Globo Verde Dominicano Award
Globo Verde Junior

Rules and Regulations

Article 1. Registration:
Registration for Globo Verde Junior on the fifth edition of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival is open from February 12th through May 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 short films:
From April 4 through May 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. Globo Verde Junior Category:
Participants submitting proposals to Globo Verde Junior, can only participate in this category of Globo Verde Dominicano Award. The genre can be fiction, animation, documentary and/or experimental. Only one (1) submission per author will be accepted in the contest.

Article 4. Topic:
Subject matter of work must focus on the environment and sustainable development; the objective is to generate awareness and encourage actions to protect the biosphere.

Article 5. Conditions for Participation:

• The Globo Verde Junior category is directed at students from first to fourth year of high school from public and private schools and of Dominican nationality.
• Short films will not be accepted from foreigners who do not reside in the Dominican Republic.
• The filming can take place anywhere in the world.
• At a minimum, 70% of the actors in the production (if there are any) must be Dominican.
• The submitted material must not have been made prior to 2014.
• All work entered must be previously unpublished.
• No work that has previously won other contests will be admitted.
• Short films with pornographic language or obscene footage will be disqualified and the authors will be excluded from participating in future competitions.
• Television series, musical videos and advertising material of any kind will not be accepted.
• The registration and application form is available on the Globo Verde Dominicano Award website (http://www.globoverdedominicano.org). It is necessary to read and accept all contest rules and regulations.
• When sending/submitting your work, it must be clearly identified with a PSEUDONYM (nickname) and include a document that specifies the film credits (name, biographical data and photographs of the director), in addition to a copy of the registration form. If submitting Online, the work, document, and registration form must be sent through our digital platform. If sending a DVD or USB, it must be sent to the following address:
  
  Formulario y DVD/USB para Premio Globo Verde Dominicano
  Muestra de Cine Medioambiental Dominicana
  Atte. Reydi Moretta
  Funglode
  Calle Capitán Eugenio de Marchena #26, La Esperilla,
  Santo Domingo,
  Dominican Republic
  
  
• The work must be sent within the established time limit stated in this document: between April 4-May 31, 2016.
• For DVD or USB shipment, envelopes containing the work must be sealed, marked with the date and time of delivery; the person receiving the work at Funglode will also sign, date and acknowledge reception.
• Pre-selection entries WILL NOT be returned and participants will not be able to claim them at a further date.
• Globo Verde Dominicano Award/Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival 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. Authorization: 
The author(s) or participant(s), director(s), producer(s) and actor(s) of the short films submitted to the fifth edition of Globo Verde Dominicano Award, authorize the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival to publicly broadcast their name, voice and image, in any form of mass media or means or distribution, such as television, audio (radio), virtual (Internet), print and graphic media, or any other communication outlets in accordance with the criteria of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award and the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival, with no time or geographical limitations and no form of compensation, payment or indemnity.

Article 7. The Work:
Participants in the fifth edition of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award authorize the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival to edit the work according to the competition and Festival’s criteria for the contest’s promotional purposes, with no time constraints or geographical limitations. This authorization extends to any and all promotional and public media, whether graphic, television, virtual (Internet), radio, audio (radio) and other media determined by Globo Verde Dominicano Award and the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival, with no form of compensation, payment or indemnity.

Article 8. Technical specifications of the production:
The short film must be a maximum of 15 minutes in length and cannot contain credits except for the filmmaker’s pseudonym (nickname) or alias. The short film can be shot with cameras as well as electronic devices (tablets or telephones). It can be in color or black and white. It must be narrated in Spanish. If it is narrated in another language, it must include Spanish subtitles. Films that do not fulfill this language requirement will not be eligible to take part in the contest.

Article 9. Submitting the material: 
To participate in the contest, you must send a digital file (.MOV or .MP4) in HD format (1080p). This file can be sent through the website (www.globoverdedominicano.org/archivos) or on a DVD/USB with the file placed in an envelope and deposited at Funglode.

In addition to the digital file, the following must be sent via the webpage (http://archivos.globoverdedominicano.org) or must be included in the DVD/USB delivered to Funglode: 
-Registration form
-Document specifing the film credits (as indicated in Article 5).
-Photographs of the director (minimum size 1MB/ JPEG, GIF or PNG/300dpi).
-Three (3) promotional photos of the video (minimum size 1MB, in JPEG, GIF or PNG formats, at 300dpi).
-Three (3) images depicting scenes from the short film (minimum size 1MB, in JPEG, GIF or PNG formats, at 300dpi).

Send through our digital platform or to this address:
Formulario y DVD/USB para Premio Globo Verde Dominicano
Muestra de Cine Medioambiental Dominicana
Atte. Reydi Moretta
Funglode
Calle Capitán Eugenio de Marchena #26, La Esperilla,
Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic

The material must be clearly identified with a label that includes the name of the work and author’s pseudonym or alias, and must be delivered to the address indicated. All work must be received by July 31, 2016.

Article 10. Copies of submissions:
Any other format will automatically annul participation in the fifth edition of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award which reserves the right to inform, or not, the participant of this decision. Copies of submissions will become part of the audiovisual heritage of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) and the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival.

Article 11. 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 12. 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 13. Selection process: 
One (1) winner will be selected in the Globo Verde Junior category and just one prize will be awarded. The selection will be done by a jury comprised of Dominican and international film 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 14. Winning entry: 
Producer(s) of the winning entry authorize the Globo Verde Dominicano Award and the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival to distribute their work in other festivals and national and international film exhibitions as well as other activities undertaken by Globo Verde Dominicano and the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival.

Article 15. Prize:
The award for the single winner in the Globo Verde Junior 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 16. Certificate and diploma:
Winners will also receive a recognition diploma in addition to the respective prizes as described in Article 15.

Article 17. 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.