The San Sebastian International Film Festival has its main offices at the following address:

FESTIVAL DE SAN SEBASTIÁN
TABAKALERA - Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea
Plaza de las Cigarreras, 1, 2ª planta
20012 Donostia – San Sebastián (España)
Tel.: +34 943 481212
ssiff@sansebastianfestival.com

Detailed information can be found on the official Festival website: www.sansebastianfestival.com, which also explains how to contact the Festival and its different departments.

The Public Limited Company FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN S.A. consists in equal parts of the San Sebastian City Council, the Basque Government, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and the Spanish Ministry of Culture, Education and Sport. Its chairmanship is held by the Mayor of San Sebastian. The San Sebastian International Film Festival organisation is headed by its Director, José Luis Rebordinos.

The San Sebastian International Film Festival is accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations, FIAPF www.fiapf.org, in the "competitive film festivals" category.

ARTICLE 1

The San Sebastian International Film Festival seeks to make a positive contribution to the development of the film culture and industry.

ARTICLE 2

The 71th edition of the San Sebastian Festival will take place in the city of San Sebastian from the 22th to the 30th of September 2023.

ARTICLE 3

All films presented at the 71th San Sebastian International Film Festival will be selected by the Festival Selection Committee. The Committee is chaired by the Festival Director and is advised by a network of international delegates consisting of professionals, specialists in the world of film and in film festivals.

ARTICLE 4

All films selected for the 71th edition will receive a certificate of participation from the San Sebastian Festival Management.

ARTICLE 5

The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Section of the San Sebastian Festival consists of a selection of the most varied and surprising films of the year, as yet unscreened in Spain. This section has no restrictions of format and no limitations on subject matter.

All films in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Section compete for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award.

The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award carries €20,000 for the director and distributor of the film in Spain.

ARTICLE 6

With the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award the San Sebastian Festival promotes the creation of film projects with unusual and surprising narrative and format.

ARTICLE 7

The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award comes with €20,000. Of these, €6,000 will go to the director of the winning film and the remaining €14,000 to the film's distributor in Spain.

In the event that the film does not have a Spanish distributor in theaters, the entire Prize will be handed over to the director of the film.

The deadline to notify that it has a Spanish distributor is of one month from the end of the edition.

ARTICLE 8

The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Section is open to participation by films meeting all of the following conditions:

1. Films of any length and format.

2. Films completed in the 12 months prior to the start of the Festival.

3. Films produced or co-produced outside Spain competing in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Section must be Spanish premieres.

4. Films totally produced in Spain competing in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Section must be Spanish premieres. They must not have been screened at any national festival and must not have been publicly released or screened in Spain prior to the Festival dates.

5. No film presented in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Section can have been publicly screened in Spain prior to its official presentation at the Festival.

6. The inclusion in VOD platforms of films participating in the Zabaltegi - Tabakalera Section is not allowed, with the exception of cases where their use is strictly professional and with restricted access.

7. If the format is DCP, the Festival's technical department will send the server certificate for the generation of DKDM to the producers or representatives of the film. Only this type of encryption will be accepted and it must be sent together with the film in order to generate from the Festival the necessary keys for quality controls, technical tests and projections.

ARTICLE 9

All of the films selected by the Festival must be presented in their original version.

The film subtitles can be in either Spanish or English.

The cost of subtitling the copy will be paid by the producers or representatives of the film.

The Festival will provide additional electronic subtitling in either English or Spanish depending on the language required. For films subtitled in Spanish whose original language is not English, we will require a DVD of the final original version of the film with subtitles in English and the corresponding list of subtitles in English.

The screening of this electronic subtitling will be carried out by the subtitling company hired for this purpose by the Festival.

ARTICLE 10

Participation in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Section of the Festival implies:

1. Acceptance of these Rules & Regulations.
2. Due completion of the online film submission form, which can be found on our official website: www.sansebastianfestival.com.
   The producers or representatives of films with Spanish production or co-production must directly contact the film department films@sansebastianfestival.com before completing the online submission form.
3. The fee for each film submitted for pre-selection by the Festival is:
   1. Short and/or medium-length films (up to 59'): €70 (including 21% VAT)
   2. Feature-length films (more than 60'): €100 (including 21% VAT)
   3. DCP in physical format (2.5 hard drive, CRU or similar): €150 (including 21% VAT) or
   4. DCP submitted digitally (Aspera, Media Shuttle or similar): €200 (including 21% VAT), no matter what the runtime. In case of choosing this option, the Festival will provide with its Signiant Media Shuttle account for the uploading without extra cost.

Said fee will be payable in euros during the film submission process and can be paid either by credit card (Visa, American Express or Mastercard) or paypal.

ARTICLE 11

Once a film has received an official invitation from the Festival Director, and prior to the event, the producers or representatives of the selected films must confirm their attendance by duly completing and returning the online submission form to the Festival, no later than 1 August 2023.

The Festival will acknowledge the person who signs this confirmation as the sole representative in negotiating all aspects related to participation of the film in the event and as the sole responsible as opposed to other companies or individuals to have participated in producing the film.

Confirmation by the producers or representatives of the selected film means that they cannot withdraw their film from the programme and that they irrevocably accept all rules & regulations established by the Festival Management.

ARTICLE 12

The invitation made to each film selected by the San Sebastian Festival will remain strictly confidential between the Festival Management and the producers or representatives of the invited film until such time as the Festival decides to make an official announcement in this regard.

The complete San Sebastian Festival programme and all screening times are exclusively decided by the Festival Management Committee.

ARTICLE 13

The documentation required by the Festival for its press releases, official catalogue and website (synopsis, technical and artistic credits, bio-filmographies, pictures of the director/s and film stills) will be taken from the online submission form, which must be duly completed no later than 1 August 2023.

All promotional material for the selected films requested by the different Festival departments must be provided without delay by the producers or representatives of the film.

ARTICLE 14

The producers or representatives of invited films must send the selected copies to be screened at the Festival, 15 days prior to date on which the event is due to begin, to the Festival Film Department at its main offices:

Donostia Zinemaldia – Festival de San Sebastián
Departamento de películas
TABAKALERA Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea
Plaza de las Cigarreras 1, 2ª Planta
20012 DONOSTIA – SAN SEBASTIÁN
Tel.: +34 943 481212
films@sansebastianfestival.com

The producers or representatives are free to send the Festival as many copies of the film as they wish.

The Festival Management reserves the right to reject copies found during control by its Technical Department to be unsuitable for screening. In the event of irregularities in the copies, the Festival Management will issue the film owners or representatives with the corresponding technical report.

ARTICLE 15

The transport and insurance costs of the copies of selected films will be paid by the participants until their arrival at the Festival offices or at the premises of its customs agent.

The San Sebastian Festival will insure the copies from the moment of their arrival at the Festival offices or at the premises of its customs agent, until such time as they are returned.

If the film format is DCP, the cost of generating KDMs will also be the responsibility of the producers or representatives of the film.

The cost of returning the copies of films selected by the Festival will also be paid by participants. Returns will only be made after the Festival closing date.

In the event of damage to a copy during the event, the Festival limits its responsibility to the cost of having a new standard copy made at current laboratory rates.

ARTICLE 16

The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award will be decided by a specially constituted jury appointed by the San Sebastian Festival Management.

The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award Jury must meet the following conditions:

1. It must be made up of a minimum of 3 professionals from the world of film and culture.
2. No member of the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award Jury can have interests in the production and/or exploitation of films presented in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Section.

ARTICLE 17

The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award cannot be declared void or be conferred on more than one film.

ARTICLE 18

The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award will be announced and presented at the Festival Closing Gala.

Awards corresponding to sections of the Festival programme other than the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Section will also be presented at the Closing Gala.

ARTICLE 19

The Spanish distributor will receive the amount corresponding to the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award on furnishing proof to the effect that the winning film has been released in commercial cinemas in at least two Spanish towns and cities within a deadline of one year from the Festival end date.

ARTICLE 20

The producers or representatives of films receiving an award undertake to mention said award at the beginning of the winning film and on all corresponding press material and advertising, respecting the exact wording of the Jury decision and using the Festival logo. The logo will available in several languages on the official Festival website: www.sansebastianfestival.com.

ARTICLE 21

Accredited industry professionals attending the Festival will receive special attention at Industry Department, where a team of professionals will provide them with all possible means and contacts to facilitate their work, including film viewings in its film library after having obtained the corresponding written authorisation from their producers.

ARTICLE 22

In the event of disagreement (related to organisation or running of the event) or failure to comply with these rules and regulations, the Festival Management reserves the right to the final decision based on the FIAPF regulations for international film festivals.

In the event of discrepancy in the interpretation of these rules & regulations, the Spanish version will apply.

All doubts arising from the interpretation of these rules and regulations will be solved by the San Sebastian Festival Management.

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