Organized by:
* Revista CAÑAMO - www.canamo.cl
* Gitano Producciones - www.gitano.cl
The Objectives of this Festival are to help to generate a change of
mentality in Chile about the topics associated to psycho actives
substances by means of a participated and democratic dialog present in
the audiovisual arts.
It is also intended to give Chilean and foreign audiovisual producers
a space for diffusion and competition, promoting the artistic and
technical quality production and making easier the contacts and
creating new support networks.
All films and cultural expressions wishing to participate in this
Festival must be related in a clearly and directly way to psychoactive
substances (natural, legal or illegal) and/or to different phenomenon
associated to it (social, cultural, politics, penalty law, economics);
including any kind of use (recreational, experimental, therapeutic,
social) and even self cultivate.
The pre-selection format film, in any category, must be on DVD.
The screenplay format, in any category, should be on DVD or Mini DV,
required for pre-selected films, although they will also accept copies
with NTSC or PAL·
Every film, for all categories in competition, must be displayed in
Spanish version or with Spanish subtitles.
The Categories of the Festival are as follows:
1. a) Documentary: Official competition for documentary work no
longer than 120 minutes (credits included). Will be able compete any
documentary finished since January 2005 and ahead.
2. b) Fiction: Official competition for fiction work no longer than
120 minutes (credits included). Will be able compete any documentary
finished since January 2005 and ahead.
3. c) Animation: Official competition for animation work no longer
than 15 minutes (credits included). Will be able compete any
documentary finished since January 2005 and ahead.
4. d) Self-cultivation (special category): Official competition to
all films, fiction or documentary, involved in Self-cultivation topic
for some psychoactive species. Maximum extension: 60 minutes. Will be
able compete any documentary finished since January 2005 and ahead.
The Festival is gibing the followings awards:
1. Best Motion Film in documentary category
2. Best Motion Film in fiction category
3. Best Animated Short film
4. Special Award: Best Film Self-cultivation Category
5. Audience Award (chosen by Internet, at www.hollyweedfestival.com)
The Jury will be composed by outstanding people from the Chilean
audiovisual, arts and national culture world.
More Info:
www.hollyweedfestival.com