Hell Chess Festival 2017

             




                       Now the call for entries is open to the Hell Chess Film Festival 2017.
                       It´s important in life the concept of "making something new".
                       The beautiful forms of art are mediums to convey new philosophies
                        to make the world a better place to live.
                        And of course this is our vision. Try something different. Do not worry
                        if you commit mistakes, take a risk to fly.
                        Look for perfection, but knowing this is impossible.
                        But believe in a cinema miracle to open our consciences and explain
                        why the world needs a change!

             
                   The Hell Chess Film festival is an event celebrated in Campo de Gibraltar, Spain.
                   This year we got a special Festival with some venues in Malta and Spain.
                   And probably a third one in Africa
                   We celebrate our screening and Awards Festival with joy.
                   We celebrate the commemoration of the great Hell Chess film made by                                              From the ruin to  Paradise society. This is our Fifth Edition .
                  This year we receive an awarded section to films and music.
                  We invite all artists from the whole world to participate.
                  Every year since 2013, we project our Hell Chess film and we play chess in a                                     chess tournament.
                  But this year the thing is going to be completed with your artistic works.
                  Make a better place to live with the best of your souls!

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                            Awards & Prizes

         We will have a list of Official Selections
          and the most part of them will be screened in the final event
           from the Festival.
           Then, our jury will decide:

         Sterling Silver Trophy to the Best Film.
         Sterling Silver Trophy to the Best Music.  

                   

         Diploma to the Best Director.
         Diploma to the Best Acting.
         Diploma to the Best Story.
         Diploma to the Best Edition
         Diploma to the Best technical production.

          Rules & Terms

      The rules are quite simple.
      You can submit all kind of films and all kind of music  without any limit.The artist freedom is              complete.  You can submit short films, feature films, documentaries, video clips, trailers,                     Video Art or whatever digital sight and sound form. 
 Regarding music, you can submit a song, complete records, incidental or experimental forms                    of music.  Both music and films  got no length required. 
             No limits in languages, but we do recommend  spanish subtitles.

Hell Chess Awards

The event is over.

We enjoyed a sweet summer evening with the radical sight and sound vision of THE VIBRATIONS,
the eternal and beautiful end of THE LAST KING OF GRANADA, the critical CONTEXT of two friends who are not aware of their context,and the romantic black and white sound of FIRST PARADISE. But these are the winners:

                                                       

Best Film: CARPE DIEM

This is a very elegant reflexion about loneliness.
We are especially touched by the opera scene with a beautiful mixture between classical and contemporary music. All is well done.

We don´t receive enough songs to give the Best Music Prize, so we have decided to award as
homage the spanish rock music band MOVIE PUSSIES at its 20th anniversary:

Both prizes are Sterling Silver pieces from the personal collection of Juan de la Encina.

And finally we are going to give an honorable mention:

Diploma to the BEST DIRECTOR: DAVID KING for the film EXIT.

This is a very special director who represents the best of the Hell Chess Spirit.
We enjoyed a killer edition and an innovative narrative way of telling stories.

.........

The Hell Chess Festival was completed with the premiere of the Film ¿NOTAS?
an anti-militarist film of Jorjesus that was made in 2006.

Thanks to everybody involved!

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

These are the Official Selections in Hell Chess Festival 2016.
Read carefully because there are two groups.
The first group are finalists and they are included and will be screened in the final event in Centro Cultural Pilar Miró in Madrid. (July 6 at 8:00 pm)
The second group are the semi-finalists not included in the final event.
But both groups got the quality of being Official Selections and got the right to wear the Laurels.


OFFICIAL SELECTIONS ( Finalists included in the final event):


The Vibrations by Benoit Maestre (France)

El último Rey de Granada by Pepe Gómez (España)

Carpe Diem by Grégoire Von Rakowski (France)

Exit by David King (Australia)

Context by Carlos Dominicis (USA)

First Paradise by Joe Hoster (Switzerland)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS (Semifinalists not included in the final event)

Fish by Saman Hosseinpuor (Iran)

Noriko by Christian Jilka (Austria)

Masaai 10th Lost Tribe of Israel by Dante Tanikie-Montagnani (UK)

Hell Chess Festival

The Hell Chess Film festival is an event celebrated in Campo de Gibraltar, Spain.
We celebrate the commemoration of the great Hell Chess film made by From the ruin to Paradise society. This is our Fourth edition .
This year we receive an awarded section to films and music.
We invite all artists from the whole world to participate
All the submissions must use the Filmfreeway platform (button above).
Every year since 2013, we project our Hell Chess film and we play chess in a tournament.
But this year the thing is going to be completed with your artistic works.
Make a better place to live with the best of your souls!

              

Awards

Sterling Silver Trophy to The Best Film.
Sterling Silver Trophy to The Best Music.

Rules & Terms

The rules are quite simple.
You can submit all kind of films and all kind of music without any limit.
The artist freedom is complete. You can submit short films, feature films,
video clips, trailers, Video Art or whatever digital sight and sound form.
Regarding music, you can submit songs, complete records, incidental
or experimental forms of music.
Both music and films got no length required.
No limits in languages too but we do recommend spanish or english subtitles.

"What does this mean? Just it: Cinema Can Change The World. We live a very mediocrity age to Arts. The society is rotten, the materialism comes to a dead end. Everybody has been selling bodies and souls. So, why a surprise? The Shark's hunger needs one more human sacrifice"

. This diagnostic was made by our director in 1998, when our cinema society was founded. After receiving the gift from a mysterious mastery (in form of a philosophic sigth and sound knowledge) he started the way to a philosophic cinema revolution. He thought that our eyes are a film cameras, studying the reality second by second, hearing the primitiveness echoes from people, but at the same time, searching the light of the few people who reached wisdom. The power of cinema and music is incredible. But at the same time we must build a new language in order to broadcast the new beautifulness of the eternal values. The hope and the happiness are always a fresh feeling. Try new paths, break old rules, endanger the secure steps and find another way to tell the great story. But be independent because the Shark is all around in form of many temptations. Today we got a finished project, a digital picture called Hell Chess. Part of this diagnosis is in 29 minutes of a revolutionary mysterious picture: 5 years to make this special enigma. A real different aproach to a new dimension. So, in Hell Chess you can see the negative side of reality. The hidden part of the chessboard which imprision us, like souls, eyes and human society. Some keys are forbidden to our senses. That's what this film reveals. Some images of this movie:

Hell Chess was watched by Bruce Joel Rubin (screenwriter from the film "Ghost") and this was his review: "I watched Hell Chess last night and was very touched by its poetry and spiritual message. We do see the world very similarly. I was very moved by the effort to put this wisdom into words and images. It is exceedingly difficult to do". Of course we got a real Big Project. Our mission is to help the people minds in order to inspire them the Great Hope. Sometimes the problems arise due a lack of self confidence values, principles and imagination.