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APPEL A FILMS: Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF) 2011
août 2010 | Appels à contributions / candidatures | Cinéma/TV | Afrique du Sud

Français

Dates limite : 15 Novembre 2010 & 15 Décembre 2010
La 4ème édition du Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF), qui aura lieu les 16-26 Mars 2011, à Cape Town et Stellenbosch, ouvre son appel à films. Les soumissions de courts, longs métrages de fictions et les Documentaires sont encouragées. Formulaires et réglements disponibles sur le site web du Festival.

1. Longs métrages de fictions :
Pour ce festival, ce sont tous les films de fiction de plus de 50 minutes.

2. Courts métrages de fictions :
Pour ce festival, ce sont tous les films de fiction de moins de 15 minutes. Cependant les fiction entre 16 et 49 minutes seront pris dans la catégorie courts métrages de fictions.
3. Animation:
Non-live action films, dont claymation, computer et standard animation ; toutes durées.
4. Documentaries:
Les Documentaires sont tous les films qui ne sont pas de la fiction ; toutes durées.

La date limite des soumissions anticipées est au 15 Novembre 2010 et c’est GRATUIT. Après c’est un tarif d’inscription de 50 USD : date limite 15 Décembre 2010.

English

submission deadlines: November 15th, 2010 & 15th December 2010
The 4th edition of Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF), which is scheduled to take place from 16-26 March, 2011, in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, has launched its call for entries today. Feature films, Short Films and Documentaries submissions are eagerly awaited. Entry forms, rules, and regulations are available on the Festival Website.

1. Features:
Features are all fiction films more than 50 minutes of length
2. Shorts:
Shorts are all fiction films up to 15 minutes in length. However all fiction films between 16 to 49 minutes in length will also be considered under the shorts category.
3. Animation:
Animation are all non-live action films, including claymation, computer and standard animation; of all lengths
4. Documentaries:
Documentaries are all non-fiction films of all lengths

The Early Bird submission deadline is November 15th, 2010 and all entries till then are FREE. After that a normal 50 USD entry fee will be charged until the final deadline on 15th December 2010. Although the electronic submission form must be filled out and submitted (email to [email protected]), applicants must also print the form, sign it, and include it in their Submission Package.

Cape Winelands Film Festival 2011, presented by Films for Africa and the City of Cape Town, will screen approximately 250 films during the 10 day festival in Cape Town and the heart of South Africa’s wine region Stellenbosch. The film selections will be posted on the festival’s website in the second week of January 2011.

The 2010 festival received more than 450 submissions from all over the world, though only 250 Feature films, documentaries and short films could be selected. Films without domestic theatrical distribution and films from first-time feature directors are especially welcomed.

The films will compete for the following awards :
Grand Prix Jury Award.
Best Feature Film Award
Best South African Feature Film
Best Documentary Award
Best South African Documentary
Best Short Film Award
Best South African Short Film
Best Animation Award
IFG Inspiration Award (First time feature film directors)

CWFF serves as a platform for the discovery of new and emerging talent and we are devoted to the nurturing and development of new filmmakers and their cinematic vision. The feature competition programs presents a special award for first time directors working with limited budgets, thus enabling the Festival’s mission to give exposure to emerging filmmaking talent.

CWFF also features workshops and writing competitions for screenplays.

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Since the first edition the Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF) has significantly grown in size and international participation. More than 70 features, documentaries and short films from over 35 countries were in competition during 2009. More than130 productions formed part of the festival programme, in total 62 features, 27 documentaries and 44 shorts from more than 35 countries. The 2nd edition of the festival had 32 international guests. The festival had more than 300 screenings in March 2009.

The main objective of the CWFF is to provide a window on world cinemas. Highlights during 2009 included a focus on the cinemas of Egypt, Israel, Brazil, Italy, Iran, as well as the former Yugoslavia (Balkan states). South African movie lovers had an opportunity to see a rich diversity of films from more than 35 countries including Brazil, the USA, Canada, Egypt, Iran, Israel, the UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Chile, Cuba, Italy, France, Thailand, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Russia, Serbia, Rwanda and South Africa.

The festival also aims to build a rich film culture among South African audiences by celebrating great achievements of the past. During the first edition of the Cape Winelands Film festival the oeuvres of giants of the cinema such as Ingmar Bergman, Youssef Chahine and Ousmane Sembene have been highlighted. The intension is to create an awareness of past and present milestones in world cinema. The festival again paid homage to the great Egyptian master, Youssef Chahine, who past away during 2008. His famous Alexandria… Why?, a brilliant blend of autobiographical concerns and a portrait of Egypt was screened for the first time at a South African film festival.

The festival organisers were also delighted to include a tribute to the great Portugese director, Manoel de Oliveira, an international film treasure. During 2008 De Oliveira was honoured at the Cannes Film Festival with a Palme d’Or for his lifetime career achievement in film, which spans more than five decades. Born on December 12, 1908, in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, De Oliveira began his directorial film career in the 1930s. Since he had turned 80 years old the master of Portuguese cinema directed more than 19 feature length films, some of them masterpieces of recent European cinema. De Oliveira is famous for his cinematic adaptations of literary work by Camilo Castelo Branco (1862-1890), José Régio (1899-1969) en Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922-), as well as his use of theatrical conventions in his films.

The organisers also celebrated the work of the great African director, Idrissa Ouédraogo, winner of various international awards at major festivals such as Cannes, Berlin and FESPACO. His great films, Tilai, Yaaba, Anger of the Gods and the small gem La Mangue, which forms part of the powerful compilation film Stories on Human Rights, were screened in collaboration with M-Net’s African Film Library and the African Cinema Unit at the University of Cape Town.

Apart from the current partnerships with the City of Cape Town, M-Net’s African Film Library and the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town the festival organisers have formed new exciting partnerships with various international institutions, which will result in a rich blend of retrospectives, competition components and workshops.

Please visit http://films-for-africa.co.za/
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