Legalese and other -ese

Legalesque

Copyright clearance

Any videos created for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc., may have music in them that has been licensed on that platform for use on that platform. It's important to ensure that any music in videos submitted is cleared for all performance; either your own compositions, music in the public domain, or appropriately licensed.

Similarly, submitters attest that they have not used any other copyrighted material (film clips, photos, etc.)

Filmmakers assume all responsibility for any copyright violations and indemnify the festival organizers of any responsibility for overt or inadvertant copyright violation.

Performance and performers

Filmmakers affirm that for any submitted work, all performers have consented to the public presentation of that video, and in the case of minors, that their parents or guardians have consented.

Consent to present

Anyone submitting a piece confirms that they give permission for it to be shown at this festival, and affirms they are aware that it might be presented in conjunction with some really weird stuff.

Use of materials

You give Attack of the $5 Film Festtival the right to use any stills, excerpts, titles and any other info related to the films for promotional purposes.

Gratitudes

Cabane à Sang

A top-tier "greasy" film festival, nobody does it better than Cabane à Sang, now in their ninth year. Not only a festival, but a streaming channel: check out CàS TV.

Troma, Asylum, SyFy Originals and their ilk

The no-budget, shameless, zero-grade studios that show how much (or little) you can get away with when you have a few dollars and a dream. Their budgets dwarf ours by 1000x, but that's OK.

John Waters, Roger Corman, Takashi Miike, Jackie Kong, Doris Wishman, Rudy Ray Moore and more

They said it couldn't be done, then they said it shouldn't be done, but these folks did it anyway.