●2011 UFPFF Entry Conditions
- Entry Period
December 3 2010 – April 30 2011

- Entry Qualifications
Open for people who are students at time of the film completion. “Student”　refers to any child/pupil/student who is part of a training or education scheme for longer than 3 months.
- The work must have been created after April 2010, and has not already been awarded any prize in another Japanese competition. The theme of the film must have a connection with “Peace” or “Sustainable Society”. (i.e, a bond shared by a group of people, war and disputes, peace, natural disasters, environmental issues, global poverty and hunger, human rights, water shortages, lifestyles…etc)
- There is no restrictions on video format or genre. Real life, animation, motion or computer graphics, fiction, non-fiction, documentary, image videos – any style will be accepted.
- If languages other than Japanese or English are featured, Japanese or English subtitles must be included.
- 3 minutes is the recommended duration for each film. All films must be no shorter than 2 minutes or longer than 5 minutes.
- Team submissions are accepted, but at least 2/3 of the team members must be students, and production and planning must be handled by a student.

- How to Enter
After sending the required information through our entry form, upload your work directly onto Youtube. If you do not have a Youtube account, you will need to sign up before uploading your film work.
The screen ratio of your work will need to be 16:9 to upload onto Youtube.
(4:3 is also accepted but will show some black frames)

When uploading the film, make sure you have tagged it with “UFPFF2011″.
There must also be the UFPFF2011 logo featured at the end of the film for 2
seconds. The logo size may be altered to fit the screen size.

Logo data:
http://unitedpeople.heteml.jp/ufpff/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ufpff2011-logo800x4501.jpg

Once you have uploaded the file and it is now available to the public, contact UFPFF by the entry form. Once this is done your submission is completed. Please make sure the film has “UFPFF2011″ tagged.

Please keep a copy of the unedited copy of the data of the submitted work in case of requiring high resolution version for the screening. Submitters are asked to submit a non-edited copy of the data if their work is awarded a place in the screening.

Your Twitter account profile picture will be used to promote your film, so please make sure your face is visible on your Twitter account. If you do not have a Twitter account please create one. We ask that you comply with all of the conditions for submission.

Entry Form:
http://unitedpeople.jp/cgi-def/admin/C-102/ufpff2011/oubo2011.html

The 15 finalists are asked to resubmit their firlm on DVD. The format must be DVD-Video, Region Code 2 or Region Free, without copy guard.

PRIZES:
For the UFPFF 2011 Grand Prize, we have the following prizes prepared.
*Conditions are subject to change.

(1) Around the World Journey of Documentary Filming – 1 Winner (Around the
World ticket provided by H.I.S)
(2) Opportunity to showcase the work at 2012′s Festival (maximum 60 minutes)

*The Around the World Journey is set for between 1 and 6 months, and must
start from Japan by March 2012.
* Other prizes will be coming up.

●PROCEDURE
(1) April 30 2011 – Submissions Close
(2) Until June 30 – User Voting Period – (This will be based on Votes and Comments on Youtube)
(3) July 2011 – Announcing the First Round Winners (15 works)
(4) July to end of August 2011 – Creative Period for Official Feature Presentation
(5) September 2, 2011 – Deadline for Feature Presentation Submissions
(6) September 11 to September 21, 2011 – Feature Presentations
* Works awarded in the First Round will be compiled into a DVD, which will
be shown at screenings throughout Japan.
(7) September 21, 2011 – Grand Prize Winner Announcement
* The judging and announcement will be made in Tokyo. Each submitter is asked to present their own work, so we ask you to be available on this day. In circumstances such as living overseas, participation over Skype will be admitted.

RULES AND CONDITIONS
- Due to portrait right issues, permission from people whose faces are featured in the film must be approved before submission.
- Similarly due to copyright laws, music or materials featured in the film which is not under the ownership of the filmmaker, permission from the copyright owner or owning organisation must be granted before submission.
- If featuring material created by a third party, a written approval for its use must be posted to the festival office.
- The festival organisers will not be liable for any issues regarding breaching of portrait rights or copyright law.
- Submitted works or materials cannot be returned.
- The copyright to the submitted works will belong to the submitter, but may be used for UFPFF promotional materials such as press documents or festival pamphlets. UFPFF has the right to use these works and its titles, the names, profiles and face photo of the submitters in any way and can do so for no fee. Submitted works may be edited for use, and submitters agree they will not hold Moral Rights over their submitted work.
- The previous condition will also be taken into account even after the publicity rights (screening rights, publishing rights, etc) and derivative rights are passed onto a third party.
- Up to 3 submissions are permitted per person.
- Any work with issues surrounding copyright infringement will not be featured.

●JUDGES of UFPFF 2011
HIDEO OKUBO　- Founder & Chairperson, CIESF
http://www.ciesf.org/english.html

HIDEO SAWADA – Chairman, H.I.S.
http://g.his-j.com/

AKIRA KAWASAKI – Co-President, Peace Boat
http://www.peaceboat.org/

TAII KIN – Filmaker, musician
http://www.geocities.jp/taiiproject/

KATSUHIRO SHINOHARA – Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Cambodia

KATSUZO TAKAHASHI – Director, Japan Academy of Moving Images
http://www.eiga.ac.jp/

YUKARI TATSUMURA – Producer, GAIA SYMPHONY
http://gaiasymphony.com/

TOMOYO NONAKA – Executive director, Gaia Initiative
http://www.gaiainitiative.org/

●ORGANISING BODY
UFPFF is run by the non-profit organization United for Peace Film Festival,
which will be registered in April 2011. The management office is run by United
People (www.unitedpeople.jp/ ), a social venture company set up in 2002 to
aim at solving the world’s problems by creating connections between people.
United People has been running E-kokoro (http://www.ekokoro.jp/ ), an online
donation site to support NGO/NPOs since 2003.