Call
for Participation in the 4th Annual Research Award of the Iranian
Cinema
The
Department for Technology Development and Cinema Studies of Iran’s Cinema and
Audio-Visual Organization In collaboration with the House of Cinema intends to
organize Iran’s 4th Annual
Research Award of Iranian Cinema with an international approach aiming to
identify and encourage researches related to Iranian cinema. Hereby Iranian and
foreign university professors, film makers, students and researchers on Iran’s
cinema are invited to contribute with
respect to the following terms
Proposed
Subjects
Deliberations on the
Iranian cinema over the recent four decades and mechanisms for Its development in the following areas:
The economy of cinema,
cinema as an industry, children and young adults and cinema, the impacts of
technological developments on cinema, interdisciplinary studies in cinema,
Policy making in cinema, film script and other cinema-related fields of art
Details of the Suggested Issues
Terms
for Contributions
Works will be in the form
of "Research Project Report", "Article", "Thesis /
Dissertation", "Proposal", "Visual Research" and Analytical Note""
Works obviously not presented at the previous editions of the event.
The
Secretariat of the Annual Research Award of the Iranian cinema is authorized to
use the abstract of the contributions on
its website, book of the event, magazines, brochures and news broadcasts
related to the event.
Awards
Top researchers will be awarded prizes as Statuette, tablet of commendation and:
350,000,000 Iranian Rials in cash for "the best research project"
200,000,000 Rials in cash for "the best Ph.D. dissertation"
140,000,000 Rials in cash for "the best M.A
thesis"
200,000,000 Rials in cash for "the best
research article"
200,000,000 Rials in cash for "the best Visual
Research"
"Top Analytical Note" to answer the question "What is the
most important issue of Iranian cinema and its solution?": Special Jury
Prize
Up
to three contributions in the form of
“research project” , “thesis” and “ article” which will have not been
selected as the best but obtain the quorum scores by the jury will be awarded
statuettes ,tablet of commendation and cash prize (%50 in value of the top prize of each format for
the top contribution, %30 for the runner up and %20 for the third place winner)
In
addition to the above prizes the abstract of the top contributions will be
published as a “booklet” and the articles obtaining
highest scores will be
published in a national academic journal, or by a major international publisher
in the form of an edited volume.
Application
Applicants may fill in the application form as of November 21th , 2020. The title and
the abstract of the works should be sent to the Secretariat by December 21
th , 2020. The Secretariat will announce the results of the selection
committee in a week (The texts related to the special award are exempted).
The works, whose title and abstracts have been accepted, should be
sent to the Secretariat by February 28th, 2021.
Original copies must be sent exclusively to the Secretariat by email(info@nicra.ir). In
the case of "visual research", it is sufficient to send the internet
link of the work to the e-mail or the work should be delivered or sent to the
Secretariat in the form of a DVD.
Address of the
Secretariat
Iran’s House of Cinema, 2nd floor,
6 Pirniya Alley,
Lalehzar-e nou Street,
Tehran, Iran
E-mail.: info@nicra.ir
Phone numbers: (+98)
21339722200, (+98) 2138512739, (+98) 9932086523