§1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

1. These Regulations (the “Regulations”) define the rules for participation in the “Wyobraź sobie” Competition for a Film Idea (hereinafter referred to as the “Competition”).
2. The Competition will start on 28 March 2022 and will end with the Final Gala on the date stated in the schedule of the Competition presented on the Competition website.
3. Applications shall be accepted from 28 March 2022 to 28 April 2022 until 23.59 hrs.
4. The Competition is not a game of chance or betting within the meaning of the Act of 19 November 2009 on Gambling Games.
5. Participation in the Competition is voluntary and free of charge.
6. For the purposes of these Regulations, the following definitions shall apply:

1. 1. Treatment – understood in accordance with the definition of the Polish Institute of Film Arts (Programy-Operacyjne-PISF-2021_wersja_opublikowana.pdf): a full record of the plot written in the present tense. Proportionate, i.e. dedicating the same space to all actors in the film. A story using a screen unfolding narrative, and thus showing “what is happening” in the film. The story should be structured in a clear and comprehensible way. It shall explain the behaviour of the characters of the future film, development of their personality, motivations to take concrete actions, relations with the environment. It should contain descriptions of the scenes allowing to understand the course of the story. The characters of the film should be clearly outlined in action. The Treatment should convey the message of the film – not journalistic declarations, but what we can see on the screen. It is important to explain why and how the future film has to make a viewer to believe the story.
   2. Organiser – Watchout Sp. z o.o. ul. Obserwatorów 7, 02-714 Warszawa, e-mail: hello@konkurswyobrazsobie.pl, NIP 525-24-16-197.
   3. Partner – shall mean Stowarzyszenie „Polska Gildia Producentów” (Polish Producers Guild), ul. Piękna 24 /26A, 00-549 Warsaw, Tax ID No (NIP): 7010891547.
   4. Participant – shall mean a natural person with full legal capacity, excluding members of the Jury, the Competition Committee, the Organiser, the Patrons, as well as their close family members and employees. Employees shall also be understood as members of the governing bodies and persons constantly cooperating with the Jury, the Competition Committee, the Organiser and the Partner under other agreements.
   5. Team – from two to three Participants who are co-authors of the Treatment;
   6. Competition website – the website at: KONKURS – Konkurs Wyobraź Sobie (konkurswyobrazsobie.pl), which contains all information about the Competition, through which a Participant may take part in the Competition and is informed about its course;
   7. Document – the Regulations, the Privacy Policy, the consent to the dissemination of the image;
   8. License Agreement – an agreement under which the Participant or the Team undertakes to grant the Organizer a license in accordance with Annex 1 to the Regulations; The license agreement does not entitle the Organizer or any third party to use the Treatment to develop a scenario based on it or use it to create a work based on such Treatment; The treatment or its abbreviations and studies may be used by the Organizer only to conduct the Competition and its promotion, the Organizer’s marketing activities and the promotion of the Participant or the Team.;
   9. Jury – a body appointed to select the three best Treatments and to award the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, composed of 5 persons selected by the Organiser and the Competition Committee. The composition of the Jury of the “Wyobraź sobie” Competition 2022 will be published at www.konkurswyobrazsobie.pl 
   10. Competition Committee – a body appointed for the substantive assessment of Entries composed of 5 persons selected by the Organiser. The composition of the Competition Committee of the “Wyobraź sobie” Competition 2022 will be published at www.konkurswyobrazsobie.pl
   11. Reader – a member of a body appointed by the Organiser to verify the formal conditions for the Entry and the Treatment at the Stage 1.
   12. Expert – a member of a body appointed by the Organiser initially assessing the value of the Treatment at the Stage 2.
   13. Finalist – a Participant or a Team whose Treatment has been qualified to the Stage 3.
   14. Entry – the completion of all required information fields and the correct transmission of this information together with the Treatment via the Competition website;
   15. Weekend workshop – a closed meeting of Finalists with recognised film makers and authors, combined with a cycle of workshops during which participants will have a chance to develop their projects, present themselves in front of producers from the Polish Producers Guild; a description and schedule can be found on the Competition website WARSZTATY – Konkurs Wyobraź Sobie (konkurswyobrazsobie.pl).

§2 COMPETITION

1. The purpose of the Competition is to select the three winning Treatments out of all properly submitted for assessment Treatments for the full-length feature film written by a Participant or a Team and to grant the Awards.
2. The Competition consists of four stages.

– Stage 1– verification of the formal requirements for the Entry and the submitted Treatment;

– Stage 2– selection of no more than 35 best Treatments;

– Stage 3 – selection of no more than 12 final Treatments;

– Stage 4 – award of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

§3 Formal requirements for participation in the Competition

1. A Participant or a Team entering the Competition may submit two Treatments. If the Participant submits more than two Treatments, the first two Treatments will be qualified for the 1st stage of the Competition.
2. A Participant or a Team must meet the following formal requirements for participation in the Competition:
   1. requirements for participation in the Competition:
      1. registration on the Competition website;
      2. providing true and complete required data of all Authors;

• expressing any required consents on the website ZGŁOŚ SIĘ – Konkurs Wyobraź Sobie (konkurswyobrazsobie.pl) understood as acknowledging the entire content of the Documents and confirming compliance with their provisions;

1. sending a Treatment to a full-length feature film via the Competition website by 28 April 2022, 23:59 hrs;
2. conclusion of the License Agreement

1. Terms and conditions of Treatment:
   1. written for a full-length feature film;
   2. written in the Polish language;

• in. pdf format;

1. composed of 10-15 pages, excluding the cover page,
2. characters on the page approx. 2500 (no spaces approx. 2200, words approx. 370);
3. margins: top – 2.5 cm, bottom – 2.5 cm, left – 2.5 cm, right – 2.5 cm;

• interline: 1.5
• Font: Times new Roman, 12 pt, colour: black

1. in accordance with the format/formatting template available on the Competition website;
2. is a work created by a Participant or a Team;
3. A Participant or a Team shall enjoy all copyrights, both moral and economic, to the entire Treatment until the last day of the Competition;

• free from any legal defects and any encumbrances;
• does not violate the rights or interests of third parties, including that a Participant or a Team has all consents to the use of image or character in case of deriving ideas from true life stories or characters;

§4 RULES FOR SUBMITTING COMPETITION ENTRIES

1. A Participant or a Team shall register via the Competition website.
2. During registration, a Participant or Team members shall provide their personal data and other required information, confirm that they have read and accepted the Documents, complete all fields marked with an asterisk (*) and attach the Treatment.
3. When sending the Treatment, a Participant or a Team member undertakes to tick the box confirming the conclusion of the License Agreement. Without such confirmation, a Participant or a Team cannot participate in the Competition.
4. Once a Team has registered, an electronic message will be sent to each of its members to the e-mail addresses provided by each member of the Team with a request to confirm: 1. compliance of personal data, 2. familiarisation with the content of the Documents, 3. terms and conditions of the License Agreement. The confirmation referred to in the previous sentence consists in sending to the Organiser’s e-mail address hello@konkurswyobrazsobie.pl a message containing the words “I confirm”. If even one member of the Team does not confirm 1. compliance of personal data, 2. familiarisation with the content of the Documents, 3. terms and conditions of the License Agreement, the Team will be excluded from participation in the Competition.
5. A Participant or a Team member may subscribe to the Newsletter. By subscribing to the Newsletter, a Participant or a Team member agrees to the processing of his/her e-mail address for the purpose of receiving information. The consent may be withdrawn at any time.
6. Participation in the Competition, as well as the rights and obligations associated therewith, including the right to the award in the Competition, shall not be assigned or otherwise transferred to any other person.
7. Failure by a Participant or a Team to meet any of the conditions for participation in the Competition set out in the Regulations or appendices thereto shall result in exclusion of such Participant or Team from further participation in the Competition at any of its stages and depriving it of the right to receive the award.
8. Submitting the entry to the Programme by a Participant or a Team member is voluntary and free of charge.

§5 COURSE OF THE COMPETITION

1. The Competition consist of four stages:

1. 1. Stage 1– verification of the formal requirements for the Entry and the submitted Treatment;
   2. Stage 2 – assessment of the Treatments and selection of no more than 35 Treatment the highest number of points awarded;
   3. Stage 3 – selection of no more than 12 final Treatments;
   4. Stage 4 – award of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, granting awards.

2. An Entry or Treatment containing formal deficiencies shall be rejected, without calling for their supplementation, of which a Participant or a Team shall be informed to the e-mail address provided in the Entry.
3. The Stage I involves the assessment of meeting formal requirements by a Participant or a Team. The assessment shall be performed by the Readers.
4. Entries, together with Treatment that meet formal requirements, will be submitted to the Experts for substantive assessment at the Stage 2.
5. The Stage 2 involves the assessment of the following elements, which are scored on a scale from 0 to 5 points:

1. 1. plot
   2. topic
   3. heroes
   4. concept
   5. structure
   6. pace
   7. production potential
   8. casting potential

6. A decision on the qualification to the Stage 3 shall be taken on the basis of the sum of points awarded by the Experts. The Experts will take a decision to qualify to the Stage 3 more than 25 Treatments if it turns out that more Treatments than one have received the same grade as the grade of the last Treatment qualified to the Stage 3. A decision of the Experts shall be final and may not be appealed against.
7. At the Stage 3 the artistic values of the Treatment are assessed.
8. A decision on the qualification to the Stage 4 shall be made through voting of the members of the Competition Committee. A decision of the Capital shall be final and may not be appealed against.
9. The Jury’s decision to award the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place shall be discretionary and shall be taken as a result of voting. The Jury’s decision shall be final and may not be appealed against.
10. Decisions of the Competition Committee and the Jury shall be made by a majority of at least 3/5 votes of its composition.
11. The accuracy of the formal conduct of the Competition is supervised by the Attorney appointed by the Organiser.
12. The Schedule of the start and end of each Stage will be given on the Competition website in the tab NEWSY – Konkurs Wyobraż Sobie (konkurswyobrazsobie.pl)

§6 AWARDS

1. The Organiser is the founder of the awards in the Competition.
2. The awards in the Competition are:
   1. for the 1st place – PLN 20,000.00 gross (twenty thousand zlotys);
   2. for the 2nd place – PLN 15,000.00 gross (fifteen thousand zlotys);
   3. for the 3rd place – PLN 10,000.00 gross (ten thousand zlotys);
3. Prior to the payment of the awards, the Organiser, as a payer, shall collect from each of the awarded participants and pay to the account of the competent tax office the due tax on winnings, in accordance with the applicable regulations. The award granted to the Team shall be equally divided among all member of the Team so that the applicable tax can be calculated.
4. The awards will be paid to the bank accounts provided by the Finalists.
5. Each Finalist is invited to participate in the Final Gala, i.e. the ceremony of granting the Awards.
6. Each Finalist may attend the Weekend Workshops.
7. The Organiser shall cover, at its own expense, the cost of stay of the Finalists at a hotel chosen by the Organiser in Warsaw or Konstancin-Jeziorna from 23 June 2022 to 26 June 2022 until 11:00 hrs, including accommodation and meals.
8. The cost of commuting and returning to the place of residence shall be reimbursed to the Finalist by refunding the equivalent of the price of the 2nd class PKP TLK or InterCity railway ticket (excluding Express InterCity Premium).

§ 6. Violation of the Regulations

1.  A violations of the provisions of the Regulations by a Participant or a Team may result in their exclusion from participation in the Competition. A decision on this matter shall be made by the Organiser in consultation with the Competition Committee.

2. A Participant or a Team shall be notified of the Organiser’s decision to the e-mail address provided in the Entry. A Participant or the Team may raise justified objections to the Organiser’s decision within 3 days of its receipt to the e-mail server supporting the e-mail address provided in the Entry. The Organiser shall consider the objections within 3 days and shall send a final decision. No appeal may be made against the Organiser’s final decision.
3. A violation by a Participant or a Team of the following provisions of the Regulations shall result in immediate exclusion from participation in the Competition or withdrawal of the Award:
4. § 3 par. 2 (a) (ii.), (v);
5. § 3 par. 2 (b) (x.)-(xiii.)
6. If the Organiser finds out that the Treatment violates applicable laws, including third-party rights, the Organiser shall:
7. a) exclude the Participant or the Team from participation in the Competition;
8. b) take a decision to withdraw the Award.

The provision of § 6(2) shall apply accordingly.

5. The Participant or the Team, whose Award has been withdrawn, shall be obliged, at the request of the Organiser, to return the Award together with the costs incurred by the Organiser.

§9 PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

1. All personal data shall be collected, processed and made available in accordance with the law applicable in the Republic of Poland and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter: GDPR).
2. The Organiser shall be the controller of personal data processed during the Competition.
3. The Controller appointed a Data Protection Officer, Mr Adam Baworowski. Requests concerning personal data processing should be submitted to the following e-mail address: adam@baworowski.pl or to the Controller’s postal address with the annotation: IOD.
4. For the purposes of the Competition the following personal data are collected:
   1. name and surname;
   2. e-mail and IP address and phone number
   3. Personal ID No (PESEL)
   4. identity document series and number
   5. address of residence
   6. bank account No (applicable to Finalists)
5. Personal data shall be processed for the purpose of running the Competition, pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR – the necessity to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract and after concluding a contract its performance in order to determine the parties to the License Agreement and to specify the Participant or the Team Member, Article 6(1)(f) – legitimate interests pursued by the Organiser in the form of maintaining contact and exchange of information, in order to prevent fraud, ensure network and information security within the IT systems and  defence against claims, Article 6(1)(c) – the processing is necessary for compliance with the legal obligation to which the controller is subject – settlement of taxes.
6. Personal data shall not be transferred to third countries and shall not be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling.
7. The provision of personal data is voluntary, however it is necessary for participation in the Competition and conclusion of the License Agreement, and failure to provide such data will make participation in the Competition impossible.
8. Personal data will be processed until the end of the Competition or until claims expire.
9. Personal data may be transferred to entities providing IT, accounting, legal and advisory services to the Organiser only for the purpose of achieving the objectives of the Competition on the basis of concluded agreements on entrusting the processing of personal data, where required.

• Personal data of Participants (including Team members), namely a name, surname, e-mail address and telephone number will be made available to the Partner for the purpose of establishing and maintaining contact between the Partner and the Participant.
• A Participant has the right to request from the Organiser access to, rectification, erasure or restriction of processing of personal data, the right to object to the processing, the right to data portability, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

§10 CONSENT TO USE AN IMAGE

In connection with participation in the Competition, the Participant hereby grants to the Organiser and the Partner an irrevocable consent to use and disseminate his/her image, figure, voice, personal data (name and surname) and look fixed during the Competition or in connection therewith or during documentary recording of the course of the Competition (including the Final Gala), including all photographic and visual documentation, in all forms and on all media, in particular shots in the form of stills, posters, photos in newspapers, publications, documentary or archival movies, in the press, on all fields of exploitation existing at the time of concluding this Agreement, particularly on the fields of exploitations listed in Article 50 of the Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights.

§11 FINAL PROVISIONS

1. The descriptions of events referred to in the Regulations may change.
2. In addition to the provisions of the Regulations, the information concerning the Competition published on the Competition website will also be binding on the Participants.
3. These Regulations are made available free of charge on the Competition website.
4. All comments and reports concerning violations of these Regulations should be sent to the following e-mail address: hello@konkurswyobrazsobie.pl
5. In matters not covered by these Regulations, the provisions of the Civil Code, the Act on copyright and related rights and other applicable laws shall apply.
6. Appendices No 1 – template of a License Agreement and No 2 – template of a Consent to use an image form an integral part of the Regulations.
7. These Regulations amended in par. 1 sec. 6 lit. h and par. 11 section 7 against the current one shall enter into force on April 9, 2022. time. 1:00 p.m.