HOW
TO REGISTER A MOVIE FOR THE FESTIVA 2009 ?
Registration
period is now closed. Send your production for next year!
Please
read the general registration rules, fill out the
REGISTRATION FORM and send us two DVD
copy (NTSC or PAL).
There are no registration fees.
1. General
entry conditions
To be eligible for the competition, productions being submitted must
answer the following requirements:
1.1 The registration
file must be complete and must be received at our Montreal offices before
midnight, July 31th, 2009, at the following address:
FESTIVA / Preselection
committee
911 Jean-Talon Street East, Suite 205
Montreal (Quebec)
H2R 1V5 CANADA
The registration file includes:
a) A duly completed registration form.
b) Two DVD copy
of your film (NTSC or PAL); PLEASE NOTE THAT BETACAM AND MINI-DV
FORMAT ARE NOT ACCEPTED.
If your production
is chosen to take part in the Official Selection, we will contact
you to obtain:
- Two Professionals
DVD copy (NTSC or PAL) to project on wide screen (if not already submitted).
This material must be received at our offices at least one
month prior to the festival.
- 4 images related to the document
and presented in digital form (300 or more dpi, tif, jpg). These images
can be sent either by email at infofestiva@espaces.qc.ca
or on a CD by mail. Transfert by FTP is also available. Please
note that if the film is selected for competition, these images must
lend themselves, for promoting the Festival, to use without rights.
1.2 Documents must
be presented either in an original French or English version. Documents
with soundtracks in any language other than English or French, must
have French or English subtitles.
1.3 The maximum
length accepted for documents submitted is 70 minutes.
1.4 Priority will
be granted, except justified exception, to productions having been realized
in the four years preceding the festival.
1.5 Documents
may be from any country of origin.
1.6 In no case
whatsoever may the documents include commercial breaks.
1.7 Documents
being submitted must answer the technical parameters described in
the registration form.
1.8 More than
one document may be presented by any given company or person.
Festival management reserves the
right to refuse any document not respecting the entry conditions
set forth.
2.
Preselection and Jury
The Preselection Committee will view all documents presented for official
selection. Subsequently, the selected documents will be presented to
the Jury and to festivalgoers. The Jury will be made up of people representative
of the various circles related to the Festival (adventure, filmmaking,
directing, etc.) and its number will vary between 5 and 7 people. The
Jury’s decisions are final.
3. Promotion
To ensure its promotion, the Festival may use images from the films being
presented for competition as long as such excerpts are no longer than
3 minutes. This promotion may be addressed to television, to the written
press, the web or to any other media deemed relevant. Holders of movie
rights will not receive any payment for the use of these excerpts toward
promotional ends. The Festival commits to making known its activities,
as well as the films and videos it is presenting, to a maximum number
of television- and movie-industry players (broadcasters, distributors
and others).
4. Quebec
tour
The FIFAM will carry out a Quebec tour. The management of the festival
will make a selection of the films that will be presented during this
tour and will communicate with the authorized contact (person registered
on the Registration Form) to get the authorizations for these screenings.
5. Insurance
From their reception at the Festival offices, copies will be insured by
the Festival against theft, loss and destruction. Competitors sending
the original copy of a movie do so at their own risk. The FIFAM will not
send back submitted copies to the senders unless a formal demand is made.
6. Registration
fee for the competition
The Festival requires no registration fee whatsoever.
7. Shipping
address for the registration file
FESTIVA / Preselection Committee
911 Jean-Talon Street East, Suite 205
Montreal (Quebec)
H2R 1V5 CANADA
8. Contact
Programming
Phone: 514-277-3477 ext. 34
Toll free phone: 1 888 277-6718 ext. 34
infofestiva@espaces.qc.ca
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