7 Colors Lagoon Bacalar International Film Festival

The 7 Colors Lagoon Bacalar International Film Festival
was born thanks to the Social Need of Promoting the creation and Publication of conscious Films that promote and represent Humans at best.

Humans Artistic Expressions in Film, Art, Music, Movement, Nature, Drama, Comedy, Noir, Environmental etc.

Festival Screenings will be held in July 2020
In the Beautiful Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

The Film Selections and Film Winners will have their program schedule and their Screenings will happen to a live audience the 17th to 26th July 2020.

BIFF has a number of spots available for Hospitality in Bacalar.
Festival Adm will contact selected Directors for this.
DO NOT WRITE ADMIN ABOUT HOSPITALITY.

Balar International Film Festival encourage Artist, Musicians, Avant Garde, Folk, Ambientalist, Climate Change , Green Social Awareness, Human Rights, Nature Exploration and Research, Nature and Wildlife Conservation works of Cinema.

All Genres are Welcome and encourage to submit.

Please Directors and Producers as a Standard, We DO NOT engage in conversations with Directors, Producers before the Film Selections.

Your Film speak for yourself, and we select in base of it,

We do NOT Select Films o Make winners in base of having a conversation or not with us before the Selections. As a Rule Do not expect to hear from us before Selections are made. Unless your Questions have input of General Dates or info regarding locations.

Thank you

7 Colors Lagoon Bacalar International Film Film Festival aka 7CL BIFF. (C) Copyright 2019

Awards & Prizes

Film Awards Certificated Recognition :

7 Colors Lagoon Best Feature Film

Best Feature Film Environment Conservation
Best Short Film Environment Conservation

Best Feature Film Climate Change
Best Short Film Climate Change

Best Male Director Feature Film
Best Female Director Feature Film

Best Male Director Short Film
Best Female Director Short Film

Music List **
Best Music Video
Best Folk, Traditional Native Music Video
Best Hip Hop Music Video Artist
Best Latin Artist Music Video

Kids Films **
Only to Kids Films ( Encourage to be with Spanish Subtitles )
Best Film for Kids.

Best Animation
Best Writer
Best Original Story
Best Script
Best Edition

Best Original Music Score Feature Film
Best Original Music Score Short Film

Best Cinematography Feature Film
Best Cinematography Short Film

Rules & Terms

Submissions to 7CL BACALAR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020 :

**** HOSPITALITY :
YES Limited Number if Spots for Bacalar for the 2020 Edition.

READ RULES.

Regular Dateline : December 31th, 2020

Late Dateline : March 31th, 2020

Notification on and Before : Oct 1 2020

Event Dates :14th to 17th of October 2020

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General Information :

All type of Short films – Video media less 30 min

Fee : 5 Dlls

All type of mid size Films above 30 min - below 50 min

Fee : 7 Dlls

All Type of Feature Films, Documentaries

Fee : 8 Dlls - Exclusive price to support Filmmakers -

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7CL BACALAR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020 Official Selection & Winners

– Organization

The 7CL Bacalar International Film Festival aka 7CL BIFF is an independent and Private Organization

Arts
The Festival mission is of promoting, propagating and exploring the
understanding of every form of expression relevant to cinema with the main priority of every Environment / also Art expressions that moves forward at the edge of new forms of human expression through Visual Arts and Moving Sound Image ( Experimental Audio Visuals, Short Film, Feature Film, documentaries, public encounters, educational encounters ) throughout the year.

Human
Festival brings Human Communion between different Cultures and Societies for the growth and better of the human condition. Art and Environment Conscious Films are our Communion.

2.- Film Submissions

Feature-Length, Documentary Films :

Not Restrictions

Short Films, Medium-Length Films, Music Visuals, Music Videos :

Not Restrictions

3.- Categories

Feature Length films or Short Films to be Encourage to participate are :

Drama
Comedy
Sci Fiction
Noir
Music Documentaries
Environmental
Climate Change
World Cultural
Human Rights
Avant Garde,
Experimental,
Music Visuals,
Documentary,
Any other New form of “ Sound Visual Art “ are encourage to participate.
“ Only in Particular cases, at the discretion of the Artistic Director, may exceptions be made to the
above-mentioned conditions for admission.”

4 . – Waiver Agreement

The Festival is open to Public. All Participants and / or guest of the Festival acknowledge that Multimedia Channels, web and accredited television channels and other media partners will / might cover the Festival for Television, Radio, Web, Newspaper, Digital News. By agreeing to take part in the Festival, all participants relinquish, free of charge, their broadcasting rights to any filmed footage and recorded audio, allowing the media partners to make such use of the above materials as they see fit.

5.- General Rules

Participation in the Festival automatically entails observance of the present
Regulations. Producers, distributors or other parties who submit films must guarantee that they are legally authorized to represent the film and get any responsibility if fail to do so, as well as if any copyright or Trademark infringement is due to act within the film they representing, also they guarantee that they are legally authorized to register the film in the BIFF. BIFF Committee, Artist Director, Aggregators and Affiliates will carry Not Responsibility if any infringement on copyright or Trademark is made by any of the Invited films as well as Participating films or films from the pre-selection phase and during and after BIFF screenings.
The Director of 7CL BIFF reserves the right to settle any cases not covered by the present
regulations.

At the Moment of Submitting your film, if selected or awarded you accept to give free screening rights only to the festival edition screenings program in present ; in other words ( no charge for the festival to screen your film ).

The festival accept applications by adults only. We don’t accept applications from individuals under 18.
The festival and its sponsors cannot be held responsible for loss or damage to entry materials.

At the Moment of you submitting your films You understand and agree of this :
BIFF at this moment Give only Awards by Recognition, NO cash prize, No funding.
, that we the organization of 7 CL BIFF and Casa de la Cultura of Bacalar, Quintana Roo will not offer you or pay screening fees.

Should any dispute arise regarding the interpretation of any article of these regulations, the English Version is Binding by the State laws, and jurisdiction of New York City, NY, USA. And Mexico, Quintana Roo, Mexico Juridisction.

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