Under The Stars International Film Festival is an international event. We accept local, national and international films. Film industry specialists watch films and videos and give notes and scores. Once a year we screen selected work at the live event at Cineporto di Bari.
Each 2 months, the submitted short movie are privately screened and judged by a team of experts. The short movies (bi-monthly) finalists are automatically qualified to compete and be screened at annual event.
Notification days for bi-monthly edition:
Loren Deadline: April 5.
Streep Deadline: June 5.
Fonda Deadline: August 5.
Mirren Deadline: October 5.
Cotillard Deadline: Dicember 5.
On Dicember 15 we'll notify the movies that will be screened during our live event!
During our live event at Cineporto di Bari, we'll screen:
- Best Short Movie Loren Edition
- Best Short Movie Streep Edition
- Best Short Movie Fonda Edition
- Best Short Movie Mirren Edition
- Best Short Movie Cotillard Edition
- Best Feature Film (selected among all the finalists of the category)
- Best Student Short (selected among all the finalists of the category)
- Best Short Documentary (selected among all the finalists of the category)
- Other selected projects
The winners, for each category, will be rewarded.
Our jury will select the winners of each category:
Best Short Film
Best Short Documentary
Best Feature Film
Best Student Short Film/Documentary
Each two months among the FINALIST movies we could reward also these following categories:
Best Leading Actor
Best Leading Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Sound/Music
Best Screenwriter
Best Idea
Best Horror movie
Best Thriller movie
Best Comedy
Best Romantic
Best Drama
Best Action movie
Best Fantasy Sci-Fi
Best Italian movie
Best Animation movie
Best LGBTQ movie
Best TV Pilot
SELECTION PROCESS
- NOT SELECTED: It means that your work hasn't been selected for the current edition of the festival.
- SEMI-FINALIST: This is the first step. If you are a Semi-Finalist you'll receive a Semi-Finalist Laurel and you'll compete to became a Finalist.
- FINALIST: You are a bi-monthly Finalist for one or more categories and you have been choosen among the Semi-Finalist. You'll receive the Finalist Laurel for your Category. Your project could be selected to be screened at our live event!
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- AWARD WINNER: The winner will be choosen among the bi-monthly Finalists (Loren, Streep, Fonda, Mirren, Cotillard) It means that your work wins one or more categories. Congrats! You're our winner. You'll receive the Winner laurel and the trophy!!!
Winners of the year will receive a Golden Plaque/Trophy.
If you can't attend the live event we can send you the Golden Plaque/Trophy and only the postal fees are on your charge.
InkTip: Where producers go for scripts and writers.
3 Winners of the Under the Stars International Film Festival will receive an InkTip Script Listing to promote themselves and their scripts to InkTip’s entire network of producers, managers, and agents.
Companies who are InkTip members include: ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, 20th Century Fox, and many more.
Producers have made more than 393 films from scripts and writers found through InkTip.