Film Impact Georgia Rally
Official Rules
To enter the Rally and become a "Contestant", each entrant must abide by the following rules and agrees to be bound by same:
- The entrant must have a short film in development, pre-production, production, or post.
- The entrant must raise a minimum of $2,500 in cash and obtain 250 followers on the Site to qualify for the finals.
- Entrant must post a minimum of 2 updates per week for their followers throughout the duration of the contest. At least 1 of the total updates must be video content.
Each entrant must be willing and able to agree to these Rally Official Rules at time of entry and throughout the Rally, with the understanding that the Rally finalists will be required to sign contracts containing the Rally Official Rules (and other terms that Rally organizers deem reasonable and necessary relating to the disbursement of prizes and prize money)); failure to so agree will result in any entrant (including any finalist) being disqualified from the Rally.
Film Impact Georgia takes pride in a diverse and inclusive environment across all of our programs and communities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for participation without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.
Prizes
The Rally winner will be chosen from among the finalists, and will be eligible to receive: (i) matching funds up to $5,000; (ii) mentorship from select FIG and TI mentors; (iii); (iv).
Finalist Conditions
In order to be considered as a finalist, the entrant must provide a final budget and reasonable supporting materials for the entrant's project, including, without exception: an accounting of funds available to and used by entrant in furtherance of the project, and what funds remain necessary to complete entrant's project.
Additional Conditions
The Rally winner must have the right to and agree that Seed&Spark and Film Impact Georgia will receive a company credit (which may be animated), on screen, on a separate card, substantially in the form of "In association with Seed&Spark and Film Impact Georgia", the size, placement and duration of such credit can be at the filmmakers discretion. If an entrant has a fiscal sponsor attached or associated with such entrant's project, it is the sole responsibility of the entrant to ensure that winning the Rally would not negatively affect such fiscal sponsorship or sponsor, and the entrant must provide proof of same to the Rally organizers upon becoming a finalist.
The Rally winner must comply with certain terms and conditions of additional grand and local prizes, as determined by the contributing sponsor. This may include providing proof of appropriate insurance, adding additional company logos in the end credits, and other terms and conditions deemed appropriate by the contributing sponsors. Failure to comply with these additional terms and conditions may result in forfeiture of some or all prizes. Seed&Spark may share basic contact information (name, email) with grand prize sponsors.
As a condition precedent to becoming a Contestant, each entrant hereby agrees that with respect to the Rally and such entrant's Rally submission only, Seed&Spark's Terms of Service Section XVII shall be amended so that all rights granted and representations/warranties made to "Seed&Spark" or "Company" shall extend to the Film Impact Georgia, Trilith Institute and its (and, for the avoidance of doubt, Seed&Spark's) parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees, advertising and promotion partners and agencies.
Failure by any entrant to comply with the above shall result in disqualification from the Rally, with no further obligation or liability on the Rally organizers whatsoever.