GENERAL RULES

ORGANIZATION
The festival is organized by the Associacao Cultural Mix Brasil (Mix Brazil Cultural Association).

LOCATIONS AND DATES
The 16th Mix Brasil Cinema and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity will take place in the city of Sao Paulo from the 12th to the 23rd of November, 2008, with a tour to other cities in Brazil until mid-December. All short films must be available for the tour, but the participation of features (fiction and documentary) will be subjected to the approval of the producers/distributors. If you do not wish to participate in the tour and/or wish your copy be returned immediately after the screenings in Sao Paulo, you should notify the festival management by September 30.

SELECTION
Selection of entries is done by a committee of people connected to the areas of cinema, visual and performing arts, journalism, publicity and/our the LGBT universe. This committee has the liberty to define its own criteria of evaluation and selection, in accordance with the profile and guidelines defined by the festival management.

PROGRAMMING
Programming is the prerogative of the festival. The selected films can enter in any section of the festival, with the exception of films that are pre-selected by invited curators and/our by the festival management.

VIDEO ARCHIVE
The DVD copies sent for entry will not be returned, becoming a part of the video archive of the Associacao Cultural Mix Brasil, which is opened for visitation by appointment only. There will be no public screenings for any purposes of the videos in the archive. All screening requests will be forwarded to the producers/distributors and subjected to their approval.

GONG SHOW
If your film is not selected for the festival's regular program but you wish to participate in the Gong Show, you should advise the festival organizers upon recieval of the notification.

PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL
It is not necessary to send pictures of your film at time of submission, but it is obligatory for all selected films. Pictures sent by email should be TIFF or JPEG format and high resolution (at least 300 dpi).

Films selected for the International Panorama should be accompanied by a photo of the director and her/his filmography.

You are also encouraged to enclose a synopsis, production credits and press information regarding your film or video. While traditional Press Kits (paper) are accepted, Electronic Press Kits (on DVD) are preferable.

Press materials should arrive at the festival no later than September 15, 2008.

SUBTITLES
All selected films must send, no later than September 15, a list (in .doc format) of dialogues in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Exhibition copies of films that are not in English or Portuguese must have subtitles in English or Portuguese, unless another arrangement has been previously agreed upon with the festival organizers.

All foreign films will be screened with electronic subtitles in Portuguese and the festival does not make transcriptions from screeners. Therefore, a list of dialogue is obligatory.

The festival does not provide electronic subtitling for the Brazilian Competition Program which will be evaluated by an international jury. Therefore, the exhibition copies of the films selected for the Brazilian Competition program must have subtitles in English.

SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES
All 2008 entries (submissions and pre-selected films) will be handled by Without a Box, a network for filmmakers to directly access film festivals, film buyers, and film audiences throughout the world and to manage those relationships and transactions from a central console. Participants must create an account at their website (www.withoutabox.com) and submit the film by July 20 (foreign submissions) or July 31 (Brazilian submissions).

After submitting your film at Without A Box's website you must send a preview tape, with the tracking number given to you when submission is completed, to the following address:

Associacao Cultural Mix Brasil
Praca Americo Jacomino, 81
Sao Paulo, SP 05437-010
Brasil

Narrative, documentary, experimental and animated films and videos (feature, medium-length and shorts) are accepted in 35mm, 16mm, Beta NTSC and DVD.

Only 1/2" VHS or DVD will be accepted for preview screening. If your final exhibition format is video, do not submit your master to us. We are not responsible for any master tapes. If you are submitting DVD, please format in MPEG video using the codec of your choice. Neither QuickTime (.mov) or Microsoft (.avi) files are accepted. Please test consumer burned DVD on several makes and models of players before sending it to our offices.

Preview cassettes and DVDs must be labeled with the title, running time and contact information (including name, address and phone number).

Rough cuts and works-in-progress are eligible for submission if an exhibition print or tape will be available by October 20, 2008. Please label the tape or DVD "Rough Cut" and specify what is missing. Please be aware that an updated version of your rough cut MAY NOT be able to be re-screened for submission consideration.

SELECTED FILMS
The final list of selected films will be announced by September 20. Foreign films may be notified before this date.

Exhibition copies (in the same format that was indicated on the entry form) should be sent by October 29, 2008, to the address that was specified before selection.

If the exibition copy of your film is on 35 or 16mm please ask for special instruction before sending the print.

To avoid problems with Brazilian customs please follow the shipping instructions given by the festival management.

If your copy is not available by the above date, you should contact the Festival Mix Brasil by the end of September, arrange the copy's arrival on the scheduled date, and provide contact information for the person or organization responsible for the copy being sent.

Festival Mix Brasil only covers the freight for the return of copies to their origin or to another festival, unless another arrangement has been previously agreed upon with the festival organizers.

ATTENDING THE FESTIVAL
Within its budgetary limitations, the festival offers four nights stay in a hotel as well as some meals for one representative of a film. The arrival of this representative should be confirmed by September 30.

If you would like to extend your stay, come with an additional person, or ask for accommodation beyond the time specified above, the festival organizers can arrange reduced prices for your extra stay in the hotel.

The festival takes care of transportation of all invited guests to and from the airport, provided they arrive and leave between the 12th and the 24th of November.

Participants are responsible for Brazilian entry visas, which in some cases must be arranged several weeks before arrival. The festival will send an invitation letter if it is needed.

AWARDS
Films selected for the Panorama Internacional and Curta Mix Brasil sections compete for the Silver Rabbit Award chosen by the audience in the categories of Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Foreign Short, and Best Brazilian Film. Films selected for the Mostra Competitiva Brasil compete for the Silver Rabbit Award chosen by a jury comprised of cinema professionals.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
By submitting your work, you grant to Mix Brasil a nonexclusive license to use an excerpt of your submission tape of up to two minutes in length, for promotional purposes only, including internet and television broadcast.