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AWARDS AND HONORS 2008

The Official Sections Awards will be decided by its juries. These prizes will be given and not be granted ex-aequo.

The Feature Films and Short Films juries will not be able to give more than two awards to the same film.

The Documentaries jury will not be able to give more than one award to the same film.

Audience Award will be based solely on spectators voting after the screenings.

There is no right of appeal against the juries and audience vote decisions.

The Awards of the 13th edition of the Festival are:

FEATURE FILMS
  • Grand Prize for the Best Film
  • Audience Prize for the Best Film
  • "Carlos Velo" Prize for the Best Director
  • Jury Special Prize
  • Prize for the Best Script
  • Prize for the Best Actress
  • Prize for the Best Actor
DOCUMENTARIES
  • Grand Prize for the Best Documentary
  • Prize for the Best Director
  • Prize for the Documentary that better expresses the diversity and the integration among cultures
SHORT FILMS
  • Grand Prize for the Best Short Film
  • Audience Prize for the Best Short Film
  • Prize for the Best Director
  • Prize for the Best Actress
  • Prize for the Best Actor
ANIMATION FILMS

Grand Prize for the Best Animation Film

NEW MEDIA

Grand Prize for the Innovation in audiovisual productions

EIXO ATLÁNTICO AWARD

The festival will grant an aditional special prize to the best film produced in Galicia or Portugal of anyone of the previous mentioned categories.

All winners will be awarded with an additional award statuette. The winner or a representative must attend the Festival’s closing ceremony to pick up the statuette.


Note:
The amount of the prizes will be published soon, at this Festival website: www.ourencine.org


10. GENERAL CONDITIONS

The movies selected for the competition in the official sections are also elegible for other awards offered by institutions, organizations and companies. Decission on these awards given by organizations other than the Festival are also inappealable.

All awards are subject to the Spanish fiscal regulations currently in force. All awarded persons and companies, must send to the festival all necessary information and documents within 90 days from the festival closing date, to ensure that the fiscal requirements are upheld.

In case that the awarded ones do not send the required information and/or documents within the indicated period, they will not have right for any compensation.





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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


The Festival is entitled to make decisions on all matters not contemplated in this document or over any issue that might arise and that might need clarification.

Applying and registering to the 13th edition of the Ourense International Film Festival implies full compliance of these requirements, rules and regulations by the participants, their agents and representatives.

The Festival can edit any additional rules or dispositions that it deems necessary for its better outcome.  The responsibility for the interpretation and application of these rules and norms rests on the festival organization, which has the right to decide over unforeseen circumstances not covered in these regulations, including any existed doubts. In case of litigation, only the courts of the city of Ourense will be competent and have jurisdiction.

If a competitor was breaking the regulations of the festival or in response to conducts that affect the good development of the event, the organization will be able to cancel the participation of his movie.

Winning films will have to include in their credits and promotional material, specifically, a mention about the award won at the Ourense Film Festival.

With the authorization of the person or entity that has registered the movie, expressed on having refilled his entry form, the festival will be able to exhibit the above mentioned movie in its not competitive programming.  

Awarded films will have the obligation to include a special mention to the award obtained at the Ourense International Film Festival in all their credits and promotional materials.

With the previous communication to the author/s and/or producers the Festival reserves its right to exhibit copies of films registered in the competition within the geographic region of Galicia for cultural, educational, non-commercial and non-profit purposes such as case studies for film schools, school educational materials, Festival promotion, etc.