Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Metropolitan Libraries Short Film Award

The IFLA Section on Metropolitan Libraries announces the 2nd IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Short Film Award, sponsored by the Free Library of Philadelphia.

The award is part of the “A Corto di libri” contest for short films about libraries and librarians, organized by Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (AIB). The competition has three categories: Fiction, Documentary, and Advertising.

The short films competing for the 2017 IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Short Film Award will be screened for voting at the IFLA MetLib Conference in Montréal, Canada (April 30 – May 5).

Individuals and institutions are eligible to submit films to the competition. The winner of the IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Short Film Award will receive:
- € 500 as a contribution to travel expenses to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Wroclaw, August 19-25, 2017 (if an institution)
- € 500 in film-making equipment (if an individual film-maker).

The winner will be announced and awarded at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Wrocław (August 19-25). An event is planned to be organized at a local public library branch during the Congress.

Read the complete Submission Rules for "A Corto di Libri".

Applications must be submitted before 23 April 2017 to acortodilibri@gmail.com  

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