Festival Internacional de Cine de San Luis Potosí ()

Festival start: 24 October 2023      Festival end: 28 October 2023

SAN LUIS POTOSÍ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (FICSLP)

Call 2023, 11° SAN LUIS POTOSÍ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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The JURY will have to decide which films among the nominees will be the winner.

The San Luis Potosi International Film Festival (FICSLP) is calling for producers and filmmakers from Mexico, Ibero-America and other regions of the world to submit their films for its 11th edition, to be held from October 23 to 28, 2023.

OFFICIAL COMPETITION

Rules

The number of short films, feature films, audiovisual works and films that you can submit to the competition is unlimited.

- Your film must be original and unpublished, i.e. it must not have been produced before January 1, 2022.

- Your film cannot be a shortened or extended version of another film previously submitted to this festival.

- Employees or collaborators of FICSLP and/or Daguerrotipo A.C. are not eligible to participate in the competition.

We are not private investigators, but if the FILM does not comply with any of these points, we are afraid it will have to be disqualified, do not take any risk and comply with these rules. Likewise, we reiterate that no preferential treatment will be given or works of known and/or local filmmakers that do not comply with the requirements and rules will be accepted to the contest.

- Your film can last from 00:30 to 30 minutes in short film version, in feature film from 60 to 180 minutes with CREDITS INCLUDED, the exhibition formats are digital extension .MKV, MOV or .MP4, as well as BluRay format. You must also include a trailer or preview of your short film of no more than 21 seconds in order to further promote your work inside and outside the festival.

RECEPTION OF WORKS

It will be through these options or by consulting the rules at:

https://www.ficslp.mx

Our Festival Platforms:
FESTHOME.

At FICSLP we value your creativity and your time, therefore, we recommend that your film contains MORE IN LESS time (avoid extremely long scenes, be concise and concrete in your ideas, so it will be easier to understand your work!

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- If your short film is in a language other than SPANISH/CASTELLAN, it is mandatory to
subtitleD IN SPANISH; if it is spoken in Spanish/Castilian, it is not necessary to subtitle it.

ATTENTION: Our festival is Latin American in Spanish/Spanish language and is broadcasted in the Spanish-speaking festival networks. In order for your film to be seen and understood by the greatest number of people, it is necessary to contain subtitles in this language.

If your film is selected and does not comply with this subtitling requirement, an extension will be granted for the reception of the audiovisual work with the subtitles in the agreed time and form (embedded or .SRT files), otherwise, the short film, feature film, audiovisual work or film will be disqualified.

Subsequently, when we have verified that your short film complies with the rules, we will send you
an e-mail or message through the platform to let you know if it has entered our official selection and/or has been nominated.

- YOU SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE THAT THE ORGANIZATION RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TO ADMIT TO THE
AUDIOVISUAL WORKS THAT, ACCORDING TO ITS CRITERION, DO NOT MEET THE TECHNICAL, ARTISTIC AND/OR LEGAL
TECHNICAL, ARTISTIC AND/OR LEGAL CONDITIONS REQUIRED BY THE FESTIVAL.

You can send your films from April 19, 2023, until September 19, 2023, 12:00 HRS, Central Mexico.

- ALTHOUGH THE deadline FOR THE RECEPTION OF FILMS IS LONG, WE ADVISE YOU TO SEND US YOUR FILMS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
YOUR WORK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, SO THAT THE PROGRAMMING TEAM AND THE JURY HAVE MORE TIME TO VIEW YOUR WORK
TIME AND EASE TO SEE YOUR WORK WITH PEACE OF MIND.

OFFICIAL SELECTION

In each edition (FICSLP), we assemble a SELECTION COMMITTEE integrated by film professionals
who will be in charge of viewing the films admitted to the festival and competition. Once the deadline for the reception of short films is over, the same COMMITTEE will decide which, among all those admitted to the competition, will become NOMINATED and, therefore, will receive an invitation to present their work at the FICSLP, opting for the ADOLESCENT HUASTECO awards given by THE SPONSORS, THE JURY and THE AUDIENCE.

SHORT FILM COMPETITION SELECTIONS

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
BEST MEXICAN FILM
BEST POTOCINEMA
BEST ANIMATION
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST UNIVERSITY RALLYTY
If applicable Audience Award

There will also be an Audience Award for Best Film and Best Audiovisual Work.
If your film becomes an Official Selection and/or Nominated in any of these categories, we will send it to the members of our JURY.
We will send it to the members of our JURY, which will be integrated by Actors, Directors, Producers, Photographers and Critics,
Producers, Cinematographers and Critics of the film industry. They will have to decide which of the NOMINATED films will be the WINNERS. But the AUDIENCE also has an important participation by awarding the AUDIENCE RECOGNITION FOR BEST FILM (among the official selection).

So if you are convinced of your chances, you can invite your friends, acquaintances and family to show their appreciation by exchanging or donating their vote when the time comes.

We want to unleash the filmmaker in you!

PARTICIPATION AND DIFFUSION

At FICSLP we UNDERSTAND that your work participates or will participate in OTHER FESTIVALS.
the opportunity to make more diffusion of your film through a TRAILER or TEASER and generate the expectation of the
and generate expectation from the public and the jury. So INCLUDE IT when you send or upload your files. This way you don't break the rules to participate in other festivals and additionally FICSLP shows its support by screening capsules in other media, inside and outside our festival, in exhibitions and in the awards GIVING as well as other events related to DAGUERROTIPO A.C. AND FICSLP (TV shows, facebook, film clubs, screenings in other festivals/competitions...).
As in all the contests, the fact of participating implies that the producer, director, distributor or the person sending the
the sender of the audiovisual work accepts the rules of our festival. THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE reserves the right
reserves the right of admission and will decide on unforeseen or extraordinary cases that may arise and that differ from the rules.

LEGAL RULES

You must be aware that the sender and/or person SENDING THE FILM (Director, Producer, Distributor, Rights Holder, etc.) will be the
of Rights, etc.) will be the only person responsible for the content of the audiovisual work and/or film and for everything included in it, for example, images, characters, songs or sounds of other authors. If any of them or their legal representatives ask you for explanations, you will have to plead on your own behalf.

We, the FICSLP, DAGERROTIPO A.C., COMMITTEE AND ORGANIZING STAFF, DECLINE AND DISCLAIM
DISCLAIM from any legal responsibility regarding copyright, intellectual property or image rights of the content of your short film, feature film, audiovisual work and/or film. Likewise, by participating in the SAN LUIS POTOSÍ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL you grant us in common agreement and free of charge the rights to exhibit and broadcast your short film, feature film, audiovisual work and/or film. This during the period from the reception of the work, either through our platforms (FESTHOME), social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube) and/or email (we transfer, drive, icloud, gmail), and until the following editions and retrospectives and/or events of the Festival. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU LOSE THE RIGHTS TO YOUR WORK, we do it to be able to freely reproduce, distribute, disseminate and exhibit it to the media that support or work together with the FICSLP and DAGUERROTIPO A.C., so that we can give the widest dissemination to your audiovisual works when they are nominated or winners of our Festival.

DAGUERROTIPO A.C. AND THE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DO NOT SEEK TO PROFIT OR EXPLOIT FOR YOUR BENEFIT ANY AUDIOVISUAL WORK RECEIVED, AS ALL OUR EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE.

- IN CASE OF WINNING IN ANY CATEGORY OF OUR FESTIVAL, THE CESSION OF EXHIBITION AND DIFFUSION RIGHTS FOR FREE WILL HAVE AN INDEFINITE TERM, IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO FREELY CONTINUE EXHIBITING AND DIFFUSING THE AUDIOVISUAL WORK AND
TO SHOW OFF OUR WINNERS IN SUCCESSIVE EDITIONS AND TO MAKE PRESENT THE QUALITY OF OUR PARTICIPANTS.
OUR PARTICIPANTS.

Paragraph: "The author/s, by the fact of participating in the festival with any audiovisual work, assigns/transfers free of charge the rights of public communication, distribution and distribution of the audiovisual work.

free of charge the rights of public communication, reproduction, exhibition, diffusion, distribution to the. San Luis Potosi International Film Festival and Daguerrotipo A.C. for the benefit of the audiovisual work, by means of any form of diffusion or free distribution at national and international level, and with the faculty to exhibit them through third parties to continue the diffusion of the work, until the call for the next edition of the Festival. Subsequently, these rights will be tacitly extended until the author reliably informs the festival of his intention to suspend the validity of this clause of transfer of rights. The participant agrees to the free transfer of rights of public communication, reproduction, exhibition, dissemination and distribution until the same date. The participants resulting from the official selection, nominees, winners or award winners, indefinitely assign the aforementioned rights over their audiovisual work to FICSLP, Daguerrotipo A.C., and in favor of the sponsors for the free public communication, reproduction, exhibition, broadcasting and distribution of the work in their platforms, until the author or
holder of the rights over the audiovisual work, communicates in a reliable way to the festival its intention to suspend the validity of this clause of cession of rights.

Having your participation is the most important thing for our festival and on behalf of the entire FICSLP team we wish you luck and success!
Remember that at FICSLP, Fame is the Unknown!

Don't forget to follow us on our social networks and give "LIKE" to our pages and publications:
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Alfredo Rodríguez Vázquez
Director de Programación
programacion@ficslp.mx
contacto@ ficslp.mx
Festival Internacional de Cine de San Luis Potosí
Daguerrotipo A.C.