JWFF is the largest wildlife film
festival in Asia. This year like the past years joining is free. The purpose of
the festival is to encourage international wildlife production by honoring the
very best films. The Festival aspires to strengthen worldwide networking among
wildlife filmmakers, especially those in Asian countries. For the general public, Japan
Wildlife Film Festival aims to increase awareness of the need to protect and conserve
our natural environment by screening the films.
This year the festival will be
held on August 8, Thursday until August 11, Sunday of the same year. It will be
held at Toyama International Conference Centre, Japan. All of Toyo Japan and
the whole country are excited every year on the said festival.Nature Film
Network is this year’s organizer of Japan Wildlife Film Festival in cooperation
with Wildscreen (UK), Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival (USA), UNEP. Entrants
automatically grant approval for their productions to be retained by the
Festival organizer and will be shown at non-profit public screenings to promote
JWFF and charitable event to promote the conservation of nature through
wildlife films during and outside of the Festival. An admission fee may be
levied to cover venue and administration costs. The Festival organizers reserve
the right to add a voice-over or Japanese subtitle to the films selected for
those screenings. The costs will be covered by the Festival. JWFF expects all
applicants to secure music and talent rights to their films for festival
exhibition. It is the sole responsibility of the entity submitting the project
to secure permission from the copyright holder of the material in question.
JWFF will not be held responsible for any inclusion of uncleared copyrighted
materials in your film. Entries will not be returned. They will be retained in
the film library by the Festival. If you would like to have your entry
returned, it should be indicated on your entry form and the return postage
enclosed. The deadline for entry registration ended last October 31, 2012.
On-line entry is always available on JWFF official website. Judging will be
fair and square, entries will be screened and judged by the Judging Committee.
Entries selected by the committee will be nominated as finalists for awards
then finalists will be notified by the Festival office as soon as possible
after the selection. During the Festival, films will be judged in relation to
each award by the International Judging Committee. Award winners will be
announced on August 11th at the Gala Ceremony which closes the Festival. Nominees
cannot be revealed yet or shown yet to the public. Nominated films will only be
made available for public screenings during the Festival. Nominees will be
notified and asked to submit the highest quality format available with HDCam,
or DigiBeta copy of the master to produce Japanese subtitled version. One
person for each finalist film will be invited to the Festival with his/her
accommodation and travel in Tokyo and all over Japan covered by the Festival
organizer. Please note that expenses outside and to/from Japan will be paid by
the finalist. After the Festival, all works of the finalist films will be
retained by the Festival organizer, and will be shown at non-profit screenings
in line with the purposes of the Festival. In some cases, a small admission
charge may be made to cover administration costs. No film may be withdrawn from
the festival programme after its selection. The awards will be, Best of
Festival Grand, Best Animal Behavior, Best Underwater, Best Cinematography,
Best Underwater Cinematography, Best Nature and People, Best Environmental Conservation, Best Educational,
Best Animation, Best Children’s, Best Asia – Oceania, Toyama Ptarmigan Award
(by audience poll). The judging committee, at its discretion, may present
special awards to deserving films which do not qualify in any of the categories
listed above. The submission of an entry registration for the Festival implies
full acceptance of these rules. Should any matter come into dispute, only the
Japanese version of these rules will be valid and any such dispute must be
settled under Japanese law. Everyone in Tokyo Japan and in the word is
definitely looking forward to watch the Films.
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