37th Elche International Independent Film Festival. Rules. Voting, Participation. Sign Up

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37th ELCHE INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

www.festivalcineelx.es37th EDITION ELCHE INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL - FROM 25 TO 31 JULY 2014

The main objective in Elche International Independent Film Festival, organized by Fundación Caja Mediterráneo, is to offer a cultural place for producers and amateurs. It supposes a constant compromise with the encouragement of culture and supporting the raising values in the seventh art, believing in innovation, striking up a conversation between the audience and the author and eliminating all technological barriers when it comes to take part and voting.

In spite of its adaptation to new technologies, Elche International Independent Film Festival doesn’t forget its origins and the respect in searching the best quality in every format that technology allows. Therefore the only avowed format is HD quality video.

Also, along its path, Elche International Independent Film Festival has honored great movie stars in spanish cinema as Sara Montiel, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Julieta Serrano, Sancho Gracia and Juan Diego, among others.

37th Edition consists of the following requirements:

1. Any individual over 18 years old can participate, independently of its nationality, or any person, legal or natural. In that case, they must sing up as a registered user in the web site www.festivalcineelx.es. The presentation of the works in competition is exclusively online through the aforementioned web site and in the way explained in the paragraph “Inscription, Participation and Voting,” included in General Terms of Use. We DON´T accept physical mailing through postal services and/or courier.

2. Every Author/Producer/Distributor can submit all the works they want, the only condition is not to have been previously shown in this contest and they must have been filmed after January 1, 2012.

3. The term for uploading the works into the web site www.festivalcineelx.es starts on june the 4th and ends on july the 3rd at 23:59:59h. From the date outlined, more works will not be accepted.

4. The Author/Producer/Distributor has the power of asking the withdrawal at any time of all the works they have submitted just by sending an e-mail to [email protected].

5. The Organization will only acknowledge as a competitor the Author/Producer/Distributor who has checked in as an user in the web site www.festivalcineelx.es. Any other person taking part in the elaboration of the work should address the Author/Producer/Distributor registered in the web site www.festivalcineelx.es in case there is any incidence regarding the presentation of the work in the competition.

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The Festival will feature the following categories:

CATEGORY FORMAT MAXIMUM LENGTH

FICTION

Video area / region 0 and 16:9 25 minutesANIMATION

DOCUMENTARY

For competing, the Author/Producer/Distributor must convert their work to the specified formats in the web site www.festivalcineelx.es, indicated in section “Sign up, Participation and Voting” included in Terms of Service of the web site. The works presented in the Festival must be shown in any of the spanish oficial languages. If the original version is in any other language, they must have subtitles in spanish or any of the spanish oficial languages, but it could be admitted without the aforementioned subtitles if the jury determinate so according to its quality.

The contestants have two options for participating:

Free access: The works will be displayed completely in the web site, for broadcasting, socialization and acknowledgment. Moreover, they could be shown, if they are selected, in Screening Gala in Hort del Xocolater and Arenales del Sol Beach.

Restricted for the Jury: the Author/Producer/Distributor determine that their works can only be displayed online for the members of the Jury and will be projected just in case they are selected, in Screening Gala in Hort del Xocolater and Arenales del Sol Beach.

In the section “Inscription, Participation and Voting” included in Terms of Service of the web the Author/Producer/Distributor have all the guidelines needed for participating in both options.

PRE-SELECTION OF FINALISTS AND SCREENING SESSIONS

The finalists will be selected by a group of prestigious persons in the world of image. Their decision will be known from July 14, 2014.

The only format accepted for finalist selection and screening sessions is Digital High Definition (area/region 0 and in 16:9).

For preparating the realization needed in the Screening Sessions, the organization will ask to the selected ones sending the high digital quality possible, which its contents must be the same as the one uploaded in www.festivalcineelx.es. Any work not complying with the categories, formats and length established in the current terms, will be automatically disqualified.

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The Organization must have the original digital files before July 18, 2014. The Organization will accord with the finalists through the internet, the way of sending them.

After July 18, 2014, the Organization will convene a Jury of Qualification which will be composed of different people in the world of cinema and broadcasting. Their verdict, which will be final, will be announced in the Closing Gala on August 01, 2014.

The Screening Sessions will take place from 25 to 31 of July 2014 in Hort del Xocolater, Fundación Caja Mediterráneo Center and Arenales del Sol Beach.

AWARDS 37 EDITION

FUNDACIÓN CAJA MEDITERRÁNEO AWARD TO THE BEST SHORT in any of the formats and/or categories provided with 4.000€ and DAMA Trophy.

AYUNTAMIENTO DE ELCHE AWARD TO THE BEST SHORT OF FICTION provided with 2.000€ and DAMA Trophy.

BEST ANIMATED SHORT AWARD provided with 2.000€ and DAMA Trophy.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT AWARD provided with 1.500€ and DAMA Trophy.

AUDIENCE ¨HORT DEL XOCOLATER¨ AWARD provided with 500€ and DAMA Trophy. Will be awarded the most voted work according to the audience attending to the Oficial Section in Hort del Xocolater. All the information related to the previous accounting of the votes, can be found in the section “Sign up, Participation and Voting,” included in General Terms of Service in the aforementioned web site.

ONLINE AUDIENCE AWARD provided with 500€ and DAMA Trophy. Will be awarded the most voted work according to the registered users in www.festivalcineelx.es. All the information related to the previous accounting of the votes, can be found in the section “Sign up, Participation and Voting,” included in General Terms of Service in the aforementioned web site.

The Organization reserves the right to cancel any vote issued fraudulently or due any kind of manipulation of the voting system.

The awards will be paid through personal check/bank transfer issued by the Organization for the natural or legal person who has been registered as a contestant, being subjected to any deductions that determine the current tax rules and no latter than tree months since the end of the Closing Gala. Both prizes and trophies must be collected by the participants in the Closing Gala, on 01 August 2014.

While in its hands, the Organization will look after the original digital hardware. Except the winners, all the works will be deleted after the end of the Closing Gala and the web site www.festivalcineelx.es.

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LEGAL TERMS

The Author/Director/Distributor of the works presented to the contest states their authorship, direction and production and, being unpublished and original, they are free of third party claims.

Without prejudice to the use and marketing the author/Director/Distributor makes with the awarded work, Fundación Caja Mediterráneo can:

• To keep the work in a digital file in the domains and/or Fundación Caja Mediterráneo web site, so all the users can watch during the days of Festival. The works can be watched anytime and anywhere but just in streaming.

• Limited rights of public broadcasting of the awarded works in this edition so Fundación Caja Mediterráneo, through its activities, can show them every time needed. All the screening will be free and will mention, if it is the case, the award received in the Festival. The screening will serve to promote the aforementioned short and the Festival itself.

• Production rights of the winner shorts so they can be filed and Fundación Caja Mediterráneo can create an especia edition in CD, DVD or something in between in which the work can be included along with the rest of the works presented in this edition or previous editions in Elche Intenational Independent Film Festival.

• Although Fundación Caja Mediterráneo has limited rights of reproduction, the Author/Producer/Distributor of the winner works can contact with Fundación Caja Mediterráneo asking for the removing of any of its works, in case they are dealing with its distribution. Fundación Caja del Mediterráneo supports shorts film.

The Author/Director/Distributor, through their sign up in this web site, show their accordance and acceptance of the present terms, allowing Fundación Caja Mediterráneo, non profit entity, CIF G-03046562 and place of business in Avenida Doctor Gadea, 1, 03003 in Alicante, using the works in the terms set out above, with assignment to Fundación Caja Mediterráneo the right of Intellectual Property exclusively for the activities aforementioned. The scope of the assignment will not be exclusive and will be international.

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ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES

The Organization is exempt from all responsibility in case of malfunction of the Internet, impeding a normal development of the contest for reasons beyond the Organization and, especially, for external mean acts.

For any questions, following the Festival and/or doubt, use the next contacts:www.festivalcineelx.es

E-mail: [email protected]

Twitter: @festivalelche and @obra_social

Facebook: http://es-es.facebook.com/festivaldecine and in fan page of Fundación Caja Mediterráneo in this Social Network.

Participating in this edition of the festival, means the total acceptation of these rules. Any circumstance not expected in them, will be resolved by the Organization and all the participants must accomplish them.

JUNE 2014

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SIGN UP, PARTICIPATION AND VOTING The participation in 37th Edition of Elche International Independent Film Festival is, exclusively, through the following web site www.festivalcineelx.es, not allowing the presentation of original works through postal services or courier. The works, which must be originals and presented in High Definition, will be converted to the following formats shown in the next table:

CATEGORY FORMAT MAXIMUM LENGTH

FICTION mpeg, wmw, mp4, flv and avi with

a maximum weight of 500 MB 25 minutesANIMATION

DOCUMENTARY

The aforementioned web site is open to the public. You can watch exclusively in streaming the works selected by the authors to be displayed openly, as explained in the paragraph “To compete”.

This web application doesn’t allow to download the works for watching them in another hardware or online. For uploading, voting and commenting the videos, the visitor must be registered in the web site as explained on paragraph ¨How to sign up.¨

SIGN UP

In order to vote, comment and compete, the user must be registered in the web site www.festivalcineelx.es. It only takes a couple of minutes.

STEP 1: Choose user name and password. Once registered, it will ask for your user name for voting, commenting and/or compete.

STEP 2: Fill in the gaps with your personal data.

STEP 3: Accept the conditions of the Festival by ticking the check box.

STEP 4: Send. Once registered, the user will recibe a confirmation e-mail. The user needs to sign up only once in this Edition of Elche International Independent Film Festival.

The users can modify their personal data and check out in the web site by contacting with the organization.

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FOR COMPETING

The Author/Director/Distributor who wants to take part as a contestant must follow the next guidelines:

STEP 1: Sign up in the web site www.festivalcineelx.es, writing down their personal data in the registration form, as indicated previously.

STEP 2: In the section Enviar Vídeo a Concurso, you have to fill in the following gaps: Title, Director, Production, Script, Photography, Montage, Length, Nationality, Year, Category, Theme, Cast, Synopsis. And add a still from the video.

STEP 3: Accept the legal terms protecting the contest and Elche International Film Festival. You can download this document for later review.

STEP 4: The Author/Director/Distributor must choose between two options. Show their work unscrambled, for everyone who visit the web site. Or show their work restricted, so just the members of the Jury can watch the video. This video will only be shown in Screening Sessions in Hort del Xocolater and Arenales del Sol beach, if this short is chosen as finalist for the jury.

STEP 5: The contestant must be of age.

STEP 6: Click on Upload Video button. The video must be in one of the formats aforementioned.

When the short is uploaded successfully, the Author/Director/Distributor will receive a confirmation on the screen.

Once registered, the Author/Director/Distributor can upload all the videos they want, following the four steps aforementioned and accepting the legal terms for each video sent.

• The Organization will need 24h for reviewing the video and accept it in the web site.

• In case of detecting a video that fails to perform the rules, will be automatically discharged, being notified the Author/Director/Distributor by e-mail.

• The web site www.festivalcineelx.es has all the screen helpers needed and a section of FAQ to facilitating the sign up and sending the videos.

• The Organization will delete all personal data in the web site www.festivalcineelx.es at the end of the closing gala and the end of the 37 Elche International Independent Film Festival, according to the Data Protection Law. For more information, please check the section Legal Terms in www.festivaldecinedeelx.es, that can be also downloaded.

• While the duration of the 37 Elche Independent International Film Festival, the contestants can contact every time they need with the Technical Service in this web site through the resources provided in its section Contact.

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• The Author/Director/Distributor is solely responsible for the content of the short. The Organization is exempt from any liability thereof.

• The Author/Director/Distributor can remove a video or all of them in every moment. In that case they must ask for it directly to the Organization through this e-mail address [email protected], pointing out the video(s) they want to remove.

PARTICIPATION

Participating is one of the main objectives in this Edition. It means the enhancement of the work of the Author/Director/Producer directly with their public, being the communication between equals and rewarding the seventh art with the opinions of both parts.

This way, all the users in this web site (registered or not) can link the videos and comments through the social networks. The aforementioned web site is also prepared for the user (registered or not) can link with their web/blog the video they want to comment.

Therefore, Fundación Caja Mediterráneo wants to socialice this web site www.festivalcineelx.es allowing to the registered users voting, commenting and participating, and link the works for commenting in the different social networks they might be in.

This web site also allows to the registered users share their opinions in the file of each video. So the Author/Director/Distributor and the users can establish a free conversation in order to enrich both parts.

The Organization is exempt from any liability for the comments made in the files of each short presented to the contest.

The Organization is also exempt from any liability about the comments made for any user registered when linking to the Social Network they might be in.

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VOTING

Voting is another objective in this Festival. The users can vote all the videos they want. The web site www.festivalcineelx.es allows the registered user voting each video once, not allowing voting more than once the same video.

The way of voting is through the file of the desired work where the registered user will find a button for voting which will be activated once the user have watched at least 3/4 parts of the video.

The registered users can watch and vote the videos from the publishing date of the rules till the day before (31/07/2014) of the Closing Gala of this Edition of the Festival, August 1st 2014. The web site application will be closed in order to count the votes.

The most voted video will be the winner of the ONLINE AUDIENCE AWARD, a prize worth 500€ and DAMA Trophy.

The Organization reserves the right to void any vote cast fraudulently or due to any manipulation of the voting system.

The Organization is exempt of all responsibility in case of malfunction of the Internet Network, to prevent the normal development of the contest, or reason beyond the company and specially external wicked acts. Nor shall be responsible either for transmission or loss of e-mails not attributable to the company.

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37th Elche International Independent Film Festival. Rules. Voting, Participation. Sign Up