Competition Announcement
The rules for taking part in Booktrailer Film Festival
The rules for taking part in Booktrailer Film Festival
The BOOKTRAILER FILM FESTIVAL (BFF) is promoted by the 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 cinema and literature. 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 Media Partner is TV channel Teletutto, Brescia. Its Press And Communication Partner is Accademia Santa Giulia, 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 from a minimum of two, to a maximum of five booktrailers that will take part in the European competition.
A jury of visually impaired experts, chaired by an Italian film director and script writer autonomously designates the winner of the ‘Accessibility Prize’. The Accessibility Prize is sponsored by UIC (Italian Visually Impaired People Union).
A European jury, composed of two teachers and two students from each partner school and chaired by the Italian jury president, assigns the ‘European Teachers and Students’ Jury Award’ to the best European booktrailer.
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, 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.
Individual students, groups of students, or entire classes of lower and upper secondary schools can take part in the Booktrailer Film Festival Competition.
The sign up request is free and it must be completed, exclusively online, from December 15th 2021 to February 15th 2022, through the festival website, www.booktrailerfilmfestival.eu. The booktrailers, unpublished and not published elsewhere before the award 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.
Keeping in mind that the choice of the book is free, the booktrailer:
Booktrailers not respecting all of the above criteria will be excluded from the competition.
The contest, reserved to lower and upper secondary schools, awards distinct prizes at the unquestionable judgment of the different juries:
All prizes are made public on March 28th, 2022 at ‘Teatro Sociale’ in Brescia. An English translation will be provided.
The members of the Italian Jury for the upper secondary schools will meet on March 10th, 2022, at 15. 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.
The Italian national jury and all of the other national juries will, afterwards and within March 13th 2022, select a minimum of two to a maximum of five booktrailers per country to take part in the European contest.
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 300 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 European Award will be communicated on the same evening and it will consist of a parchment or a plate. The on-line Audience Award will be assigned on the same evening and will consist of books purchasable online.
The members of the Italian Jury for the lower secondary schools will meet on March 10th, 2022, at 15. 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.
The members of the European Jury, composed by two teachers and two students from each school partner, will exclusively operate online, selecting the winning booktrailer within March 20th 2022.
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:
All of the awards are accompanied by a written motivation that is made public during the Award Ceremony and that will appear on the website.
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, with particular reference to the current pandemic, still present in Europe at the date when this notice was written. 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.
For any issues, please contact your Country manager.