Festival start: 19 March 2025
Festival end: 23 March 2025
Moritz Feed Dog is the first festival in the state that combines film and fashion.
Premieres, iconic documentaries and titles full of content on the big screen. Stories that come from different countries and also works that are the result of national talent in the field of production and direction.
Moritz Feed Dog is held in person in Barcelona, and online at CaixaForum+. In addition, the Festival is also held in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although they have their own artistic team there, the documentaries selected in Barcelona are automatically also valued by the Brazilian and Argentinean committee.
Cash Prizes: 500€
For the first time, Moritz Feed Dog will have a competitive section, which will award the best documentary of the edition. Both national and international documentaries will be able to take part in the official section.
The award will have a cash prize of €500 for the winner.
REGISTRATION PROCESS
Documentaries that fulfill the follow requisites are selectable for Moritz Feed Dog:
- Genre: Documentaries related to fashion.
This can be approached from any point of view or focus, be it social, aesthetic, ideological, biographical, anthropological, etc. The style does not influence the selection criteria. Fashion films and any other projects that doesn’t fit into the documentary genre will not be accepted
- duration There are no restrictions on duration for selection purposes.
- Cases in which the film is still in its production phase: You can send us a work-in-progress, but we will only accept one version prior to the definitive version. As such, we recommend that it is the most complete version possible and that you clearly list what is missing. Bear in mind that we will base our judgement on this screener (whatever state it is in).
deadline
The deadline for submitting entries for Moritz Feed Dog is January 17th of 2025.
SELECTION PROCESS AND COMMUNICATION OF THE DECISION
Moritz Feed Dog has a Selection Committee, which evaluates all submitted films in order to create the new festival edition.
The Selection Committee’s decision will be communicated by email to the contact address provided in the registration form and will be final.
CONDITIONS AND FORMALIZATION OF PARTICIPATION
All the films that have been selected will receive a contract that formalizes their participation in the Festival. Following this formalization, the Festival must be provided with the corresponding promotional and the screening copy. The Festival will cover transport costs for the screening copy.
The Festival reserves the right to official publication of the list of selected titles, and will agree the order and screening date of each documentary. The Festival commits to not screen each title more than three times during its physical dates (excluding possible prior press screenings).
From the time of signing the participation agreement to the date of the closing of the Festival the film may not be withdrawn from the Festival, and the obligation stands to provide the Festival with all materials required for the optimal screening of the film with sufficient notice. The Festival reserves the right to refuse participation to any film that does not comply with the technical requisites for a high-quality screening.
THE FESTIVAL IS ALSO ONLINE
In 2024, part of the Festival will be also online through the CaixaForum+ platform. This website is only available in Spain, secure & geolocalized.
For this reason the festival will prioritize to include films which accept to be shown also on the online platform of the festival.
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Participants that have registered their documentaries in the Festival declare that their work is original, does not constitute plagiarism and does not violate any copyrights, rules, laws or legislation of any type, and that they are solely responsible for any irregularity that may derive from the screening of the films in the Festival or the use of any materials provided.
The organizers of the Festival will not be held responsible with regard to any question related to the copyright of any registered film.
Moritz Feed Dog will keep all copies of films submitted for the selection process, but said copies will not be used without the consent of the producers and/or owners of each film.
All the information about a film provided on the registration forms is susceptible to publication on the Festival website if the film is selected.
The producers are responsible for the inclusion of all the credits of the registered films, and must individually address any subsequent complaints by third parties for failure to comply with this requisite.
The public screening of the documentaries at the Festival, and the use of promotional material does not imply any obligation to pay for copyrights related to the owners, authors, artists and other participants in these films.
Participation implies total acceptance of these terms and conditions.
In the case of divergence in the interpretation of this rule, the text will be applied in Spanish and in accordance with the legislation active in Spain. In the event of a legal dispute, this will be subject to the legal proceedings of Spain, expressly renouncing any other authority. Any question that arises during the Festival that is not covered by this regulation will be decided upon by the Festival’s Organization Team in alignment with international regulations.
SPECIAL CLAUSE
Some of the conditions reflected in this application rules may change due to Covid-19 protocols. We'll inform the selected film about any change and convey together what is best for both parts involved.
