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The 4th Reel Deal Film Festival Will take between the dates of April 11-13, 2025, making its debut as the the Film Festival of The Daytona Beach Arts Festival!

We will screen at Cinematique at 242 Beach St. Daytona, so mark your calendars and get ready for an immersive coastal arts experience as we join forces with The Daytona Beach Arts Festival!

Please accept our sincerest apologies as we have worked around medical leave of our director for the past year and as you know the Festival was delayed.

We look forward to screening these films and thank everyone for their kind emails, and offerings of support. Filmmakers are a great community and you touched our hearts!

THE FESTIVAL

Dramas, Comedies, Faith-Based and Documentary, screen alongside PSA's and new media. Exhibiting filmmakers attending, please reach out and let us know if you are attending so we can reserve your All Pass.

------ The Directors of Reel Deal Film Festival

Festival April 2025

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SUBMITTERS NOTE: YOU MUST INCLUDE A DOWNLOAD OPTION on your FilmFreeway submission file. We understand we transfer, and other apps make it possible to download your film if selected, but the labor intensiveness of chasing varied fomats for screeners is an enormous time drain on festival organizers. We will not review any film that is not submitted with a download option. We are using FilmFreeway exclusively and strive to streamline the process. Labor resources are tight with non profits and we appreciate you helping us by unifying this step. If you have not included a download on your ENTRY FILE your film will not screen even if selected.

Awards & Prizes

One ALL PASS and Swag Bags for attending Filmmakers.

Rules & Terms

Prize decisions are final and at the sole discretion of festival director.
Festival director reserves right to re-categorize any entry.
Authorship of films submitted will be credited in literature to the film's Director, regardless of which member of the Producing Team submitted or whom is the contact.
Authorship of Documentaries is the Producer, in keeping with industry standards; owners holding other roles on the film should add themselves to Producer credits to reflect ownership.
Standard Releases rights and actor/subject likenesses are implied by admission and become an operative part of your submission.
Filmmakers Middle School (6th +) aged and older are eligible.
All screenings are 14 and older unless marked ALL AUDIENCE. All Audience generally means 10 and up we do not program primary years programming unfortunately. Thre are no exceptions to the age requirements.

If selected for opening night premiere, your acceptance is your agreement that film selected for premier may not be shown in any version Volusia County for 12 months following opening night. This excludes commercial exhibition contract with a distribution company.
SUBMITTERS NOTE: YOU MUST INCLUDE A DOWNLOAD OPTION on your FilmFreeway submission file AT THE TIME OF SUBMISSION. We understand DROPBOX, we transfer, and other apps make it possible to download your film if selected, but we are using FilmFreeway and strive to streamline the process for our all volunteer festival operations team members. Labor resources are tight with non profits and we appreciate you helping us by unifying this step. You can imagine the logistical nightmare of 600 films coming on various platforms. FilmFreeway's downloadable option doesn't in any way affect your copyright protections, If you don't trust us with the download of your film on your FilmFreeway, please don't submit to our festival.

INCLUDE A DOWNLOAD OPTION ON YOUR FILE OR POSSIBLY BE ELIMINATED FROM JUDGING WTIH NO REFUND.

The Festival assumes by your submission, that you have the legal right to submit the artistic work. It is an intellectual property crime to submit creative material you don't own, including music for which you have not cleared necessary usage rights; and your submission is your confirmation that in submitting you have obtained written legal permission to submit copyrighted material from its copyright owner, and that if you present that falsely, you are solely liable for any loss to the rightful owner of the copyright. You agree to hold the Festival harmless by submitting. The Festival, as with many festivals, cannot realistically take responsibility for filmmakers submitting under untruthful or illegal pretenses.

Thank you in advance for understanding and respecting intellectual property.