In 2023, filmfreeway.com receives entry of Animated Short Film only; for Live Action Short Film, please register at www.siff.com.
Article 1
This Regulation is drawn to cover participation in short film (Live Action Short Film and Animated Short Film) competitions for Golden Goblet Awards of the Shanghai International Film Festival (hereinafter referred to as SIFF or The Festival).
Article 2
SIFF was ratified by the State Council of China, it is one of the FIAPF-accredited non-specialized competitive film festivals throughout the world. The Festival focuses on multi-layer and multi-angle exploration of new directors. Its aim is to reveal films of quality in order to enhance exchange and cooperation between China and the rest of the world.
Article 3
The 25th SIFF will be held in June, 2023.
Given the 25th SIFF, originally scheduled to take place in June 2022, has been postponed to 2023, films previously submitted to short film (Live Action Short Film and Animated Short Film) competitions for Golden Goblet Awards are deemed valid, thus repetitive submission is not necessary.
Article 4
A short film is defined as an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits.
This excludes from consideration such works as:
1. Previews and advertising films
2. Sequences from feature-length films, such as credit sequences
3. Unaired episodes of established TV series
4. Unsold TV series pilots
1) A live action film that meets the following qualifying criteria is eligible for Short Film Competition of Golden Goblet Award:
1. A live action film uses imagery created primarily through practical photographic techniques used to capture physical actors, props, sets, and locations. Documentary short subjects will not be accepted in the live action category.
2. A Short film that has been completed in the country of origin after June 1, 2022.
3. Film that has not been in the main competition category of other FIAPF-accredited non-specialized competitive film festivals before SIFF.
4. The Short film must not be exhibited publicly or distributed anywhere in any nontheatrical form before the Festival.
Nontheatrical public exhibition or distribution includes but is not limited to:
Broadcast and cable television
PPV/VOD
DVD distribution
Internet transmission
5. World premiere or International premiere is preferred. Chinese film must be World premiere.
6. All eligible motion pictures must be publicly exhibited by means of unencrypted DCP, or in a 24- or 48-frame progressive scan Digital Cinema format with a minimum projector resolution of 2048 by 1080 pixels, image compression (if used) conforming to JPEG 2000; and image and sound file formats suitable for exhibition in commercial Digital Cinema sites. All films must be submitted in a standard theatrical exhibition aspect ratio.
2) An animated film that meets the following qualifying criteria is eligible for Short Film Competition of Golden Goblet Award:
1. An animated film is created by using a frame-by-frame technique, and usually falls into one of the two general fields of animation: character or abstract. Some of the techniques of animating films include cel animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, pixilation, cutouts, pins, camera multiple pass imagery, kaleidoscopic effects, and drawing on the film frame itself. Documentaries created by animation technique can be accepted in the animation category.
2. A Short film that has been completed in the country of origin after June 1, 2022.
3. Film that has not been in the main competition category of other FIAPF-accredited non-specialized competitive film festivals before SIFF.
4. The Short film must not be exhibited publicly or distributed anywhere in any nontheatrical form before the Festival.
Nontheatrical public exhibition or distribution includes but is not limited to:
Broadcast and cable television
PPV/VOD
DVD distribution
Internet transmission
5. World premiere or International premiere is preferred. Chinese film must be World premiere.
6. All eligible motion pictures must be publicly exhibited by means of unencrypted DCP, or in a 24- or 48-frame progressive scan Digital Cinema format with a minimum projector resolution of 2048 by 1080 pixels, image compression (if used) conforming to JPEG 2000; and image and sound file formats suitable for exhibition in commercial Digital Cinema sites. All films must be submitted in a standard theatrical exhibition aspect ratio.
