Ecologico International Film Festival

Ecologico International Film Festival
	Logo ufficiale dell'Ecologico International Film Festival
Location	Gallipoli, Lecce - Italy
Founded	2008
Awards	Taurus/Mer Khamis/Taranta
Directed by	Roberto Quarta (Art director) Franco Danieli (Organizing Committee President)
Produced by	Stefano Conte
Website	ecologicofilmfestival.it

The Ecologico International Film Festival, also called the EIFF, aims to help discover and develop independent films - social, national and international - committed to issues of contemporary society. The EIFF is the place where you can meet authors and get to know films that by nature are difficult to use and approve through traditional distribution channels. It is held in Nardò, Italy. Founded in Lecce, at the initiative of Italian filmmaker Roberto Quarta, the festival has been celebrated annually in August since 2008.

Special Guests

Special guests of the festival in its first five years have included: the directors Luigi Faccini, Giuseppe Ferrara, Moni Ovadia, Francesca Muci, Eleonora Pariante; the producer Marina Piperno; the actor Omar Suleiman (Palestinian); the screenwriter Vanessa Picciarelli; the director of photography Marc van Put; the journalists Francesco Farina (Corriere del Mezzogiorno) and Massimo Causo; Nabil Salameh (Radiodervish) and Nando Popu (Sud Sound System).

Festival programme

The festival is composed of three different film sections. Films are chosen in each category by a section director with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories include:

International Film Competition - Feature films (> 51 '), medium length (between 16' and 50 ') and short films (max 15') of any kind, addressing, in terms of actuality, the relationship between social communities and between them with the environment; which protect and promote human rights, pluralist democracy and the rule of law, and favor the awareness and appreciation of identity and cultural diversity in the world, coexistence among different peoples, religions and ethnic groups, indicating common solutions to the problems of contemporary society.

Debut Italian Movies - First and second works by Italian directors, outputs during 2011/2012, particularly working on issues of social relevance.

Taranta Movies - Movies that deal with typical issues of cultural - ethnic-anthropological-musical - tradition of Salento.

Awards

EIFF Taurus Awards waiting to be won

The EIFF Taurus Award is the main prize awarded for the best films at the Ecologico International Film Festival.

EIFF Taurus Award (since 2013) Award for Best Feature Film, for Best Medium length Film, for Best Short Film and for Best Debut Italian Film.

Mer Khamis Award (since 2011) Award for Best film selected by critics.
In 2011 and 2012, the Mer Khamis was the prize awarded for all the categories.

Taranta Award (since 2013) Award for the Best Film on traditional folk culture of Salento.

Awards Winners

Best Feature Film

2013 - it will be assigned on August 24th, directed by ???

Best Medium length Film

2013 - it will be assigned on August 24th, directed by ???

Best Short Film

2013 - it will be assigned on August 24th, directed by ???

Best Debut Italian Film

2013 - it will be assigned on August 24th, directed by ???

Best Film on traditional folk culture

2013 - it will be assigned on August 24th, directed by ???

Best film selected by critics

2013 - it will be assigned on August 24th, directed by ???

Previous Editions Winners

Mer Khamis Award	Section	Section	Section	Section	Section	Section	Section	Section	Special
Year	Best Feature	Best Length	Best Short	Borders	Diversity	Environment	Society	Salento	Special Mention
2012	Not Assigned	Not Assigned	Not Assigned	Sharqiya, Ami Livne	Gamba trista, Francesco Filippi	I morti di Alos, Daniele Atzeni	The Summit, Franco Fracassi-Massimo Lauria	Apulian Dream, Achille Cofano	Spazzatour, Emilio Casalini Alma, Josè Javier
2011	Laberinto Verde, Abel Kavanagh	How green was our Valley, Fereshteh Joghataei	Silence, Ava Lanche	Gaza guerra all'informazione, Anna Maria Selini	O' moro, C. Calissoni-E. Offredo	Loro della munnizza, M. Battaglia-G. Schimmenti-L. Donati	Oil II tempo, Massimiliano Mazzotta	Not Assigned	Milan du Maroccaine, Mounsif Rabi (Laboratorio Liblab)
EIFF Award
Year	Best Feature	Best Length	Best Short	Borders	Diversity	Environment	Society	Salento	Special Mention
2010	Basilicata Coast to Coast, Rocco Papaleo	Il Vincitore, Davide Labanti	Carpa diem, Sergio Cannella	Not Assigned	Bouquet, Walter Mazo	Moby Dick, Oscar Carrara	Life for sale, Yorgos Avgeropoulos	Not Assigned	Every day - Ogni giorno Checkpoint di Betlemme, Mara Beccafarri and Massimo Miricola Rosita no se desplaza, Alessandro Acito and Leonardo Valderrama
2009	Uso improprio, Luca Gasparini Oil, Massimiliano Mazzotta	Polvere, Ivan Gergolet	Una circostanza fortuita, Emanuele Michetti	Not Assigned	Not Assigned	Not Assigned	Not Assigned	Not Assigned	A li tiempi miei era tutta campagna, Chiara Zilli
Year	Best Feature Doc	Best Length Doc	Best Short Doc	Best Feature Fiction	Best Length Fiction	Best Short Fiction
2008	Oltre la sbarra, Marco Leopardi	Pancevo la città morta, Antonio Martino	Cavallo di-scarica, Guglielmo Manenti I PCB, Variemani	Li Promessi Sposi, Andrea Baccassino	Quasisia, Gianni De Blasi	Quarantaquattro, Massimo Gabriele Fidanza

Officinema Summer School

Commencing in 2013, the EIFF has partnered with Officinema, which is a summer cinema school that takes place at the same time as the festival itself. The event runs 5 days during the EIFF and features workshops, lessons, lectures and panel discussions with well-known professionals addressing issues in filmmaking today.

Statistics

Year	Submissions	Italian Films	Foreign Films	Schools	Countries represented
2008	114	77	15	22	11
2009	143	93	25	25	16
2010	239	151	33	55	23
2011	343	170	110	63	34
2012	421	156	244	21	41

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