Melbourne Overlooked Film Festival

1. Submissions
The Film must be within the required time limit of 40 minutes and within the ethical guidelines. The MOFF programming group reserves the right to disqualify or reject any work that is considered to be promoting hate speech including, homophobia, racism or sexism.
We accept films from all countries. If your film is in a language other than English please provide English subtitles with your submission.
Submissions should not transgress the guidelines of the Australian board of classifications: https://www.classification.gov.au/classification-ratings/what-do-ratings-mean
Please ensure that you and all parties that own the rights to the material have consented to the submission.
If your film is chosen for screening you may be asked to introduce the work or answer questions about the work during festival events. We will send an email asking you if you are available for a 10 minute, live Q&A over zoom.

2. Fees & Payment
All payments for submissions should be submitted through the FilmFreeway website, after submission of the film there will be no refunds.
Each film submitted will require a new payment with price subject to change depending on the date:

4th September - 10th September 11:59pm AEST (Early Bird)
Early Bird Fee: $10
Early Bird Student Fee: $8

11th September 12am- 30th September 11:59pm AEST
Regular Fee: $15
Regular Student Fee: $10

Fees can be waived for First Nation Filmmakers and also for Filmmakers with a disability, if this applies to you please email moffsquad@gmail.com for the refunded submission fee.

3. Formatting
The works should be submitted as either a secured link on the FilmFreeway website, a password protected vimeo link with the necessary information to access it or a link to an unlisted youtube video.
If there are any technical difficulties surrounding the formatting or submission please contact us through the following email address: moffsquad@gmail.com

4. Authorising materials
It is the sole responsibility of the Submitter to:
• secure permission from the rights holders of any and all copyrighted and/or trademarked content or materials included within the film
• clear all content within the film from any and all actual or potential legal claims and issues, including, without limitation, claims based on theories of libel, defamation, invasion of privacy, violation of rights of publicity, theft of trade secrets, breach of confidence, breach of confidential relationship, and breach of express or implied contract (“Third Party Claim/s”).

MOFF and its production team will not be held responsible for the submission of content that fails to meet these requirements.