CERTAMEN MIRADAS QUE PERDURAN (1)

Festival start: 21 January 2025      Festival end: 04 April 2025

Welcome to the 1st International Photography and Short Film Contest MIRADAS QUE PERDURAN organized by BAYER, dedicated to AMD (age-related macular degeneration) and DME (diabetic macular edema). The contest is aimed at photography and film enthusiasts, as well as health professionals. We want you to be creative, to interpret what it means to you, in a symbolic way, to suffer from a disease that limits your vision when the reality around you is blurred and distorted. Explore your creativity. Express yourself with freedom and emotion. Put yourself in the shoes of a patient, a family member, a caregiver, a nurse, a doctor or a friend of a person with vision problems ... and through your eyes, surprise us. Find out what it means to suffer from AMD or DME, and send us your work, we are waiting for it!

Cash Prizes: 2,500€

1,500 euros for the best short film

1,000 euros for the best photography

500 euros for the most voted work

- Be creative, surprise us.

- Send your fiction, animation or documentary short film online (Youtube or Vimeo link) with a maximum duration of 30 minutes. Works from any part of the world are accepted, and it is advisable to subtitle those whose original language is not Spanish.

- Photographs must not be larger than 3 Mb in jpg format. The size shall be at least 1,600 pixels wide. The file format shall be JPEG quality (10).

- Short films and photographs can be uploaded and voted on the website from January 21, 2025 until April 04, 2025 at 23:59 (Central European Standard Time. Madrid time zone (GMT+1).

- It must not focus on any particular product or refer to any specific product prescription, nor promote specific treatments or use the image of any commercial drug (e.g., the name of a drug).

Image of any commercial drug (name, logo, box, etc.).

- If you are a healthcare professional, and you wish, you can compete for the best short film and photo among your colleagues, and if you are the winner, you will decide which NGO, patient association or health-related foundation is the winner.

Association or health-related foundation is the beneficiary of the prize. You will also be able to exchange it for attendance to a national congress. Always in accordance with the code set by the USD (Deontological Supervision Unit).

- Public votes: only votes from validated emails will be counted. Any suspicious behavior will imply the automatic disqualification of the work in the contest.