Terms to the FocFest local organizers to follow.
Submission Form: PDF DOC
Online Submission
Statement
Freedom honors Peace and the dignity that allows honesty, fair treatment; fostering a positive and healthy environment to all. Sometimes and in some contexts these values are still for accomplish and healthy relationship of comfort, security, respect, dignity, self-worth, confidentiality, openness and communication were not achieved.
Freedom of choice gives us the power of decision and self-determination that provides everyone to exercise their right. Justice, fairness and equality enhances the sense of self-esteem that at the end consolidate peace.
The Freedom of Choice International Video and Film Peace Festival (FocFest) is committed to bringing to the public quality creative art movies with civic and intervention assent. It seeks to promote the ideals of peace, freedom,
open society, tolerance, political and cultural pluralism within a global context as well as fight and expose the cases of violation of those commitments throughout
the world.
The FocFest works towards to show multisided views of world peace and freedom through the art form of video and film expressed creatively and critically. It aims to promote the use of moving image involving broad audiences
in an open debate about the challenges facing humanity.
Alberto Guerreiro
Main Goals:
• Screening a multi-view of the world peace and freedom of choice subject through video-art by a creative and critic perspective way.
• Promoting the ideals of peace, freedom, open society, tolerance, political and social pluralism in a global context.
• Exposing the violation of freedom and peace commitment.
• Involving the audience into an open debate about this two great human aims: freedom and peace.
The FocFest is an event of Artists for Peace: “Interested in promoting Peace and Friendship, Non Violence, and an active attitude against War”.
Terms and Conditions:
Themes: Freedom of Choice, Peace and Human Rights.
Call: Open to everyone.
Type: No competition. More than one movie by artist is acceptable.
Registration fee: no fee.
Registration method: application form.
Origin: Worldwide.
Genres accepted: All genres.
Call deadline: 29th August, 2008.
Selection deadline (communication of the movies list): October (date to confirm).
Event: November 2008 (date to confirm).
Please email the submission form to focfest@gmail.com .
Video and Film Works shoul be Send to and as follows:
The screening copy of the movie (DVD) and the original submission and permission form (sign) should be send until the end of August to the post address below (All deliveries from international participants must be marked - NO COMMERCIAL VALUE, CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY).
Focfest.
Att: Alberto Guerreiro / Milton Dias
Apartado - P.O. Box 519
2461-901 Alcobaça
Portugal.
Technical requirements:
Original formats: All formats.
Screening formats: DVD (Europe Pal + US and Asia, NTSC).
Maximum running time: shouldn't exceed 10 minutes.
Production: movies completed after 1st January, 2001.
I FocFest '08 is to be screened in Artist for Peace countries and will be celebrated simultaneously in: Portugal (Lisbon), Turkey (Istanbul), USA, (San Francisco, CF), Viareggio (Italy) and Yerevan (Armenia).
Festival Team:
Production: Artists for Peace
Coordination team: Alberto Cerritos, Alberto Guerreiro, Milton Dias, Sahin Ozbay, Sevgi Ürum and Pancho Peskador.
Festival Concept: Alberto Guerreiro.
Artwork, Design and Layout: Milton Dias a.k.a. m.ego ©
Local Event Curators:
Portugal - Lisbon - (Alberto Guerreiro | Milton Dias)
Turkey - Istanbul - (Sahin Ozbay | Sevgi Ürum)
U. States – San Francisco, California - (Pancho Peskador)
Italy - Viareggio (Mirco Piccioli)
Armenia – Yerevan (David Kareyan)
Submission form and permission: www.artistsnpeace.org/focfest.htm
Contact and submit the works by: focfest@gmail.com
For further information please contact:
Focfest@gmail.com
artistsnpeace@gmail.com
Terms to the FocFest local organizers to follow. Top
Maintain the mission, the goals and the layout (banners, logo and other settled
promotional design) established for the FocFest and sustained by the Artists for
Peace.
Obvious solidarity principle between promoters that include: communication of
the development efforts taken place by each local team to other members of the
FocFest organization (update feedback by the Focfest@gmail.com or
artistsnpeace@gmail.com);
The Festival will have two types of screening exhibitions: open (by submission)
and special (special guest's artists invited by the local organizers and it can go
up to 5 videos);
Every local organization can select up to ten movies from an open call that
shouldn't exceed 10 minutes. High Quality streaming standard should be taken
in consideration for later live screening;
If the open call does not fit the number of works needed to establish a screening
list the invitation can be extended until it reaches 10 movies;
The movies selected by all local teams will establish the screening programme
that will run simultaneously in every spot (same movies for all places): because
of that every local team have to provide a DVD-copy of there selected material
and send it to other countries or places involved;
The other basic standards are already settled in the mission and goals
information provide at the FocFest page in Artists for Peace site (www.artistsnpeace.org/focfest.htm) and Artists for Peace forum at Artmesh
community;
The promotion of offensive messages, artworks and propaganda against
freewill, freedom of choice or the defense of partial political, religious or other
kind of social positions are not acceptable;
Final screening dates should be settled in May after all local events are
confirmed (upon the number of the material and the total time of the screening
its possible that the event will take place in more than one day);
Beside the need to follow the common standards local teams have full
autonomy to manage the local event the most suitable manner possible as they
think is the best: sponsorship, partnership, state or other kind of support,
screening spaces, programme settling; entrance facilities or fees (even so the
FocFest recommend free entrance for everyone to the screening event);
It is recommended that local organizers provide an regular address to facilitate
the mailing and the reception of works to the ones have difficulty in sending by
ftp-internet (an easy contact way like e-mail also helps);
Local teams should provide a suitable space for screening the event and they
are free to manage a regular exhibition-screening room or an installation display
room (to those materials more suitable to these sorts of screening
environments: ex. video-loops or experimental works);
Local teams are free and encouraged for organizing all kind of support activities
to the main event (meeting, forum, debates, shows, music, party, etc.);
The local FocFest events should promote also the FocFest in his global
dimension (promoting what is happening in other places: mentioning the
mission and goals statement, countries involved and artists for peace and other
partners in this effort).
Festival Team:
Production: Artists for Peace
Coordination team: Alberto Cerritos, Alberto Guerreiro, Milton Dias, Sahin
Ozbay, Sevgi Ürum and Pancho Peskador.
Festival Concept: Alberto Guerreiro.
Artwork, Design and Layout: Milton Dias a.k.a. m.ego ©
Local Event Curators:
Portugal - Lisbon - (Alberto Guerreiro | Milton Dias)
Turkey - Istanbul - (Sahin Ozbay | Sevgi Ürum)
U. States – San Francisco, California - (Pancho Peskador)
Italy - Viareggio (Mirco Piccioli)
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Please don't forget to download the submission form and send it to focfest@gmail.com with subject "Online Submission". - Submission Form: PDF DOC For further information please contact:
Focfest@gmail.com
artistsnpeace@gmail.com
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