Definition 2006
BNMI Digital Media Festival - Entry Procedures
Festival Overview
Relentless technical innovation now makes HD technology affordable for most of the New Media community. This is enabling significant new work of the highest quality to be created by any auteur, limited only by their vision, rather than access to a million dollar studio. Definition 2006 will survey these expanding uses of HD, and showcase the best new work from around the world.
Definition 2006 is a content-driven, competitive event bringing the best works on HD media from around the world to Banff, Alberta during the BNMI HD Summit April 20-22, 2006.
An Opportunity to Network
The festival provides an opportunity for contributors to share their work, to meet and to exchange ideas in a relaxed environment through screenings, seminars, and social gatherings. It’s a great opportunity to connect with leaders and innovators in HD.
Festival finalists will be invited to join us in Banff during the Festival and HD Summit April 20-22, 2006
As BNMI special guests, attending finalists will receive:
- Two festival screening passes
- Tickets to special invitation-only events during the festival
- On campus accommodation will be provided by the Banff Centre for 3 nights during the summit.
The venue is intimate, the format lively, interactive and friendly.
Entry Deadline: 15 March 2006
Send your entry in early! Don't wait for the deadline. Entries received after this date will not be considered in the judging process.
Handling Fees: $50.00
(Payable in Canadian or U.S. funds) A non-refundable handling fee of $50.00 per entry MUST accompany each entry form. This fee is payable to “The Banff Centre” by credit card, bank draft or personal cheque (drawn on a Canadian or US bank account). Eurocheques will NOT be accepted. Electronic transfers will be accepted and are subject to a $20 handling fee. The Festival must be consulted before an electronic transfer is submitted.
Selection Process
The BNMI Definition Festival accepts works that use HD during the production and presentation process.
- An international jury will view all entries prior to the festival and works selected by the jury will be included in the festival.
1. Entry Details
- The dispatching of any entry to the festival implies acceptance of these procedures and regulations by the entrant.
- Works produced prior to the year 2003 will not be eligible for competition.
- Entries can be of any duration – in any genre including narrative, story, documentary, animated or experimental-art form – and can be submitted by professional or amateur contributors.
- Contributors from any country may enter the festival, and are encouraged to attend the festival.
- Entries with soundtracks in any language other than English MUST have English subtitles or be accompanied by an English translation of the dialogue and/or narrative.
- Screening fees will not be paid for screenings during the Festival.
- The entrant grants the festival and its successors, licensees and assigns the right to copy and version the entry in its entirety to facilitate technical operations of the festival, in and through any and all media formats now known or hereafter devised.
- The entrant grants the festival and its successors, licensees and assigns the right to use up to three minutes from the entry submitted to the festival for promotional purposes of the Festival and its activities in or through any and all media formats now known or hereafter devised including, but not limited to, the Internet throughout the universe.
- Receipt of entries will NOT be acknowledged.
- Selected works will be notified in March. All results will be posted on our website.
- The entrant acknowledges and agrees that all matters not covered by these Regulations, and questions arising from them, will be decided by festival organizers or the festival jury at their sole discretion.
- Information and forms online at: www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/definition2006
2. Technical Requirements
- For purposes of pre-selection, judging and festival screening, all entries should meet the following criteria:
- Work entries must be on a digital HD Format
- Preferred format: HD-D5 or DVC pro-HD
- Entries MUST be accompanied by either one DVD-R NTSC (Region 1 coded) or one VHS NTSC copy.
- All submissions will be retained by the festival for preselection, and archival purposes. If you want your tape returned to you, please remember to include a prepaid return mailer or courier waybill.
- Production attributes should conform to typical broadcast
standards and include:
- 90 seconds of leader which include black, SMPTE colour bars and black with either 0 dbvu (analogue) or -20dbfs (digital) audio tone reference signals.
- 7.5 IRE Pedestal Black (preferred).
- Maximum 105% IRE peak whites.
- Program start commences on the timecode hour.
- Program tail of two minutes of black.
- Digital content should be submitted with 48K audio and have peak whites that do not exceed 105% IRE.
- Please remove commercial blacks
Notes: Festival Producer will have the option to conform the content to broadcast-quality standardization in the event of substandard submission.
3. Promotional Materials
Entries MUST be accompanied by five (5) images from the work to be reproduced, published and/or exhibited for promotional purposes as they pertain to BNMI at The Banff Centre. PREFERRED FORMATS: Digital; 300 dpi jpeg; preferred size is 4” x 6”; photo CDs are fine, or first generation slides; or prints in good condition.
Please include a press kit and director’s CV, if available. All images must be labeled with work title, location and photographer credit and will be retained by the BNMI Archive Collection.
4. Indemnity
The entrant agrees to indemnify The Banff Centre and the BNMI Definition Festival, their respective successors, assigns, licensees, and their respective officers, directors, members, agents and employees and hold them harmless from and against any and all claims, liability, losses, damages, costs, expenses (including reasonable legal fees), and penalties arising out of, resulting from, based upon or incurred because of a breach by the entrant of any statement, representation or warranty made by the entrant in the entry form, these procedures and regulations and the Additional Opportunities form.
5. Rights
- By entering the work competition, the entrant represents and warrants that:
- it has the authority to enter the work in the festival and to grant to the festival the rights granted in the entry form, these procedures and regulations;
- It owns all right, title and interest, including the copyright and all intellectual property rights, in and to the work being submitted to the festival and has the right to distribute, exhibit and promote the work in or through all media formats now known or hereafter devised, including, but not limited to, the Internet throughout the universe; and
- No material in the work being submitted by the entrant to the festival is libelous or defamatory or violates any right of privacy or publicity of any person and the full use of the rights in such work will not violate any rights, including copyright or moral rights, of any person, firm or corporation.
6. Shipping Instructions
- All entry materials must be sent PREPAID in bubble packaging, NOT cellulose-filled envelopes.
- Entries will be retained in the BNMI Archives Collection. Shipping costs and customs clearances are the responsibility of the entrant.
- Entries will be insured from the time of delivery to The Banff Centre and during the festival. The greatest possible care will be taken to prevent loss or damage from occurring, but in the event of such mishaps, the obligation of festival organizers is limited to simple replacement costs.
- Entries from outside Canada must include a completed Canada Customs form on the outside of the package and indicate the declared value in Canadian dollars. Failing to do so may result in the entrant having to pay tax and duty charges applied by Canada Customs. Please note that the declared value should be equivalent to the materials only (Approx. $3.00 CDN per DVD/ VHS and $10.00 CDN per master).
Mailing Address: Courier Address:
Definition 2006
Banff New Media Institute
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Box 1020
Banff, Alberta, Canada T1L 1H5
Phone: 1.403.762.7500
Fax: 1.403.762.6665
Contact: Amy Inkster
Email: definition@banffcentre.ca
Web: www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/definition2006
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