Ukrainian Context

Forth International Festival

Human Rights Documentary Film Days

 REGULATIONS

 Introduction

The Forth International Festival “Human Rights Documentary Film Days - UKRAINIAN CONTEXT” will take place on March, 30 — April 06 2007 in the House of Cinema,  6 Saksaganski St, Kiev.

 The festival is a strictly non-profitable event whose overall objective is promotion of an open social dialogue, of respect to human rights and dignity, of rule of law in the Ukraine. Organizers will concentrate equally on both artistic merit and human rights content. 

Programme

Acceptance or rejection totally depend upon the artistic and topical value of the films.

A festival does not limit the term of production and release of film.

But it is important of principle, that a film was not before demonstrated in Ukraine

Please do not offer films produced to order of organizations or projects. Films that serve as vehicles of political or social propaganda, promote interests of public campaigns, lobbying factions or business companies, films that are principally instructive or didactic will be rejected immediately.

Participation in other festivals will not preclude documentary films from participation in the above-mentioned Ukrainian Context Festival.

The festival has both a competitive and non-competitive program.

The non-competitive program is composed of retrospectives and thematic categories.

The Festival will present: Best films of New Documentary language, Best films on human rights protection. Special projects, Documentary Co-production. Workshop, master classes delivered by leading experts in documentary cinematography.

Awards

There are two competition categories: Art Documentary and Human Rights.

The festival also presents the audience award.  

Organizations or individuals are welcome to offer special awards (prizes) of their own.

Every participant in the Festival will receive a special Participant’s Diploma.

Application and selection procedure

Selection of participant films will depend upon selection committee appointed by the Festival managers and authorised by the Co-ordinating Council formed by representatives of the Festival sponsors and organizers.

Selection deadline:  December, 30  2006

To screening the film the DVD copy is enough.

The order of festival presentation will be established by festival managers.

 Please mail films and documents to: Olga Kostina, p/b 10984;  61013  Kharkov, Ukraine

Please send back-up E-mail copies of your documents to: gkofman@magikafilm.com.ua  

The required set of documents will include:

·       Completed form of participant’s questionnaire

·       A short synopsis of their film

·       Director’s filmography and biography

·       Director’s photo

·       Still photo from the film. Stills in electronic format must be in print quality with a minimum resolution of 300dpi, size 1MB, preferably in tif format.

·       Full film credits

·       2 posters of the film or flyers to be distributed in the festival venues

·       Dialogue list in English, Russian or Ukrainian.

Mailing, insurance and return of films

Festival organizers will cover or reimburse all mailing expenses incurred by the applicants.

To reduce the mailing costs, including customs duties, please indicate merely symbolic (token) sums of videotapes value.

The Festival organizers will cover insurance expenses for BETACAM SP tapes and 16 or 35 mm films. Copies thereof will have been returned to the senders within 30 days after the end of the Festival to the addresses indicated in questionnaire forms, all resulting expenses covered by the Festival organizers.

It would be expedient to use diplomatic channels of the sender’s country of residence for mailing purposes. If the sender opts for a courier delivery service, please mark the parcel:  For Cultural Purposes Only.  No Commercial Value Attached.

The festival organizers shall learn about possible changes in the return address before the Festival starts.

Presentation

Within the Festival framework, one and the same film can be presented no more than three times.

Film copyright owners will agree to having their films translated at Festival presentations into Russian or Ukrainian. Translation costs will be covered by the Festival organizers.

Apart from cinema theatres, the viewers will have access to videotheques supplied with video tapes in VHS format or DVDs of all Festival-participant films.

Invitation and participation

Directors or producers of films selected for participation in the Festival, as well as producers whose projects are selected for participation in the workshop on international co-production of documentary films, are invited to participate in the Festival personally. The Festival organizers will cover their hotel accommodation, travel and subsistence expenses. Please expect no per diem payments. Every successful film or project shall be represented by only one person.

Advertising and promotion

The Festival organizers can prepare and hand over to television broadcasting stations special advertising reels (up to 3 min) of selected films, using the copies at the organizers’ disposal. Short (1 min or less) fragments of selected films can be used by mass media etc for Festival-advertising purposes.

Advertising of films and organizations that participate in the Festival will be free of charge, all other advertising being paid for at a fixed rate.

Traveling festival

Within 8 months after the end of the Festival, its organizers will have a traveling festival throughout major Ukrainian regions (oblasts). During this traveling festival, one film can have no more than 12 public presentations.

The traveling festival will be a non-profitable event.

But, to reduce expenditure on cinema theatre premises rent, the organizers reserve the right to permit cinema theatre owners sales of entrance tickets provided that the sums total resulting from these sales are not in excess of the operational costs.  The festival organizers shall not profit from these ticket sales.

Please permit us production of film copies in SVHS and VHS formats or on DVDs for the needs of the traveling festival. We would use the versions supplied by the copyright owners and supply Russian or Ukrainian translation (sub-titles or interpreting).

Please indicate in the questionnaire form your agreement or intention to participate in the traveling festival.

Festival archives

The S VHS and VHS video tapes or DVDs prepared for the needs of the traveling festival will stay in the Festival archives.

These copies can be used in subsequent work performed by organizers (Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and Centre for Modern Information techniques and Visual Arts). The Festival is aiming to make all entered films available for NGO´s, press, film professionals and film students for research purposes throughout the year. Please inform us in advance if you do not agree to making your film available for non-commercial viewing after the festival Participants agree that the festival organizer may use the Ukrainian subtitled version of their documentary for non-profit use (e.g., educational screenings at schools).

Any subsequent presentations will be of purely educational, strictly non-profitable character.

Other

Any issues not provided for by these Regulations will be considered by the Festival organizers in accordance with rules that apply to international festivals procedures.

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