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CYPRUS COMIC CON FILM FESTIVAL 2023 SELECTIONS & SHORT FILM PROGRAM

48 HOUR FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS (12) – SATURDAY (11:00 – 12:00)

BRNT’ – 5’ Dir.NGP

Unfortunate – 5’ Dir.Daniel Zorblin

Look at Me – 4’ Dir. Paolo Antypas

A Tale about a Fisherman and a Fish – 2’ Dir. RatatouAI , Maria Zatolovskaya

11:30 – Award Ceremony

SHORT FILM SECTION (12) – SATURDAY (12:00 – 14:00)

That is the Mission! – 4’ Dir. Matthieu Kassimo

Font of Infamy – 9’ Dir. Savvas Constantinou

Doctor On Display – 25’ Dir. Roger Christopher Stevens

1-UP – 14’ Dir. Fivos Vas

Brewing in the Sun: A Hoppymentary – 20’ Dir. Iakovos Christodoulou

Arcane – the Letter – 3’ Dir. Kira Cesnik

Remote Encounter – 8’ Dir. Dante Julian Niedzwiedz

12.800 – 7’ Dir. Andreas Papakyriakou

Session – 8’ Dir. Marios Kleanthous

Survival Strategies – 5’ Dir. Bruno Ugioli & Riccardo Menicatt

SHORT FILM SECTION (18+) – SATURDAY (17:00 – 19:30)

Delirium – 5’ Dir.Yaromir Musov

Colonie – 13′ Dir. Romain Daudet-Jahan

Emily’s Mountain – 22’ Dir. Tal Somech

Worrywart – 2’ Dir. Panagiotis Christou

Bloody Fury – 23’ Dir. Incostant Jordan

Alex’s Machine – 25’ Dir. Mael Le Mée

Siege of Paris – 6’ Dir. Darren O’Mahony

One-Minute Mistake – 15’ Directors: Joan Carol Gratz, Diane Obomsawin, Martin Cooper, Janet Perlman, Jim Blashfield, Chris Hinton, Chel White, Marilyn Zornado

Pollinator – 19’ Dir. Kyriakos Kakoulis

I’M – 14’ Dir. Anatoly Tarabrin

Tridamos – 6’ Dir. Carnior

SHORT ANIMATED FILMS (12) – SUNDAY (15:00 – 17:00)

Wonder Woman Revealed – 4’ Dir. Johnnie Gee Griffing

Humming of a Hummingbird – 2’ Dir. Savvas Constantinou

Innermost – 15’ Dir. Maing Caochong

Tourist on a Dead Planet – 5’ Dir. Wheeler Winston Dixon

‘Tis Time – 2’ Dir. Kalia Foinikaridou

Javai Vu – 3’ Directors: Katerina Constantinou, Maria Panayi & Eleftheria Papadopoulou

Cycle – 5’ Dir.Christina Sachpazidou

Tales – 15’ Dir. Daphne Vasiliki Thermidi

It’s Such a Beautiful Day – 62’ Dir. Don Hertzfeldt

BEST OF THE FEST SHORT FILMS  – SUNDAY (17:00 – 19:30)

(Criteria for this Category: Best suited films for the Comic Con theme and overall highest rated films by our team and panel of juries)

Last Trial – A Star Wars Collateral Story – 12’ Dir. Marino Darés

#1 –  8’ Dir. Dante Lundin

Wicked Plans – 6’ Dir. Lee Chambers

Crime Alley – 32’ Dir. Pekka Paalanen

Star Wars: Randezvou – 20’ Dir. Brent L Peterson

The Greeny Planet – 15’ Dir. Hyunbin Lee

Babushkas – 8′ Dir.  Lyubava Yarovaya

Cinema Detectives – 11’ Dir. Jonathan Charles Tapsell

The Black Cube – 5’ Dir. Vitali Pikalevsky

A Fictional Work – 15’ Dir. Carlos Borrego

Batman: Ego – 18’ Dir. Jack Tyler Komaroff

2. A member of the competing team must attend the genre pulling to check in their team on the 22^nd of September at 6:30pm at the Directors Guild of Cyprus at Othellou 27, Nicosia 1016, Cyprus
3. Submissions must be uploaded by each team by Sunday, September 24th at 9:00 p.m. local time via the 48 hour film section on our FilmFreeway Page
   

   If technical problems arise, upload to wetransfer.com and send it to film@cypruscomiccon.org

I. Times and Dates

• The CCC 48 Hour Film Challenge Competition (“Competition”) is open to teams of anyone interested in partaking.
• The CCC 48 Hour Film Challenge Competition takes place September 22 – 24 starting on Friday, September 22^nd at 8:30pm for time and concluding on Sunday, September 24^th at 8:30pm. This is the “Cyprus Comic Con 48 Film ChallengeTime Period.” .
•  Only works that meet the deadline will be eligible to win the competition.
•  Teams providing late submissions are advised to email film@cypruscomiccon.org with an explanation of reasons for the late submission.

II. Creative Work 

ALL CREATIVE WORK MUST BE DONE WITHIN THE “Cyprus Comic Con 48 Film ChallengeTime Period”. “Creative work” is defined as:

• Writing the script
• Rehearsing
• Costume/Set Design
• Shooting
• Editing
• Sound Design
• Rendering
• Exporting media in a form for submission

III. Pre-Competition Work

The only work to begin prior to the “Cyprus Comic Con 48 Film Challenge Time Period” is:

• Organizing Crew
• Organizing Cast
• Securing Equipment
• Scouting/Securing Locations

IV. Sources of Footage

• All footage must be shot within the “Cyprus Comic Con 48 Film Challenge Time Period.”
• No stock footage or footage shot or created at another time may be used.
• Animation and special effects are permitted.
• NOTE: Stock footage is permissible as part of a post-production effect or on a background monitor, i.e., a television, as long as the team has rights to the stock footage and the stock footage is placed over or under footage that is shot within the Challenge Time Period. Allowable stock footage includes bullets, fires, explosions, chromakeyed backgrounds, etc. Stock footage that plays a significant role in the story is not allowed.
• Still photographs are permitted, provided that the team has the rights to them. The photos do not need to have been created during the Challenge Time Period.

V. Kickoff

A member of the competing team must attend the lot pulling at the 22^nd of September at 6:30pm to check in their team at the Directors Guild of Cyprus at Οθέλλου 27, Nicosia 1016, Cyprus

VII. Content Requirements

• Each participating group will be assigned required elements that must appear in its film, such as a Genre, a Character, a Prop and/or a Line of Dialogue.
• The required Character and Prop must be seen on-screen.
• The required Line of Dialogue must be used verbatim. It may be spoken, sung and/or written. It may be in any language but will need to be translated and/or subtitled to clearly demonstrate its use.
• In order for a film to qualify for the competition, each team’s film must be in the genre assigned to it and must contain all required elements within the official time limit and prior to the credits. The Film 48 organizers have sole discretion to determine if an entry meets all the eligibility requirements.

VII. Team Size

• Each team must have a minimum of 1 member to be eligible to compete in the CCC 48 Hour Film Challenge Competition. A maximum of ten members will also be enforced. All members must be listed on the competition registration form before the start of the competition.

VIII. Camera Use

• Any type of video, animation or film camera may be used. There is no limit to the number of cameras.

IX. Music 

• Participating groups may work with a composer and/or musicians to write and record original music for the films. It is permissible for a participating group to use pre-recorded music, assuming they have copyright clearance to include it. In the absence of a composer, we recommend using free public domain music.  Use of original music will be taken into account during judging.

X. Total Running Time

• The finished film must be a minimum of two (2) minutes in duration, and within a maximum of seven (7) minutes in duration, not including end credits. (In other words, the official running time begins after the required slates and ends prior to the end credits.

  XI.  Submission Requirements  

• Submissions must be uploaded by each team to the submission site by Sunday, September 24th at 9:00 p.m. local time either via the 48 hour film section in our Film Freeway Section: https://filmfreeway.com/CyprusComicConFilmFest or if technical problems arise, through https://wetransfer.com/ transfer of the mp4 to film@cypruscomiccon.org.
• If your film is very dark, it may be difficult to see during the screening.
• All films received on the evening of the deadline will be screened, presuming they do not violate any of the submission criteria.  However, only those films submitted prior to or at the deadline will be eligible for winning in the Competition.

XII. Original Content

• To be eligible for the competition, Entries must be the original work of those persons comprising the Entrant; must not infringe third-parties’ rights; must be suitable for publication (i.e., may not contain obscene, pornographic or indecent material); must not contain defamatory statements about any person, company, organization or entity; must  not invade privacy or other rights of any person, company or entity; must  not in any other way violate applicable laws and regulations; and must not contain any copyrighted elements (other than as owned one or more members of the participating group Entrant). Entries containing prohibited or inappropriate content as determined by CCC 48 Hour Film Challenge organizers in their sole discretion, will be disqualified. CCC 48 Hour Film Challenge reserves the right to make the final determination as to which entries are eligible.