RULES COMPETITION FOR INTERNATIONAL SALOON OF HUMOR FOR THE AMAZON FOREST /
BRAZIL
1st International Saloon of Humor
for the Amazon Forest / Brazil
1. DATES:
Registration: From June 27th to August 31st.
Result of the previous selection: September 2007
Result of the selection by the International jury and the releasing of the
final result: October 2007
2. PARTICPATION:
All cartoonists, professional or not, are allowed to submit original works,
since they have not been awarded in other saloons up to the deadline for
registrations (August 31st 2007). Each author may submit up to 3 (three)
works developed under any technique, including those ones done by computers.
For each work sent, one entry form must be filled up. The entry forms are
available at www.brazilcartoon.com
3. THEME:
Humor for the Amazon Forest.
4. SENDING THE WORKS:
All works, including those ones drawn by hand, must be sent by e-mail,
resolution 300 DPIs, color mode RGB, JPG (average quality – 5) or PDF up to
the limit of 1,5MB for each work. Each e-mail must contain only one work and
it must come with the respective entry form.
5. PRIZES:
5.1 The guiding criteria for selecting and awarding will be:
Creativity.
Originality (The work must not have been published in any kind of media and
must not have been awarded in this kind of competition either).
Quality of the drawings.
5.2 PRIZES:The prize for the first place will be R$ 10.000,00 (Ten thousand
Reais) plus a trophy and a certificate.The second and third places will
receive trophies and certificates. The jury may give honorable mentions to
the participants.
• The awarded works will be part of the brazilcartoon Artwork Collection.
• Prizes not taken in 90 (ninety) days after the releasing of the results
will become worthless. The value of the prize for international works will
be converted to dollars according to its value on June 27th 2007, date of
the beginning of the competition. The prize will be paid in March 2008.
6. COPYRIGHT
By submitting their works, the authors transfer automatically all copyright
of their awarded works to brazilcartoon, which may use the works freely. The
awarded works will be part of the brazilcartoon Artwork Collection.
7. DISAGREEMENT ON RESULTS
If the jury verifies any kind of fraud or plagiarism on one or more works,
it will cancel the prize. The works will be on the website
www.brazilcartoon.com in October 2007 and the results may be contested up to
10 (ten) days after the opening of the saloon, supported by proper proves of
any mistake made by the jury. Works sent that are not according to these
rules and regulations or those containing any kind of plagiarism will be
automatically excluded of the contest.
8. WHERE TO REGISTER
To ensure that the works will be sent properly, we suggest that the works be
sent through our website, filling out the entry form and attaching your
drawings.
Deadline: August 31st 2007. The date the e-mail was sent will be observed.
9 – FURTHER INFORMATION
Brazilcartoon Organization.
Márcio Leite
55 [38] 3216-1109