The Festival

This document is an agreement between the submitter of the short film and TRAme Indipendenti, with the artistic direction of "TRAme indipendenti – Festival Internazionale del cortometraggio indipendente" and other events and activities promoted by its members, by the festival organizers and their partners (hereinafter , "the Festival", "TRAme indipendenti", "members", "organizers", "partners").

1. The “TRAme Indipendenti” Short Film Festival has the aim to promote the independent movie through the screening of high quality cinema productions, produced outside the major film studio system and distributed by independent entertainment companies.
2. All genres and formats are eligible to participate in the festival and to receive an award in one or more categories. Only short films with a runtime of 15 minutes or less including credits can be submitted. Films must have been produced after 01/01/2020 and they must not have participated in the previous editions of “TRAme Indipendenti.
3. The short film can be of any kind; the materials received will be divided into the following categories: "narratives", "documentaries" and "animations". A prize will be awarded for each category. If a sufficient number of applications will be not reached for the "documentary" and "animation" categories, the Festival organization reserves the right to enter and evaluate the relative works in the "narrative" category.
4. You can submit your short film for Festival consideration through FilmFreeway: filmfreeway.com/TRAmeIndipendenti The deadlines for film submission are indicated on the online platform.
5. If your film is selected to participate in the Festival, as well as of other events and activities promoted by its members, by the festival organizers and their partners ,you will have to send the organizers your video, to the email address indicated, through file transfer services or external online links for download.
   The videos must have the highest possible quality in order to guarantee a correct conversion and a high-quality screening.
   The sent videos must have:
   • Max 40 GB
   • a minimum resolution of 1920x1080 (Full HD).
   • a codec video: Apple ProRes 422HQ or Apple ProRes 444 / H264/ DNxHD
   (minimum bitrate 30 Mbps);
   • container video, prefered: .mov / .mp4;
6. All films, except those in Italian, must have English subtitles, whenever possible, it is preferable that the subtitles are not overlayed on the video. It is anyway mandatory to send the organizers the separate file with english subtitles.
7. If your film is selected to participate in the festival, please send us at least two pictures of your film, or any printable material or posters that can be used for promoting the film and the Festival (images must be in high resolution, jpeg. Png, gif format, maximum size 5 MB).
8. The submitter must own the intellectual property rights, or have licensed property rights, on the submitted film and on other complementary material about the film sent to the organizers. The submitter also certifies that all the images and scores used in the film are wholly original or that he/she has obtained any and all consents, releases, licenses, and other authorizations or waivers of any kind necessary for their inclusion or reproduction in the film. By submitting a film for Festival consideration, the submitter allows the promotion of the film on his/her behalf, the organization of multiple screenings, both open to the public and private, without any copyright infringement.
9. The submitter is the legal representative, both in civil and in criminal law, of the submitted film, and is liable for violations of the intellectual property rights of artistic content of others, present or mentioned, in full or partially, in the submitted short film.
10. The submitter must not present films which contain material that defames or vilifies any person, people, races, religion or religious group and is not invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable.
11. In order to submit a film for Festival consideration, you have to pay a submission fee, as indicated in the terms and conditions outlined on FilmFreeway.
    Please note that your fee is not refundable in any case. The submission fee will be considered a generic/voluntary donation and will be payed, net of deductions and transaction fees, to the association's PayPal account. The gathered sum will be used to support organizational expenses.
12. Deadlines for submission, Festival programs and dates might vary. All the communications to directors, distributors and other institutions will be sent via email .
13. All decisions made by the Artistic Direction, the Selection Committee and the judging Juries are at their sole and absolute discretion, and are final and unreviewable, especially as far as the selection decisions, the category in which the selected film will compete and the prize awards are concerned.
14. The Festival organizers cannot guarantee that all the submitted films will be selected for the Festival. Depending on the number of submissions, the organizers might be able to contact only the applicants whose film has been selected to participate in the Festival.
15. All the information provided, the guidelines for consideration and submission of the films, the submission terms and conditions might be subject to change on the part of the organizers without any previous notice.
16. In case your short film is selected to participate in the Festival, you will have to send the organizers the link to download the high quality film.
17. All the personal data present in the submission form and on the online submitting platform will be used according to the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and to the Italian law on the use of personal data (d.lgs 196/2003). The data provided will not be used or shared with anyone for commercial purposes. The data provided will only be used for the Festival's and Association's organizational purposes. These include the sending of information from the organizers about their events and on the printed material related to the Festival, the sending of new submissions calls, the selection of films to other film festivals or cultural events, etc.
18. By submitting a film for consideration to the Festival, the applicant* allows the free use of the film, in case this is selected to participate in the Festival, and its screening in full during the Festival and other cultural events promoted by the Association and linked to the TRAme Indipendenti Festival, including through streaming for screening the event in multiple theatres, together with the publication of the sent texts and the pictures related to the film on the festival catalogue, its website and on the festival’s social media pages. The selection of a film to the Festival also entails the sharing and/or streaming of the full trailer and of part of the selected film itself on the Festival website and its social media pages, as well as the sharing and/or streaming of any frame or digital video, titles, names of the accredited parties or other material for solely promotional and organizational purposes.
19. The organizers reserve the right to broadcast the evening in live streaming. The streaming of the evening will not be made available except for the duration of the live broadcast.
20. The selected films will be saved in the digital archive of the “TRAme Indipendenti” Festival, where the films will be stored in off-line mode, classified and made available for the exclusive use of the organizers.
21. The selected films might be stored in one or more copies on DVD or similar digital storage device, also after the end of the Festival with the sole purpose of the circulation of culture or for educational purposes in events linked to the Festival in any country of the world and for an unlimited amount of time, during cultural events and TV broadcasts.
22. Should any and all of the points of the present document lose their legal validity under one or more jurisdictions, this will not affect the validity of the same point under other jurisdictions, nor the validity of the other points of the present document under that very jurisdiction.
    Should any notification on the points of the present Rules and Regulations be raised, the original Italian text will serve as evidence.
    The applicant releases the Association, its members, the organizers and their partners from any and all civil or criminal dispute and to take on the subsequent legal costs, in case there should disputes on the aforementioned points arise. For any dispute that may arise, the Court of Pisa (Italy) will be competent and the only applicable law will be Italian law.
23. Submission of a short film for consideration constitutes agreement to all rules, regulations and conditions contained in this document.