| Go to the menuShort films, exhibits and shows can appeal for selection by the festival.
Registration to the KREMLIN FESTIVAL implies acceptance of the following rules and regulations :
The KREMLIN FESTIVAL will take place from the 13th to the 19th of september 2004, in the town of Kremlin-Bicêtre.
The KREMLIN FESTIVAL is organised by the «festival du Kremlin» association. It aims at putting the light on cinema throughout the world by dedicating to each continent a whole day of screening. Parallel exhibits (photos, installations , etc.) and live shows will contribute, each day, to highlighting the value of the represented culture.
All films less than 30 mn long (60 mn for documentaries) can appeal to the festival for selection in the following categories : fiction, documentary, 2d/3d animation, clips, adverts and video trial.
Documentaries in particular must propose a subject linked to the knowledge of a culture or an area of the world.
An inscription is conditional on the acceptance of the present rules and
regulations by the bearers of rights to the film (authors, producers, distributors…).
Sending the films :
At the latest on the 30th of june 2004, at the following address :
FESTIVAL DU KREMLINThe films will be screened by a jury of professionals for 2 categories :
The selected films will be sent at the cost of the sender,
Fully stamped and mailed by the 15th of july 2004, to the festival’s address :
FESTIVAL DU KREMLINAll preselection material will be available to its sender, at the festival’s
office, from the 31st of july 2004 onwards and until the 31st of december
2004. No cassette or dvd will be sent back.
The selected material will be conserved in the festival’s archives.
The films will be reproduced digitally on DVD, according to their category
: fiction, documentary, animation, clip, advert or trial, and according to
the culture they represent.
For screening, the films will be encoded at the festival’s cost and
in optimal quality, on video DVD and will be presented on large screens in
digitalised video projection.
The festival is in charge of subtitling the films in french from the film’s original version and the dialogue and commentaries submitted by the depositary, in french or in english, in a computerised form.
The jury is made up of cinema and television professionals and of communication
specialists from the partner organisations.
The jury will confer several prizes whose list is not comprehensive :
The prizes will be provided by the partners of the festival.
The professionals present during the festival will have the possibility of screening the films selected for both the « in » and the « off » festivals in their entirety, and will have access to the address of the producers or bearers of rights.
The authors, film makers or producers of selected films, in competition or
not, are welcome. A friendly area will be reserved for them to discuss with
the audience and meet french producers and distributors.
The festival cannot offer top cover their travelling costs to or inside Paris.
All the prized films will make up a « Best of » videogram distributed
to the partners and subscribers of the festival, as well as to the prize winners
and the distributors. The participants, if they win a prize, automatically
give to the festival, without any form of counterpart, the rights to the reproduction
of their film, in its entirety for exclusive use in this « Best of »
videogram.
It is specified that this videogram (VHS and DVD) can in no case be put to
commercial use. It is exclusively reserved to the promotion of the festival
and the films it has prized.
The particularity of the KREMLIN FESTIVAL, is in part, the originality of
the site it is organised in : a century old sausage factory. 4000 square meters
on 2 levels will be layed out with film sets to produce projection rooms and
lounges.
In every corner, out of use fridges, ovens, smoking rooms or drying rooms
offer interesting exhibition areas. The KREMLIN FESTIVAL proposes to offer
these original spaces to creative spirits.
Candidates can ask to visit the site by phoning (33) (0) 1 46 71 38 93 (ask for David).
All existing or to be created exhibits, visual and/or audio, with as a theme
the presentation of an aspect of a culture, the inter-culture and/or of the
cinema can compete for selection. Any artistic support is accepted : photos,
sculptures, installations, etc.
The chosen exhibits will be offered the choice of a series of exhibition places,
for the whole duration of the festival. The artist will be able to ordain
and modify his exhibit at will, within the respect of the rules of security.
Proposals will be submitted in files containing a note of intention, a presentation
of the exhibit with a description of the artistic material used (photos, objects,
sculptures, constructions, etc.) and its spatial organisation (elements which
hang, particular set ups, lights, projections, itinary, etc.).
Any material illustrating the project is welcome (photos, videos, plans, schemes,
etc.)
Each file must be accompanied by the inscription sheet available by downloading
from the festival’s website or by asking the festival’s office
for it .
The proposals will be examined by the Organising Committee between the 1st of April and the 30th of june, in 3 sessions : 30th of april, 31st may and 390 june 2004. Decisions will be taken on each occasion to offer selected candidates the maximum amount of time for preparing their exhibit.
The artists will choose the place for their exhibit as they as selected :
a fridge, an oven, a dryer, a corner, a room, etc.
They will be able to take position of their selected place of exhibition from
the 16th august onwards (unless they obtain a special autorisation) and will
be able to trtansform it at will within the respect of security rules (no
sharp metal or fireproofed material for example).
The transport (there and back) and maintenance of the exhibits are under the exclusive responsibility of the artists, as well as their packing, unpacking and setting up.
Each artists is responsible for his exhibition area. He is responsible of
the protection of his work from outside damage (deterioration, unauthorised
photographs, etc.). The KREMLIN FESTIVAL is not responsible of the works which
it receives. It does not accept responsibility for any theft, fire, deterioration,
etc… suffered by the works.
Despite the night and day presence of a guard on the site during all the period
of installation of the exhibits and during the festival, the KREMLIN FESTIVAL
advises artists which desire it to acquire a personal insurance .
Each artist must make sure his work respects security regulations. The festival reserves itself the right to shut down each exhibit independently, if its security commission asks for this to be done in order to allow the festival to open.
Each exhibition space being under the responsibility of its exposing artist,
it is strongly recommended that the artists be present or that they commission
someone to maintain a presence during the whole festival (contacts, meetings
with the public and professionals, looking after the work, etc.).
The festival cannot take charge of transportation costs to or within Paris
.
A booklet will be proposed to each visitor, presenting all the selected exhibits and a plan to situate them on site. Visitors will be invited to vote for the following prizes :
This vast 4000m2 site, reorganised with cinema sets will have areas set apart for live shows (theater, music, danse, circus, etc.) including a large stage and smaller ones.
All shows with a specific cultural connotation can compete for selection. Individual or group sows, musicals, dancing, theatre, circus exhibitions, etc. will be programmed once or twice during the day dedicated to the cultural horizon they represent.
Show proposals should be presented to the festival’s office before
the 30th of june in the form of a photo file ort a video accompanied by an
inscription sheet, available by downloading it from the festival’s website
or by asking the festival’s office for it.
If a postulating show is ongoing between the 1st of April and the 31 july
2004, a member of the Organising Comittee could see it and add his opinion
to the file .
The Organising Comittee will select the shows according to their relation
with the festival’s theme and their quality.
The results of the selection will be given to all candidates at the latest
on the 31st of july 2004.
The date of performance of the selected shows will be chosen jointly by the artists and the festival.
The shows are performed as exhibits and are free. Asking for contributions at the end of a show is not allowed.
The festival cannot cover the transport costs of artists but will provide
each artist with a snack on the day of his performance.
The selected shows will be offered a clip of a few minutes for their promotion.
The participants give the festival, free of any counterpart, the right to reproduce photographs or video extracts, less than 3 minutes long, of their film, on any support and without any time limit, for distribution as promotional work in the festival’s publications, in the press, on TV channels, for the frestival’s catalog or on its website.
The KREMLIN FESTIVAL reserves itself the right to use the information collected
on the inscription sheets within the provisions of Law 78.17 of the 6th january
1978. In conformity with the french « informatique et libertés
» law, any participant has right of access and rectification to the
data which concerns him nominaly.
The KREMLIN FESTIVAL refuses any responsability for any unsatisfactory reception,
or absence of reception, of inscription files sent by whatever means possible,
whatever the origin of the problem be.
The festival reserves itself the right of final decision over any other question
not taken into account by these present rules and regulations. It reserves
itself the right to interrupt, cancel or postpone the event or to modify these
rules and regulations, at any time, according to the necessities of its development.
No compensation whatsoever can be attributed to participants. Taking part
in the KREMLIN FESTIVAL implies acceptance by the producers, distributeurs,
authors and film makers, or their representatives, of the festival’s
rules and regulations.
The present rules and regulations apply to all the official selection : the
« in » and the « off ».