Festival Internacional de Cine Austral (3)

Festival start: 04 December 2021      Festival end: 11 December 2021

The Austral International Film Festival, based in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, is proposed as a space for reflection for sustainable, socially and economically conscious audiovisual production.

The jury of the international competition for audiovisual works (feature film, short film, minute video, children's video and music video; real action or animation with any technique) will award the prizes considered optimal by the team of judges for each competition. Under the jury's considerations, special mentions may be added.

As an entity, the FICA understands that the public is an essential element, so that through voting carried out after projections, the public will select the favorite works of each competition.

FICA
Terms and conditions of the Festival Internacional de Cine Austral | Third Edition · Córdoba Argentina 2021
The subsequent articles attest to the regulations that cross all the activities established by the FICA.

- Article 1. Organizer and Venue
The FICA will take place in Córdoba, Argentina. Arranging their activities in state and private spaces subject to modification in each edition of the same. The festival is organized by Cultura de Triple Impacto, an entity that produces events whose purpose is to build a new cultural industry.

Likewise, the Festival, if the production team wishes or if the social situation warrants it, may have a strictly virtual version or a hybrid between virtuality and presence.

- Article 2. Inscription
Registration to the Festival is open for national and international audiovisual works, long, medium and short, in all existing genres, being able to be fiction, documentary, experimental and musical. In real action or animation.
Participating productions must have been finalized after March 1, 2019.
The project representative must detail their desire to participate, completing their registration on the application platform of their choice (festhome®), which will be an affidavit. If the information provided is not true, the material may be disqualified.

It is mandatory that the detailed information is complete and corroborated. Functional and active emails, project completion date and name of the representative of the work.

Registration can be done from February 1 to July 1, 2021 inclusive.

The festival will not pay for the screening of the selected works, since we consider it to be a space for visibility and containment for the films. Likewise, if a virtual edition is held, the Festival will not geoblock content. To report this, the programming team will contact each representative.

Several projects (maximum 5) of the same director can be presented, but the festival can only select one. Producers or distributors may submit a free number of projects, if a director is repeated, the aforementioned will apply.

The inscription of works to the Festival is FREE, with the aim that the FICA is a democratic and accessible space. Responsibility is requested in sending materials so that this Festival is a space for growth, visibility and encounter.

- Article 3. Selection
The official selection will be formally communicated by the selection team through the email of the project representative. The selection will be within the framework of the official competition of the Festival. The selection committee will only select one work per director.

The festival will only try to contact the representative of the work twice through the email declared in the registration, that is, by sending them the selection announcement twice. If they have not responded in these attempts, the work will be officially left out of the official selection.

- Article 4. Participation
Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these regulations.

Once registered and selected, the audiovisual work cannot be withdrawn from the Festival's official programming, unless some type of inconsistency arises in the material sent.
It is necessary for the representative of the audiovisual work to send in due time and form through the mandatory forms all the required information and material in the specified formats. If the materials are not sent in the times announced at the time of the selection, the work will be officially out of the official selection.

- 5 °. Screenings
The Festival selection committee schedules the following competitive and non-competitive selections.

Programming includes:
International Feature Film Competition.
International competition for medium-length and short films.

Regional Competitive Screening
Competitive Screening of Music Videos
Competitive Video Minute Screening
Children's Competitive Screening
Non Competitive Screening
The number of works selected is up to the decision of the official selection committee.

- Article 6. Sworn
The evaluation committee will be composed of (between) three to five members of diverse backgrounds for each competitive category.
Members of the festival development team or those who may have interests in the films submitted for selection may not be members of the jury.

The votes of the jury will be secret and will be defined if necessary with fifty percent plus one. These jurors undertake not to reveal or publicly express their considerations about the works submitted for their consideration, before the official announcement of the awarded works.
A representative of the Festival must attend the Jury's deliberations without the right to vote.

- Article 7. awards
The jury of the international competition for audiovisual works (feature film, short film, minute video, children's video and music video; real action or animation with any technique) will award the prizes considered optimal by the team of judges for each competition. Under the jury's considerations, special mentions may be added.

- Article 8. Public award.
As an entity, the FICA understands that the public is an essential element, so that through voting carried out after projections, the public will select the favorite works of each competition.

- Article 9. Participation mention
The audiovisual works, through their managers, who make up the official selection, undertake to include in all publicity and press material the inscription "International Official Selection" on the official laurels alongside the official Festival logo.

The awarded audiovisual works, through their managers, must undertake to highlight in their advertising and press material the award obtained in conjunction with the Festival logo with the corresponding laurels.

- Article 10. Sample
The participating works of the FICA may be invited in the future to participate in the traveling exhibition CineViajante, a non-competitive exhibition that seeks to bring new works to new audiences. With the acceptance of these regulations, those responsible for the works are open to dialogue about their participation in good faith so that cinema is a tool for social transformation.

- Article 11. Material required to apply
To apply to the FICA competition, registration must be completed through the
Festhome® platform.

Attach a copy of the audiovisual work spoken or subtitled in Spanish or english.

- Article 12. Post official selection material
When a work is selected for international competition, it will be required:
Complete registration form: film synopsis, technical team, curious fact, country, year, frames, official poster, trailer, subtitles in Spanish (obligatory) and in any other language they wish (optional for virtual exhibition). This material must be delivered through the form sent by the programming team. IT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IN ANY OTHER WAY.

All selected work must necessarily have subtitles in Spanish if it is not its original speech. If this requirement is not fulfilled, the work will be disqualified.

The authorization letter from the representatives to project their work at FICA must also be sent. This sample letter will be sent by the programming team along with the other requests.

- Article 13. Commitment
The FICA undertakes to protect the audiovisual work and promote it only in the screening framework designated in each edition, and if applicable, in the subsequent exhibition.