Back in March, we told you about Conero Film + Adv festival. It’s a film festival based in the beautiful and off-grid Conero Regional Park in Italy that will take place from September 6th to 8th, which focuses on films and advertising that disrupt the most commercial take on the genre. Instead, they’re searching for pieces that add a more human touch through a cinematic scope. The open call is still open until July 23rd through their website, so don’t miss the chance to apply! But today, we come with more exciting news: the jury has been announced.
And it’s an impressive roster: twenty professionals from across all fields including filmmaking, media, advertising, and business have been carefully selected to give their opinion. Among them, we find Sara Sozzani Maino, Creative Director of Fondazione Sozzani; MarBelle, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Directors Notes; Sebastian Wegner, Regional Account Executive at Vimeo; design studio Formafantasma; Laurence Rilly, Short film programme manager at ARTE; Karim Bartoletti, partner and executive producer at Indiana Production; or our own Arnau Salvadó, Editor-at-Large at METAL Magazine.
Submitting your work to a festival can be scary but also thrilling. What if you’re shortlisted among the best? What if you even win? And if you don’t, at least you know that several industry professionals will read your name in the credits and remember it, and that’s already something. In addition, you get to network and, if selected, escape for three days to a paradisiac space in the south of Europe. What else could you ask for?
