Bcn Sports Film Festival (17)

RULES & REGULATIONS OF BCN SPORTS FILM FESTIVAL 2027

https://bcnsportsfilm.org/en/contest-rules-regulations-of-bcn-sports-film-festival/

INTRODUCTION

The Barcelona Olympic Foundation, with the support of the Barcelona City Council, organizes the BCN Sports Film 2027 – 17th BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL FICTS FESTIVAL and forms part of the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE 2027.
The BCN Sports Film 2027 will take place in Barcelona on dates yet to be determined during February of 2027. In this seventeenth edition, the festival will have a competitive nature.
The seventeenth edition of the festival will have a hybrid format so, there will be face-to-face screenings and online screenings. The rights that the authors assign, therefore, are both for the face-to-face sessions that are held in the official venues of the contest, as well as for the sessions that will be held online through an online platform.
These Rules & Regulations have been approved by the BCN Sports Film 2027 Organising Committee. Your taking part in BCN Sports Film 2027 implies the total acceptance of these regulations.

AIMS
One of the principal objectives of BCN Sports Film 2027 is to bring the general public into contact with sports-orientated audiovisual content and the values that they represent. Whilst offering the media, film directors, producers and specialised distributors a meeting place in which they can exchange views and information.

CONTENT
The BCN Sports Film 2027 is open to all those productions in which the principal subject matter is that of sport in all its forms and disciplines.
Genres included: animated films, documentaries and fiction, from shorts to feature length films.

GENERAL RULES
BCN Sports Film 2027 is open to both professional and independent productions.
BCN Sports Film 2027 will admit all films produced from 1st January 2024. When registering the film, it will be necessary to specify whether it is a premiere at the Catalan, Spanish or international level. And, similarly, whether it is a debut film considered as such, the first or second work of the director of the work.
The maximum length of the works presented at the BCN Sports Film 2027 will be 90 minutes credits not included.
Each producer may present as many films as he wishes as long as they comply with all other regulations.
Therefore, the participant guarantees that he has all the exploitation rights over the work to be able to participate in the competition and the participant exempts the organizers from any claim that may arise from third parties in relation to intellectual property rights.
The use of artificial intelligence is permitted in the production of works but this use must be explicitly indicated.
BCN Sports Film 2027 Organising Committee may programme non-competing films of general interest whatever their date of production or their length.

JURY
The BCN Sports Film Festival has two juries with different functions: the selection jury and the official jury. Both juries (selection jury and official jury) of the BCN Sports Film 2027 will be made up of people linked to the world of sports, cinema, audiovisual and culture.
The selection jury is responsible for reviewing all the productions received and determining which ones will participate in the festival. The selected films will receive a badge that certifies that they are part of the official section of the festival.
The official jury, whose composition is completely independent of the selection jury, will be responsible for deliberating between the finalist productions and determining which productions will obtain the different festival awards.
PRIZES
Selected Films will be competing for:
• The City of Barcelona Amphora for the best film, gifted with 1000 €
• Jury Special Award, gifted with 750 €
• Award for the best Catalan production, gifted with 500 €
• Award for the best adventure sports film – Álvaro Bultó, gofted with 500 €
• Award for the best fiction film, gifted with 500 €
• Award for the best documentary, gifted with 500 €
• Award for the best animated film, gifted with 500 €
• Award “Sport and society”, gifted with 500 €

On the other hand, the selection jury of the BCN Sports Film 2027 may award a total of up to two special mentions. These mentions will not be financially endowed. The sponsors of the festival may provide other cash prizes or other benefits.
Withholding will be applied to this amount according to current legislation.
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscriptions will be accepted from the publication of this rules till 30th September 2026, both included.
Each participant shall have submitted the registration form and video through: https://festhome.com/ or https://filmfreeway.com or using the festival website.
Registration implies acceptance of these rules and the conditions of use of the web pages.
SELECTED WORKS
The Organizing Committee will notify participants by email and before 29th October 2026 should film have been selected for the BCN Sports Film 2027 official competition.
Other promotional material may be requested by the organization.
The organization will provide the subtitles in Catalan or Spanish for exclusive use during the event.
All selected works will be included in the schedule of the seventeenth edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival and will be screened either in person or virtually during one or more sessions of the festival:
• Educational sessions for schools.
• General and/or special screenings of the seventeenth edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival.
• Sessions for penitentiary centres.

ON-SITE SCREENINGS
General and/or special schedule of school sessions of the seventeenth edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival.
• All screenings will be part of one or more sessions of the BCN Sports Film Festival with open access for school audiences or the general audience.

Some in-person sessions may require a symbolic price for public access in the form of an entrance ticket as a way of ensuring capacity and in no case with a profit-making objective.
Sessions for prisons
• Selected films for prison sessions will be screened in private sessions, not open to the general public. These sessions will only be available during the running dates of the seventeenth edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival.

VIRTUAL SCREENINGS
Educational sessions for schools
• Selected works for virtual school sessions will be screened in password-protected virtual sessions accessible to schools that request access via the website. These sessions will take place during the first quarter of 2027, with a maximum duration of three months. They will be exclusively offered to educational and/or training centers and will be supported by educational materials developed by Filmclub to assist educators.

General and/or special schedule of the fifteenth edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival
• All productions will be available on the virtual platform Festhome only during the days of the festival, with free access. After the festival concludes, the productions will no longer be available.
SCREENINGS
Those films selected to participate will be screened as scheduled in the 2027 Festival Programme.
The films selected for the competition will be integrated into the documentary and videographic collection of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation and may be shown publicly in the screening spaces of the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum, headquarters of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation exclusively for pedagogical or didactic purposes, and always as a means of promoting the festival, thus ceding to the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, only the exploitation rights in the indicated mode of reproduction and public communication.
Awarded films and special mentions
• Only films awarded in the 2027 edition and approved for the prize may be screened as promotion for the 2027 edition, with a single airing on a channel of public tv and in no case on a platform. Any other potential screening on different channels will require negotiation of rights between the involved entities. The BCN Sports Film Festival organization may assist in this negotiation process.
• Winning productions will enter the final phase of the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE international circuit. Winners authorise the BCN Sports Film Festival 2027 Organising Committee to share their contact details to the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE festival organizing committees. The organizers will not distribute any copies of the film to third parties without prior authorization from the producers or legal representatives.
Participants also authorise the Organising Committee to partially reproduce their films in the media with the aim of promoting the 2027 BCN SPORTS FILM festival.
Consequences of non-acceptance of these bases
In the event that participants do not accept the full content of these rules, they will not be allowed to take part in the competition.
 
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

Basic information on data protection
Data controller Identity: Fundació Barcelona Olímpica
Address: Avinguda de l’Estadi, 60 - post code 08038 Barcelona
Tax ID number: G-60309655
Purpose Management and administration of the 2027 BCN SPORTS FILM festival
Legitimation Legal rules of the 2027 BCN SPORTS FILM festival
Recipients Transfer of data is not envisaged and, if appropriate, they will be transferred to third parties only if the data subject grants his or her unequivocal consent or in cases of compliance with the execution of a contract, a legitimate interest, the public interest or legal obligations.
Rights To access, rectify and delete the data, as well as other rights, as outlined in the additional information on the data protection policy.
Additional information See below for further information on the data protection policy**.

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF THE DATA PROTECTION POLICY
Data controller
Identity: Fundació Barcelona Olímpica
Address: Avinguda de l’Estadi, 60 - post code 08038 Barcelona
Tax ID number: G-60309655
Phone number: 93.426.06.60
Contact: protecciodades@fbolimpica.es

Purposes of the data processing
The management and administration of the 2025 BCN SPORTS FILM festival.
The publication of personal photographs on the website and social media, and, therefore, acceptance of these rules authorises the FBO (the Barcelona Olympic Foundation - Fundació Barcelona Olímpica) to take photographs and publish them, as mentioned above, on the website and social media.



Legitimation and retention period
Participation in the competition will entail the express and unequivocal consent of the participant owning the data to their processing by the FBO in the terms and for the purposes stipulated above.
The legal basis for the processing of the data are these rules for the 2027 BCN SPORTS FILM festival.
The winning participants’ personal data will be safeguarded for such time as they do not withdraw their consent.

Recipients
Transfer of the personal data provided by data subjects to third parties is not envisaged beyond those provided for in these bases or provided that the interested party has given their consent.
However, if appropriate, they will be assigned to third parties only if the data subject grants his/her unequivocal consent or in cases of compliance with the execution of a contract, a legitimate interest, the public interest or legal obligations.
International data transfers are not envisaged.

Data categories
The categories of data processed are as follows:
- Name and surnames
- ID card, Foreign Resident Identification Number or passport
- Postal or electronic address
- Phone number
- Images
- Signature

Security measures for the personal data
In compliance with the current regulations, the FBO guarantees that it has taken all the technical and organizational measures necessary to maintain the required level of security, bearing in mind the nature of the personal data processed.

Rights of the data subject
a. Any person has the right to obtain confirmation of whether the FBO is processing his or her personal data.
b. Data subjects have the right to access their personal data, as well as to request the rectification of any inaccurate data and, if appropriate, to request their deletion when, among other reasons, the data are no longer required for the purposes for which they were collected.
c. Under certain circumstances, data subjects may request the restriction of the processing of their data, in which case the FBO will only retain them to file or defend itself against claims.
d. Under certain circumstances, for reasons related to their particular situation, data subjects may object to the processing of their data. The FBO will cease to process the data unless there are compelling legitimate reasons to do so or to file or defend itself against claims.
e. Data subjects may request the portability of their data from another data controller in automated form in the event of processing permitted by the General Data Protection Regulation.
f. Upon the cancellation of the data they will only be retained in blocked status, in compliance with the legal obligations.

To sum up, data provided will be processed by the FBO in accordance with the purposes outlined in this document and, in this regard, you are informed that you may exercise your rights of access, rectification, deletion and restriction of their processing, oppose their processing and exercise your right to the portability of the data by writing to protecciodades@fbolimpica.es, without prejudice to your right to also file a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency, the body which exercises supervisory authority in the matter, located at C/Jorge Juan, 6 - 28001 Madrid.
In any event, you may withdraw your consent at any time, without said withdrawal affecting the lawfulness of the processing based upon the consent granted prior to the withdrawal.

TERMS & CONDITIONS OF THE 2027 SPOTSPORT COMPETITION

By taking part in the 2027 SPOTSPORT Competition you implicitly accept and agree to abide by the following Terms & Conditions:

I.- GOAL
The Barcelona Olympic Foundation (FBO) domiciled in Barcelona, Avinguda de l'Estadi, 60 and VAT Nº G-60309655 is organising, with the collaboration of the Sport newspaper, the 2027 SPOTSPORT Competition with the aim of producing a twenty seconds (20’’) video to promote the 17th edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival and which will form the basis of the publicity campaign.

II.- AIM
One of the goals of the initiative is to stimulate the active participation of the public in the 17th edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival, which will be held predictably in Barcelona on a date to be confirmed during the first three months of 2027.

III.- DATES
Spots can be submitted from 1st May till 30th September 2026 at 23:59.

IV.- PRIZES
1. The winner of the competition will be awarded a cash prize of € 1,000.
2. The prize will be presented during the opening ceremony of the 17th BCN Sports Film Festival.
3. The FBO will withhold all taxes as legally prescribed and will advise the Tax Authorities of all monies paid out. For tax purposes, the prize-winner will be provided with a certificate specifying amounts withheld.

V.- HOW TO PARTICIPATE
1. Participation is free of charge.
2. To take part in the competition you must:
a) Fill out the form on the BCN Sports Film Festival web page: https://www.bcnsportsfilm.org
b) Send the video by WeTransfer (www.wetransfer.com) to: coordination@bcnsportsfilm.org
c) Participants are allowed to submit one entry only.

Participants are responsible for the accuracy of information provided and the FBO reserves the right to exclude any user who is considered to have falsified data or submitted them incorrectly, without prejudice of any legal actions that may be considered pertinent.

As far as participation is concerned only forms correctly completed with all required fields will be admitted.

Any participant not complying with any of these Terms & Conditions will be automatically excluded.

All videos submitted must be unpublished originals to which the participant owns sole rights. The use of artificial intelligence is permitted in the production of works, but this use must be explicitly indicated.


It is the responsibility of the participant to obtain all pertinent authorisations for use of the images, voices and names of the persons who appear in the video, as well as the music which may be used. Any minors appearing shall be explicitly authorised by their parents or legal guardians. All the aforementioned authorisations will permit FBO to use the videos submitted as they see fit and on all the media in which the Festival is be promoted.

No employees of the FBO, sister companies nor any person or entity associated with or servicing this competition may take part.

The FBO will not admit videos which they deem:
• To contain offensive or to be contrary to the spirit of the FBO.
• To contain reference to violence, sex or drugs.
• May or might infringe the rights of authors, copyright, licence or any third-party rights.
The FBO reserves the right to evaluate the possible offensive character of the material submitted.

VI.- TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS.
Total length of the video shall be 20 seconds (20”).

General Specifications:
• Resolution: between 720 and 1080 p.
• One of the following formats:.mov /.mpeg /.avi (if possible with H264 compression).
• Maximum file size: 2 GB.

VII.- HOW THE PRIZE WILL BE AWARDED
The jury will comprise members of the BCN Sports Film Festival Organising Committee and the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum and will award to prize for the originality of the idea behind the project, the coherence of the production and the promotional goals of the video.

The prize may be declared void should none of the videos fulfil the objectives of the competition.

There shall be one single winner who will be advised within 15 working days of the 30th September 2026 deadline.

The winner shall accept the prize in writing within 15 working days from the date of communication.

Should the FBO be unable to contact the winner within the specified deadlines, or should the winner decline the prize, all rights shall be forfeited. The FBO will then award the prize to the reserves in the order in which the jury shall have classified the videos submitted.

The prize-winner expressly authorises the FBO to use his name in any communication connected to the competition.

VIII.- RIGHTS ON PARTICIPATING VIDEOS
All videos that participate in the 2027 SPOTSPORT Contest can be published on the website of the Sport newspaper, sponsor of the contest, to promote the festival through this communication tool.

IX.- RIGHTS OF THE WINNING VIDEO
Notwithstanding the author's moral rights, unlimited worldwide rights in aeternum to the video shall be granted to the FBO for exhibition in whatsoever form or support (television, on-line channels) and any such platform the FBO may decide.

Specifically, the winner grants the FBO all rights to reproduce, modify, dub, distribute and make public in all supports and using any distribution or image techniques. These rights refer to the complete video or parts thereof with the sole limitation as specified in the Royalties Laws however the video may be exhibited and expressly including Internet and works derived there from.

The prize awarded is considered the payment for the rights granted in the preceding paragraph, thus the winner shall have no further claim on the FBO.

Ulterior use of the video by the FBO or delegated entities includes the obligation to identify the author unless expressly constrained not to do so. The credits shall include the complete name of the producer.

The participants guarantee that:

They are the owners of the videos submitted or have acquired exclusive licence to use the video in accordance with these Terms & Conditions.
That they own all licences, royalty and industrial rights, rights for the use of the images of third persons that may appear in the video and the music therein.
Are authorised to grant these rights to the FBO for all the uses as set out in these Terms & Conditions in paragraph VIII.

Furthermore, the participants agree to indemnify the FBO or authorised third parties for any action or claim for the infringements of rights that may arise from the use of this material.


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