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APS APPROVAL  2025/03  |    FIAP PATRONAGE  2025/015

Audio Visual enthusiasts worldwide are cordially invited to enter the:

Adelaide AV Fest International Audio Visual Festival

The Festival will be held in Adelaide, South Australia from 25-28 March 2025.

All entrants as well as Audio Visual enthusiasts are welcome to attend – email us your contact details and we will send you more information regarding the event as soon as it becomes available.

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Conditions of Entry

There is only one category, which is “Open”.

Entrants are encouraged to explore the photographic medium and to use it to communicate their own personal vision incorporating feeling, senses and imagination to the viewer.  The photography is not restricted in any way, either in subject matter or in the manipulation allowed during the taking or reproduction stages of the photography.  However, images or sequences that contain material that is socially unacceptable, such as pornographic images, racist commentary etc are not permitted.

The sequence must be based on original photographic images. Third party images, such as historical images and maps, may be included provided they are essential to the story and cannot be photographed by the author. AI generated images are not permitted. Up to 20% by time of the sequence can be video clips if relevant to the story and not prevailing over fixed images.  Photographic images can shift or be zoomed on the screen.

Entry is open to single entrants, groups and clubs.  All participants must be disclosed on the entry form. In line with FIAP requirements, authors must be alive at the time and date of entering the festival.

No sequence that has received a FIAP Acceptance or higher award in a previous AV Fest can be entered.

Entrants may submit up to four AVs, with a maximum time of 12 minutes for any sequence and a maximum combined time of 30 minutes.
 
Data Protection
By entering this exhibition, you are explicitly consenting to the personal details you have supplied, including email addresses, being held, processed and used by the exhibition organizers for purposes associated with this exhibition. You also explicitly consent to such information being sent to organizations which have accorded official recognition, patronage or accreditation to this exhibition. You acknowledge and accept that entering this exhibition means that the status and results of your entry may be made public.

Copyright
Submission of an entry implies that the entrant has obtained any necessary licences or permission to use any copyright material included in the sequence.  All third party images must be appropriately identified and credited, consistent with each participant’s country copyright rules.
 
Resolution

• From 1024 x 685 pix (3:2 aspect ratio) up to 1920 x 1080 pix (16:9 aspect ratio) may be submitted.
• Sequences must be in MP4 format which allows them to be played on a PC without the need for the software which created them, and should close automatically once finished.
• AVs may contain the entrant’s name and should acknowledge the work of other artists (e.g. music).
• AVs are to be submitted via an internet-based computer file transfer service such as www.wetransfer.com   etc. to the following address: presidentavclubsa@gmail.com
• Enquire if you do not get an email by 4 March 2025 confirming receipt of your entry.
• Entries not received by the closing date will not be judged.
  
  No entries will be returned.
• The submission of an Entry Form/fiche implies the acceptance these rules and conditions of entry.

Your Entry
Your data transfer must contain one folder comprising the following files:

1. A FIAP Fiche completed for each sequence, with a file name corresponding with the sequence, title:  Fiche-AV-FIAP_editabile.pdf
2. Your AVs with files named correctly, i.e. sequence file has number and title only e.g. 01 Opera House.mp4, 02 Mardigras.mp4
3. A small portrait(s) of author(s) included as 512 x 768px jpg saved as e.g. Tom Jones.jpg
4. A flyer or poster for each sequence entered (800 x 600px jpg portrait or landscape format) saved as e.g. Opera House.jpg
5. A summary in English of each of the audio visual works entered.
6. Proof of payment with your name as reference (EFT for Australian entrants and PayPal for entrants from abroad).

Judging

All entries will be shown on a big screen for judging.  Multiple entries by the same author will be randomised.  There will be no preselection.

Judging panel:
Ian Bateman FRPS MPAGB AV-AFIAP APAGB
Richard Venus BA B.Tech
Alia Naughton AV-AAPS CAPS/b SAPS

Results, Awards & Exhibition

FIAP Gold, Silver and Bronze medals will awarded respectively to the top three sequences overall in the Festival. APS Medals and Plaques will be available for judges to award, at their discretion, for attributes such as humour, concept, use of video etc. Awards will also be presented for Best Sound, Best Original Script, Best Original Photography, Best Australian Entrant, and Australian Runner Up.

The jury may award up to eight FIAP Honourable Mention ribbons, eight APS Merit Ribbons, and FIAP acceptances in line with FIAP requirements.

• The jury may also award APS National acceptances to Australian entrants.
• Entrants will be advised of results by email.
• Every entrant will receive an electronic copy of the catalogue and acceptance cards.
• Results will be published on the APS website.
• A Gala Presentation of awarded works will be held on Sunday 30 March 2025 in Adelaide.
• Submission of an entry implies permission by the author for the sequence to be shown in public at the abovementioned event.

Entry Fee and Payment

Australian entrants
$A20.00 per sequence
Payments may be made by cheque or by electronic transfer to:

Adelaide AV Festival
BSB: 105 086
Account number: 053376740

Use your surname and name + "AV Fest" as reference on the bank transfer. Please include proof of payment with your entry form where electronic transfer is used.
 
International entrants
$A20.00 per sequence via PayPal to avfestadelaide@gmail.com
Do not pay in other currencies or by EFT.
Entries without full payment in $AU will not be judged.
No refund will be provided for any entry not submitted for judging.  

Enquiries: 

Festival Director
David Shetliffe
Email: presidentavclubsa@gmail.com
Mobile: +61 414631442

Postal Address:
Adelaide AV Fest
2A Tyne Street
GILBERTON SA 5081
AUSTRALIA