DocuVir.20 ()

Festival start: 01 June 2020      Festival end: 30 June 2020

What we could never have imagined has happened: a pandemic and a global confinement.
We are living a new historical experience that affects all dimensions of human life. But, in the digital age, we can also overturn this situation. We need to be creative: redefining our social relations and our relationship with nature.

DocuVir.20 is a laboratory of socio-cultural innovation. We invite you to participate in this project. We are seeking for cultural vaccines and social antidotes. Antidotes to everything that poisons social life and human interaction: fake news, lies, misinformation. Antidotes for isolation and loneliness.

Put your imagination to work. Put it to work with the instrument that today allows us to be even more connected than ever before: your mobile phone or any other tool that can record how our life is changing.

Cash Prizes: 500€

Best Short Film: 350 euros

Audience Award: 150 euros

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
DOCUVIR.20 - laboratory of socio-cultural innovation

FIRST: Introduction
What we could never have imagined has happened: a pandemic and a global confinement. We are living a new historical experience that affects all dimensions of human life. But, in the digital age, we can also overturn this situation. We need to be creative: redefining our social relations and our relationship with nature.
DocuVir.20 is a laboratory of socio-cultural innovation. We invite you to participate in this project. We are seeking for cultural vaccines and social antidotes. Antidotes to everything that poisons social life and human interaction: fake news, lies, misinformation. Antidotes for isolation and loneliness.
Put your imagination to work. Put it to work with the instrument that today allows us to be even more connected than ever before: your mobile phone or any other tool that can record how our life is changing.

SECOND: Target
The purpose of this competition is to select the short film that best reflects the new practices of sociability and solidarity in the times of the Covid-19.

THIRD: Participants
This competition is open to all natural or legal persons who wish to participate, over 18 years of age and regardless of their physical or fiscal address, without needing to be registered in Spanish territory.
Any short film with a minimum duration of 30 seconds and no more than 3 minutes may be submitted to the competition.
An unlimited number of works can be submitted by each author or producer.
Only experimental films, creative documentaries and other similar formats offering content that reflects the new practices of sociability and solidarity in the times of the Covid-19 will be admitted.

FOURTH: Registration
Individuals or production companies wishing to participate in the festival must register online and send their works through the platform festhome.com.
Participants must guarantee with their registration that they do not infringe any intellectual property rights or data and image protection rights of third parties.
If, for any reason, the organization detects that this declaration of responsibility does not correspond to reality, the work will be immediately removed.
Any Proposal where there is an apology for violence, racist or misogynist content or any other content that violates human rights will be excluded.
The deadline for receipt of files is May 20th 2020.

FIFTH: Technical conditions
The films must last between 30 seconds and 3 minutes.
The films can be made with mobile devices or any other means that allows to register image and/or sound.

SIXTH: Selection and competition
The Selection Committee appointed by the Vice-rectorate for Culture and Sport of the University of Valencia will make the selection of the films that will participate in the competition:
Vice-Rector of Culture and Sport, or person designated by him
Technician in charge of the Cultural Observatory of the UV
Technician in charge of the UV Film Classroom
Professional responsible for programming DocuVir.20
Artist responsible for the image of DocuVir.20
The functions of the Selection Committee are:
Analysis and definitive admission of the works received, and the reasoned proposal for their exclusion.
Analysis and assessment of the works submitted
Final selection of the works that will participate in the competition
The Selection Committee's assessment will be made without identifying the authors and/or producers of the works.
The Selection Committee may declare the competition null if, in its opinion, the proposals submitted are not of sufficient quality.
The final selection of the films that will participate in DocuVir.20 will be published on its official channels.
The selected films will be broadcasted through our own YouTube channel for public viewing until June 30, 2020.
The organization will not make any payment to the director, producer or distributor for screening his/her work in the contest itself, neither for exhibition rights nor for any other concept.
The authors of the participating films give permission to the contest organization to use part of their film for promotional purposes.
The authors of the selected films give permission to the organization of the contest to project these in future editions or activities of the same project.
The costs of sending the works and their accompanying documents will be borne entirely by the participating authors.
Once a work has been selected to compete, it cannot be withdrawn before its last exhibition.
If, for reasons beyond the control of the organisers, the event changes its dates or does not take place, the organisers will notify producers and distributors with sufficient time in advance.

SEVENTH: Assignment of intellectual property rights
The authors of the participating works give to the University of Valencia and the Fundació General de la Universitat de València, for the maximum period of time allowed by law, all the rights of exploitation of the same, such as reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation, by any procedure, in any medium and as many times as considered appropriate, with mention of the author or authors for the purpose of promoting, disseminating and publicizing this festival, as well as for the purposes of archive and documentation of the organizing entities. The selected candidatures will subscribe the consent of this authorization in the terms established in these rules.
Likewise, the authors of the selected works give permission to the Organization of the contest to project their works in future editions or activities of the same.

EIGHTH: Personal data protection
Responsible for data processing:
The personal data provided by participants will be incorporated into the information systems of the University of Valencia and Fundació General de la Universitat de València.
Data Protection Officer (DPO): Professor Javier Plaza Penadés. E-mail lopd@uv.es.
Purpose of treatment:
The information obtained will be processed only for the administrative management of the festival and the fulfillment of the legal obligations derived from it, being totally prohibited its use for purposes different from those indicated in this document.
Legitimation: acceptance of these rules.
Recipients of the data:
The following data communications are envisaged:
To the members of the Jury
The personal data (name and surname) of the participants and winners will be published on the websites and social networks of the University of Valencia and Fundació General
For legal obligations.
Rights of the interested parties:
Participants who provide their personal data have the right to request access to and rectification or deletion of the data, or limitation of its processing, or to object, as well as the right to the portability of the data.
Interested parties may exercise their rights by sending an e-mail to auladecinema@uv.es or by sending a written request accompanied by a copy of an identity document and, if applicable, documentation supporting the request, to
Fundació General de la Universitat de València
C/ Amadeo de Saboya, 4 (46010) Valencia
Subject: DOCUVIR20 Festival

The presentation of a proposal will mean that the participants give their unequivocal consent to the use of their personal data and, in the event of being the winner(s), to their publication (name and surname(s)) in the University of Valencia and Fundació General de la Universitat de València media such as web spaces, social networks, YouTube.
The University of Valencia and Fundació General de la Universitat de València undertake to destroy all documents related to the competition that contain personal data in accordance with current legislation.

NINTH: Awards
DOCUVIR.20 establishes only two awards:
Best Short Film: 350 euros
Audience Award: 150 euros
The economic amount is subject to the withholdings established by the law in force, which will be deducted at the awarding of the prize.
The films that win prizes or awards in this competition are obliged to display in all their advertising the legend and logos provided by the organisation of the festival.

TENTH: Award Jury
The Official Jury, composed by professionals from the cultural milieu, will be responsible for awarding the prize for the best short film.
The decisions of both the Selection Committee and the Official Jury will be unquestionable.

The Audience Award will be presented to the most voted short film online by the public between 1 and 30 June 2020.

ELEVENTH: Acceptance of the rules
The registration to this contest implies the acceptance of all the rules.
The Organization reserves the right to modify the dates of the event
If, once a short film has been selected, the contest does not receive the materials required by the organization, within the specified period, the organization reserves the right to remove that film from the above mentioned selection.