Planet On - Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental (6)

Festival start: 06 August 2022      Festival end: 14 August 2022

REGULATION AND CALL
VI PLANET ON INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
August 20, 21, 27 and 28 | 2022


DESCRIPTION


With the support of the United Kingdom, Colombia becomes a stage to discuss current environmental problems. To this end, the British Government joins Planet On to initiate a dialogue between filmmakers, science, industry and the public through cinematographic works in Seeing things differently: untold stories of flora and fauna; short film contest that seeks to be that necessary space where people can narrate, from their perspective, the different environmental challenges that we as humanity face.

Seeing Things Differently: Untold Stories Of Flora And Fauna, seeks to find the best stories about the illegal trade of species and the protection of fauna in Latin America, as well as any other environmental problem that the participants want to address.

The VI edition of the International Environmental Film Festival, Planet On will be the ideal place where we will meet to reflect on the impact that these problems have on our lives and of course to celebrate the best audiovisual works.

The Festival and the United Kingdom consider the creativity and free expression of artists as fundamental elements to understand reality. It is for this reason that Planet On will have as conditions for the participating works in the different categories, relevance, quality and both environmental and cinematographic relevance.

The call will be open for national and international short films.

Call Dates

Opening:
Tuesday, May 7, 2022

Closing:
Friday June 17, 2022

Selected ad:
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

All sections enabled on the FestHome platform will receive projects until midnight, Colombian time, on Friday, June 17, 2022.

NOTE: Participation in the call does not suppose or imply the acceptance of the works as part of the official selection or as winners of benefits and/or prizes, until they are chosen by the Planet On Curatorial Committee.


CONTACT AND MORE INFORMATION
info@planeton.co

AWARDS

Fiction Short Film

PLANET ON will award 200 USD to the winner in the National Short Film category.

Prize conditions

I. The category winner must be the rights holder to receive the prize.
II. Each winner will be selected by a jury made up of Planet On and the UK Embassy.
III. The short films must have the musical rights, use of image among others.
IV. If the chosen winner does not meet the requirements expressed here and others considered by the committee and jury, the prize may be declared void.

Nonfiction Short Film

PLANET ON will award 200 USD to the winner in the International Short Film category.

I. The winner must be the owner of the rights to receive the prize.

II. The winner will be selected by a jury made up of Planet On and the UK Embassy.

III. The short film must have the musical rights, use of image among others.

IV. If the chosen winner does not meet the requirements expressed here and others considered by the committee and jury, the prize may be declared void.

Description of Selection Categories

The selection of short films will be open to works produced between 2019 and 2022 with a maximum duration of 5 minutes without counting final credits; which should have as main theme the illegal trade of species or some other problem that affects the environment, exposed in a free narrative. The selection will be composed of one (1) Fiction short film and one (1) Non-Fiction short film shot in Latin America.


1. Fiction


Fiction: This category will bring together the products that reflect an imaginary context or situation created by the authors of the short. Although they can take as reference specific aspects of the real world, this category allows authors to determine and play by the rules of reality. Tell stories with invented characters, imagine a utopian or ideal world, even reflect the reality they want to tell from an unusual point of view, such as an animal or a biome.

Sub-genres such as story, drama, novel, experimental, comedy, among others, will have a place here. Ultimately, this category will allow entrants many creative liberties with ample room for imagination.

To participate in this category it is necessary that the shorts have a maximum duration of 5 minutes, not counting the final credits. The works must address the illegal trade of species or a particular environmental issue, either exposing the problem or proposing solutions to any of the problems (eg biodiversity, climate change, endangered species, deforestation, pollution, among others).

It will be the narrative and the concept of the short film that will have greater relevance at the time of evaluation compared to technical aspects such as sound and aesthetics, in any case, they must meet the minimum quality according to technical and visual aspects.


2. Non-Fiction: This category will bring together products that represent a specific aspect of the real world. Here is the opportunity to reflect reality, concrete facts or true stories, with the experience (and participation if you will) of the true protagonists.

Sub-genres such as documentary, essay, biography, chronicle, reportage, ethnography, among others, will be received in this category. This category allows the individual and community experience to be vividly highlighted, making use of interviews, figures and true data that give weight to the narrative.

To participate in this category it is necessary that the shorts have a maximum duration of 5 minutes, not counting the final credits. The works must address the illegal trafficking of species or a particular environmental issue, either exposing the problem or proposing solutions to any of the problems (eg biodiversity, climate change, endangered species, deforestation, pollution, among others).

It will be the narrative and the concept of the short film that will have greater relevance at the time of evaluation compared to technical aspects such as sound and aesthetics, in any case, they must meet the minimum quality according to technical and visual aspects.

The categories aim to stimulate and promote audiovisual proposals from people without prior defined experience. Students, hobbyists, and people from industry are welcome to participate in Seeing things differently: untold stories of flora and fauna. The only essential condition is that the story must expose the problem and/or propose a solution to the illegal trade of species or some other environmental problem.

All techniques (animation, stop-motion, experimental narratives) are welcome and may participate in Seeing things differently: untold stories of flora and fauna.

Curatorial Criteria

The Planet On International Environmental Film Festival will include different film genres in which the environment is the central content in any of the pieces submitted through the website www.festhome.com

The following genders will be accepted through the application:

Short film
● Documentary (auteur, essay, experimental, ethnographic)
● Animation
●drama
● Comedy
● Science Fiction
●Experimental

The curator committee of the VI edition of Planet On will have three juries that must choose a National and an International short film that satisfactorily meet the technical and creative requirements such as: importance, duration, originality, budget and CO2 emission reduction certificate* , among others.

*This certificate is not mandatory to participate in the call.

THE FESTIVAL, RULES, LEGALITIES

A call is a contract by association and whoever registers a film in any of the sections proposed by Planet On on this platform, signs that contract in the terms published here.

It is taken for granted, that the with treatment is law for the parties, in accordance with article 1602 and S.S. of the Colombian Civil Code, so when you register your film you are bound by the conditions established in this call and in those provided by the regulatory regulations of the cinematographic activity Law 397 of 1997, Law 814 of 2003, Decree 1080 of 2015 and Resolution 1021 from 2016.

The Planet On International Environmental Film Festival reserves the right to make modifications, additions, deletions or any adjustment to the initial conditions agreed in this call, hence, such adjustments may not be subject to subsequent claim. by third parties, by virtue of the regulations of the Colombian Civil Code and the special regulations that regulate cinematographic activity in Colombian territory.


GENERAL CONDITIONS

All works without exception must be subject to the following general rules:

i. Comply with the condition of being short films, fiction or non-fiction as required in the call.

ii. Submit to the fact that the curatorial committee considers them short films, fiction or non-fiction or not, as required in the call to which they apply, and the considerations that the committee finds relevant, to which the participant must accept.

iii. Submit to all the decisions that the committee makes, whether they are to include short films, fiction or non-fiction in the section that the committee decides to place them in or not to include them in any section of the VI edition of Planet On, this, taking into account the power of the committee to redefine the category in which it should participate.

IV. All films or audiovisual pieces must have a DCP projection copy with subtitles in Spanish or dubbed into Spanish.

v. Only films or audiovisual pieces produced and/or released worldwide between 2019 and 2022 will be considered.

saw. The cultural nationality of the films or audiovisual pieces will be decided by the committee in accordance with the criteria it deems relevant.

vii. The decisions made by the curatorial committee to include, exclude, reclassify, program in several sections or not include in any, will be final.

viii. The committee is a group of moviegoers and experts who share criteria with the general management and are in charge of visualizing and deliberating on which films or audiovisual pieces will or will not be part of the programming.

ix. Language and subtitling: films not spoken in Spanish must have subtitles or dialogue transcripts in Spanish and English (SRT format).

x. All films or audiovisual pieces must be registered through Festhome (www.festhome.com). Films sent via email or physically will not be accepted.

xi. The programming team of the VI Edition of the Planet On International Environmental Film Festival will be in charge of communicating the decision of the curatorial committee on the films or audiovisual pieces that have been registered on the Festhome platform, to be part of the different sections.

xii. If the call is closed, the committee considers that the registered titles do not meet its expectations, it may freely invite films or audiovisual pieces to be part of the different sections and special programs, even if they have not been registered through of the Festhome platform.

xiii. In exceptional cases, given the pertinence or relevance of the films, the committee may invite titles made before 2019 and 2022, in the samples it considers.

xiv. Whoever submits the film for consideration by the Planet On curatorial committee must be the owner of the rights or have express authorization for the film to be shown at the festival if selected. Otherwise, Planet On will be held harmless against third party claims.

SPECIFIC CONDITIONS

In the sections proposed on this platform, for Planet On 2022, all the short films may be made from real images or any form of animation and will have absolute freedom in terms of looks and forms, as long as they have an environmental focus.


AWARDS

Fiction Short Film

PLANET ON will award 200 USD to the winner in the National Short Film category.

Prize conditions

I. The category winner must be the rights holder to receive the prize.

II. Each winner will be selected by a jury made up of Planet On and the UK Embassy.

III. The short films must have the musical rights, use of image among others.

IV. If the chosen winner does not meet the requirements expressed here and others considered by the committee and jury, the prize may be declared void.

Nonfiction Short Film

PLANET ON will award 200 USD to the winner in the International Short Film category.

I. The winner must be the holder of the rights to receive the award.

II. The winner will be selected by a jury made up of Planet On and the UK Embassy.

III. The short film must have the musical rights, use of image among others.

IV. If the chosen winner does not meet the requirements expressed here and others considered by the committee and jury, the prize may be declared void.


CONTACT AND MORE INFORMATION
info@planeton.co