+RAIN Film Fest ()

Festival start: 14 June 2023      Festival end: 14 June 2023

+RAIN Film Fest is the first European festival of films generated using artificial intelligence (AI). +RAIN explores contemporary film narrative with AI-based technologies and their aesthetic, ethical and political possibilities and implications. The event opens itself to surprise, experimentation and in-depth debate on the place of authorship in a transformative technology that generates a new dimension in creative procedures.

Due to its innovative and unique nature, +RAIN Film Fest establishes an alliance with Sónar+D 2023 and appears in its presentation, on wednesday 14 June 2023, on the Poblenou campus of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

One of the goals of +RAIN Film Fest is the transfer of knowledge to industry and the social fabric. For this reason, it is partnering with AI & WEB3 Creatives Summit, which is being held the following two days, 15 and 16 June, within the programme of Sónar+D 2023, which is co-producing the event with UPF Ventures.

The official partner of the festival is Runway, +RAIN Film Fest is partnered by Runway, a leading company in AI video editing and organizer of the AI Film Festival, which held its first edition in New York in February 2023.

CONCEPT
+RAIN Film Fest opens an international call for submissions of films that use AI models in their creative processes, and explore its narrative and technological capabilities. +RAIN Film Fest invites directors to present and discuss their work at public screenings. An international jury selects the most innovative films to be exhibited, also at Sónar+D.

+RAIN Film Fest is the first European festival of films generated using artificial intelligence (AI). +RAIN explores contemporary film narrative with AI-based technologies and their aesthetic, ethical and political possibilities and implications. The event is open to surprise, experimentation and in-depth debate on the place of authorship in a transformative technology that generates a new dimension in creative procedures.

+RAIN Film Fest is interested in the use of creative methodologies with AI in the service of storytelling. Beyond the visual dimension, this technology poses challenges in the ways of telling stories and also stresses concepts such as creativity and imagination. +RAIN Film Fest seeks to be the gateway to films that experiment with narrative language and these new technological approaches.

DATES
The film registration period begins on 15 February 2023 and ends on 7 April 2023 at 11:59pm GMT+1h.
The films that are officially selected will be announced as of 1 May 2023.
CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPATION
The call for the submission of films is international.
They can be produced by individuals or groups, provided they are of legal age, of any nationality and in any language.
Only one film may be registered per person or group. In the case of a group, the person who submits the film declares and guarantees that they are authorized to represent the rest of the members of the team and that they have obtained all the necessary rights to act on behalf thereof.
CRITERIA FOR WORKS MADE IN COLLABORATION WITH AI
Submitted films must be created in collaboration with AI models. For example, but not limited to: supervised, unsupervised models, generative models of image, text, music or sound, text to video, video to video, text to image, text to 3D, speech to image, or any combination thereof.
These AI models must be able to explore the narrative capabilities of the films that are submitted.
They must be/have been produced after 1 January 2021.
A maximum lenght of 15 minutes is recommended (given the current technical constraints of independent production).
The works are open to any film genre. The original version can be in any language provided that English subtitles are provided.
GUARANTEES
Participants guarantee that they hold all the necessary rights to submit the work and also the rights to reproduce, distribute, publicly broadcast, make available to the public and exhibition, in order to be exhibited under the framework of the festival.
Participants guarantee that the works are free of any burdens or encumbrances and exonerate +RAIN Film Fest from any claims by third parties in relation to the possible rights derived from the works.
AUTHORIZATION
Participants authorize UPF to reproduce, distribute, publicly broadcast, make available to the public, exhibit the film presented, in order to be exhibited under the framework of the festival and, if selected, at Sónar+D. Likewise, they authorize citing the authorship of the film, which will follow the participant’s stipulations upon submitting their application.

INDEMNITY
Participants will hold UPF and Sónar+D harmless from all direct damages, liabilities, claims, obligations, lawsuits, judgments and expenses that may arise as a result of any claims by third parties in relation to the exercise of the intellectual property rights authorized for the broadcasting of the work under the framework of +RAIN Film Fest.

REGISTRATION PROCESS
Films shall be registered by means of the official +RAIN Film Fest form available on the festival website.
The film registration period begins on 15 February 2023 and ends on 7 April 2023 at 11:59pm GMT+1h.
The films that are officially selected will be announced as of 1 May 2023.
Registration is free of charge.
Films will be considered registered once the participant receives the confirmation email.
Acceptance of these rules implies acceptance of the public broadcasting of the film at the festival and, if selected, at Sónar+D, as well as the promotional use of excerpts of the work, and graphic reproduction for advertising purposes.
SELECTION COMMITTEE
The +RAIN Film Fest selection committee will select the films to be exhibited at the festival. From the works selected, an international jury will select the most innovative films to be exhibited also at Sónar+D. The Jury is responsible for interpreting these rules and settling any doubts that may arise.
Its decision is final.
The festival and the selection committee reserve the right to amend these rules or add annexes, provided that such is justified and is not to the detriment of the works and the participants. Any amendments will be announced publicly.
The festival reserves the right to exclude works that incorporate any kind of discrimination on the ground of ability, race, sex and gender or any fundamental right in their content.
Participation in the festival implies acceptance of these rules and the festival reserves the right not to admit works that do not comply with them.
Once the work has been selected, the author(s) must confirm their participation by signing a letter of acceptance of the conditions established herein. Once their participation is confirmed, the work cannot be withdrawn from the Festival.
PRIVACY POLICY
Data controller: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. C/. de la Merce, 12. 08002 Barcelona. Ph.(+34) 935 422 000.

Purpose: register for the +RAIN Film Festival and manage its development. Your personal data will be kept during the edition of the Festival and as long as legal responsibilities may be derived from its realization. However, the identification of the winners will be kept on the University's website in accordance with transparency legislation. Likewise, the dissemination of authorship data will be maintained in accordance with intellectual property law.

Legal basis: processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract (participation in the competition)

Recipients: your data will be processed by the Pompeu Fabra University, the members of the jury and will not be transferred to third parties, except for the fulfillment of legally established obligations. The data of those selected by the jury will be communicated to XXX. The identification of the winners in accordance with transparency legislation will be published on the website. Authorship data will be disseminated in accordance with intellectual property law

Rights: you can access your data; request their rectification, deletion and in certain cases their portability; you may object to their processing and apply for their limitation by following the procedures described at www.upf.edu/web/proteccio-dades/drets . You can contact the UPF data protection officer (dpd@upf.edu) for any queries, or if you feel that your rights are not properly respected. Should you not be satisfied, you may file a complaint with the Catalan Data Protection Authority.

WEBSITE AND CONTACT DETAILS
https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest

rainfilmfest@upf.edu