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40th ELCHE INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

14 TO 21 JULY 2017
REGISTRATION, PARTICIPATION AND VOTING

The way to participate in the current edition of the Elche International Independent Film
Festival (FICIE) is exclusively online, through the official platform www.festivalcineelx.es, NOT
accepting the submission of originals via postal mail or courier services.

In addition, the FICIE has associated online platforms:

Movibeta:
Festhome:
Click for Festivals:
Filmfreeway:
Film Salad:

The Author / Producer / Distributor has, therefore, six ways to compete in this edition of the
FICIE. The Organization will be in charge of "transferring" the shorts enrolled in these
platforms to the official of www.festivalcineelx.es, in open or restricted mode to the Jury, as
explained below.

Although the official website of FICIE and the associated online platforms support all types of
formats, the works must be The works, original in High Definition Video, must be converted to
the formats indicated in the following table:

Categora Formato Duracin mxima

FICTION File avi, mov, mp4 and / or 25 minutes
mkv with minimum
ANIMATION resolution of 1920 x 1080 25 minutes
DOCUMENTARY and with a size of up to 500 25 minutes
MOBILE FILM MAKER MB. 15 minutes

The official FICIE web application does NOT allow the download of videos for viewing on a
computer, other physical or online. Neither do the associated online platforms.

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To upload, vote and comment on videos the visitor will have to register as a registered user on
the web, as indicated in the section To Register.

TO REGISTER

In order to vote, comment and compete, the user must be registered on the website
www.festivalcineelx.es. It only takes a couple of minutes.

STEP 1: Choose username and password. Once registered, the user will be asked to vote,
comment and / or contest.
STEP 2: Fill in the fields of personal data.
STEP 3: Accept the Festival Bases by marking the corresponding check box.
STEP 4: Click the Submit button.

Once registered, the user will receive a confirmation email.

The user will only have to register once in this edition of FICIE.

A registered user may, at any time, modify their data and unsubscribe from the website. For
this you have to send an email to the Organization at festivalelche@cajamediterraneo.es
indicating it.

TO COMPETE

The Author / Producer / Distributor has two ways to compete in this edition of FICIE:

A) Directly on the official FICIE website www.festivalcineelx.es

The Author / Producer / Distributor who wants to take part as a contestant in the web
www.festivalcineelx.es will have to follow the following steps:

STEP 1: Register on the website www.festivalcineelx.es, entering your personal data in

the registration form, as indicated in the previous section.

STEP 2: In the section Send Video to Contest you will have to fill in the The fields that
are requested by adding also a frame or poster of the short film.
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 STEP 3: You will have to choose one of the Contest Profiles and follow the steps
indicated.

STEP 4: You will have to accept the Legal Conditions that cover the Contest and the
FICIE. This document can be downloaded for your query.

STEP 5: The Author / Producer / Distributor will have to choose between one of the
two modalities of competition. On the one hand, the visualization in open, for all the
public that visits the web. Or, in restricted mode to the Jury. With this option only the
members of the jury will see the short. This short will only be seen in the projections of
the Official Section in the Hort of the Xocolater Park and the Arenales del Sol
Beach, if it is chosen finalist by the jurors.

STEP 6: The contestant will have to indicate that he is of legal age.

STEP 7: The contestant will have to indicate if his short film is for seniors or minors.

STEP 8: Click on the Upload Video button, which will have to have some of the
supported formats mentioned above.

Once the video has been successfully uploaded, the Author / Producer / Distributor will receive
a confirmation message and an email as an acknowledgment.

Once registered, the Author / Producer / Distributor can upload all the videos you want,
following the four steps described above.

The Organization is given a maximum period of 24 hours to review the video and admit
it to the web.

In the case of detecting videos that violate the bases, they will be automatically
eliminated, being notified the Author / Producer / Distributor through the electronic
mail provided in the Registry on the web.

The website www.festivalcineelx.es has sufficient screen aids and a Frequently Asked
Questions section to facilitate both the Registration and the Submission of Videos.

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 During the duration of this edition of FICIE, participants will be able to carry out any
queries they wish with the Technical Service of this website through the means
provided in the Contact section of the same.

The Organization will erase all personal data on the website www.festivalcineelx.es at
the end of the Closing Ceremony and the finalization of this edition of FICIE according
to the provisions of the Data Protection Act. For more details see the Legal Conditions
section of the website www.festivaldecineelx.es, which can also be downloaded.

The Author / Producer / Distributor is solely responsible for all contents of the short.
The Organization is exempt from any type of legal liability of the same.

The Author / Producer / Distributor may at any time cancel any or all of the videos
submitted to the contest. To do this, you must request the Organization directly by
email to festivalelche@cajamediterraneo.es, clearly indicating the videos you want to
remove from the competition.

B) On partner platforms online

In the event that the Author / Producer / Distributor wants to have its associated short films
on any of the associated online platforms:

Click for Festivals:

Festhome:
Movibeta :
Film Salad:
Film Freeway:

You can send your short films directly from them. In these platforms will be the bases of this
edition of FICIE in spanish and english.

Common to both situations: whether it is Open or Restricted to the Jury, the Author / Producer
/ Distributor can directly "embed" his short films that are hung on his Vimeo and / or YouTube
profile directly on the official FICIE platform.

The Author / Distributor / Producer has until 12:00 p.m. (spanish time) on June 9, 2017 to
send all the works with which he wants to compete, without limit.

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TO PARTICIPATE

FICIE has a competitive section, which is one of the objectives of this edition. It assumes the
value of the work of the Author / Producer / Distributor in front of the Jury and is in contact
with its public, being the communication between equals and therefore enriching the Seventh
Art with the contributions of both parties.

In this way, all users of the web (registered or not) will be able to link the videos and comment
them through the Social Networks in which they have presence. This website is also prepared
so that the user (registered or not) can link to his web / blog the video he wants to comment.

In this sense, the Organization bets on the socialization of the website www.festivalcineelx.es
allowing only registered users to vote, comment and contest, as well as linking them to
comment them through the Social Networks in which they have presence.

This website is also prepared so that the user (registered or not) can link to his web / blog the
video he wants to comment.

The web also allows registered users to comment on their impressions on each video's tab. In
this way the Author / Producer / Distributor and users can establish a free dialogue that can
only enrich both parties.

The organization is exempt from any responsibility for the comments that are made on the
tabs of each short presented in competition.

TO BE ABLE TO VOTE

Voting is another objective of this FICIE. You can vote for all the videos that are considered.
The website www.festivalcineelx.es allows the registered user to make a single video vote, not
being able to vote more than once to the same video.

The way to perform the voting is accessing the tab of the short film you want and there
registered users will have a button to vote that will activate once they have seen at least three
quarters of the video.

Registered users can view and vote the videos from the date of publication of the rules until
23:59:59 p.m. (spanish time) on 07/20/2017. The web application will be closed for counting
votes.

The most voted video on the web will be the winner of the ONLINE AWARD endowed with 500
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euros and Dama Trophy.

The Organization reserves the right to annul any vote cast fraudulently or due to any
manipulation of the voting system.

The Organization is exempt from all responsibility in case of malfunction of the Internet
network, which prevents the normal development of the competition for reasons beyond the
company and especially for external acts of bad faith.

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