Welcome To The World

Terms and Conditions 

1. The Documentary

Welcome to the World is an international documentary project. The film is about childbirth around the world and will tell the stories of women and babies in different countries, including the USA, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and the UK.
It will explore issues of infant and maternal mortality and the lottery of birth: we are interested in the different experiences and opportunities available for mothers and babies in different countries.
We are also developing an international online resource of user-generated home videos of birth and babies. This resource is intended to compliment the documentary and may also be a source of some footage to be used within the documentary.

2. Broadcast of the Documentary

The documentary is part of the Why Poverty? Campaign. There is more information at HYPERLINK "http://www.whypoverty.net" www.whypoverty.net. Welcome to the World is one of eight films in the campaign, and will be broadcast in Autumn 2012 on 47 channels around the world. These include the BBC in the UK, PBS in the USA, Arte in France and more.

3. Your Contribution

We invite people to share videos of their child’s birth and/or the first moments with their newborn, or reflections on the first day or so of their baby’s life. By uploading your footage to our youtube channel, or by uploading it to your own youtube channel then sharing it with ours, or by submitting it in some other form to us, you agree we may use your footage as we see fit.

Please ensure you have permission from anyone within the footage to send it to us along with their contact details.

Please ensure that you are the parent or legal guardian of any child featured in your footage and that you are fully entitled to give consent on their behalf.

4. Using your Footage

Images from the footage you submit may be used in the documentary itself, in the online gallery, in publicity for the project, in associated media such as DVD releases, or in any other way we wish as part of the Welcome to the World project.

Submission of your footage is deemed to be your consent for Century Films and our partners to use the footage, of yourself, your child and other family members included in the footage.

We do not commit to using your contribution but if we do, we may copy, translate, cut and edit it as we wish. In legal terms this means that you “Agree to give all the necessary consents for my recorded contribution and my personal archive to be used in all media throughout the world in perpetuity without further acknowledgement or payment.”

If your footage is selected for use in the documentary itself we will endeavor to contact you in advance to confirm all consents again in writing.

Please note that we will edit footage for use in the documentary so as to protect the modesty of any woman featured giving birth.

5. Your contact details 

You agree that as well as uploading your footage you will submit your contact details to us by email to : babies@centuryfilmsltd.com and you acknowledge that if you fail to do so your contribution will not be considered for the film

The information you provide will be collected and compiled by Century Films Ltd for the purposes of assessing your contribution to this documentary. It might also be used for developing and producing the documentary as well as any associated website content, programme, publicity, promotion and/or distribution materials. Unless you have indicated otherwise, Century Films Ltd will only use your details in connection with this documentary and the associated material. Century Films Ltd will not transfer your details to any third party without contacting you first.

Century Films Ltd will ensure that any information provided for the purpose of producing the Programme will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.