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*Shortfilmdepot practices* : The SHORTFILMDEPOT.COM platform was created in
2004. It is a strictly *private B2B platform* that connects filmmakers (and
other right owners, such as producers, distributors, film promotion
agencies, film schools) with some 60 carefully selected member festivals
worldwide. It enjoys a very solid relationship and reputation with
filmmakers/rights owners and film festivals / film industry events.
SHORTFILMDEPOT.COM is committed to respect filmmaker’s copyrights and data,
as well as festival’s confidentiality. *NO film / video is ever made public
or visible online to the general audience through the shortfilmdepot.com
<http://shortfilmdepot.com> website*. Films / videos are only made
accessible by the filmmakers to the festival(s) of their choice, by private
password-protected access only. Eligibility controls are made to ensure
that films that are sent (privately) online to festivals match festival
eligibility criteria (not anyone can send any film to any festival).

Any person that would compare a private professional service like
SHORTFILMDEPOT.COM to any public video site (like You Tube for instance,
where content is uploaded by anyone and made visible online to everyone)
would show a very poor knowledge of the professional short film circuit.
And, more alarmingly, a total misconception of the basics of film
distribution, festival programming, festival organization and/or respect of
copyrights! Not to mention that YouTube is a free service open to all,
whereas Shortfilmdepot is a paying service used by professionals.

Regarding festivals, SHORTFILMDEPOT.COM has very strict guidelines to
accept member festivals. Festivals cannot register online freely. They need
to send a detailed request to use the service. Every request is carefully
examined before acceptance (examination of festival regulations, capacity
of organizers to organize a festival, respect of good professional
practices,. SHORTFILMDEPOT.COM regularly refuses to work with some
festivals, which do not offer enough guarantees of good professional
practices. An agreement is signed with each festival director or legal
representative before the festival can start using the service. Each
festival must respect obligations to ensure good professional practices, as
clearly mentioned in this agreement, which also outlines the online service
provided by Shortfilmdepot.com. Only under these conditions is a festival
granted access to its strictly personal festival Shortfilmdepot account,
which includes all the necessary tools to manage online submissions (data
and communication) and view films privately.

*Relation with TAAF* : In the case of TAFF, we were contacted by its
initial TAAF Festival Director Mrs Mitsue Eguchi, who clearly understood
all aspects, gave guarantees of her team’s capacity to organize the
festival, and communicated clear festival regulations. She then signed the
SHORTFILMDEPOT.COM agreement in her position of TAAF Festival Director.
Under her supervision, the team at TAFF 2015 and TAAF 2016 in charge of
managing online submissions on Shortfilmdepot.com always respected its
obligations and showed every sign of good professional practice regarding
the platform and filmmakers.

We were then informed that a conflict was taking place at TAAF. And that an
unauthorized member of a partner organization of TAFF had used the festival
password to access TAAF’s Shortfilmdepot account. It seems this person
probably exported a list of filmmakers contacts (most likely in October or
November 2015). We then decided to temporarily block access to the TAFF
Shortfilmdepot account. This decision was not against any individual or
organization. It was motivated to protect filmmakers’s rights on their
films and data – and *no-one* had access to the account when we blocked it
(neither Mrs Eguchi, nor any other person related or claiming to be related
to TAAF).

Later, at the end of December 2015, we received a letter by Mr Kenji Uchida
and Mr. Satoru Matsumoto, who both signed as respectively President and
Secretary General of TAAF Executive Committee (on an AJA header letter,
sent to us by a lawyer who claimed to represent TAAF Executive Committee).
This letter informed us that Mrs Eguchi was no longer in her position. The
letter also requested access to TAAF Shortfilmdepot account to organize the
upcoming edition of TAAF. After asking and receiving more information,
access to the account was briefly restored later in January. Yet, after
just 48 hours, we quickly decided to block the account again as we noticed
contradictory information between TAAF website and the information we had
received by email. We can guarantee, from our logs tracing the activity of
the website, that no film / video was accessed for download during this
short interval. Since then, no-one has been granted access to the TAAF
Shortfilmdepot festival account. No other agreement was signed with any
other person or organization related to TAAF to use the Shortfilmdepot.com
service.

We also used our strong and well-trusted position in the film community to
receive additional information from other independent sources from our
colleagues in the Animation industry, both in Europe and in Japan, to
better assess the situation. Considering the importance of the issue, we
then asked for a signed declaration by all members of the TAAF Executive
Committee to clearly designate which organization and person was appointed
to organize TAAF and handle film submissions through the SHORTFILMDEPOT.COM
platform. We never received a signed declaration to clarify the situation,
so the account has remained closed ever since.

Should Mrs Mistue Eguchi send us a document signed by all members of the
TAAF Executive Committee, and clearly stating that she and her team have
been appointed by the TAAF Executive Committee to organize TAAF and handle
online submissions through Shortfilmdepot, we would then consider restoring
access to the TAAF Shortfilmdepot account.

 
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