IF ACCEPTED YOU WILL NEED TO PROVIDE SCIFF WITH A DCP (24 fps) IN ORDER TO SCREEN AT THE FESTIVAL. DO NOT SUBMIT UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING TO PROVIDE THE FESTIVAL WITH A DCP OF YOUR PROJECT.
WE DO NOT PAY TO SCREEN FILMS. IF YOU ARE ACCEPTED DO NOT ASK US FOR MONEY. WE WILL IMMEDIATELY PULL YOUR FILM FROM OUR SCHEDULE
DO NOT ASK US FOR A REFUND IF 1) YOUR FILM DID NOT GET ACCEPTED OR 2) YOUR FILM DID NOT WIN. SUBMITTING YOUR FILM DOES NOT ENTITLE YOU TO ACCEPTANCE OR AN AWARD.
SCIFF must receive all entries no later than the appropriate entry deadline filmmakers submitted. Additional entry fees will be required if not received by the applicable deadline. SCIFF will not accept entries received with incomplete information or missing Fee Payments.
Films submitted in the incorrect Category or submitted as a Short Length Film but having a total runtime equal to that of a Feature Length Film will not be considered.
SCIFF WILL NOT ACCEPT INTERNATIONAL CHECKS, INTERNATIONAL POSTAL MONEY ORDERS, PERSONAL CHECKS, WIRE TRANSFERS, OR MONEY GRAMS. We will only accept payment for submission fees in CREDIT CARDS or ETF TRANSFERS for all entries submitted.
NO REFUNDS will be granted for submission fees.
Category Summary:
Narrative Feature (All Genres) = 50+ minutes
Narrative Short (All Genres) = 49 or less minutes
Animation Feature = 50+ Minutes
Animation Short = 49 or less minutes
Documentary Feature = 50+ minutes
Documentary Short = 49 or less minutes
Foreign Feature = 50+ Minutes
Foreign Short = 49 or less
Music Video =15 minutes or less
Micro Shorts = 5 minutes or less
Pitch Trailers & Sizzle Reels = 5 minutes or less
PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW ALL THE BELOW INSTRUCTIONS
Only one title per entry form. Filmmakers may submit productions from 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. DO NOT SUBMIT WORKS IN PROGRESS.
Filmmakers must submit all films in Digital .MP4 Film File Format (NTSC system only) for consideration. In addition, all films submitted must be available on DCP for presentation.
SCIFF will not accept YouTube Videos
To ensure that your entry is processed correctly, you must complete the form and include proper payment.
Along with the film (Digital .MP4 Film File), press kits must include a black and white or color still of the film 1920x1080pxls or 1280x720pxls, a complete cast and crew list, and a 250-word synopsis of the project.
We will notify you by email when your entry is received.
Exhibition entries should be submitted in a .MP4 File format unless a DVD is requested. No DVDs will be returned.
Participation in the Santa Clarita International Film Festival implies understanding and acceptance of all terms included in this application.
SCIFF must receive all entries no later than the appropriate entry deadline filmmakers submitted. Additional entry fees will be required if not received by the applicable deadline. SCIFF will not accept entries received with incomplete information or missing Fee Payments.
Films submitted in the incorrect Category or submitted as a Short Length Film but having a total runtime equal to that of a Feature Length Film will be disqualified from consideration.
If your film is accepted to the Onsite Film Festival, we will try to accommodate showing all films during Film Blocks in onsite theaters. However, if we cannot fit your film into a Film Block onsite, we reserve the right to offer you a showing in our SCIFF Virtual Film Festival and (if you are present onsite) an interview in our Onsite Studio.
All films accepted into the 2023 Santa Clarita International Film Festival’s virtual program will be screened online through our Virtual Theater system.
Our festival reaches a global echelon interactively online, allowing filmmakers and fans worldwide to enjoy the films and communicate in real-time as though they were together in the same room via online chat and webcams when available.
PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW ALL THE BELOW INSTRUCTIONS
Filmmakers not following the guidelines, rules, regulations, or eligibility may cause their submission to be disqualified without refund.
General. By entering this Contest, entrants agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules, which are final and binding on all matters in this Contest. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. All taxes (including, without limitation, federal, state, and local taxes) on or connected with any prize (including, without limitation, prizes that are opportunities to make donations to a charitable organization) and the reporting consequences thereof are the sole and exclusive responsibility of respective winners. If so requested by Promoter, Each Winner must complete Promoter’s winner verification process or execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and a Liability/Publicity Release within a period required by Promoter. All prizes awarded in connection with the Contest are nontransferable and non-endorsable. No substitution of prizes is permitted. The Promoter or Host’s employees, agents, or representatives may view all Concepts to provide technical assistance to Contestants. Technical questions may be referred to the Host for help at the Promoter’s discretion. The dates of official announcements are subject to change: release, Waiver, and Indemnification.
BY ENTERING THE CONTEST, ENTRANTS RELEASE AND HOLD THE PROMOTER AND HOST AND ALL OTHER CONTEST ENTITIES HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LOSSES, DAMAGES, RIGHTS, CLAIMS, AND ACTIONS OF ANY KIND ARISING IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FROM THE CONTEST OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY CONTEST-RELATED ACTIVITY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE REMOVAL FROM THE SITE OF, OR DISCONTINUATION OF ACCESS TO, ANY SUBMISSION OR OTHER MATERIAL), OR RESULTING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE, OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE AWARDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTEST, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, AS WELL AS CLAIMS BASED ON PUBLICITY RIGHTS, DEFAMATION, OR INVASION OF PRIVACY. Entrant agrees to convey, transfer, and give Promoter, Host, Contest, its parent corporation, and subsidiaries all rights to submitted materials for screening and fundraising activities. Such screening and fundraising activities shall be at the complete and total discretion, consideration, and full and absolute authority of the Promoter, Host, Contest, its parent corporation, and subsidiaries in perpetuity. You grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, and irrevocable right to copy, transmit, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display any information, data, Work, or any other information associated with your Work (collectively the “Submitted Materials”) you submit to us via the Services in any media or format. Your use of the Services does not grant us ownership of your Work. As between you and us, you retain ownership of your Work.
If selected, entrants agree and understand that their film shall screen in either or both our live festival event or our online festival event that utilizes our virtual theater platform. Entrants also understand that through the virtual theater platform, films cannot be copied, downloaded, or reproduced by any virtual theater attendee, nor can the HTML code of any film be used in or on any other site, and that each film is entirely secure and safe from theft due to the technology of the virtual theater that is unique to our system and is unlike any other utilized by any online festival throughout the world.
THE PROMOTER, THE HOST, AND CONTEST ENTITIES DO NOT NOW AND SHALL NOT HAVE IN THE FUTURE ANY DUTY OR LIABILITY, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, VICARIOUS, CONTRIBUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO THE INFRINGEMENT OR PROTECTION OF AN ENTRANT’S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, IF ANY, RESPECT TO ANY SUBMISSION OR CONCEPT, REVIEWS, MATERIAL, VIDEO OR OTHER MATERIALS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTEST. BY ENTERING THE CONTEST, ENTRANTS RELEASE, WAIVE ANY CLAIMS WITH REGARD TO, AND HOLD HARMLESS THE PROMOTER, THE HOST, AND THE CONTEST ENTITIES FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS OF ANY KIND THAT ARE OR COULD BE ASSERTED WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER RELATING TO THE CONTEST. ENTRANTS FURTHER AGREE TO INDEMNIFY. DEFEND AND HOLD THE PROMOTER, HOST, AND ALL OTHER CONTEST ENTITIES HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL DAMAGES, LIABILITIES, FEES, AND COSTS INCURRED IN DEFENDING AGAINST ANY THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS OR THREATS OF CLAIMS ASSERTED AGAINST THE PROMOTER, HOST, OR OTHER CONTEST ENTITIES ARISING FROM ANY ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN OR CONDUCT ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONTEST. Entrant agrees to convey, transfer, and give Promoter, Host, and contest all rights to submitted materials for the purposes of but not limited to fundraising activities, and such fundraising activities shall be at the complete and total discretion, consideration, and full and absolute authority of the Promoter, Host, and Contest in perpetuity.
Force Majeure. SCIFF shall excuse the nonperformance of any party to the extent that performance is rendered impossible by strike, fire, flood, earthquakes, war, governmental acts or orders or restrictions, or any other reason where failure to perform is beyond the reasonable control and not caused by the negligence of, the nonperforming party. Governing Law and Waiver of Damages. The Contest and these Official Rules are governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of California, United States of America, without regard to its principles of conflicts of law. According to Section 4(g) above, for any dispute not subject to arbitration, the entrant agrees to personal jurisdiction by the federal and state courts located in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, and waives any jurisdictional, venue, or inconvenient forum objections to such courts.
Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will the entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby irrevocably waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages or any other damages, including attorneys’ fees, other than participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with participating in the Contest), and entrant further irrevocably waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased. SCIFF will treat privacy information submitted in connection with the Contest in accordance with these Official Rules and the Site’s Privacy Policy, provided that in the event of any conflict between these Official Rules and such Privacy Policy, the terms and conditions of these Official Rules shall prevail. All Contestants and Team Members hereby acknowledge and agree that the Promoter will have access to some or all of their personally identifiable information, including but not limited to registration information collected by the Host.
