Sophia Antipolis (France), a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice in Côte d’Azur, the highest delegates of prestigious sports and Institutional Organizations, will be the seat of “Sophia Antipolis SPORTS E-MOTIONS – International FICTS Festival” on 19th  – 20th  October. The event – inserted in the “World FICTS Challenge 2016 (WFC)” Worldwide Championship of Cinema and Sport Television – is organized by Sophia Antipolis FIFS Association composed by Dr Frederic Jouve President of basketball club Sharks of Antibes, Dr Renato Ferrari Tullio FICTS representative in France, Dr Etienne Delhaye Director of Club des Entreprises of Sophia Antipolis in collaboration with FICTS, with the Olympic Committee and Sports Departmental of Maritime Alps chaired by Dr Philippe Manassero, the Regional Committee of the Olympic and Sports of Côte d’Azur. The Festival, whose mail themes will be “Sports & Health”, “Sport Events & Economic Development” and “Sport &  Technologies”, will be held in Valbonne «Pré des Arts» Cinema as well as in Sophia Country Club (seat of tennis Academy of Patrick Moratuglu coach of Serena Williams) that will also host the “Award Ceremony”.

Here below all the info for applications:

In the framework of the organization of the 1st International Film Festival of Sport in Sophia Antipolis, we call for applications for the selection of the program, consisting of sport related movies.
All disciplines are welcome, we are looking for completed productions, including documentary film or biopic, dealing with a sport experience sports. Language or subtitles should be in French and / or English. Durations will not exceed 26 minutes.

These productions may involve a discipline, an event, an innovation, a club, a champion or team. The unique specification of the content is that it must be directly related to sport

Furthermore we are also looking productions, trailers, short films, promotional spots and advertising from brands, or any other entity, directly related with the sports world
Finally, we also select amateur productions, such as onboard camera.

We thank you for your attention to this call, and the organization team is available for any additional information that would be helpful.

Applications should be sent by email: contact@fifs2016.org , indicating the appropriate download link