Mediamixx Festival
15th anniversary
3-7 June 2009
Albena resort,
Bulgaria
The Rules & Regulations have been rewritten, please read them very carefully. The material specifications, program rights issues and the deadlines are clearly outlined in this document.
Please, mind the novelties in the Rules that are marked NEW!
1.1. The traditional International Festival for Entertainment Television Programs and Mobile Content will be held from 4th – 8th June, 2008 at the Black Sea Albena resort in Bulgaria.
1.2. The goal of the Festival is to select and reward the best of the productions from all over the world which were produced during the past year. Good ideas and scenarios, new formats and the professional implementation of programs in the sphere of entertainment will be evaluated.
2.1. Each organization, television channel, independent producer or authorized distributor may submit entries in the following categories:
2.2. The applicant may submit up to three programs in any one category.
2.3. NEW! Each applicant admitted to the competition program should make a presentation of the competition entry of not more than six minutes’ duration to the Festival Jury and audience (video material in AVI format/ slide show/moderator to present the media).
3.1. The maximum duration of each program should be 60 minutes and for musical clips up to 6 min.
3.2. The deadline for receiving the entry forms and the materials with the competitive programs for the contest is 16th May, 2008.
3.3. The forms should contain up to 5 lines annotation in English.
3.4. NEW! All programs should be uploaded on the Festival site www.mediamixx.info in the participation form and they should not be more than 700MB. All materials will be available on-line for visitors to the website.
3.5. A compulsory condition is that all programs with text are to be with subtitles or voice over in the English language. Programs in a language other than English, without subtitles or voice over shall be rejected.
3.6. Competition entrants should submit the following additional materials during the Festival:
NEW! Presentation of the program (trailer) up to 3 minutes on digital format (AVI format on CD/DVD). If the program wins an award, the material will be shown during the Award Ceremony.
3.7. Advertising materials about the programs may also be sent to support the application.
3.8. Materials sent to enter the competition program will be returned to sender only at its express request, specified in the entry forms, and to its account.
4.1. For participation in the selection of the Festival each applicant should pay a fee of 240 Euro (or its equivalent in BGN) for each individual program.
4.2. Entry fees should be paid not later than 16th May, 2008.
4.3. Entries in respect of which no entry fee is paid within the term specified in 4.2. will be withdrawn from selection and competition.
4.4. Entry fee in respect of programs withdrawn from selection is not refundable.
4.5. Bank transfers will be made to the Mediamixx Group Ltd. account specified in the payment form.
4.6. All bank charges will be for the sender’s account.
5.1. The working language of the Festival is English.
5.2. The programs entered for the contest should have been produced and broadcast for the first time after 30th May, 2007.
5.3. The participating programs will be examined by a professional Selection Committee, in the presence of the Director of the Festival in order to establish whether they comply with the stated categories and requirements of the Rules.
5.4. This Committee will also check the quality, new ideas and formats and the manner of realization of the programs presented. The Selection Committee will sit from 17th to 21st May, 2008.
5.5. The Selection Committee may relocate entries into other categories if they do not comply with the requirements set forth in the Rules.
5.6. This Committee will define the program of the Festival.
5.7 In case the program does not comply with the requirements, the Selection Committee or its authorized technical associate will notify entrants of its decision, which may not be appealed, by 24th May, 2008.
6.1. Entries to the competition will be judged by a 5- member International Jury represented by professionals from the television industry.
6.2. The jury members will judge according to the following rules and criteria:
NEW! Each program can receive total of 500 points (up to 100 points from every jury member) for the following criteria:20 points for idea, 20 points for the work of the creative teams, 20 points for the technical implementation of the programs, 20 points for the innovation, 20 points for the personal impression that a program leaves in the members of the jury
6.3. The protocols and number of points awarded to each program will be kept and audited by an auditor company presented at the beginning of the Festival.
7.1. The following prizes will be awarded at the Festival:
7.2. Personal appearance of winners or representatives of theirs at the time of the Gala Prize-giving Ceremony is especially important to the protocol of the Event. (NB!)
8.1. The correct and accurate completion of the forms is a compulsory condition of entry
8.2. Entry forms must be completed directly on www.mediamixx.info not later than 16th May, 2008.
8.3. Entrants will at the time of completing the entry form declare their consent for using all the materials and to broadcast a fragment of up to 3 minutes’ duration of the presented program for informational publicity, as well as to broadcast the program for public presentation within the framework of the competition program, to the materials being used for information and advertising purposes and that they authorize the organizers to exhibit the materials within the competition program of the Festival. The Festival will also have the right to use fragments of the programs in relation to Mediamixx’08 brand (events, advertisements, release of parts in radio programs, documentation, Internet, etc.) free of charge and without any possible future claims by third parties
8.4. These Rules are available in Bulgarian and English but if any disputes arise the English version will prevail. English is also the working language of the Festival.
8.5. By filling out and signing the entry form the participant agrees to full acceptance of the conditions set forth in these Rules.
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