WE DO NOT ACCEPT FILMS MADE ENTIRELY WITH AI TOOLS.
There is no limit to the number of films you can submit; however, each film submitted by you must be original and different from any other film submitted by you and accompanied by its own completed submission form and participant agreement.
Films must be in English or subtitled in English and must be submitted via the FilmFreeway platform. All eligible entries received by New York CineFest will be judged by the New York CineFest selection committee. New York CineFest reserves the right to disqualify or reject any film that it determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, to contain prohibited content or is offensive, inappropriate or otherwise unacceptable. Selections will be notified by email.
By submitting your film for consideration to New York CineFest, you agree that you possess the rights to all visual elements and sound, including music, used in your film and you allow New York CineFest to publicly screen your film, if and when it is announced as an official selection of the festival.
All films must be submitted via the FilmFreeway portal. If accepted, a Digital Cinema Package, DCP, will be required - The festival will only play films in the DCP format in the theater. Discs and video files of any other kind are not acceptable.
Any costs associated with making DCPs and/or movie files are paid for by the filmmakers. The festival is not responsible for the cost of any DCP creation or delivery
and will not refund or reimburse any costs associated with the making of DCPs for any reason.
The festival reserves the right to change, postpone or cancel the event at anytime for any reason with no obligation to offer refunds or reimbursement of costs for any expenses filmmakers may have had associated with the festival including but not limited to travel, marketing materials, DCP creation and delivery, and/or ticket purchases.
Employees (and their immediate families (parent, spouse, child, sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households, whether or not related) of New York CineFest and any of their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and promotion agencies or festival sponsors, are not eligible to enter films for competition.
