Attached you can find the conditions for entries and the entry form the new edition of Festival del Sol, gay and lesbian film festival.

 

Narrative short and feature films of any production format about gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender issues may participate.

 

The shott film shalol have been preduced after the first of January 2007. 

 

 No films commercially previewed in Spain will be accepted.

 

The organization needs to receive the entries before 26st of June 2009.

 

Kind regards.

 

Oscar Torre

Festival del Mar   

Conditions of entry

1.

Participation

Film producers and movie directors from any country are invited to participate in the film festival.

Narrative and animation short and feature films

of any production format about gay, lesbian,

2.

Requirements

The films will have been produced after the 1

st January 2007.

3.

Entry registration

In order to be considered for shortlisting, the following documentation of those films interested in

participating in the festival

should arrive at the organisation before the 26th of June 2009:

•

Entry Form duly completed.

•

Preview copy of the film DVD (Zone 2).

•

Films stills (floppy disk or CD-ROM, .jpg format).

•

Original list of dialogs in digital format with translation into English or Spanish for those movies that

www.festivaldelsol.org.

Any further information will be given calling

+34 91 848 63 78, or sending an email to

festivaldelsol @ festivaldelsol.info.

The complete applications will be sent to the following address:

Festival del Sol

Mr. Frieder M. Egermann

P.O. Box 506

28080 Madrid

Spain

The DVD copies will be kept by the festival organisation and included in its archives.

4.

Festival selection

The selection will be carried out by a committee of the organisation, under the sole criteria of quality.

The result of the selection will be notified to the selected entrants. The decision of the short-listing

committee is final and no discussion will be entered into.

All the short listed films will be needed by the festival organisation in the required format on the 31

th

October 2009, at the latest. The producers of short listed films are invited to send any available

publicity and promotional materials with the submission of their films. They authorise the festival

organisation to use these materials to promote the event and the participation of the film. At the same

time, the organisation is allowed to use a film fragment of not more than 3 minutes for the same

purpose.

The organisation does not assume the shipping costs of the reception of the films.

The short listed films will be screened in public sessions, according to the location, the dates and the

timetables indicated on the official program of the festival or according to any other decision taken by

the festival organisation.

5. Jury

The jury will be made up of representatives of the Gay and Lesbian Community, as well as

recognised actors, movie directors and specialised journalists

The jury will be in charge of awarding the prizes, which will be made public after the last screening

session.

The members of the jury commit themselves to keep their decisions secret until after the official

prize-giving ceremony. The jury decisions are final and no discussion will be entered into.

6. Festival del Sol 2010 Awards

Once all the selected films have been screened, the jury will award the following prizes:

BEST FEATURE FILM

BEST SHORT FILM

BEST ACTOR

BEST ACTRESS

BEST SCRIPT

Each awarded short film will win a statuette specially created for the event. The jury prizes can be

awarded to the same film.

7. Acceptance of the conditions

Submitting the Entry Form means accepting the Conditions of Entry and the decisions of the festival

organisation, selection committee and jury. Any issue not considered in the Conditions of Entry will

be dealt with by the festival organisation.

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