ShortPole London International Film Festival (0)

Festival start: 06 October 2016      Festival end: 31 October 2016

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CALL FOR SHORTS! AUTUMN SELECTION WINDOW IS OPEN!

Stay Tuned - 2016 AUTUMN OFFICIAL SELECTION - To be announced in Early November!

ShortPole London International Film Festival is an online based film festival, headquartered in the heart of the United Kingdom.

The festival runs in 4 quarters, selections being made every 3 months.

The entry deadline for our next selection will be September 31st and the winners will be announced by the end of October 2016.

There will be 20 categories and Best Film will receive the London GoldenEye Trophy, a Professional Review from our jury board and a cash prize which will be set depending on the number of entries.

BEST PICTURE
London GoldenEye Trophy + Professional Review + cash prize

SILVER AWARD
Professional Review

BRONZE AWARD

BEST STUDENT FILM
ShortPole London IFF Trophy

Individual Awards:

BEST DIRECTOR
BEST SCREENWRITER
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST EDITOR
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Category Awards:

BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
BEST ANIMATION
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
BEST WEB SHORT

Screenplay

SCREENPLAY AWARD – ShortPole London IFF Trophy
Runner Up
Second Runner Up

Now we are running the upcoming Summer Competition with Official Selection on July 25th 2016 and Winners announced on July 31st!

GRAND JURY PRIZE

A special category will be created for every movie awarded with the "BEST FILM" distinction at the end of each festival quarter. Winners will get automatically qualified for our ‘GRAND JURY PRIZE’ category. This is a special award which will be given at the end of the full festival cycle (4 quarters in 12 months) and comes with the London ShortPole GRAND JURY Trophy and a FREE custom promotion package on our official platform. The GRAND JURY PRIZE Winner will be announced on October 31st, 2016.

Submissions

You are entitled to a maximum amount of two entries during a festival quarter (3 months) and the entry will be considered eligible in the next quarter only if the film was not awarded in the previous edition. The cash prize comes only with the Best Picture Award and the winner won't be able to show off their beautiful film in our next 3 festival quarters.
Films

Keep in mind that we can only accept short films. Meaning that the up 35 minutes length of any genre and format is allowed.
To make it easy for the worldwide submissions, we set the regular entry fee at only $9.99.

Every movie must have been released during or after 2010 and must come with English subtitles (with an exception for music videos and movies where English is the main language spoken). Any genre and format is accepted (from 1 minute films to long, narrative/artistic short films).

In order to consider an Award Category eligible, we require an amount of minimum 5 official selections per category.

Rules&Process


All genres and formats are considered to be eligible for a nomination or to win one or more of these categories.

Great quality is a standard. Films with a poor production standard (lack of sound quality, absence of subtitles/captions for non-English films, video resolution less than 720p HD) will not be accepted.

The winners of each category will get our official printable AWARD CERTIFICATE.

The ‘BEST PICTURE’ Winner will be awarded with our SHORTPOLE LONDON IFF TROPHY along with the money prize in cash and a Professional Review from our Jury Board.

The ‘BEST PICTURE’ Winner will have 30 days from the announcement day to claim their cash prize. If we won't receive a feedback within the timeframe, the prize will be revoked.

The final race for the ‘BEST PICTURE’ Award will consist in 6 Nominations, while the ‘Category’/’Individual’ awards will have 3 nominations per category.

When submitting a film, we require the film to be embedded on our online platform, so keep in mind that it must be provided in order to be eligible for an official selection.

Screenplays
The screenplay competition runs every festival quarter (3 months) and will be available exclusively through FilmFreeway. Filmmakers can enter their screenplay (of any genre, up to 120 pages) to the competition by also requesting a promotional review at the price of $49.99. They will not be published on any public channel. Screenplay reviews will be delivered by our team within 7-12 days. The entry fee for those who just want to enter the competition starts at only $19.99. There will be quarter finalists, semifinalists and finalists out of which a winner, a runner-up and a second runner-up will be designated. Only two screenplays per filmmaker per edition are allowed and only one screenplay be entitled with the ‘Screenplay Award’. The winner will receive a cash prize of which amount will depend on the number of entries and a ShortPole London IFF trophy which will be sent to you via mail.


Disclaimer&Rights


By submitting your film to our festival you agree that your piece of work can be embeded on our website. The filmmaker/institution that is submitting the film must own the rights to do so and is responsible for the content they are providing. By submitting, the filmmaker allows ShortPole London IFF to create a page for their film without infringing copyright of any kind of form.
If your film won't get an Official Selection, the entry fee won't be refunded.


The Process:

If your film will be officialy selected in our festival, it will be uploaded/embeded on our website for everyone to see. Winning films will be highlighted and promoted within the platform.



Annoucements


On 29th of October 2016, ShortPole London IFF will announce the nominations for every award. Winners will be chosen within the very next day and the ‘BEST PICTURE’ will be awarded with a money prize and a full package of benefits!

Entries for Autumn Selection will be given the results on October 31th 2016.

Winners, nominees and unsuccessful films can be deleted from the website in the next festival competition quarter if the owner decides to proceed with this option.



Laurels


Filmmakers are allowed to use ShortPole London IFF laurels on their winning/nominated/selected films ONLY. They can be used on posters as well as on other media available. The OFFICIAL SELECTION transparent laurel can be found below (click for full image). Other laurels can be provided upon request.