Film Registration

You make amateur films? Do you want to compare your skills with others? Or are you just looking for a place to present your work?

Then you've come to the right place! Make a short film and submit it to the 25th Masaryk University Faculty of Informatics Film Festival!

Registration and participation in the festival is completely free.
Films must be submitted by April 6th, 23:59!

With us, you can show your work in front of hundreds of people, and if your film impresses the jury or the audience, you will be rewarded with prizes.

1. PLACE - 5 000 Kč

2. PLACE - 3 000 Kč

3. PLACE - 2 000 Kč

Material prizes from festival sponsors.

0. Preamble

0.1. This document regulates the relationship between the organizer and the authors within the framework of the Film Festival of the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University.  By submitting a film, the author agrees to these terms and conditions.

1. Terms

1.1. Festival – The Film Festival of the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University (FF FI MU) is a public display of short films. The display consists of a main (competitive) part and a bonus (non-competitive) part.

1.2. Organizer – The festival is organized by the Laboratory of Electronic and Multimedia Applications (LEMMA) FI MU as part of the education at FI MU. The director of the festival is the head of this laboratory.

1.3. Time and place of the event – The festival usually takes place in Brno during the credit week at FI MU in the spring semester of the academic year.

1.4. Dramaturgy committee – The dramaturgy committee is made up of LEMMA teachers which will (along with various other experts) select the movies to be projected at the evening of the festival.

1.5. Expert jury  – The organizer will appoint a jury of industry professionals to evaluate the short films screened at the festival and determine the ranking of the best ones.

1.6. Author – The author of the work is understood to be the copyright holder of the collective work, typically the director. Only the author of the work can submit a film to the festival under their own name. In the case that multiple directors have contributed to the film, only one of them is allowed to submit it (with the consent of all co-authors).

1.7. Amateur film – A film that was not produced by professional authors. The competition is primarily aimed at aspiring filmmakers, especially students and alumni of high schools, colleges and universities focused on audiovisual production.

2. Rights and obligations of the author

2.1. Submitter. The film can only be submitted by the film author; the author must be a permanent resident of the EU under their own name. An exception can be requested from the organizer.

2.2. Copyright guarantee  – By submitting a film, the author declares that:

2.2.1 He holds all copyrights or licenses to the film (visual, musical, sound) and has settled rights with the performers in the work.

2.2.2 The film does not violate the laws of the Czech Republic and only legal processes (intellectual property works) were used to create the film.

2.2.3 He is responsible for copyright, personality and data protection and for any damage to third parties.

2.2.4 The film does not contain hidden advertising, is not a promotional film and is not a film of a commercial or business entity. The film is non-commercial in nature and its licence was not part of a commercial contract or commercial distribution. Another co-producer (commercial entity, school) does not hold majority rights to the film.

2.3. Age of the film. The submitted film must not be older than 3 years on the day of the festival.

2.4. Length – The main competition is open to short films of any genre or form (live-action, animation) up to 8 minutes in length. The bonus section is open to short films of any length (they may exceed 8 minutes).

2.5. The co-authors must not be professionals in the audiovisual field. The organiser reserves the right to reject declarations of unprofessionalism within the framework of its discretion and with justification.

2.6. The theme of the films is not limited in any way and is not dependent on the theme of the festival.

2.7. Film submission. Films must be submitted and uploaded using the web form via the link at https://festival.fi.muni.cz by the date listed on the website, typically 46 days before the festival at the latest. The author guarantees their adherence to the technical specification along with the correctness and completeness of the metadata listed in the online form. By submitting a film, the author agrees with these propositions.

2.8. Cooperation of the author. When submitting a film, the author will provide texts and graphics for the festival brochure, along with a brief annotation of the film and subtitles in English (in the case of movies not in Slovak or Czech, the author provides subtitles in Czech).

2.9. Attendance at the ceremony. When submitting a film, the author declares that if the film is included in the competitive section, he/she or their representative will be present at the award ceremony. Otherwise, his/her prizes will be forfeited without compensation.

2.10. Copyright licenses. By submitting a film, the author declares that he/she is entitled to grant a royalty-free, non-exclusive license and has reserved the property rights to the film and other copyrighted works provided to MU. The author grants these rights to the organiser for the purpose of public screening of the film at the festival, for online publication of the film worldwide without limitation to specific platforms for a period of 1 month after the festival, for preservation of the film print in the FI library and in the non-public archive of the LEMMA laboratory, for possible screening of the entire film in the context of teaching at Masaryk University (MU), for promotion of MU and for non-public screening for the MU academic community. The author also grants the right to use parts of the film (video and audio track) for the creation and public screening of the audiovisual work for the purpose of promoting the festival (video trailer and cut of the nominated films) and the right to use photographs, posters, screenshots and other materials submitted with the application as part of the promotion of FF FI MU on all online and printed materials. The granting of this license is irrevocable by the submission of the film.

3. Rights and obligations of the organizer

3.1. Dramaturgy. The organizer reserves the right to exclude entries that are not in alignment with these terms and conditions or are in conflict with the Czech legislation. Films that contain excessively vulgar and offensive footage that would substantially limit the accessibility of the festival for the general public will not be accepted.

3.2. The selection of films to be screened and the dramaturgy of the evening will be determined by the dramaturgy committee led by the festival director. There is no legal right to the inclusion of a film in the festival programme. The authors of the film will be informed whether their work was accepted or not through the contacts provided in the application form.

3.3. Rankings and awards. The organizer will announce the placement of the three best films in two categories:

• Ranking and awardment by the jury, where the author receives a financial reward.
• The audience award, where the author receives physical rewards.

The organizer reserves the right to not declare the winner of a certain place or category without having to disclose a reason. The author of the film has no legal right to receive the prizes; the non-monetary prizes cannot be alternatively fulfilled or converted into money.

3.4. Award ceremony. The prizes will be awarded based on a written agreement between the author and the organizer. The physical rewards will be handed over to the winner at the festival. In the case that the author (or the representative) of the winning film does not attend the ceremony in person, both the financial and material prizes will be forfeited without compensation.

3.5. GDPR. All personal data provided within the author’s application is confidential and will be handled in accordance with act no. 101/2000 Coll. The organizer will not provide this data to third parties.

Mandatory technical specifications for films:

Video format (codec): H.264 (recommended), MPEG-4 Part 2
Audio format (codec): WAV, FLAC, MP3 (bitrate for MP3 at least 192 kbps), AAC
Video frame rate: 24 fps, 25 fps
Subtitles: English in SRT
Container: MP4 (recommended), M4V, MKV
Resolution: landscape at least FullHD (i.e. 1920)
Bitrate: 10 - 20 Mbps
Volume: max -3dB
Size: max. 2GB

Recommendation:

Check early that the YouTube platform does not detect copyright infringement in your film.
If you need to prove to the YouTube platform that you hold the licensing rights to the material you are using, or in case of technical difficulties, please contact us at festival-tech@fi.muni.cz.