CONTEST RULES AND REGULATION BCN SPORTS FILM 2024

INTRODUCTION

The Barcelona Olympic Foundation, with the support of the Barcelona City Council, organizes the BCN Sports Film 2024 – 14th BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL FICTS FESTIVAL and forms part of the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE 2024.

The BCN Sports Film 2024 will be held in Barcelona from 19th to 27th February 2024. This fourteenth edition of the Festival will have a competitive nature.

The fourteenth edition of the festival will have a hybrid format so, there will be face-to-face screenings and online screenings. The rights that the authors assign, therefore, are both for the face-to-face sessions that are held in the official venues of the contest, as well as for the sessions that will be held online through an online platform.

These Rules & Regulations have been approved by the BCN Sports Film 2024 Organising Committee. Your taking part in BCN Sports Film 2024 implies the total acceptance of these regulations.

AIMS

One of the principal objectives of BCN Sports Film 2024 is to bring the general public into contact with sports-orientated audiovisual content and the values that they represent. Whilst offering the media, film directors, producers and specialised distributors a meeting place in which they can exchange views and information.

CONTENTS

The BCN Sports Film 2024 is open to all those productions in which the principal subject matter is that of sport in all its forms and disciplines.

Genres included: animated films, documentaries and fiction, from shorts to feature length films.

GENERAL RULES

BCN Sports Film 2024 is open to both professional and independent productions.

BCN Sports Film 2024 will admit all films produced from 1st January 2021.

The maximum length of the works presented at the BCN Sports Film 2024 will be 90 minutes.

Each producer may present as many films as he wishes as long as they comply with all other regulations.

Therefore, the participant guarantees that he has all the exploitation rights over the work to be able to participate in the competition and the participant exempts the organizers from any claim that may arise from third parties in relation to intellectual property rights.

BCN Sports Film 2024 Organising Committee may programme non-competing films of general interest whatever their date of production or their length.

JURY

The BCN Sports Film 2024 Organising Committee will appoint the official Festival jury. The BCN Sports Film 2024 jury will comprise popular personalities drawn from the worlds of sport, cinema, audiovisual production and culture.

PRIZES

Selected Films will be competing for:

  • The City of Barcelona Amphora for the best film, gifted with 1000 €
  • Jury Special Award, gifted with 750 €
  • Award for the best Catalan production, gifted with 500 €
  • Award for the best adventure sports film – Álvaro Bultó, gofted with 500 €
  • Award for the best fiction film, gifted with 500 €
  • Award for the best documentary, gifted with 500 €
  • Award for the best animated film, gifted with 500 €
  • Award “Sport and society”, gifted with 500 €

The BCN Sports Film 2024 official jury may make as many special awards as they deem fit. Festival sponsors may endow other awards with prizes in cash or kind.

Withholding will be applied to this amount according to current legislation.

 

INSCRIPTIONS

Inscriptions will be accepted from 1st May 2023 till 30th September 2023, both inclusive.

Each participant shall have submitted the registration form and video through: https://festhome.com/ or https://filmfreeway.com or using the festival website.

Registration implies acceptance of these rules and the conditions of use of the web pages.

WORKS SELECTED

The Organizing Committee will notify participants by email and before 29th October 2023 should film have been selected for the BCN Sports Film 2024 official competition.

Other promotional material may be requested by the organisation.

The organisation will provide the subtitles in Catalan or Spanish for exclusive use during the event.

Schools

If a work has been selected to be part of the “educational sessions” will be screened in closed sessions, using a password, which can be displayed to those schools that request it in schools, virtually through the same web. These sessions will take place during the last quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024.

PROJECTION

Those films selected to participate will be projected as scheduled in the 2024 Festival Programme.

The films selected for the competition will be integrated into the documentary and videographic collection of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation and may be shown publicly in the screening spaces of the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum, headquarters of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation exclusively for pedagogical or didactic purposes, and always as a means of promoting the festival, thus ceding to the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, only the exploitation rights in the indicated mode of reproduction and public communication.

Films selected to compete will form part of the documentary and video-graphical material of the Library of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation where public exhibition in the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic Museum, (headquarters of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation) will be strictly limited to educational activities and as a means to increase public awareness of the Festival.

The winning films of the 2024 edition can be broadcasted as a promotion of the 2025 edition with a single pass on the thematic channel Esport3 of the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation. Any other possible screening in any other chain will require the negotiation of rights between the entities involved. The organization of the BCN Sports Film festival will be able to help in the negotiation.

Winning films will be eligible to participate in the final international stages of the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE. The winners explicitly authorise the BCN Sports Film 2024 Organising Committee to provide their contact information to the Organising Committees of the other WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE Festivals.

Under no circumstances will projection rights be granted to third parties without prior, express, written consent of the producers or their legal representatives.

Participants also authorise the Organising Committee to partially reproduce their films in the media with the aim of promoting the 2024 BCN SPORTS FILM festival.

CONSEQUENCES OF NON-ACCEPTANCE OH THESE BASES

In the event that participants do not accept the full content of these rules, they will not be allowed to take part in the competition.

PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

Basic information on data protection
Data controller Identity: Fundació Barcelona Olímpica
Address: Avinguda de l’Estadi, 60 – post code 08038 Barcelona
Tax ID number: G-60309655
Purpose Management and administration of the 2024 BCN SPORTS FILM festival
Legitimation Legal rules of the 2024 BCN SPORTS FILM festival
Recipients Transfer of data is not envisaged and, if appropriate, they will be transferred to third parties only if the data subject grants his or her unequivocal consent or in cases of compliance with the execution of a contract, a legitimate interest, the public interest or legal obligations.
Rights To access, rectify and delete the data, as well as other rights, as outlined in the additional information on the data protection policy.
Additional information See below for further information on the data protection policy**.

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF THE DATA PROTECTION POLICY

Data controller

Identity: Fundació Barcelona Olímpica
Address: Avinguda de l’Estadi, 60 – post code 08038 Barcelona Tax ID number: G-60309655
Phone number: 93.426.06.60
Contact: protecciodades@fbolimpica.es

Purposes of the data processing

The management and administration of the 2024 BCN SPORTS FILM festival.

The publication of personal photographs on the website and social media, and, therefore, acceptance of these rules authorises the FBO (the Barcelona Olympic Foundation – Fundació Barcelona Olímpica) to take photographs and publish them, as mentioned above, on the website and social media.

Legitimation and retention period

Participation in the competition will entail the express and unequivocal consent of the participant owning the data to their processing by the FBO in the terms and for the purposes stipulated above.

The legal basis for the processing of the data are these rules for the 2024 BCN SPORTS FILM festival.

The winning participants’ personal data will be safeguarded for such time as they do not withdraw their consent.

Recipients

Transfer of the personal data provided by data subjects to third parties is not envisaged beyond those provided for in these bases or provided that the interested party has given their consent.

However, if appropriate, they will be assigned to third parties only if the data subject grants his/her unequivocal consent or in cases of compliance with the execution of a contract, a legitimate interest, the public interest or legal obligations.

International data transfers are not envisaged.

Data categories

The categories of data processed are as follows:

  • First and last name
  • ID card, Foreign Resident Identification Number or passport
  • Postal or electronic address
  • Phone
  • Images
  • Signature

Security measures for the personal data

In compliance with the current regulations, the FBO guarantees that it has taken all the technical and organisational measures necessary to maintain the required level of security, bearing in mind the nature of the personal data processed.

Rights of the data subject

  • Any person has the right to obtain confirmation of whether the FBO is processing his or her personal data.
  • Data subjects have the right to access their personal data, as well as to request the rectification of any inaccurate data and, if appropriate, to request their deletion when, among other reasons, the data are no longer required for the purposes for which they were collected.
  • Under certain circumstances, data subjects may request the restriction of the processing of their data, in which case the FBO will only retain them to file or defend itself against claims.
  • Under certain circumstances, for reasons related to their particular situation, data subjects may object to the processing of their data. The FBO will cease to process the data unless there are compelling legitimate reasons to do so or to file or defend itself against claims.
  • Data subjects may request the portability of their data from another data controller in automated form in the event of processing permitted by the General Data Protection Regulation.
  • Upon the cancellation of the data they will only be retained in blocked status, in compliance with the legal obligations.

To sum up, data provided will be processed by the FBO in accordance with the purposes outlined in this document and, in this regard, you are informed that you may exercise your rights of access, rectification, deletion and restriction of their processing, oppose their processing and exercise your right to the portability of the data by writing to protecciodades@fbolimpica.es, without prejudice to your right to also file a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency, the body which exercises supervisory authority in the matter, located at C/Jorge Juan, 6 – 28001 Madrid.

In any event, you may withdraw your consent at any time, without said withdrawal affecting the lawfulness of the processing based upon the consent granted prior to the withdrawal.