Globo Verde Dominicano Award
Photography Category

Rules and Regulations

Article 1. Registration:
Registration for the fifth edition of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival is open from February 12th through July 31st 2016. The competition is open exclusively to Dominican citizens or foreign nationals residing legally in the Dominican Republic. Applications must be completed on the Globo Verde Dominicano Award website by filling out the available application form. A copy of the application will be automatically emailed to you as proof of your application.

Article 2. Deadline for submission of photographs:
From April 4 through July 31, 2016. Deadline for submissions extended until August 7th, 2016!
NOTE: Submission deadlines are different from contest registration deadlines. To submit competition proposals, contestants’ entries must have been received within the deadline entry period. (See article 1)

Article 3. Photography category: 
A minimum of three (3) photographs per person will be accepted.

Article 4. Topic:
In the photography category, the subject will be different each year. In 2016, the theme is: “I am sustainable”. The images will reflect programs, projects, initiatives and people who work to benefit the environment and sustainable development in all aspects in the Dominican Republic. The theme this year seeks to promote the program of the United Nations, including Agenda 2030 for sustainable development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. For more information and ideas on these issues, visit the DREFF blog (blog.dreff.org).

Article 5. Conditions for Participation:

• The call for entries of the fifth edition of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award is directed at all producers between 18-45 years of age, of Dominican nationality or foreign residents in the country who possess an official Dominican identity card.
• Photographs will not be accepted from foreigners who do not reside in the Dominican Republic.
• Each photographer can enter up to three (3) photos.
• Entry photographs must be previously unpublished, regardless of what year they were taken.
• All photographs must have been taken in the Dominican Republic.
• Photos must be printed on photographic paper not smaller than 16 x 20 inches and not larger than 20 x 24 inches. Any format, color or black & white, done in whatever technique preferred by the artist, whether analogue or digital, is acceptable. In addition, a copy of photo entries must be delivered on a USB memory stick.
• Each photo entry must be attached to a white mat board with a margin of 2 inches around the picture, so they can be hung without metal supports or glass.
• Each photograph must be signed with the author’s PSEUDONYM (nickname). Additionally, photo entries must include a sealed envelope with the printed application form received by email, including the contestants’ information (name, telephone number, address and pseudonym).
• The work, registration form, and accompanying letter, must be delivered to the following address:
  
  Premio Globo Verde Dominicano – Categoría Fotografía 
  Muestra de Cine Medioambiental Dominicana
  Atte. Reydi Moretta
  Funglode
  Calle Capitán Eugenio de Marchena #26, La Esperilla,
  Santo Domingo,
  Dominican Republic
  
  
• The person receiving the application at Funglode must sign and seal it and include the date, time and name of the person from whom it was received.
• GFDD and Funglode will take special care and caution with all submitted photographs, however, will not be responsible for any damage or deterioration they may suffer during the reception or mounting of the photos.
• GFDD and Funglode will not be responsible for any cost or expenses accrued by submissions presented in the contest. Participation in the fifth edition of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival implies acceptance of the rules, regulations and conditions specified in this document.

Article 6. Reception of the work: 
Participants will receive confirmation that their submissions have been received one week after they have been received by the Globo Verde Dominicano Award. If a participant does not receive confirmation after seven days, he/she should notify the Globo Verde Dominicano Award team by email [email protected] or by phone at 809-608-4025.

Article 7. Pre-selection: 
Globo Verde Dominicano Award will confirm, by email, reception of the application and acceptance of the submissions. In the event that the entry is not accepted, the committee in charge of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award will send an email explaining the decision not to accept the submission.

Article 8. Selection process: 
One (1) winner will be selected in the photography category and just one prize will be awarded. The selection will be done by a jury comprised of photography professionals. The jurors’ votes will be secret. Members of the jury agree not to publish, anticipate, discuss or distribute information regarding winners until the decision is officially made public. Winners will be announced at the closing event of the VI Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival and their names will also be published on the Festival’s website.

Article 9. Prize:
The award for the single winner in the photography category consists of a certificate with a value of $1,000.00 in technical equipment.

To receive the prizes, winners must be present (mandatory) at the awards ceremony of the VI Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival, which will be held September 13-18, 2016. The date for the awards ceremony will be posted on the Globo Verde website as well as the DR Environmental Film Festival page (www.dreff.org). If the winner cannot be present at the ceremony for reasons beyond his/her control, he/she must send a representative who can be identified as such by providing proof of identity in the form of a national ID card in order to claim the prize.

Article 10. Certificate and diploma:
Winners will also receive a recognition diploma in addition to the respective prizes as described in Article 9.

Article 11. Return of the non-winning entries:
Following the awards ceremony, the photos that did not win must be picked at the Funglode office within a period of forty-five days (45) days. If this is not done, the photographs will be donated to a non-profit organization. 

Article 12. Rights reserved by the fifth edition of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award and the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival:
Participants of the fifth edition of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award accept all articles described in the Rules and Regulations contained in this document. Globo Verde Dominicano Award and the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival maintain all rights reserved to exhibit, promote, and advertise entries submitted to the fifth edition of the contest held in 2016 in all national and foreign media outlets.