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12TH INTERNATIONAL CVCE PHOTO CONTEST

Application Deadline: March 31, 2026.

LOCATION: Spain

CVCEPHOTO is the International Mountain Activity Photo Contest organized by Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea, a mountaineering club from San Sebastian. The participants authorize CVCEPHOTO the rights to the reproduction of the submitted works for expositions, catalog printings, web publishing, and any other media outlet that the CVCE considers to be of interest to promote the contest.

ELIGIBILITY:

The contest is open to all amateur or professional photographers around the world. Participation is free. It’s understood that underage participants have parent or tutor authorization to participate. If they should win the contest, such authorization will be required.

Categories: “MOUNTAIN ACTIVITY”: Any image related to sport activities (non-motorized) that take place on mountains. (For instance: alpinism, climbing, ski, trekking, speleology, paragliding …)

Each participant may submit a maximum of 3 photographs. There won’t be accepted any photos previously submitted to this contest. Only pictures taken by digital cameras are accepted.

The RAW digital format of the submitted images must be available. Participants must warrant that the submitted photographs are an original work created solely by the entrant and that he or she owns the copyright of the work that is being presented.

CVCEPHOTO takes as granted that the participant has the authorization and/or the permission of the persons that appear in the photographs submitted to the contest.

Works must be submitted in JPEG format and must be at least 1,600 pixels wide, converted to sRGB color space with the profile being embedded in the file. All digital images must be 2 megabytes or smaller. Works must not include frames or footers. Works must be submitted exclusively through the ENTRY FORM.

CVCEPHOTO will contact participants through the email they provide in this entry form.

BENEFIT:

CVCEPHOTO Grand Prize: €1,500 + Exclusive and unique trophy created by Iñigo Arístegui, artist.

“BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia Poster” Prize: € 800 and BBK MENDI FILM Poster.

“EITB Prize”: €800. – “EMF Prize”: €800

”Special Jury Prize”: €500

17 Honorable mentions: DIPLOMAS.

All the cash prizes will be subject to the corresponding retention according to the law.

CVCEPHOTO will contact you by email: info@CVCEPHOTO.com o cvcephoto@gmail.com.

Please make sure you include it in your email list in order to avoid communications being blocked by anti-spam or security systems.

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VIDEOEX EXPERIMENTAL FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES 2026, ZÜRICH

Application Deadline: Monday February 2nd, 2026

LOCATION:  Switzerland

Videoex invites you to submit your digital or analog work for the International & Swiss competition 2026. Videoex is Switzerland’s largest festival dedicated to experimental film and video. Over the course of ten days, Videoex shows films and videos beyond conventional narrative cinema: experimental, visually surprising, conceptually unexpected, or controversially political films and videos on the threshold between visual art and film.

ELIGIBILITY:

They are experimental, innovative, and progressive cinematic works and moving image works that explore the possibilities of film as a medium, expanding the idea of film and cinema.

Videoex invites you to submit your digital or analog work for the International & Swiss competition 2026.

They admit:

Non-Fiction

Moving Image

Documentary

Essay Film

Animated Film

The festival promotes experimental video and film works.

Only works produced after October 1st, 2024, will be accepted.

Participants may submit a maximum of three (3) works.

They are happy to still accept Super8/8mm, 16mm and 35mm film as screening formats (for a complete list, please see full rules below)

Each entry must be accompanied by a short synopsis in German, French, Italian, or English.

To take part in the competition, participants must submit a preview copy of their work. Accepted preview formats: Digital files (using this upload platform), DVD (PAL/NTSC), Blu-ray Disc

BENEFIT:

VIDEOEX 2026 will include an international and a Swiss competition. The total price amount is CHF 1500.

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