**If you want to email us to ask for a waiver, please include a link to the trailer or film. Queries for waiver requests will not be considered without appropriate links.**
• By submitting, the entrant/s agrees they have read and accepted all FLIC rules, terms and conditions.
• Upon notification that their film is an official selection, filmmakers have seven (7) calendar days to notify FLIC if they wish to pull their film from the festival. If FLIC does not hear otherwise, we will assume the filmmaker wants their film to screen at FLIC and it will be scheduled for presentation at a day and time of FLIC's choosing. After the aforementioned seven days, the filmmaker will NOT be permitted to remove the film from the festival, even if another festival requires exclusivity. This is non-negotiable. If you have any doubts about your ability to follow through and participate in screenings, please be advised of this policy.
• Entrants confirm they have full legal right and authority to submit for use all images, content, talent, music/sounds in their entry, and that the film will not violate any copyright, trademark, service mark, privacy right, publicity right, patent, or any other intellectual property right of any person or entity. If consent of other parties is required, all of them are also agreeing.
• Submitted films should not convey a defamation of any person or entity and not be subject to or threatened by litigation. FLIC reserves the right not to select films which in the opinion of FLIC's judges are abrasively controversial and/or politically divisive.
• Foreign language films MUST have captions burned into the film.
• Films must be downloadable or the "request download" button must be activated.
• Film listings must contain a minimum of three (3) still photos from the film to be used for promotional purposes if the film is selected. Entries without photos are considered incomplete and will not be considered.
• Entrant grants FLIC permission to screen the entry at the FLIC festival, and agrees to hold harmless FLIC, its sponsors, entities, venues, committee members, volunteers, attorneys and advisers from any and all claims, damages, costs, losses, liabilities or attorneys’ fees that may be held against any of them in association with the film entry or the festival’s use. Entrant also grants FLIC permission to screen their film again during Encore Week and Showboat's Summer Movie Series when applicable.
• If selected, feature length MP4 films are not to exceed 10GB file size. Visit Vimeo.com for compression help and guidelines. Films may be sent via web in HD formats. Downloads from Vimeo are common and films are also sent via WeTranfer.com, ftp, etc. All video files are due within 2 weeks of official selection notification.
• DCP, DVD, ProRes, and Bluray submissions are NOT accepted or screened. ALL submissions must be 720P or 1080P MP4 or .h264 files. FLIC's projectors cannot process or project 4K files.
• There is no screening fee compensation. No exceptions or considerations will be made.
• G, PG, and PG-13 approximate-rating films will be reviewed for consideration. Occasional exceptions to this guideline are made on a film-by-film basis at the judges' and festival director's discretion. Hard R content (gory, horror, sexually explicit) will not be selected.
• All judging is confidential and all decisions and film scores are final.
• If selected, the version of the film that was submitted will be screened. FLIC does not accept changes or edits to films after official selections have been made. Work-in-progress films should not be submitted. Filmmakers may contact FLIC to discuss possible exceptions.
• FLIC has the right to re-screen films during our Encore Week (nominated films are shown the week following the festival weekend) and during our Summer Encore Week (the entire festival screens again over the course of a one week run at the Showboat Stadium 6 in Polson). Films will not be streamed or shared online.
• All submission fees go to the Flathead Lake International Cinemafest, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
