The GALA, and its Forum, are intended not only to celebrate and award the best of global Cinema every year assigning the AURORAS, but to support the incredible communal experience that only a movie theater and a “live” audience can give. That’s a fundamental element of our society and that’s the reason why only films that have a theatrical distribution are eligible for the nominations at the GALA Awards. We are fully commited to support exclusively the theatrical exhibition.

 

Here below are listed the four main rules: 

 

1) A film must have a theatrical distribution of two consecutive weeks in at least one country of each of the six continents. For example, it could just be: USA (North America), Brazil (South America), Italy (Europe), South Africa (Africa), Japan (Asia) and Australia (Oceania). 

 

2) For theatrical distribution we accept both nationwide and limited releases, with at least three movie theaters/screens in any available national territory, as long as it has a two-weeks consecutive release in at least one country per continent.

 

3) A film must have received at least 70% of positive reviews from the global press or a verified reviewer in order to be eligible for a nomination. For “global press” we mean: official reviews from all the Countries where the film has been theatrically released.   

 

4) A film can be released as early as January 1 and no later than December 31 (it counts the first release date of the global rollout) to compete for the current year. Each year, between January and February, a round of global voting will determine the TOP 10 films nominated in each category (one person, one vote). The nominations are announced in early February and all the winners will be declared during the GALA Show in Los Angeles in March.