COMPETITION RULES OF ARICA NATIVA 2024 (for detailed inf,o please visit: www.aricanativa.cl/competencia)
1. Allows the participation of all kinds of films (fiction, documentary, experimental, animation).
Each category has two subcategories:
- Features over 40 minutes (including credits)
- Short up to 30 minutos (including credits)
- Rural category (Short and futures Films): Films that portray stories or images of the rural world and the cultural landscape living outside the cities.
- Jallalla category (Short and futures Films): Films that have been directed, produced and/or written by filmmakers belonging to ancestral cultures of the world in which they make visible their perspective regarding their history, customs, rights, territories, languages and traditions.
- Mallku category (Short and futures Films): Films that portray the beauty of the pachamama and the urgent need to preserve, appreciate and respect it.
- Afrika category (Short and futures Films): Films that promote and disseminate the cultural richness and issues of the African diaspora in the world.
2.- The submission of a film to the official 2024 competition entails a declaration of understanding and unconditional acceptance of the conditions of competition detailed hereby.
3.- The submission must be undertaken by the rights-holder in possession of the rights of exhibition, or else the submission must include a legally binding authorisation of exhibition. Such a legally binding document will be required for the official selection and inclusion of the film in the festival.
4.- Films which have participated in previous editions of the Arica Nativa Film Festival, either in pre-selection, official competition or parallel screenings, will not be accepted.
5.- Films which endorse racism, sexism, xenophobia, intolerance, and / or which intentionally offend human rights will not be accepted. This decision will be taken by the Programming Committee and will not be subject to appeal.
6.- A film cannot compete in more than one category.
7.- Works that have people linked to the Festival working in any of its areas as part of their team are not eligible to participate in the competition.
Registration and receipt of films for this year's competition opens for all categories on Tuesday, March 20th and closes for all categories on Friday, June 30th, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. Chilean time.
9.- Applicants can withdraw a submission any time before the closing date of submissions, by sending a request letter to the Altiplano Fuondation from the rights-holder of the film.
10.- In the event that the film competition is prevented from taking place as an on-site activity of the Festival, it will be transferred to a web platform to be defined, where it will remain available to the public for the duration of the Festival. This platform is for viewing only and, in accordance with current Chilean legislation on intellectual property rights, does not allow downloads.
11.- The Arica Nativa Film Festival does not pay exhibition fees for the exhibition of films selected in the official competition.
12.- The winning films could be shown up to two times during the year, in screenings of the festival, following discussion with the legal representatives and rights-holders of the film. These screenings would be non-profit.
13.- Viewing links will only be made available to the programming team during the selection process. They will not be distributed or shared with other parties.
14.- The Altiplano Foundation cannot be held responsible for any violation of the current Chilean intellectual property laws in a film, including Law N° 17.336. Consequently, exclusive responsibility for complying with these laws, including the total or partial use of material subject to intellectual property rights, lies with the applicant.
15.- Films submitted will be considered in a selection process undertaken by the Arica Nativa Film Festival programming committee, which undertakes to evaluate every submitted film in accordance with its pertinence to the category in which it was submitted, as well as its technical and artistic qualities.
16.- Four films will be selected for each category in the feature film sections, and five in each category of the short film sections, for the official selection of 2024.
17.- The official selection will be announced and published on the Festival's website and social networks on Friday, September 1st, 2024. Applicants whose films are selected will be notified by the email contact given in the submission process.
18.- In the formal email communication of a film’s selection the following will be requested:
High quality exhibition copy (download archive in H264, MOV or MP4 using as a base a resolution of 1920x1080, 23, 97 fps and sound 2.0).
- Links to the trailer or promotional teaser.
- Publicity material such as a poster 69 x 105 cm (or 1956 x 2876 px), and 5 high resolution stills from the film.
- Legally binding authorisation letter for exhibition in Arica Nativa Film Festival 2023, signed by the legal representative of the rights-holder.
- If needed, Spanish subtitle file in .SRT or .VTT format
- A press kit (not obligatory).
19.- The deadline for submitting these requirements is Friday, September 08, 2023 at 23:59 hrs. (Chilean time).
20.- The exhibition copy must be sent by a platform such as WeTransfer, Mega, Dropbox or other to the email programacion@aricanativa.cl
21.- If the exhibition copy is not in Spanish, the film must be subtitled in Spanish. Altiplano Foundation cannot finance subtitling.
22.- If the material is not duly received by the Altiplano Foundation by the date given, the festival reserves the right to eliminate the film from the official selection.
23.- Films that are not selected will be notified by email to the contact email given in the submission process. The decision of the programming committee is final.
24.- The Altiplano Foundation reserves the right to reproduce clips of a selected film –not more than 3 minutes–. Consequently, rights-holders authorise the festival, by means of the submission process, to exhibit such clips. This authorisation is irrevocable, as of the date of the close of submissions. Altiplano Foundation reserves the right to exhibit photographs of the films for publicity either in print or digital media, in information flyers and other communication media, as well as in the official catalogue of the festival and its other associated publications.
25. Arica Nativa is an audiovisual project of the Altiplano Foundation that aims to make the new generations fall in love with the natural and cultural treasures preserved in the rural and indigenous world. The films received in all the competitions of the Arica Nativa Film Festival will have an opportunity to be promoted through the following websites: www.aricanativa.com and www.fundacionaltiplano.cl, as well as the activities of Arica Nativa and/or Altiplano Foundation.
For any further information, contact us through: programacion@aricanativa.cl
