RULES
Free registration.
Deadline: April 28, 2003


1 - Objectives
The objective is to trace a global perspective of the contemporary features in cinema, television, video and multimedia.
The Festival will occur from 23 to 27 July.

2 - Conditions of Admission
The works admitted for selection are those produced on January 1st, 2001 or after and cannot have been screened in Portugal.
Inscription in the following categories are admitted:
CINEMA: short and feature fiction and animation films in 16 and 35mm and digital cinematography format.
VIDEO: videographic production of less than 20 minutes in VHS (multisystems), DV (PAL system) or BETACAM SP (PAL system).
TELEVISION: documentaries of less than 60 minutes already broadcast by a television station.
MULTIMEDIA: web movies in video or infographic format in the following categories: fiction, experimental and animation.

3 - Inscription
The registration fees are free and the candidates should register their work until April 28, 2003 through a registration form, along with photography of the film, text or list of the dialogues (in one of the following languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish or French).
For the selection, each candidate should send a video cassette (VHS multisystem, DV in PAL system or BETACAM SP on PAL system) a CD-ROM or DVD.
Each cassette should contain only one work.
In MULTIMEDIA category, the candidates will just indicate the website where the movie can be screened.

4 – Selection for Competition
The organisation committee makes the selection and gives notice of its decision in time to each candidate.

5 - Prizes

A prize will be attributed to the best work of each category: Cinema (short feature), Cinema (long feature), Television, Video and Multimedia.
Also, prizes to the best Animation, the best Actor/Actress and the best Photography will be awarded.
As only up to 4 works will be selected in the category of feature films, all of them will receive a special mention.
The international jury will be composed of fit professionals who will be invited by the organisation.


6 - Transport and Insurance of Works
The organisation will inform the candidates with selected works and will give out instructions for the expedition of final copies.
The delivery of the works is of the responsibility of the candidates, as it is of the organisation’s responsibility to return the film copies in 16 and 35 mm and video copies in BETACAM.
The organisation is responsible for the insurance of the copies from their arrival to their return.
Note: The VHS preview tapes, CD-ROMs or DVDs will not be sent back, for they will become part of the Museum Archives of the Festival. We guarantee they will not be used for commercial purposes.
The selected works may be object of non-commercial exhibitions for the festival’s promotion.

7 - Others
The languages of the Festival are Portuguese and English.
Any possible doubt or question that may arise will be clarified or resolved by the Organisation Committee.
Competition
- Rules
- Entry form
  Workshops
  Programme
  Prizes

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