COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT

September 30th – October 8th 2006

Festival Internazionale del Film sull’Arte e di Biografie d’Artista
Cinema - TV - Video - Videoart – Architecture - Design - Computer Art - Productions of Cinema Schools

The 2006 edition of the AsoloArtFilmFestival will be held in Asolo (Treviso) from September 30th to October 8th 2006. The festival upholds the cultural tradition established by the ‘Festival Internazionale del Film sull’Arte e di Biografie d’Artista’, embodying the same concept. Inaugurated in 1973, the former festival enjoyed great international success for over two decades, until it finally closed at the end of the 1990s. Thirty years later its inauguration and its following the progress happened in visual language, the festival has been relaunched as the “AsoloArtFilmFestival”: an international prized event centred upon a competition for cinema devoted to the arts in their myriad forms of expression.
The festival will be the scene for the Career Award “ Flavia Paulon”. The award will be given to the artist of international relevance who left a significant trace with his/her personality and art in the contemporary cultural scene of cinema and art.

The competition is distinct in six sections:
• FILMS ON ART for works devoted to the visual arts and music;

• ARTISTS’ LIVES for projects depicting, throughout a historical reconstruction and critical interpretation, personalities from the world of visual arts and music;

• FILMS ON THE ARCHITECTURE for films devoted to History, movements, protagonists, works and projects about architecture and town planning;

• DESIGN for works devoted to History, movements and protagonists in the design field;

• VIDEOART – COMPUTER ART for works utilizing electronic or computer technologies as a means of direct artistic expression

• PRODUCTIONS related to the visual arts and music, made by recognized film schools, specialized higher education institutes and universities;

The festival was conceived and organized by the cultural association Asolo International Art Festival (A.I.A.F.), a non-profit private organization with legal status (Veneto Regional Council Decree (DGR)
N°. 59741.03 of 18.04.03).
The A.I.A.F. is chaired by Lionello Puppi.

RULES

Only works made after January 1st 2004 are eligible for the competition.
The works must fall into one of the above 6 sections, which must be indicated on the entry form. The Selection Committee reserves the right to move a work to another section should it thinks the work would better fit in a different sector from the one the artist submitted to.

To enter the competition the following are necessary:
• An entry form with all the parts filled in;
• Two copies of the work (PAL standard) in VHS or DVD;
• A short biography and essential filmography of the film-maker(s);
• A synopsis of the work in Italian or English;
• At least two slides or JPEG images of different frames or stills of the work, with the authorization to broadcast them on television and publish them in the press, or otherwise use them to promote the festival;
• The work script either of dialogue or commentary in Italian or English;
• List of original and non-original sound tracks.

This material must be prepared and submitted by the participants, and sent in by July 30th 2006. If works arrive after that date, the postmark will be considered as proof of their having been sent in time. Should the material submitted be incomplete, the organizing committee will decide whether the work is eligible for the competition, and its decision will be final.
The materials submitted will not be returned but kept as documentation in the festival archive. One of the works copies will be part of the A.I.A.F International Mediateca , created with the purpose to make the material available for studying and consulting to both Universities, Schools and worldwide students, and also to the promotion of the festival.

The required materials must be sent to the following address:
AsoloArtFilmFestival,
Foresto Vecchio, 8,
31011 Asolo (TV) Italy.

A special committee will be set up to make a preliminary selection of the works submitted.
At least 30 days before the festival opening date, the film-makers or producers whose works have been chosen will be informed that they have been accepted for the competition. They must submit a copy of the master transferred to Betacam SP or DVD. If this copy is not in Italian it must be subtitled in this language. If these subtitles are missing, when required, the contestant will automatically be excluded from the competition. The copies of the chosen works must reach the organizing body of the festival before and no later than September 15th 2006, otherwise they will be excluded. These copies will not be returned but will be kept in the festival archive.