Dublin Feminist Film Festival

1. The short film submission call will open on 29 April 2019. The deadline for submissions is 14 June 2019 at 5pm. We will announce the selection by late July.
2. There is a $5.50 fee to submit a film. The fee is non-refundable under any circumstances, regardless of whether or not your short is selected for screening. This fee contributes to essential costs related to the running of the festival. Once all expenses are paid, all profits go to a local charity of our choice.
3. All shorts must be less than 18 minutes in length. Any films longer than 18 minutes will be automatically disqualified. We will not watch them so please do not submit them.
4. We don't mind if the film has screened before. We don't mind where it's from or where/when it's set. But it must feature a woman in the role of director (other women crew members will be looked upon favourably).
5. By submitting a film, you guarantee that your entry is your original work and does not infringe on the copyright or other rights of third parties.
6. By submitting your film, you accept that we may use stills from chosen films as promotional material for the festival.
7. The festival takes place at Light House Cinema, an independent art cinema in the vibrant Smithfield area of North Dublin. This gives us the opportunity of presenting our films on a large screen through a professional projector. We can project films in a variety of formats, and if your film is selected we will require that you provide us with a copy in as high a quality format as possible to ensure its best presentation.

THE SELECTION PROCESS
Our organizing committee and programming team will watch the submitted shorts and give them a mark for each of the criteria listed below. To finalize a short-list, we will consider the total cumulative marks received by each film, as well as the overall fit with both the theme and features programme.

The criteria for this year’s festival are:

1. Production practice. Films must have a female director to be considered, we will also consider formal and aesthetic questions related to the presence of a woman behind the camera.
2. Production quality and aesthetic tone. We are not interested in the budget of your film but in how well you have told your particular story and conveyed your creative approach given the tools at your disposal.
3. Crew. We will take into account the involvement of women as filmmakers in the crew, particularly in the high-level creative roles of writer, producer, editor, but also other below-the-line positions as members of the camera and sound crew.
4. Entertainment value. This is about how successfully your film moves and involves the judges within its own genre and context. We are looking for compelling, absorbing, interesting and/or entertaining films.
5. Representation. Relatable/interesting/diverse/prominent female characters.