34th
International Film Festival of India
9-19 October,
2003, New Delhi
Since 1952, India has hosted 33
International Film Festivals, both competitive and non-competitive. These festivals became annual events from
1975 onwards. The next festival, which
includes a competition for feature films by Asian Directors, will be held in
New Delhi and is the 34th edition.
FESTIVAL REGULATIONS Entry Form
The Festival is being organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals,
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India in collaboration
with the Indian Film Industry. The Festival
is recognised by the International Federation of Film Producers’ Associations
(FIAPF).
Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakam
(The Whole World is One Family )
Objectives
The Festival aims at
providing a common platform for the cinematographies of the world to
project the excellence of the film art;
contributing to the understanding and appreciation of film cultures of different nations in the context of their
social and cultural ethos; and promoting friendship and co- operation among
peoples of the world.
The Festival
will be held
in New Delhi from October 9 to 19, 2003.
2. Regulations
The
programme of the Festival will be divided into the following broad categories:
(i) Competition : Feature Films by Asian Directors
(ii) Cinema of the World.
(iii) Retrospectives, Tributes, Focus.
(iv) Indian Panorama.
(v) Mainstream Indian Cinema.
(vi) Film Bazaar
3. The Festival Directorate
reserves the right to exclude films which are not in conformity
with aims of the Festival, or which
could offend the national feelings and susceptibilities of any participating
country, or are likely to promote racial discrimination.
4. COMPETITION - Feature Films by
Asian Directors
4.1
Films entered in the Competition Section must fulfil the following
conditions:
4.1.1
Films must be feature films.
4.1.2
They must have been completed between 1st January 2002
and 31st May 2003. Eligibility period will be determined by the Censorship visa/certificate of the country
where the film has been produced.
4.1.3
Except for films produced in India, the film should not have been
shown in India.
4.1.4
The film must be made by directors of Asian descent and produced
in an Asian country. In the case of
co-productions, at least one of the
producers/production companies must be from an Asian country and the entry form
for the competition should be submitted by the Asian co-producer, who should
have the right to sanction the participation of the film in competition in the
Festival.
4.1.5
Entrants must agree that if their film/films win any of the Golden
and/or Silver Peacock Awards, all screenings thereafter will acknowledge the
Award(s) on the film itself.
4.2
Entries will be subject to preview by a committee constituted by
this Festival Directorate. A film which is not accepted for the Competition
Section can be shown in the Cinema of the World Section with the specific
consent of the entrant.
4.3
The competition will be held subject to the acceptance of a minimum of five eligible films from five
different Asian countries.
4.4
The Jury for the Competition will be composed of five members,
including the Chairman, of which a majority will be from outside India.
4.5
The decisions of the jury will be taken by a simple majority of
the members present and voting. The jury
can evolve its own rules for assessment of the entries. The Director of the Festival, the Nodal
officer for IFFI and the Secretary of the jury can attend the deliberations of
the jury but shall neither participate nor vote.
4.6
No person in any way connected with the production or commercial
exploitation of a competitive entry will be a member of the jury. All Members of the jury will refrain from
releasing any articles or reviews to the press concerning the films submitted
for their judgement until after the jury's decisions have been formally
published.
4.7
The following prizes will be given away:
(i) Best Film by
an Asian Director Golden Peacock and a cash prize of
(to be given to the Director of the
film): Rs. 500,000/-
(ii)
Most Promising Asian Director : Silver Peacock and a cash prize of
Rs.
250,000/-
(iii)
Special Jury Award (to be given to a film Silver
Peacock and a cash prize of
or
for an individual's artistic contribution Rs.
250,000/-
to
a film, if given to a film, it will be
awarded
to the Director of the film)
5. Cinema of the World
For exhibition as part of the
Cinema of the World the following criteria will be followed:
5.1.
The film should be a Feature Film
5.2.
It should have entered in, or
won awards at other international film festival, or should of
extraordinary merit.
5.3.
It should have been completed after January 1, 2002.
5.4.
Films should be in 35mm or 70mm with optical soundtrack.
5.5.
Films that have been presented in earlier editions International
Film Festival in India, or already screened in India, will be excluded, unless
previously agreed to by the Festival Directorate in exceptional cases.
6. Notice
of participation
Entrants should inform the Festival
Directorate by August 1, 2003 about their participation, including the titles
of films and the names and addresses of the directors, producers, production
companies and world sales companies against each film titles. The Festival
Director shall have discretion to accept entries upto August 15th
2003
7. Video
Cassettes for Selection
VHS
cassettes (Preferably PAL system) of films may
also be sent for purposes of selection only so as to reach the Festival
Directorate not later than 10TH August, 2003. Single video cassettes which are not part of a larger shipment
should be air- mailed directly to the Festival Directorate. Courier Services should normally not be used
to deliver the cassettes to the Festival Directorate as its delivery could be
delayed due to customs formalities in India.
Video cassettes may also be sent through diplomatic channels.
8. Entering films in the Festival
8.1
Film Producers,
Distributors their duly authorised representatives or duly authorised government organization / agency of the
participating countries may enter their films for the Competition, Cinema of
the World and Retrospectives / Tributes / Focus Sections in the enclosed Entry
Form.
8.2
Selection for the Indian Panorama and Mainstream Indian Cinema
Sections shall be done separately.
8.3
The Film Bazaar will be organised by the National Film Development
Corporation. The contact Address is:
The Regional
Manager,
National Film
Development Corporation
Plaza Theatre
Building, Connaught Circus
New Delhi –110
001
Ph:
0091-11-23324747
8.4
The Festival Directorate
may also invite films it considers of interest.
8.5
The Form, duly filled in, separately for each film proposed to be
entered should reach the Festival Directorate by 1st August 2003.
The Festival Director has the discretion to accept entries upto 15th
August 2003
9. Prints
9.1
Prints of films selected for exhibition in the Festival must reach
the Festival Directorate on or before
September 10, 2003. The title(s)
of the film(s) sent, the number of reels, shipping details including the dates of despatch and the air consignment number must be faxed
to the Festival Directorate . Prints
should ideally be air freighted directly to the Festival Directorate at the address given in para.16.
These should not be sent through courier or
clearing agents in India.
Special arrangements have been
made for clearance of film consignments addressed to the festival
Directorate through Indian Customs at Delhi. The Festival Directorate will not
be responsible for any film prints etc. that are diverted to other cities in
India.
9.2
After close of the Festival, the prints will be returned through
air-freight or diplomatic channels, to the entrants or to his duly authorised
representative mentioned in the Entry Form.
10. Insurance
The Insurance of prints in transit from the
country of origin to the Festival Directorate and from the
Festival
Directorate to the country of origin will be the responsibility of the
entrant. The Festival
Directorate
will insure the prints against damage, partial and total, by fire, theft
or any other unnatural
causes
from the moment it takes delivery of the prints to the moment it hands them
back to the
concerned
airline/agency for despatch, in conformity with Addendum 1 of the FIAPF
Regulations for
International Film Festivals. The insurance value will be the print cost
as specified in the Entry Form,
supported
by documents from the concerned laboratory.
Damage to the print, if any, should be certified
by an
independent agency, at the cost of the
sender.
11. Freight and Other Charges
11.1 The prints and video cassettes should be sent “freight
pre-paid” i.e. at senders cost . After the Festival, the prints will be
returned to the senders by air freight at the cost of the Festival Directorate.
11.2 Festival Directorate will not pay any charges other than the air-freight charges. It may also
please be noted that the Festival Directorate
cannot reimburse any freight or other charges in foreign currency,
unless previously agreed to in writing.
11.3 The Festival Directorate
will not bear freight or any other charges for unsolicited films, videos
sent to it, if these are not selected for screening in the Festival.
11.4 The special arrangements made by the Festival Directorate
for clearance through Indian Customs in Delhi are applicable only in the case
of consignments directly air-freighted on request, and addressed to this
Festival Directorate . In the case of
publicity material, etc. sent pre-paid by Courier Services or through agents in
India, the concerned Courier Service/agent should be instructed to deliver the
material directly to the office of the Festival Directorate in Delhi. The Festival Directorate shall not be
responsible for any material that is diverted to some other city in India.
12. Subtitling
Films
will normally be screened in their original language/version. Films in language other than
English
must have subtitles in English. Films
that arrive without subtitles, or with subtitles other than in
English,
where such subtitles are required, shall not be screened in the Festival.
13. Screening
13.1
Entries to the Festival other than films under the Indian Panorama
and Mainstream Sections
shall be exempt from censorship.
13.2
No accepted film will be shown outside the Festival city by the
Festival Directorate.
13.3
The Festival proposes to have
a maximum of 4 screenings per film selected. FIAPF Regulations for
non-competitive festivals and competitive specialised festivals allow for a
maximum of 3 screenings per film.
Producers/authorised entrants are requested to grant permission with the
International Regulations mandate for
one Additional Screening ( item no.9.1. in Entry Form ). The Festival agrees
not to hold any screenings other than the three screenings allowed by the
International Regulations.
13.4
In order to provide a larger audience to the films entered in the
Festival, the producer/right holder of the entry/entries may kindly convey
willingness for one non-commercial screening on the Cultural channel of the
National Public Service Broadcaster during the period of the Festival ( item 9.2. of Entry Form ).
14.
Excerpts for Television
For promotion of
films entered in the Festival on television, producers/authorised entrants are
requested to supply four excerpts of the film(s) entered, each of a maximum
duration of three minutes, to the Festival Directorate . These should be supplied on ¾ inch U-Matic
tape (high band or low band)/Beta, preferably PAL system. Such tapes
will be returned along with the print within two weeks of the close of the Festival.
15. General
15.1
Classroom and advertising films are not eligible for participation
in any section.
15.2
Films not presenting
sufficient technical qualities for good public screening can be refused after checking
of the prints by the Print Checking Unit of the Festival Directorate.
15.3
The participants must ensure that they have the right to
participate in the International Film Festival of India with regard to parties
connected with the production /
distribution of the participating film and / or other right
holders/licenses.
15.4
Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these
Regulations.
15.5
The Festival Directorate
will decide all matters not expressly provided for in these regulations
but in conformity with the provisions of the International Regulations for film
festivals and its decisions shall be final and binding on all parties.
16. Correspondence and Shipping Address
All correspondence, publicity materials,
video cassettes and film prints should be
addressed to :
The Directorate
of Film Festivals
Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting
Government of
India
Sirifort
Auditorium Complex
August Kranti
Marg
New Delhi-
110049
Fax : 91 11 26497214
/ 26499357
Tel : 91 11 26499371 / 26499357
E-Mail :
dffiffi@bol.net.in
Website :
www.mib.nic.in/dff
All film prints
sent through diplomatic channels can also be delivered to the above office in
New Delhi
Shipping details
should invariably be forwarded by fax to the New Delhi numbers of the
Festival Directorate given above.