Hollywood South Urban Film Festival

ELIGIBILITY -

To be eligible for consideration:

ALL FILMS SUBMITTED to the HSUFF must be written, directed, produced or having the main character of the film/project acted by a person of color or a person of African American descent.
(ONLY EXCEPTION to this RULE is the GLOBAL FILM CATEGORY - THIS CATEGORY is OPEN to ALL FILMMAKERS of ANY RACE or ANY NATIONALITY THAT IS “NOT” BLACK AMERICAN. THESE FILMS can get made ANYWHERE in the WORLD; the UNITED STATES or ABROAD.)

Any feature-length film, short film, feature documentary film, short documentary film, global film, social justice, best series, music video, or student film that is submitted to the HSUFF, can be made from anywhere in the world.

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-FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS: All Feature Length Films must have a running time of at least 60 minutes or more.

-FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY FILMS: All Feature Length Documentary Films must have a running time of at least 60 minutes running time.

-SHORT FILMS: All Short Films must not exceed a running time of 30 minutes.

-SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILMS: All Short Documentaries Films must not exceed a running time of 30 minutes.

-GLOBAL FILMS: For all Global Films submitted in this category, (shorts, features, documentaries, music videos, series, comedies, animations, or student films ) there is no mandatory running time.

-SERIES: All Series submitted must not individually exceed 30 minutes of running time.

-MUSIC VIDEOS: All Music Video's running times must not exceed 7 minutes running time.

-STUDENT FILMS: There is no mandatory running time (short, feature, short doc, feature doc, global film, web series, or music video) of any student film submitted. Any student films submitted can be made from anywhere in the world.

-AI GENERATED FILMS: All of these films will be films that are generated with AI Technology. There is NO MANDATORY running running time.

-GEORGIA SPOTLIGHT FILMS: All films submitted in this category MUST BE MADE IN GEORGIA or ABOUT GEORGIA will be eligible for the GEORGIA SPOTLIGHT AWARD as well as ALL OTHER CATEGORIES. There is no time limit.

-SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARD: All films that are created that put a spotlight on the racial, social, and/or political environment of the society that we/you live in anywhere in the world. There is no time limit.

-OUTSTANDING SPIRIT AWARD: This award will be given to the filmmaker who does the highest degree of promoting his/her film if selected during the HSUFF on all of your platforms on social media.

-AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD: All the films in this category will come from all the films selected to be screened during the film festival. The winner will be determined by the response of the audience during the screening of all the films.

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Festival programming staff may use their discretion to place your film in the appropriate category.

Non-English language projects must have English subtitles at the time submitted. Dialogue lists will not be accepted.

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For any questions: Please email us at filmfestival@hsuff.com

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