Paris Play Film Festival

Accepted lengths :
- Shorts under 30 min,
- Features under 2hours (narrative, behind the scenes and documentary only)
- Scripts longs or shorts accepted under 120 pages, french or English written.
- Scripts do NOT screen as there are not submitted as movies.
- We accept music and score submissions but if you submit to the composer category, the music will be considered, not the movie. If your music is selected, it does not mean the movie is selected. The movie will NOT screen as it was not submitted to screen.

Accepted languages :
- any language if subtitled in French or English or Spanish
- English, Spanish, or French with or without subs.

All fees are non-refundable.
You must own all the rights to the film.

By submitting your film, you agree that the trailer or a clip of your film will be used for promotional purpose.
If your film is missing, your submission will be downgraded to incomplete, before to be updated to not selected or disqualified.
If you are selected and you do not send your film, your submission will be downgraded to not selected or disqualified. It is not mandatory to provide your film for screening, but it is not accepted for a selected or winning filmmaker to no return any communications with the festival.
Festivals decisions are final.

DATE of the festival is subject to change to get the right venue for the event.

We may change the category of your submission if it doesn't fit, or if it offers you a better chance in another category.

ℹ️ If you submit last minute, you will receive a notification on the listed date.
Our monthly results list a winner for each category:
- if we received submission for this category
- if the submissions we received are perceived of a good enough level of quality to pretend to a win.
We do not list finalists, semi-finalists, or quarter finalists. Your submission will be either "not selected", "selected" or "winner".

ℹ️ COVID
Since the return to in-person screenings after Covid, we noticed that general attendance and filmmakers attendance never came back to normal. If selected or winner, please read the official emails, screening info and all correspondence we send your way. Without response, without a file or without actual attendance, the festival reserve itself the right to not screen your film.

ℹ️ Our process is transparent:
- we review the films as they arrive (international team).
- only the submitted video is reviewed
- our team is fully booked 3 days before the last deadline to review late submissions, films and scripts.
We do recommend please (^^) to submit the earliest as possible, but we work consistently to deliver on our promise to list our results on the notification date.

Some information regarding our screening events: in recent months, and especially since the Paris Olympics, our attendance significantly dropped.
We know the rise of traveling cost are a major factor, but please consider attending in person to support your own film, or submit to an edition you know you’ll most likely be able to attend in person. We cannot guaranty attendance.
We are aware that some filmmakers do not use DCP yet. But real venues mostly require this format for actual screenings in a movie theater.
If you don't supply a DCP we won't be able to screen your film.
We also noticed an increase of International filmmakers submissions vs European ones. As a reminder, our policy is and will always be to select movies on the basis of their quality. It is the filmmakers responsibility to attend the film festival they elected to submit to.
We will never select projects just to increase the number of attendees. in the room: movies are first.

We do not pay screening fees. FilmFreeway 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 FilmFreeway 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 FilmFreeway project page submitted to us.