There are three Categories of films in the festival :
Reel Shorts : 2 minutes maximum
Shorts: 10 minutes maximum
Open: 25 minutes maximum (we have limited capacity for this category)
There are four tiers in each category, you should submit in the tier that best fits your film:
International (worldwide)
Wales (Core creative team are based in Wales)
Graduate (Core creative team are students)
Youth & Community (in which the participants are core contributors)
A festival jury will give awards in each category to each tier.
Reel Shorts : International, Wales, Graduate,Youth & Community
Shorts : International, Wales, Graduate,Youth & Community
Audience award (Voted for by festival attendees)
Best Film
By submitting the applicant confirms they have all necessary rights and permissions for exhibiting the film. You must own, or have clearance for all copyrighted materials, ADRA assumes no liability, or responsibility for copyright or infringement issues. If you provide still images of your film you must include a credit.
By submitting your film you grant ADRA the rights to programme your film in the festival.
If selected you agree that ADRA can use short excerpts (up to 20 seconds), and stills from the film for marketing, and archiving the festival. You also agree to abide by deadlines for submitting other required programme materials.
Films must have been completed after January 1st, 2023. Works created before that date can be submitted only if they have not been publicly presented or been available online.
Graduate submissions are for films made when the principal creators were enrolled in an accredited educational institute at the time the film was made. We may ask for evidence of your student status.
We do not accept filmed performances created for theatre unless they radically transform the theatrical work. We are not able to give feedback to unselected proposals.
Please submit films via Filmfreeway.
Selected films will need to be delivered in their native frame rate, ProRes (preferred) or H264 encoding in a QuickTime format (.mov) with captions as an .SRT file.
ADRA is managed by Kokoro Arts, a non-profit organisation.
