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1. The Fundación Obra Social de Castilla y León (FUNDOS), Canal Saber and the Palencia International Film Festival (MCIP) announce the second edition of their ‘Microsaberes’ contest.
2. The contest is open to short documentary films, whose central theme will be some of the social challenges present in the territory of Castilla y León. The micro-documentaries submitted must be freely inspired by this slogan.
3. Participation is open to all producers and filmmakers who submit nationally produced films.
4. Those interested in participating may submit an unlimited number of works or short films to the competition.
5. Works may not exceed 5 minutes in length under any circumstances.
6. Works may be submitted in any of the following audiovisual formats: 3GP, 3GPP, MP4, MPG, FLV, MKW, MOV and AVI. The quality of the works must not be lower than HD720P. The organization recommends, however, a quality of FHD1080P to facilitate projection and viewing in the room.
7. Each participant will be able to send their material and post their short films on the Festhome website from June 2 to December 14, 2025, both inclusive, not admitting material to the competition outside these dates. When registering the micro-documentary for the competition, the following information must be provided: name and surname, contact telephone number and e-mail address, as well as the attached form (Annex 1) to be sent (with the subject MICROSABERES) to the following e-mail address: muestradecinepalencia@gmail.com.
8. A copy of the short documentary film in high quality will be requested to those selected for temporary storage in the Fundos site. They will have the obligation to send it before January 7, 2026.
9. If the micro-documentary is filmed in a language other than Spanish, it must be subtitled in Spanish.
10. The authors are responsible for the legal use of third party materials in the creation of the works presented (music or any other type of resource).
11. All the works submitted to the contest can be viewed through a special section created in CanalSaber.es and voted in the FUNDOS YouTube Channel (@fundoscyl) that the FUNDOS organization will provide for this purpose.
12. The FUNDOS YouTube Channel (@fundoscyl) will be open for public voting from January 26 to February 16, 2026, inclusive.
13. The organization reserves the right to disqualify from the contest those works where there are doubts about the use of fraudulent practices to obtain votes (through the use of programs or bot systems to automate or semi-automate the voting process or any other irregularities that alter the nature of the contest).
14. The jury's decision will take place on Friday, March 6, 2026. The presentation of winners and awards ceremony will take place at the Centro de Artes Escénicas Jorge Manrique in Paredes de Nava.
15. The participants accept the reproduction and diffusion of the short films or parts of them for informative, divulgative or promotional purposes related to the Contest.
16. Awards. A jury formed by FUNDOS and the MCIP will visualize the works and, after evaluating different technical, narrative and interpretative aspects of the short films in competition, will award the ‘Microsaberes’ Jury Prize for Best Micro-documentary, worth 2,000 euros. All the works submitted to the competition may also aspire to the ‘Microsaberes’ Audience Award for Best Micro-documentary, whose votes will be cast through the Youtube channel provided by Canal Saber. For this purpose, the total number of “likes” received by each of the pieces in the contest will be counted as votes. This prize awarded by the public will be worth 1,000 euros. Both awards will not be cumulative.
17. The award-winning short films may be screened in a movie theater at the closing session of the 35th edition of the MCIP.
18. All communication regarding these rules can be found on the websites www.palenciamcip.com and www.canalsaber.es. All dissemination regarding these rules and other information will be done through MCIP's social networks, Canal Saber and FUNDOS. For any other information or doubts: muestradecinepalencia@gmail.com.
19. The resulting winning works grant the organization the right to screen such works -always for exclusively cultural and non-commercial purposes- throughout the year following the celebration of the Festival in the various extraordinary activities held outside the official week. Such screenings will always be free of charge for the public.
20. All the works submitted to the competition may be viewed through a special section created in CanalSaber.es for four months after the awards ceremony.
21. The Jury and the organization reserve the right to modify the rules or declare the contest void if they deem it appropriate for justified reasons. Participation in the contest implies acceptance of all its rules.
APPENDIX 1
Micro-documentary data
Title:
Date of production:
Filming locations:
Subtitled YES NO
Length of film: ............ min.
Director or producer information
Name and surname(s):
Address:
City:
Postal Code:
Telephone/Fax:
E-mail:
Technical specifications
Production:
Scriptwriter:
Photography:
Editing:
Artistic credits (with interventions by)
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Synopsis of the film
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