Open Call - The Camille Awards 2024

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Open Call – The Camille Awards 2024

Hae nyt mukaan eurooppalaiseen elokuva- ja TV-sävellyskilpailuun Camille Awardsiin! Lähetä hakemuksesi viimeistään 29.2.2024.

The Camille Awards on eurooppalaisten musiikintekijäjärjestöjen kattojärjestö ECSAn (European Composer and Songwriter Alliance) elokuva- ja TV-sävellyskilpailu. Palkinnot jaetaan syys-lokakuun vaihteessa Pariisissa.

Open callilla haetaan ehdokkaita kolmessa eri kategoriassa, joista valitaan yksi Suomen edustaja per kategoria. Lopullisen valintatyön tekee kansainvälinen palkintoraati.

Lähetä hakemukseksi viimeistään 29.2.2024 sähköpostitse osoitteeseen nina.lith@musiikintekijat.fi. Alla lisätietoa ja hakemusohjeet englanniksi. 

Palkinto

Kategorioiden voittajat palkitaan taiteilija Caroline Brissetin tekemällä palkintopatsaalla.

Awards by the artist Caroline Brisset © Abdel Rakoon

How to apply

Previously known as Grand Scores, the ECSA European Film Composer Awards have been renamed the Camille Awards as a tribute to Camille Saint-Saëns, the composer of the first music ever composed for a fiction film, namely The Assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1908.

The European Film Composer Awards is an event dedicated to celebrate film music and its composers. Scores from different categories will be awarded during a ceremony in Paris (France) in the frame of the ECSA Autumn Session, taking place end September or early October 2024. The exact date will be announced soon.

The following achievements shall be honoured annually with a Camille Award:

  1. Best Original Film Score Award presented for one film score in the respective year(s).
  2. Best Original Music for a Drama Series Award presented for one score for a drama series screened in the respective year(s).
  3. Best Original Score for a Feature Documentary Award presented for music written directly for a feature documentary in the respective year(s).

Eligibility

  • Only the principal credited composer/s responsible for the conception and execution of the work as a whole shall be eligible for a Camille Award.
  • Only original scores made specifically for the production are eligible.
  • An original score is a substantial body of original music.
    • An audible and significant rendition of the music must be used in the body of the film. It is the film/TV series version of the music that will be considered.
  • Scores will qualify as eligible if the motion picture or TV series for which the score was composed has had its European premiere screening between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2023. This edition of the Camille Awards thus covers a period of two years, as there was no ceremony organised in 2023.
  • Unless noted otherwise, scores for motion pictures will be eligible if they are used in a feature-length fiction film that had its European premiere in a commercial cinema theatre or on online public streaming platforms.
  • If not in English, the movies and series (pilot or first episodes) for which the scores have been written, must be submitted with English subtitles.
  • The submissions by the different organisations should be of scores composed by a composer of their own countries – regardless of the origin of the production etc.
  • The production companies will need to provide a link with password or information on where to access the movies, documentaries and series (pilot episodes) from which the scores have been written, for a sufficient amount of time (at least 3 months). The ECSA Member organisations must present the Camille Awards concept and the possibility to receive a prize to receive the support of the movies and series representatives.

Send this information to your representive

BEST original Film Score

  • Name of the Composer:
  • Nationality of the Composer:
  • Name of Featured Film:
  • Date of first première in Europe (from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023):
  • Version: Original Version – With English Subtitles
    • Link:
    • Password:

BEST original Music for a drama series

  • Name of the Composer:
  • Nationality of the Composer:
  • Name of Series:
  • Date of first première in Europe (from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023):
  • The featured series (pilot episode or first episode only)
  • Version: Original Version – With English Subtitles
    • Link:
    • Password:  

BEST original score for A FEATURE documentary

  • Name of the Composer:
  • Nationality of the Composer:
  • Name of Documentary:
  • Date of first première in Europe (from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023):
  • Version: Original Version – With English Subtitles
    • Link:
    • Password:

More information

ECSA

The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) represents over 30,000 professional composers and songwriters in 27 European countries. With more than 55-member organisations across Europe, the Alliance speaks for the interests of music creators of art and classical music (contemporary), film and audiovisual music, as well as popular music.

The main objective of the Alliance is to defend and promote the rights of authors of music at the national, European and international levels by any legal means. It advocates for equitable commercial conditions for composers and songwriters and strives to improve social and economic development of music creation in Europe.

ECSA was initiated in 2006 in Vienna within the framework of the Mozartjahr. It was established as an alliance in March 2007 in Madrid with the purpose of becoming the central organisation representing the interests of all music creators in Europe, giving every composer and songwriter a European voice.

FFACE Committee

The Film and Audio-Visual Music Committee (FFACE) is the committee of ECSA dealing specifically with issues affecting composers of film, advertising and other audio-visual music. The committee aims to assert and maintain the specificity of the profession, reinforce the dialogue with producers, editors and broadcasters and facilitate exchanges and mobility of professionals.