ART BY CHANCE (ABC) is an ultra short film festival aiming to bring together promising artists and large audiences living in major cities all around the world.
Participant(s) who fill this form have read and agreed to ABC regulations.
ABC Ultra Short Film Festival will take place inMay 2010.
ABC entries will be broadcasted through advertising networks mainly located within urban transportations.
ABC is a sponsored event and screenings will take place with the support
of both local and global sponsors.
ENTRY DEADLINES
In order to participate in ART BY CHANCE, movies must be sentbefore the 26th of March2010.
ENTRY RESTRICTIONS
Entry is open to both animations and movies of all kinds with the exception of training and advertising films.
Films' content must addressABC's official theme: TIME.
Films must be suitable for general audience. Films containing extreme violence or sexuality will be disqualified by the Jury.
The sound using in films is optional. The participants must aware all the screens may not have sound access.
Films of 30 seconds or less excluding the title and credits are eligible for ABC.
Films previously broadcasted on television (free-to-air or pay TV); or
released on home video/DVD, for sale or rental, prior to ABC are ineligible.
All prior prizes awarded must be supplied on this entry form under "section1".
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Video file types must beWMV, AVI, MOV, MPEG uncompressed format.
All entries must be suitable for plasma screens.
OFFLINE SUBMISSION
Participants may submitt offline,
• Film entries must be submitted for consideration on DVD or VCD. 2 copies are required. The first copy will be used for ABC's production and the second will be viewed by ABC's Jury.
The participant's name and the movie's title must be written on the cover of both copies.
DVDs or VCDs must be sent to the following address in the same envelope with the completed and signed entry form: ANBEAN (Art By Chance Committee), Akabe İs Merkezi Buyukdere Caddesi No:78-80 K:7 D:702 Mecidiyekoy, Istanbul Turkey.
SUBTITLING AND ON SCREEN TEXT LANGUAGE
The sound using in films is optional. The participants must aware all the screens may not have sound access.
If the participating film needs to bring on screen a dialogue between characters, the dialogues can be included to the movie as text bubbles or subtitles.
Any text included to the movie must be in English language only regardless of the text type.
Given the diversity of the audience that will view selection, ABC does notrecommend any use of complex dialogue texts within the films.
COPYRIGHT AND ARTISTIC PROPERTY
Participants may only enter ABC with original artistic creations belonging to them.
ABC can not be held responsible for any participant whose work is not original (partly or entirely copied).
Every participant is responsible for his own submission in terms of copyright and artistic and intellectual property.
Any film may be eliminated from festival if proven that the creation does not belong to the participant. In this case the participant will be entirely responsible for the damages he caused to the real creator of the movie as well as the damages caused to ABC.
ABC committee has the right to take back any title given to a film If any of the above rules have been broken by the participant.
SPONSORS
The participant knows and accepts that ABC is a sponsored event which will be supported by both global and local sponsors.
ABC screenings and broadcastings will be followed by sponsor logos. The frequency and duration of logo screens may change according to network operators and sponsors requests.
Participants may be asked to participate to press conferences, interviews and galas organized by sponsors.
Participants will be required to act in the interest of sponsor brands and not to harm the sponsor brands by any action under any circumstances.
SELECTION
The selection of movies that will be screened within ABC will be handled by an international jury.
The jury composed of different backgrounds (cinema professionals, film makers, curators etc.).
The jury will select the 30(+1 or 2)best entries after viewing all the entries.
Each member of the jury will be asked to give a score to every entry regarding both artistic and technical aspects of the participating film.
The Jury's decision will be final and no discussions will be engaged regarding the final selection of ABC
NOTIFICATION OF SELECTION
The winners- First 30 film (+1 or 2) -will be notified via email by last week of April 2010 via e-mail.
SCREENINGS
By sending an entry to ABC, the participant automatically agrees and accepts that:
Sent films may be screened in any participating digital signage network across the world , in some contries mobile phone downloading within the duration of the festival.
Films sent to ABC may be broadcasted on the festival's website and kept within the festival's archives without any time limitation.
Festival supporters and sponsors have right to screen the films.
ABC entries may also be broadcasted on sponsor or supporting television channels during or after the festival
These broadcastings and screenings will be made without any financial contribution to the participant
The festival will try to hold screenings in as many cities as possible simultaneously
The Festival will try to hold as many screenings as possible for each entry in each city during the festival period.
ART BY CHANCE is a brand new “Ultra Short Film Festival” that will be aired for the second edition in May 2010 in 13 countries and 71 cities. ART BY CHANCE submission is now open for TIME themed 30 second films!
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