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Japan Wildlife Film Festival 2013

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JWFF is the largest wildlife film festival in Asia. This year like the past years joining is free. The purpose of the

festival is to encourage international wildlife production by honoring the very best films. The Festival aspires tostrengthen worldwide networking among wildlife filmmakers, especially those in Asiancountries. For the general

public, Japan Wildlife Film Festival aims to increase awareness of the need to protect and conserve our natural

environment by screening the films.

This year the festival will be held on August 8, Thursday until August 11, Sunday of the same year. It will be held at

Toyama International Conference Centre, Japan. All of Toyo Japan and the whole country are excited every year on

the said festival.Nature Film Network is this years organizer of Japan Wildlife Film Festival in cooperation with

Wildscreen (UK), Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival (USA), UNEP. Entrants automatically grant approval for

their productions to be retained by the Festival organizer and will be shown at non-profit public screenings to

promote JWFF and charitable event to promote the conservation of nature through wildlife films during and outside

of the Festival. An admission fee may be levied to cover venue and administration costs. The Festival organizersreserve the right to add a voice-over or Japanese subtitle to the films selected for those screenings. The costs will be

covered by the Festival. JWFF expects all applicants to secure music and talent rights to their films for festival

exhibition. It is the sole responsibility of the entity submitting the project to secure permission from the copyright

holder of the material in question. JWFF will not be held responsible for any inclusion of uncleared copyrighted

materials in your film. Entries will not be returned. They will be retained in the film library by the Festival. If you

would like to have your entry returned, it should be indicated on your entry form and the return postage enclosed.

The deadline for entry registration ended last October 31, 2012. On-line entry is always available on JWFF official

website. Judging will be fair and square, entries will be screened and judged by the Judging Committee. Entries

selected by the committee will be nominated as finalists for awards then finalists will be notified by the Festival

office as soon as possible after the selection. During the Festival, films will be judged in relation to each award by

the International Judging Committee. Award winners will be announced on August 11th at the Gala Ceremony

which closes the Festival. Nominees cannot be revealed yet or shown yet to the public. Nominated films will only be

made available for public screenings during the Festival. Nominees will be notified and asked to submit the highest

quality format available with HDCam, or DigiBeta copy of the master to produce Japanese subtitled version. One

person for each finalist film will be invited to the Festival with his/her accommodation and travel in Tokyo and all

over Japan covered by the Festival organizer. Please note that expenses outside and to/from Japan will be paid by

the finalist. After the Festival, all works of the finalist films will be retained by the Festival organizer, and will be

shown at non-profit screenings in line with the purposes of the Festival. In some cases, a small admission charge

may be made to cover administration costs. No film may be withdrawn from the festival programme after its

selection. The awards will be, Best of Festival Grand, Best Animal Behavior, Best Underwater, Best

Cinematography, Best Underwater Cinematography, Best Nature and People, BestEnvironmental Conservation,

Best Educational, Best Animation, Best Childrens, Best AsiaOceania, Toyama Ptarmigan Award (by audience

poll). The judging committee, at its discretion, may present special awards to deserving films which do not qualify

in any of the categories listed above. The submission of an entry registration for the Festival implies full acceptance

of these rules. Should any matter come into dispute, only the Japanese version of these rules will be valid and any

such dispute must be settled under Japanese law. Everyone in Tokyo Japan and in the word is definitely looking

forward to watch the Films.

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