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The 21st RPS International AV Festival is now open for entries and bookings, and you are cordially invited to participate The Festival will be held at the customary venue of the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, from Friday 19th to Sunday 21st September 2014. This year we have moved the website to the new RPS parent site, and both entries and bookings can now be submitted online as well as by CD. Full details can be found in the ‘How to Enter’ section of the website. Also on the website you will find many photographs of previous festivals going right back to 2006, with photographs of our past attendees, some sadly no longer with us. The International Jury for the Festival comprises: Howard Bagshaw (UK) Chairman of the Jury, Keith Brown (UK), John Hodgson (Australia) and Gé rard Desroches (Luxembourg). As with the last event, if the number of entries exceed the Festival duration, then a pre-selection will be made to determine the accepted sequences. This will be attended by the Chair of the Jury, and it will be his decision on whether a sequence is accepted or rejected. Again, after the successful introduction of ‘widescreen’ projection at the previous Festival, we will be using the same equipment to project ‘HD’ sequences in widescreen format up to 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. ‘Standard’ sequences in 4:3 aspect ratio will still be projected with no distortion or loss of quality, so authors are free to submit whatever format they choose. Please note that the projection equipment is set to run in sRGB colour space, so for optimal quality the images in your sequences should be saved in this format. We look forward to seeing you at Cirencester! Ian Bateman FRPS MPAGB AV-AFIAP Chairman of the Festival Committee