Enter our film competition on the theme of diversity!

INDIE goes mobile

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INDIE goes mobile

Use your mobile phone camera (or digital camera) to make a 3-minute film about ‘diversity’ and you could win a brand new video camera.

Rules
To participate in the INDIE goes Mobile film competition, you must adhere to the following criteria:

1. You must be a secondary school student.
2. You must be enrolled in a secondary school in one of the following countries: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain or the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)
3. You are required to create your submission to the competition using a mobile phone camera, or a digital camera used for still photographs that has a video recording function.
4. Your original video on the theme of diversity should be no longer than 3 minutes in duration.
5. Your video must be saved in one of the following accepted formats: .mpg, .mpeg, .mswmm, .avi, .flv, .wmv, .mov, DVD,.wmmp, .xvid, .divx, .3gp, .3gp2, .3gpp, .3gpp2, .gvi.
6. The theme of your video must reflect your response to or feelings towards the European Youth Charter on Inclusion and Diversity, and how you see diversity in school or in your everyday life.
7. Your original creation may not be a transposition or plagiarism of an existing work.
8. Your submission must be sent in accordance with the instructions on the submission form on the competition webpage: www.britishcouncil.org/indie-competition. Submissions will not be accepted by e-mail, post or other means not specified on the INDIE website.
9. By participating, the participant accepts the competition rules.
10. Participation is free-of-charge.
11. Entrants must not be employees of the British Council or anyone connected with the competition or their close relatives.
12. Entries must be received by 31. October 2009. Entries submitted after this date will not be considered.

Submission
Your submission must be sent in accordance with the instructions on the submission page on our website. Submissions will not be accepted by e-mail, post or other means not specified on the INDIE website.

Distribution rights
Through submitting videos to the British Council as part of the INDIE goes mobile competition, entrants agree to the competition rules outlined hereunder.

Entrants agree on transferring the rights to and preferences concerning the exploitation of their work to the British Council and its partners within the frame of the competition and its diffusion.

Participants guarantee that their work is original and yield the work, as well as the rights to reproduce and adapt it, freely and indefinitely to the British Council and its partners.

Entrants agree for allow their films to be shown at film screening events e.g. the Pocket Film festival in Brussels , Stranger Festival in Amsterdam etc. The British Council will make every effort to notify the authors of the selected films in the event of their being shown at the aforementioned festivals or similar festivals. The organizers of the events where the films would be shown are free to choose the type of screen that the film will be presented upon i.e. movie-theatre screens or pocket-size screens, i.e. mobile communications terminals, portable audio-video players, game consoles, etc.

For the purpose of promoting the works and entrants associated with the INDIE goes Mobile competition, films submitted to the competition may be screened on receipt by the British Council and its partners, and for an unlimited period, on a non-commercial and non-exclusive basis, on the British Council and its partner websites. Entrants grant these permissions free of charge. Thus selected films will be available for download, on the internet site of the British Council (www.britishcouncil.org/indie) and its partners’ websites.

Entrants consent to the diffusion of their films according to the conditions defined within the Creative Commons licence "Attribution Noncommercial 2.0 UK" in order to better serve the non-commercial diffusion of their work. The complete licence can de found at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/

For the purpose of promoting the Inclusion and Diversity in Education project, the INDIE goes Mobile competition, as well as all related events, entrants grant the British Council the right to circulate photographic stills from registered films as well as the films themselves, to all print media, television, Internet and/or wap sites, and by any electronic means of communication to the public.

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