Biola Film Festival

- Must be completed after March 10th, 2023
- Total runtime must not exceed thirty minutes, including credits.
- The festival does not explicitly bar submissions if their content violates Biola University’s Community Standards, but often the jury includes respected and upstanding university representatives who hold the right to judge submissions against their own beliefs and values on matters of art, truth, and beauty.
- Submissions completed before a student’s time at Biola will not be accepted.
- If the project was completed while the student was currently enrolled at Biola University (regardless of school/department, undergraduate or graduate level) they are cleared and welcomed to submit to the festival even if they are now graduates.
- Alumni who have completed projects since graduating also retain a grace period where they may submit post-graduate work. The grace period is circumstantial and is based on whether or not the project entered development while they were enrolled and was finished within six months of their commencement date. This is primarily aimed at delayed senior thesis projects.
- Submissions must include the full film, a poster, a full cast and crew roster, and two stills.
- Filmmakers agree that: By submitting a film or script, the applicant denotes that they have obtained consent from any and all owners, creators, writers, producers, and other authorized stakeholders and representatives of the film whose consent is required to submit the film to the festival and respective awards categories.
- Filmmakers agree that: All submissions grant the Biola Film Festival certain privileges, including but not limited to the rights to use the film footage and press materials from the film for festival promotional purposes including but not limited to promotional advertising, private internet hosting for viewing, Film Festival DVD/Blu-Ray assets, in any and all parts of the universe by any means whatsoever.