dal 10 dicembre 2014 al 31 gennaio 2015
Participants
The competition is open to any person over 16 years old with nationality and / or residence in Europe, who presents ,either individually or in group, works with a maximum length of 59 seconds (credit titles included).Works must not exceed this time. All works must be original. The aim of the EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL CREATION COMPETITION "CTL 59 SECONDS" is to spread, promote and encourage the implementation of video art works. It is aimed at students, hobbyists and profesionals who want to publicize, in person and on-line, audiovisual works that have artistic and technical value with a maximum duration of 59 seconds.
The topic of the videos (development of a thematic idea or story line) will be free choice and its content may have fiction or documentary nature. The Jury will particularly take into account originality, creativity and visual conceptual and formal experimentation, of the works. This contest was created to spread the artistic intent through video creation, considering as artistic intention all that is not merely communicative or informative, but which adds experimental, formal, poetic, philosophical content to the audiovisual creation in itself, using technical, grammatical, conceptual and aesthetic resources .
Contest participants will have nationality and / or residence credited in any of the 51 states, territories and regions in Europe , namely:
a) All the 28 members of the EU : Austria , Belgium , Bulgaria , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland, France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Ireland, Italy, Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , Netherlands, Poland , Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and Croatia;
b ) Countries with institutional and cultural relations with the EU: Iceland , Liechtenstein , Norway , Switzerland and Bosnia Herzegovina.
c) Candidates to join the EU (Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), and those countries that benefit from the pre-accession EU : Bosnia , Serbia ( including Kosovo ), Albania and Montenegro. d) Eastern European Countries not belonging to the EU (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova) , the three Baltic republics and autonomous republics and Caucasus territories .
Awards
The jury will award the following prizes:
a) Award for Best Audiovisual Creation 2015 " CTL 59 seconds " (Diploma and 1,000 Euros)
b ) Special Jury Award for Best Director of Navarra (Diploma)
c ) Special Jury Mention for best experimental work (Diploma)
Presentation of works Free topic works sent must have the following characteristics:
a) MP4 video format with H.264 codec and a 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720 square pixel resolution, at a speed of either25, 50 or 60 frames per second and progressive scanning.
b) All works must be subtitled in Spanish and/or English, as far as dialogues, voice over or texts are included.
c) Each participant will be allowed to present up to three works.
Registration and submissions
Registration will be effective when the participant sends the following documents:
1) The entry form, which can be downloaded from the website ( www.ctl-online.com ) and sent to the e-mail address, 59segundos@ctl-online.com .If the original work is collective, it must be completed with the details of all authors . 2) A text document in Spanish with a short biography of the participant and a brief synopsis of the script 3) A frame extracted from the audiovisual work, maximum of 500Kb and in. jpg format which must not contain the title (other than initial frame ) or superimposed subtitles . 4) A video file as it is stated in point 2.
Submission of material can be done in any of these three ways:
a) Delivery at our centre office (C/ Buenaventura Iñiguez 18-20) of a DVD or pen drive with the four documents required for registration.
b) Delivery by mail to the address C/ Buenaventura Iñiguez 18-20, 31006, Pamplona of a DVD or pen drive with the four documents required for registration.
c) Sending an e-mail to 59segundos@ctl-online.com with the subject Registration request for CECA 59” CTL, including your NAME and SURNAME and a link to download an ONLY folder named after the participant’s NAME AND SURNAME and which contains the four documents requested for registration. The file must be hosted in any of the following free services: Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Mega(1) o WeTransfer(1).
(1) Bear in mind that in those services links may expire and if the sending coincides with Christmas Holidays and we haven’t been able to download it , you will be requested to send it again.
The period for registration and submission of papers opens on Monday, October 20, 2014 and ends on January 31, 2015. Awards and Screening: April 2015. The list of finalist selected works will be published on the web www.ctl-online.com (march 2015)
INFORMATION: (Phone + 0034 948 291756)