Selections for IDFA Documentary Festival Amsterdam

Deadline: July 15th

Selections for IDFA Documentary Festival Amsterdam

Cinecittà, organizes the Italian selections for the next IDFA - Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (9th - 20th November 2022).
Laura van Halsema, Senior Programmer of the festival, will be our guest to watch this year’s submissions from August 2nd through the 5th, 2022.
These are the main guidelines of the selections:
* IDFA has two main competitions: International Competition and Envision Competition. In addition to these, there are the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary and IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary sections
* Each contest has its own awards:
International: best film, best director, best cinematography and best editing
Envision: best film, best director, award for outstanding artistic contribution
There are also three awards, independent of the section in which the film was selected: best first feature documentary (60 minutes and up) for the best Dutch film and for the best creative use of archival images. The films selected for the two main competitions, Luminous and Frontlight, can be awarded with the first prize. Films from all other sections of the festival can compete for the second and third prize.
Films must have been completed after July 15, 2021
Films presented in the past selections, though altered considerably, cannot be submitted again and will not be considered. Films that have already been submitted for this edition are NOT eligible for this call.
>At this link< you can find the complete regulation.
We remind you that the documentaries proposed by us will be exempt from paying the admission fee but you still must fill the Entry Form >at this link< to complete the registration.
To have your waiver code you will need send a request to the following email address, however no later than Friday 15 July 2022, specifying the title, direction and duration.
We therefore invite you to submit a Vimeo link with English s / t of films you intend to submit, with reference to IDFA, to:
Alessio Massatani: a.massatani@cinecittaluce.it 
Cecilia Spanoc.spano@cinecittaluce.it