Savona International Film Event - Rules and Terms

Savona International Film Event (S.I.F.E.) will welcome filmmakers and cinema-fans from around the world, at this international event.
We have created a varied festival program for you, which will provide plenty of opportunities to meet fellow filmmakers. S.I.F.E. is an independent film festival, committed to sharing great stories from both new and established international and domestic filmmakers from the world of independent cinema.
S.I.F.E. is a gathering of young and old, experienced and new recruits to showcase their talent and passion in the art of film. Our judges will be looking for films that are pushing the boundaries of contemporary story telling. Inspire us or challenge us. An audience awaits ready to submit themselves to your creation and award those who successfully capture our imagination or build our curiosity.

MAIN FEATURES:

• S.I.F.E. Submissions fee enrolling fee are from 20$ (USD) to 32$ (USD)
• Films selected by a qualified jury comprised of filmmakers, film critics and industry figures.
• Selected films will screen on November/December 2023
• Free limited membership to Systemout Association

MAIN PARTICIPATION RULES

S.I.F.E. is divided into six categories:

1. Narrative Feature  (fictional films that run 60 minutes or longer)
2. Narrative Short (fictional films shorter than 59 minutes)
3. Documentary (non-fiction films that run 12 minutes or longer. Films submitted to this category will be eligible for our Documentary Competition) 
4. Animated Short (films shorter than 40 minutes that feature primarily animated content or stop-motion animation)
5. Experimental Short (films shorter than 40 minutes, Films submitted in this category will be eligible only for Experimental programming).
6. Music Video (original music videos: an official reel, a visual accompaniment and/or representation of a piece of music that’s generally 1-10 minutes in length). Songs must be the ORIGINAL composition of the band or musician featured in the video. Covers will not be considered).

It is possible to submit more than one project, but each project requires the submission fee.

All projects must have been completed on or after March 1, 2017 to be considered for the 2023 Savona International Film Event.

Films competing in juries categories are chosen solely at the discretion of the S.I.F.E. programming team. Acceptance to the festival does not guarantee placement in Competition.

All foreign-language films must be submitted with English subtitles. If we discover a submission is missing subtitles, we will attempt to email the submitter for an update. Failure to provide working subtitles by the final submission deadline will result in disqualification without refund of submission fees.
By submitting the film to the S.I.F.E. you confirm to own the rights of the film.
Members of a competent jury are in charge to nominate the winners after the live screen play.

The S.I.F.E. submission  will be possible from November 18 2022 to November 15  2023 on our online platforms. S.I.F.E. staff reserves the right to make any necessary changes to the final event. Rates for submission are not refundable.

The payment of the event submission fee implies the acceptance of the rules and condition shown on savonafilmevent.com, the contestant declares to accept without exceptions.  Rules and condition are available in English and Italian. Complete rules and conditions are here below shown.

AWARDS

• BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
• BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
• BEST DOCUMENTARY
• BEST ANIMATED SHORT
• BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
• BEST MUSIC VIDEO

All decisions regarding the winners are final and irrefutable.

MATERIALS AND RIGHTS

The films submitted to the S.I.F.E. will remain in the files of the Event and the video archive of the Cultural Association Systemout. The works will not be  commercially exploited. Before any other different use, the authors will be contacted for receiving their agreement. Systemout Association is taking reasonable security precaution to protect the copyright of the film submitted to the Festival/Contest.
By entering your film for consideration to the 2023 S.I.F.E. , you authorize that your work is cleared for festival exhibition and accept full legal responsibility for the intellectual property therein. The submitter and all filmmakers associated with the project shall indemnify and hold harmless the S.I.F.E. , AC Systemout, and any representative or affiliates from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered.

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Before listing your movie to Savona International Film Event (S.I.F.E.), read carefully and understand the rules and conditions.

Art. 1 The Savona International Film Event (S.I.F.E.)  is an independent film event open to any form of artistic expression.
Submitted films should be an original work of the contestant and should have been completed after March 1, 2017.
Films dealing with all themes are allowed to the festival, with the only exception of advertising and pornographic, or themes in contravention of the provisions of the Italian law.
Films in any different language from English must be subtitled in English. Films in Italian are allowed not to have subtitles.

Art. 2 – The contestants, when submitting the film, guarantee that they have full rights to present it and engage themselves to hold harmless the Systemout Association for any fact linked to the possession  or diffusion  of  content of the same under the conditions of the terms and rules of this document.
Films must be compulsorily submitted on the online platform Filmfreeway, and, if applicable, by the simultaneous festival fee payment.
The Systemout Association has the right to exclude from the festival any film that is judged, at its sole discretion, not compliant with its ethical code or to the provisions of applicable law. In case of exclusion, the festival/contest fee that has already been paid will not be reimbursed.

Art. 3 –   The S.I.F.E. enrolling fee are from 27$ (USD) to 42$ (USD).  Additional films can be submitted under the payment of an additional fee for each of them. The payment of the festival’s submission fee implies the acceptance of the terms and rules defined in this document. The festival’s submission fee are to be considered donations to the association Systemout to support the costs of the realization of the festival.

Art. 4 – The films submitted to The S.I.F.E. will remain in the files of the Systemout Association, which will not share them without previous agreement with the contestant and except to the provisions that are described in the Art. 5 and Art. 6 of the present document. The contestant’s personal information will be managed in accordance with the rules defined European Law (UE 2016/679) concerning the privacy code, according to which the personal identification data will be processed only for the purposes indicated in this regulation. Each subject has the right to request in writing (info@systemout.org)  the correction, updating or cancellation of his / her personal data. The data controller is the Systemout Association in the person of its legal representative Sig. Mauro Russo.

By submitting a film to S.I.F.E. , the contestant agrees to receive from the Systemout Association information concerning the activities of the Association by email.

Art. 5 – By submitting a film to S.I.F.E. , the contestant allows the Systemout Association to make available to the public the submitted film data sheets. These ones are created when using the most relevant film characteristics that are communicated by the contestant during the submission of the film on the web platforms.
The above-mentioned film data sheets could also be available on the websites and social networks areas (pages and groups) managed by the Association.
In the case in which the Festival/Contest includes a public exhibition of the selected or awarded films, the contestant, when submitting the film, also grants the Association the free right to show it during the Festival events. In case of public projection, the contestant will provide the Association with additional film and personal information to comply with the administrative provisions in force. The contestant will communicate the above information by using a form that will be provided to him/her for the purpose.

Art. 6 – Submissions to the S.I.F.E. will open on November 18 2022 and will close on Nov 15 2023. They will be performed by using the above-mentioned web platforms.
By November 18 2023, the submitted films will be selected by a qualified jury who, at its sole discretion, will define the list of the films that will be screen* in the public event.
Names of the selected films will be announced on the festival website savonafilmevent.com, on the social networks of the festival (Facebook/Instagram) and to the selected contestants' email address that are communicated at the time of the film submission.
The selected films sheets will be available on the official website savonafilmevent.com, as defined in Art. 5.

Art. 7 – The Festival/Contest/Event will attribute the winners of the Best Narrative Feature and the Best Narrative Short  at the end of live event.
Other awards and distinctions will be attributed for:

• Best Documentary 
• Best Animated Short 
• Best Experimental Short 
• Best Music Video

Art. 8 – The S.I.F.E. final event will be a public event in the town of Turin, including the  awarding and projection of the winning films and ideally other with special characteristics. The event will be to November/December 2023 at the “Nuovofilmstudio” cinema hall in Piazza Pippo Rebagliati, 6A, 17100 - Savona SV Italy. 
Public and specialized press are all invited to the live event. The Association cannot engage itself in any reimbursing for trips and stay of the invited to the event.
This document, for contestants’ convenience, is a non-binding translation of the official terms and conditions issued in the Italian language; in case of litigation, the official text is the original in Italian language.

Prima di inviare il tuo film al Savona International Film Event (S.I.F.E.), leggi attentamente i seguenti termini e condizioni di partecipazione

Art. 1   Savona International Film Event (S.I.F.E.) è un evento  di cinema  indipendente, organizzato dall' Associazione Systemout, che mira a dare spazio ad ogni tipo di linguaggio.
I film  che vengono iscritti devono essere opera originale del partecipante. La loro realizzazione   deve essere stata terminata dopo il 1 Marzo 2017.
Sono ammessi film  di tutti i generi, ad esclusione di quelli a contenuto  pubblicitario,  pornografico o contravvenente alle disposizioni di legge italiane. Tutti i film in una qualsiasi lingua diversa dall’inglese devono avere obbligatoriamente i sottotitoli in inglese. Viene fatta eccezione per  i film in lingua italiana, per i quali i sottotitoli non sono necessari.

Art. 2    Il partecipante  con la presentazione  dei film    garantisce di possedere il pieno  diritto   a  poterli presentare e si assume tutte le responsabilità  sulla presentazione e  sul loro contenuto  manlevando l’associazione da ogni responsabilità per i  possesso o la diffusione delle medesime nei casi previsti dal seguente regolamento;
I film   devono essere presentati esclusivamente  attraverso la piattaforma on line: Filmfreeway, contemporaneamente al versamento, quando previsto, sulle medesime piattaforme della relativa quota di iscrizione.
L’associazione a suo insindacabile giudizio  si riserva  di escludere dalla partecipazione al festival/contest/evento  e/o respingere    opere  che contravvengono  a  leggi vigenti   o  ai principi etici della medesima , in tal caso  la quota di partecipazione già versata non  potrà essere  rimborsata.

Art . 3   La quota di  partecipazione  al S.I.F.E. varia da  Dollari (USA) 27 a Dollari (USA) 42 a seconda della tipologia di categoria e permette la partecipazione di un film. È possibile iscrivere più di un film, ma ognuno di essi  comporta  il pagamento della relativa quota di partecipazione. È possibile iscrivere più di un film, ma ognuno di essi  comporta  il pagamento della relativa quota di partecipazione.
Il versamento della quota di partecipazione al festival implica esplicitamente l’accettazione del regolamento del festival , ovvero il presente documento, ed è da considerarsi una donazione rivolta all’ associazione Systemout per sostenere le spese di realizzazione del festival stesso.

Art. 4   Le opere  presentate al S.I.F.E. rimarranno negli archivi  della associazione Systemout  che ne garantirà  la non  diffusione a terzi  salvo previo accordo degli aventi titolo, fatto salvo quanto previsto agli articoli 5 e 6 di questo  regolamento.

I dati  personali dei partecipanti saranno conservati per 2 anni e gestiti secondo le disposizioni della legge Europea; Ai sensi del UE 2016/679 in materia di codice della privacy si comunica che i dati identificativi personali saranno trattati ai soli fini del progetto o dell’attività indicati nel presente regolamento. Ogni soggetto ha la facoltà di richiedere in forma scritta attraverso l'indirizzo info@systemout.org  la rettifica, l’aggiornamento o cancellazione dei propri dati personali. Titolare del trattamento dei dati e’ l’Associazione Systemout, con sede in Via dei Giardini,10 - 10023 Chieri - Torino, nella persona del legale rappresentante pro- tempore Sig. Mauro Russo.

Con l’iscrizione al S.I.F.E. il partecipante   consente   di poter essere destinatario di successive comunicazioni relative alla attività dell' associazione Systemout tramite e-mail.

Art.5   Con l'iscrizione al S.I.F.E. il partecipante autorizza l'associazione Systemout a rendere disponibile per le opere selezionate o premiate, la Scheda Film redatta sulla base delle principali informazioni relative all'opera, fornite dal partecipante  al momento dell'iscrizione sulle diverse piattaforme. Tali schede film potranno altresì essere rese disponibili sui siti web gestiti dall'associazione Systemout, come pure sui relativi spazi ( pagine e gruppi) presenti sui diversi social network.
In caso il festival/contest/evento preveda la  proiezione dei film  selezionati  o premiati,   il partecipante con l’iscrizione al festival/contest   concede l' autorizzazione gratuita all’associazione    per  effettuare,  nel contesto delle iniziative del  festival/contest/evento,  una proiezione al pubblico  del film  presentato.  Il partecipante , in    caso di proiezione   di un suo film,  si da disponibile  a fornire i dati  personali e dell’opera  necessari  per soddisfare gli adempimenti  di legge.   Tali dati  dovranno essere comunicati tramite l'apposito formulario che sarà inviato agli interessati.

Art. 6   La presentazione delle opere al S.I.F.E. potrà iniziare il giorno 18 Novembre 2022 e dovrà avvenire entro il 15 Novembre 2023 attraverso una delle piattaforme sopra citate.
Entro il 15 Novembre 2023  le opere presentate verranno  selezionate da una giuria  qualificata   per   definire, a suo insindacabile giudizio, l’elenco delle opere selezionate per partecipare alla proiezione live.
Sul  sito savonafilmevent.com, per le opere selezionate verranno rese disponibili una sintesi delle informazioni comunicate all'atto dell'iscrizione, più sopra chiamate Schede Film.
I  nomi dei  film selezionati verranno annunciati sul sito internet del festival savonafilmevent.com, sui social media del festival; Facebook, Instagram, etc. e  all' indirizzo e-mail fornito  dal partecipante  sulla  piattaforma in fase di iscrizione.

Art 7   Sono previsti riconoscimenti per il Best Narrative Feature, per il  Best Narrative Short e per le pellicole giudicate dalla giuria più meritevoli, essi saranno comunicati sul sito internet del festival/contest/evento, il giorno successivo la conclusione dell'evento live.
In aggiunta a quanto sopra, verranno assegnati ulteriori riconoscimenti e/o menzioni:

• Best Documentary 
• Best Animated Short 
• Best Experimental Short 
• Best Music Video

Art. 8  Il S.I.F.E. prevede un evento Live pubblico, con proiezione e/o premiazione dal vivo delle opere selezionate,  più eventuali  altre  opportunamente scelte.
L'evento avverrà a fine Novembre e inizio Dicembre 2023 presso il Cinema Nuovofilmstudio  di Piazza Pippo Rebagliati, 6A, 17100 - Savona (SV) - Italia.  All’evento  saranno invitati la stampa e il pubblico.
L'associazione  non può garantire  rimborsi di sorta  per viaggio soggiorni  degli  invitati alla presentazione live.