1. Festival themes:
CONTEMPORARY ART: Documentaries about contemporary art histories, contemporary artists, visual art movements / trends / studies, about artistic projects, creative works by visual artists, from the avant-garde art movements explosion of the XX century to our present.
2. There will be two category in competition:
National (Spanish or Chilean) and International
3. General Conditions to postulate:
a. The main requirement is that all the documentaries submitted have to adapt to the thematic area of the festival: Contemporary Art.
b. The inscriptions to participate in DART are open for works produced from January 1st 2018.
c. All the films participating will be submitted in original version with English subtitles. If the Spanish subtitles are not provided, the festival will take care of their production.
d. The authors can submit as many works as they wish, if and when they adapt to the Rules and Regulations.
e. The authors allow their films to be selected either for the 4th edition of Dart Festival Spain (26-29 November 2020) and/or for the 2nd edition Dart Festival Chile (dates to be confirmed yet).
4. Inscription and presentation of the works:
January 19, 2020: Opening Date
February 24, 2020: Earlybird Deadline
July 6, 2020: Regular Deadline
August 3, 2020: Late Deadline
August 24, 2020: Extended Deadline
September 28, 2020: Committee decision
Dart Festival Spain: November 26 - 29, 2020
DART Festival Chile: to be confirmed
5. Categories and awards:
a. DART Festival Spain:
- Best Spanish Documentary Prize (500€)*
- Best Foreign Documentary Prize (500€)*
- Best Short Documentary Award (Throphy)
* The gross amount from the awards will be subject to the withholding tax legally established by the Treasury
b. DART Festival Chile: Awards & Prizes yet to be confirmed
6. Inscription modalities:
Documentaries can only be submitted through FilmFreeway, although festival programmers may propose other films for the program that have not necessarily passed through the platform.
7. Rules and Regulations acceptance - Transfer of rights:
The director, producer or distributor that register a documentary declares to be the owner, has acquired or does a legitimate use of the film contents and its authorial rights/copyright.
DART Festival is not responsible of any complaint from an authorial rights claim to the public projection of films with protected material.
The delivery of the DCP is not mandatory but recommended. In case the DCP is not available, the digital submission of the film will be accepted. DCP shipping costs will be borne by the submitter.
The submitter accepts to send the promotional material needed once the selection is confirmed.
If your film is selected, it cannot be withdrawn for any reason either from Dart Festival Spain and Chile.
All the works submitted, as well as some works not selected might be selected for future activities, always previously communicating it to the author.
In case of admission, the Organization reserves the right to agree a Spain/Barcelona premiere.
The promotional materials provided after the announcement of the selected will be used for communication and dissemination (hand program, web and other communication tools by DART).
Participating in this call for entries implies the full acceptance of these Rules and Regulations.
CONTACTS: info@dart-festival.com / dartfestivalsubmissions@gmail.com
