Last days to participate in the call for the 16th edition of the Roberto Rossellini Award for the diffusion of knowledge, from Calvi dell’Umbria.
The Award is dedicated to short films and is an initiative that aims to promote talents, professionals and young newcomers.
After twelve years in which the event took place in Maiori, on the Amalfi coast, the initiative has reached its fourth edition in Calvi dell’Umbria. The competition is aimed not only at film school students from all over the world, but also at videomakers and directors who have already presented their works to the public.
Participants in the call will have to send a screenplay for a short film with a maximum final editing duration of 15 minutes.
The jury, chaired by Renzo Rossellini and made up of personalities from Italian cinema, will evaluate the screenplays by choosing three. For the selected works there is a contribution of 2,000 euros for each screenplay which will be assigned directly by the Roberto Rossellini association and is aimed at the creation and delivery of the short films.
Each participant will be able to freely choose any sponsors and other public or private funding for the creation of their short film. The scripts must be sent to the email [email protected] with the proposer’s CV attached, by midnight on 31 May, indicating in the subject of the email the words: “Rossellini Award Screenplay 2024”.
The winning short films must be shot in the area of the municipality of Calvi in Umbria, a municipality which must be mentioned as the filming location in the credits.
The Rossellini prize is aimed at young filmmakers who, in order to participate, must not have turned 35 on the date of presentation of the screenplay.
Among all the screenplays received, particular attention will be given to those that contemplate a social theme, to keep faith with the thoughts of Roberto Rossellini and his view of Cinema as “An Art useful to Human Beings”, which does not exclude other types of themes , even funny or ironic, but which can make you think.
