MIAXJALISCO (10)

MIAX INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT ART AND FILM FESTIVAL



Deadlines

15 Apr 2022
Call for entries

01 Aug 2022
Festival closed

14 Oct 2022
Notification date

09 Apr 2022
18 Nov 2022

Address

C. Cabañas 8, Las Fresas,  44360 , JALISCO, Guadalajara, Mexico


Festival description
Short film festival >1' 30'<
Feature film festival >60' 150'<


Festival requirements
 Film festival
 Fiction
 Documentary
 Animation
 Fantastic
 Terror
 Experimental
 Music Video
 Other
 Any Genre
 Any Theme
 Has submission fees
 International Festival
 Physical Location
 Production date: Any
 Production countries: Any
 Shooting countries: Any
 Director nationalities: Any
 Debut Films 
 School projects 
 Short Films  >1' 30'<
 Feature Films  >60' 150'<
 Any language
 Subtitles 
English Spanish
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Festival start: 09 April 2022      Festival end: 18 November 2022

Create spaces for art and be a meeting point for the independent filmmaker between the community, the business sector and the film industry.

Link of the call to participate. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16CMSUdYSiQKPStCJSy-Q7TeqPpU5088_?fbclid=IwAR0gX9fc7swJy0G8ecaAUAn2ZwB38l5OPoesrYGQC_lug7fqf43S_48BCac

Awards

The Jury of each competition will award the following prizes:

· Best Fiction Feature Film.

· Best Documentary Feature Film.

· Best Short Film.

· Best Short Film of Jalisco.

Each winner in their respective competition will receive a commemorative statuette of the Tenth Edition of MIAX, a diploma of recognition, mention in networks and media, and awards from sponsors

The jury may propose special mentions that in no case may be more of three. No film may receive more than two awards.

ANNOUNCEMENT

1- GENERAL RULES

1.1-Organization and dates

The 10th MIAX International Independent Film and Art Festival

(MIAX), will take place in the month of November (date to be confirmed and subject to changes due to pandemic) as the main venue in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

1.2-Eligibility

Applications for the Festival are open for feature films and short films
National and international. They can be fiction films, animation,
documentaries and experimental films.

Films that do not meet the criteria will be automatically discarded.
creative parameters requested by the festival. Possible exceptions to this rule
are subject to the discretion of the programmers.

1.3- Sections

The Festival program will include competitive and non-competitive sections. The
scheduled films will be included in the section that the selection committee
deem appropriate.

1.4-Registration

Film registration for the Festival is $300 Mexican pesos or its equivalent
to $15 US dollars, whose exchange rate of one dollar will be taken as
$20.63 Mexican pesos on the day of the launch of this call, with
a special discount to the filmmakers who have participated and have been

officially selected in one of the previous editions, this discount is
of 50%. The deadline for registration begins on March 25, 2022 and ends
on August 1, 2022.

BANK DATA
Bank: HSBC
Account number: 6512283313
Interbank code: 021496065122833136
Card number: 4213166151730672
Paypal: @convocatoriamiax
Account holder: (*) Sergio Fernando García Sandoval
*Founder of the MIAX Festival

The programming team will review application requests on a case-by-case basis.
term.

The producer who holds the rights to a film must, before the date of
closure of the call, communicate to the Festival your desire to participate, sending the duly completed registration form, which will have the character of
sworn statement and it will state that you know and accept these regulations.

1.5- Participation

Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these regulations.

Once registered and selected, the film cannot be withdrawn from the programming
of the Festival before its official presentation at MIAX.

The people linked to the selected films undertake not to
spread their participation until the Festival program is announced by the
Organization of the same in press conference. In case this is not fulfilled
last point, the Organization may consider withdrawing the film from the Festival.

2- COMPETENCIES

2.1- Official Competitions

The Festival selection committee programs the different competitive sections. The program includes FOUR Official Competitive Sections in order to promote
especially to new filmmakers:

‐ Best Fiction Feature Film Competition.

‐ Best Documentary Feature Film Competition.

‐ Best Short Film Competition.

‐ Competition for the Best Short Film of Jalisco, in which short films will participate national and international whose production has been carried out either in Jalisco territory, or whose cast has been 80% Jalisco talent.
In the case of animation, creatives will be considered their place of birth
verifiable or studio residency.

2.2- Unofficial competitions

The Festival selection committee reserves the right to create other sections
parallel competition.

2.3- Jury

The Festival selection committee appoints the members of the jury, which will bring together the following conditions:

In any of the competitions it will be formed by a minimum of five
members. Who will be national and international industry specialists of the cinema

THE JURY is made up of specialists belonging to the Network Ibero-American Film Festivals.

Those persons who have interests in the competition may not form part of the Jury. production and/or exploitation of the films presented in competition.

The votes of the Jury will be secret, and the decisions will be adopted by majority simple.

A representative of the Festival will attend the deliberations of the Jury, without the right to vote.

The members of the Jury firmly commit not to express publicly
their opinions regarding the films submitted for their consideration, before the official proclamation of the prizes.

2.4- Prizes

The Jury of each competition will award the following prizes:

· Best Fiction Feature Film.

· Best Documentary Feature Film.

· Best Short Film.

· Best Short Film of Jalisco.

Each winner in their respective competition will receive a commemorative statuette of the Tenth Edition of MIAX, a diploma of recognition, mention in networks and media, and awards from sponsors

The jury may propose special mentions that in no case may be more
of three. No film may receive more than two awards.

2.5- Mention of participation

The producers and distributors of those films that make up the Competences undertake to include in all their advertising and press material the phrases “MIAX Official Selection” using the Festival logo. East commitment applies to both commercial theatrical releases and the release commercial on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD.

The producers and distributors of those films that win awards undertake to highlight them in all their advertising and press material, using the Festival logo. This commitment applies to both premieres theatrical commercials as well as commercial release on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD.

The logo will be available on the Festival website and on its social networks.

3- APPLICATIONS AND REQUIRED MATERIALS
FOR THE SELECTION

3.1- Materials required

The producer who holds the rights must fill out the registration form
digitally from this link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r5f4uNQAQ3sNkdohffuc1XEjla2HOq0j0aoWHDBxV9U/edit?usp=sharing

Where is requested:

‐ Link to a copy or link of the film spoken or subtitled in Spanish or English.

‐ Private link for online viewing for the jury, we recommend do so on www.vimeo.com or on any viewing platform with a password or
private. Append the access password inside the form. within the comments or attached details, must include the title of the film, the name of the director,
duration, subtitles (if any) and a contact address.

- Private link to download the project. Within the comments or
attached details, must include the title of the film, the name of the director, duration, subtitles (if any) and a contact address

- Link to download the requested documentation: copyright letter
exhibition, photo of the director, payment slip, project poster, identification
official whose signature coincides with that of the letter of authorization of rights of exhibition.

The requested links must not have an expiration limit (for example, they cannot be can send a wetransfer link only valid for a limited number of days) and the
maximum file weight should be 3 GB.

The submitted project will be taken as final work.

3.2- Submission deadlines

To be eligible, films must have been submitted online before the 1st
August 2022 11:59PM. The selection committee will not consider films
registered out of term.

4- SELECTED FILMS

4.1- Catalog

In order to correctly edit the catalog, for each film
selected, the Festival must receive the completed registration form and its
links to access the following materials: film synopsis, biography and filmography of the director, a photo of the film and a photo of the director, and listing full of technical and artistic credits.

Decisions about the editorial content of the catalog are made by the
Festival.

4.2- Press material

Posters, postcards and promotional materials will be required, if they are available. press to be used by the Festival press office.

4.3- Fragments for promotion

The Festival may use fragments of the films -of a maximum of 3 minutes-
national and international, for promotional purposes (for short films the
The duration of the fragments cannot exceed 10% of the final duration of the
jobs).

If the clips are not available from the film producer, the Festival may copy one or more fragments of the film to be used with promotional purposes during the Festival.

With the aim of disseminating the programming and each of the films selected, the Festival may use photos and digital clips (less than 3 minutes) of the films on the official networks under the name of the MIAX Festival.

4.4- Projection dates

The assembly of the programming and the dates and times of projection of each
film are decided by the Festival Organization.

4.5- Projection formats

Films must have the following characteristics:

- Digital format in H.264 high quality. Mono or Stereo Audio at 48khz, resolution

HD 1280x720 full hd 1920x1080. FPS24 or 64 frames per second or others
formats that allow a reproduction in high quality. (Only formats will be accepted
digital)

*(in the case of productions supported by IMCINE, it must be previously
authorized its exhibition, since we do not carry out any procedure or request for authorization with third parties, so you must attach the document that
check).

The presentation in other formats or video systems requires the authorization of the Festival.

Once the projection format has been sent to the Festival Organization, it will not be will be able to change.

4.6- Languages ​​and subtitling

The selected films will be exhibited in their original version.

For foreign films in another language:

It is required that it contain subtitles in Spanish.

5- AVAILABILITY OF THE COPY

5.2‐ Availability of the copy

Unless authorized by the Festival, the download link must be available
throughout the Festival period.

6- HEALTH SITUATION

Taking into account the health situation caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19),
All instances mentioned in these regulations are subject to the possibility of its realization in relation to the possible protocols that could be approved or modified during the remaining months of the current year 2022. The International Independent Film and Art Festival MIAX will be exempt from
case of modification or cancellation of the event by virtue of the context. The
PARTICIPANTS waive any claim of "moral rights" and other rights of any kind or nature in relation to the modification or cancellation of the EVENT.

7- ABOUT

Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these regulations.
Any conflict (of organization or operation) not foreseen in this
regulations will be resolved by the organization of the Festival.



  

 
  

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