scholars and experts who can view them by appointment in the office of the association. PARTECIPANTS RULES Art Doc Festival will only accept documentaries produced between 2011 and today featuring the content specified above. International films must provide subtitling in Italian or in English. If subtitled in English, we also require dialogue transcripts. To partecipate in Video Conversations, by July 15, 2014 is required: 1. To fill out every part of the application form, following the described procedure. 2. To send the following material to our address Art Doc Festival c/o Panini Bucciarelli, Piazza Adriana, 15 - 00193 Roma – Italia: two PAL STANDARD copies of the film; a paper copy of the application form, fully filled out and signed by the copyright owner. 3. To send the following material to our email address info@artdocfestival.it: two high resolution pictures related to the film (jpg, 300 dpi). By entering the contest each individual filmmaker or producer is responsible for the content of his work and warrants that the grant of this licence will not infringe the copyright (sound or picture) or any other rights whatsoever of any third party. By applying the review the participants explicitly allows the use of sound and video materials. Art Doc Festival may also show short clips or images from the submitted entries on television news, broadcasts and in all kind of promotion and communications activities related to the review. Copyright's owners also authorize further showings of their works without any charge for non-profit purposes. The subscriber declares that all the submitted information are true and allows their use for promotional and communication purposes related to the review (catalogue, website, social networks, press releases, etc.). Both the admitted and the non-admitted titles will NOT be returned to the film senders, as they will remain for good in the Art Doc Festival archive for documentary purposes. They will not be used for commercial purposes and could be seen within the archive for free. Signing in the entry form implies full acceptance of all the terms and conditions. These rules are considered part of the application form and must be signed and attached to it. In case of controversy, the Court of Roma will have jurisdiction. Should there be any interpretation problems of terms and conditions, the Italian version will be considered as final. Personal information will be dealt according to the terms of Law no. 675 of 31/12/1996 and following changes and additions. INFO: Art Doc Festival info@artdocfestival.it
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