Call of entries still open

The Hell Chess Film Festival call of entries are still open.
Freedom is not questionable to our festival so even if there is an attempt of dictatorship in the world we are going to celebrate our festival this year in summer.
We specially the artists got a special responsability to make something free, critical and new to challenge all attempt to create fake alarms and show us what the human spirit could achieve.

We wish to recall to all the former Hell Chess winners that they can get a free waiver code (so write us to do it) and the rest of filmmakers can obtain discounts at this web: discounts

REMEMBER CINEMA CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.

2020 call of entries

The Hell Chess Film festival is an event celebrated in Campo de Gibraltar, Spain. This year we got a special Festival with a final venue in Campo de Gibraltar (Spain). We celebrate our screening and Awards Festival. 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 you´ll receive a philosophical welcoming! 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 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! And be elegant to express it! The spirit of the Hell Chess Festival is so mysterious that you could feel a victory sensation even before starting. So, be sensitive now! Sterling Silver Trophy to the best film. Diplomas to: Best Director (filmmaker of the year) Best Acting (women and men compete Vs. each other in a single category) Best Story Best innovative picture Best technique This is a festival where a short film could win a feature because all compete in the same category. We got a very special communication with the filmmakers, so all your films will be revised in a very complete way and you will receive our review to improve future projects. You will feel this festival is the festival all filmmakers needed to have. If you cannot attend the festival in person, we ship all the prizes by traditional mail. 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. Films got no length required. But the risk, a deep colorful philosophy and the new forms of cinema language are better for us to be selected. As well as synthesis and capacity of being brief. If you are already a Hell Chess winner, send us an email and we can provide you a free code to submit your new works for nothing. But only if you have been a winner in any of the past editions. This year we want to invite the uppermost films on Earth to be WONDERFUL. So this festival is almost a secret garden to drink the eternal water. So, be aware because we are almost a private castle! If you are here you got lucky. No limits in languages, but ALL NON SPANISH OR NON SILENT MOVIES MUST HAVE SPANISH SUBTITLES. Anyway, we can provide you a certain help to make those subtitles if you are eager to make them. As the same time we are open to photos and music, so you can submit them in our contest.

All the 2019 Awards

After the last jury session in Madrid these are the winners:

BEST FILMMAKER: THOMAS O´BRIEN.....(USA).... by PHOTOS IN THE RAIN.

HONORABLE MENTION: JAMES BELSANTI.....(USA) by PHOTOS IN THE RAIN.

ANIMATION AWARD: ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE.....(Singapore) by HANNES RALL

MADRID FICTION AWARD: BLACKS OR WHITES.....(UK) by ANiTA PICO

AUDIENCE AWARD: MOONFLOWER.....(Canada) by DEB ETHIER.

SPECIAL AWARD: NENA by BE MY REBEL (Germany)

FOUR YEARS OF SONGS: LA MAGIA EN LA NAVIDAD by ANTONIO BELLIDO (Spain)

BEST ACTING: WILL RODRIGUEZ by THIRTY PIECES

BEST FILM OF THE YEAR: THIRTY PIECES (Australia) ...... by JAMES WEIR

Third and final Session of the Hell Chess Festival 2019

These are the Official Selections of the the Hell Chess Festival event in December 19 at 18:00 hrs in the cinema Artistic Metropol, Madrid. These films will compete for the prize "Filmmaker of the year."

-BlackS or Whites.....(UK).... directed by Anita Pico.

This chess game is a symbolic revelation of a crime and the suffering for love and loss.
The stage is pale and tormenting. A true style of what Hell Chess is all about.

-Ovarian Ciyst.....(USA).... directed by Aron Fromm.

This animation short film is original in the way it shows a fight against this medical problem
as all it was a superheroe fight. It´s refreshing the humour and the comic style.

-Photos in the rain.....(USA).... directed by Thomas O´Brien.

We are very touched by this documentary of some forsaken photos in the street.
A photographer who has lost his memory and his artistic testimony is rescued
by a sensitive  filmmaker who appreciates what is good.

Plus these finalists we are going to screen the Offical Selections of Summer and March.
All of them can be awarded at this Christmas Session.

-Be my rebel......Nena & Dave Steward.....(Germany).... directed by Virgil Widrich

This videoclip sang by Nena was selected by our festival for it´s good edition and as homage

to this german singer from the 80s who is in an incredible good shape after the years.

-Una sola bala.....(Venezuela).... directed by Stuart Rivas

This film is about suicide and what we find interesting is the vision of the impossibility
of escaping from problems after killing yourself. You will be in the mental same place...

All the world is a stage...(Singapore)... directed by Hannes Rall

This brief animation film is based in Shakespeare but what we find appealing is the visual concept, with few brushes his author tells the story of the sad living of many.

Moonflower...(Canada)...directed by Deb Ethier


Moonflower is a very stylish little piece of animation. The classical good taste is what we find more interesting in a world where everything is excessive. Special Audience Award.

Meltdown...(UK)...directed by Guli Silberstein

It looks like an abstract exercise but it is not. It´s like a documentary critic of we world we live but with  tasty filters and overlapped images with a real beauty.

Thirty pieces...(Australia)...directed by James Weir

This is a film deserved to be watched several times to understand the unexpected final twist of the story and the message regarding drug addiction, religion, salvation or hell. (Winner of our 2019 Festival)

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Apart from these Official selected films we are going to screen out of competition the David King past winner homage, and Sherry Wang´s Chess Song. Other former selections are part from our History and will be screened too like 

Telemach Wiesinger´s  Kaleidoscope pieces and Antonio Bellido´s music La magia en la navidad.

And of course our work as filmmaking  society.

See you soon!

        

Christmas session

The call of entries is open to the Christmas session of the Hell Chess Film Festival 2019.

The glory of cinema is here. Sometimes you forget to see far away. If you really see more beyond this is your festival.

All kind of films are permitted. All films compete in the same category. Regardless duration.
We are looking for the best filmmaker of the year. See you soon in Madrid.

Winners Hell Chess Festival 2019 (summer session in Jerez)

The last Friday the 13th our Director gave a conference about the Theme of this session "Supernatural" and the UFO question, totally essential to understand the life we live as puppets under this world.

The five finalists were well welcome in the University of Cádiz Jerez and finally only two films got the Jury and the Audience awards:

MOONFLOWER BY  Deb Ethier------Special Audience Award

THIRTY PIECES BY James Weir------Winner Hell Chess Fest. 2019 (Jury Award)

After watching hundreds of films these are the winners and all the Selections can be specially proud of being finalists after such rigorous procedure.

Official Selection summer 2019

These are the finalists from our festival season. Hundreds of films received to reach this demanding Official Selection. The next September 13 in Jerez we will award the best film of the Hell  Chess Festival 2019.

-Una sola bala.....(Venezuela).... directed by Stuart Rivas

This film is about suicide and what we find interesting is the vision of the impossibility
of escaping from problems after killing yourself. You will be in the mental same place...

All the world is at stage...(Singapore)... directed by Hannes Rall

This brief animation film is based in Shakespeare but what we find appealing is the visual concept, with few brushes his author tells the story of the sad living of many.

Moonflower...(Canada)...directed by Deb Ethier


Moonflower is a very stylish little piece of animation. The classical good taste is what we find more interesting in a world where everything is excessive.

Meltdown...(UK)...directed by Guli Silberstein

It looks like an abstract exercise but it is not. It´s like a documentary critic of we world we live but with  tasty filters and overlapped images with a real beauty.

Thirty pieces...(Australia)...directed by James Weir

This is a film deserved to be watched several times to understand the unexpected final twist of the story and the message regarding drug addiction, religion, salvation or hell.

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Apart from these Official selected films we are going to screen out of competition (but past winners) the Sherry Wang´s movies Chess Song and Messages from beyond. These films got a special connection with the soul of our festival and will be screened in our event forever.

And of course our work as filmmaking  society.

See you soon!