TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2023

Vienna - Austria

From March 8, 2023 to March 12, 2023

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES CULTURE2CULTURE Q21/MUSEUMSQUARTIER MUSEUMSPLATZ 1 A-1070 WIEN AUSTRIA

43.(0)1 990 46 63 office@trickywomen.at www.trickywomen.at

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2023 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Tricky Women/Tricky Realities is accepting entries for the 2023 festival edition, taking place in Vienna from the 8th to the 12th of March, 2023. Tricky Women/Tricky Realities is the only film festival in the world dedicated to animation by female*/trans/inter filmmakers.
We cannot wait to see your powerful, subversive and evocative animated films! Our only parameters are that at least 50% of the film is animated and 50% of the directresses are female*/trans/inter filmmakers.
Join us, as we exchange the laws of physics with the laws of imagination, replace the physical with the potential and mobilize the power of animation to explore and articulate tricky realities!

Awards
Maria Lassnig Golden Film Reel
worth 10,000 Euro, donated by Maria Lassnig Foundation
TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES Award
worth 4,000 Euro, donated VdFS
The Grand Post Award
Post Production Voucher worth 2000 Euro
Sabine & Nicolai Sawczynski Audience Award International Competition
worth 1 000 Euro
Hubert Sielecki Award for an Austrian Animation worth 500 Euro
Up & Coming TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES Award
Audience Award 2023 Up&Coming and Austrian Panorama
Awards and prize money will go to the directing artists of the films.
The prizes and the amount of cash awarded may be subject to change.

Opening submissions: June 27, 2022
Final deadline: October 4, 2022 Free
Notification of results: January 31, 2023

Preview format:
-Uploaded file (1 stamp)

Requirements:
1) Films completed after: January 1st, 2021
2) Maximum duration: 40 minutes
3) Country of production: All countries
4) Screening format: DCP (please watch out the format settings in the conditions!), 35mm, Files with Codec DNxHD/DNxHR, Pro Res and Codec h.264/h.265.
5) Accepted genres: Animation / Live Action combined with Animation (at least 50% Animation)

Other criteria:
6) No re-entry: No film entered in prior Tricky Women Festivals shall be admitted
7) Female*/trans/inter filmmakers: Male co-directors are welcome.
8) Subtitles: Non-English movies should be applied with English subtitles.

Applicants should fill out/attach biography and filmography in their online form.

WORK/WORK AFFAIRS (IN COOPERATION WITH ARBEITERKAMMER)

This program positions labor as a lens through which we can view the world. This can include (but is not limited to) films about economic exploitation, emancipation, maternal/domestic/emotional labor and how we determine value. Films do not need to be contemporary. This program is supported by Arbeiterkammer Wien. It is a non-competitive section of TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES. Therefore we accept films which can also have been produced earlier than 2021.

Opening submissions: June 27, 2022
Final deadline: October 4, 2022 Free
Notification of results: January 31, 2023

Preview format:
-Standard DVD
-Uploaded file (1 stamp)

Requirements:
1) Films completed after: not required
2) Maximum duration: 40 minutes
3) Country of production: all
4) Screening format: DCP (please watch out the format settings in the conditions!), 35mm, File with Codec DNxHD/DNxHR, ProRes and Codec h.264/h.265.
5) Accepted genres: Animation, Animation/Fiction (at least 50% Animation), Animated Documentary

Other criteria:
6) Subtitles: Non-English movies should be applied with English subtitles.
7) Female/trans/inter filmmakers: Male co-directors are welcome.

FEMINIST TOPICS

This program explores asymmetrical power dynamics relative to gender. Relevant films could be about the body, motherhood, abortion, activists, objectification and subjective experiences of tricky realities. It is a non-competitive section of TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES. Films do not need to be contemporary.

Opening submissions: June 27, 2022
Final deadline: October 4, 2022 Free
Notification of results: January 31, 2023

Preview format:
-Standard DVD
-Uploaded file (1 stamp)

Requirements:
1) Films completed after: not required
2) Maximum duration: 40 min
3) Country of production: All
4) Screening format: DCP (please watch out the format settings in the conditions!), 35mm, File with Codec DNxHD/DNxH, ProRes and Codec h.264/h.265
5) Accepted genres: Animation / Animation combined with Live Action (at least 50% Animation)

Other criteria:
6) Subtitles: Non-English movies should be applied with English subtitles.
7) Female*/trans/inter filmmakers: Male co-directors are welcome.

FAIR PLAY

This program navigates the paths to justice in inherently unjust institutions. Topics could include identity politics (age, disability, race, gender, sexuality etc), equality of opportunity, climate change, ecofeminism and alternative visions of a just world. It is a non-competitive section of TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES. Films do not need to be contemporary.

Opening submissions: June 27, 2022
Final deadline: October 4, 2022 Free
Notification of results: January 31, 2023

Preview format:
-Standard DVD
-Uploaded file (1 stamp)

Requirements:
1) Films completed after: not required
2) Maximum duration: 40 min
3) Country of production: All
4) Screening format: File with Codec DNxHD/DNxH, ProRes and Codec h.264/h.265, 35mm, DCP (please watch out the format settings in the conditions!)
5) Accepted genres: Animation / Animation combined with Live Action (at least 50% Animation)

Other criteria:
6) Subtitles: Non-English movies should be applied with English subtitles.
7) Female*/trans/inter filmmakers: Male co-directors are welcome.

LATIN AMERICAN SPECIAL

Animated films about the changes that you are experiencing as women*/trans/inter in your latin american societies, the challenges and conquests, the impact of feminism, visions for the future but also topics like body politics, femicides, violence against trans women, street harassment, abortion etc.

Opening submissions: July 6, 2022
Final deadline: October 4, 2022 Free
Notification of results: December 31, 2022

Preview format:
-Uploaded file (1 stamp)

Requirements:
1) Films completed after: All years, no limitation
2) Maximum duration: Under 40 minutes
3) Country of production: All Latin American Countries
4) Screening format: DCP, 35 mm, ProRes and h.264/h.265
5) Accepted genres: Animation / Live Action combined with Animation (at least 50% Animation)

Other criteria:
6) Subtitles: Non-English version movies should be applied with English subtitles.
7) Gender: Female*/trans/inter filmmakers (Male co-directors are welcome)