Ecrans Noir, a film festival in Cameroon

Ecrans Noir, a film festival in Cameroon TITLE 1: GENERAL DISPOSITIONS Created in 1997, the Ecrans Noirs Festival, a realization of the Ecrans Noirs Association has as o objective the promotion and wide spread of African cinema in Cameroon and Central Africa.

IT'S PREOCCUPATIONS:

Distract and make quality movies to be viewed by the grand public;

Promote in children and youths a cinematographic spirit from the base, hence cultivate in them understanding zeal which encourages debates;

Ease meetings between film producers, comedians and professionals of the 7th Art and the public;

Facilitates audiovisual and cinema trainings;

Facilitates the training of comedians and of professionals of cinema related jobs.

TITLE 2: GENERALCONSIDERATIONS

Article 1: The festival is organized by the Association Ecrans Noirs Article 2: French and English are the languages used for the festival.

Article 3: The festival is made up of competitive and non-competitive parts.

Article 4: The Organizing Committee of the Ecrans Noirs Festival Shall be the only body empowered to rule on cases not provided for in this Regulation. Its decisions are without recourse. Article 5: The acceptance of participation in the Ecrans Noirs festival implies adherence to the present regulations.

TITLE 3: TIME AND VENUE Article 1: The festival takes place every year. The 21st edition will hold from the 15th to the 22nd of July 2017.

Article2: The festival has as its main venue Yaound , Douala and other towns are considered to be secondary venues together with one or more central African capital cities or any other sub regional town.

TITLE 4: PARTICIPATION

Article 1: The Ecrans Noirs festival is open to all movies short and feature films, fiction and documentary styles and also tv series.

Article 2: Only movies produced after the 1st of January 2015 can take part in the competition.

Article3: non-competitive movies are also included in the Ecrans Noirs festival, as well as non-African movies which have African backgrounds, castings and with Africa as main point of interest in their programming<>

Article4: Film selections are done on the bases of applications received before the 30th of April 2017 at midnight. To process your file go to the website www.ecransnoirs.org.

The selection schedule is published on May 15, 2017 The application form, whose composition is available on the website www.ecransnoirs.org, is composed of the following documents: - A registration form To be completed by the candidate. - A bio filmography of the director And possibly actors the main ones. - A bio filmography of the producer or a CV of the production company. - Documentation relating to the film (Synopsis, technical sheet, photos, Poster), - A viewing link for selection, to be sent to the two E-mail addresses: Programming@ecransnoirs.org and Ecransnoirscmr@gmail.com If sent physically, documents and the film's copy should be sent or deposited to the following address:

ECRANS NOIRS

Located at Ancienne Ecole Maternelle CNPS Anguissa

PO Box: 11371 Yaound - Cameroon

Tel: (237) 242 89 76 01

Hence notify the festival of any process via email through the address programmation@ecransnoirs.org with a copy to the direction at direction@ecransnoirs.org, assistante@ecrannoirs.org and ecransnoirs@ecransnoirs.org. A feedback is issued to you via ecransnoirs@ecransnoirs.org

Article 5: All sending and delivery costs of film copies for the selection are being taken in charge by the producers of the film, and Ecrans Noirs is neither responsible for the errors in the process of film delivery during the expedition, nor for damages due to bad conditioning. During the sending process by email, candidates are prompted to input ZERO as market value of their DVD copy to avoid custom clearance complications.

Film copies submitted for the selection can be done through support DVD or Blue ray.

Sending and delivery costs of broadcasting copies of selected films (DVD, Blue ray or DCP) are supported by Ecrans Noirs.

Ecrans Noirscannot be held responsible for damages encountered due to the bad state of copies sent for broadcasting.

Article 6: All movies present at the Ecrans Noirs Festival can only be withdrawn by the director or producer before the end of the event with approval of the festival organization committee and against a landfill.

Article 7: Movies are in two categories: competitive films and non-competitive films, presented in panorama, tribute or hindsight.

Article 8:Any film present at the Ecrans Noirs Festivalis handed to the festival for two (2) public projections. Additional projections can be possible subject to the approval of the beneficiaries.

Article 9: For these two screenings, the festival will pay to the rights holders of the film a fee for the rental of copies for the films selected in competition.

Fiction International Feature Film : 200,000 cfafrs

Fiction International Short Film : 65,000 cfafrs

International Documentary : 150,000cfa frs

Series (3 episodes of 26min or 1 episode of 52min): 150,000 cfafrs

Fiction feature film Central Africa : 100,000cfa frs

Documentary Central Africa : 75,000 cfafrs

Cameroonian Fiction feature film : 75,000 cfafrs

Cameroonian Fiction short film : 40,000 cfafrs

Cameroonian Documentary : 50,000 cfafrs

Films and out-of-competition series may be rented between 100,000 and 200,000 FCFA for 2 screenings.

TITLE 5: COMPETITION

Article 1: The registration and selection procedures for the competition or participation is the sole responsibility of the organization committee of the Ecrans Noirs Festival.in case of a non-selection, the movie owner can prohibit its presentation out of the competition.

Article 2: Official competition's point of focus:

- Feature international fiction movies

- Short international fiction movies

- Long and medium international document

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