Hi all,
Here is the information about 2013 Trans-Pacific University Students Mini
Documentary Competition.
Hosted by： Beijing Students Federation
Foreign Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality
Documentary Academic Committee of China Television Artists Association
Beijing TV Station
Organized by：BTV Documentary HD Channel Beijing Students Federation
Time: Dec. 2012 – Dec. 2013
The 2013 Trans-Pacific University Students Mini Documentary Competition
(“Youth Documentary”) will run from December 2012 to December 2013 in
Beijing. Since the opening of the competition, it has become a great
documentary event for young Chinese people. It encourages numerous young
people to participate in creating documentaries, and simultaneously offers
a high level platform for documentary talents to display and issue their
creative works. This year’s competition will be hosted by Beijing Students
Federation, the Foreign Affairs Office of the People’s Government of
Beijing Municipality, Documentary Academic Committee of China Television
Artists Association and Beijing TV Station, and organized by BTV
Documentary HD Channel and Beijing Students Federation.
Questions & Answers:
1. Who may participate?
Participants must be registered students at colleges/universities in the
Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and cities in the Trans-Pacific
region. Simultaneously, participants may be individuals or teams of up to
the film members.
2. Are There any Restrictions on Content?
1) There are no restrictions on the content or theme, but the works
must not contain racist, politically or religiously biased, gratuitously
violent or pornographic material.
2) The contents and themes of all the entries must be made to comply
with the related laws of the host country.
3) All the submissions should be original works finished after
August 2012. The participant should be the creator, and co-authors may
jointly enter the competition. The competitors should own the copyrights of
their works. The Organizing Committee shall not bear legal liabilities
covering (but not limited to) the right of portrait, reputation, privacy,
copyright, trademark, etc., and the participants should take on related
legal responsibilities.
4) The information provided by the competitors on the application
form should be authentic and lawful; in their application, all participants
should follow the regulations listed in the participation specifications.
5) Each work submitted should be categorized according to its
running time: mini documentary (less than 9 minutes), short film (10 to 30
minutes) and full-length film (over 31 minutes). Outstanding full-length
films will be shown during this activity and recommended by the Organizing
Committee to specialized channels to be purchased and broadcast.
6) Each work submitted should be titled and its title shall be
regarded as a part of the work. The author should give a description of the
shooting background and the story behind its shooting as an attached
article of up to 800 words.
3. How to enter?
There are three steps:
1) The application form can be downloaded from
http://www.btv.org/download/qcdjl.doc. After completing the form, send an
e-edition to the official e-mailbox: [log in to unmask]；
2) Entries should be recorded in DVD with three copies and the film
clips may be recorded in DVD or CD. There are two video formats that you
can choose from: (1) HD MPG file with resolution of no less than 1280:720
(resolution of 1920:1080 is recommended); (2) QuickTime（MOV）format with
H264 video decoding.
3) The CD entries should be posted, noted as “Youth Documentary,” to
the following address:
Ms Sun Yixin, BTV Documentary HD Chanel, No. 98A, Jianguo Road, Chaoyang
District, Beijing, China. Post Code: 100022 .
At the same time, please send an electronic version of the work or download
link or web link to:[log in to unmask]
4) The manuscripts of all entries shall be reserved by their
authors. The Committee shall not return the entries in any case.
Deadline for Entries: August 31, 2013. (Judged by the date of the local
postmark)
5. Are there any regulations on the copyrights of the entries?
For the selected entries, if there is no special declaration from the
participant(s) concerned, the Organizing Committee and its partners shall
have the rights of displaying, exhibiting and broadcasting on public media,
and also have the rights of compiling or publishing them without any
payment; these works can also be used for non-commercial activities, such
as public welfare advertising and art education; the videos, static images,
copies with Chinese/English subtitles and trailers of the entries may also
be used by the Organizing Committee for publicizing and exhibition
afterwards. Once the entries are submitted to the competition, their
participants are deemed to have accepted all the items in this regulation.
The Organizing Committee reserves all the rights for final explanation,
change of competition review, and replevy of the awarded titles, reward
money and prizes.
6. What is the judging process?
1) Qualification Review
The Organizing Committee will examine the qualifications of the entries and
inform those who submitted them to make any necessary supplements or
corrections. The applicants should finish the required corrections within
10 workdays. For those who fail to make the supplements or corrections
within 10 days, or who still cannot meet the criteria after doing the
required supplements and corrections, their works will be removed from the
competition.
2) Awarding Evaluation
All entries shall be collectively reviewed and voted on by the Jury Panel.
The awards list will come out after the vote. The voting will be carried
out anonymously with a system of “one person one vote”.
3) Notification
After the final review session, the Office of the Organizing Committee will
inform the participants of the results via e-mail, telephone or fax.
7. What kinds of people make up the Jury Panel?
There are 17 panel members including outstanding scholars and documentary
directors. The awarding evaluation will be open, just and fair.
8. What awards shall be available?
1) Awards:
² 2 Grand Awards
² 2 Special Awards
² 5 Special Recommended Awards
² 1 Best Camerawork Award
² 1 Best Editing Award
² 1 Jury Recommended Best Director Award
² 1 Best Sound Award
² 1 Most Popular Online Award
² 2 Best Spread Awards
2) Prizes:
All award winners will be presented with high quality modern photographic
equipment. (In 2012, the prizes were Leica cameras.) Exchange activities
will be organized for both Chinese and overseas prize-winners if possible.
9. Other notifications
1) Universities and institutes are encouraged to organize or
recommend students to join collectively.
2) The Competition is not responsible for any loss or damage of the
entries during posting, or for any loss, error or damage of the entries
caused by any other unavoidable factor.
3) After the list of awards is released, the organization committee
will inform the winners. The award will be regarded as being forgone
automatically if the award is not confirmed and claimed within two weeks
after the notification is sent.
4) The official website will advise the participants of any changes
to requirements or regulations. Any contestant who does not agree to such
change(s) must withdraw from the competition. Those who don’t inform the
organization committee of withdrawal within seven workdays after the
announcement will be regarded as accepting the changes.
5) Entries with Chinese and English subtitles are welcomed.
The Organizing Committee of 2013 Trans-Pacific University Students
MiniDocumentary Competition
Address：BTV Documentary HD Channel
No. 98A Jianguo Road
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Postcode: 100022
WeChat Homepage: 青春的纪录
WeChat ID: btvqingchundejilu
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Mobile: +8613011299741 (Ms. Qin lei)
Office: 010-85337341
Fax: 010-85338828 (please add note: “for Ms. Qin
Lei ONLY”)
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