Voodoo Ranger Pint Size Film Festival

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT IS NECESSARY TO ENTER. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

  1. Eligibility

    Voodoo Ranger Pint Size Film Festival (the "Contest") is open to legal residents of the 50 United States (and District of Columbia) and are twenty-one (21) years of age at the time of entry. Void where prohibited. Proof of residency and age may be required. Employees and directors of New Belgium Brewing Company, Inc., Contest Factory and their subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, and advertising or promotional agencies, or individuals involved with the design, production, execution or distribution of the Contest, or suppliers, distributors, or retailers of alcohol-beverage products, and the immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to enter or win. "Immediate family members" shall mean parents, stepparents, children, stepchildren, siblings, stepsiblings, or spouses, regardless of where they live. "Household members" shall mean people who share the same residence at least three months a year, whether related or not. In order to enter the Contest or receive a prize, you must fully comply with the Official Rules and, by entering, you represent and warrant that you agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, whose decisions shall be binding and final in all respects relating to this Contest.

  2. Sponsor and Administrator

    Sponsor: New Belgium Brewing Company, Inc., 500 Linden Street, Fort Collins, CO 80524. Administrator: Contest Factory, 17602 17th Street #102 - 116, Tustin, CA 92780

  3. Timing

    Contest begins January 4, 2023 at 12:00 noon Pacific Standard Time and ends February 22, 2023 at 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time ("Contest Entry Period"). Administrator is the official time keeper for this Contest. The Contest is governed by these Official Rules and is subject to all applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.

  4. How to Enter

    During the Contest Entry Period go to https://pintsizefilmfest.com and complete the online entry form by providing your First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Date of Birth, Address. After you register you will be able to submit a short film featuring the Voodoo Ranger action figure (the "Submission") in one of three categories: Stop Motion, Live Action, and Vertical Short. Submission for Stop Motion and Live Action categories must be minimum two (2) minutes in length and must not exceed five (5) minutes in length, and must be shot in 16:9 format. Submission for Vertical Short category must not exceed thirty (30) seconds in length, and must be shot in 9:16 format. You may only submit into one (1) category for the Contest.

    Limit of one (1) Submission per person for the Contest, throughout the entire Contest Entry Period. Entrants may only use one email address to enter the Contest. You are not permitted to share the same email address with another entrant. Use of any automated system to enter is prohibited and will result in disqualification. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected entries all of which will be ineligible to win a prize. In the event of a dispute as to any entrant, the authorized account holder of the email address used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder to be awarded the prize. All entries become the sole and exclusive property of Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged. Failure to meet any of the entry requirements contained in these Official Rules may result in disqualification of an entry, at Sponsor's sole discretion.

  5. Submission Requirements

    The Submission must comply with the following requirements: (i) the Submission may not feature any person other than entrant unless entrant has obtained all necessary written permissions and releases from such persons prior to submission and such persons are over the age of majority in his/her state of legal residence; (ii) other than the Sponsor, its products, brands and/or logos, the Submission may not show, contain, mention, depict, refer or otherwise allude to the name, logo or product of any other retailer, manufacturer, brand, product, store, place of business, person, company or character in such a way or manner as to imply an affiliation with, or endorsement of, the Sponsor, its products, brands and/or this Contest; (iii) the Submission must be entrant's own original work (or the entrant must have the rights from the videographer to make the submission), created solely by entrant and not created professionally; must not have been previously published, released or distributed in any form; must not have won any award; and must not infringe the copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other personal or proprietary rights of any person or entity, including any music used in the Submission; (iv) the Submission may not contain, mention, refer or otherwise allude to any material that is violent, lewd, obscene, sexually explicit, pornographic, disparaging, defamatory, libelous, racially or morally offensive or otherwise contain inappropriate content or objectionable material; (v) the Submission cannot depict the unreasonable consumption of alcohol (e.g., showcasing binge drinking, engaging in reckless behavior after or while drinking, joking about getting drunk or being drunk, implying that drinking makes you better at activities / more attractive, etc.); (vi) the Submission may not feature any person under the age of twenty-one (21) interacting with alcohol; (vii) the Submission cannot promote illegal drugs or tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing), any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous including driving under the influence, or any political agenda or message; (viii) the Submission cannot in any manner defame, misrepresent, contain disparaging remarks or reflect negatively about Sponsor, its products, or other people, products or companies or their products, or in any way reflect negatively upon such parties or explicitly or implicitly communicate messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or goodwill with which Sponsor wishes to be associated, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion; (ix) the Submission cannot itself be in violation of any law; and (x) the Submission must otherwise be in compliance with these Official Rules. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any Submission that Sponsor believes, in its sole discretion, does not comply with or is in violation of these Official Rules or that otherwise contains prohibited or inappropriate content.

  6. Grant of Rights

    By submitting a Submission, the entrant represents and warrants that he/she has all rights, title and interest necessary to grant the Sponsor the worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual and unrestricted right and license to adapt, publish, use, edit, and/or modify such Submission in any way (including but not limited to any and all advertising and marketing efforts, inclusion on digital and social media channels, in-store and other point-of-sale marketing, digital billboards and other out-of-home marketing and post the Submission on the internet or use the Submission in any other way in Sponsor's sole discretion and agrees to indemnify and hold Sponsor harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by law, from any claims to the contrary. Sponsor will credit filmmakers if it uses their work in any marketing material. WarnerMedia, LLC shall have the right, but not obligation, to exhibit the winning Submission on its linear and/or digital platforms in connection with the Contest.

  7. Representations and Warranties/Indemnification

    Each person who enters this Contest represents and warrants as follows: (i) entrant has obtained any and all necessary permissions required to submit the Submission and for Sponsor's right to use the Submission for any purpose, including the consent of any identifiable third person(s) appearing in the Submission, and entrant can and will make written copies of such permissions available to Sponsor upon request; (ii) the Submission is owned by entrant and has not been previously published, distributed or otherwise exploited; (iii) the Submission is wholly original with entrant and, as of the date of submission, the Submission is not the subject of any actual or threatened litigation or claim; (iv) the Submission does not and will not violate or infringe upon the intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or entity, including, but not limited to, rights of privacy and publicity; and (v) the Submission does not and will not violate any applicable laws, and is not and will not be considered defamatory or libelous. Each entrant hereby agrees to indemnify and hold the Sponsor, Administrator and their subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers and directors harmless from and against any and all third party claims, actions, demands, losses, settlements (whether or not litigation is commences), or proceedings of any kind and from any and all damages, liabilities, costs and expenses existing now or arising in the future relating to or arising out of acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a Prize, or any breach or alleged breach of any of the warranties, representations or agreements of entrant hereunder.

  8. Winner Determination

    After the end of the Contest Entry Period, a panel of qualified judges determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion (collectively, "Contest Judges") will select the three (3) best Submissions for each category (the "Finalists") from among all eligible Submissions that were submitted, based on an equal application of the following criteria:

    • Creativity/Originality
    • Relevance
    • Rangerousness (celebrating Voodoo Ranger in an "on-brand" way)

    Then between March 2, 2023 and March 7, 2023 ("Voting Period") the 3 Finalists' Submissions for each category will be displayed at https://pintsizefilmfest.com for public voting. During the Voting Period individual will be able to vote for their favorite Submission. Limit of one vote per person per day during the Voting Period. The results of public voting will be combined with the results of the Contest Judges to determine the three best Submissions who will be the prize winners. In this second phase the public voting will count for 30% and the results of the Contest Judges will count for 70%.

    In the event of any tie at any phase of the judging, the entrant who receives the higher score in the "Creativity" category, as determined by the Contest Judges in their sole discretion, will be selected from among the tied entrants as the potential prize winner or potential Finalist. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Contest Entry Period and the quality of the Submissions.

    ON OR ABOUT MARCH 10, 2023, PRIZE WINNERS WILL BE CONTACTED USING THE EMAIL ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER PROVIDED WITH THE ENTRY AND WILL BE REQUIRED TO RESPOND WITHIN FIVE (5) DAYS OF NOTIFICATION VIA EMAIL AND MAY BE AWARDED THE PRIZE SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION AND ELIGIBILITY AND COMPLIANCE WITH THESE TERMS OF THE OFFICIAL RULES. Winners must follow the initial prize claim instructions and any subsequent claim instructions, or the prize will be forfeited in its entirety. Sponsor's decisions as to the administration and operation of the Contest and the determination of the prize winners are final and binding in all matters related to the Contest. Limit of one prize per person for the Contest.

  9. POTENTIAL WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION BY SPONSOR AND/OR ADMINISTRATOR. SPONSOR AND ADMINISTRATOR'S DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE ADMINISTRATION, OPERATION, SELECTION OF THE POTENTIAL WINNERS AND OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO THE CONTEST.
  10. Verification of Potential Winners

    Potential winners may be required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Release of Liability and Publicity Release (where permitted by law) (collectively, the "Affidavit") by the date specified by Sponsor, or an alternate potential winner may be selected. In the event: (a) potential winner cannot be reached for whatever reason after a reasonable effort has been exerted or the potential winner notification or Affidavit is returned as undeliverable; (b) potential winner declines or cannot accept, receive or use the prize for any reason; (c) of noncompliance with the above or within any of the aforesaid time periods, (d) potential winner is found to be ineligible to enter the Contest or receive the prize, (e) potential winner cannot or does not comply with the Official Rules, or (f) potential winner fails to fulfill any Affidavit-related obligations, the potential winner shall be disqualified from the Contest and an alternate potential winner may be selected, at Sponsor's sole discretion, from among the other eligible entries received. Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion, to modify the notification and Affidavit procedures in connection with the selection of alternate potential winner, if any.

  11. Prizes

    • Stop Motion: One prize will be awarded for the Stop Motion category. Stop Motion category winner will receive five thousand dollars ($5,000) and the opportunity to have the winner's Submission featured during the Fox Animation Block. All content is subject to network policies and approval prior to airing. Approximate retail value ("ARV") of Stop Motion category prize is $5,000.
    • Live Action: One prize will be awarded for the Live Action category. Live Action category winner will receive two thousand dollars ($2,000). ARV of Live Action category prize is $2,000.
    • Vertical Short: One prize will be awarded for the Vertical Short category. Vertical Short category winner will receive one thousand dollars ($1,000). ARV of Vertical Short category prize is $1,000.

    For all Prizes: No cash equivalent for the prize, prize is non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor's sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute the listed prize for one of equal or greater value for any reason. Winner is responsible for all taxes, duties, and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. All federal, state, and local tax liabilities, as well as any other costs and expenses not specified herein as being awarded are the sole responsibility of the Winner. Winner may be required to complete and return an IRS W-9 form (i.e. Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification). Prize will be awarded only if the Winner fully complies with these Official Rules. Total ARV of all prizes is $8,000.

  12. Entry Conditions and Release

    By submitting an entry or otherwise participating in this Contest you understand and hereby agree to: (i) comply with and be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor and Administrator which are binding and final in all matters relating to this Contest; (ii) defend, indemnify, release and hold harmless the Sponsor, Administrator, WarnerMedia, LLC and their respective parent, subsidiary, and affiliated companies, celebrities, and any other person and organization responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the Contest, and all of their respective past and present officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives (collectively, the "Released Parties") from and against any and all claims, expenses, and liability, including but not limited to negligence and damages of any kind to persons and property, including but not limited to invasion of privacy (under appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure of private facts, false light in the public eye or other legal theory), defamation, slander, libel, violation of right of publicity, infringement of trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights, property damage, or death or personal injury arising out of or relating to: (a) the Contest or any information provided by you in connection with the Contest, including but not limited to any Contest-related activity or element thereof, the receipt of marketing messages, participation or inability to participate in the Contest or in any parts thereof, (b) the violation of any third party privacy, personal, publicity or proprietary rights, (c) typographical errors in these Official Rules or any Contest-related promotional materials, (d) acceptance, possession, defects in, use, misuse or inability to use a prize (or any component thereof), (e) any change in the prizing (or any components thereof) due to unavailability, or due to reasons beyond the Sponsor's control, including but not limited to by reason of any acts of God, any action(s), regulation(s), order(s) or request(s) by any governmental or quasi-governmental entity (whether or not such action(s), regulation(s), order(s) or request(s) prove(s) to be invalid), equipment failure, threatened or actual terrorist acts, earthquake, war, fire, flood, explosion, unusually severe weather, hurricane, embargo, labor dispute or strike (whether legal or illegal), labor or material shortage, transportation interruption of any kind, work slow-down, civil disturbance, insurrection, riot, or any other cause, or as otherwise permitted in these Official Rules, (f) any interruptions in or postponement, cancellation, or modification of the Contest, (g) human error, (h) incorrect or inaccurate transcription, receipt or transmission of any part of the entry (including, without limitation, the entry information or any parts thereof), (i) any technical malfunctions or unavailability of the Website, or any telephone network, computer online system, computer timing and/or dating mechanism, computer equipment, software, or Internet service provider, or mail service utilized by any of the Released Parties or by an entrant, (j) interruption or inability to access the Contest, the Website, or any other promotion-related web pages (in either direction), or any Internet online service or cellular service (as applicable) due to hardware or software compatibility problems, (k) any damage to entrant's (or any third person's) computer or wireless device (as applicable) and/or its contents related to or resulting from any part of the Contest, (l) any lost/delayed data transmissions (in either direction), omissions, interruptions, defects, and/or any other errors or malfunctions, (m) any late, lost, stolen, mutilated, misdirected, illegible, delayed, garbled, corrupted, destroyed, incomplete, undeliverable or damaged entries (n) any wrongful, negligent, or unauthorized act or omission on the part of any of the Released Parties, or any of their agents or employees, and/or (o) cancellations, delays, diversions or substitutions or any act or omissions whatsoever by the air carrier(s), or other transportation companies, hotel(s), or any other persons providing any of these services and accommodations to passengers including any results thereof such as changes in services or accommodations necessitated by same, (p) lost, stolen, damaged, delayed, or misdirected baggage or (q) lost, late, stolen, misdirected, damaged or destroyed prizing (or any element thereof); and (iii) to waive all of your rights to bring any claim, action, or proceeding against any of the Released Parties in connection with this Contest. Winner acknowledges that all prizes are awarded as-is without warranty of any kind.

  13. Publicity

    Except where prohibited or restricted by law, by entering a Submission constitutes the Entrant's agreement and consent for Sponsor and any of its designees to use and/or publish Entrant's full name, city and state of residence, photographs or other likenesses, pictures, portraits, video, voice, testimonials, biographical information (in whole or in part), and/or statements made by Entrant regarding the Contest or Sponsor, worldwide and in perpetuity for any and all purposes, including, but not limited to, advertising, trade and/or promotion on behalf of Sponsor, in any and all forms of media, now known or hereafter devised, including, but not limited to, print, TV, radio, electronic, cable, or World Wide Web, without further limitation, restriction, compensation, notice, review, or approval.

  14. General Conditions

    Sponsor and its subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers and directors shall not have any obligation or responsibility, including any responsibility to award any prize to entrants, with regard to: (a) entries that contain inaccurate information or do not comply with or violate the Official Rules; (b) entries, prize claims or notifications that are lost, late, incomplete, illegible, unintelligible, damaged or otherwise not received by the intended recipient, in whole or in part, due to computer, human or technical error of any kind; (c) entrants who have committed fraud or deception in entering or participating in the Contest or claiming the prize; (d) telephone, electronic, hardware, software, network, Internet or computer malfunctions, failures or difficulties; (e) any inability of the Winner to accept the prize for any reason; (f) if a prize cannot be awarded due to delays or interruptions due to Acts of God, natural disasters, terrorism, weather or any other similar event beyond Sponsor's reasonable control; or (g) any damages, injuries or losses of any kind caused by any prize or resulting from awarding, acceptance, possession, use, misuse, loss or misdirection of any prize or resulting from participating in this Contest or any promotion or prize related activities. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be (a) tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest, or with any Website promoting the Contest; (b) acting in violation of the Official Rules; or (c) entering or attempting to enter the Contest multiple times through the use of multiple email addresses or the use of any robotic or automated devices to submit entries. No groups, clubs or organizations may participate in this Contest or reproduce or distribute any portion of these Official Rules or marketing to its members. If Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, that technical difficulties or unforeseen events compromise the integrity or viability of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the right to void the entries at issue, and/or terminate the relevant portion of the Contest, including the entire Contest, and/or modify the Contest and/or award the prize from all eligible entries received as of the termination date.

  15. Limitations of Liability

    The Released Parties are not responsible for: (a) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest; (b) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (c) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Contest; (d) technical or human error in the administration of the Contest or the processing of registrations; or (e) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant's participation in the Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If for any reason an entrant's registration is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant's sole remedy is another entry in the Contest. No more than the stated number of each prize will be awarded.

  16. Disputes

    All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules or the rights and obligations of entrants, Released Parties in connection with the Promotion will be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Colorado, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions that would cause the application of any other laws. The parties each agree to finally settle all disputes only through arbitration; provided, however, the Sponsor shall be entitled to seek injunctive or equitable relief in the state and federal courts in Denver County, Colorado, and any other court with jurisdiction over the parties. In arbitration, there is no judge or jury and review is limited. The arbitrator's decision and award is final and binding, with limited exceptions, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. The parties agree that, except as set forth above, any claim, suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Promotion shall be resolved solely by binding arbitration before a sole arbitrator under the streamlined Arbitration Rules Procedures of JAMS Inc. ("JAMS") or any successor to JAMS. In the event JAMS is unwilling or unable to set a hearing date within fourteen (14) days of the filing of a "Demand for Arbitration", then either party can elect to have the arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") or any other mutually agreeable arbitration administration service. If an in-person hearing is required, then it will take place in Denver County, Colorado. The federal or state law that applies to these Official Rules will also apply during the arbitration. Disputes will be arbitrated only on an individual basis and will not be consolidated with any other proceedings that involve any claims or controversy of another party, including any class actions; provided, however, if for any reason any court or arbitrator holds that this restriction is unconscionable or unenforceable, then the agreement to arbitrate does not apply and the dispute must be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in Denver County, Colorado. Sponsor agrees to pay the administrative and arbitrator's fees in order to conduct the arbitration (but specifically excluding any travel or other costs of entrant to attend the arbitration hearing). Either party may, notwithstanding this provision, bring qualifying claims in small claims court.

  17. Entrant's Personal Information

    Information collected from entrants is subject to the Sponsor's Privacy Policy which is available at https://www.newbelgium.com/privacy/.

  18. Contest Results

    For Contest results send a hand-printed, self-addressed, stamped envelope to Winners List - Voodoo Ranger Pint Size Film Festival 2022 c/o Contest Factory, 13681 Newport Ave., Ste 8-119, Tustin, CA 92780. Requests for the winner list must be received by June 30, 2023.