Competition Announcement
The rules for taking part in Booktrailer Film Festival
The rules for taking part in Booktrailer Film Festival
COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT
The BOOKTRAILER FILM FESTIVAL (BFF) is promoted by Liceo Scientifico A. Calini in collaboration with:
The Booktrailer Film Festival is a place for meeting and discussing literature and the ways it has been promoted through cinematographic language. It holds meetings, workshops with writers, journalists, actors, film directors and other experts. It engages schools, libraries, bookshops, associations, and websites aimed at the promotion of literature through cinema. In fact, the aim of the project is to spread the Booktrailer, a short video recreating a book and inviting people to its reading. An important moment of the Festival is a contest in which lower and upper secondary school students’ engagement and creativity are involved to independently create the booktrailers.
The official information channels for the Booktrailer Film Festival include: the interactive web platform (www.booktrailerfilmfestival.eu), the connected Facebook page and Instagram profile, and the newsletter.
Its Partners are:
It collaborates with schools, libraries, bookstores, associations, publishers and Internet sites
for the dissemination of reading and cinema.
Created by Liceo Scientifico ‘A. Calini’ in 2007 the Booktrailer Film Festival became European in 2016 thanks to the involvement of schools from different European countries, which are now partners, in an Erasmus+ Project.
A great part of the Festival is the competition among booktrailers created by students who attend secondary schools and from 2018-2019 from pupils of lower secondary schools too. The award ceremony takes place on April 16th 2025 at Teatro Sociale in Brescia.
A national jury of experts, for each country involved, proceeds to designate winners of the ‘Jury Prize’ and the awarding of prizes. Moreover, each national jury selects by March 26th 2025 a maximum of three booktrailers that will take part in the European competition.
The winning booktrailer of each national section will be screened during the awards ceremony. Other booktrailers of the European partners, up to three for each nation, will be shown according to the unquestionable judgment of the Italian jury.
A jury of visually impaired experts, chaired by an Italian film director and scriptwriter, autonomously designates the winner of the ‘Accessibility Prize’ among the booktrailers selected by the Italian juries. The Accessibility Prize is sponsored by UIC (Italian Visually Impaired People Union).
A European jury, composed of one teacher and one student from each partner school and chaired by the Italian jury president, assigns the ‘European Teachers and Students’ Jury Award’ among the three booktrailers chosen by the European partners.
A working team, composed of teachers, students, parents and experts, organizes the competition, which is to be repeated annually, and all of the initiatives related to the Festival.
A scientific committee, composed of some leading figures in different fields (cinema, literature, art, music, advertising) and chaired by the Headmaster of Liceo Scientifico A. Calini, guarantees the cultural quality of the initiative.
The names and biographies of the members of the scientific committee and juries can be found on the Booktrailer Film Festival’s official website, provided by the following link:
https://www.booktrailerfilmfestival.eu/en/juries and https://www.booktrailerfilmfestival.eu/en/scientific-committee.
WHO CAN TAKE PART
Individual students, groups of students, or entire classes of lower and upper secondary schools can take part in the Booktrailer Film Festival Competition.
HOW TO SIGN UP FOR THE CONTEST
The sign up request is free and it must be completed, exclusively online on the Festival website https://booktrailerfilmfestival.eu/ from December 1st 2024 to February 17th 2025. The booktrailers, unpublished and not published elsewhere before the awards ceremony, must be sent to the above website. The choice of the book to be reworked is up to the participant(s). Having registered as ‘users’ on the platform does not necessarily imply taking part in the contest.
The author or the person in charge of the booktrailer (after being named by the members in case of group work) who intends to participate in the contest must:
Participants are responsible for compilation errors, including those that are related to the link provided for viewing the booktrailer. The Booktrailer Film Festival’s staff isn’t responsible for checking and reporting on these errors. After the submission of the registration form and the uploading of the booktrailer, it won’t be possible in any case to modify the submitted information. Every student can only present one booktrailer. In the
case of group works, the participants are allowed to present only one other booktrailer individually or in other groups. As regards copyright violation, all instructions are available on the website. Only the booktrailer’s author(s) will be responsible for any possible violation.
Please, regularly check on the news page of the platform, some little changes could be done after the publication of the announcement.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS TO VALIDATE THE PARTICIPATION
Keeping in mind that the choice of the book is free, the booktrailer:
Booktrailers not respecting all of the above criteria could be excluded from the competition.
AWARDS
The contest, reserved to lower and upper secondary schools, awards distinct prizes at the unquestionable judgment of the different juries:
The competition reserved to the lower secondary school awards (valid only for the Italian contest):
a first prize awarded by the Junior Italian Jury. The best four booktrailers selected by the Italian Junior jury will compete for the accessibility prize.
AWARDS CEREMONY
All prizes are made public on April 16th, 2025 at ‘Teatro Sociale’ in Brescia. An English translation will be provided.
During the following days prizes and motivations will be published on the Booktrailer Film Festival website.
The members of the Italian Jury for the upper secondary schools will meet on April 1st, 2025 at 3 p.m. They will evaluate the booktrailers and will award a cash prize to the three best works as follows:
Further mentions and/or prizes could be given for the works of particular value.
Because of the attention that the Festival pays to the theme of accessibility, the Italian Jury will be committed to give a special mention and 200 euros to the most accessible booktrailer for blind or partially-sighted people, with the support of the Unione Italiana Ciechi e Ipovedenti of Brescia (Italian Visually Impaired People Union). The accessibility jury will meet on April 8th at 6 p.m.
The European Award will be communicated on the same evening and it will consist of a parchment or a plate.
The online Audience Award will be assigned on the same evening and will consist of 200 euros in order to buy some books or/and audiobooks purchasable online by “Il Narratore” publisher. The online competition is open from 5th to 12th April 2025 among the best booktrailers chosen by each national jury.
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS
The members of the Italian Jury for the lower secondary schools meets on April 1st 2025, at 3 p.m. They will evaluate the booktrailers and will award a cash prize of 300
euros to the best work. Further mentions will be given, as well as further prizes other than money.
EUROPEAN JURY
The members of the European Jury, composed by one teacher and one student from each school partner and the representative of the BFF as a linguistic mediator, will exclusively operate online, selecting the winning booktrailer among the three best ones chosen by the national juries. The online jury meets on April 8th 2025, lead by the president of the Italian Jury.
CRITERIA FOR AWARDING PRIZES
The Juries indicate the winners and the selection of the booktrailers to show, and at their unquestionable judgment, based on the following criteria listed in no order of priority:
FINAL INFORMATION
The Booktrailer Film Festival working team, that is to say the organizer and promoter of the event, can make decisions on any matters not included in this notice.
The registration form for the Booktrailer Film Festival Contest implies the unconditional acceptance of this announcement.
The calendar and the schedule of the screenings are the responsibility of the festival.
The booktrailers received will become part of the Booktrailer Film Festival archive for any future educational and research purposes.
The Booktrailer Film Festival reserves the right to network and / or use the booktrailers on a royalty free basis, only for cultural purposes and not for profit, to promote cultural exchanges, special projects, collaborations with other institutions and organizations, etc. . .
The Booktrailer Film Festival invites all of its participants to share their booktrailers online, through the most appropriate channels, only after the awards ceremony and their upload to the site for public viewing. The works selected for the competition may also be published online without any commercial purpose on the Booktrailer Film Festival web platform www.booktrailerfilmfestival.eu, in connection with the Liceo Calini website www.liceocalini.gov.it and other partner schools. All rights related to the work are owned by the authors.
Responsibility for any property rights violation through the use of images, sounds, or videos is the responsibility of the Booktrailer authors.
The Court of Brescia is responsible for any dispute.
CONTACTS
From all Countries: info@booktrailerfilmfestival.eu
The Headmaster The Teachers in charge
Mr. Marco Tarolli Ms. Laura Forcella Iascone
Ms. Alessandra Tedeschi
