San Sebastian Festival 2017 - POSTER COMPETITION

Jan 23, 2017 | by InfoDesigners

The winners have been announced on 20/02/2017

Poster competition titled San Sebastian Festival 2017 is calling for entries. Below you can find all details about this competition:

San Sebastian Festival calls its 6th online poster competition to provide the official image of its 65th edition seeking to encourage creativity and participation and to foster greater reach of the event.

About competition

The Festival seeks to encourage creativity and participation and to foster greater reach of the event. The competition is open to all designers who wish to present their proposals for the above-mentioned sections and the public will vote for their favourite posters.

A jury will choose one winner and up to four finalists in each category and there will be a prize draw among voters of the proposals.

There are five categories in which you can participate:

• New Directors
• Zabaltegi - Tabakalera
• Horizontes Latinos
• Pearls
• Culinary Zinema

Participants are free to submit posters for as many categories as they wish. They can also submit as many posters as they wish for each category.

Posters must be original and unpublished and must not have been submitted for other competitions. The author of the poster must own the rights to the images and elements used in the poster or they must be freely usable resources. Posters must be submitted in vertical JPG format measuring a minimum of 1361 x 1927 and a maximum of 2825 x 4000 pixels. They must not weigh more than 8 Mb.
Posters in a different archive format, medium, pixel size or proportions to those indicated will be automatically rejected.

It is important to give the poster a “title” for reference purposes when the proposal goes on display for public voting. This title will be requested as mandatory on the poster submission form.

All proposals submitted will be revised and approved by the San Sebastian Festival. During the proposal approval period the poster authors will receive email notification of whether their proposals have been accepted or rejected.

The Festival will place particular importance on the originality of the proposals, their design, composition and visual impact. Therefore recommends that the proposals submitted avoid recurring elements in the film world, such as clapperboards, film, reels and the usual local images.

A jury will decide the winning posters of the "Poster competition – 65th San Sebastian Festival 2017" from among the 20 potential finalists in each section on 14 March 2017. There is no entry fee for this competition.

Eligibility

This competition is open to all designers worldwide.

Award

The winner (or winners) will receive a prize of 1.000 Euro, that's approximately 1,070 USD per poster selected for each section.

Moreover, a draw will be held among all users whose votes coincide with the winning poster in each section. Five prizes will be awarded (1 per section). The prize in each case is a 10-session voucher for the Festival and a set of publications issued for the 65th San Sebastian Festival.

For all further informations about the competition San Sebastian Festival 2017 or to submit your works visit the following official website: