Writing Awards by The TINCAN Magazine

1.1. The TINCAN Magazine Writing Awards competition is open to professional and amateur writers.

1.2. By entering the Competition, you hereby accept these competition rules.

1.3. Entries must be submitted no later than the deadline of listed on the Competition URL,
https://filmfreeway.com/WritingTheTINCAN

1.4. By entering the Competition, you agree and acknowledge that The TINCAN Magazine is permitted to receive and review your registration data. Participants agree that personal data including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address may be collected, processed, stored and otherwise used for the purposes of conducting and administering this writing competition. At any time, participants have the right to access, review, rectify or cancel any personal data held by The TINCAN Magazine by sending an email to the following address: support@tincanmagazine.com.

1.5. All works must be submitted in English. Screenplays should be formatted according to current industry standards. Pages must be numbered and typed in 12-point Courier font with standard margins. Brief dialogue in another language is acceptable so long as an English translation is provided.

1.6. We happily accept works with more than one author or contributor. Please make note of each author’s name in your submission. Should a text with two or more writers be named a winner of the competition, the award will be divided equally among them.

1.7. We do not have a rule regarding title pages. But it is recommended that include the title, author(s) and any relevant registration or copyright information.

1.8. All texts should be submitted only as a PDF. We WILL NOT accept Word .docs, Final Draft, Celtix or any other file formats.

1.9. The running time of films entered for the competitions should not exceed 33 minutes (we have no minimum length limit).

2.1. To enter the competition, you must submit your entries to the Competition URL, https://filmfreeway.com/WritingTheTINCAN. Participants must also pay the entry fee(s) and complete the submission form in order to be considered for the competition. Once a submission fee has been paid, there are no refunds provided. If you have been wrongly charged for any reason, we will be happy to credit the amount that is due.

3.1. All entries will be reviewed by our editors and judges and an international group of industry professionals. The screened entries are then reviewed by our international jury. The jury will choose the winners. The decisions of the jury are final.

3.2. Submissions that have been awarded in a previous The TINCAN Magazine competition are not eligible to win prizes in subsequent competitions. Please consider entering new work. Submissions that have been selected as Finalists in previous competition ARE eligible to win a prize in subsequent competitions. A *writer* may win multiple awards but the same the submitted text cannot win multiple awards. If a text was submitted to a previous competition but received no prize, then that text is still eligible.

3.4. The full name of each entrant whose work is selected as a winner, juror’s pick, or finalist will be published online.

4.1. The TINCAN Magazine reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify and remove any submission that does not comply with the following requirements, even after the work appears on the website. You warrant, in respect of the texts submitted by you, as follows:

4.1.1. You are the sole copyright owner and creator of the text.

4.1.2. You have the right to enter your text in this competition.

4.1.3. To the best of your knowledge, the text does not contain any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, or profane content.

4.1.4. To the best of your knowledge, the text does not contain any material that could constitute or encourage conduct which would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.

4.1.5. The text does not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property rights of any third person or entity, or violate any person’s rights of privacy or publicity, and your text does not include:

4.1.5.1. trademarks owned by third parties.

4.1.5.2. copyrighted materials owned by third parties.

4.1.5.3. names, likenesses, or other characteristics identifying celebrities or other public figures, living or dead.

4.1.5.4. entries in which you have purchased or secured the rights to use third party texts.

4.2. You agree to fully indemnify The TINCAN Magazine in respect of all royalties, fees and any other monies owing to any person by reason of your breaching any of the foregoing.

4.3. You confirm that each person depicted in the text has granted permission to be portrayed as shown—and has the right to grant that permission.

5.1. The TINCAN Magazine recognizes you retain full ownership of the copyright in each text that you have submitted.

5.2. Not every text submitted to the competition will be publicly visible on The TINCAN Magazine. There are too many submissions for each one to be shown on the site.

6.1. All entrants agree that all text(s) submitted to the competition may be reproduced (with writer copyright credit) and used to conduct and promote The TINCAN Magazine competitions. You hereby grant The TINCAN Magazine with a right to use submitted texts in the framework of such promotional activities.

7.1. Any text used by The TINCAN Magazine shall carry a credit line. Any failure to provide such credit line shall not be deemed to be a breach, as long as The TINCAN Magazine uses its reasonable endeavors to rectify such failure within a reasonable period from the date of notice of such failure.

7.2. You acknowledge that The TINCAN Magazine and its event partners assume no responsibility and are not liable for any image misuse.

8.1. The TINCAN Magazine assumes no responsibility for any incorrect, inaccurate, or incomplete information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Competition, and The TINCAN Magazine assumes no responsibility for technical, hardware or software failure of any kind, for lost network connections, garbled computer transmissions, other problems or technical malfunctions with regard to the Competition. The TINCAN Magazine assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, corruption, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alteration of entries. The TINCAN Magazine is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail addressed to The TINCAN Magazine on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to your or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the Competition. If for any reason a contestant’s text cannot be viewed or is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, or technical failures, The TINCAN Magazine assumes no responsibility.

9.1. In no event will The TINCAN Magazine, its members, event partners or its officers, directors, employees, be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising out of any contestant’s access to and use of the website and participation in the competition. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, everything on the Website is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for purpose or use or non-infringement.

10.1. You agree to participate in related publicity and to the use of your name and winning texts for the purposes of advertising, promotion, and publicity for The TINCAN Magazine and the Competition without additional compensation. Such requests will not be unreasonably withheld.