CALL FOR ENTRIES
The First International Environmental Film Festival, FINCA, is born in the City of Tigre in 2010 with the aim of raising environmental awareness through films. The event will be a great meeting with many activities for the public to attend to. They will be able watch the best environmental films of the year, shows and art exhibitions, and participate in panel discussions with the presence of experts and environmentalist organizations.
We firmly believe that this is the time to consider the environmental issue as a central problem in all the public agendas, as well as in the homes and in the educational centers.
Our aim is to overcome the prejudice about the exclusiveness of the environmental debate from professionals of the sector. We all live and form part of the ecosystem and therefore the future of the environment depends on us.
Our programming will be characterized for meeting all the formats and genres: documentary, fiction, animation, short films, feature films and national/international productions. We invite everyone, young and old to participate in the launch of the First International Environmental Film Festival.
FINCA is today more necessary than ever for the task of sensitizing what fall on our shoulders as a society.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1 PARTICIPATION
The call for entries of the First International Environmental Film Festival, FINCA will be launched on July 15, 2010 and its deadline is August 15 2010. The Festival will be held in Tigre (Buenos aires Province, Argentina), from 27 to 31 October 2010. Any physical or legal person, unlimited of age neither nationality, is able to
submit productions carried out from the 1º of January of 2008. They are NOT ADMITTED FILMS OR VIDEOS THAT HAVE ADVERTISING CHARACTER OF A BUSINESS, INDUSTRY, INSTITUTION, ETC. The films should deal with environmental issues: we understand environment as the ambience that surrounds us, that affects and conditions especially the circumstances of life. It includes the whole existing cultural, social, and natural values in a specific place and moment that influence the life of the planet. That is to say, not only the space in which the life develops, but also covers alive beings, objects, water, ground, air and the relations among them, as well as elements as intangible as the culture. The following genres and lengths are included:
Documentary
Fiction
Animation
Expiremental
Short, Medium and Feature films
2 | SUBMISSION
The submission will be for free. The deadline for the admission of preview copies in format DVD, will be August 15, 2010 at 12 p.m. The shipment should include: 1. Entry form properly completed and signed
2. A PHOTO of the film/video in JPEG format, 300 ppp, in a CD-R or either sent through e-mail to: programacion@derhumalc.org.ar
3. Brief synopsis of the film/video in format Word and/or txt
4. Preview copy in format DVD.
5. Filmography and photography of the Director
6. If the preview copy is not in Spanish, please send the dialogue list in Spanish or English, preferably in format Word and/or txt, in CD-R or by e-mail to: programacion@derhumalc.org.ar
3 | SELECTION
The Executive Board of the Festival reserves the right to select the programming among the films that applied and to place it in the categories that they consider. The selected authors will be notified directly before September 15, 2010. The complete listing of selected films will be published in the official web page of the Festival from September 30, 2010.
The screening formats are: DVD PAL, MiniDV, DvCam PAL
4 | JURY
The jury will be composed by a shortlist of three professionals unrelated to the organization who will give the award to the BEST ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURE FILM.
The jury will have to make its decision by simple majority, and if needed they will have the right of declaring void the award. The decision will be unappealing.
5 | SHIPMENTS, COSTS AND REFUNDS
PREVIEW COPIES
Participant is responsible for shipment costs. The Festival will not accept shipments that incur in costs of rates, taxes or other charges. The festival will not take the responsibility for the deterioration or loss of the works, reason by which, we advise that you do not send original copies. The works from outside of Argentina will have to be sent through regular or certified mail and labeled with the following indication: “ONLY FOR CULTURAL PURPOSES – NO COMMERCIAL VALUE”
It is advised not to utilize courier services because the majority of those shipments are retained for customs in Argentina, without any motive nor purpose.
The shipment should be carried out to:
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE AMBIENTAL
Florida 274, PB
C1005AAF
Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Argentina
The preview copies for initial selection in format DVD will not be returned but they will be incorporated to the file of the festival for cultural uses. The shipment of the screening copy is the responsibility of the participant. The copies of work will be returned under explicit and written petition, with the destination and the date of refund (distributors, production companies, other festivals, etc.).
The submission is for free.
6 | PROMOTION
The festival will be able to use clips from the films, not over three minutes, in TV. The producer will facilitate to the festival the promotion material of the film (trailer, poster, presskit, photos, etc.). The festival will promote all the films that integrate the different sections of FINCA, with the apparition of these in as many audiovisual and graphic medias as possible, as well as interviews with the producers. The festival will also invite a number of production companies, distributors and national and international TV channels, to see all the movies and for future buys; in compensation, the owner of the work should mention the selection of the film and/or of eventual Prizes obtained in the Festival in the promotion material of the movie (credits of the Film, trailer, presskit, official web, etc.).
7 | FINCA FILM SEASONS
Due to the educational character of the festival, the awarded films and some of the selected ones will be screened in the film seasons that the festival carries out in for diffusion purposes. These screenings will always be non-profit events.
8 | THE FINCATECA: AUDIOVISUAL FILE OF THE FINCA
The films or videos that participate and accept the regulation of the festival in all its sections, become a part of the Audiovisual File of the FINCA, that constitutes the FINCATECA. The owners of the work conserve full rights on it and they only yield the copy to FINCA with the objective to integrate the file that will be utilized with the sole purpose of information, educational and sensitizing aims, through the FINCATECA. Online access is restricted and only open to the educational centers (schools, institutes and universities); any another use previously will be consulted and negotiated in writing with the owners of the work.
THE PARTICIPATION IN THE 1st INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL (FINCA), INVOLVES THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE TOTALITY OF ITS REGULATION. IN CASE IT PRESENTS DOUBTS OR SOME ASPECTS THAT ARE NOT CONTEMPLATED IN THE REGULATION, THE DIRECTION OF THE FESTIVAL WILL THEN DECIDE.
