Canis Film festival
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Canis Film Festival

Policies and Procedures

POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Eligibility

  • Anyone is eligible to submit a video to the Canis Film Festival, except as noted below.
  • The Canis Film Festival is for new works and non-commercial works. Commercially-available videos or any part thereof are not eligible, and will be disqualified without refund.
  • Any individual filmmaker is limited to three submissions per Festival.
  • Submissions may not exceed seven minutes in length, including credits.
  • A short description of the work must be submitted. Space for this description is provided on the Canis Film Festival upload page.
  • No member of the current year's Canis Film Festival judging panel may submit an entry.
  • ClickerExpo faculty members may submit entries, but under an assumed name that will hide the faculty member’s identity during the judging process.
  • No employee of KPCT may enter the competition.
  • Films that employ aversive training methods, or seek to train an activity that KPCT or its designees judge as being harmful to the animal, are not permitted and will be disqualified without refund at the sole discretion of the judges and/or KPCT.

Sponsors

Awards

  • For a list of previous award winners, see the Awards page
  • The Canis Film Festival judging panel has final judgment on winners. The panel reserves the right not to make an award in any category. Public input may be sought as part of the panel’s deliberations.

Cost

  • The first 150 online submissions are free of charge. After that, registration and a single submission in a single category costs $25. Registration, which is required of those submitting videos, is available online at www.canisfilmfestival.com.
  • Additional submissions are $15 each.
  • It is requested that registrants upload all video submissions via our web service, but we do allow mail-in video entries at an additional processing cost of $35 for each submission on DVD or VHS videotape. These mailed-in submissions must include a paper copy of the web registration, as well as a registration check.
  • All participants must be registered.

Judging Criteria
All videos should show both the training and the finished behavior. Videos will be judged on a variety of criteria, with emphasis on:

  • Clarity of teaching process and methods
  • Innovation in the end behavior and teaching approach
  • Entertainment value
  • Use of positive training principles, especially those using operant conditioning and a marker
  • Usefulness to target audience
  • Production quality
Submission and Awards Process

  • All participants must be registered and videos must be uploaded by midnight on December 31, 2008. Mail-in submissions should reach our offices by December 1, 2008, and mail-in participants must be registered by December 1, 2008.
  • Finalists will be announced at the winter ClickerExpo, planned for January 2009, and winners will be announced at the spring ClickerExpo, planned for March 2009.
  • All entrants must register at www.canisfilmfestival.com.
  • Video submissions should be digital and should be uploaded via the designated website, but can be mailed in on DVD or VHS, for which there are additional fees (see "Cost").
  • Acceptable format for digital submissions: wmv, avi, mpeg, or mov
  • Acceptable format for tape submissions: VHS (North American-standard NTSC format)

Agreements
By registering or submitting video and descriptions (collectively "Content") for the Canis Film Festival participants (hereafter "Producers") agree to the following:

  • Producers agree that the content being submitted is their own, and that they have legal and proper consent to use any animal or person featured in the video without exclusion. Producers must indemnify the Canis Film Festival, its directors, and its sponsors against liability arising from the display of said content.
  • Producers retain copyrights to the videos. Producers grant to KPCT and its assignees and affiliates a royalty-free worldwide license to show or distribute for showing the videos, such rights granted from the time of the submission through the duration of the Canis Film Festival and five years thereafter.
  • Videos may be shown by KPCT for any advertising or promotional purpose related to KPCT's business or to the Canis Film Festival.
  • Videos will be accessible via the Internet and may not be afforded copy protection.
  • Producers earning Canis Film Festival awards agree to enter into the KPCT CFF Distribution Agreement within 30 days, if such an agreement is offered by KPCT within 60 days following the award's announcement. Producers further agree to complete any forms that KPCT may determine necessary to comply with governmental tax and related laws.
 

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