Festival Du Film de l’Homme et l’Animal ()

Festival start: 04 October 2024      Festival end: 06 October 2024

Pascal Bioulac, Mayor of Lamotte-Beuvron, wanted to set up an event highlighting the city's cinema “Le Méliès”. His multiple meetings, particularly those with the members of the future organizing committee, will lead to the creation of a film festival. The first edition, organized in less than a year, was a real success. For 6 years, more than 200 films have been received to pass the selection stage.

The members of the jury, 7 in number each year, watch between 7 and 8 films to determine the winners.

If conviviality is the key word of this festival, the theme of man and animal was chosen to be in line with Sologne and the City of Lamotte-Beuvron. A real topical subject, it leaves no one indifferent and often leads to exchange and debate.

The selected directors are invited to come and discuss after the screening of their film, a very enriching moment for the public and the jury.

Following the various debates, the spectators vote to award the Public Prize.

After two days of magnificent images and remarkable documents, the jury is invited to deliberate behind closed doors to award the Festival Prize.

Each year, a film is previewed and broadcast during the two evenings of the festival.

The first year, Nicolas Vanier’s “L’école truant” was screened and met with great success with sold-out screenings.

In 2018, the festival surprised spectators by offering “Mia and the White Lion” directed by Gilles de Maistre, two months before its national release.

In 2019, Nicolas Vanier returned, accompanied by Fred Saurel, to present his latest film “Give me wings”, a few days before its release in theaters. In 2023 the choice was made to highlight a 100% Solognot film with “return to Courjumelle and its villages” which was a success with more than 120 seats sold at each screening.

Having become an unmissable cultural event in Lamotte-Beuvron, the festival finds more and more of its audience each year and is awaited as the event of the fall.

Competition – Prize:

 The Festival has prizes distributed among the different winners, following the deliberations of the jury and
the list established under the responsibility of its President. This decision is final.

 The documentaries and films registered at the Festival participate in the competition to define the
recipients of the Festival Prize, the Public Prize and a possible “Special Mention from the Jury”
if the jury cannot decide between two films.

 The prizes will be awarded to the films and given to the directors or their representatives.

“The meeting of Man and Animal”
Lamotte-Beuvron Film Festival (41) from Friday October 4 to Sunday October 6, 2024

 Preamble
All participants undertake to respect these regulations.

 Organization, Dates
The Lamotte-Beuvron film festival “The meeting between man and animal” is organized by the City
of Lamotte-Beuvron and will take place from Friday October 4 to Sunday October 6, 2024.

 Themes
Presentation and screening of French and foreign films and documentaries, presenting the relationship between man
with nature and animals in all its forms.

 Registration fee
Registration for the festival is free, it implies acceptance and unreserved compliance with the terms and conditions.
provisions of this regulation.

 Copyright - Promotion
The Festival having in particular the aim of ensuring the promotion of the films presented there, it takes this
regard to any decision it deems necessary.

 Media, television, website, social networks:
The rights holders of the films assign to the Festival without compensation the right to reproduce photographs or TV extracts (less than 3 minutes) from their films for distribution in publications and on the Festival website, in the press, for trailers on the television channels and on social networks…

 Copyright:
The productions presented as part of the competition are subject to French laws.
governing copyright and intellectual property. Elements used in productions
(videos, sound, music, graphics or others), must be free of copyright. In the event of a dispute regarding this
subject, The town of Lamotte-Beuvron declines all civil or criminal liability.

 Responsibility

 Only copies in perfect projection condition will be accepted.

 Insurance/transport: In both cases (pre-selection or definitive participation in the Festival), the shipment
films is the responsibility of the sender, as well as all related taxes and fees (Transit Costs
and Customs). The same applies to insurance costs for all transit operations of the copy; they are the sole responsibility of the owner of the film.

 The Festival is responsible for, only for selected films: insurance costs
only during the duration of the Festival and on the Festival premises. In the event of loss or damage during the Festival, the Festival is only liable for the value of
replacement of the copy (certified by the form describing the state of the copy).

 Competitors who have sent the original copy of a film do so at their own risk, and the organization declines all responsibility (compensation) in the event of loss or damage to a medium sent to it.

 Participation

 The competition is open to professionals,

 Participants undertake not to use content that could harm human or animal dignity or the rights of third parties of any kind,

 The directors and rights holders of the selected films undertake not to remove the films from the program
of the festival after its official announcement. (Final programming July 5, 2024),

 Each director whose film has been selected is invited to come to the Festival.

The directors present will be able to participate in press conferences and a
meeting with the public at the end of each screening, at round tables in the presence of cinema professionals. Directors who are unable to attend the presentation of their film at the Festival may nominate a person who participated in the film (protagonist, author, producer, etc.) to represent them. The organization will cover the accommodation and catering costs of the festival participant.

 Pre-selection

 The Festival Committee accepts films in DVD format for pre-selection (zone 2 only)
accompanied by the registration form,

 The preview copy, with the registration form must be sent before May 31, 2024, to
the next address :

Lamotte-Beuvron town hall
Film Festival
Development Department
41, Avenue de l’Hôtel de Ville
41600 LAMOTTE-BEUVRON

 For foreign films, the festival will accept films with a French version or subtitles
in French,

 Films of an advertising or commercial nature will not be accepted.

 The films will be submitted to the assessment of a selection committee which will establish the list of films selected
depending on their technical quality (image, sound, editing), and artistic quality (interest of the subject for documentaries, script, interpretation, music for fiction), and more generally, the
quality of the overall project and the creative approach.

 The Selection Committee will confirm the official selection of films by email. Any decision of the committee
selection is final.

IMPORTANT :

DVDs sent for pre-selection are kept by the festival for on its archives

Deadline for sending DVDs for pre-selection: May 31, 2024

 Selection

 The competition jury will be made up of professionals from the audiovisual professions,
communication and local and/or national personalities,

 For selected films, the following elements must be sent:

- the producer's screening copy must be sent by hard drive, in HDCAM video format,
DCP or .mov file (in PAL only). DVDs and Blue Rays will not be accepted for
selected films,
- 3 high definition digital photos,
- the director's CV and filmography,
- a one-minute extract from the film (downloadable file),
- a press kit including at least the synopsis and credits of the film.

 The films selected must under no circumstances include advertising breaks. The Festival will return
the copies used for the projection.

IMPORTANT :
The films are loaned free of charge to the festival throughout its duration.
Deadline for sending copies for the screening: August 31, 2024

 Competition – Prize giving:

 The Festival has prizes distributed among the different winners, following the deliberations of the jury and
the list established under the responsibility of its President. This decision is final.

 The documentaries and films registered at the Festival participate in the competition to define the
recipients of the Festival Prize, the Public Prize and a possible “Special Mention from the Jury”
if the jury cannot decide between two films.

 The prizes will be awarded to the films and given to the directors or their representatives.

 The Man and Animal Film Festival logo must appear at the end of the credits of each award-winning film.

 The award-winning films can be re-screened in the town of Lamotte-Beuvron until the end of 2024.