Ischia Film Festival is the heart of the project “Cinema & Territory’’ created by Michelangelo Messina for the no-profit organization Association Art Movie & Music, whose purpose is to spread among a vast audience unedited audio-visual works that highlight the cultural identity of a place through the movie screening and locations.
Every year the festival presents a selection of films from all over the world: all of them emphasize the cultural identity or the landscape's features of a certain territory through the audiovisual narration. A jury of personages of the film industry awards the best films among the ones selected for the official competition.
During the Festival week, in addition to the competition's film screenings, there is a special section about "denied location" and there also are omages to important figures of the international film industry. The Festival is an important part of a wider project called "Cinema and territory" that aims at protecting cultural and landscape peculiarities of territories in order to promote them through the audiovisual medium.
The Ischia Film Festival is an international thematic competition dedicated to the film location in the audiovisual
Can partecipate in the Ischia Film Festival competition, documentaries and short films which have given particular importance to culture, traditions, to the environment and history of the locations, or in which the location is functional to the theme in question and its narrative development, can take part.
-The works can be both unpublished and published, but necessarily presented to the audience after 1st January 2014.
-The short films in competition must have a length of maximum 30 minutes. The works selection is done according to the unquestionable judgment of the Festival Management and the selection Committee.
-The registration is subject to the payment of € 5,00 as contribution for the festival secretary's office expenses.
-Foreign films must be subtitled in Italian or English by the participants. This can be done also after the selection according to the audience of the screening.
-In case of selection will be required at least one copy on DVD or Bluray Disk for projection
Award
-“Ischia Film” Award to the documentary and short film that have most enhanced the locations.
-“Ischia Film” Award to the feature film that has most enhanced the locations.
-“Castello Aragonese” award to the best director
-“Aenaria” award to the best set designer
-“Epomeo” award to the best photography director
