<h2>Fairness</h2>
<p>If artistic painters can decide prices for their work, why shouldn't filmmakers and video content creators?</p>
<p>VidaFair is a new pay-per-rental video monetization platform based on fair pricing and transactions between creators and consumers. VidaFair allows video creators to set their own fee for 24-hour video stream rentals of their content. Video viewers pay the content creator fee and a small fee to VidaFair, without being asked to subscribe to anything, ever. Creators and viewers get the safety and security of the PayPal payment processing.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>We do believe content creators should set their own prices</h2>
<p>Just like painters, photographers, interior decorators and a whole host of other creative professionals who set prices for their work, we believe film and video producers should have the freedom to dream, create and then charge what they see fit. Content creators know best the costs, time spent and market demand for their work. <br><br></p>
<h2>We do respect and compensate creators</h2>
<p>VidaFair represents a significant paradigm shift from other platforms, where content creators can only ever receive a tiny fraction of the proceeds for their work, or are charged platform fees based on a percentage of rental price. We've been content creators ourselves. <br><br></p>
<h2 style="text-align:left;">We do respect and protect video consumers</h2>
<p>Your viewing habits are no one else's business but yours. We accept no corporate sponsorships, no data sharing arrangements and no advertising. Our revenue model is simple and clear -- reasonable fees to host and stream video which are a function of file size, not the creators' prices. Nothing else under the radar, over the radar or otherwise. Sometimes a service that's marketed as "free," isn't as free as people think.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>We don't own anyone’s content</h2>
<p>Some very well known video streaming platforms bury tricky copyright transfer language in long, complex "Terms of Service" agreements. At VidaFair, by contrast, all content remains the property of the content creators. We will never assert ownership of any film or video, ever.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>We don't waste your time</h2>
<p>Do you really want to watch advertisements? Or have them interrupt your film or video? We don't. Nor do we think your time is "free." Other platforms surprise viewers with advertisements they neither want, nor expect. On VidaFair, we don't sell your time to outside groups or companies through ads.<br></p>
<h2>We don't run other businesses</h2>
<p>We don't run search engines, email services or marketing campaigns. We don't send ads to creators or viewers, or sell information to anyone about viewers' preferences. <br></p>
<p>And it goes beyond just a matter of personal privacy. In a broader way, we believe more content platforms will always be healthier than fewer, because a social media landscape of very few extremely powerful behemoths poses societal risks.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>We don't offer, nor allow subscriptions</h2>
<p>We believe subscriptions can sometimes be a slick way customers get charged for services they don't use. At VidaFair, every streaming video rental is specifically authorized. Since there are no subscriptions on VidaFair, there’s never such a thing as “forgetting to unsubscribe.”</p>
<p>No VidaFair transaction ever automatically repeats. You decide every purchase on the VidaFair platform. That's how we want to be treated when we use an internet site. <br><br></p>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;"><strong>Content Monetization Without Subscriptions: </strong></h2>
<h2 style="text-align:center;"><strong>Content Creators and Content Viewers Living in Fairness</strong>&nbsp;</h2>
<h2 style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;<strong>The VidaFair Revolution</strong></h2>
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About VidaFair

<h2>Account</h2>
<p>In order to use certain features of the Website, you must register for an account. You may be asked to provide a password in connection with your account. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>The information you provide to VidaFair, whether at registration or at any other time, will be true, accurate, current, and complete. You should also ensure that this information is kept accurate and up-to-date at all times. If you have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure (e.g., in the event of a loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure or use of your account ID or password), then you should immediately notify VidaFair at contact@vidafair.com. You may be liable for the losses incurred by VidaFair or others due to any unauthorized use of your Website account&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Modification of the Terms</h2>
<p>VidaFair reserves the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of the Terms at any time. Please check the Terms and any Guidelines periodically for changes.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Your continued use of the Website after the posting of changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes. For any major changes to the Terms, VidaFair will make reasonable effort to provide notice to you by an email notification to the address associated with your account or by posting a notice on the Website.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Such amended terms will be effective against you on the earlier of (i) your actual notice of such changes and (ii) thirty days after VidaFair makes reasonable attempt to provide you such notice.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Disputes arising under these Terms will be resolved in accordance with the version of the Terms in place at the time the dispute arose.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That the Company shall be entitled to make policy declarations from time to time pertaining to matters and may alter the same from time to time at its sole discretion.  All such policy decisions of the Company shall be binding on user and shall override this Agreement to that extent.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Proprietary Materials &amp; Licences</h2>
<p>Proprietary Materials:</p>
<p>The Website is owned and operated by VidaFair. The visual interfaces, graphics, design, compilation, information, computer code (including source code or object code), software, services, content, educational videos and exercises, and all other elements of the Website are protected by Indian and international copyright, patent, and trademark laws, international conventions, and other applicable laws governing intellectual property and proprietary rights.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Licensed Educational Content:</p>
<p>VidaFair may make available on the Website certain educational videos, exercises, and related supplementary materials that are owned by VidaFair or its third-party licensors.&nbsp;</p>
<p>VidaFair grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the Licensed Educational Content as made available on the Website by VidaFair solely for your personal, non-commercial purposes. Unless expressly indicated on the Website that a particular item of Licensed Educational Content is made available to Users under other license terms, you may not download, distribute, sell, lease, modify, or otherwise provide access to the Licensed Educational Content to any third party.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Other Licenses</h2>
<p>In certain cases, VidaFair or its licensors may make available Licensed Educational Content under Other license terms. By using, downloading, or otherwise accessing such Licensed Educational Content, You agree to comply fully with all the terms and conditions of such Other License.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Termination</h2>
<p>Termination by VidaFair:</p>
<p>VidaFair's mission is to create a safe, fair and copyright-protected environment for the monetization of independent content. In service of the platform's reputation and operation, VidaFair, in its sole discretion, may terminate any account (or any part thereof) and remove and discard all or any part of any account, User profile and User Content, at any time.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>VidaFair may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing access to the Website, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of your access to the Website or any account you may have, or portion thereof, may be affected without prior notice, and you agree that VidaFair will not be liable to you or any third party for any such termination. Any suspected fraudulent, abusive or illegal activity may be referred to appropriate law enforcement authorities.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>These remedies are in addition to any other remedies VidaFair may have at law or in equity. As discussed herein, VidaFair does not permit copyright, trademarks, or other intellectual property infringing activities on the Website, and will terminate access to the Website, and remove all User Content or other content submitted, by any Users who are found to be repeat infringers.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Termination by You:</p>
<p>If you are dissatisfied with (i) the Website, (ii) any term of these Terms of Service, (iii) Guidelines, (iv) any policy or practice of VidaFair in operating the Website, or (v) any content or information transmitted through the Website, you may terminate your account at any time. You may also delete any video you previously uploaded, or "Inactivate" any video you previously unloaded which can then be easily re-actived at a later time, at your discretion.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Prohibited Conduct</h2>
<p>YOU AGREE NOT TO:</p>
<p>1. Use the Website for any commercial use or purpose unless expressly permitted by VidaFair in writing, it being understood that the Website and related services are intended for personal, non-commercial use only;&nbsp;</p>
<p>2. Impersonate any person or entity, falsely claim an affiliation with any person or entity, or access the Website accounts of others without permission, or perform any other fraudulent activity;&nbsp;</p>
<p>3. Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notices on the Website or on any Licensed Educational Content, Licensed Educational Code, or User Content;&nbsp;</p>
<p>4. Assert, or authorize, assist, or encourage any third party to assert, against VidaFair or any of its affiliates or licensors any patent infringement or other intellectual property infringement claim regarding any Licensed Educational Content, Licensed Educational Code, or User Content You have used, submitted, or otherwise made available on or through the Website;&nbsp;</p>
<p>5. Make unsolicited offers, advertisements, proposals, or send junk mail or spam to other Users of the Website (including, but not limited to, unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or other solicitation material, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, chain mail, informational announcements, charity requests, and petitions for signatures);</p>
<p>6. Use the Website for any illegal purpose, or in violation of any local, state, national, or international law, including, without limitation, laws governing intellectual property and other proprietary rights, data protection and privacy;&nbsp;</p>
<p>7. Defame, harass, abuse, threaten or defraud Users of the Website, or collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about Users or third parties without their consent;&nbsp;</p>
<p>8. Remove, circumvent, disable, damage or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Website, Licensed Educational Content, Licensed Educational Code, or User Content, features  that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content accessible through the Website, or features that enforce limitations on the use of the Website, Licensed Educational Content, Licensed Educational Code, or User Content;&nbsp;</p>
<p>9. Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Website or any part thereof, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation;&nbsp;</p>
<p>10. Modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works based upon the Website or any part thereof, except and only to the extent expressly permitted by VidaFair herein or to the extent the foregoing restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law;&nbsp;</p>
<p>11. Intentionally interfere with or damage operation of the Website or any user’s enjoyment of it, by any means, including without limitation by participation in any denial-of-service type attacks or by uploading or otherwise disseminating viruses, adware, spyware, worms, or other malicious code.</p>
<h2>Converting Grains to Money&nbsp;</h2>
<p>Content credtors understand that grain balances below 2,000 (two thousand) cannot be converted to money.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Note: By clicking the “I Accept” button, you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as well as Privacy Policy.</strong></p>


Terms and Conditions

<h2>Overview</h2>

<p>We take your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting your right to privacy as a user of our website. We have made every effort to ensure your information is secure. This privacy policy information covers what information is collected, what we do with it, and what you can do about it. You can use this information to make your decisions about your privacy.</p>

<h2>User ID and Password</h2>

<p>By entering into this Agreement, You acknowledge and agree that Your user ID and password ("Participant Account") is for Your exclusive use only.&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Use or sharing of Your Participant Account with another user is not permitted and is cause for immediate blocking of Your access to the Website, the Services and the Content, the Lecture videos, and termination of this Agreement.</h2>

<p>You agree that You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your Participant Account and for all activities that occur under it.</p>

<p>You agree to immediately notify our Customer Support Team at contact@vidafair.com if You become aware of or have reason to believe that there is any unauthorized use of Your Participant Account. You also agree to take all reasonable steps to stop such unauthorized use and to cooperate with Us in any investigation of such unauthorized uses. We shall not under any circumstances be held liable for any claims related to the use or misuse of Your Participant Account due to the activities of any third party outside of our control or due to Your failure to maintain the confidentiality and security of Your Participant Account.</p>

<h2>Content and Lecture Videos</h2>

<p>As a part of our Services offered through our Website, We shall grant you access to our content, Lecture Videos, and other information, documents, and data which may be in audio, video, written, graphic, recorded, photographic, or any machine-readable format in relation to the specific certification training course You have registered for ("Content and Lecture Videos").</p>

<p>We reserve the right to amend, revise or update the Content and Lecture videos offered to You. In the event such an amendment, revision or updation occurs, You can access these, without any additional cost during the validity of the subscription.</p>

<h2>Usage of the Website and Services</h2>

<p>We grant you a personal, restricted, non-transferable, non-exclusive, and revocable license to use the Website, the Services, and the Content and Lecture videos offered through the Website till the predefined time of the completion of the course that You have enrolled for or the termination of this Agreement according to the Terms and Conditions set forth herein, whichever is earlier. The Services and the Content and Lecture videos are provided solely for Your personal and non-commercial use to assist you in improving your knowledge or to make face the intended competitive exam or to keep you ahead of the rest. Under any circumstances, You cannot use it for commercial purposes.</p>

<p>You are not permitted to reproduce, transmit, distribute, sub-license, broadcast, disseminate, or prepare derivative works of the Content and Lecture videos, or any part thereof, in any manner or through any communication channels or means, for any purpose other than the Restricted Purpose, without Our prior written consent.</p>

<h2>Intellectual Property Rights</h2>

<p>While You are granted a limited and non-exclusive right to use the Website, the Services, and the Content and Lecture Videos for the Restricted Purpose as set forth in this Agreement, You acknowledge and agree that We are the sole and exclusive owner of the Website, the Services and the Content and Lecture videos and as such are vested with all Intellectual Property Rights and other proprietary rights in the Website, the Services, and the Content and Lecture videos.</p>

<p>You acknowledge and agree that this Agreement other than permitting You to use the Website, the Services, and the Content and Lecture videos for the Restricted Purpose does not convey to You in any manner or form any right, title or interest of a proprietary, or any other nature in the Website, the Services, and the Content and Lecture videos.</p>

<h2>Usage of Personal Information of Participants</h2>

<p>We reserve the right to feature Your picture in any photos, videos, or other promotional material used by Us. Further, We may use Your personal information to inform You about upcoming lecture videos offered by Us. However, We shall not distribute or share Your personal information with any third party marketing database or disclose Your personal information to any third party except on a case-to-case basis after proper verification of such third party or if required under any applicable law.</p>

<h2>Limitation of Liability</h2>

<p>You expressly agree that use of the Website, the Services, and the Content and Lecture videos are at Your sole risk. The disclaimer of liability contained in this clause applies to any and all damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of records or any other material, whether for breach of contract, negligence, or under any other cause of action.</p>

<p>You hereby specifically acknowledge that We are not liable for any defamatory, offensive, wrongful, or other users of the Website, the Services or the Content and Lecture videos and that the risk of damage or injury from the foregoing rests entirely with each user.</p>

<h2>Term and Termination</h2>

<p>This Agreement will become effective upon Your acceptance of the terms of this Agreement by Your clicking on the "I ACCEPT" button and, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, will remain in effect till You maintain a current, fully paid up online Participant Account, or until terminated by Us, whichever is earlier.</p>

<p>We reserve the right to terminate this Agreement and block Your access to the Content and Lecture videos with immediate effect by sending a written notice through email to You to this effect ("Immediate Termination Date"), if such termination is made as a result of Your misrepresentation, default, misconduct, or breach of Your obligations related to or under this Agreement ("Event of Default"). On the occurrence of any Event of Default, We shall be authorized to exercise all the rights and remedies under this Agreement or applicable Law or available in equity to seek indemnification for any Loss or Claim resulting from any such Event of Default.</p>

<h2>Indemnity</h2>

<p>You agree to indemnify and hold Us, Our contractors, licensors, directors, officers, employees, and agents, harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, liabilities, and expenses including attorneys' fees, arising out of Your unauthorized use of the Website, the Services, and the Content and Lecture videos or any violation or breach of this Agreement or any provisions hereof.</p>

<h2>Waiver</h2>

<p>Neither failure nor delay on the part of any party to exercise any right, remedy, power, or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, or of the exercise of any other right, remedy, power, or privilege. No term of this Agreement shall be deemed waived, and no breach consented to, unless such waiver or consent shall be in writing and signed by the party claimed to have waived or consented. No waiver of any rights or consent to any breaches shall constitute a waiver of any other rights or consent to any other breach.</p>

<h2>Severability</h2>

<p>In the event any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable under the applicable laws of India, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect, and the Agreement shall be deemed to be reformed by replacing such invalidated or unenforceable provision with a valid and enforceable provision that gives effect as closely as possible to the intentions of the parties as expressed by the invalidated or unenforceable provision.</p>

<h2>Amendment and Assignment</h2>

<p>We reserve the right to unilaterally amend or modify this Agreement without giving any prior notification to You. We shall however publish the revised agreement on the Website so that You are aware of the revisions, modifications and amendments made by Us to this Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that it is Your responsibility to check the Website periodically for any revisions, modifications, and amendments. Your continued use of or access to the Website, the Services, and the Content and Lecture videos following the posting of any changes to this Agreement shall constitute acceptance of those changes.</p>

<p>You are not permitted to assign this Agreement or the rights and obligations mentioned in this Agreement to any third party and You only shall be held liable for any breach of this Agreement or any terms and conditions hereof.</p>

<h2>Entire Agreement</h2>

<p>This Agreement, along with the Privacy Policy, Refund Policy, Rescheduling Policy, Terms of Use, and any additional guidelines, rules, and/or disclaimers posted on the Website constitutes the entire agreement governing Your use of our Website and supersedes any prior agreements, if any, relating to any matter dealt within this Agreement.</p>

<p>Note: By clicking &ldquo;I Agree&rdquo; button, You are agreeing to all our Policies as listed in the website.</p>

Privacy Policy

<h2>Can I really set the streaming price for rentals of my original videos?</h2>
<p>Yes. Isn’t it great? The cost to upload a video is only 100 grains -- that equates to just US$1.00 when grains (grains are VidaFair tokens) are bought "by the bushel," and only $1.99 when bought <em>a la carte</em>. That's all it takes to start earning grains every time a viewer rents your content. Grain balances above 2,000 can be converted to revenue through PayPal.</p>
<h2>How do I get paid for views?</h2>
<p>Once you have a balance of 2,000 grains or more, you can use the Cash Out feature in the VidaFair drop down menu. After supplying a PayPal-registered email address, you can request 2,000 grains or more to be converted to dollars. Cash Out requests are closed each week at Saturday at 12:00amET (NYC time), take about a week for processing, and are subject to a 2% financial transaction fee.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>How much can I make?</h2>
<p>Use our Earnings Calculator to see for yourself! It's under the "About" menu item on the homepage. Enter a video file size, your 24-hour rental price, and the number of views you might expect in 12-months. (Minimum allowable rental prices are a product of file size.)</p>
<h2>How should I set those prices?</h2>
<p>That’s up to you — creators are free to set their own fees per rental, between 0 and 2,000 grains (equivalent to $0-$20.00, after meeting the Cash Out minimum). The total streaming price for viewers is the sum of the creator fee and VidaFair's streaming fee, which is based on file size. The importance of file size is why we suggest a video resolution of 720p for most types of content, as the majority of videos are seen on smartphones or laptops. But 480p and 1080p resolutions are also available at the content creator's prerogative. Podcasts and talking head livestreams, for example, may not prioritize the visuals, whereas certain types of films may justify higher resolution.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In general, we advise creators to set modest fees After all, most people aren’t yet accustomed to pay-per-stream content. We believe fairness in pricing will foster loyalty among viewers over time, and often lower-than-expected pricing actually maximizes revenue.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Why doesn't VidaFair charge a percentage?</h2>
<p>Since VidaFair's variable costs are based on streaming and storage services, which are tied to file size, we believe it's fairest to base our fee on that. A streaming platform shouldn't demand more money for their service simply because a content creator priced it higher. A platform's streaming fee should be based on its costs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Will my fans need to subscribe to your service?</h2>
<p>No. VidaFair neither requires, nor even offers subscriptions. VidaFair units of value are called grains, and they're approximately equal to U.S. pennies, or cents. Every VidaFair grain purchase is a one-time transaction, and each new purchase has to be authorized separately by users.<br><br></p>
<p>We believe subscriptions have a place, but they aren't the best fit for every style of video content, especially independent producers. It's important for your potential viewers to know that this platform will never ask them to subscribe.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>To Cash Out 2,000 grains to $US20, must all the grains be generated by a single video?</h2>
<p>No. All you need is to have a minimum of 2,000 grains (sometimes expressed as "g2,000," and a PayPal ID.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>How do I ask fans to pay for content that's already free on other platforms?</h2>
<p>You probably shouldn't (although nothing would stop you). We recommend that creators continue producing content for existing platforms as they have before, and use VidaFair for different, special content unavailable elswhere, or possibly even older, archived content. In this regard, it would be quite similar to how some creators promote separate content for a Patreon subscriber platform. The difference, of course, is that renting videos on VidaFair requires no subscriptions, and can cost only pennies to view via the micropayment architecture.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Should I market the videos I upload to VidaFair?</h2>
<p>Yes. VidaFair is a new content monetization platform. While people generally browsing VidaFair content will be able to see your work, you should also tell your followers that it's available on VidaFair, for the low, low price of... an amount mostly determined by you.</p>
<p>Promoting unique VidaFair content to subscribers via social media would be akin to promoting subscription-only Patron content -- which is quite common.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>How will I persuade followers to enter a credit card when they're used to watching videos for free?&nbsp;</h2>
<p>You might let them know:</p>
<p>• They will not be subscribing -- each VidaFair grain purchase is a one-time, a la carte transaction. Who needs another subscription?• They will not be subjected to advertising.• The entry level price of US$1.99 is a one-time charge that does not repeat. This means if they buy $1.99 of grains once, no other charge will ever appear. In an online media space increasingly dominated by subscriptions, this is the key difference and the strategic advantage of the VidaFair model. • The micropayment video rental prices you set will be fair, probably just in the pennies per view.• They can depend on the security of PayPal payment processing (via web browser access). • No one will ever sell their content choices to marketers. They should know VidaFair is not involved in other businesses like search engines, email services or ad campaigns.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>After uploading a video, does it remain on the platform forever?</h2>
<p>Videos uploaded to VidaFair remain available for rental for a period of one year, although videos actively receiving rentals will get extended at no charge. By uploading to VidaFair, content creators agree that they will retain other copies of the videos, and VidaFair will not be responsible storing the only copy of a video.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Will VidaFair own the content I upload?&nbsp;</h2>
<p>No. Unlike some other video streaming platforms, VidaFair will never claim any form of ownership over any of the video content uploaded to our platform. Uploading to VidaFair has no effect on copyrights.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Do you really care about copyrights?</h2>
<p>It’s a violation of VidaFair Terms and Conditions for anyone to upload video content for which they do not have ownership or authority to monetize. We take copyright strikes seriously and reserve the right to immediately and permanently ban users who are deemed to have violated our copyright policy. We will also remove such videos without refund.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Fair Use provisions of modern U.S. copyright law allow for use of short segments of other people's work for purposes of critique or satire. VidaFair takes a stricter interpretation of Fair Use than many other sites. We do not allow continuous clips of over 60 seconds of another person's work for any reason, and we do not allow videos where over 50% of the entire content came from someone besides the VidaFair uploader. We are not limited to these provisions when enforcing copyrights, but they are our starting point. Videos may also be removed for unlicensed use of music or photographs.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>How about Videos with doxing, threats or porn?</h2>
<p>We do not allow videos with personal information about another individual (doxing), child abuse, threats of violence or pornography. While we understand the definitions of these things can sometimes be subjective, VidaFair reserves the right to remove a video from the platform for any reason, without providing a refund or explanation to the content creator. By uploading videos, content creators understand these decisions will be made unilaterally by VidaFair. VidaFair also reserves the right to permanently cancel accounts for these reasons, purely at VidaFair's discretion.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Can I use the VidaFair mobile app to upload video?</h2>
<p>No. While videos can be rented and viewed via the same account on either a web browser or mobile app, videos can only be uploaded through a computer's internet browser.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Will VidaFair change the world?</h2>
<p>We hope so. Just like how other artists have the freedom to set prices for their own creative work, we believe video content creators should have the same latitude. Doesn’t that seem fair? We think so. Join us and monetize your work today.&nbsp;</p>


About Monetizing Videos

<h2>Why Should I Pay for Videos? Shouldn’t Videos Be Free?</h2>
<p>VidaFair is based on a micropayment model that allows content creators fair compensation for their work. Unlike other platforms, VidaFair lets content creators set the streaming prices for their videos, and uses no advertising. VidaFair's costs include data storage, data streaming, software development and financial transaction fees.</p>
<p>We’re based on a simple premise: There is a price point for many online videos that will satisfy both viewers and creators as fair trade, and it's usually quite low.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Is a grain approximately equal to one U.S. cent?</h2>
<p>If viewers buy their grains on the web and in the largest quantities ($20), yes.</p>
<p>For American users, that math becomes pretty simple:</p>
<ul>
<li>A video rental that costs 15 grains to stream equates to US $0.15 or 15 U.S. cents.</li>
<li>A video rental that costs 120 grains, or g120, equates to US $1.20.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

<p>Note: If users buy their grains through mobile apps, there may be additional fees which we pass along. Also, grains bought in smaller quantities cost more due to financial transaction costs.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Can I get a refund if the video isn’t what I expected? Or if my internet connection goes down?</h2>
<p>We don’t pre-screen videos, nor can we control the quality of users’ internet connections. For that reason, VidaFair video rental decisions are non-refundable. It would make no economic sense for VidaFair to incur administrative costs for researching individual refund requests, many of which would be for pennies.</p>
<p>We’ve all been disappointed by movies or live shows we paid to see. VidaFair viewers assume the risk that a video they rent may not be what they expected it would be — or that their own internet connection or hardware device may deliver sub-standard performance.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Can videos rented on the VidaFair website be viewed on the VidaFair mobile app?</h2>
<p>Yes, the same VidaFair account can be accessed via web, Android app or iPhone app.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Can I share a VidaFair link with great content on social media?</h2>
<p>Great minds think alike! The content creators will appreciate it -- and so will we!&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Can organizations pay to reach you, the VidaFair user base?</h2>
<p>No. Unlike some other video streaming sites, VidaFair will never sell data about our users to marketing companies, nor sell access to our users’ streams. We don’t run email services, nor search engines. We don’t bombard you with ads. We do exactly one thing: Allow content creators a platform for video rentals at a reasonable price. Transparency and simplicity equals fairness.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>After renting a video on VidaFair, can it be viewed endlessly?</h2>
<p>No. In an effort to keep costs down, we believe 10 views within a 24-hour time period ought to be enough. We realize that life has interruptions and internet connections can be disrupted. Still, keeping our minimum rental prices low requires a compromise between flexibility for viewers and potential costs. We believe a 10-view, 24-hour limit on video rentals is fair. Now you know. But remember, users are also free to rent a video again for additional views.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Does VidaFair pre-screen uploaded content?</h2>
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Safira O'hara, Khryz Amusa, Chandelly Kidman, Hellena Borgyz, and Jefferson Lemons. From different regions of Brazil, they managed to strengthen the female being as an art form. Afeminadas is a documentary that follows the daily struggle of these characters in search of space, conquests, acceptance and, above all, self-knowledge.

AFEMINADAS

As a child, Carlotta didn’t expect the people around here to have faces. She even doesn’t recognize her own face. Years later, she learns about a rare, untreatable deficit of her brain. It was art, after all, that offered her a way to finally recognize herself.

We all share the same kind of brain yet everybody has a different view of the world around us. As a very intriguing example, Carlotta vividly explains how a world without faces does look like. She suffers from the miswiring of a tiny brain region that makes it impossible for her to see and remember faces as a complete construct, called prosopagnosia or face blindness. 

In an interdisciplinary attempt between a scientist and an artist, we tried to convey the social pressure that Carlotta has felt her whole life. Still, she developed a novel and beautiful way of artistic expression that allows her to see herself in haptic selfportraits which would not be possible for her when looking into the mirror. 

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In Germany, CARLOTTA'S FACE was awarded with the "Short Tiger Award 2018" of the German Federal Film Board (FFA), received the "Prädikat besonders wertvoll" from the Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW), and was listed among the FFA's TOP10 successful German short films in 2018.

Our film was invited to over 200 national and international film festivals and won 32 awards, among them at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, DOK Leipzig, Int. Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg, Edmonton Int. Film Festival, SPARK Animation, Anibar Animation Festival. 

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"Haunting 'Carlotta's Face,' neither manipulative nor expected" 
The Hollywood Reporter
"The fascinating German short 'Carlotta’s Face'” 
The New York Times

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Language: German, with English subtitles 

CARLOTTA'S FACE

LANGUAGE: French | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Documentary - LGBTQ
Running Time: 12mn 03sec
Year of production: 2021

SYNOPSIS

Andrea decides to become a woman at the age of 50. She will finally assume her true dimension: to be a woman. Since she became a woman, transmission has been necessary for her. Instinctively, she takes charge of the teenager who is still inside her. Through this echo between her and him, a balance is built, a harmony in the same body.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: Lidwine Herdhuin
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST

Andréa Valienne

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Lidwine Herdhuin
Screenwriter: Lidwine Herdhuin
Producer: Lidwine Herdhuin
Director of Photography: Douglas Bergossi
Sound: Thomas Lascar
Editing: Ludovic Lang
Sound Editing: Ludovic Lang
Music Composer: Benoist Este-Bouvot

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Documentary
Sub-genre: LGBTQ
Language: French
Country of origin: France
Year of production: 2021
Total running time: 12mn 03 sec
Shooting format: 1920x1080
Color type: Couleurs
Aspect ratio: é.35 dans 16/9
Sound format: 48 KHZ

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

IndieCork 2022 Film Festival
Sélection officielle OFF COURTS TROUVILLE

DEVENIR ELLE

LANGUAGE: Portuguese | SUBTITLES: English

O que Pode um Corpo?
Victor´s Body

Genre: DRAMA / LGBTQ / GAY
Running Time: 18:48
Year of production: 2020

SYNOPSIS

A baby is born, but does not cry. A body screams and is not heard. Paints that run in a promised future do not reach a person with a disability. Victor makes himself the canvas in a universe of absent painters.

CREDITS

Directors: Victor Di Marco e Márcio Picoli
Writers: Victor Di Marco e Márcio Picoli
Executive Producers: Laura Moglia e Márcio Picoli
Production: Laura Moglia, Márcio Picoli, Aline Gutierres e Victor Di Marco
Assistant Director: Aline Gutierres
Direction of Photography: Bruno Polidoro
Photography Assistant: Caio Rodrigues
Art Director: Valéria Verba
Sound: Vinícius Cassol
Sound Mix: Guilherme Cássio
Foley and Sound FX: Jonts Ferreira
Color: Juliano Moreira
Soundtrack: Casemiro Azevedo e Vitório O. Azevedo
Editors: Márcio Picoli e Victor Di Marco
Testimonial and Performance: Victor Di Marco
Cast Preparation: Lorena Longaray
Set Producer: Paula Inácio
Making Of: Kevin Ferreira
Visual Concept: Leo Lage
Graphic Design: Laura Moglia
Accessibility: Fernando R. Polla

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Running time | 14 minutes
Exhibition formats | HD, ProRes, H.264
Aspect ratio | 1:2.40
Sound | 2.0
Shooting format | 4K
Colour
Original language | Portuguese
Year of production | 2020
World premiere | 31º São Paulo International Short Film Festival (2020)

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

31º São Paulo International Short Film Festival | LGBT Gold Butterfly Trophy | Brazil (2020)
31º São Paulo International Short Film Festival | Public Prize | Brazil (2020)
48º Festival de Gramado | Special Juri Award | Brazil (2020)
22º FestCurtasBH – Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival | Best Film-Public Prize | Brazil (2020)
28º Mix Brasil Festival of Cultural Diversity | Best Direction | Brazil (2020)
28º Mix Brasil Festival of Cultural Diversity | "SescTv" Short Film Award | Brazil (2020)
30º Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival | "Canal Brasil" Short Film Award | Brazil (2020)
24º CINEPE | Best Short Film, Best Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Soundtrack | Brazil (2020)
27º Festival de Cinema de Vitória | Best Film Public Prize | Brazil (2020)
3º Festival Santa Cruz de Cinema | Best Direction | Brazil (2020)
14º Festival For Rainbow | Best Documentary Short | Brazil (2020)
9º Curta Brasília | Best Film | Brazil (2020)
Festival Primeiro Plano | Best Cinematography | Brazil (2020)
1º Festival Pajubá | Special Juri Award | Brazil (2021)
14º Cine Esquema Novo | Brazil (2021)
1º IDH Fest | Brazil (2021)
6º Festival Internacional Digo | Brazil (2021)
2º Afronte - Festival de Cinema LGBTQIAP+ | Best Film Critic Prize | Brazil (2021)
8º CineSerra | Best Documentary Short | Brazil (2021)

WHAT CAN A BODY DO?

LANGUAGES: English, Telugu | SUBTITLES: English

SYNOPSIS

Tashi, a young queer activist in India, renounces wearing sarees, to take on Buddhist robes. Flagging both their queer gender and their faith, they pushes on the fight for LGBTQI+ rights in the turbulent oceans of current Indian politics.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Documentary short film. 23 mins. 1.85:1. 25fps.
In English, Hindi and Telugu with English/Spanish subtitles.
Directed and produced by Dani Salo

AWARDS

JUL23 BARCELONA SPAIN: Mecal, International Short and Animation Film Festival - WINNER GRAND PRIX DOCUMENTARY (candidate to the Spanish Cinema Awards: Goya).
NOV22 MADRID SPAIN: GaiLesCineMad – WINNER BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AWARD (candidate to the Spanish Cinema Awards: Goya).
JUL23 BARCELONA SPAIN: Mecal, International Short and Animation Film Festival – WINNER EL PERIODICO AUDIENCE AWARD
JUN23 A CORUÑA, SPAIN: Diversimacine Festival – WINNER BEST SOCIAL SHORT DOCUMENTARY.
OCT22 MADRID SPAIN: Festival Casa del Reloj Matadero Madrid – WINNER JURY PRIZE FOR BEST SHORT FILM.
MAR22 VALLADOLID SPAIN: Festival La Fila – WINNER JURY PRIZE FOR BEST SHORT FILM.
OCT22 MEXICO CITY, MEXICO: FICAA – WINNER BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT DOCUMENTARY.
NOV22 AREQUIPA, PERÚ: Arequipa Audiovisual y Cine Festival – WINNER BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY.
JAN23 MERIDA, MEXICO: Cinema Nahualli - WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FILM.
KYUSHU, JAPAN: Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival – OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY FILM.
MAY22 MADRID SPAIN: CortoEspaña - FINALIST FUGAZ AWARD FOR BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY.
FEB23 ALMERÍA, SPAIN: Carmen Awards from the Andalusian Film Academy – NOMINATED FOR BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY.
JAN 23 SEVILLA, SPAIN: ASECAN Awards – NOMINATED FOR BEST SHORT FILM.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
NOV22 SEVILLA SPAIN: SEFF Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla.
SEP22 MEXICO CITY, MEXICO: ShortsMexico.
OCT22 SAN FRANCISCO, USA: San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival.
AUG22 MONTERREY, MEXICO: Festival Internacional de Cine de Monterrey.
OCT22 INDIANA, USA: Hobnobben Film Festival.
JUN23 MUMBAI, INDIA: Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.
AUG22 CERDANYA, SPAIN: Cerdanya Film Festival (Cataluña).
DEC22 URUGUAY: AtlanticDoc Festival Internacional de Cine Documental del Uruguay.
NOV22 ECUADOR: El lugar sin límites Film Festival.
JUN22 CHILE: AMOR Festival Internacional de Cine LGTB+.
AUG22 PARAGUAY: Festival Internacional de Cine LesBiGayTrans.
SEP22 SWANSEA, UK: Wales International Film Festival.
MAR22 MADRID, SPAIN: Concurso de Cortometrajes Creat Rivas.
OCT22 MEXICO: Festival de cine y video de Kayche.
OCT22 BARCELONA, SPAIN: Festival de Cinema Resquillín (Poblenou).
JUN22 BALEARIC ISLANDS, SPAIN: Mostra Out!
MAR22 CATALUNYA, SPAIN: IMPACTE! Festival de Cinema i Drets Humans de Catalunya.
DEC22 MADURAI, INDIA: Madurai International Documentary & Short Film Festival.
NOV22 BRASIL: Festival de Cinema de Alter do Chao.
JUL22 CIUDAD REAL, SPAIN: Muestra Internacional de Cortometraje Solidario de Ciudad Real.
MAY22 VALENCIA, SPAIN: Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Radio City.
NOV22 MÉXICO: Contra El Silencio Todas Las Voces.
AUG23 KOREA: One World One Flower International Buddhist Film Festival
SEP23 ITALY: Festival del Cinema di Cefalù

@BUDDISTANDQUEER: THEIR PATH FROM SAREES TO ROBES

 

LANGUAGE: Russian | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Documentary - LGBTQ
Running Time: 13 min
Year of production: 2022

SYNOPSIS

The documentary is about a young guy Sasha: during the day he is an office manager, but in the evening he transforms into a gorgeous lady Doyana Cheeseburger. The film opens up the problem of discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community in Russia.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION


Production Company: Independent film director Angelina Podorozhnaya
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST

Sasha aka Doyana Cheeseburger (Alexandr Andreev)

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Angelina Podorozhnaya
Screenwriter: Angelina Podorozhnaya
Producer: Angelina Podorozhnaya
Director of Photography: Alexandra Avdonina, Yuri Reingardt
Sound: Alexandra Avdonina
Editing: Angelina Podorozhnaya
Sound Editing: Angelina Podorozhnaya

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Documentary
Sub-genre: Drama - LGBTQ
Language: Russian
Country of origin: Russia
Year of production: 2022
Total running time: 13 min
Shooting format: Digital
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound format: mp4

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

Free the Kitsch Athens film fest 2022
Atlanta Technical College Film Festival
Your Way International film festival
Festival del Cinema di Cefalù


#DIVA: TITANIC WON'T SINK

 

LANGUAGE: Turkish | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Documentary - LGBTQ
Running Time: 44’
Year of production: 2023

SYNOPSIS

“I Beg You To Like Me”, serves as a testimony of individuals who felt oppressed about their body image for not meeting the standard beauty criteria, and demonstrates how a reckless language based on others’ physical appearance could turn violent. It aims to achieve much more than simply stating the obvious, which is that we are not obligated to submit to the ideal beauty standards dictated by the media, consumerism and the beauty industry. The intimate stories about one’s own body image as told by women, men, disabled people and LGBT individuals make it apparent that any one of us could end up being a victim and a perpetrator at the same time. What if, this iconic body image is nothing but an unobtainable fallacy? “Is it not yet the time to openly discuss the conventional perception of beauty, and step up onto the catwalk in our actual likeness?”

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION


Production Company: ORAK FILM
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

MAIN CREDITS

Director: GUL ABUS
Screenwriter: GUL ABUS
Producer: GUL ABUS
Director of Photography: ORCUN BILGIN
Editing: MELİKE KASAPLAR
Music Composer: NOVA NORDA

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Sub-genre: LGBTQ
Language: TURKISH
Country of origin: TURKIYE
Year of production: 2023
Total running time: 44’
Shooting format: HD
Color type: COLOR
Aspect ratio: 1.77
Sound format: Sterio

AWARDS

Best Documentary – Antakya Film Festival


I BEG YOU TO LIKE ME

 

LANGUAGE: Portuguese | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Documentary - LGBTQ
Running Time: 14min 42seg
Year of production: 2018

SYNOPSIS

As they prepare to compete in the Diversity Cup, BeesCats Soccer Boys players discuss important issues regarding homosexuality in football and homophobia in contemporary society. The film follows two players of the first gay football team in Rio de Janeiro, who expose the changes in their lives since they joined the team.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION


Production Company: Lilian Diehl Produções
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Carlos Guilherme Vogel
Screenwriter: Carlos Guilherme Vogel
Producer: Lilian Diehl
Director of Photography: Fábio Erdos
Sound: Marcelo Engster
Editing: Marcelo Engster
Sound Editing: Lucas Piovesan

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Documentary
Sub-genre: LGBTQIA+
Language: Portuguese
Country of origin: Brazil
Year of production: 2018
Total running time: 14min 42seg
Shooting format: Digital
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 1920 x 816
Sound format: Stereo

AWARDS

Best Documentary Script – 7º FestCine Curta Pinhais (2019)
Best Film by the Young Jury – Cine Jardim (2019)
Honorable mention – Visible Festival de Cine LGBT (2019)
Best Short Film – CineFoot RJ (2019)
Best Short Film – Festival Latinoamericano de Cine Ciudad de México (2019)
2nd place – Best Film Award – Festival de Curtas-Metragens de Jundiaí 2019
Best Edition – Cine Verão 2020
Best Edition – FestCIMM Garanhuns 2020
Best Poster – FestCIMM Garanhuns 2020
Honorable mention – Contra el silencio todas las voces (2020)
Best movie – Júri Popular – FestCIMM Garanhuns 2020
Originality Documentary – Inhapim Cine Festival (2021)
Best Documentary Script – Festival Saindo da Gaveta (2021)
Best Documentary Film – Festival du Court Divipassion (2021)
Best Screenplay – 7º Cine Curtas Lapa (2021)

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

26º Festival Mix Brasil (nov/2018)
22ª Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes (jan/2019)
7º FestCine Curta Pinhais (abr/2019)
II Festival Mimoso de Cinema (mai/2019)
V Cine Jardim (mai/2019)
4º DIGO Festival Internacional da Diversidade Sexual e de Gênero de Goiás (mai/2019)
Berro! Comunicação e Expressão LGBT – UERJ/RJ (mai/2019)
4º Tercer Tiempo – Festival de Cine Fútbolero (jun-jul/2019)
Cineclube Jacareí – Sessão Diretores / Orgulho LGBT (jun/2019)
3ª Mostra do Filme Marginal – (set/2019)
10º CineFoot – (set/2019)
Visible Festival de Cine LGBT (Panamá) – (set/2019)
Cine Tamoio Festival de Cinema de São Gonçalo RJ – (set/2019)
Cinema Ciudad de México - Festival Latinoamericano de Cine – selecionado
5º Festival de Curtas de Campos do Jordão – FCCJ – (out/2019)
II Festival do Filme Etnográfico do Pará – selecionado (nov/2019)
5º Festival de Cinema de Três Passos – selecionado (nov/2019)
Festival de cinema no meio do mundo 2019 – Diadema (SP) – selecionado (nov/2019)
Wow International Film Festival (Tunísia, Marrocos e Jordânia) – selecionado (fev/2020)
Festival de Curtas-Metragens de Jundiaí 2019
37˚FICTS-Sport Movies International Fest-Milão
41º Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano – La Habana (dez/2019)
VIII Cine Cipó – Belo Horizonte (MG)
Sardinia Queer Short Film Festival – Sessão Especial “Bolsonaro, Mon Amour” (nov/2019)
2º PALMACINE - Festival de Cinema de Palmácia – (dez/2019)
Streetside Cinema – Winston-Salem, NC, USA – (jan/2020)
Intima Lente Festival de Etnografia Visual – Caserta, Itália – (dez/2019)
Afronte – Mostra de Cinema LGBTQI+ - Natal, RN, Brasil (dez/2019)
II Festival Curta Bragança – Bragança, PA, Brasil (dez/2019)
Cine Verão 2020 – Natal, RN, Brasil (jan/2020)
Positively Different Short Film Festival – Atenas, Grécia (fev/2020)
7º Leiria Film Festival – Leiria e Batalha, Portugal (jul/2020)
11º FESTin - Festival de Cinema Itinerante da Língua Portuguesa (dez/2020)
11mm. 17º International Football Film Festival – Berlim, Alemanha (out/2020).
Festival Minuto 90 – Peru/Colômbia – (março 2020 – online)
The Lift Off Sessions 2020 – Iver, Inglaterra (maio/2020)
The BeBop Channel Content Festival – Nova York, USA (junho/2020)
FlickFair junho 2020 – Los Angeles, USA – finalista (junho/2020)
Best of Latin America Short Film Festival 2020 – Santa Mônica, USA (julho/2020)
FestCimm Garanhuns 2020 – Garanhuns, PE, Brasil (julho/2020)
FestCurtas Fundaj 2020 – Recife, PR, Brasil (julho/2020)
Curta CUT 2020 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil (julho/2020)
XI Encuentro Hispanoamericano de Cine y Video Documental: Contra el silencio todas las voces – Cidade do México, México (setembro/2020).
CIndie Festival – Festival Online de Cinema Brasileiro Independente (setembro/2020)
7º Offside Fest – Barcelona, Espanha (setembro/2020)
Cine Educação – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil (outubro/2020)
4º Festival de Cinema de Muriaé – Muriaé, MG, Brasil (novembro/2020)
Festival Internacional de Cine Lebu – Mostra Festigol (fev/2021)


SOCCER BOYS

 

LANGUAGE: Persian | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Documentary, LGBTQ
Running Time: 13 minutes
Year of production: 2022

SYNOPSIS

Zainab is a successful girl who supports her family financially, but considers herself a boy inside; therefore, she has decided to undergo sex reassignment surgery. In addition to her family's opposition and the society's inappropriate view of this matter, there is a bigger problem: Zeinab played in Iran's national volleyball team for a while and is now playing in the premium league. If she becomes a boy, she won't have a chance to play for men's professional teams due to her shorter height and less stamina compared to men. Zeinab not only will lose her professional future in Volleyball, but she puts herself and her family, who depend on her financially, in trouble.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION


Film exports/World sales: Raw Company

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Iranmehr Salimi
Screenwriter: Iranmehr Salimi , Zahra Jesmani
Producer: Iranmehr Salimi
Director of Photography: Mohammad Mahdi Jesmani
Sound: Mohammad Hossein Mehrjoo
Editing: Zahra Jesmani
Sound Editing: Zahra Jesmani

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Documentary, LGBTQ
Sub-genre: Human Rights, Identity
Language: Persian
Country of origin: Iran
Year of production: 2022
Total running time: 13 minutes
Shooting format: HDV\_ Digital
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound format: Double Track

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

Doc.Boston Documentary Film Festival
kalakari film fest
Kenya International Sports Film Festival (KISFF)
Madani International Film Festival


UNNAMED

LANGUAGE: Portuguese | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Docufiction
Running Time: 25 minutes
Year of production: 2022

SYNOPSIS

LIGHT’S SPINNING WHEEL is a docufiction short film in seven mini chapters that create a poetic correlation with the seven main human chakras inhabited by some groups of people in São Paulo. They are small clippings of lives that, despite all the disharmony of the largest megalopolis in Latin America, find a thread of light to follow.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: Sala de Poema Filmes Ltda
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST

Danilo Nonato, Yolanda Palacios, Fábia Mirassos, Fernanda Rocha, Thaís Gazarra, Otacílio Alacran, Manuelly Silva and Carlota Joaquina

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Thaís Carvalho, Cris Raséc e André Grejio
Screenwriter: Thaís Carvalho, Cris Raséc e André Grejio
Producer: Thaís Carvalho, Cris Raséc and André Grejio
Director of Photography: Ale Melo and Sala de Poema Filmes
Sound: André Grejio
Editing: André Grejio
Sound Editing: André Grejio
Music Composer: Ana Cacimba, Owerá e Jorge Ervolini

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Documentary
Sub-genre: Docufiction - LGBTQ
Language: português
Country of origin: Brazil
Year of production: 2022
Total running time: 25 min
Shooting format: 4K (3840X2160)
Color type: Colorido
Aspect ratio: 16x9
Sound format: 2.0


LIGHT’S SPINNING WHEEL

LANGUAGE: Polish | SUBTITLES: English

Short story of living two Queer person in Poland. Because in the country being queer is condemned, only at home, behind the door Andrea and Kornel can be themselves. It's a slightly mocking form in which they laugh at stereotypes about queer people

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BEHIND THE DOOR

Babi is going to marry Elvis at Fernando's bar.


BABI & ELVIS

 Angelica has a sexual problem, a psychological and physical block. Through a video diary, shared with two other women, she will look over her memories for understanding what happens to her body .

[ LANGUAGE: Spanish | SUBTITLES: English]


ORCHID HEAD

A short video-documentation of the process behind the "NoCore: Untold" workshop held in Helsinki in 2019. The workshop was part of the NoCore Project: a community dance project that deals with gender expressions and multiculturalism. The performers on this film, who joined the workshop, have shared their stories related to the personal experiences of marginalization and acceptance.The workshop has focused on the dialogue between movements and cameras, giving the possibility to the participants to translate their own story in video-art: interviews to every participant have been the starting points for developing artistic multimedia scenes. The documentary opens up the process as well as the personal thoughts and experiences of the performers.



UNTOLD PROCESS

He has tattoos. He writes poems. He paints. He has done a few dirty jobs. When he was in prison for the second time, he received a literary award. With a poor sense of direction, he jokes that he needs to "design an escape route" everytime he goes back to his hometown. Carrying 37 keys, he seems to have no idea where life is leading him to. He is always looking for work, friends and love, but gets lost again and again.

A ROLLING STONE

_**The Cartel**_ is a documentary film about corruption in public education. The film shows how money thrown at the problem, while often presumed to be what's needed, instead tends to grow district bureaucracies and patronage jobs as opposed to fostering meaningful educational improvements for kids. In short, much of the money never reaches the classroom.

Great teachers are rarely rewarded; bad teachers are rarely fired, and alternatives to the one-size-fits-all monopoly model are treated as threats to existing cash flows, even when offer a lifeline to kids.

"The Cartel" won 12-film festival awards, an 11-city theatrical release, and distribution by Warner Brothers and Netflix.


The Cartel

Mina and Mariana are two transgender prostitutes working in the Bois de Boulogne. They share an old truck and work part-time, one in the morning, the other at night. Their stories deliberately captured in their workplace to the rhythm of traffic and engine noises, gradually immerse us in their world much larger and more complex than the apparent lightness they proudly display.

ALLÉE REINE MARGUERITE

A film made by Titi Rivotril: the experiencies of everyday, the comings and goings of life and world told by her eyes.

NÓS DETERMINAMOS O QUE SOMOS PELO QUE FAZEMOS

Las Gitanas follows a quiet young man and a wild group of friends over the course of a wild night in Los Angeles. It explores chance interactions amongst disparate souls and the common pulse that binds them.

LAS GITANAS

Skin to Skin is an experimental documentary exploring the beautifully messy relationship between intimacy and LGBTQ+ hook-up culture.



SKIN TO SKIN

Apartment, acting both as a prison and a mirror for a person, becomes the subject of an ongoing moving still life. A permanently rotating camera gives the viewer a 360 degree view of an apartment and observes the relationships that are a part of a modern family in a conservative society. Twist is a film about people, who live together for years in a lie hiding their sexual orientation and how this lie destroys everything in one instant. 

TWIST

A day of a Rugby play between Tamanduas (Brazil) and Ciervo Pampas (Argentine), two inclusive teams. Before, during and after the game, we got to know a little bit of the player relationships with sport and their own identity. It was a game held in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Diversity Week program.

AGACHEM, SEGUREM, FORMEM, ARRASEM

5 places in the memories of 5 LGBT people from São Paulo - Brazil are revisited through Google Street View during the pandemic. 

ACESSO

Sex is a taboo topic in China though China is a larger importer from the Japanese AV industry. What happens when a Japanese AV star such as Yui Hatano comes to China? This film shows the China's sex liberation in a comedic way.

SEXUAL HAPPINESS

Unique, free, eccentric and uncensored: this is Serafin, a Spaniard who, during the Franco regime, went into exile in Germany, seeking freedom denied in his country. Sixty years later he tells us, along with his husband, Michael, his memories and dreams to fulfill.

FERNANDEZ PRATSCH

This film documents the heartbreaking life of author, television writer, and neuroscientist Billi Gordon. He previously worked as a model, actor and prostitute. Billi currently weighs close to five hundred pounds. In his life, he has weighed nearly a thousand pounds. Despite Billi's ups and downs, he has always been irreverent, positive, and hilarious.



BILLI

A positive documentary following the healing efforts made by people in the aftermath of the 2017 Manchester Arena Bombing.

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A Manchester Story (Documentary) 

In 1988, Mikis Theodorakis presented the Zorba the Greek ballet in Verona, the biggest open theater in the world. His son, George Theodorakis filmed in a Video8 camera the whole process, the daily life of Mikis Theodorakis in Verona and the performance itself. This documentary presents this unseen material in an artistic way.


Zorbas in Verona

Brasil is a small Cuban town previously called Jaronu. This is a captivating portrait of a remote rural village, while at the same time, a touching dialogue between a grandson and his grandfather runs between the images. Genre: Documentary. (Language: Spanish with English subtitles) 

Brasil, Cuba

Documentary: A group of old houses in ruins and the people who live in them lead us to reflect on the fragility of human illusion. (Language: Spanish, English subtitles)

Entre Restos (Among the Remains)

Andrea decides to become a woman at the age of 50. She will finally assume her true dimension: to be a woman. Since she became a woman, transmission has been necessary for her. Instinctively, she takes charge of the teenager who is still inside her. Through this echo between her and him, a balance is built, a harmony in the same body. Genre: Documentary -- LGBTQ

The ruins of an ancient military fortress outside Havana have become a clandestine gay cruising spot. The old walls and the rubble give shelter not only to Cuban male homosexuals, but also to a culture of resistance and socialization. (Language: Spanish with English subtitles)

BATERIA

Childfree is a 35-minute documentary about women who have chosen to be childfree in today's economically and socially unstable Iran, where couples are strongly encouraged to have children.

Childfree

"Where the Merrows Roam" is an entirely dialogue-free, experimental feature film following two separate stories across a series of distinct chapters. A nonlinear collage of reminiscences tracing the hazy glow of childhood memory through to the harsh light of adulthood'.

Where the Merrow's Roam

The 9-time award winning 'The Conqueror' is a must see film about a hero from Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion.

Maintenance worker by day, pro-boxer by night, Jerome Conquest lives in the city of 'Rocky' and comes from one of Philadelphia's most dangerous neighborhoods, Strawberry Mansion. When Conquest loses his best friend, Calvin, to street violence, he turns to boxing as a way to improve his life, which begins a story of redemption, not only for him but for his struggling community.

The Conqueror

The documentary follows the past, present and future of one Syrian family who fled from Civil War. Presenting the challenges of being now separated from the people they love and their homeland. Please rate on IMDB.

A Forced Passage (Short Documentary) 

Ande, a woman living in Estonia struggles to get back her assets.

From Zero - Saving Beach Ranch

On a mystical greek island, marine conservationists are battling the odds to build a safe haven for mistreated dolphins.

Find out more about these ocean heroes: www.archipelago.gr/en

Film - Documentary