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alberto guerreirolisboa, Portugal 

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About Me

I am interested in experiences involving the visual re-treatment of moving images: video and film.

 

I like to follow a pattern range: from a sample to a complex new thing (creating a parallel world of colour, knowledge and feeling).

I try to design a new range widely in style, from accurate reproductions of day life pieces to much more contemporary and future ones.

 

Regularly leads the management of cultural instituitions and events (museum, exhibitions and cultural shows). Recently initiated his own activity in the making of conceptual video and photography.more...

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Posted by: alguerreiro
Posted: 05/28/08 04:14 PM

OPEN CALL - FOCFEST VIDEO AND FILM INTERNATIONAL PEACE FESTIVAL 2008

 

5 places running simultaneaously: Lisbon (Portugal), Istambul (Turkey), San Francisco (USA), Viareggio (Italy) and Yerevan (Armenia).

 

Foreword.

 

Freedom honours Peace and the dignity that allows honesty, fair treatment; fostering a positive and healthy environment to all. Sometimes and in some contexts these values are still for accomplish and healthy relationship of comfort, security, respect, dignity, self-worth, confidentiality, openness and communication were not achieved.

Freedom of choice gives us the power of decision. Self-determination provides everyone to exercise their right. Justice, fairness and equality enhances the sense of self-esteem that at the end consolidate peace.

 

Alberto Guerreiro

 

Goals:

 

Freedom of Choice International Video and Film Peace Festival (FocFest) is committed to bringing to the public quality creative art movies with civic and intervention assent. It seeks to promote the ideals of peace, freedom, open society, tolerance, political and cultural pluralism within a global context as well as fight and expose the cases of violation of those commitments throughout the world. FocFest works towards to show multisided views of world peace and freedom through the art form of video and film expressed creatively and critically. It aims to promote the use of moving image involving broad audiences in an open debate about the challenges facing humanity.

 

FocFest is an event of Artists for Peace: “Interested in promoting Peace and Friendship, Non Violence, and an active attitude against War”.

 

Terms and Conditions:

 

The subject should concern: Peace, Freedom of Choice, Human Rights.

Call: Open to everyone.

Type: No competition. More than one movie by artist is acceptable.

Registration fee: no fee.

Registration method: application form.

Origin: Worldwide.

Genres accepted: All genres.

Call deadline: friday, 29th August, 2008.

Selection deadline: October.

Event: November 2008 (date to confirm).

 

Technical requirements:

 

Original formats: All formats.

Screening formats: DVD (Europe Pal + US and Asia, NTSC).

Maximum running time: shouldn’t exceed 10 minutes.

Films completed after: 1st January, 2001.

 

Send the screening copy of the movie (DVD) and the original submission and permission form (sign) to:

 

Focfest

A/c: Alberto Guerreiro / Milton Dias

Apartado - P.O. Box 519

2461-901 Alcobaça

Portugal

 

Also an address for collecting the videos is provide by rapidshare or megashare - The videos must be max 50 mb at:http://dropbox.yousendit.com/FocFest2008.

 

submission form and permission:http://www.artistsnpeace.org/focfest.htm

 

Contact and submit the works by: focfest@gmail.com