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

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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

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. Sign Up. Participation. Voting