General Terms and Conditions of This Competition
By reference these General Terms and Conditions expressly incorporate the Submission Requirements and the Eligibility and Guidelines set out above:
1. Remittance of the Entry Fee entitles you (“Entrant”) to participate in the Competition. Any form of entry other than as set out herein is void. The Promoters are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected Submissions, which will be disqualified.
2. The dates of the submission process for the Competition is written on the "Dates&Deadlines" section of this page and they will be never changed.
3. Submissions that do not comply with the Submission Requirements will be disqualified.
4. The decision of the Selection Panel on the eligibility of a Script or otherwise is final and binding. The Selection Panel reserve the right not to award the Prize(s) if in their sole opinion there is no Submission of sufficient merit.
5. The winner (“Winner”) will be notified by email by March 6, 2020. Failure to respond to the initial verification notification within seven (7) days, will result in the Winner being disqualified from the Competition and a new Winner may be chosen by the Selection Panel at their sole discretion and election.
8. GraphWizz Films (“Promoter”) offer no other prize and the prize winner must accept the prize in the form offered.
9. The Entrant hereby warrants and represents that (i) the Submission (including the Script) is wholly original to them; (ii) the Entrant is the present, exclusive and sole owner of all right, title and interest in and to the Submission (including the Script) and has the unconditional power and right to present the Submission (including the Script) to the Promoter subject to the Terms and Conditions of this Agreement; (iii) the Submission (including the Script) has not been produced, sold or optioned to any third party; and (iv) the Submission (including the Script) shall not infringe any law or regulation or third party right, including (but not limited to) the law of copyright, defamation or trademarks.
10. Entrants shall indemnify and hold the Promoters harmless from and against all damages and liabilities suffered or incurred in connection with, resulting from or arising out of a breach by the Entrant of these Terms and Conditions.
11. The Winner must continue to comply with all terms and conditions, and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all of the Promoter's’ reasonable requirements.
13 By accepting the prize, the Winner shall enter into an agreement with GraphWizz Films to assign to GraphWizz Films the entire worldwide copyright and all other rights (including without limitation the underlying format rights therein) in and to the Winner’s Script, such assignment agreement to include a worldwide waiver of “moral rights” to the extent permissible by law.
14. Due to the nature of the competition, The Promoter shall produce the recorded film version of this script under the name of GraphWizz Films. The Winner assigns the Promoter the right to show the film in part, or entirety in any format for any purpose that Promoter.
15. Entrant shall execute and deliver such additional documents or instruments as are reasonably necessary to evidence or effectuate the terms of this Agreement.
16. The Promoters shall not be liable (jointly or severally) for any failure to comply with its obligations hereunder where the failure is caused by something outside its reasonable control. Such circumstances shall include, but not be limited to, technical, mechanical and electronic malfunctions, weather conditions, fire, flood, hurricane, strike, industrial dispute, war, hostilities, political unrest, riots, civil commotion, inevitable accidents, supervening legislation or any other circumstances amounting to force majeure.
17. The Promoters accept no responsibility for lost, late, undelivered, damaged, misdirected, incomplete, incorrect or corrupted Submissions. The Internet is not a secure medium and information submitted via it may be accessed by third parties.
18. By entering the Competition, you acknowledge and agree that the Promoters and the Selection Panel receive numerous submissions of ideas, stories and scripts, and that your Entry into the Competition, and the ideas and stories embodied in the Submission, may be similar or identical to other material already received and/or developed by one or more of the Promoters and/or the Judges. You also agree that you are not entitled to any compensation or credit for use by Promoters and/or Judges of any such other material.
19. The Promoters reserve the right to amend the Submission Requirements process from time to time.
20. This Agreement is personal to the Entrant. The Promoters shall have the sole right in their discretion (jointly and individually) to assign this Agreement in whole or in part to any third party.
21. The Promoters reserve the right to contact Entrants for additional information, if required.
22. Except where prohibited by law, participation in the Competition constitutes consent to the Promoters and their agents to use the Winner’s names, likenesses, photographs, and/or personal information for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.
23. The relationship between the Entrant and the Promoters is one of independent contractors. Neither party will represent that it has any authority to assume or create any obligation, express or implied, on behalf of the other party, or to represent the other party as agent, employee, or in any other capacity, except as specifically provided herein.
24. Employees, officers, directors, contractors and agents (and their immediate families and household members regardless of where they live, or members of the same households (whether related or not) of the Promoters and their respective divisions, affiliates, subsidiaries, agents and advertising agencies, are not eligible to participate in the Competition or to win any Prize.
25. These Terms and Conditions and the Competition are governed by the laws of Sweden and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Swedish Courts.
26. The Promoters reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, this Competition (and any of its terms) with or without prior notice for any reason.
27. By submitting a Submission all Entrants agree to abide by these Terms & Conditions.
28. Competition results will be posted publicly on the page of graphwizzfilms.com/short-script-competition.
29. Entry in the Competition is void where prohibited by the laws of the Entrant’s country of residence.
