FILMS IN PROGRESS RULES & REGULATIONS

Films in Progress is a joint initiative between the San Sebastian Festival and the Rencontres

Cinémas d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse aiming to facilitate the completion of Latin American films

at the post-production stage and foster their international distribution. The fact that these works

are screened for a strictly professional audience – producers, distributors, exhibitors, buyers, TV

networks, technical industries, aid funds, festival programmers and institutions – helps to

complete the productions, achieve their distribution and get them out there for viewing by the

public.

The Films in Progress rules are:

1. - Films in Progress organises two calls each year.

The first in March during the Rencontres Cinéma d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse

http://www.cinelatino.com.fr/, and the second in September at the San Sebastian Festival

http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/.

Both events circulate the calls to all of the industry professionals in their database, in addition to

publishing news of the event in the media and on their website.

2. - The calls are open to feature films totally or partially produced by Latin American countries and

currently at the post-production stage.

3. - In both of them the films are jointly selected by the selection committees from the Rencontres

Cinéma d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse and San Sebastian Festival.

4. - Potential participants can register free of charge by submitting the duly completed online

registration form. They must then send 3 DVD copies of the filmed material within the given

deadline to the address indicated for each call. If the film is in a language other than Spanish, it

must have Spanish, English or French subtitles. None of the material received will be returned. The

envelope containing the material must be clearly labelled: “Material with no commercial value. For

cultural use only”. The organisers will take no responsibility whatsoever for the delivery costs.

5. - A final selection of 6 films will be chosen from the candidates for any of the two calls. The

organisation reserves the right to increase this number where it deems appropriate.

6. - The decision taken by the committees regarding the chosen projects is final.

7. - The selected projects must confirm their presence at Films in Progress Toulouse and/or San

Sebastian. To do this, they must send the material required by the organisations for incorporation

to their catalogues and websites.