ADMISSION RULES
1- The call is open to short documentary produced and shot in any video format, regardless of the genre, and completed after the 1st of January 2018.
All the submitted shorts will be viewed by the Festival organization and the festival will select a total of 12 short films for the official competition. The Festival Direction will also be able to select the submitted works for eventual reviews, special events and “out of competition” projections, parallel to the official competition. During the closing night will be awarded the winners choosed by the Jury.
2- For the competition category the copy for the first selection can be submitted according to one of the following language options: italian, english, original language with Italian or English subtitles.
3- The shorts application will happen exclusively through the FilmFreeway platform, where it is possible to manually upload video files, or simply insert existing links, even if they are private (Vimeo / Youtube / etc).
4- In case the short film is chosen for the competition, another copy for screening will be requested in the following format: File .mov (H264 or AppleProRes / Audio Stereo). The selected short movies, whose availability has already been declared, cannot be withdrawn from the contest for any reason.
5- During the Festival all the short films will be screened with Italian subtitles, which will be provided by the Festival Organization itself, when not given by the authors themselves. In this case it will be necessary to receive at least the dialogues list.
6- Authors and/or Producers are accountable for their own work contents and declare, by enrolling in the Festival, they have fulfilled any obligations with third parties in terms of copyright.
7.- The subscription and the participation to “Strade Parallele - 3th edition” implies the unconditional acceptance of the present regulation in all its parts. Short films must not contain clear advertising messages.
8.- Authors and/or Producers are accountable for their own work contents and declare, by enrolling in the Festival, they have fulfilled any obligations with third parties in terms of copyright.
SELECTED FILMS – SHIPMENT
There is no rental cost for the films selected in the competitions.
the screening file must have a minimum resolution of 1920X 1080 in the formats AVI, MOV, MP4, MPG. The Festival organization may reserve the right to ask for a PAL format DVD. In case the film needed subtitles, we must receive the complete list of the dialogues and the list of subtitles (if applicable) in one of the following languages: Italian, English possibly in .srt format or with any reference to the timecode.
As for the drawing-up of a catalogue, short information about the film, the author, the production, the plot and some photographs will be required.
ACCEPTANCE
By enrolling in the Festival, Authors and Producers accept all the rules in this call. The Authors and Producers, while remaining, to all intents and purposes, fully holders of their rights to their works, grant the Festival organization the right to project their films for free, in the context of Strade Parallele Festival 2020, as well as in other cultural events through which the Association "Fargo" intends to promote its activity. Furthermore, the Authors grant the Festival organization, for free, the right to use one or more images taken from their works in order to promote the Festival and other forms of communication and activities linked to the Association "Fargo", with the sole requirement to quote the artist. Authors and Producers, by participating in such competition, declare to be in possession of the rights of use of any music or non-original video clips present in the film. The film culture "Fargo" accepts no responsibility regarding the violation of any rights or release forms by neither the works selected or their authors. Besides, Authors and Producers authorize film culture "Fargo" to process their personal data under Law 675/96 (Privacy Act) as amended D. Igs. 196/2003 (Privacy Code), also to include them in databases run by individuals referred to above. Any dispute will be dealt in Italy and according to Italian Law and the competent court of Matera (MT).