Retro Avant Garde Film Festival
RAGFF Festival is on 3 Continents
Visit Official Website : RAGFF
Join us !
RAGFF Venezia, Italia
December 7th and 8th, 2019
RAGFF Venezia 2019 FilmFreeway Submissions
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RAGFF New York City, USA
September 14th, 15th, 2019
RAGFF New York City 2019 FilmFreeway Submissions
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RAGFF Cairo, Egypt
Cairo, Egypt
November 22th – 23th , 2019
RAGFF Cairo Egypt, FilmFreeway Submissions
All RAGFF Festivals Descriptions
RAGFF Venezia
Festival is held in Venezia Italia.
December Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th, 2019. Venezia, Italia.
Submissions 2019 :
Submissions Dateline : October 30th
Notification on and Before : November 10th
Event Date : December 7th – 8th
Submissions are open at :
RAGFF Venezia 2019 FilmFreeway Submissions
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RAGFF New York City
Festival is held in New York City , USA.
September 14th and 15th , 2019
At Studios LIC NYC.
Now Open Submissions :
Earlybird Dateline : January 14th
Regular Dateline : April 15th
Late Dateline : July 15th
Extended Dateline : August 30th
Notification : September 2th
Event Date : September 14th and 15th of 2019
Submissions are open at :
RAGFF New York City 2019 Submissions
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RAGFF Cairo, Egypt
is held at the Cairo Opera House
November 22th – 23th , 2019
Now Open Submissions :
Regular Dateline : September 1st, 2019
Notification on and Before : October 1st, 2019
Event Date : November 22th to 23th, 2019
Restrictions of Censorship apply
Please Visit Cairo’s Rules and Terms
Submissions are open at :
RAGFF Cairo Egypt, FilmFreeway Submissions
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RETRO AVANT GARDE FILM FESTIVAL
RAGFF VENEZIA 2018
WINNERS
&
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Festival Program
::: IMPORTANT NOTES :::
RAGFF At This Moment Does not give Economic Awards, Travel Reimbursement or Hospitality to Winners or Selected Films.
RAGFF I’TS A FILM COMPETITION
JUST EMAIL US !
UNLESS REQUESTED BY RAGFF ADMINISTRATION,
RAGFF DOES NOT ACCEPT DIRECT CALLS.
All Festival’s Event Description :
RAGFF WORLD TOUR CINEMA
and
RAGFF Official Selections Screenings
Films to be Selected from Pre-selections of Determined Festival
Music Performances
Art Exhibit
Follow :
RAGFF Contact :
General Direction
ragfilmfestival@gmail.com
— Direct to Festivals —
Venezia, Italia
europe.ragff@gmail.com
New York City, United States
americas.ragff@gmail.com
Cairo, Egypt
cairo.ragff@gmail.com
Submissions Questions
submissions.ragff@gmail
1. – Organization
The Retro Avant Garde Film Festival aka RAGFF is an independent and Private Organization
Owned Completely on its own, not influenced, not in bias, not in affiliation to any Political or
Religious entity.
Arts
The Retro Avant Garde Film Festival mission is of promoting, propagating and exploring the
understanding of every form of expression relevant to cinema with the main priority of every Retro /
Avant Garde Art expression that moves forward at the edge of new forms of human expression
through Visual Arts and Moving Sound Image ( Experimental Audio Visuals, Short Film, Feature
Film, documentaries, public encounters, educational encounters ) throughout the year.
Human
The aim of the Retro Avant Gard Film Festival is to be hosting the Festival every year at a different
city from a different Country, this way, while promoting the Arts, the Festival brings Human
Communion between different Cultures and Societies for the growth and better of the human
condition.
2. – Film Submissions
Feature-Length, Documentary Films :
Not Restriction whatsoever
Short Films, Medium-Length Films, Music Visuals, Music Videos :
Not Restriction whatsoever
3. – Categories
Feature Length films or Short Films to be Encourage to participate are :
Retro Avant Garde,
Experimental,
Music Visuals,
Drama,
Science Fiction,
Horror,
Comedy,
Documentary,
Any other New form of “ Sound Visual Art “ are encourage to participate.
“ Only in Particular cases, at the discretion of the Artistic Director, may exceptions be made to the
above-mentioned conditions for admission.”
4. – Waiver Agreement
The Retro Avant Garde Film Festival is open to Public. All Participants and / or guest of the
Festival acknowledge that Multimedia Channels, web and accredited television channels and other
media partners will / might cover the Retro Avant Garde Film Festival for Television, Radio, Web,
Newspaper, Digital News. By agreeing to take part in the Festival, all participants relinquish, free of
charge, their broadcasting rights to any filmed footage and recorded audio, allowing the media
partners to make such use of the above materials as they see fit.
5.- General Rules
Participation in the Retro Avant Garde Film Festival automatically entails observance of the present
Regulations.
Producers, distributors or other parties who submit films must guarantee that they are legally
authorized to represent the film and get any responsibility if fail to do so, as well as if any copyright
or Trademark infringement is due to act within the film they representing, also they guarantee that
they are legally authorized to register the film in the RAGFF.
RAGFF Committee, Artist Director, Aggregators and Affiliates will carry Not Responsibility if any
infringement on copyright or Trademark is made by any of the Invited films as well as Participating
films or films from the pre-selection phase and during and after RAGFF screenings.
The Director of RAGFF reserves the right to settle any cases not covered by the present
regulations.
Should any dispute arise regarding the interpretation of any article of these regulations, the English
Version is Binding by the State laws, and jurisdiction of New York City, NY, USA.
RAGFF Films – Art – Music
6.- RAGFF World Tour Cinema
At the total discretion of RAGFF, an exclusive list of prior Winners and Selected Films from RAGFF Competitions, will be invited as ‘ honor guest ‘ to be Screened at the RAGFF World Tour Cinema wich will be happening in a different country from where they have been in prior Competition.
Producers, distributors or other parties who submit films must agree before next year screenings , and guarantee that they are legallya authorized to represent the film and get any responsibility if fail to do so, as well as if any copyrighto orTrademark infringement is due to act within the film they representing, also they guarantee that they are legally authorized to register the film in the RAGFF.
7. – ART MOVEMENTS
Installations
Exploration, Unobvious, Aesthetics of silence, Pantomime, Painting, Drawing, Film Graphics,
Color, Color Structure, Texture, Composition, Words, Image, Silence, Speech, Colors, Verbal Tone,
Music Line, Decks of sounds in images, Video Art.
WORD AS WRITTEN,
A Word of Singing, Moving Images, Glitch
INSTALLATION
Scenery, Calligraphy, Animations.
BODY LANGUAGE
TONS OF HUMAN CULTURE DNA, MOVING IMAGES OF LIFE, HORIZONS, VIEW POINTS OF EXPRESSION, ART IN MOVEMENTS FRAMES, INSTALLATIONS
Art that defies the limits of human impulses …
We are waiting for YOUR interesting concepts and expressions of ART.
8.- RAGFF Music Fest
Depending on the City and Venues of RAGFF Years Edition, All local Artist as well as International artist will be always invited to participate during the days of RAGFF Music Fest.