International Poetry-Film Competition with a Valued Award From Ó Bhéal 2020

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Nonprofit organization

Ó Bhéal

Area

Central and Eastern Europe

Host Country

United Kingdom

Deadline

31 Aug 2020

Study level

Vocational Education

Opportunity type

Competitions

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

Algeria , Comoros , Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Mauritania , Oman , Qatar , Somalia , Syria , United Arab Emirates , Bahrain , Djibouti , Iraq , Kuwait , Libya , Morocco , Palestine , Saudi Arabia , Sudan , Tunisia , Yemen

Eligible Region

All Regions

Ó Bhéal invites poets from all over the world to participate in the International Poetry-Film Competition.

About The Competition:

Since 2013, Ó Bhéal has been affiliated with the IndieCork Festival of Independent Cinema & Music, to bring the Ó Bhéal International Poetry-film Competition, screening the shortlist of thirty films and awarding one winner the Ó Bhéal/IndieCork prize for best poetry-film. Shortlisted poetry-films since 2012 are also shown every week at Ó Bhéal, before the event begins. Poetry-film programs curated by Ó Bhéal have also appeared at Cyclops Poetry-Film Festival in Kiev and at the Clare Island Film Festival.

Competition Rules:

Films must interpret, or convey a poem which must be present in its entirety.
Films completed no earlier than August 2017.
Films may not exceed 10 minutes in duration.
Poet may submit as many entries as he like.
Non-English language films will require English subtitles.

Required Documents:

Poet must include the following information in an attached word document:

Name and duration of Film
Name of the director
Country of origin
Contact details
Name of Poet
Name of the Poem
Synopsis
Filmmaker biography
And a Link to download a high-resolution version of the film

If a poet is sending a Vimeo or youtube link, etc, then he must ensure that the download button is enabled.

About Ó Bhéal:

Ó Bhéal is Cork’s weekly poetry event, featuring poetry-films, a poetry challenge, guest poets. Ó Bhéal hosts the annual Winter Warmer poetry festival each November and curates two International competitions: The Five Words poetry competition and the Ó Bhéal/IndieCork International Poetry-Film competition.

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