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International Portrait Film Festival
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IPFF is on the path towards its third edition in 2022. Once again, we will celebrate short portrait cinema and art with the potential to explore, educate, and transform.
A portrait is an image heavy with meaning. Multilayered and multifaceted, it has a visual, psychological, material, emotional and spiritual dimension.
Unravelled in art, the painted, the literary, the photographic portrait is often perceived by the human mind as a still frozen in time. But, in fact, it has already undergone a transformation. From its true origin, through the consciousness that revives the brush, the quill and the lens, to the semblance that begins its life on the canvas and on the page. Imitation and repetition, but with endless potential for future metamorphoses.
The film portrait, too, is captured in time. It is not motionless - literally and metaphorically. The cinematographic portrait is a soul in the form of light encountering the canvas of the white screen. The portrait is a trace. And a sign. A secret. A reverie.
FOCUS
The portrait is the focus of the films that will be screened at the IPFF. We are looking for cinematic portraits of a person, of a group of people, of objects, or of something invisible, but substantial. Portraits of the self and even of an abstract idea.
AIM
IPFF aspires to bring together artists and viewers who sincerely long for enrichment with art, intellectual discussion, and an experience of cinema through a new prism - that of the portrait film.
CHARACTER
IPFF is a hybrid event and platform. A symbiosis of intriguing live encounters and memorable virtual experiences. The interweaving of portrait cinema from around the world and debates, lectures, and masterclasses.
SPIRIT
IPFF is for those profoundly needing art and excitement. And for the ones in search of their catharsis. For the unafraid to stare at the screen even when it is empty. For those hungry for experimental viewpoints. For those forever in love with cinema, caught in its loop.
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IPFF welcomes a wide specter of films and filmmakers: students, professionals, from low budget to big-scale productions, alternative and independent films by individuals and by collectives or institutions.
Prizes Details:
The awarded films in each category are determined by an international jury of professionals with impressive accomplishments in their respected fields: film practitioners, academics, film critics, culturologists, authors, journalists. Presenting their different points of view, they distinguish the best films among the Official Selection of the festival.
IPFF will award the best portrait creations with:
The grand prize IPFF 2022 - MAYA Award
- An invitation to the IPFF festival days in 2023
- specially made copper statuette
- digital laurels ‘Maya Award IPFF 2022’
Award for the most wonderful portrait creation in each category
- specially made copper statuette
- digital laurels ‘International Portrait Film Festival - Most Wonderful Film Award’
IPFF also presents a special award for a Film Dedication about the contribution of a person or about a cause aiming towards a brighter and better world
- specially made copper statuette
- digital laurels ‘International Portrait Film Festival - Film Dedication Award’
Digital laurels ‘International Portrait Film Festival - Official Selection’ for all selected films.
Deadline:
25/August/2022
Entry Fee:
- Yes
Fee Detail:
10.50 - 18 USD
Contact & Links:
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Call for Artists Les Nouveaux Riches Vienna/ online |
LNR Open Call. Online exhibition 21/February/2023 |
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Residency Tangent Projects BARCELONA |
OPEN CALL Residency Programme 2023/24 19/February/2023 |
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Call for Submissions Strata Gallery Santa Fe |
Ephemerality, Juried Exhibition 01/February/2023 |
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Call for Submissions Crocker Art Museum Sacramento |
Call for Artists: Crocker Art Museum Art Auction Season 2023 28/February/2023 |
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Call for Artists Fine Art Gallery Swakopmund |
Africa Wildlife artist of the Year 2023 31/January/2023 |
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Call for Entries Occhi Arts and Entertainment London |
Occhi Arts Live Events 17/March/2023 |
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Call for Artists Columbia Festival of the Arts Columbia |
Columbia Festival of the Arts Invitational Fine Arts & Crafts Show 06/March/2023 |
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Call for Submissions Las Laguna Art Gallery Los Angeles |
2023 - Figures or Faces 05/February/2023 |
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Call for Artists Jose Yumar BARCELONA |
CALL FOR ARTISTS: GALERIA AGAPHE / SOLO EXHIBITION - ART FAIRS OPPORTUNITY 20/February/2023 |
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Call for Artists Kolaj Institute New Orleans |
Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2023: Call for Papers, Artists & Projects 26/February/2023 |
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Call for Submissions Asian Art Museum |
Bernice Bing Open Call 31/January/2023 |
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Call for Artists Visionary Art Collective Online |
Inside a Memory 05/February/2023 |
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Residency Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Banff |
Indigenous Dramaturgies Exchange 2023 15/February/2023 |
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Residency The Watermill Center Water Mill, NY |
The 2023 International Summer Program @ The Watermill Center 13/February/2023 |
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Call for Artists The Aerogramme Center for Arts and Culture Online |
Open Call to The Flat Files 26/February/2023 |
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Call for Submissions Collect Art Tbilisi |
Circle (Online exhibition + magazine) 27/February/2023 |
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Call for Artists Saúl Zamora |
Open call for oil painters 30/January/2023 |
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Call for Artists The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery Rawtenstall |
The Whitaker: Open Call for Artists 10/February/2023 |
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Residency Laura Pagliai Isle of Ponza |
Ponza Land Art "Il giardino nel giardino" 10/February/2023 |