The 15 selected works will be admitted to the competition, screened during the 4^th ARES Festival and evaluated by the jury - composed of: directorPiero Messina, the Professor of Audio-visual techniques and Languages Massimo Rossi and the film-maker Andreas Perugini.

The Jury will award the following prizes:

• Award for "Best Film"
• Award for "Best Analysis of Contemporary Age”
• Award for “Best Work on Social Responsibility”
• Award for “Best Innovative Language”

Moreover, accredited Journalists will assign the Critics Prize for the best Documentary.

Work in progress...!!

12 /12/2011

ARES staff is now working on the next ARES event, which will take place in Syracuse, July/August 2012. As usually, the Festival will foresee: the screening of innovative and experimental films, in competition and out of competition, an exhibition of multimedia art works, cultural conferences and rounde tables, films and taste labs, audio-visual live performances. Follow us on the main social networks to be always updated!

The meeting between the two directors Domenico Distilo and Matteo Bonvicino (Machinima specialist) during ARES 2010 encouraged the two authors to fruitfully collaborate on the documentary “Estremi Urbani” (Urban Extremes), which inserts machinima elements in traditional documentary techniques (a production Sciara Srl and Magazzini Einstein – Rai Educational). Between cyberspace and everyday life, the documentary is a window on the controversial spaces of the holy city and the meaning of planning and building in a complex place divided into disputed territories and holy spaces.

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Miglior Film IL CASTELLO / di Massimo D'Anolfi – Martina Parenti / Italy

Miglior opera di responsabilità sociale ZAVORRA / di Vincenzo Mineo / Italy

To carry out the festival organisation, ARES Film & Media Festival gives students andyoung film fanatics the opportunity to take part in unpaid collaborations and training placements for the 4th ARES which will be held in July/August 2012. The interns will get the chance to learn, from an "insider's" point of view, just how an international film festival is organised and run. Each placement participant will become involved with a specific role and responsibility, and there is also the possibility of further collaboration in the future. Click here for the form