DESCRIPTION
The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine is a perpetual container for the distribution or storage of culture, art, and its creators.

Music is a sensitive instrument, which allows people to communicate with the world and share their vision. It results from the author’s deep passion, a need to express feelings through sounds, a unique view of the surrounding reality. It can be spontaneous, but it can also be a conscious and deliberate manifesto. The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine is continually searching for music born out of passion – your passion.

ELIGIBILITY
The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine Music Awards is open to anyone, amateurs, and professionals alike. Entries are welcome from any country in the world.
The competition is open to all genres of music.
There is no time or date restriction on when the music was produced.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK
One simple and smooth way to submit to our competition is FilmFreeway. It is a platform mostly focused on Film Festivals, but they also accept music contests, and live events of many genres. The platform is great, both for submitters and event managers and it is also an excellent judging platform for the international judges.
After you create an account, go to add project, select “Music/Songwriting”, and fill in the requested information. Each submission must come with:
– a title
– an artist/band name
– at least one picture (artwork or artist headshot)
– an artist biography, at least 3 lines.
– a country of origin.

JUDGING PROCESS
Judges score on a scale of 1-10, based on the criteria below:

*Composition – Special attention should be paid to the crafting of the piece of music. To what degree can the composition be considered to have achieved excellence? Focus should be on melody, harmony, and structure (where relevant).
*Originality – To what degree has the composer achieved originality in the composition? Can the piece be easily compared to others in the style? Does the writing feel in any way generic?
*Production standard – Special attention should be paid to the overall balance of the mix. To what degree has the mix achieved dynamic range, clarity, and cohesion? Has the piece been mixed to the correct levels, without unintended distortion or over compression?

Entries receiving an average score under 5 do not qualify for an award.

CATEGORIES
The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine Music Awards categories consists of:
Best Song, Best Music Video, Best Dance Video, Best Score / Soundtrack.

ENTRY FEES
Professional / Emerging / Non-professional / Students: $13.90 to 19.90 (1 song/video, submitted in one category)

ARTIST’S RIGHTS
All musicians retain full copyrights for their own work. Winners grant The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine limited and restricted use of winning songs and videos only to promote the creators themselves and in connection with marketing The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine Music Awards competition itself. Details can be found in the Competition rules.

AWARDS & PRIZES
All semi-finalists, finalists and winners will be listed on our website.

AWARD CERTIFICATE
All winners will get a digital award certificate and official winner laurels.

PUBLIC AWARENESS
All winners, finalists and semi-finalists will have their submitted works published on the magazine website, under the Artists’ Profile category.

PROMOTION
All winners will be interviewed (in writing) and their interviews will be published on the magazine website, under the Artists’ Spotlight category.

The winners will be selected for each of the following categories:

Best Song (Audio or Video – any music genre)
Best Music Video (any music genre)
Best Dance Video (any music genre)
Best Score / Soundtrack (Audio or Video – original score used in a short or feature film)

RULES AND TERMS

1.1. The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine Music Awards competition is open to both professional and amateur musicians or filmmakers.

1.2. By entering the Competition, you hereby accept these competition rules.

1.3. Entries must be submitted no later than the deadline of listed on the Competition URL,  https://filmfreeway.com/SHORTtothePoint

1.4. By entering the Competition, you agree and acknowledge that The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine is permitted to receive and review your registration data. Participants agree that personal data including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address may be collected, processed, stored, and otherwise used for the purposes of conducting and administering this music competition. At any time, participants have the right to access, review, rectify or cancel any personal data held by The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine by sending an email to the following address: info[at]shorttothepoint.com.

2.1. To enter the competition, you must submit your entries to the Competition URL, https://filmfreeway.com/SHORTtothePoint. Participants must also pay the entry fee(s) and complete the submission form in order to be considered for the competition. Once a submission fee has been paid, there are no refunds provided. If you have been wrongly charged for any reason, we will be happy to credit the amount that is due.

3.1. All entries will be reviewed by our editors and judges and an international group of industry professionals. The screened entries are then reviewed by our international jury. The jury will choose the winners. The decisions of the jury are final.

3.2. Submissions that have been awarded in a previous The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine competition are not eligible to win prizes in subsequent competitions. Please consider entering new work. Submissions that have been selected as Finalists in previous competitions ARE eligible to win a prize in subsequent competitions. A *musician* may win multiple awards but the same song/video cannot win multiple awards. If a song/video was submitted to a previous competition but received no prize, then that song/video is still eligible.

3.3. Winning musicians may be included in the future in projections at arts institutions and festivals worldwide. Each musician retains copyright of his or her songs/videos, and proper credit lines will be attributed to each musician when screened anywhere by The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine.

3.4. The full name of each entrant whose work is selected as a winner, juror’s pick, or finalist will be published online.

4.1. The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify and remove any entry that does not comply with the following requirements, even after the musicians appears on the website. You warrant, in respect of the songs/videos submitted by you, as follows:

4.1.1. You are the sole copyright owner and creator of the song/video.

4.1.2. You have the right to enter your songs/videos in this competition.

4.1.3. To the best of your knowledge, the songs/videos do not contain any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, or profane content.

4.1.4. To the best of your knowledge, the songs/videos do not contain any material that could constitute or encourage conduct which would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.

4.2. You agree to fully indemnify The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine in respect of all royalties, fees and any other monies owing to any person by reason of your breaching any of the foregoing.

5.1. The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine recognizes you retain full ownership of the copyright in each song/video that you have submitted.

6.1. We accept songs in all languages. Non-English lyrics must come with a translation. This translation must be the closest to the meaning of the lyrics. A translation does NOT have to rhyme.

7.1. Any song/video used by The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine shall carry a credit line. Any failure to provide such credit line shall not be deemed to be a breach, as long as The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine uses its reasonable endeavors to rectify such failure within a reasonable period from the date of notice of such failure.

8.1. The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine assumes no responsibility for any incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Competition, and The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine assumes no responsibility for technical, hardware or software failure of any kind, for lost network connections, garbled computer transmissions, other problems or technical malfunctions with regard to the Competition. The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, corruption, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alteration of entries. The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail addressed to The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to your or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the Competition. If for any reason a contestant’s song/video cannot be viewed or is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud or technical failures, The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine assumes no responsibility.

9.1. In no event will The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine, its members, event partners or its officers, directors, employees, be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages arising out of any contestant’s access to and use of the website and participation in the competition. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, everything on the Website is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for purpose or use or non-infringement.

10.1. You agree to participate in related publicity and to the use of your name and winning songs/videos for the purposes of advertising, promotion, and publicity for The SHORT TO THE POINT Magazine and the Competition without additional compensation. Such requests will not be unreasonably withheld.