This is why the Berlin International Film Scoring Competition (BIFSC) should be banned.
1. For 30 Euro you should get 30 words of feedback no matter if you got in the finalist or not.
2. Because the above does not happen, there is Zero transparency they are even watching all the entries.
3. They demonstrate zero respect from their silence when you raise questions after the competition, even to individuals that have won previous competitions!
4. This competition has got some reputation from just a nice web page and few names of people nobody knows. I wonder if I make a competition (Transparent Awards), and I give ALL FEES RECEIVED, with full transparency, to the 10 first winners and have a panel of University Professors and Artists, with the condition the participants never use BIFSC again, if that would be a good idea (stay tuned).
5. I wonder if there is any trace of the monies they receive, and if they declare all to the related tax office. We have the right to know, so does the Tax Service.
6. They seem to have no face (there is really no name, just guest panel of judges), nobody knows who the BIFSC are, it is just a page that looks nice with gold wings, but in the end, it looks like only for the purpose for cutting a giant profit for unknown people and purposes, and you are the sugar daddy! I don't know, we have tried to get in touch with them and they don't reply, so I start making my own conclusions.
7. They refuse to make any comment to journalists that have attempted to contact them (upcoming documentary that includes BIFSC and the likes of them coming soon).
Stay tuned on your favourite stream service, this is an investigative documentary for all similar organisations and not jusat BIFSC. It is time few people come together and take some action. Lot of great artists have to say a lot, and we did already but will try again to get the BIFSC side to comment.
We are replying to most comments here, but this is beacuse your comments are constructive and the production team feels this is the right thing to do (this is a forum after all). If you can help us in any direction please do by leaving a comment or sending us a private message.
Two valid questions have been asked to the production, as we are approached by, and we approach more people.
1. Will the documentary happen if BIFSC and any other organisation presented in the film prove to be legit? The answer is YES. We took the decision to finance this production given some concerns we have, and we feel under the freedom of speech, we have the right to know if something is wrong in this world. But while we have strong evidence that something is wrong here, we will not be biased, and if we prove the otherwise, we will encourage people to the right direction, any direction that might be.
2. What about the earning from this production? It will only pay the costs of production, minimum hourly wage for everyone that has worked (according to their country law, as our crew is international for some operations), and any profits will be given to a charity related to Film and Music Education.
3. Is there really a plan for the TransparentCompetition? Yes. A seperate production is organising this as it has been explained above.
@BIFSC: You can still comment and appear on the documentary. We emailed and will email you again, because you know, there is no phone to call!
Update: For those who asked about the .org name please read this article, that explains that the .org domain can be used from people that only seek profit and it is "not related exclusively" to non-profit, charity or other noble cause. BIFSC seems so far to be a money-making page (which is not illegal) with a bad design and no real people, but we are here to confirm the truth one way or the other. We have no feeling one way or the other, we are here to find the truth (if people pay money for the wrong reason, those running the page people give zero hours into it, and participants get nothing in return).
This is the link about .org: https://charitycheck101.org/a-dot-org-website-doesnt-mean-its-a-charity/
Further to this matter, we have sent emails and are in contact with several Tax Offices including Greece (particular interest to the people appearing from this country in the panel, as Greece has a very strong Tax invasion system).
We also want to thank all the people who are investing time to trace and confirm leads to support the production investigation, as well as for their help to locate the government bodies to reach out about this matter for the involved countries and their contact details.
1. For 30 Euro you should get 30 words of feedback no matter if you got in the finalist or not.
2. Because the above does not happen, there is Zero transparency they are even watching all the entries.
3. They demonstrate zero respect from their silence when you raise questions after the competition, even to individuals that have won previous competitions!
4. This competition has got some reputation from just a nice web page and few names of people nobody knows. I wonder if I make a competition (Transparent Awards), and I give ALL FEES RECEIVED, with full transparency, to the 10 first winners and have a panel of University Professors and Artists, with the condition the participants never use BIFSC again, if that would be a good idea (stay tuned).
5. I wonder if there is any trace of the monies they receive, and if they declare all to the related tax office. We have the right to know, so does the Tax Service.
6. They seem to have no face (there is really no name, just guest panel of judges), nobody knows who the BIFSC are, it is just a page that looks nice with gold wings, but in the end, it looks like only for the purpose for cutting a giant profit for unknown people and purposes, and you are the sugar daddy! I don't know, we have tried to get in touch with them and they don't reply, so I start making my own conclusions.
7. They refuse to make any comment to journalists that have attempted to contact them (upcoming documentary that includes BIFSC and the likes of them coming soon).
Stay tuned on your favourite stream service, this is an investigative documentary for all similar organisations and not jusat BIFSC. It is time few people come together and take some action. Lot of great artists have to say a lot, and we did already but will try again to get the BIFSC side to comment.
We are replying to most comments here, but this is beacuse your comments are constructive and the production team feels this is the right thing to do (this is a forum after all). If you can help us in any direction please do by leaving a comment or sending us a private message.
Two valid questions have been asked to the production, as we are approached by, and we approach more people.
1. Will the documentary happen if BIFSC and any other organisation presented in the film prove to be legit? The answer is YES. We took the decision to finance this production given some concerns we have, and we feel under the freedom of speech, we have the right to know if something is wrong in this world. But while we have strong evidence that something is wrong here, we will not be biased, and if we prove the otherwise, we will encourage people to the right direction, any direction that might be.
2. What about the earning from this production? It will only pay the costs of production, minimum hourly wage for everyone that has worked (according to their country law, as our crew is international for some operations), and any profits will be given to a charity related to Film and Music Education.
3. Is there really a plan for the TransparentCompetition? Yes. A seperate production is organising this as it has been explained above.
@BIFSC: You can still comment and appear on the documentary. We emailed and will email you again, because you know, there is no phone to call!
Update: For those who asked about the .org name please read this article, that explains that the .org domain can be used from people that only seek profit and it is "not related exclusively" to non-profit, charity or other noble cause. BIFSC seems so far to be a money-making page (which is not illegal) with a bad design and no real people, but we are here to confirm the truth one way or the other. We have no feeling one way or the other, we are here to find the truth (if people pay money for the wrong reason, those running the page people give zero hours into it, and participants get nothing in return).
This is the link about .org: https://charitycheck101.org/a-dot-org-website-doesnt-mean-its-a-charity/
Further to this matter, we have sent emails and are in contact with several Tax Offices including Greece (particular interest to the people appearing from this country in the panel, as Greece has a very strong Tax invasion system).
We also want to thank all the people who are investing time to trace and confirm leads to support the production investigation, as well as for their help to locate the government bodies to reach out about this matter for the involved countries and their contact details.
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