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Ø Hosted by： Foreign Affairs Office of the People’s
Government of Beijing Municipality
Information Office of Beijing Municipality
Taiwan Affairs Office of the People’s
Government of Beijing Municipality
Beijing Students Federation
Documentary Academic Committee of China Television Artists Association
Beijing TV Station
Ø Organized by： BTV Documentary HD Channel
BQ magazine
Ø Time: Dec. 2012 – Dec. 2013
The 2013 Trans-Pacific University Students Mini Documentary Competition (“Youth Documentary”) will run from December 2012 to December 2013 in Beijing. Since the opening of the competition, it has become a great documentary event for young Chinese people. It encourages numerous young people to participate in creating documentaries, and simultaneously offers a high level platform for documentary talents to display and issue their creative works. This year’s competition will be hosted by Beijing Students Federation, the Foreign Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality, Documentary Academic Committee of China Television Artists Association and Beijing TV Station, and organized by BTV Documentary HD Channel and Beijing Students Federation.
Questions & Answers:
1. Who may participate?
Participants must be registered students at colleges/universities in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and cities in the Trans-Pacific region. Simultaneously, participants may be individuals or teams of up to the film members.
2. Are There any Restrictions on Content?
1) There are no restrictions on the content or theme, but the works must not contain racist, politically or religiously biased, gratuitously violent or pornographic material.
2) The contents and themes of all the entries must be made to comply with the related laws of the host country.
3) All the submissions should be original works finished after August 2012. The participant should be the creator, and co-authors may jointly enter the competition. The competitors should own the copyrights of their works. The Organizing Committee shall not bear legal liabilities covering (but not limited to) the right of portrait, reputation, privacy, copyright, trademark, etc., and the participants should take on related legal responsibilities.
4) The information provided by the competitors on the application form should be authentic and lawful; in their application, all participants should follow the regulations listed in the participation specifications.
5) Each work submitted should be categorized according to its running time: mini documentary (less than 9 minutes), short film (10 to 30 minutes) and full-length film (over 31 minutes). Outstanding full-length films will be shown during this activity and recommended by the Organizing Committee to specialized channels to be purchased and broadcast.
6) Each work submitted should be titled and its title shall be regarded as a part of the work. The author should give a description of the shooting background and the story behind its shooting as an attached article of up to 800 words.
3. How to enter?
There are three steps:
1) The application form can be downloaded from http://www.btv.org/download/qcdjl.doc. After completing the form, send an e-edition to the official e-mailbox: youthdocumentary@vip.sina.com；
2) Entries should be recorded in DVD with three copies and the film clips may be recorded in DVD or CD. There are two video formats that you can choose from: (1) HD MPG file with resolution of no less than 1280:720 (resolution of 1920:1080 is recommended); (2) QuickTime（MOV）format with H264 video decoding.
3) The CD entries should be posted, noted as “Youth Documentary,” to the following address:
Ms Sun Yixin, BTV Documentary HD Chanel, No. 98A, Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. Post Code: 100022 .
At the same time, please send an electronic version of the work or download link or web link to: youthdocumentary@vip.sina.com
4) The manuscripts of all entries shall be reserved by their authors. The Committee shall not return the entries in any case.
4. Deadline for Entries: September 20, 2013. (Judged by the date of the local postmark)
5. Are there any regulations on the copyrights of the entries?
For the selected entries, if there is no special declaration from the participant(s) concerned, the Organizing Committee and its partners shall have the rights of displaying, exhibiting and broadcasting on public media, and also have the rights of compiling or publishing them without any payment; these works can also be used for non-commercial activities, such as public welfare advertising and art education; the videos, static images, copies with Chinese/English subtitles and trailers of the entries may also be used by the Organizing Committee for publicizing and exhibition afterwards. Once the entries are submitted to the competition, their participants are deemed to have accepted all the items in this regulation. The Organizing Committee reserves all the rights for final explanation, change of competition review, and replevy of the awarded titles, reward money and prizes.
6. What is the judging process?
1) Qualification Review
The Organizing Committee will examine the qualifications of the entries and inform those who submitted them to make any necessary supplements or corrections. The applicants should finish the required corrections within 10 workdays. For those who fail to make the supplements or corrections within 10 days, or who still cannot meet the criteria after doing the required supplements and corrections, their works will be removed from the competition.
2) Awarding Evaluation
All entries shall be collectively reviewed and voted on by the Jury Panel. The awards list will come out after the vote. The voting will be carried out anonymously with a system of “one person one vote”.
3) Notification
After the final review session, the Office of the Organizing Committee will inform the participants of the results via e-mail, telephone or fax.
7. What kinds of people make upthe Jury Panel?
There are 17 panel members including outstanding scholars and documentary directors. The awarding evaluation will be open, just and fair.
8. What awards shall be available?
1) Awards:
² 2 Grand Awards
² 2 Special Awards
² 5 Special Recommended Awards
² 1 Best Camerawork Award
² 1 Best Editing Award
² 1 Jury Recommended Best Director Award
² 1 Best Sound Award
² 1 Most Popular Online Award
² 2 Best Spread Awards
2) Prizes:
All award winners will be presented with high quality modern photographic equipment. (In 2012, the prizes were Leica cameras.) Exchange activities will be organized for both Chinese and overseas prize-winners if possible.
9. Other notifications
1) Universities and institutes are encouraged to organize or recommend students to join collectively.
2) The Competition is not responsible for any loss or damage of the entries during posting, or for any loss, error or damage of the entries caused by any other unavoidable factor.
3) After the list of awards is released, the organization committee will inform the winners. The award will be regarded as being forgone automatically if the award is not confirmed and claimed within two weeks after the notification is sent.
4) The official website will advise the participants of any changes to requirements or regulations. Any contestant who does not agree to such change(s) must withdraw from the competition. Those who don’t inform the organization committee of withdrawal within seven workdays after the announcement will be regarded as accepting the changes.
5) Entries with Chinese and English subtitles are welcomed.
The Organizing Committee of 2013 Trans-Pacific University Students Mini Documentary Competition
Address：BTV Documentary HD Channel
No. 98A Jianguo Road
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Postcode: 100022
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WeChat ID: btvqingchundejilu 
Sina Weibo: @青春的纪录 http://weibo.com/u/2685658973
Mobile: +8613011299741 (Ms. Qin lei)
Office: 010-85337341
Fax: 010-85338828 (please add note: “for Ms. Qin Lei ONLY”)
Email： qingchundejilu@126.com
Website: youthdocumentary.btv.com.cn
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