In October 2018, the Architecture Film Festival Santiago will hold its fourth version in various venues of the Lastarria neighbourhood of Santiago, including the Centro Gabriela Mistral GAM, the MAVI Visual Arts Museum, and the ICTUS Theater (Santiago, Chile). In this context, the organizers invite filmmakers from around the world to participate in its international competition "The City is ..." with shorts and feature films whose theme is the city, the urban environment, architecture of buildings and cities. The competition categories are: documentary, fiction, experimental and architecture documentation. The festival will also award a special mention for the "best Chilean short film" and "best Chilean film.
Those interested can submit their works until July 20, 2018. The winners will receive an award, a certificate from the organization and will be selected for screenings at another film and architecture festival in the period 2018-2020, anywhere in the world. The jury will be made up of architect and cultural producer Pola Mora (ArchDaily), documentary maker Tiziana Panizza (Visual Letters, 2005-2011, Earth in Motion, 2014, and Tierra Sola, 2017) and director of magazine LaFuga.cl Carolina Urrutia (2 Centrifugal Cinema: Chilean Fictions 2005-2010").
