Competition for High School-Age Filmmakers at the Beaufort International Film Festival

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Nonprofit organization

Film Freeway

Host Country

غير محدد

Deadline

06 Jan 2020

Study level

Basic education

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

Algeria , Comoros , Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Mauritania , Oman , Qatar , Somalia , Syria , United Arab Emirates , Bahrain , Djibouti , Iraq , Kuwait , Libya , Morocco , Palestine , Saudi Arabia , Sudan , Tunisia , Yemen

Eligible Region

All Regions

The Doko Film Fest invites high school age filmmakers to showcase their films to a live audience. This showcase is a competitive event with awards given. Everyone that is invited to show their film at the fest, gets a Doko film fest laurel that they can attach to their CV and future film work to show that they were a finalist at the film festival.

Eligibility Criteria:

Each film must be at least 2 minutes long, but no longer than about 10 minutes except for the animation which is 1 minute to about 3 minutes long.
Doko Film fest judges will select the best 3 films of each category to be shown at the festival event, invitations will be sent to those filmmakers to invite them to attend the screening of their films and the award ceremony.
The festival is opened to any film completed by young filmmakers aged between 15 and 18 at the time of submitting the film.
All filmmakers under the age of 18, will need to get their parent or guardian's permission to submit the film and be invited to the Doko film fest.
Films may only be submitted through Film Freeway, and Doko film fest only accepts digital submissions.
By submitting a film, the submitter grants the Doko film fest the right to use any film or part of a film submitted to promote the festival.
The Doko Film fest reserves the right to refuse entries, or to reject any film or screenplay that contains prohibited content or in its sole discretion, Doko film fest deems offensive or inappropriate.
Only the producer, director, screenwriter or someone closely connected to the film may complete the application.
Schools may submit films on behalf of student filmmakers in the student category.
Please select the correct category while submitting to avoid disqualification. The competition reserve right to re-assign films to the appropriate category.

Prizes:

A "Doko" will be awarded to each winner in each award category.
The best film overall will be aired at a special screening at the following Beaufort international film festival and the director will be invited to attend and talk about the film and hang around with some cool people.
Awards categories are:

Best short story.
Best documentary.
Best music video.
Best comedy.
Best animation.
Best pocket studio production.
Best festival film.

About Film Freeway:

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