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FREE ENTRY / FINI 2025 International Image Contest
FREE ENTRY / FINI 2025 International Image Contest

Fri, May 02

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Fee: Free / Prize: 60,000 MXN

FREE ENTRY / FINI 2025 International Image Contest

Theme: Indigenous Peoples. El e submission of works and documents online implies the acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Call. 2. e willfull or negligent incompliance to the requirements settled in these ocial rules will be a motive of disqualication in any stage of the contest...

Deadline / Fee / Prize:

May 02, 2025, 9:50 PM

Fee: Free / Prize: 60,000 MXN

About:

El e submission of works and documents online implies the acceptance of the terms and


conditions of this Call.


2. e willfull or negligent incompliance to the requirements settled in these ocial rules will be a


motive of disqualication in any stage of the contest, with no liability to the Universidad Autónoma


del Estado de Hidalgo, the International Image Festival, nor the jury, whose decision will be


unappealable.


3. In the event of disqualication due to non-compliance or failure to comply with any of the points


established in the Call for this contest and these guidelines at any stage, the participants are obliged


to abide by the resolution, exempting the Jury, FINI and UAEH from any liability.


4. Participation in any of the genres and categories of the International Image Contest FINI 2025


implies authorization to the UAEH and FINI to publish the works in exhibitions, videos, compendiums,


catalogs or other media that refer to the memory or work and results of the corresponding edition of


FINI during and after the contest, before the university community, public and private institutions,


society and the general public, state, national and international. e above, in any printed or


electronic media for dissemination purposes.


5. Participants will continue to hold the copyright of the works with which they participate, in


compliance with the provisions of articles 18 to 29 of the Federal Copyright Law.


6. e works selected as nalists, in the genres POSTER, PHOTOGRAPHY and ALTERNATIVE


TECHNIQUES in any of the categories, will become part of the UAEH collection, granting authorization


to mount, dismount, tour, reproduce them in any form and format, print them, exhibit them in


whole or in part and distribute them. e above, in accordance with the provisions of the Ocial


Rules and Guidelines of this Call.


7. Participation in this Contest implies tacit acceptance that the posters, photographs and works of


alternative techniques that are chosen to be printed will include a border with the logos of the


International Image Festival (FINI) and the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH). e


above without altering the original image.


8. e works selected as nalists in the SHORT FILM genre will become part of the UAEH collection,


granting the right to screen them, exhibit them in whole or in part and broadcast them in the


spaces and media that FINI and UAEH determine, including the Autonomous University Media


System, through open television channel 13.1. e above during and after the 14th edition of FINI,


for dissemination purposes and in accordance with the provisions of the bases and guidelines of this


call.


9. e winning and/or nalist short lms may be selected to be screened during the awards ceremony, so


participation in the contest implies authorization to do so.


10. Participants, in any category or genre, accept that they will not receive any payment for the exhibition


of the work with which they participate.


11. Participation in this contest, regardless of the category and genre, implies the declaration under oath


of telling the truth, of having the authorship, ownership and/or possession of the moral, proprietary,


intellectual, and artistic rights of the work with which one participates, assuming the responsibility that its


falsehood, if applicable, may entail.


12. In the event that the registered work involves music, logos, photographs, texts, works or any


other material subject to intellectual property and copyright laws, participation implies a declaration


under oath of having the permissions and/or reproduction rights releasing UAEH and/or FINI from any


liability.


13. In the event the registered work involves the image of elderly people and/or minors, the


participation implies, declaring under oath, having the corresponding consent, assuming any liability


otherwise provided.


14. Participation implies the release of UAEH and FINI from any liability in matters of intellectual


property and copyright.


15. UAEH and/or FINI permanently reserve the right to admit and/or exclude the participation of any


person in the event of non-compliance with the requirements set forth in the call, the guidelines


and/or the regulations in force and applicable at the time of participation.


16. FINI is a space of zero tolerance for any type of violence. In light of the above, any registered work


whose author is reported, or receives a warning, of having committed an act of violence that violates


institutional policies regarding human rights and culture of peace, will result in the cancellation of the


participant or participants, without any liability for UAEH or FINI.


Chapter II. Terms and requirements.


1. To participate in the contest, it is crucial to be 18 years old at the time this Call is closed, which


will be accredited with a voting credential or valid passport.


2. Under no circumstances, work created with articial intelligence will be accepted. In case there


is any work with these characteristics, it will be disqualied regardless of the stage of the contest it


is at.


3. Participants, regardless of the category or genre, will be able to download and ll out the


DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY at the following link


https://www.uaeh.edu.mx/ni/2025/docs/carta-declaratoria-ni-2025.pdf,


and send it according to these guidelines.


4. To participate in the category University Community, the following requirements must be met:


4.1. Have a Mexican birth certicate together with INE credential to vote; a valid Mexican


Passport; or a Naturalization Certicate issued by the Mexican authorized ocer.


4.2. To have an academic transcript duly issued by a higher education institution


recognized by Mexican educational authorities that proves that you are currently


enrolled in a higher education program by the time this Call closes.


5. To participate in the category National Professional, the following requirements must be met.


5.1. Have a Mexican birth certicate together with the INE credential to vote; a valid


Mexican Passport; or a Naturalization Certicate issued by the Mexican authorized


ocer.


6. It is the responsibility of the participants in the categories UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AND


NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL to have an active bank account under their own name, able to receive


wire transfers, other than a payroll account, issued by a nancial institution with operations in


Mexico and that has not monthly limit to receive deposits.


7 . _ To participate in the category of INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL, the following requirements


must be met:


7.1. Have a valid passport issued from an authorized ocer in your country.


7.2. When applicable, to have a valid Visa in accordance with the Mexican migration


laws.


7.3. Depending on your nationality and the international requirements for international


transit of your country, those who participate in this category, must have a valid


USA Visa or a special travel permit, accordingly.


7.4. Be able to travel and be in Mexico from April 24 to May 2, 2025.


Chapter III. About the registration


and submission of documents.


1. In the format referred to in point 2 of Chapter III of the Guidelines to the Call


http://sistemas.uaeh.edu.mx/fini/registro.php, the complete and correct data must be included in


order to insert the digital images (PHOTOGRAPHY, ALTERNATIVE TECHNIQUES, AND POSTER).


2. e participants of the SHORT FILM genre must write a link with the corresponding access code


to visualize the work. In addition, they must attach a synopsis of the submitted work, with a maximum


length of 1000 characters (the system will not accept more).


3. For the genres of PHOTOGRAPHY and ALTERNATIVE TECHNIQUES, each participant should register


a series of 4 (four) images that show a unied topic. ey must have the following characteristics:


horizontal or vertical orientation, 72 DPI of resolution, in JPG or PGN format, RGB mode or grayscale,


at 8 bits, with a minimum weight of 1 MB and a maximum of 2 MB (each one). e participants must


attach a conceptual text of the work of a maximum of 1,000 characters (the system will not accept


more).


4. In the case of the ALTERNATIVE TECHNIQUES genre, the works must be presented in a 2D shape.


No 3D works will be accepted.


5. For the genre of POSTER, each participant must register for only one design. e les must have


the following characteristics: vertical orientation, 72 DPI of resolution, in JPG or PGN format, RGB


mode, with a minimum weight of 1 MB and a maximum 2 MB. e participants must attach a


conceptual text of the work of maximum 1,000 characters (the system will not accept more).


6. e SHORT FILMS must strictly be subtitled in Latin-American Spanish in case Spanish is not the


original Language. In case of submitting a video that does not comply with this requirement, it will be


disqualied with no liability for the UAEH and FINI.


7. Once the system veries that the data and the work have been registered correctly, it will issue


a receipt with a number for each participant. It will be the participant’s responsibility to keep


his/her registration number and to remember the work(s) with which he/she is participating. On


the contrary, he/she will be unable to continue with the process, with no liability to the UAEH or FINI.


8. e information on the identity of the participant will remain under the custody of the person in


charge of the Department of Planning, Administration and Finance of the International Image Festival


and will be used for administrative purposes and for checking the registered information; however, no


one will have access to it, including the members of the Jury, until the selection of the nalists is over.


9. Once the register is done, participants must submit the documents and materials so the


Department of Planning, Administration and Finance of FINI can verify the compliance of the


established requirements. In case of incompliance, the participant will be disqualied automatically


with no need of previous notice and with no liability to the International Image Festival (FINI) nor


the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH).


10. ose who participate will have to send in one e-mail to concursoni@uaeh.edu.mx the following


SCANNED documents:


10.1. Regardless of the genre and category you are participating in, all the participants


must send:


Ocial voter credential on both sides, on the same page, or passport, both VALID


AND PERFECTLY LEGIBLE.


A GOOD QUALITY PHOTOGRAPH, FACING THE CAMERA, in JPEG or PNG format, if it


applies, the corresponding credit must be indicated. e sending of said


photography implies the authorization without reservations to use it for


disseminating purposes.


e declaratory letter


https://www.uaeh.edu.mx/ni/2025/docs/carta-declaratoria-ni-2025.pdf


referred to in term 3 section II of this guidelines must be printed and lled out in


perfectly legible block letters and signed in blue ink.


10.2. For participants in the UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY OR NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL


categories, it is imperative to send a legible birth certicate recently issued.


10.3. For participants in the POSTER, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND ALTERNATIVE TECHNIQUES


genres, they must send in PDF format the data sheet that can be downloaded from


the following link:


https://www.uaeh.edu.mx/ni/2025/docs/cha-tecnica-cft-esp-ing-2025.pdf,


said format must be lled out and signed on every page.


10.4. For participants in the SHORT FILM genre, regardless of the category, they must send


in PDF format the data sheet lled out and signed on every page, which can be


downloaded from the following link


https://www.uaeh.edu.mx/ni/2025/docs/cha-tecnica-cortometraje-esp-eng-2025.pdf


11. Regardless of the genre and category in which you are participating, the subject line of the


e-mail should include “FINI CONTEST 2025” and in the body of the e-mail please include the full


name of the participant, the registration number, category, genre, telephone number, and country


of origin.


12. e name of the folder, les, and/or materials must correspond to their content.


Chapter IV. Submission specications for nalists


1. During the second stage of the contest, those who form the jury, freely and individually will


value the relevance, the technical, aesthetic and conceptual quality; the originality and creativity, the


artistic approach; that the number of pieces per series was met, the orientation (horizontal or vertical,


accordingly), the format and the relation that the work has with the main topic of the 14th edition of


FINI, assigning a score to each one of the items.


2. Approximately the highest 8 scores will be selected from each category and its different genres,


who will be part of the nalists and will be announced through the ocial media of FINI on February


14, 2025. At the same time, the participants who are selected as nalists will receive a notication to


the e-mail they registered ending the second stage of the procedure.


3. e participants who are selected as nalists who live outside the Metropolitan Area of Pachuca


de Soto, Hidalgo, will have free accommodation for one night (double room, breakfast included) at


the hotel that the International Image Festival (FINI) determines, in order to facilitate their presence


in the awarding ceremony and the inauguration of the exhibition of their work.


4. In order to provide the accommodation previously mentioned, it is crucial to conrm your


attendance by April 7, 2025, to the e-mail concursoni@uaeh.edu.mx writing in the subject


“Conrmation of Accommodation FINI Contest 2025”.


5. e selection of nalists will be unappealable.


Chapter V. Specication about the submission


of les and documentation of the nalists.


1. e participants selected as nalists authorize to exhibit their work according to the provisions


of these guidelines.


2. e objective of the exhibition of the works selected as nalists is to recognize the creators,


therefore, once the person is registered, it is understood that the person authorizes to exhibit their


work.


3. e nalists of the genres PHOTOGRAPHY and ALTERNATIVE TECHNIQUES will be responsible for


sending the digital les of their images in high resolution; these should be in TIFF format, RGB mode


or grayscale, 8 bits, at 300 DPI of resolution, adjusted horizontally or vertically and with


measurements of 90x60cm of 60x90cm. Besides, they must send the les of the works they are


participating with in .jpg, .jpeg, or .png format. e material mentioned must be sent to the following


e-mail: concursoni@uaeh.edu.mx writing in the subject FINALIST FINI CONTEST 2025 and in the


body of the e-mail the category, genre, registration number and the name of the participant. e name


of the attached les and/or materials must correspond to their content.


4. e nalists of the POSTER genre will be responsible for sending the digital les of their images


in high resolution; these should be in TIFF format, RGB mode, at 300 DPI of resolution, adjusted


vertically, and with measurements of 60x90cm. Besides, they must send the les of the works they


are participating with in .jpg, .jpeg, or .png format. e material mentioned must be sent to the


following e-mail: concursoni@uaeh.edu.mx writing in the subject FINALIST FINI CONTEST 2025 and


in the body of the e-mail the category, genre, registration number and the name of the participant. e


name of the attached les and/or materials must correspond to their content.


5. _e nalists of the SHORT FILM genre will be responsible for sending to the following e-mail:


concursoni@uaeh.edu.mx:


a) e video with which they are participating in optimal HD (1920 x 1080) in any of the


following formats:


Exhibition format: File.mp4 (MPEG-4). Codec H.264, of at least 10Mbps.


Stereo audio or multichannel 5.1 AAC 48 kHz.


Aspect Ratio: 16:9


Frame Rate acceptable_ 23.97, 24, 25, 29.97 ó 30 fps


b) Subtitle le must be in .srt format


c) PRESS KIT


e trailer of the video they are participating with in HD (1920 x 1080) in the


following formats:


Apple Prores HQ*.MOV of at least 40 or 50 Mbps.


mp4 le (MPEG-4). Code H.264, of at least 10 Mbps


Audio stereo o multichannel 5.1AAC 48kHz


Graphic material of the participant documentary video with a minimum quality of


1000px * 800px in .jpeg or .png le extension.


Poster in portrait format (credit) 1943px * 3000px or proportional, in image le


extension jpeg or png and in .psd or .ai le (editable). is material is mandatory.


Five frames of the lm in .jpeg or .png le extension. Mandatory material.


6. e subject of the e-mail referred to in term 5 of this chapter must be: FINALIST FINI CONTEST


2025, and the body of the e-mail must include the category, genre, registration number, and the name


of the participant. e name of the attached les and/or materials must correspond to their


content.


7. e submission of information to the e-mail mentioned in terms 3,4 and 5 of this chapter must


be done between February 14 and 24, 2025. e incompliance to this term will be a cause of


disqualication with no liability for FINI or the UAEH.


Chapter VI. About the nal resolution of the jury


and the announcement of the winners.


1. In a virtual session, the jury of each genre, will show the works selected as nalists in accordance


to Chapter IV of these guidelines.


2. In a collegial manner and with full liberty, the jury will determine the three rst places in the


categories UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY and NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL, in each of the genres, and the


best work, in each of the genres of the INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL category.


3. e jury has the faculty to declare the Contest void in one or more places, genres, and


categories according to the artistic, technical and conceptual appreciation; as well as to grant


Honorable Mentions. e rst part of the paragraph previously mentioned applies even when


nalists have been selected.


4. On March 3, 2025 the list of winners will be announced through the web page and social media


of FINI.


5. Any matter or circumstance regarding the aesthetic appreciation that is not expressly included


in the Call or these Guidelines will be solved by the jury, whose decision will be unappealable.


6. ere will be an ocial minute of the nal decision of the jury which will be signed by each of the


jurors pointing out the winners of the contest. In order for the minute to be signed, the signature can


be holographic or digital when the jurors cannot sign it in person, which will not diminish the value of


the jury’s nal decision.


Chapter VII. About the exhibition, granting


of recognitions and awarding.


1. e works selected as nalists in the genres of photography, alternative techniques and poster


will be exhibited during the activities of the International Image Festival 2025 and in accordance with


these Guidelines.


2. e nalists of the different genres will receive a recognition which will be granted in the date


and the time announced on March 3, 2025, through the social media of FINI.


3. To grant the recognitions previously mentioned, the nalists and/or winners must conrm their


attendance no later than April 7, 2025, in accordance with the term 4 of Chapter IV of these


Guidelines.


4. On the day the recognitions are granted, the nalists and/or winners must arrive at the venue at


their own cost, an hour early and register their attendance.


5. In case the nalists and/or winners do not arrive an hour early and do not register their


attendance, they will receive their recognition at the end of the ceremony.


6. e awarding of the winners will be according to Chapter IV of the Call, and Chapters VI and VIII


of these Guidelines.


Chapter VIII. About the payment on account of awards


1. e awards will be paid within the 30 labor days after the awarding ceremony, as long the


participants have complied with the process and submitted documentation via e-mail to the FINI


Department of Planning, Administration and Finance. On the contrary, the term will count as of the


required documents are sent.


2. For the categories UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AND NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL it must be


considered, besides the established in the previous term, that the prize can only be paid in the year


of the contest; otherwise, the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo and the International


Image Festival will not be able to do the payment. is is with no liability to the institution


organizing the event.


3. e participation in the International Image Contest FINI 2025 implies the acceptance of the times


and processes of payment determined by the International Image Festival and the Universidad


Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo.


4. For the awarding in any of the categories and genres of this contest, it will be the responsibility


of the winners to be attentive to the announcement mentioned in term 4 of Chapter VI of these


Guidelines and respond to the communications of the International Image Festival.


5. e payment that corresponds to the award of the categories UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY and


NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL in any of its genres and places will be made by wire transfer. at is why


it is essential, and under the responsibility of the participant, to comply with the requirement


established in term 6 of Chapter II of these Guidelines.


6. e payment that corresponds to the award of the INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL category will


be made according to what is established in term 2.5 of Chapter IV of the Call in compliance with


term 7, Chapter II of these Guidelines.


7. In case the winners of the INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL category do not comply with the


requirements established in term 7 of Chapter II of these Guidelines, the Universidad Autónoma del


Estado de Hidalgo and the International Image Festival will be unable to grant the corresponding


prize, therefore the granting will be cancelled with no legal liability to the institution that grants it.


8. e participants, before registering to this Contest, must make sure that their country, nancial


institution they use, or their own individual self are not sanctioned in the OFAC Sanctions Lists (Oce


of Foreign Assets Control) which you can consult in the following link


https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/ on the basis of an Executive Order from the Department of the


Treasury of the United States of America, as well as from the FATF (Financial Action Task Force). e


former, in order to be able to receive the electronic transfer being the prize, in case they result


winners.


9. In case the requirements established in the Call and in these Guidelines, as well as valid national


and international regulations applicable to the moment of the awarding are not timely met, or in case


there is an impediment of those expected for the contest, the winner will expressly release the UAEH


and FINI and/or the jury of carrying out such awarding.


Chapter IX. Tax payment


1. e person who wins, regardless of the category and genre he/she is participating, will be


responsible for the payment of taxes and applicable charges according to their country of origin.


Chapter X. Unforeseeable circumstances


1. It is understood that the winning contestant accepts as of the moment of their participation that


the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo may not grant one or several prizes, with no legal


responsibility whatsoever, due to an unforeseeable circumstance, force majeure, global or national


nancial crisis, devaluation or currency crisis, unavailability of resources, regional or global public


health emergencies (pandemic) or natural phenomena, revolutions, riots, rebellions, sabotage actions,


theft, casualties, acts of payment suspension or delivery of funds that affect the assets or fund that


the university obtains to grant the prizes, as well as the impossibility to deliver one or several prizes


not attributable to the University.


Chapter XI. Civil and criminal liability


1. If the winner would have committed error, deception, fraud, identity theft, misappropriation or


misuse of intellectual property, industrial property, copyright, digital rights, materials, properties,


possessions of a third party, malicious or dishonest conduct in order to obtain or cash the prize, the


Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo will be released of any legal responsibility for these acts


or events and could claim damages to the winner that have committed these acts or events described


herein.


Chapter XII. Jurisdiction and competence


1. _Any dispute that may arise, related to the compliance of the obligations incurred based on the


International Image Contest organized by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, will be


subject to the Mexican laws and procedures, and will be solved in Mexican Courts, regardless of the


nationality of the participants of the contest, therefore, they resign to claim the application of foreign


legislations.


From April 24 to May 2


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