The Echoes of Humanity International Film Festival aims to establish an international cinematic platform under the auspices of the University of Pannonia, focusing on the intersections of human values, social issues, and the creative industries. Through the language of film, the festival explores how human stories are shaped and perceived in a global, rapidly changing world, and how these narratives can become starting points for dialogue, reflection, and shared understanding.
A key focus of the festival is placed on the high school and university categories, which provide young talents with meaningful opportunities for visibility and professional growth. These sections closely align with the university’s educational mission, strengthening talent development, creative education, and international academic and professional connections.
In addition, the festival’s professional film categories—including short films, feature films, documentaries, nature and environmental films, works engaging with artificial intelligence, experimental films, and animation—contribute to the institution’s professional recognition and international visibility. Through this multi-layered structure, Echoes of Humanity seeks to function as an educational, cultural, and professional meeting point, where human stories resonate on a global scale.
Following the decision of an official festival jury of Echoes of Humanity International Film Festival, several artistic and technical awards will be presented to competing films in the following categories
• High School Category (placements convertible into institutional credit points)
• University Category (open to students from Hungary and international students)
• Short Film Category
• Feature Film Category
• Documentary Film Category
• Nature and Environmental Films Category
• AI & Innovation and Experimental Category
• Animated Films Category
WE'RE LOOKING FOR: Feature Films, Short Films, Documentaries, TV/Web-Series, Nature and Environmental Films, Student Films, Animations, Trailers, Music Videos, Commercials, AI and Experimental Films. We accept films of any genre, length and language. Non-English films must have English subtitles. We accept Scripts of any genre, length, and in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
WE DO NOT ACCEPT: 1. Amateur videos. 2. Extremist or propaganda content from religious or political organizations. 3. Pornography. 4. Films with a poor production standard (bad sound, lack of subtitles/captions for non-English films, video resolution lower than 720p HD). 5. We don't accept excerpts/scenes from films: you must submit the entire film.
BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR PROJECT PLEASE READ ALL RULES AND REGULATIONS.
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DATA MANAGEMENT INFORMATION FOR Participants of the Echoes of Humanity International Film Festival organized by the University of Pannonia:
The University of Pannonia FilmFreeway as joint data controllers, pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council ("GDPR") and Act CXXII of 2011 on the Right to Information Self-Determination and Freedom of Information ("Act on Information"), informs the respondents of survey related to the participants of the Echoes of Humanity International Film Festival ("Data Subject") about the circumstances of the processing of personal data:
1.THE DATA CONTROLLERS
1.1. Name: University of Pannonia
Institutional Identifier: FI80554
Headquarters: 8200 Veszprém, 10. Egyetem Street
Website: www.uni-pannon.hu
Correspondence office name: Faculty of Humanities
Address for correspondence office: 8200 Veszprém, Wartha Vince street 1., Building „N”.
Data Protection Officer at the University of Pannonia:
EU-Tender Gazdasági Szaktanácsadó Kft.
Company registration number: 01-09-980262
Tax number: 23830619-2-41
Registered office: 1024 Budapest, 20. Retek Street
Contact: adatvedelem@uni-pannon.hu
Data Protection Contact of the University of Pannonia:
Adrienn Zsargó - Legal Expert, Legal Lecturer
Contact: 8200 Veszprém, 10. Egyetem Street
Phone: +36 (88) 624-000 /6234
E-mail: adatvedelem@uni-pannon.hu
Data controller defined in 1.1. is eligible for contacting concerned persons.
1.2. The University of Pannonia manages the voluntary given personal data using an additional data controller due to online questionnare.
FilmFreeway
Attn: Legal Department
2300 Empire Avenue, 5th Floor
Burbank, CA 91504, USA
E-mail address: support@filmfreeway.com
Phone number: + 1-800-777-7777 (not for support – paid telephone support on request)
2. THE LEGISLATION, PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS UNDERLYING DATA PROCESSING
2.1. Legislation
• Act CXII of 2011 on the Right of Informational Self-Determination and Freedom of Information (hereinafter referred to as the "Infotv.")
• Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR)
2.2. Principles of data management
Personal data must be processed in a lawful and transparent manner, ensuring that natural persons are treated fairly with regard to the processing of personal data relating to them ("lawfulness, fairness and transparency").
Personal data may only be processed for specified lawful purposes, for the exercise of a right and the performance of an obligation. At all stages of processing, the purpose of the processing must be fulfilled and the collection and processing of data must be fair and lawful ("purpose limitation").
Only personal data which is necessary for the purpose of the processing and is adequate for the purpose of achieving that purpose may be processed. Personal data may be processed only to the extent and for the time necessary for the purposes for which they are collected ("data minimisation principle" and "limited storage").
The University must ensure that personal data is accurate and up to date, bearing in mind that inaccurate personal data is corrected ("accuracy").
The University should process personal data in such a way as to ensure adequate security of personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage ("availability, integrity and confidentiality"), by implementing appropriate technical or organisational measures.
2.3. Basic terminology
Personal Data: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("data subject"); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Special Data:
(a) personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, nationality, political opinions or political party affiliations, religious or other philosophical beliefs, membership of an interest group or membership of a representative body, sex life;
b) personal data concerning health, pathological addiction and personal data concerning criminal offences.
Consent of the data subject: a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she signifies, by a statement or by an act expressing his or her unambiguous consent, that he or she gives his or her consent to the processing of personal data concerning him or her.
Information: the controllers shall inform the data subject, without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request, whether or not his or her personal data are being processed and, if such processing is taking place, the data subject shall have the right to obtain access to the personal data and to the following information:
• purposes of the processing;
• categories of personal data concerned;
• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom or with whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, including in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
• where applicable, the envisaged duration of the storage of the personal data or, where this is not possible, the criteria for determining that duration.
Correction: the data subject is entitled to have inaccurate personal data relating to him or her corrected by the controller without undue delay upon request.
Deletion: the data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controllers the erasure of personal data relating to him or her without undue delay, and the controllers shall be obliged to erase personal data relating to him or her without undue delay, if:
• the personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
• the data subject withdraws his or her consent and there is no other legal basis for the processing;
• the data subject objects to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing;
• the personal data have been unlawfully processed;
• the personal data must be erased in order to comply with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controllers is subject.
Restriction: the data subject has the right to obtain, at his or her request, the restriction of processing by the controllers - indicating the personal data stored - in order to limit their future processing.
Objection: a statement by the data subject objecting to the processing of his or her personal data and requesting the cessation of the processing or the erasure of the processed data.
Data subject: any specified natural person who is identified or can be identified, directly or indirectly, on the basis of personal data.
Data controller: a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or any other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of the processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or specific criteria for the designation of the controller may also be determined by Union or Member State law.
Data processors: a natural or legal person or an unincorporated body which processes data on the basis of a contract with a controller, including a contract concluded pursuant to a legal provision
Third party: a natural or legal person or unincorporated body other than the data subject, the controller or the processor.
Data processing: any operation or set of operations which is performed upon data, whatever the procedure used, in particular any collection, recording, recording, organisation, storage, alteration, use, retrieval, disclosure, transmission, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction of data or any prevention of their further use, taking of photographs, sound recordings or images and any other physical means of identification of a data subject (e.g. fingerprints, palm prints, DNA samples, iris scans).
Data Transfer: when the data is made available to a specified third party. Disclosure: when the data is made available to any person.
Erasure: the rendering of data unrecognisable in such a way that it is no longer possible to recover it.
Destruction of data: the total physical destruction of the data medium containing the data. Processing of data: the performance of technical tasks related to data processing operations, irrespective of the method and means used to perform the operations and the place of application, provided that the technical task is performed on the data.
Pseudonymisation: processing of personal data in such a way that it is no longer possible to identify the natural person to whom the personal data relate without further information, provided that such further information is kept separately and technical and organisational measures are taken to ensure that no natural person can be identified or identified with that personal data.
3. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED
3.1. Personal data content of the participants
The applicant is required to obtain the consent of the persons whose personal data is included in the application for the transfer of such data.
Data subject:
Applicant
Data category:
Directors First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Prior Credits;
Writers First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Prior Credits;
Producers First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Prior Credits;
Key Cast First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Prior Credits;
Specifications;
Project Information;
Screenings / Distribution
Data source:
Applicant
Purpose of data processing:
Required for submitting an application
Legal basis for data processing:
The data subject's consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. The data subject's consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR
Duration of data processing:
Personal data will be processed for a fixed period of 3 years from the date of data recording.
4. DATA PROCESSING
In accordance with the governing legislation, the data controller is entitled to use a data processor for the purpose of certain technical operations or the provision of the service.
The data processor is only entitled to execute the instructions and decisions of the Data Controller.
Name: Pannon University, headquarters: 8200 Veszprém, Egyetem utca 10, , website: https://uni-pannon.hu
Correspondence office name: Faculty of Humanities
Contact person’s name: Gergo Elekes
Address for correspondence office: 8200 Veszprém, Wartha Vince street 1., Building „N”.
Email: marketing@htk.uni-pannon.hu
Telephone number: +3688623718
GENERAL RULES ON DATA PROCESSING
The rights and obligations of the data processor in relation to the processing of personal data are determined by the data controller within the framework of the law and the specific laws applicable to data processing.
The University of Pannonia declares that the data processor has no competence to make a substantive decision on the processing of personal data in the course of its activities, may process personal data that come to its knowledge only in accordance with the provisions of the controller, may not process personal data for its own purposes, and shall store and retain personal data in accordance with the provisions of the controller.
The person concerned consepts and accepts FilmFreeway’s data management by registering and filling out the FilmFreewayformat the same time. The person concerned acknowledges and accepts The University of Pannonia has no insight into FilmFreeway ’s data management and the University of Pannonia is not responsible for the data given to FilmFreewayand for its data management/ for the lawfulness of the instructions given to the processor in relation to the processing operations.
https://filmfreeway.com/page/terms-of-service
5. DATA SECURITY
5.1. Rights in relation to the processing of personal data
5.1.1.Right to request information
You may request information from the University in written form, using the contact details provided in section 1, so that the University can inform you:
• what personal data,
• on what legal basis,
• for what purpose,
• from what source,
• for what purpose, for what purpose, for what purpose, for what purpose and for how long it will be processed,
• to whom, when, under what law, and to which personal data the University has granted access
The University will respond to your request within a maximum of 25 days by letter to the contact details you have provided.
5.1.2.Right to rectification
You may request, in written form, that the University amend any of your personal data (for example, you may change your email address or postal address at any time) by using the contact details provided in section 1. The University will comply with your request within a maximum of 25 days and will notify you by letter to the contact details you have provided.
5.1.3.Right to erasure
You may request the deletion of your personal data by writing to the University using the contact details provided in section 1.
However, where there is no such obligation, the University will comply with your request within a maximum of 25 days and will notify you by letter to the contact details you have provided.
5.1.4.Right to blocking
You may request, in writing, that your personal data be blocked by the University using the contact details provided in section 1. The blocking will last as long as the reason you have given requires the data to be stored.
For example, you may request the blocking of your data if you believe that your submission has been unlawfully processed by the University, but you believe that it is necessary for the purposes of the administrative or judicial proceedings you have initiated that your submission should not be deleted by the University. In such a case, the University will continue to store the personal data (for example, your submission) until the authority or court requests it, after which it will delete the data.
5.1.5.The right to object
You may object in writing, using the contact details provided in Section 1, to the processing of personal data that the University may transfer or use for direct marketing, public opinion polling or scientific research purposes. For example, you may object to the University using your personal data for scientific research without your consent.
You may also object to processing if you consider that the processing is necessary for the sole purpose of complying with a legal obligation or pursuing a legitimate interest pursued by the University, except for processing based on a legal authorisation. For example, you may not object to the transfer of your submission of your personal data to the Archives, together with the case file, under our internal rules on document retention.
5.1.6.Data security measures
The Data Controller shall make every effort to ensure the secure handling and storage of data. The processed data is hosted in a high-availability, reliable dedicated server environment.
6. DATA SUBJECT'S RIGHTS, JUDICAL REMEDIES
6.1.Initiation of legal proceedings
You may bring a civil action against the University in the event of unlawful processing of your personal data. The tribunal has jurisdiction to hear the case. You may also bring the case before the court of your place of residence (for a list of courts and their contact details, please visit http://birosag.hu/torvenyszekek).
6.2.Notification to the authorities
Anyone may lodge a complaint with the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (www.naih.hu; 1530 Budapest, Pf.: 5.; phone: +36-1-391-1400; fax: +36-1-391-1410; e-mail: ugyfelszolgalat@naih.hu), in order to initiate an investigation on the grounds that a violation of rights has occurred or is imminent in connection with the processing of personal data or the exercise of the right to access data of public interest or data in the public interest.
6.3.Disconnection
The controller reserves the right to change its privacy notice. In particular, this may occur if required by law. A change in the processing shall not imply a processing of personal data for purposes other than those for which they were intended. The controller shall publish the relevant information on its website 15 days in advance.
In matters not covered by this Information Notice, the provisions of the GDPR and the Infotv. shall apply.
Date: 2026.02.20.