REGULATIONS

• The festival has no participation fee.
• Films submitted to the festival must be completed on or after January 1, 2009, not exceeding 30 minutes.
• Films must be submitted on DVD (Standard, not Blue Ray). Do not send film prints, master tapes, or other originals. Please make sure the DVD runs on a conventional DVD player. The DVDs will not be returned and will be kept in the festival’s archive.
• Films previously submitted to ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival are NOT eligible.
• After receiving and previewing the film entries, first the preview jury selects the films to be shown at the festival. They also decide whether the films will be screened in the competitive program or in additional programs.
• The list of the selected films will be found on the HYDU website: www.madisz.ro Only those authors will be notified by e-mail whose films have been selected to the competition.
• An international jury will present one major award (independent of category). The other prizes are yearly changing.
• The Festival is not able to pay any rental or screening fee. The Festival will only pay the return transportation charges. All tapes will be returned within six weeks after the end of the Festival to the address specified on the entry form.
• Due to negative shipment experiences, we can accept 16 mm and 35 mm films for screening only under reasonable circumstances, or if they are personally delivered for the Festival.
• The director (or another representative) of the film selected for the competition will be invited to the festival. The Festival covers the guest’s board and lodging cost for the 3 days of the competition-program.
• The ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival reserves the right to use the whole film or excerpts as promotion for non-commercial purpose in different areas of media for presentation and educational screenings and at different events for promotion of the festival.
• Please send the online entry and the DVD copies until 20^th of September 2011 to us. Otherwise, we can’t accept the submission.

Our address:

U.D.T.M.-MADISZ                  phone: (+) 40-265-267547 
540015 Tîrgu Mureş                      fax: (+) 40-265-268573
Str.Gheorghe Doja Nr.9/81    e-mail: alternative@madisz.ro
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