The Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) GVC and Cospe
Promote the sixth edition of

Terra di Tutti Film Festival

Southern world countries documentaries and social cinema exhibition

Participation Requirements

The contest is an international event without any restriction on nationality, age and profession.
The participation is free of charge.

Competition Object

The competition is open to videos of a maximum duration of 60 minutes.
The works have to belong to one of the following categories:

• Documentaries;
• Animation;
• Social fiction – Docu-fiction.

Works made with any kind of technique (animation included) and format (that respect the following regulation) are admitted.

Terra di Tutti Film Festival 8th edition priority issues are:

• Fight against poverty
• Natural resources and forests valorisation and preservation
• Water as a common wealth
• Food sovereignty; sustainable, organic and fair-trade agriculture
• Sustainable energy; renewable energy; energy access
• Migration and sustainable development; human trafficking
• Access to health, prevention and fight against AIDS.

The videos must deal with social issues linked to globalization and development, and at least one of the following topics: gender and development; active citizenship and development; human rights and democracy; work and globalization; environment; youth and children rights; war, terrorism and violence; media and information on/in Southern world countries.

Participation rules

• Every single filmmaker can participate with a limit of three pieces.
• Only works produced after January 1st  2012 are admitted;
• The submission has to be done by filling up the on-line entry form that can be found in the official website www.terradituttifilmfestival.org of the Festival.

The subscription will be confirmed to the candidate by e-mail.

• It is necessary to fill up one subscription form for each submitted work.
• the Call for entry deadline is May 30th, 2014.

Delivery and selection process

Once the online subscription is finished, the author should send before June 30th 2014 (in contrary case your application will be rejected) the following material :

• the escape clause, that has to be downloaded from the official website of the Festival www.terradituttifilmfestival.org, duly filled in all its parts and signed in full;
• TWO COPIES of each submitted work, in DVD format, in one of the following ways:

a) In a sealed envelope with the name of TERRA DI TUTTI FILM FESTIVAL at the following address:
GVC – Gruppo di Volontariato Civile Onlus
Via dell’Osservanza 35/2 - 40136 Bologna (Italy)
Att.ne Amalia Giordano

b) Or, you can upload the work using the Dropbox account of the Terra di Tutti Film Festival. Once you have completed the registration you will receive an e-mail with the indications on how to upload it.

The material received won’t be remitted and will be part of the public archive of the Terra di Tutti Film Festival.

The works submitted to the competition keep to be owned by the author whom allow the free unlimited use by the Terra di Tutti Film Festival, for the following uses:

• Partial publication on the festival web site;
• Presentation and projection at the Terra di Tutti Film Festival in Bologna, from 8th to 12th October 2014.

The submission of the pieces implies the authorization and not the exclusivity to the organizers of the Festival to spread and make available to the public - through its website and through any other means or other known form - clips or sequences of the works without claim any compensation for the authors.

The submission of photographic pieces and / or information (stills, photos of the author, bio-filmography, synopsis, author's statements, posters, etc..) about the documentary implies, also, non-exclusive permission to the organizers of the festival to spread and make available to the public all images and information regarding the works presented.

The Festival takes no responsibility for any theft or damage of the works.
Each author responds on the content of his video and clearly authorizes the Terra di Tutti Film Festival to make any informal copy and projection of the submitted film for free of charge cultural purpose.

TTFF Prizes

The Festival offers a contribution of 1.000 (one-thousand) Euro for the production of audiovisual and/or purchase of materials. This contribution will be shared between the two best works:
1) Prize to the Best Italian production chosen by the quality jury of the Festival;
2) Prize to the Best International production chosen by the Council of Foreigners and Stateless of Bologna and named in memory of Cheick Sarr.

Benedetto Senni Special Prize

A special Prize named in memory of Benedetto Senni of the value of 500 (five hundred) Euros will be given. The Prize will be awarded to a film considered worthy by the Management Committee of the Award, at its sole discretion.The prize will be ideally awarded to a film that addresses issues relating to the major themes of sustainable development and technology transfer. Subjects related to the African continent will be considered of preferential choice.

Fairtrade Special Prize

Fairtrade Italy is a consortium that represents Italy in the FAIRTRADE Certification Mark.
It is part of Fairtrade International, which is the international coordination of organizations that promote the Fairtrade Mark in their countries.
Fairtrade Italy establishes a prize of 500 (five hundred) Euros and Fair Trade certified products for the work that expresses in the best way the values of fairness in trade relations between the North and South of the world, with particular attention to the rights of workers in the South and choices of consumers in the North.

Prize-giving

The prize-giving will take place during the Festival’s last night.
The judgments on the works awards are unquestionable.

Competition official web site

The official festival website is www.terradituttifilmfestival.org  in which all the useful information for the participation is available.
Any further clarification can be asked at the following e-mail address: info@terradituttifilmfestival.org
The organization can publish in the official website all the works entered and admitted to the festival. In any case, the publication will be after the submission deadline.

Responsibility

• The competition participation implies the total commitment to the present regulation.
• The participation to the Festival implies having read and accepted what reported by the organizers in the subscription form on privacy and personal data treatment. Following the ongoing Italian law (D.Lgs 196/2003) the privacy policy holders of the personal data received are the organizers of the Festival.
• The contents of the entered films (picture, sounds, animation) must respect the copyright legislation.
• The Terra di Tutti Film Festival accepts no responsibility in this regard.
• Participation in the competition implies the author's own exclusive responsibility for any irregularities in this area; the organizers reserve with discretion to exclude from the competition and to revoke any prizes to those works that present irregularities.
• To the discretion of the organizers of the competition, works deemed offensive or harmful for the image of the promoters and / or the code of ethics for NGOs will be excluded from competition and will not be published.
• The Festival Direction will decide on any unclear case and on what not expressly said in the present regulation. The decision cannot be appealed against. As a last resource, in case of any dispute, the Court of Bologna is in charge of it.