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Inicio Festival: 23 marzo 2024      Fin Festival: 23 marzo 2024

The BLEU PARIS Short Film Festival is an international festival open to all filmmakers, of all ages and backgrounds, whether professional or amateur. It aims to highlight the cinema themed by the blue color. And thus bring together all the aficionados of this wonderful shade.

Two prizes will be awarded: The Jury Prize and the Audience Prize.
Bleu Paris FCM reserves the right to remove or add a prize if the organization deems it necessary.

ENGLISH VERSION
Section 1
The BLEU PARIS Short Film Festival is an international festival open to all filmmakers, of all ages and backgrounds, whether professional or amateur. It aims to highlight the cinema themed by the blue color. And thus bring together all the aficionados of this wonderful shade.

Section 2.
In order to facilitate the organization, participation is requested from filmmakers to submit their film.

If your film is selected, you accept an additional 15euros fee to communication purposes. (10euros for the Off selection).

This event is aimed at the public of all ages and backgrounds.

Section 3.
The costs of sending the films are the responsibility of the participants.

Section 4.
The short film must be on a digital medium downloadable, lasting from 1 to 25 minutes.

A candidate can send several films but only one film can be selected.
For the selection, non-French-speaking works must be translated or subtitled in French.
Any non-French-speaking film selected for the festival must be translated or subtitled in French. The films will be definitively kept by the festival for archiving, the participants will have to make a copy for them.

Section 5.
Each candidate declares to be the author or beneficiary of the work that will be the subject of the competition and to be the holder of all literary, dramatic, artistic, audiovisual, iconographic and musical property rights.
The participant guarantees the BPFCM against any recourse or action that could be brought against them in any capacity whatsoever by any person who has participated or not in the production of the short film and is likely to assert a right of any kind whatsoever.
It will be up to the directors to comply with the legislation in force in France.
A ProRes version of the film selected in competition will be required. The use of free online tools to send large files is recommended (Ex: WeTransfer, SwissTransfer, YouTube, Vimeo, etc…).

Section 6.
A pre-selection committee will be assembled by the festival organizers within the association. Any film received after the deadline will not be reviewed.

The members of the pre-selection committee will make a decision on the following criteria: production, script, interpretation of the actors, image, sound, duration, subtitling. Discussions with opinion and counter-opinion will put an end to this pre-selection.

The deliberations of the pre-selection committee are confidential and not subject to complaints.

Section 7.
The directors or producers will be informed by e-mail, only if the decision of the selection committee is positive.

Section 8.
The mere participation of each candidate in the competition gives the organizers, free of charge and without compensation, the right to present the work, in its entirety or in the form of extracts, during public screenings for any purposes.
Images or extracts of films may be used for the communication of the next festivals. Participation in the festival implies the authorization of passage in the media, on television and on the internet of film extracts.
The participant declares and guarantees that the rights relating to the music broadcast in the film are in the public domain, belong to the participant or have been acquired by the participant from the composers or collective rights management companies (SACEM, SPPF, SCPP ,…).
We encourage participants to provide us with one or more of their social networks, so that we can identify them in our publications.

Section 9.
The juries will be made up of volunteers with diverse sensitivities, including professionals from the world of visual arts.

The committee of selection will select 5 to 15 films for the official screening.

An off screening will take place in the cinema's cocktail room, in order to screen films that have not been selected but have an artistic interest. These films will not be eligible for a prize.

Section 10.
The award ceremony will take place after the screening, in the presence of personalities from the member cities, members of the jury and other invited personalities.

Two prizes will be awarded: The Jury Prize and the Audience Prize.
Bleu Paris FCM reserves the right to remove or add a prize if the organization deems it necessary.

Section 11.
In the event of Force Majeure beyond its control, the BPFCM reserves the right to cancel or postpone the event (no compensation may be claimed).

Section 12.
Participation in the BLEU PARIS Festival implies full acceptance of these rules by the producer, director or their representative.
Contact : bleuparis.fcm@gmail.com