The Rules
The final date for submissions is August 1st 2010 at midnight GMT. The Winner will be announced in August 2010
• You should be over 16
• This competition is open to residents of the world
• Each entry must be no longer than 40.0 seconds, but may be any length shorter than 40.0 seconds including the end title card
• Entries can be shot on any media
• Each user may submit unlimited entries.
• Each entry must include the end title card supplied here. This must play at the end for 3 seconds.
• Entrants must ensure that before submission they have obtained all licences and clearances (including, but not limited to, copyrights, artist rights, usage rights, performance rights) to allow all elements of the film to be screened in public across all media, including broadcast, cinema, web and wireless.
• Entrants must ensure that they obtain a signed release form from every single person who appears in or contributes to the submitted film. Raindance.tv and MasterCard reserve the right to request to see these forms and failure to provide a form for every or any participant may result in disqualification from the Competition.
• Entries which contain material of an unfavourable, illegal, explicit sexual or violent nature and/or where such inclusion prevents the viewing of the material at any time of day by people of any age, or anything defamatory or likely to incite violence, bigotry or racial prejudice, will be rejected.
• All Entries will be considered for competition selection by Raindance.tv, InterCasino and its agents. All selection decisions are final and at the discretion of Raindance.tv, InterCasino and its agents
• All films selected for competition will be judged by a jury assembled by InterCasino and Raindance.tv which will select the shortlist and winner of the main prize. All entrants will be notified as to whether they have been selected for Competition, the shortlist or as a winner. All decisions made by the jury are final and at the sole discretion of the jury.
• Entrants who are shortlisted for prizes will be required to send a high resolution version of their submission by post
• All entrants whose films are selected for Competition grant an unfettered, irrevocable, royalty-free, exclusive licence to InterCasino and Raindance.tv from the date of submission until 25 November 2010 and a subsequent unfettered, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive 24 month licence to MasterCard and Raindance.tv, from 27 November 2010, in all media for their films. Please note that any third party material will need to be licensed on this basis too (e.g. any Music Track licensed for use in the film)
• Entrants whose films have been selected for Competition may, during the exclusive licence period, publish their films only on their own web sites, which are promoted under their own name and hosted by themselves.
• Once the competition is over you will be required to remove the End Title Card from your Film in any future use of it.
• Any entry which does is not selected for Competition cannot be used or published in any way by anyone including the person who made and submitted the film without first removing any reference to the Competition, Raindance, InterCasino or other Competition Partners, including but not limited to end title cards, logos and tag-lines.
• Any user found to be abusing these rules will be barred from the competition.
• See a list of competition prizes here
For further information, please contact Raindance.tv










