Submissions must adhere to the following in order to be eligible for consideration:

1. **Original Work and Copyright Ownership**:

- Films must be original works, and artists must hold the copyright to their films.
- Artists should provide evidence of their ownership of the intellectual property rights.

2. **Permissions and Royalties**:

- Any content, including music, images, or video clips, owned by other creators and used in the film must have proper permissions granted.
- Artists are responsible for paying royalties to the original creators for the use of their content.

3. **Proper Crediting**:
- All contributors, including actors, crew members, and creators of third-party content, must be properly credited in the film's credits.

4. **Quality Standards**:
- Films are expected to meet certain quality standards to be considered for the festival. This includes audio and video quality, editing, and storytelling.

5. **Budget Constraints**:
- Artists often work within limited budgets to produce their films. Creativity in maximizing resources is encouraged and admired.

6. **Submission Guidelines**:
- Artists must adhere to specific submission guidelines provided by the festival, which may include formats, deadlines, and entry fees. Universal video formatting, as well as, videos from artist Vimeo, YouTube, and FilmFreeway accounts are acceptable.

7. **Release Forms**:

- All necessary release forms, including talent releases and location releases, must be in place for the film, and can be produced upon request.
-Festival organizers may ask for signed releases from artists in regarding their submitted work that may or may not have been selected for the festival.
-Organizer release form requests may be sent to acquire various rights to the artist's film to, but not limited to its use, feature, disseminate, print, create marketing material, exclusive material, etc. And may or may not include exclusive rights for specific periods of time, or have the option to.

8. **Content Restrictions**:

- Films should not excessively contain explicit or offensive content that may be unsuitable for most audiences, G rated preferred, PG-13 rated allowed.
All content should be emphasizing and driving the storytelling forward, if it can be reasonably defended as a plot device that adds, rather than detracts from the film the submitted content can still be considered eligible.

9. **Film Length**:

- For films to be eligible for submission we ask they are a duration equal or greater than 1 minute, but no longer than 350 minutes.

10. **Language and Subtitles**:
- Films in languages other than the festival's primary language, English, are required to have subtitles.

***Exact festival dates and location are subject to change as necessary by the event organizers. Meaning that dates can be added or subtracted based on the volume of artist's film entries, and the venue can be scaled up to accommodate a larger audience should ticket sales indicate the current venue will no longer be suitable. The changes can be made up to 21 days prior to festival start date, and announced publicly up to the festival dates as part of promotional materials.***

11. **Judging and Selection**:

- Films will be judged by the founders of the Cinéma Royale. The selection process may be competitive. Not all submitted films may be accepted.
-The number of films selected per category will be determined by the level of interest by the amount of submissions that meet at least the minimum quality and relevant story telling criteria in each category.

12. **Screening Rights**:
- By submitting a film, artists grant the Cinéma Royale the right to screen their film during the event. Please also indicate the optional right to show them in written or visual stills

13. **Attendance**:
- Artists are encouraged to attend the festival in person, and in some cases by video call, to present their work and participate in Q&A sessions.
 

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