The Fri Cine Socioambiental - Nova Friburgo International Environmental Film Festival - seeks to promote and to award prizes to films, ideas and actions that, given their importance, significance and originality, contribute to solutions to the countless, serious social and environmental problems that afflict life on earth.
The aim of the Fri Cine Socioambiental is to make people aware of socio-environmental issues through the screening of films. The staging of this film festival is designed to promote the city of Nova Friburgo and its environs as a centre of tourism and culture, and as a forerunner in the quest for both solutions to social and environmental problems as well as for sustainable development.
The city of Nova Friburgo is located in one of the world´s richest and most threatened eco systems. From the 19th century onwards, it has become a reference for Brazilian and foreign botanists, scientists and conservationists. Located in one of the best preserved remaining stretches of the Atlantic Rain Forest in the state of Rio de Janeiro, it is a city with deep international roots, providing a broad infrastructure for tourism and eco-tourism.
We shall inform the new dates for the 2010 edition soon .
The quality of films exceed all expectations, and it was difficult to establish criteria to make the final selection.
We are grateful to all those who submitted films in support of this important event.
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The Festival
The Nova Friburgo International Environmental Film Festival, FRI CINE SOCIOAMBIENTAL, was founded in 2006, inicially called Muri Cine Video Ambiental, with the purpose of promoting films, capable of stimulating the public´s perception of environmental questions, and stressing the urgency of preserving nature and the ecological, cultural and touristic values of the Atlantic Rain Forest in the region of Nova Friburgo.
Organization
FRI CINE is a non-profit cultural event organized by Brian Sewell Produçoes Cinematograficas in partnership with the project Jardins de Altitude da Mata Atlantica "High Altitude Gardens of the Atlantic Rain Forest". The festival has the support of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, via the Audiovisual Tecnical Centre (CTAV/Audiovisual Secretary), of the Nova Friburgo municipality, and of various institutions and personalities of different sectors of society.
Objective
The aim of FRI CINE is to exibit, award prizes to, and promote films, videos, ideas and actions which can, through their content, form and language, contribute at a local, national and international level, to the solution of social and environmental problems, which threaten both peace and life on earth.
Date and venue.
The 4th edition of the Festival will take place in the city of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro state in 2010.
Format of the event
FRI CINE 2010 will include competitive screenings, special programs, e parallel activities.
Themes
All the participating films should feature a socio-environmental theme.
FRI CINE understands socio-environmental films and videos to be those which, independent of their genre, focus on, and show, the most diverse actions of humanity in relation to its past. present and future environment.
Competition
There will be three competions in the festival:
International, Regional, and Socio-environmental Science
International Competition
To participate in the international competition, socio-environmental films must have the following characteristics:
a. Produced anywhere in the world after 1 January 2007.
b. Produced in any genre (documentary, fiction, experimental and animation).
c. Produced in any format.
d. Running time: 120mins maximum, according to the following classifications:
- FEATURE FILM: 70mins maximum running time.
- MEDIUM-LENGTH FILM: from 21 to 69 mins running time.
- SHORT FILM: up to 20mins running time.
e. Films must not have participated in a previous selection process in previous editions of the Fri Cine Festival.
A pre selection jury, formed by the festival´s directors, selected the films that will participate in the competition.
The official jury for the prize winning films will be comprised of 3 personalities (film-makers, environmentalists, artists, and jornalists), two of whom will be foreigners, and one Brazilian. One of these three will be elected president, to coordinate the selection process and the meetings. The decisions of the jury will be final.
Awards
The participants will compete for the following prizes:
Ø Best film (official jury): Prize together with the Roberto Farias Trophy
Ø Best feature film: Alcantarea Imperialis
Ø Best Medium length film: Alcantarea Imperialis
Ø Best short film: Alcantarea Imperialis
Ø Best film (popular jury): Alcantarea Imperialis
The popular jury will vote with voting slips, distributed prior to each session.
Other prizes and honourable mentions can be offered provided that the directors of the festival have previously approved them. The institutions that offer such prizes, etc will be responsible for their choice and distribution.
Inscriptions / Registration
Inscriptions were free, and have been made from 12 May to 25 August 2009.
Selection.
The selection of films that will partake of the international competitions, and of the FriCine Socio-environmental Science Prize, was made by commission composed of 3 persons of renown in the audiovisual and environmental fields.
The list of the chosen films is published in the site www.fricine.com.br from 18 September 2009, and the producers or those responsible for the chosen films were informed by email or telephone.
General information.
For queries or further information, please contact the organizers of the festival at fricineambiental@yahoo.com.br
FRI CINE 2010
Brian Cine Produções
Rua Goitacazes 104, Gloria,
22211-190 Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Nova Friburgo – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
April - 2010
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