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GI-Land · 01-08-2021, 03:34 PM

Welcome to the Southern Gate Festival – the major cultural event of Pacifica, in which we all will determine, who can create the best films, who has the best series and who is leaving everyone in awe with their music.

The Southern Gate Festival is a cultural event taking place in Südtor, GI-Land, sponsored mainly by the Gianlucian government, namely the Ministry of Culture, the audio streaming service Audit and the video streaming service Risa. Since 1986 it has awarded the best Gianlucian pieces of media on an annual basis, but as of this year everything opens up and welcomes the world to share their creative works so they earn the international respect and recognition they deserve.

The festival consists of two competitions: The Film Festival and a Song Contest called “Pacivision”.

Film Festival (“The Golden Gates”)

During the film festival the best films and series of Pacifica will be awarded “The Golden Gates” in the categories “Best Film”, “Best Series”, “Best Advertisement” and “Best Director”. Each trophy is endowed to One Million Gianlucian Tacks (1 Tack = 1 Euro IRL). Furthermore each film or series, which has won at least one trophy will be added to the films and series Risa offers in its international line-up.

Each nation may submit one film and/or one series. One more film or series may be submitted, if it is a co-production between two countries without the same roleplayer behind it!
This means, you can submit three entries at max (1 film + 1 series + 1 co-production with another roleplayer, which counts as a co-produced entry for both roleplayers)!

To submit a film/series, please fill out the form below. It has to be an original piece!

Code:
[b]Country of Origin:[/b]

[b]Title:[/b]

[b]Director:[/b]

[b]Major Cast:[/b]

[b]Genre:[/b]

[b]Running Time:[/b] (Only for films; in minutes)

[b]Number of Episodes:[/b] (Only for series)

[b]Running Time per Episode:[/b] (Only for series; in minutes)

[b]Rating:[/b] (US-rating system: G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17)

[b]Poster/Advertisements:[/b] (Optional: poster or Pieces of Advertisements to the film and/or series)

[b]Synopsis:[/b] (For films: Describe the film’s plot. For series: Describe the plot of each episode shortly. In both cases you may describe some scenes of the film or in the series)

[b]Additional Information:[/b] (Optional: Any more things you want to share about the film/series, that didn’t fit into the categories above?)

After a submission period of 14 days and a post of me, which compiles all submissions, a voting period of 7 days in the instant-runoff voting system will commence. Everyone (including nations, who have not submitted anything) may rank all or any submissions (except of their own) in the following categories:

Best Film
Best Series
Best Advertisement (Film) (based on the featured art)
Best Advertisement (Series) (based on the featured art)
Best Director (Film) (based on the synopsis)
Best Director (Series) (based on the synopsis)

During the voting period, we will have some “red carpet roleplay”, where interviewers, directors, actors and other famous attendees will come together. On the voting period follows the award ceremony, where each winner will also receive their time to shine.
Please message me, if you want to hold a laudatory speech in one of the categories.

One last thing: Some of us have multiple nations. While you may submit entries with all of your nations, please still be fair enough to the others and don’t vote with all of your nations and don’t vote for any of your nations. If you don’t follow this rule, I will allow myself to not consider any votes by “2nd Tier nations”.

Pacivision – This is a music show broadcasted to millions of households all around Pacifica. Nations submit a song and a performance and the others judge their submissions. Every independent nation may participate in the contest and submit an entry via the form below. There are three different kinds of entries, you may submit:

A) Submit an IRL Song
B) Submit an Instrumental and write lyrics and a performance for it
C) Submit a totally original piece of music

All entries need to follow certain rules:

1) All entries may not exceed five minutes in length.
2) The artist’s name has to be changed to an IC name.
3) If the text of a submission is in another language than Austral, a translation has to be provided. If the text contains IRL references, these have to be changed, so they fit into the Pacifica-canon.
4) When submitting a song of category A or C, a live performance is preferred but not needed, as you can write up an own performance yourself. Banned from submission are all Eurovision songs from 2020 and 2021, as well as songs from the Billboard Hot 100 of 2020.
5) You may not submit winning songs of former editions of Pacivision, nor songs an active nation (= on the map) has formerly sent to Pacivision, nor songs an inactive nation (= not on the map anymore) has formerly sent to Pacivision in the last five years. Sending a song of an artist, another nation has used already in former editions of Pacivision may only happen with their consent.

Code:
[b]Country of Origin:[/b]

[b]Title:[/b] (If in another language, please provide the title’s translation into Austral)

[b]Artist:[/b]

[b]Genre:[/b]

[b]Lyrics:[/b] (If in another language, please provide a translation into Austral)

[b]Performance:[/b] (Optional: Describe your performance, if you didn’t submit a live-performance with your song already. Please keep to the general rules of Eurovision [maximum 6 people on the stage, no animals, no under 16 years of age, etc])

[b]Additional Information:[/b] (Optional: Any more things you want to share about the song, that didn’t fit into the categories above?)

The submission period will last for 7 days. Please submit your entries via DM on the forum or, preferably, on Discord. I will compile everything, decide on a running-order and write the Pacivision-Show in two parts. Between the two parts will be a few days, in which you will be able to roleplay the Green Room a bit or share stories of your artist(s) with us. After the second show-post, the voting period, which will span another 7 days, will start. Here all participants rank their 10 favourite entries awarding them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 points. If you are participating with two or even more nations, you may not award the top 3 positions (8, 10 and 12 points) to any of your other participating nations!
Furthermore all participants will, like during the film festival, rank any or all submissions (except of your own), in the following categories for instant-runoff voting:

Best Performance
Best Lyrics
Most Original

For these votes, please only let your main nation/main participant vote.
The Top 10 of each category will receive additional points according to the 1-12-scale. This works as our “jury vote”.
When the winner is announced, they will be able to hold a victory speech. Also the winner will be the host country for the next Pacivision, which will be held during the Southern Gate Festival next year.

Everything should be clear now. If there are any questions left, please don’t refrain from asking them here or on Discord.

Anyway: Welcome to the Southern Gate Festival, let’s get creative and let’s have some fun!

The submission periods for Pacivision and the film festival start today! This means that the submission deadline is...

- for Pacivision on 16 January 2021, 08:00 AM CET
- for the film festival on 23 January 2021, 08:00 AM CET

Signed
Gianluca IV
Roleplayer (active in TSP since 2016)
TSPedia-Author
Head Bartender of the Lampshade Bar & Grill

Information about my roleplay
Pacifica GI-Land, Snolland (Hazelbrust), Guardian of the World Forum, IUFA-FWC/WFWC- and Pacivision Supervisor •
Aurora Markatt (Maura)

(This post was last modified: 01-08-2021, 04:11 PM by GI-Land.)