International Music Video Underground

[WARNING]
Please allow file download on FilmFreeway or Vimeo so your Music Video can screen in time!
Only use our official provided laurels.
SPECIFY the name of the BAND or the ARTIST name. If special project, please mention it in credits or overview.

[MANDATORY]
Your FilmFreeway profile must be complete with Country, address, website, director Bio and Name of the Band / Solo artist.
If left empty, we reserve the right to disqualify your submission.

[BE SMART]
Guys, when you submit to Best DOP and/or Best Editor : you must add the name of the editor and of the DP in your credits, in the FilmFreeway listing, in the "credits" category.
If not, you are just submitting ghosts, and you will be disqualified.
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Student must come with picture of student card or equivalent. If not... We reserve the right to disqualify your submission.
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When submitting to the DOP category, please DO FILL THE NAME OF THE DOP / CINEMATOGRAPHER into the credits section.

[THE BASICS]
We accept Music Video, Dance Films from all nationalities.
Each category requires its entry fee.

Your Music Video may be a music video intended for a band, but also a music video you edited with existing footage or existing music. If such, it must offer a narrative take, or promotion endeavor, or artistic aspect distinctive to what Music Videos are.

Personal videos based on real life footage such as trip videos are not eligible, unless they offer a take making them eligible in the Special Stuff category for example.
You wanna make sure? Check our website and watch the previous winners' work.

Your work must be under 15 minutes.
We DO accept documentaries about music, and short films with music or musical artists as their main theme / topic.

Your work may include some dialog parts, if these are not preeminent in the final edit.
If there is a long and a short edit of your work, please submit with the short one. If selected, we'll chat with you about the best version to screen.
Works in progress are not accepted.
We only accept online digital submissions.
We accept any form : live, animation, stop-motion... As long a music and video make it a Music Video.

The festival is the one and only to choose which award category you may fit in. We may repurpose your submission to the category it fits best, not select your submission or disqualify your submission. Festival is the sole decision maker.
Entry fees are non-refundable. 

We do not provide feedback about the selection or not selection.

The festival organizers may refuse, not select or disqualify any unfit video, illegal, non-artistic, fake, false, incomplete entries.
The festival do NOT take care of travel nor accommodation expenses. We can give you good adresses of hotels in a walking distance to the festival.
Festival can, at any time, qualify or disqualify any work of its choice.
Festival will cease to reply to any discussion, messages, inquiries that contain any form of aggression, attack, suspicion, will to fight or troll our work. All we do is online, just check it out. You don't like it: don't work with us.We focus our efforts on artists who want to stand out.

[RIGHTS]
By submitting your music video to our festival and competition, you authorize the festival to use limited pieces of your material for promotion. All promotion actions are free of any financial ties in any way.
This includes ALL elements used in your submission: text, videos, pictures, promo stills, biographies... All picture may be used for promotion. Video trailers will be used and published (not only shared but published). Clips of your music video may be published, under 40 seconds total.
Submitter is responsible for the content of his submission.
If you wish to decline promotion, or if your video is subject to any exclusive rights at some time / in some territories, please just send us an email to let us know.
We do not pay screening fees. Film Freeway is a third party platform you chose to use to submit for consideration to festivals.
We might set up screenings for free, or with a box 0ffice, at the discretion of the festival, and there will be no share of gross with participating filmmakers.
By submitting to the festival, you expressly authorize the festival and its affiliates to use every piece of content and information presented in your Film Freeway project page, in connection to the festival, the event, and for promotion of the festival, now and in the future. That includes all videos, pictures, texts (biography, logline and other) hosted on your Film Freeway project page submitted to us.

[EMAIL MARKETING]
Once you submit, the festival may collect your email and send you offers.
We regularly send our previous submitters exclusive offers, discounts and other submissions opportunities. These offers are strictly limited to our film festival or partner film festivals and artistic competitions that make sense with your original submission.
We do not sell emails. We never did, we never will.
If you receive an unsolicited email, you can unsubscribe or ask for your email to be removed, and it will be done.

Picture attribution: Condé Nast (through Vogue Taiwan)