POSTERS CONTEST CALL 2022

24TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST “CIUDAD DE SORIA”

Submission deadline: 30th of June 2022 at 23:59 (11:59pm)

CONVENING INSTITUTION

The Councilorship of Youth of Soria’s Local Government open calls for the 24th International Short Film Festival Contest “Ciudad de Soria” posters submission. The winning poster will be the 24th International Short Film Festival Contest image.

CONTEST AIM

The 24th 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 24th 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

• Open theme works of art such created through paintings, pictorial compositions, photographs or digital creations will be accepted. 
• Any work of art presented must clearly shown the following paragraph: 

 24TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST “CIUDAD DE SORIA” From the 11th till the 20th of November 2022

• The design must have a free space to later insert the logo of the different institutios and business partners.
• Take in account the chosen poster design will be used in different advertising formats (roll ups, bildboards, marquees, buses, etc.). Due to those advertising formats, the desing must be able to adapt vertical and horizontally without losing the original design shape.
• Only original and unpublished works of art will be allowed. Therefore, the work of art must has not be submitted in previous, nor other Festivals. In case any image or image’s plagiarism from other authors or institutions has been used, the author will be the solely responsible of facing any claims due to this issue. The work of art would be inmediately removed.
• Posters with cinematographic stereotyped or clichéd ideas such as pop-corns, theater seats, scissors, etc. won’t be admitted.

3. AWARD 

A sole award of 1000€ will be granted. The corresponding taxes stablished by the law will be discounted from it.

4. SUBMISSION AND DEADLINES

• 1. The desings submitted by the authors to the contest must be a vertical PDF Din A/4 and 72 DPI (dots per inch) format. The design must be sent through email to the following address: Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.. 

Submission deadline: 30th of June 2022 at 23:59 (11:59pm)

• 2. The email sent to the organization must have the following information:

• 1. Subject:

 Poster Contest for the International Short Film Festival “Ciudad de Soria 2022” Contest 

 + Title of the work of art.

• 2.  Two attached files in order to preserve the author’s anonymity: 

1.  Final work of art file:

· Vertical PDF format Din A/4 size and 72 DPI.

(Files with layers and not edited text won’t be allowed at this point)

2. Word/ Notes file with the author’s data: 

·  Name of the author (and/or name of the company if applicable) 

·  Place of origin (city/ province/ country) 

·  Phone number 

·  E-mail 

·  ID

· Statement in good faith of the authorship of the work and the assignment of use of the poster

        3. The organization will send an e-mail to confirm receipt of the registration form and the materials. Contestants’ posters are not allowed to go public with their work until the following week after the announce of the winning poster. Both poster and author will be out of the contest if their work is shown to the public before the winner has been announced by the Festival Organization.

5. VERDICT

Jury’s composition will be local representatives appointed by the Youth Comission of the Local Government and art experts in design, drawing...

Jury’s decision will be public on the Festival’s website and will be previously and directly notify to the contest’s winner.

The jury’s verdict won’t be subject to appeal. By participating in the contest, the contestants explicitly resign to any kind of claims or complaints against the jury’s verdict.

 6. ACCEPTED WORKS OF ART

The Contest’s candidates authorize to the INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL “CIUDAD DE SORIA” CONTEST to post and publish their designs in every digital or physical format needed.

The accepted designs will be posted on the contest webpage.

7. WINNING POSTER

The author of the winner design will have to send the needed fonts, files and elements in their final size and 300 DPI. If the design is a digital image, the author will have to send it by layers. If the design is a vector imagen, the author will have to sent its editable version.  This is with the solely purpose of adapting the winning desing to the different formats, audiovisual aids and uses needed to promote, publish and broadcast the Contest as well as in Engligh as in Spanish. 

8. COPYRIGHT

The author of the winner design gives up the exclusive rights of the poster to the International Short Film Festival “Ciudad de Soria” Contest for commercial rights, including without limitations timeframe, territorial jurisdiction or any other nature.

The prize awarded includes the assignment agreement for the rights of the design. The Festival Organization will be allowed to modify, develope and adjust the aforementioned design by any means considered opportune.

The International Short Film Festival “Ciudad de Soria” Contest will be the owner of the design and will be allowed to register it, if necessary and under the current regulations. According to that, the International Short Film Festival “Ciudad de Soria” Contest will acquire the industrial property rights of the design.

9. TERMS AND CONDITIONS ACCEPTANCE AND DATA PROTECTION

By participating in this contest, the authors accept the present terms and conditions without reservation as well as the Festival Organization resolutions.

By participating in this contest, the authors accept their personal data will be process under the regulations of the 15/1999 Constitutional Law of the 13th of December for Personal Data Protection during the present contest. Those personal data will be used to promote and communicate general news and information about the International Short Film Festival “Ciudad de Soria” Contest.

INFORMATION

24TH 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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