24 Jan Submissions of Short Films for Video on the Beach section of Kino Otok 2022 Are Open
After two extraordinary years, the 18th edition of Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival in 2022 will be back to its traditional dates from 1 till 5 June in Izola, Slovenia. Its traditional Video on the Beach section will once again bring a fresh selection of edgy free-spirited shorts and their authors to the silver screen under the stars. Submit your films till 14 March 2022.
In the Video on the Beach section, Kino Otok supports screenings of film production by new generations of emerging filmmakers, which explores the wealth and daring of film expression in both form and content. In addition to Slovenian independent production, the section also screens films from neighbouring countries and beyond. Video on the Beach is not a competition programme, but rather, it functions as an exploratory platform that enables not only public screenings of films, but also a dialogue, an exchange of ideas and experiences between the visiting established filmmakers and those who are either at the beginning of their film career or those whose work places them outside the established spaces of conventional and market-oriented filmmaking.
We call on young filmmakers (young at heart, that is) from Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Austria and beyond to submit their works, which, if selected, will be screened during the festival in a relaxed atmosphere under the stars in close proximity to the Lighthouse beach in Izola.
The selected authors will be entitled to:
• festival pass that enables access to all screenings, PRO and other events,
• free-of-charge camping at the festival camp Scamp,
• presentation of their film in the official festival catalogue.
There are no restrictions on film genres. Documentary, fiction, experimental or animated shorts should first and foremost be marked by unbridled, free and affiliative spirit that in one way or another does away with a series of constructed social, religious, cultural, ethnic, political, intergenerational and, of course, expressive barriers.
Length of submitted films: under 30 minutes. Films completed in 2022 or 2021 will be given priority. There are no limits to the number of entries by one filmmaker, but these have to be submitted separately. Video on the Beach does not require a submission fee.
You are invited to submit a completed online SUBMISSION FORM with attachments by Monday, 14 March 2022.
Video on the Beach programmers are Matevž Jerman, film critic, editor, curator, director and co-founder of Society for Short Film Promotion Kraken, and Programme Assistant at the Slovenian Cinematheque, and Mila Peršin, an author who focuses on film programming, film directing and acting while studying at the AVA Academy of Visual Arts, and works as part of the DobraVaga gallery team.
For more information please write to video@isolacinema.org. We are looking forward to your submission(s)!
See you at Otok!