FESTIVAL DES 3 CONTINENTS 2020
REGULATIONS
Submission Requirements
Directors must originate or be nationals of an African, Latin American or Asian country. Films must be at least 45
minutes in length. Films submitted for the International competition must have been completed after 1st November
2019 and be unreleased in France (no programming in Festivals, commercial screening, no TV or VoD broadcasting)
before the opening of the Festival des 3 Continents.
Editorial LineThe Festival des 3 Continents accepts all fiction and all documentary films, whatever the subject, type or form.
However, we invite applicants to become acquainted themselves with the Festival’s editorial project by consulting theselection and programming of previous years on the Festival’s website. The Festival does not select news programs,
documentaries or reports of a journalistic nature, promotional or corporate films. Particular attention is paid to films
seeking distribution in France.
Registration
Festival entry free is €12. All the films submitted for preselection must be registered through the online registration
form, until September 2nd 2019. They must be in the original language with either English or French subtitles. If a
DVD is sent, expenses are to be paid for by the sender (indicate on the envelope «No commercial value. For cultural
purposes only» in the case of DVD sent from abroad). DVDs won’t be returned.
SelectionFilmmakers having their film selected at the festival will be personally contacted. Filmmakers whose films have notbeen selected at the festival will not be personally contacted. The official selection will be published on the festival’s
website in November.
Print, Screening Equipment and Subtitling
The print of the selected film must be in 35mm or 16mm format with optical sound or in digital form (preferably DCP
2K, HD PRO RES or Blu-ray). The Festival gives preference to the format used in the original screening of thefinished work. Only copies in perfect condition will be accepted. Selected films are screened in the original languagewith French subtitles. For films either subtitled in English or with no subtitles, the Festival will provide subtitling from alist of dialogues in French, English or the original language provided by the sales agent, the producer or the rights
holder of the film. Prints of the films in the International Competition must be available until the last day of theFestival.
The films are made available to the Festival free of charge. The Festival will cover the cost both ways of the shipmentof the prints, except when the film is shipped at the end of the Festival to a destination different from that of origin, in
which case the Festival will cover the cost of shipment only to Nantes. The Festival will cover the insurance costs ofthe prints during transport and their storage during the Festival. In case of loss or damage during this period, theresponsibility of the Festival will be limited to the replacement value of the print in accordance with the rates
applicable in the country of origin.
Documentation
Documentation must be submitted to the Festival offices for publication in the catalogue. In the absence ofinstructions to the contrary, the information given on the film’s registration form (at the moment of preselection) is
reproduced in the catalogue and the other communication material of the Festival. Submitted photographs, inparticular for the catalogue and other publications of the Festival, may be used free of charge by the media, in any of
the Festival’s promotional documents and on its website. Must also be supplied, with express permission from theproducer and free of charge, a HD file with a 2 to 3 min extract of the film (without watermark), for television
broadcasting and also possibly on the Festival website, during and after the Festival, uniquely for promotion of theFestival des 3 Continents.
PrizesThe Montgolfière d’or, worth 6,000 €, awarded by the Festival des 3 Continents and the City of Nantes.
The Montgolfière d’argent, worth 4,000 €, awarded by the Festival des 3 Continents and Loire-Atlantique
Departmental Council.
The Wik-Fip Public Choice Prize, worth 1,500 €, awarded by Wik and Fip.

The Youth Jury Prize worth 1,000 €, awarded by Festival des 3 Continents.
Promotion
During commercial screening of a film, the producer and director agree to mention in the credits and all advertisingand promotional material the words « In Competition at the Festival des 3 Continents – Nantes » and in the case of
an award-winning film, full wording of the prize awarded, followed by the year in which the film was presented at theFestival.
Films participating in the Festival represent only their director and / or their producer and / or their future distributor towhom are implicitly destined the distinctions mentioned under the heading « Awards ». These films, presented to thepublic by the Festival and under the responsibility of the organizing association, cannot consequently be considered
as officially committing or representing towards the Festival the governments or states of whom the directors orproducers are nationals.
The 3 CONTINENTS Association, organizer of the Festival des 3 Continents, has the power to settle all cases notprovided for in the present regulations. It reserves the right to interrupt, suppress or postpone the event or to modify
these regulations at any time, depending on its operating requirements. In this case, no compensation of any kind will
be granted to participants. The present document is drawn up in French and English. In case of dispute concerninginterpretation of the text, the French version will prevail. Participation in the Festival des 3 Continents implies
acceptance of the afore mentioned regulations.