Local artists' competition
Since 2010, Transilvania IFF features a competition for amateur and professional filmmakers residing, working or studying in the Cluj county. For the past few years, home to two film universities, Cluj-Napoca has been the focal point of an artistically efervescent and cinema-oriented region, which has also been reflected in the number of films produced in the region, which were entered in the selection process each year.
The Transilvania IFF Local Artists' Competition is organized together with the Cluj-Napoca contemporary art center Fabrica de Pensule, which will also host the shorts' screening and the Award Ceremony. Fabrica de pensule will also offer a special mention – called Personal Paradise – to the film which offers a highly creative vision of what stands for an artist's personal universe / paradise. The films, produced between June 7th, 2010, and May 15th, 2011, have to be shorter than 30 minutes, of any genres or type, and submissions are expected until May 15th, 2011, on the festival's office address - ROMÂNIA FILM, Filiala Cluj (P-ţa UNIRII Nr. 24).
Last year, the successful Local Artists' competition was won by two shorts, ex-aequo: Pânza / The Canvas (dir. Codin S. Pop, 18') and A night on Earth - Cluj (dir. Visky Abel, 20').
