Please review all of the Unique Perspectives Film Festival Rules & Terms before submitting. By submitting your project to the festival, you are agreeing to ALL of the following Rules and Terms in full. If you have any questions, please contact us.
By submitting your film, you, or an individual acting on your behalf (“you”), acknowledge and agree that you have read and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (“Terms”) below in full. You represent and warrant that you have the authority to agree to these Terms. Failure to adhere to these rules and guidelines will result in disqualification and forfeiture of any paid entry fees and/or eligible prize. In addition, you agree to receive emails from Unique Perspectives Film Festival, the festival parent company -Inner Tiger Creative LLC, and film festival partners.
By entering this contest, you authorize us to use any trusted third-party, online and cloud-based services and databases for hosting, organizing, tracking, managing, reviewing, and/or transmitting your submission file(s).
Entrants grant Unique Perspectives Film Festival permission to use their name, likeness, contact information provided, submitted work's title, logline, trailer, and judging results for publicity and promotional purposes. Contest participation signifies entrants' consent for Unique Perspectives Film Festival, its agents, and partners to use their information for promotional purposes in any media, globally, without payment or consideration. All use of entrants’ information is in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Errors and omissions: If there is a discrepancy between information in various locations, the FilmFreeway site will serve as a document of record.
Contestants represent and warrant that they have obtained all required copyright permissions for music, sound, images, etc., presented in their film, and that the film can legally be screened at UPFF’s online festival. By entering your film for consideration in the UPFF, you represent and warrant that your entry is your original work and does not infringe on the copyright, intellectual property, or rights of any third parties or entities, and that your submission is cleared for festival exhibition and assume full legal responsibility for the intellectual property therein.
Applicant(s) agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Unique Perspectives Film Festival, uniqueperspectivesfilmfest.com, Inner Tiger Creative LLC, its judges, screenplay readers, prize contributors, affiliates, staff, independent contractors, sponsors and partners, and any other organizations responsible for administering, advertising or promoting the Festival, and every one of their respective members, directors, employees, agents and representatives (collectively, the “Released Parties”) past and present, individually and collectively, from and against all claims, demands, losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including legal fees and court costs) arising out of or in connection with any and all claims, or third party claims, based on stories, screenplays, or films submitted to the Unique Perspectives Film Festival including but not limited to damages and negligence to property and persons, invasion of privacy, defamation, slander, libel, violation of right of publicity, copyright, infringement of trademark or other intellectual property rights relating to a participant’s Entry, participation in the contest and/or acceptance, use or misuse of Prize. Applicant(s) understand that it is their sole responsibility to copyright and protect their own submitted material. You affirm that your entry is entirely your own work and does not infringe upon any existing copyrights.
All entrants acknowledge and agree that there is a diverse range of story contexts, ideas, plots, themes, and formats. Unique Perspectives Film Festival, along with its officers, employees, representatives, sponsors, judges, and affiliates, are in no way responsible, now or in the future, for borrowing or stealing from an idea, copyrighted concepts, or storylines from a submitted script or film entry. The material submitted to the competition is solely at the risk of the individual registering, entering, or providing written or filmed material for scoring, analysis, judgment, or commentary.
UPFF recommends that original material be registered with the WGA or The Library of Congress prior to submission, however, UPFF does not require registration in order to submit.
UPFF RIGHTS
Unique Perspectives Film Festival reserves the right to make essential changes, postponements, reschedules, or cancellations to competition dates, deadlines, announcements, awards, categories, and/or the festival venue at our discretion without contestant consent. The organizers may modify or opt not to award any listed prizes. Unique Perspectives reserves the right to amend our rules, terms, release agreements, and conditions at any time.
Unique Perspectives Film Festival reserves the right to add, change, or remove any members of the judging panel at any time, while still ensuring the contest’s high-quality evaluation standards are consistently upheld. Unique Perspectives Film Festival and the employees and judges thereof, claims no ownership nor option on your work. All ownership and rights to film projects submitted to this festival remain with the original rights holders.
UPFF reserves the right to disqualify any submission without refund, even after a film has been invited to screen and final programming has been announced. Unique Perspectives Film Festival will not be held liable for any costs claimed as a result of a change in festival schedule or venue.
UPFF will not be held liable for any failure in technical issues or quality of the projections during the screening, nor will fees be refunded in any such case. Unique Perspectives is not responsible for any shipping expenses incurred for the film’s requested Digital Cinema Package, if required, nor are we liable for any damage to or loss of festival screeners.
UPFF does not pay screening fees for submitted films. By submitting your project, you acknowledge that UPFF will not pay to present your work, if selected.
JUDGING AND NOTIFICATION
Unique Perspectives Film Festival employs a panel of judges, consisting of industry professionals, to evaluate the submissions. Please understand that due to industry demands and schedules, the composition of our judging panel may change throughout the contest and evaluation process. The decisions of the judges are final and cannot be contested in any manner. There is no score on a scorecard that guarantees advancement to the festival.
Please be aware that feedback is subjective, based on the judge's experience, preferences, and knowledge. All written or verbal coverage, critique, criticism, or analysis of submitted material is provided subjectively and based upon objective standards applied to the material under consideration. Our Judges are instructed and agree to evaluate films based on our standard Judging Procedure; however, Unique Perspectives Film Festival and its administrators cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions on the part of the Judges. All feedback files are final, and we cannot offer any updates on them.
Comments provided by judges, readers, administrators, or other Unique Perspectives employees are strictly based on personal opinion and do not represent the opinions of management. Management, festival directors, judges, readers, and administrators assume no responsibility for the academic, creative, professional, economic, emotional impact or consequences of the opinions provided.
We place no restrictions on your work in terms of premiere status, whether your work has been made available online, or whether your work has been screened at other festivals.
BINDING ARBITRATION:
By entering this film festival, you agree that any and all disputes, claims, or causes of action arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use, including any claims related to prizes, eligibility, or intellectual property, will be resolved exclusively through final and binding arbitration. The arbitration will be conducted in Los Angeles, California, in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). The arbitration shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to any conflicts of law provisions. The arbitrator shall have exclusive authority to resolve any dispute, including but not limited to claims of contract interpretation, enforceability, and validity. The arbitration will be conducted on an individual basis, and no claim may be consolidated or joined with another party's claims, nor proceed as a class action. This arbitration clause does not preclude the parties from seeking provisional remedies, such as injunctive relief, in aid of arbitration or from enforcing the arbitrator's award in any court of competent jurisdiction. You have the right to opt-out of this arbitration agreement by sending written notice of your decision to [info@uniqueperspectivesfilmfest.com] within 30 days of accepting these Terms of Use. If you opt out, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in Los Angeles, California. The arbitrator’s decision shall be final, binding, and conclusive. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.
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