Interaction with celebrities, presenters and/or other attendees is only permitted after you submit requests to the LCI Film Festival  so that we may help coordinate and provide access to the LCI Film Festival Press Room and those individuals you are inquiring about, when/where appropriate. Journalists agree to and must wear their professional press credentials and the LCI Film Festival Press Pass, issued only upon agreeing to this Memo of Understanding. The LCI Film Festival requires that all individuals requesting access must submit their company name, individual name, contact email, contact mobile in addition to their company publisher or director’s name, contact email and contact mobile, prior to a Press Pass being issued. Please note: Failure to wear professional press credentials and LCI Film Festival Press Pass is grounds for removal from the event by film festival staff and/or security. 

The LCI Film Festival requests that you comply with reasonable wishes from the persons interviewed to find out beforehand how and where their statements will be published. Show consideration for people not used to being interviewed. Show consideration in taking photographs and in procuring them. Please remember to ask permission from a principle of the film festival (staff member) prior to taking pictures or interviewing any celebrity associated with the LCI Film Festival. 

All content derived from the LCI Film Festival must state the Las Cruces International Film Festival presented by New Mexico State University. In addition, please correctly cite the speaker and/or company presenting the information.

LCI Film Festival board members are to be listed with LCI Film Festival affiliation and professional affiliation second – for example: 

Executive Director, Ross Marks, M.F.A, NMSU College Assistant Professor 

LCI Film Festival Executive Director, Ross Marks, M.F.A, NMSU College Assistant Professor 

Handout materials, if available, are prepared and submitted at individual workshops for distribution by presenters who are solely responsible for its content.

Audio and video recordings of the LCI Film Festival may not be sold or used for the purpose of providing continuing marketing education without prior written consent from the LCI Film Festival. Permission for photography or video interviews of individual presenters must be secured from the LCI Film Festival Creative Team. Media that repurpose or have repurposed LCI Film Festival content in a stand-alone medium either for revenue or without charge, unless by agreement with the LCI Film Festival, are ineligible to receive press credentials. Press that produce or have produced content in a standalone medium that uses the LCI Film Festival name or logo to imply endorsement, without LCI Film Festival’s expressed permission, are ineligible to receive credentials.