POSTERS CONTEST CALL 2024
26TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST “CIUDAD DE SORIA”
Submission deadline: 21th of June 2024 at 23:59 (11:59pm)
CONVENING INSTITUTION
The Councilorship of Youth of Soria’s Local Government open calls for the 26th International Short Film Festival Contest “Ciudad de Soria” posters submission. The winning poster will be the 26th International Short Film Festival Contest image.
CONTEST AIM
The 26th International Short Film Festival “Ciudad de Soria” Poster Contest aims to encourage artists and designers creativity around the world, spreading cinematographic culture, as well as drawing attention to the Festival image at a national and international level.
To participate in the 26th International Short Film Festival "CIUDAD DE SORIA” Poster Contest, you need to present your work of art according to the following TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
1. CONTESTANTS
This contest is open to designers, artists and content creators from all over the world, from every nationality. Whoever interested in participating, either as a team or as an individual author, may do so. You may present one poster per author tops.
2. THEME
1. The theme is free. Pictorial, photographic or digital composition is accepted. It will be valued that the poster has a relationship with the guest country, which, this year, will be Brazil.
2. The following text must appear clearly visible in the works presented:
XXVI CERTAMEN INTERNACIONAL DE CORTOS “CIUDAD DE SORIA“ Del 8 al 17 de Noviembre de 2024.
3. The design must have a free space for the subsequent insertion of the logos of collaborating organizations and companies, including the hashtag #soriaesigualdad
4. It is important to keep in mind that the chosen design of the poster is applied to very different advertising formats (roll up, billboard, mupis, buses, etc.), so the design must allow its horizontal and vertical adaptation to these formats, being equally identifiable as in the original format.
5. Only unpublished works that have not been presented at other festivals will be admitted to this competition. In the event that images or plagiarism of images from other authors or institutions have been used, the author will be solely responsible for any incident that may occur for these reasons, and the work will be removed immediately.
6. One of the challenges of the Soria City Council is to promote feminism in each of the departments, applying the gender perspective in the different projects in order to reverse the data that indicates that women continue to suffer invisibility, discrimination and violence. sexist. To this end, a comprehensive plan has been implemented to help review the path taken in order to improve actions. In this sense, the Department of Youth, promoter of the contest for the creation of the poster that will constitute the image of the XXVI Edition of the “CITY OF SORIA” International Short Film Contest, joins the roadmap of the Sustainable Development Goals for implement Goal 5 related to Gender Equality, because “gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but is one of the essential foundations for building a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.” For this reason, posters with signs of homophobia, racism, machismo, etc. are not allowed; nor with typical and/or stereotypical representations of women and/or the sexualization of women and their bodies.
7. Posters with stereotypical and/or topical local images (monuments, traditions...) and/or cinema images such as popcorn, cinema seats, scissors, etc. will not be accepted either.
8. Those posters that do not meet the requirements set out in any of the previous points will be automatically eliminated.
3. AWARD
A sole award of 1000€ will be granted. The corresponding taxes stablished by the law will be discounted from it.
4. PRESENTATION AND DEADLINES
1. The authors who participate in the contest must make their design in JPG Din A/4 format and 72dpi vertically via e-mail to: Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.
Submission deadline: June 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.
2. The email sent to the organization must contain the following information:
- Subject:
Soria 2024 Short Film Contest Poster Competition + Title of the work.
2. Two attached files in order to maintain the anonymity of the author:
–1. File with the final Art:
· Vertical JPG format at Din A/4 size and 72 dpi.
(Files with layers or unplotted texts will not be accepted in this phase)
–2. File with the author's data in Word/Notepad:
· Name of the author (and/or name of the company if applicable)
· Place of origin (locality/province/country)
· Telephone contact
· Contact email
· Identification document
· Responsible declaration regarding the authorship of the poster and the transfer of use
· Social networks.
3. The organization will send an email confirming the correct receipt of the registration and materials. Participants will not be able to make their posters public until the week after the day the winning poster is announced. Any poster that is shown publicly, before the winner is published by the Festival Organization, will mean that both the poster presented and its author will be excluded from the contest.
4. Posters that do not comply with the bases in any of the points of the presentation will be automatically eliminated.
5. FAILURE
The jury will be made up of experts in design, art and/or drawing appointed by the Youth Department of the City Council.
The jury's decision will be made public on the Festival website, with prior notification directly to the winner of the contest.
The jury's decisions will be final. The contestants, by the mere fact of participating in this contest, expressly renounce the exercise of all types of claims against their resolutions.
6. PRESENTED WORKS
The contest candidates authorize the INTERNATIONAL SHORT COMPETITION “CIUDAD DE SORIA” to post their proposals on as many digital and physical media as it considers.
The works received will be posted on the contest website.
7. AWARD-WINNING POSTER
The author of the winning poster must provide the necessary elements, fonts and files at final size and 300 dpi. If they were a digital image, in layers. If it is of vector origin, open. All this with the intention of being able to adapt her work to the different supports, formats and applications necessary for the promotion and dissemination of the Contest.
8. PROPERTY RIGHTS
The author of the selected design exclusively transfers to the Certamen Internacional de Cortos Ciudad de Soria the exploitation rights of the winning work without any type of limitation, covering all modalities of exploitation and without territorial, temporal or any other type of limitation. .
The prize awarded includes the price of the transfer of rights, in addition to the fact that the Festival organization may modify, develop or adapt said design using any means it deems appropriate.
The Ciudad de Soria International Short Film Contest will be the owner of the design and may, if applicable, and in accordance with current legislation, register it, thereby acquiring industrial property rights.
9. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS AND DATA PROTECTION
Participation in this contest implies full acceptance of these rules, without any reservations, as well as all the resolutions that the Festival organization adopts.
The participants in this contest consent that their personal data be processed in accordance with the provisions of Organic Law 15/1999, of December 13, Protection of Personal Data, for the development of this contest, as well as to communicate news, updates and general information about the Ciudad de Soria International Short Film Contest.
INFORMATION
26TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST “CIUDAD DE SORIA”
Centro Cívico Bécquer
C/ Infantes de Lara s/n. 42003. Soria, España.
Tln: (+34) 975 233 069 (+34) 607 303 257
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