Pink Apple Short Film Award
The Pink Apple Short Film Award is a 2000 Swiss Francs cash prize. The Pink Apple jury will select the winner from a shortlist of preselected finalists. The competition is open to films under 30 minutes in length, which have been produced not more than 2 years ago and are about gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender issues. To submit entry, send us the completed submission form and a preview copy of your film (DVD or online-screener). Please send the DVD together with a printout of the submission form to Pink Apple, P.O. Box 264, 8024 Zurich, Switzerland. Submit the link to the online-screener with the form. The arrival deadline for submission is 20 February. For detailed information, please read our regulations for participation.
Regulations for participation
1. Eligibility of Films
a) Films must have a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender content
b) Films must have been produced not more than 2 years ago
c) Films must not exceed a running time of 30 minutes
d) Priority for entry will be given to films premiering in Switzerland at the festival
2. Entries, Preview Copy, Online Screener
Entries can be accepted only if they include both the completed submission form (available from www.pinkapple.ch) and a preview copy (DVD or online screener). Arrival deadline for entries is 20 February. Participants will be informed at the beginning of April about the final selection.
3. Costs
The costs of transport, including customs fees, insurance of all prints, tapes or screeners offered for selection, must be borne by the producers or responsible authorities. Screeners will not be returned. Neither an entry fee nor a projection fee will be charged.
4. Responsibility of the Festival
In the event of damage or loss of an exhibition copy, either during the selection process or at the festival itself, the festival is only responsible for the costs involved in making a new copy according to the current rates for ordering a standard exhibition copy.
5. Documentation
For each selected film, the festival must receive detailed documentation within the deadline. This should include a synopsis of the film, a selection of stills from the film and a filmography, CV and photo of the director.
6. Programming
The programming of the selected films is entirely at the discretion of the festival board, whose decision is non-debatable. Films may be screened several times during the festival.
7. Obligations after Selection
After publication of the film selection, films may not be withdrawn from the festival programme nor may be screened in Switzerland before the end of the festival.
8. Jury
To select the winner of the Pink Apple Short Film Award (a cash prize of 2000 Swiss Francs), a Jury will be appointed. Jury decisions will be made with an absolute majority, or, failing that, with a relative majority reached by a third ballot. Jury members are sworn to secrecy. Jury discussions and ballots will remain strictly confidential even after the festival has ended.
9. Promotion of the Awards
By participating in the competition, the award winners and their production and distribution companies are expected to mention, nationally as well as internationally, on their publicity and promotional material the title of the award as announced at the prize-giving, together with the official festival logo. This is also expected if the film is released on DVD, BluRay or for streaming.
10. Right of Participation
Participation in the festival implies adherence to the regulations listed herein. It is the responsibility of producers, distributors, or other organizations submitting a film to ensure that they are legitimately entitled to enter a film in the festival. The festival reserves the right to settle all cases unforeseen in the regulations of participation, as well as to permit exceptions from the regulations in special, well founded cases.
Zurich, April 2015