Submission Guidelines
IFI Documentary Festival - Shorts Programme
Blossoming : Tales of Growing Up
curated by The GALPAL Collective
Rules and Submission criteria :
Our Short documentary programme will be selected by a team from the GALPAL Collective. Films are programmed directly by invitation or by selection following submission via this channel.
General Submission Criteria
Definitions:
• Short films are no longer than 20 mins.
• Documentaries are non-fiction films documenting reality.
Conditions:
• Films that are publicly available online or have been broadcast on Irish television or on a channel available to Irish television audiences should not be entered and will not be considered.
• Films that have been submitted for previous IFI Documentary Festival will not be considered unless they have been altered substantially since last submission.
• Films must have been completed no more than 24 months before submission date.
• Preference will be given to films which are Irish premieres.
• A standard entry fee of €15 applies. A fee of €10 will apply to student film submissions.
• Films will be selected by a team of experienced programmers from the GalPal Collective. Their decisions on selection will be final, and they will not be able to enter into any further correspondence in this regard.
Submission Guidelines:
All films must be submitted via FilmFreeway
The following information should be included:
• film title
• date of completion
• running time
• credits (producer, director)
• a synopsis of the film (between 100 and 300 word)
• a full account of the film’s exhibition history
• three high-resolution images from the film
Submission Deadlines:
Films must be submitted before 18.00 on July 17, 2024.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
By submitting to our festival, we will utilise any personal data that you submit to us as part of the details of your submission, to evaluate your submission for the purposes of the festival. We will use your data as part of our internal surveys to assess the number of submissions for the festival and where submissions came from and from what category. You are in control of your data and should you wish to delete your data, you may request us to do this at anytime. To withdraw consent to use your data and delete it from our systems, please email us with your request.
Data Consent
The only way to enter our film festival is by submission. It is not possible to enter the festival without a submission. Therefore by submitting to our festival you are giving us consent to utilise your data in the ways listed above. If you do not consent to this and would like us to delete your data entirely after the festival, please contact us. By making a submission to our festival you are giving your consent for us to use your data.
The IFI acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council.
