Festival Atmosphères - Concours de courts métrages (12)

Festival start: 05 October 2022      Festival end: 09 October 2022

Contest is open to everyone !

Topic of the contest is "The Dream life".

You can submit your any type of film up to 15 minutes max.

Festival Atmospheres uses all kinds of art forms in order to arouse afterthought and commitment to an accessible and constructive sustainable development.

PRIZES

- Digital Trophy and Laurel - "Winner of the Short Film Contest Festival Atmospheres 11th Edition"

- Screening of the film at the evening short films and in closing ceremony

- Invitation to the opening and closing ceremony

- Invitation to the seminar "New Stories - World in Transition" in the presence of scientists, thinkers and audiovisual professionals.

- Broadcast on Ushuaïa TV

- Screening of the film at the evening short films

- Invitation to the opening and closing ceremony

As part of its film programming, the Atmospheres Festival organizes two competitions (the synopsis competition and the short film competition). The 12th edition of the festival will be held from 5 to 9 October 2020 in Courbevoie and Paris La Défense. The Atmospheres Festival is an international film festival, completely free, with preview and unreleased film screenings, followed by debates, roundtable discussions, animations and creations. All information on the www.atmospheresfestival.com website.


Object


The purpose of the contest, open to all and free, is to:

- fostering imagination, creation and expression through filmmaking;

- participate in the emergence of new talent;

- give visibility to them during the Atmospheres Festival.


Theme


"Dream Life." A look at the world of tomorrow that gives free rein to the imagination of filmmakers: a dream life, a desirable world, a forward-looking vision of our ways of life, of the relationship to the other, to Nature...


Calendar

- Call for projects launched: June 2022

- Registration until August 31st, 2022

- Announcement of the 5 finalists in September

- Evening screenings of the finalist films at the Atmospheres Festival on October 6th

- Awards ceremony at the closing ceremony on Sunday, October 9th, 2020


ARTICLE 1 - REGISTRATIONS


Registrations are open until midnight on August 31st via this form or on the www.festhome.com platform.


ARTICLE 2 - PARTICIPANTS AND RIGHTS


The competition is open to any amateur or professional director from all over the world. Any minor participant must have required and obtained parental permission prior to entering the competition.

Participants guarantee that the works on offer are original, unpublished (no reproduction of an existing work) and that they are the sole owners of the exploitation rights attached to these works. As such, participants deal with the authorizations of any third parties who have directly or indirectly participated in its realization and/or who believe they have any right to assert against it and bear the burden of any any payments arising from it. In general, the participants guarantee the organizers of this competition against any remedies, actions or claims that could be formed, in any way, by any third party, on the exercise of the rights transferred here and more generally under all the guarantees and commitments made under this agreement.
ATMOSPHERES 21, Association Act 1901, which organizes the Atmospheres Festival, reserves the right to carry out any verification for the application of this article.


ARTICLE 3 - MODALITIES OF PARTICIPATION


- Participation in this contest is free.

- In order to enter the contest, the participant must register via this form or on the Festhome platform.


- The film can be made by any means possible and on any medium. However, a minimum quality of 720p is required.

- The duration of the films must be less than or equal to 15 minutes, generic included.

- All production techniques, including animation, documentary, fiction... are accepted.

- When registering, participants must provide a viewing link to the film (Vimeo, Youtube, Dropbox, etc.).

- Films must be in French or original version with French subtitles.


ARTICLE 4 - SELECTION OF FINALISTS AND LAUREAT


The festival selection committee will select 10 finalists. Their films will be screened at an evening dedicated to them during the Atmospheres Festival. Projection fees cannot be required in this context. The screening, free and open to the public, will take place in the presence of the jury. The latter will nominate the winner of the competition at the closing ceremony of the festival on Sunday, October 11.

Participants are informed that:

- The jury is not obliged to nominate a winner if the quality of the works proposed by the participants is not considered adequate. 


- The jury's decisions will be based primarily on the following criteria:

. 1 - The relevance of the films to the proposed theme "Dream Life", including the value of proposals in relation to sustainable development; 


. 2 - Respect for the duration of the videos: 10 minutes maximum per film, generic included. 


The finalists will be required to give ATMOSPHERES 21, as soon as the result is published by the selection committee, a digital version (file) of their films, in superior quality, a technical sheet and a high-definition portrait. 
If the information provided by the participants does not inform them, they will lose the status of winner and will not be able to make any claims. 
The winners expressly authorize ATMOSPHERES 21, free of charge, to project their films at the Atmospheres Festival and, if necessary, at the closing ceremony.

They also allow the promotion and advertising by the Atmospheres Festival and its partners on all broadcast media known or unknown to date, worldwide and for a period of 24 months from 1 October 2019. 
The winners authorize ATMOSPHERES 21 to make photographs and sound and/or visual recordings of their participation in the evening at the Festival Atmospheres, and to multi-broadcast them live and/or delayed, in full and/or by excerpts, on all broadcast media known or unknown to date, worldwide and for a period of 24 months from the date of October 1, 2020. 



ARTICLE 5 - PRICE


GRAND PRIX

- Digital Trophy and Laurel - "Winner of the Short Film Contest Festival Atmospheres 10th Edition"

- Screening of the film at the evening short films and in closing ceremony

- Invitation to the opening and closing ceremony

- Reward of 500 euros

- Invitation to the seminar "New Stories - World in Transition" in the presence of scientists, thinkers and audiovisual professionals.


THE FINALISTS

- Digital Laurel - "Finalist of the short film competition Festival Atmospheres 10th edition"

- Screening of the film at the evening short films

- Invitation to the opening and closing ceremony


ARTICLE 6 - RESPONSIBILITY 



It is expressly recalled that the Internet is not a secure network. ATMOSPHERES 21 cannot therefore be held responsible for the contamination of any viruses or the intrusion of a third party into the system of the terminal of the participants in the competition and disclaims any responsibility for the consequences of connecting participants to the network via the site. 

ATMOSPHERES 21 is not liable for any malfunction of their Internet network, in particular due to acts of external malice, which would prevent the successful running of the competition. 



ARTICLE 7 - REGULATION 



Participating in this competition implies an outright acceptance of this regulation in its entirety.