CYIFF CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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We
invite all new film directors to apply for the 6th Cyprus
International Film Festival with their film(s).

Films
produced after January 1st
2008 can participate in CYIFF 2011. These
films
must
be
premieres
in
Cyprus.

A.
CYIFF 2011 General Categories:

1.
Feature Films (120 minutes max. length)

2.
Short Films (up to 30 minutes)

3.
Films for children (120 minutes max. length)

4.
Animation Films (120 minutes max. length)

5.
Sport Films - 'Fair Play' (sports genre and/or olympic spirit) (120
minutes max. length)

6.
Diaspora GreekCypriot cinematographers' Films - 'Nostimon Imar'

(Greek/Cypriot
cinematographers who live abroad)
(120 minutes max. length)

7.
Humanitarian (120 minutes max. length)

8.
Comedy Films (120 minutes max. length)

9.
Dance Films and VIDEO DANCE (up to 60 minutes)

10.
Music Films – Video Clips (up to 5 minutes)

B.
CYIFF 2011 Special Categories:

• Awarded Cypriot Film
  Directors

  Panorama (films out of
  competition)

• Homage Films about Ancient
  Times - Antiquity
  

The official application
form will be sent to the applicants after they fill the questionnary
at Film Submission field on the website
www.cyprusfilmfestival.org

The deadline
for
applications for Greek/Cypriot feature films and shorts, which have
not yet been released theatrically at cinemas in Cyprus, to
participate in the competition section of the 6th International Film
Festival of Cyprus, is the 30th
of June,
2011. The
applicants will be notified within August 2011 for the selection of
their film.

Cyprus
International Film Festival (CYIFF)
will be presenting the 6th annual edition in the capital of the
beautiful island of Cyprus, Nicosia under the Auspices of the
Municipality of Nicosia. The festival is in cooperation with Friends
of Cinema Society of Cyprus and University of Nicosia. Faithful to
its “appointment” with everywhere cinema fans desire to
contribute to cinema’s growth and the emergence of new directors
and actors CYIFF creates
an important networking place for locals, Cypriots, cinefil and
foreign filmmakers. Through
its versatile program succeeds in combining “traditional” cinema
forces and values with innovative patterns and proposals which show
the future in film practice and theory. It promotes both the Greek/
Cypriot filmmakers living abroad and Cypriot cinematography by the
film category “Nostimon Imar”, as well as the island of Cyprus as
a new cinema travel destination through a pancyprian nonprofit
cultural organization.

We, in Cyprus International Film
Festival, would like to celebrate once more the magic of cinema and
on the occasion of the European Year of Volunteering we would like to
challenge all of you to participate and show to everybody that you
can also make a difference and join our enthousiastic organising team
of cinema professionals who are volunteers since the year of its
inauguation, 2006!