InShadow

2. APPLICATIONS AND CONDITIONS
INTERNATIONAL VIDEODANCE / FILM COMPETITION

Videodance _ Videos will be selected based on the balance between creativity, theme, narrative, experimentation, and image, sound, and editing quality. The work must show as its primary concern the connection of the body choreography with the camera and sound. Each competition session will take about 80-90 minutes.
Preferably, the duration should not exceed 20 minutes..

Dance Documentary _ Films may address the life or work of a choreographer, a dance company, aspects of dance history, as well as creative processes and artistic experiences related to the body, dance, performance and technology. Full choreography records will not be accepted.
Preferably, the duration should not exceed 90 minutes.

Dance Animation_ Films should address an audience of children and young adolescents (5-15 years). When submitting, the age group for which the film is intended must be indicated, and the festival may choose not to select the film due to age restrictions. The selection will be based on the theme, narrative, quality and technique of animation, sound and editing. Special relevance will be given to films that explore the relationship between dance or body movement (including objects) and technology, in conjunction with the proposed technique. Each competition session will take about 20-30 minutes.
Preferably, the duration should not exceed 7 minutes.
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3. SUBMISSION AND SELECTION
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• No monetary value is foreseen for the exhibition of films in Competition, Video Installation or selection for special Exhibitions. It is also not foreseen the return of registration fees for unselected works.
• A video submitted to the Competitions may be selected to integrate another area of the festival, such as a video installation in partner galleries, if the festival’s curatorship considers it relevant. If this happens, the exhibition of the work will depend on the acceptance of its author, who will be contacted to validate it. These projections are alternative and usually have an installation regime, which does not require the payment of any extra amount.
• The awarded films will be included in the Shadow in Motion sessions, an extension of the InShadow Festival that remains in circulation until the next edition in partner festivals and national and international cultural spaces, with the knowledge and authorization of the authors. InShadow extensions do not imply any payment to authors,
• The International Competition selection results in each area (Videodance, Dance Documentary and Dance Animation) will be announced by email, in the communication media of Vo'Arte and its partners. And also notified via the FilmFreeway platform.
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4. JURIES AND AWARDS
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• The decision of the various juries, is sovereign, and there is no appeal.
• The prizes awarded will be communicated to the artists present at the closing ceremony of InShadow and later by email with the respective laurels and certificate.
• Juries may not award prizes and may award honourable mentions.
• The juries may award the same prize to more than one work (ex-aequo), and in the event that the prize is a monetary value, it will be distributed equally among the winners.
• If the winning film is co-directed, the monetary value of the prize will not change, and the winners will be responsible for their division.
• The claim for prizes must be made within 60 days after the public announcement of the prizes, otherwise they will not be granted financially.
• Payment of prizes will be made exclusively through the PayPal platform.

5. COPYRIGHTS
• The exhibition of the works at the InShadow Festival requires permission to assign the copyright. The authorization is deemed granted by signing and completing the declaration of assignment of rights of the submitted work. In the event that some works integrate the Shadow in Motion extensions, the authors will be contacted in advance and warned of the exhibitions.
• Festival InShadow is not responsible for the absence of credits referring to the reproduction of the photographs, in the promotion materials, of the submitted works.
• Excerpts or frames from the selected films (up to 1 minute) may be used for promotional purposes without payment of copyright duties, for insertion on spots and trailers, use in press conferences, print and/or digital publications produced by the festival.
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Read the FULL International Competitions Regulations 2026 at
https://en.inshadowfestival.com/open-call-26