Like every year, we are coordinating the selections for Italian films at the 33rd edition of the Sundance Film Festival (January 21-31, 2017).
Sundance Senior Programmer, John Nein, will be in Rome to screen the Italian films at our offices here in Rome from Monday October 3 to Wednesday October 5, 2016.
Please, find the following rules & regulations:
- Section World Cinema Competition: (dramatic and documentary) the films must be International Premieres, must not have participated in any public or festival screenings outside Italy (therefore Venice, Rome and Turin festivals are allowed ).
The run time cannot be less than 50 minutes.
- Section Spotlight and Premieres: by Invitation only.
- For the other sections (Park City at Midnight, New frontier, Sundance Kids) please refer to full Regulations.
We would like to inform you that only the films and documentaries submitted in the section World Cinema Competition through our company, will be exempt from the submission fee. In order to receive the fee waiver code, you must reply to the emails below by and no later than September 28,2016 specifying the title, the director and if it is a film or a documentary.
We also kindly ask you to send a dvd/Blu-ray with English subtitles to our office by and no later than September 28, 2016:
Istituto Luce Cinecittà – Filmitalia, Via Tuscolana 1055, 00173 Rome (Italy).
Ref: Sundance Film Festival (please, specify also the section in which you wish to submit the film), attention:
Feature films:
Monique Catalino m.catalino@cinecittaluce.it tel. +3906 72286334
Griselda Guerrasio g.guerrasio@cinecittaluce.it tel. +3906 72286323
Documentaries:
Alessio Massatani a.massatani@cinecittaluce.it tel. +3906 72286408