Mometu College Shorts Film Festival

Rules:

1. MCSFF defines a short film as any film with a running time of 30 minutes or less. Any film longer than 30 minutes will not be considered. For this festival, every film submitted must have a minimum of 5 minutes.

2. Films that have been previously submitted to MCSFF are ineligible.

3. All applicants must complete the official festival submission form located on FilmFreeway.

4. MCSFF reserves the right to disqualify any film not submitted through these websites without refund of any application fees.

5. The applicant holds the sole responsibility of copyright clearance of any copyrighted material in the film. Films including unauthorized copyrighted material are ineligible.

6. Films not in English must be subtitled in English unless dialogue is minimal and not necessary for the comprehension of the Film.

7. Once a film has been approved by MCSFF as a proper submission, the applicant will then sign an agreement for their film to be uploaded onto Mometu's streaming service as part of the voting process mentioned in the category listing. Any submission that does not have this signed agreement with Mometu will automatically not qualify for 25% of the voting points awarded.

8. Any advertising revenue generated from a submitted film being placed onto Mometu’s streaming platform will be used for the film festival for any operational expenses occurred.

9. Submitting person must be enrolled in a university or college located inside of North America to be considered eligible for this film festival. Films will be accepted by current active college students or recent graduates that made a film during their time as a student up to 24 months of the film festival submission date from the graduation date. If any confirmation is needed, we may request an email from a professor from your school to confirm your student or recent student status.

10. Only one submission per person per genre. This meaning that one person may submit multiple films in a single year, but they must not overlap into the same category.

Terms:

1. Films submitted by mail will not be returned. Films will only be accepted via Film Freeway and then be asked to have a delivery form filled out with the film file, artwork, metadata, and closed captions/subtitles if available. Films in the Foreign Language Film category must have closed captions/subtitles in English.

2. Multiple versions of the same film will not be considered. Only the first submitted version of a film will be considered for MCSFF.

3. If the submitted film does not play, MCSFF staff will make an attempt to contact the applicant based on the contact information supplied at the time of submission in order to obtain a replacement. If a replacement is not available, MCSFF reserves the right to disqualify the film without refunding the submission fees.

4. MCSFF will attempt, but is under no obligation, to view a submission that arrives after the designated deadline without refund of the submission fee.

5. Submitted films that qualify based on the regulations and eligibility requirements stated here will be seen by MCSFF panel and be considered equally with all other submissions.

6. MCSFF reserves the right to disqualify any film for non-payment of the submission fee. MCSFF will attempt to contact the applicant based on the contact information supplied at the time of submission in order to resolve non-payment status.

7. Applicants acknowledge that MCSFF reserves the right to change the nature of screenings and events due to circumstances related to public health and welfare or at the direction of local, state, or federal authorities. In such cases no submission refunds shall be issued.

8. MCSFF is under no obligation to provide comments regarding submitted films to any applicant. The festival is not responsible for any internal comments obtained by the applicant regarding their film.

9. MCSFF has the right to disqualify a submitted film and not publish onto Mometu if it deems the film to be inappropriate in any nature, contains excessive nudity, and/or has excessive explicative language. This will be at the discretion of MCSFF and submission fees shall not be refunded.