March 6-10 2023
Kisangani, DR Congo

Biodiversity Monitoring Center

Short film competition

As part of the 2nd International Conference on Biodiversity in the Congo Basin to be held from 6 to 10 March 2023, the CeBios program and the Biodiversity Monitoring Center (CSB) are organizing a short film competition in November 2022.

Are you passionate about movies?

Do you want to raise awareness about biodiversity?

Make a short movie, maximum 3 minutes, with your mobile phone, then register for the competition and win great prizes!

Theme of the competition: To the health of biodiversity

Duration of the competition: from October 15, 2022 to November 15, 2022

Application deadline: November 15, 2022 at midnight

Send your achievements by WeTransfer to the email concours@naturalsciences.be

 

 

Rules of the contest

The Short Film Competition “To the health of biodiversity”

Article 1: Organizers
The short film competition “To the health of biodiversity” is organized by the CeBios program and the Biodiversity Monitoring Center (CSB).
This competition is part of the 2nd International Conference on Biodiversity in the Congo Basin, which takes place from 6 to 10 March 2023. The organizers intend to promote the production and distribution of works that address the beauty of the surrounding biodiversity as well as current and future challenges.

The competition takes place from October 15 to November 15, 2022.

Article 2: Theme and Objectives
The theme of the competition is entitled: “To the health of biodiversity” Special
attention will be paid to works that:

· take a new, original and innovative look at the theme of biodiversity;

· help to know and understand these themes for non-informed audiences;

· open the debate with political decision-makers and local and/or national authorities;

· deal with collective representations and imaginaries that can benefit or harm biodiversity.

Article 3: Technical specifications
Candidates must send short films of a minimum of 30 seconds to a maximum of 3 minutes.
Maximum one work per candidate. The year of creation cannot be earlier than 2022. The work must be an original creation.

The Participant must make a video (hereinafter referred to as “the Video”) of a minimum duration of 30 seconds and a maximum of 3 (three) minutes, but must be shot with a mobile phone. Videos can be mounted on the inside or outside of the phone. Unedited Videos are also accepted.

The Video created by the Participant must be a personal creation. It must have been carried out by the participant himself or the direct members of his family.

The Participant is invited to respect the following tips for creating his Video:

· Formati MP4
(H264), MOV, WMV, AVI

· 16:9 resolution:
1280×720 pixels per line or 1920×1080 pixels per line

 

Article 4: Public
The short film competition “To the health of biodiversity” is open to all participants of the 2nd International Conference on Biodiversity in the Congo Basin, as well as their families.

Article 5: Support
Each author is responsible for the content of his own work. All genres are allowed: fiction, documentary, animation, advertising, experimental films.
Works filmed using mobile phones are allowed.
Films must be accessible to an audience whose primary language is French or English. If a dialogue takes place in a language other than French or English, a subtitle is requested.

Article 6: Specifications
The organizer is not responsible for any problems playing the videos provided. Each shipment will contain a single movie.
The title of the work and the name of the author will be clearly indicated on the WeTransfer file submission. Example: TITLE_LAST NAME.

The organizers will keep one of the copies provided by the participant and reserve the right to broadcast these films for the duration of the 2nd International Conference on Biodiversity in the Congo Basin.

Article 7: Registrations
Participation in the competition is free.
To participate in the competition it is necessary to have read these rules and to accept them.

The short film will be sent to the organizers at the same time:

· Via WeTransfer at concours@naturalsciences.be.

· Via an accompanying email specifying the title of the work, the name of the author, the name of the author, the WeTransfer link, the duration of the film and a short explanatory
paragraph (max 150 words) on the objective of the work and the message conveyed.

The organizers insist on the obligation to send a WeTransfer link as well as an accompanying email.

Article 8 : Length

The competition starts on October 15, 2022. The deadline for sending short films is Sunday, November 15, 2022 at midnight at the latest. The works received will be kept as archives by CeBios and the CSB.

Article 9:
Copyright
Participants in the competition must own the copyright on their work. This concerns film music in particular: a short film that uses a musical extract without having the right to do so will not be retained.

Article 10 : Rights of use
of works
As part of the actions related to the short film competition “To the health of biodiversity”, the organizers will have the right to use the works
received: a) during public sessions
b) by dissemination on the organizers' websites
c) as well as with conference partners.

The works will be used exclusively for awareness-raising purposes and any commercial use is excluded. The participants undertake to allow the organizers to host the selected works on the Internet and to distribute the selected works free of charge. In case of uses not strictly related to the event or the promotion of subsequent editions, the author will be notified in advance. The authors remain the owners of their works.

Article 11: Jury
The organizers appoint the members of the jury, chosen from among experts in biodiversity and its current challenges. The jury selects the works to be screened or shown to the public. He is sovereign in the way he proclaims the results. The prizes will be proposed by the jury. The decisions of the jury will be final.

 

Article 12: Price

The best films will be rewarded with very interesting prizes related to the theme of the competition in different categories.

 

Article 13: Acceptance of the rules Participation in
the Short Film Competition implies unreserved acceptance of the terms of these rules.