ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Only an online screener this submission platform will be accepted.
By submitting to the Festival you confirm that you own the rights of the film and you agree to allow your project to be shown by the Film Festival and use for the festival promotion. Your name and information about your project may also be used for promotion.
Submissions in languages other than English must be subtitled in English.
Not all Official Selections will be screened.
All genre films can submit.
All submissions are final. No refunds are provided.
Multiple entries are allowed. You can submit more than one film to the same category or different categories.
The maximum run time is 15 min including opening title and credit rolls.
The film completion date must be after the 1st of January 2017.
Filmmakers from all around the world and from all walks of life are welcome to participate.
PUBLICITY & MARKETING
All entries may be excerpted for publicity purposes; entrants will be given the opportunity to submit a preferred excerpt. Sprrkle LLC reserves the right to promote any entry to print, broadcast or internet media as required to market Sprrkle Collective or Sprrkle LLC. Sprrkle LLC may use your name, likeness, biography and other information regarding your submission for the purposes of marketing, advertising and promoting Sprrkle Collective and Sprrkle LLC’s mission of promoting quality media.
RULES
The festival has the right to disqualify or remove any winning film for any reasons, without having to explain the reasons to the submitter.
The Festival reserves the right to make any necessary changes in regulations or scheduling.
The Festival reserves the right to shut the festival at any time without any notification.
Any film, selected or not selected, will be a decision of the judge panel. The judge panel and Sprrkle LLC’s decision will be final and must be accepted by all as a condition of submitting to the festival.
COPYRIGHT & CLEARANCES
The individual or entity (entrant) submitting an entry to Sprrkle Collective Festival and Sprrkle LLC hereby warrants that they are authorized to submit the media project for consideration. Please ensure if you are submitting an entry that contains copyrighted material by anyone other than yourself or your collaborators, if a joint work, that you have obtained proper clearances and/or licenses for that material used. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Sprrkle LLC, its organizers, judges, sponsors, and partners, individually and collectively, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees, and court costs) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to submitted material. The burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright, trademark, rights of privacy, publicity or any other proprietary rights rests solely with the entrant. The entrant shall bear the sole liability for any damages resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm which is alleged as a result of such a submission.
AGREEMENT
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the United States and the State of California without consideration of conflicts of laws provisions and principles. All claims between the parties, regardless of legal theory and whenever brought, shall be resolved in the state or federal courts of California, USA, and you stipulate that you expressly submit to the personal jurisdiction of such state and federal courts, and you further agree that any judgment may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision, or portion thereof, of this agreement to be unenforceable, the remainder of this agreement shall continue in full force and effect.
