San Diego Film Week

GENERAL ELIGIBILITY:
Films produced after January 1, 2018, are eligible for inclusion in San Diego Film Week.
Locally produced films released between January 1, 2021, and December 1st, 2021 are ALSO eligible for the San Diego Film Awards.
*All submitted films must be 80% produced in San Diego County (not including Binational, Nevada, California, Arizona special screening submissions)
*Submissions to the Oldie but Goodie and My First Film categories are exempt from the January 1, 2017 release date requirement.
*Film Consortium San Diego reserves the right to disqualify any films at any time in the awards process for violations or misconduct, plagiarism, etc.

DETAILED ELIGIBILITY:

SAN DIEGO FILM WEEK ELIGIBILITY: Films released after January 1, 2017, and produced in San Diego county utilizing 80% cast, crew, and locations from San Diego are eligible for the 2022 San Diego Film Week. By 2022, films produced in Nevada, California, and Arizona utilizing cast, crew, and locations from those regions are eligible for 2020 San Diego Film Week.

SAN DIEGO FILM AWARDS ELIGIBILITY: Films released between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021, and produced in San Diego County utilizing 80% cast, crew, and locations from San Diego are eligible for the local 2021 San Diego Film Awards in both student and professional categories. All films screened during San Diego Film Week are eligible for San Diego Film Week Awards and the genre awards at San Diego Film Awards.

STUDENT FILMS ELIGIBILITY: Student films must have been produced for an official college level or high school level class or workshop in order to be eligible for awards in the student category.

JUDGING:
Our judging model is a hybrid of community and professional voting. No individual votes on a film they were a part of in any way.

INITIAL REVIEW:

An internal advisory team reviews all the submissions and scores them based on three criteria:

Sound Quality, Production Value, and Story/Script.

Films with the highest scores are selected for screenings until all time slots are filled during San Diego Film Week. Films screened during the San Diego Film Week that meet all criteria for the San Diego Film Awards remain eligible for Round 1 of Judging for the San Diego Film Awards.

Additional films may remain in consideration at the discretion of the Advisory team even if there is no time to screen the film at San Diego Film Week. After this round, about 60% of submitted films have historically remained under consideration for the San Diego Film Awards.

Round 1 of SDFA judging: December 2021

COMMUNITY JUDGING ROUND

The community judging round is invaluable as it allows our film community to be the judge of what the "best" films are in our own community. Nominations for the film awards are decided during this round. This year, former film award winners and nominees will be the judges for our community judging round. They will determine the nominees that move on to our jury. No more than 5 films will be announced as nominees for any one award.

Round 2 of judging: December 2021- January 2022

PROFESSIONAL JUDGING ROUND

Once the community has brought forward their nominees, it's time to decide the winners.
Judges include film festival programmers, film educators and professors, film critics, and experienced film producers. Multiple judges watch the nominated films and vote on the winners. The films with the most votes for their respective categories will win the award. Ties are not allowed. In the case where the scores are tied, the film will be passed on to additional judges to break the tie.

REFUNDS
All submission fees are NON-REFUNDABLE.

MEDIA
We cannot guarantee that the media provided for the festival will be returned unless specific requests are made.

For questions please email filmconsd@gmail.com