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“The Dark Crystal” Fan Film Competition OFFICIAL RULES “The Dark Crystal” Fan Film Competition OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. PROMOTION DESCRIPTION: The “Dark Crystal” Film Fan Festival Contest (the “Contest”) begins on September 24, 2015 and ends on March 31, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time in the United States (“ET”) (the “Promotion Period”). During the Promotion Period, entrants will have the opportunity to create a short film inspired by the world of “The Dark Crystal” (the “Film”) (each collectively referred to herein as, a “Submission”) as more fully set forth below. At the end of the Promotion Period, up to five (5) Runner Up prize winners and one (1) Grand Prize winner will be selected from all eligible Submissions received during Promotion Period. By participating in the Contest, each entrant unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of The Jim Henson Company, Inc., 1416 N. La Brea Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028 (“Sponsor”), which shall be final and binding in all respects. ELIGIBILITY: This Contest is open only to entrants who are of the age of majority in the entrant’s state, province and/ or country of residence at the time of entry. Residents of countries currently subject to United States embargo or on the United States list of state sponsors of terrorism are not eligible to enter the Contest or win a prize. For a current list of countries currently subject to United States embargo or on the United States list of state sponsors of terrorism, go to http://pmddtc.state.gov/embargoed_countries/index.html. Officers, directors and employees of Sponsor and its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, members, distributors, sales representatives, advertising and promotion agencies (all such individuals and entities referred to collectively, the “Promotion Entities”), and each of their immediate family members and/or people living in the same household are NOT eligible to enter the Contest or win a prize. This Contest is void where prohibited by law. HOW TO ENTER: To enter, visit the web site https://henson.submittable.com/submit (the “Website”), complete the submission form found on the Website with the information requested, and follow the instructions to create and upload your Submission. Your Submission can be live-action or animation, and should be based on the Film or tell a new story that fits in the world of the Film. The Submission must fit in the space provided on the Website and meet the following “Submission Requirements”: (i) the Submission must tell a complete story in one (1) to five (5) minutes; (ii) the Submission must be in English or subtitled in English; (iii) the Submission must include a title, logline, description, at least one (1) promotional still image, a brief bio of the creator and a list of credits; (iv) each Submission must be the submitting entrant’s own, previously unpublished work and not feature or focus - page 1 of 10 - on any material owned or controlled by third parties (unless the entrant can provide written documentation of permission to use any materials owned by a third party in a form and substance determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion);; (v) the entrant must provide upon request all appropriate clearances, permissions and releases (including but not limited to music rights, releases from all persons appearing in the Submission, location releases, and releases from all creative consultants or others who assisted in the creation of the Submission) for the Submission in a form and substance determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion (in the event an entrant cannot provide all required releases, Sponsor reserves the right, in Sponsor’s sole discretion, to disqualify the applicable Submission, or seek to secure the releases and clearances for Sponsor’s benefit, or allow the applicable Submission to remain in Contest); and (vi) the Submission must not include images that are obscene, pornographic, libelous or otherwise objectionable. Any Submission that, in Sponsor’s good faith judgment, violates the Submission Requirements will be disqualified. Submissions must be received by the end of the Promotion Period. The Website’s database clock will be the official time keeper for this Contest. No substitutions of new versions of Submissions will be accepted under any circumstances once the original Submission is submitted for consideration. Any Submission that is considered by Sponsor in its sole and absolute discretion to be obscene, pornographic, libelous, hate speech or otherwise objectionable, in whole or in part, will be disqualified. Sponsor may engage third party application providers and other vendors to administer certain aspects of the Contest, including without limitation, the online collection of entry information and Submissions. Such third parties will provide your personally identifiable information to Sponsor, who except as set forth herein will use such information in accordance with its online privacy policy, located at http://creatureshop.com/terms, and such third parties may also use your information for their own independent purposes in accordance with their own independent privacy practices. Sponsor is not responsible for the storage or any use of your entry information by such third parties. In the event a dispute regarding the identity of the individual who actually submitted a Submission cannot be resolved to Sponsor’s satisfaction, the affected entry may be disqualified. The Promotion Entities shall not be responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry information whether caused by Internet users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing or transmission of the Submissions in the Contest. The Promotion Entities assume no responsibility or liability for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, theft or destruction, or unauthorized access to, or alteration of Submissions. IMPORTANT NOTE: Any entrant who incorporates any intellectual property or material owned by a third party into his or her Submission does so at his or her own risk. Without in any way limiting, expanding or amending the Terms of Use policy residing on http://www.darkcrystal.com/tos.php, which Terms of Use policy shall remain in full force and effect, if Sponsor is duly notified that any element of an entrant’s Submission infringes upon the rights of another person and/or receives a legally valid request to remove the affected Submission from the Website because of such infringement, such Submission may be removed from the Website and/or disqualified from the Contest, as Sponsor may determine in its sole discretion. Further, no entrant will be eligible to receive a prize unless Sponsor determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that such entrant’s Submission has been or can be sufficiently cleared for legal purposes. WINNER SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION: Once a Submission is uploaded to the Website it may be made available on the Website and/or Sponsor’s social media accounts for viewing by the general public and any such posting will be deemed made at the direction of the entrant. After the Promotion Period, a panel of judges including experts selected by - page 2 of 10 - Sponsor in its sole discretion (which may include Brian Henson, Chairman of the Jim Henson Company, Cheryl Henson, President of the Jim Henson Foundation, Halle Stanford, Executive Vice President of Children’s Entertainment at the Jim Henson Company and Blanca Lista, Vice President of film production at the Jim Henson Company) (the “Judging Panel”) will select one (1) Grand Prize winner and up to five (5) Runner Up Prize winners from among all eligible Submissions received during the Promotion Period based upon the following criteria: Originality (30%), Production values appropriate to the world of the Film (30%), Character design and performance (20%) and Good storytelling (20%). If other contestants or members of the general public are permitted to vote or otherwise provide feedback on the Submissions, please note that such voting or feedback do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Judging Panel and are not how the outcome of the Contest is going to be determined. Instead, the outcome will be determined by the Judging Panel, and all decisions of Sponsor and/or the Judging Panel are final and are not subject to challenge or appeal. Prize winners will be notified by telephone, e-mail, and/or mail using the contact information provided at the time of entry. Sponsor shall have no liability for any winner notification that is lost, intercepted or not received by the potential winner for any reason. If, despite reasonable efforts, a potential prize winner does not respond within five (5) days of the first notification attempt, or if a prize or prize notification is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable to such potential prize winner, such potential prize winner may forfeit the applicable prize and an alternate prize winner may be selected. If any potential prize winner is found to be ineligible, or if he or she has not complied with these Official Rules or declines the applicable prize for any reason prior to award, such potential prize winner may be disqualified and an alternate winner may be selected. Sponsor may successively attempt to contact up to two (2) potential prize winners of in accordance with such procedure, and if there is still no confirmed prize winner after such attempts have been made, if any, the applicable prize may go unawarded.
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