Festival start: 01 June 2021
Festival end: 06 June 2021
GREEN PLANET BARCELONA
01 JUNE - 06 JUNE 2020
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
3rd Edition of Green Planet Barcelona, International Short Film Festival on and about Environment.
Green Planet Barcelona is an international film festival on and about Environment that includes the genres of fiction, animation and documentary. The selection of the short films for the Official Section and the Non Competitive Section is based on artistic, technical and writing criteria. The Official Selection is made by the students from Institut Vacarisses. During the 4th edition of the Festival, the Institut Vacarisses will organize a parallel festival, the "European Green Planet Film Festival" with other secondary schools in Italy, Portugal and Poland, as a result of an Erasmus + scholarship received at the Institute. The selection of short films for the "European Green Planet Film Festival" will be made by the students of the 4 Institutes that participate in the Erasmus + project. The films sent to editions 3 and 4 of the Green Planet Barcelona, will also be able to participate in the European Green Planet Film Festival.
Italy: Istiuto Compresivo “Falconara Centro”
Portugal: (Agrupamento de Escolas Gil Eames)
Poland: (Szkola Podstawowa im, Jana Pawla II w Koszecinie).
GENERAL CONDITIONS
You can submit any short film which has been published after January 2016.
You can submit any national or international short film (fiction, animated or documentary) that focuses on Environment.
Each participant may submit more than one short film.
Films can be submitted in any language. All submissions must include English subtitles.
The length of the short film cannot exceed:
10 minutes for fiction and animated films.
12 minutes for documentaries.
All entries must be submitted within October 8th, 2019 and February 15th, 2020, both included.
Cash Prizes: 2,000€
AWARDS
4 categories
KIDS ALERT Short films to be seen by kids, from 6 years old.
Jury’s award for best documentary, fiction or animated short film: 400 euros + diploma
People’s Choice for the best documentary, fiction or animated short film : 200 euros + diploma
TEENS ALERT Short films to be seen by teenagers, from 12 years old.
Jury’s award for best documentary, fiction or animated short film: 400 euros + diploma
People’s Choice for the best documentary, fiction or animated short film : 200 euros + diploma
GLOBAL ALERTNESS Short films to be seen by adults, from 16 years old.
Jury’s award for best documentary, fiction or animated short film: 400 euros + diploma
STUDENTS VIEW Short films created by students.
Jury’s award for best documentary, fiction or animated short film: 200 euros + diploma.
STUDENTS WORRIES Best short of the environmental issue that worries students most.
People’s Choice for the best documentary, fiction or animated short film : 200 euros + diploma
RULES AND SUBMISSION 2020
GREEN PLANET BARCELONA
01 JUNE - 06 JUNE 2020
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
3rd Edition of Green Planet Barcelona, International Short Film Festival on and about Environment.
Green Planet Barcelona is an international film festival on and about Environment that includes the genres of fiction, animation and documentary. The selection of the short films for the Official Section and the Non Competitive Section is based on artistic, technical and writing criteria. The Official Selection is made by the students from Institut Vacarisses. During the 4th edition of the Festival, the Institut Vacarisses will organize a parallel festival, the "European Green Planet Film Festival" with other secondary schools in Italy, Portugal and Poland, as a result of an Erasmus + scholarship received at the Institute. The selection of short films for the "European Green Planet Film Festival" will be made by the students of the 4 Institutes that participate in the Erasmus + project. The films sent to editions 3 and 4 of the Green Planet Barcelona, will also be able to participate in the European Green Planet Film Festival.
Italy: Istiuto Compresivo “Falconara Centro”
Portugal: (Agrupamento de Escolas Gil Eames)
Poland: (Szkola Podstawowa im, Jana Pawla II w Koszecinie).
GENERAL CONDITIONS
You can submit any short film which has been published after January 2016.
You can submit any national or international short film (fiction, animated or documentary) that focuses on Environment.
Each participant may submit more than one short film.
Films can be submitted in any language. All submissions must include English subtitles.
The length of the short film cannot exceed:
10 minutes for fiction and animated films.
12 minutes for documentaries.
All entries must be submitted within October 8th, 2019 and February 15th, 2020, both included.
Films must be submitted online via the platforms Festhome.com. Films can be submitted also via wetransfer to the email greenplanetbarcelona@gmail.com or europeangreenpalnetff@gmal.com. The reception and proper submission of the materials will be confirmed to participants via email.
The authors of the selected short films for the Official Selection and the Non Competitive Selection must send a high quality copy of the film, two stills and, if possible, a teaser to be published at the Official Programme. All these must be sent to the email address submitted by the organization of the festival:
greenplanetbarcelona@gmail.com
The organization will announce the finalists on the 10th of April 2020.
The films may not include any content that disrespects any person, group or entity or violates people’s rights to honour, privacy, and their own image or any other rights affecting third parties.
The organization of the Green Planet Barcelona Festival declines any legal responsibility regarding the short films submitted to the Festival and their content.
The participants must guarantee that the short films are not violating any intellectual property, industrial or exploitation rights.
The authors of the short films submitted to the Festival sign over the rights for the Festival to show them publicly.
All submitted material will become part of the festival’s archive.
The concession of the right to show the short films included in the Official Selection, and therefore, included in the official festival’s programme, will be extended for one year, beginning on the last day of this current edition of the festival. These projection rights can be executed by Green Planet Barcelona or FILMCLUB, in this case, always for educational purposes.
The short films made by students of the Erasmus + project will become part of the FILMCLUB catalog permanently for an exhibition for educational purposes. FILMCLUB reserves the right to generate pedagogical materials from these productions.
The organization keeps the right of partial or total use of the short films in the Official Selection for the promotion or advertising of the Festival. Likewise the organization keeps the right to publish a preview or a piece of maximum 60 seconds of each short film in the Official Selection in the Website and Social Media for the same purpose.
SELECTION PROCESS AND JURY
The organization of the festival will appoint a jury consisting of several professionals related to the world of communication, cinema, culture and environment. After watching all the short films submitted, the organization of the festival will select the films for the Official Selection, which will be screened in the several venues of the Green Planet Barcelona.
The jury will watch the finalists that make it to the Official Selection and decide the awards.
The People’s Choice Awards will be decided by the votes of the audiences attending the screenings.
The Festival’s organization will grant a Special Mention, if so it deems.
SCREENINGS
From the 1st of June to the 6th of June 2019, in the several Green Planet Barcelona venues spread around the municipality of Vacarisses.
AWARDS
4 categories
KIDS ALERT Short films to be seen by kids, from 6 years old.
Jury’s award for best documentary, fiction or animated short film: 400 euros + diploma
People’s Choice for the best documentary, fiction or animated short film : 200 euros + diploma
TEENS ALERT Short films to be seen by teenagers, from 12 years old.
Jury’s award for best documentary, fiction or animated short film: 400 euros + diploma
People’s Choice for the best documentary, fiction or animated short film : 200 euros + diploma
GLOBAL ALERTNESS Short films to be seen by adults, from 16 years old.
Jury’s award for best documentary, fiction or animated short film: 400 euros + diploma
STUDENTS VIEW Short films created by students.
Jury’s award for best documentary, fiction or animated short film: 200 euros + diploma.
STUDENTS WORRIES Best short of the environmental issue that worries students most.
People’s Choice for the best documentary, fiction or animated short film : 200 euros + diploma
Special mentions: No cash price.
Any award may be declared void should the jury decide so.
The awards are subjected to the correspondent taxes.
Directors awarded may be present during the awards ceremony or they may send a greetings video. Green Planet Barcelona Film Festival beg directors to contact the Festival, if they can not be present during the Festival.
SUBMISSION AND SCREENING REQUIREMENTS
Films must be submitted online via the the platforms Festhome. You can also submit your films via Wetransfer to the email of Green Planet Barcelona Festival: greenplanetbarcelona@gmail.com or europeangreenpalnetff@gmal.com.
The deadline for the submission is February the 15th, 2020.
If a film is selected for the Official Selection, the organization will require a high quality copy from the person of contact specified on the submission form.
The organization reserves the right to recode the original films in order to adapt them to the requirements of the screening, keeping its quality as far as possible.
The organization reserves the right to solve any issue not foreseen in these rules. In the event of a disagreement in the interpretation of the Rules for Participation of the Green Planet Barcelona Festival 2020, the organization will resolve within a week’s time about the issues brought up by the participants, being the organization’s decision totally binding.
TERMS OF ACCEPTANCE
Each participant declares, guarantees, and confirms the following to the Green Planet Barcelona and European Green Planet Film Festival Organization:
He/she is of legal age.
In case of students participation, an adult may have to submit the film.
He/she is responsible for adhering to the terms and conditions and shall not hold the Green Planet Barcelona Organization accountable for breach of said terms.
The participant expressly agrees to comply with each and every one of the terms and conditions of this contest, which can be inquired about at any moment by each participant. Failure to comply with any of the terms may lead to the disqualification of the contest participant.
It is understood that the participant, when participating in the contest, accepts these terms and conditions, and, therefore, gives the Green Planet Barcelonal and European Green Planet Film Festival the authorization to publish its name and image on the festival website, as well as any type of promotion or publication for informational and non-commercial purposes.
PRIVACY POLICY AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS
Participation in the festival contest implies acceptance and authorization of the total or partial reproduction of the winning short films for promotion, publicity and broadcasting of the Green Planet Barcelona Festival 2020 and European Green Planet Film Festival 2021.
The data will be handled with confidentiality and in accordance with the provisions of the Organic Law of Protection of Personal Data (LOPD) and the regulations that develop it.
As indicated, the party responsible for the said file is the Green Planet Barcelona Festival Organization with address C / Josep Carner nº39 VACARISSES, 08233 and email contact greenplanetbarcelona@gmail.com OR europeangreenplanetff@gmail.com. At the address above, interested parties may exercise the right of access, opposition, rectification and deletion of their personal data.
CONTROL AND SAFETY RULES
The Green Planet Barcelona Festival Organization reserves the right to take appropriate measures to avoid any conduct that the association suspects has the purpose or effect of acting in fraud in regards to this contest, or supposes a breach of its rules or a cause of harm to other participants. The first consequence will be the disqualification of the participant and the loss of any right to the prize that would have obtained.
Also, the Green Planet Barcelona Festival and European Green Planet Film Festival Organization reserves the right to exclude participants if they contribute material containing viruses or any computer code directed or capable of damaging, interfering, intercepting or violating the security of any system, information or data.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
The Green Planet Barcelona Festival and European Green Planet Film Festival Organization shall not accept any liability for damages of any nature that, despite the security measures taken, may be caused by the improper use of the services or contents by the users or participants, and especially, but not exclusively, for damages and losses that may arise from the impersonation of a third party by a user.
The Green Planet Barcelona Festiva and European Green Planet Film Festival Organization denies liability in any case in which the participant has not previously requested consent or authorization for personal data of which they were subject to treatment.
