VII International Award FNAC-SINS ENTIDO

The VII International FNAC-SINS ENTIDO Award arrives, which admits works for evaluation until November 29, 2013.

The call for one of the awards of a certain renown in our country is back. We are talking about VII International Award FNAC-SINS ENTIDO. If anyone does not remember what happened last year, I will refresh their memory by saying that the Valencian cartoonist I feel Llobel He was the one who took the cat to the water for his work A rookie doctor.

The deadline to start sending the works to be evaluated is already open and It will be closed on November 29 of this year, with which there is scope to prepare quality comics if it is not left to the last moment. As a reminder also, since we have named the last winner, to say that since the first edition, the names of the winners have been Jorge González (2007) Guillaume Trouillard and Samuel Stento (2008) Esteban Hernandez (2009) Mireia Perez (2010) and Juan Berrio (2011). Some of the names, such as those of the last three, are certainly already known by professionals and people who move in the world, which confirms that the competition when aspiring to win these awards is quite tough. Then I leave you with the bases of the call in case there are any of you who are encouraged to participate. To see said basis just click on Continue reading.

RULES OF THE CALL

1. All authors who wish to do so, of any nationality or origin, over 18 years of age may be eligible for the Prize, provided that the works they submit conform to the commonly accepted concept of graphic novels and meet the following requirements:

• Are written exclusively in Spanish.
• Are original and rigorously unpublished (not published in book format, electronic book, Internet, or serialized in magazines).
• They do not correspond to authors who died prior to the announcement of this call.
• They have not been previously awarded in any other contest, or are pending a ruling in any other contest on the date the submission period ends.

Works submitted that do not meet the above requirements will not be admitted to the competition.

2. Work.
The modality to present to the contest is the comic, in its graphic novel format. Each author must send a book proposal with a minimum of sixteen (16) pages finished on one side only; whose final extension, for the winner, will be a minimum of ninety-six (96) pages. It may be presented in black and white or color, attaching a dossier containing the sixteen (16) finished pages, with their corresponding title, in printed copies in DIN-A4 format, plus a detailed synopsis (two (2) pages to one single side at least) with the content of the full story.

Said copies (original work will not be accepted), will be accompanied by the data of the author or authors: name, surname, address, telephone, email and photocopy of ID, passport or any other legally accepted identification document.

Once the Prize has been awarded, the non-awarded works will not be returned. As they are not original, they will be destroyed once the process is finished.

3. Shipping.
The works will be sent or delivered, indicating in the envelope "VI International Prize for Graphic Novel Fnac-Sins Entido", at the following postal address: Ediciones Sins Entido / Calle Barquillo 11, 2º office 2, 28004 Madrid / Premio@sinsentido.es

Projects sent by email or on media other than printed paper will not be accepted (therefore, shipments on CD, DVD, pen drives, or similar are excluded).

4 Deadlines
The deadline for the admission of proposals will be closed on Friday, November 29, 2013.

The jury will meet at the end of 2013 and the decision will be announced in January 2014. The winning author will commit to deliver the finished project in the last week of June 2014. The winning work will be published at the end of 2014.

5. Composition of the Jury
The jury will be made up of cultural professionals and will be appointed for this purpose by the promoting entities, which reserve the possibility for a reading committee to select from the originals submitted as many finalists as it deems appropriate.

6. Prize and decision of the Jury
Fnac will deliver a single and indivisible prize of 10.000 (ten thousand) euros (to be paid in two payments: 50% for the amount after communication of the ruling; and the remaining 0% at the time of publication). The winning work will be published by Ediciones Sins Entido, which will be responsible for the production and editing, and the winner will sign a contract with this publisher for a period of 50 years, renewable and with a royalty percentage of 10%. The awarding of the award implies that Ediciones Sins entido will exclusively manage all the exploitation rights of the work, in all countries and for all languages, as well as all publishing rights in all media.

At the same time, Fnac reserves the right to organize with the originals of the winning work an exhibition that could be exhibited in its galleries, both in Spain and in other countries.

The amount of the award will be subject to the legislation on withholding tax regulations.

The jury's decision will be final, the award may not be declared void or distributed between two or more works and will be awarded to that work among those presented that unanimously or failing that, by majority vote of the jury, is considered worthy of be awarded.

7. Distribution and public presentation
The winning work will be distributed by Sins Entido, and Fnac will guarantee its special implementation and communication in all its commercial spaces.

The public presentation of the award will take place in one of the Fnac Forum, whichever the organization deems most appropriate.

The fact of taking part in the contest implies the full acceptance of these bases.

For more information:
award@sinsentido.es
Tel: 91 522 3241

More information - Sento Llobel winner of the VI Fnac- Sins Entido Award

Source - AACE


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