Film Fest Gent
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Genres
Action Adaptation Adventure Animation Art-house Asian Black Black Comedy Bollywood Children Comedy Crime Documentary Drama Experimental Fantasy French Gay and Lesbian Hindi Historical Horror Independent Jewish Music Video Musical National Reality Romance Science Fiction Short Silent Student Thriller TV Women
Festival Overview
With its focus on both film and music,Film Fest Gent occupies its own unique place in the international festival landscape. For over two decades now, we have been holding our competition and every year sees increasing popularity of the film music concerts and great anticipation as to the winner of the World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert (WSA). Our pioneering role has not gone unrewarded. Not only has Ghent become a meeting place for established and up-and-coming film music talent, but increasing numbers of other festivals are also featuring music. Think of Berlin, Cannes and Karlovy Vary to name but three. Even the European Film Academy has been awarding a prize for the best European film music composer since 2004. This is not only the result of charisma, but also increasing globalisation. For film festivals are just as subject to this trend as anything else. Over and over, the largest festivals succeed in bringing together people from the widest variety of locations and cultures. All of them are creatively occupied with image and culture, without, of course, forgetting the economic undercurrent. Film as art form and film as industry: it is an ever-recurring tug of war. But at film festivals, these two aspects blend into a single harmonious whole. Sometimes the one aspect serves as the foundation for the other, since that which gets financed in the one cinema market may get a place in the competition in the other. Usually, a lot of flag-waving and no little glamour are on display. With the result that at every film festival there arises a conflict between entertainment and research, between seeking out a balance and seeking out the new, between the established values and the ambitious newcomers. And Film Fest Gent is no exception to this. Indeed, we actively incorporate and encompass the latest international trends, translating them into our own wide social framework. In this way, sponsors, students, critics, film fans and senior citizens can all enjoy the previews and premiers, browse through the World Cinema and fall for the charms of the A Look Apart section. In this way, we fulfil our mostra function. We show a high quality selection of what is on offer in world cinema. But we don't stop there. By systematically increasing the prize fund and by paying out the awards to the distributors, we help films reach theatres. In this way we contribute to the diversification of the film offer and we try to give solid backing to high quality film. In all of this, we never lose sight of the local film industry and Flemish and Belgian films are given a preferential place in the programme. For us it is an opportunity to involve the film profession actively in the film event, because we pack dynamism into the Film Fest Gent. Governments come to it to make much talked-about policy declarations, young people, senior citizens and other social groups find their own niche there, and speakers of other languages find films in their own mother tongues. In short, we turn it into a film festival with tangible dimensions. It follows that our mission is to organise as good as possible a film festival every year. This is our goal, what our young and alert team enthusiastically strives towards, day after day.
Awards
41st Film Fest Gent The Awards: 1. COMPETITION * Grand Prix for Best Film: A € 20,000 cash distribution grant for Belgian distributor + media-campaign with a value of €23000 * Georges Delerue Award for Best Music: A € 10,000 cash distribution grant for Belgian distributor + media-campaign with a value of €15000 2. THE WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS * Film Composer of the Year * Best Original Soundtrack of the Year * Best Original Song Written Directly for Film * Discovery of the Year * Public Choice Award * The Lifetime Achievement Award * The Sabam Award for Best Young European Composer 3. EXPLORE AWARD A cash money prize for the director of € 5,000 and a € 23,000 media return (Studio Brussel, De Morgen & Knack) for the Belgian distributor 4. NATIONAL LOTTERY AWARD FOR BEST BELGIAN STUDENT SHORT A cash money prize for the director of € 2,000 5. THE PRIX EFA GHENT A nomination for European Film Academy Award for Best European Short 6. THE PORT OF GHENT AUDIENCE AWARD A € 5,000 cash distribution grant for Belgian distributor + media-campaign with a value of €15000 7. CANVAS AUDIENCE AWARD TV-acquisition by public broadcaster VRT-Canvas (value 10,000 euro for 2 runs / 3 years)
Entries
Closed to the public
Eligibility:
Submissions are welcome until 1 August 2013. All we need is a DVD screener accompanied by an entry form (to be dowloaded from the festival website: http://www.filmfestival.be/pdf/ENTRY_FORM.pdf) documentation of the film (pressbook, some stills, reviews, if any and a director's biography) (Film Fest Gent, Attn. Wim De Witte, Leeuwstraat 40b, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium). These materials will not be returned.
For the COMPETITION FOR EUROPEAN SHORTS, only films produced in 2013 in Europe will be eligible.
Only a limited amount of non-european shorts will be shown in a non-competing program.
In it's documentary section the festival will mainly focus on music- and film-linked subjects.
Formats:
35 mm, HDCam, DCP (Jpeg2000), DVCam and Betacam SP or Digital (PAL or NTSC) prints are accepted.
Competing films must have a running time of at least 75 minutes.
Fees:
There are no entry fees associated with this festival
| Recent Festival News | News | |
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| 7th Aug 2014 | Bret Easton Ellis to head jury of 41st Film Fest Gent | |
| 7th Aug 2014 | Focus on France at the 41st edition of Film Fest Gent | |
| 29th Oct 2008 | World Soundtrack Awards @ Ghent International Film Festival | |
| 29th Oct 2008 | Ghent International Film Festival | |
| 1st Apr 2008 | Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent - Call for entries | |
| 8th Nov 2007 | A TRIBUTE TO FILM MUSIC: The European Film Academy Celebrates the 20th Europe... | |
| 8th Nov 2007 | Film Festival Ghent announces World Soundtrack Awards winners | |
| 8th Nov 2007 | Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent | |
| 18th Jun 2007 | Kathleen Turner to Head Jury for 34th Annual Flanders International Film Fest... | |
| 18th Jun 2007 | 34th Ghent Film Festival focuses on Argentina and film music |
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Film Festival Primary contact |