An IMDb Qualifying Festival
VERY IMPORTANT: All written material, i.e., screenplays, stage plays, poems, and novels, must be submitted to their respective categories. DO NOT submit any written material to categories reserved for film or video, i.e., drama, Art-house, etc. Doing so will get your submission rejected.
Do not submit a film or video to screenplay or any written medium category, as it will also be rejected.
We hire professional readers and judges for all written materials, and they will not review videos.
We hire professional video reviewers who will not review written material.
Screenplay, Novel, and poetry awards will be announced a week or two after the official festival awards notification. Evaluating screenplays or novels is much more time-consuming for judges than judging films. This is due to the usual last-minute influx of submissions, reading lengthy scripts/novels, and having the judges discuss their findings in a forum.
Welcome to the WRPN Women's International Film Festival, where distribution and feedback opportunities abound for films made by women or films that carry subjects relating to concerns about women's issues. WWIFF is a sister festival to the Depth of Field International Film Festival, a FilmFreeway “Top 100 Reviewed” festival alumni.
Distribution: over the years, our sister festivals have sent hundreds of films and screenplays to three established distribution companies that have already signed contracts with dozens of our filmmakers. WWIFF now operates with that same advantage! These distributors do not take unsolicited submissions; your top award-winning work with WWIFF gets you into our private distributor review group. This is a free service provided exclusively to our top winners.
Don’t forget feedback, which is the one element most festivals ignore.
Instead of paying submission fees and getting nothing in return, everyone who submits to the WRPN Women's International Film Festival competition (WWIFF.COM) will receive either of the two benefits:
Either
1) your film is already competition caliber and receives ‘Official Selection’ status;
2) You will receive a letter outlining exactly what it is about your film that prevents acceptance. Make the necessary corrections, and submit again for free.
Giving you the chance to make corrections to your film:
helps you improve your product and its marketability
Enhance your ability to win or be accepted at other festivals besides ours.
What makes us different?......
1. Guaranteed distributor review by Worldwide Motion Pictures Corporation (WWMPC.COM), Adler & Associates, CCS Releasing, and Cardinal XD for our selected "Best of Festival" winners (Rhodium Screenplay winners reviewed by Polaris Pictures).
We don't have any control or influence over Polaris Pictures or any of our associate distributors who decide to offer you a production deal or even answer your email. We merely open the door for the top winners.
2. The chance to be included in the distributor's buyer’s packets on the world film market
3. A festival run as a live screening festival and virtual competition: We invest in getting distributor recognition for quality films to give them a life beyond a one-time festival showing. WWIFF will live screen Best of Festival award winners only.
With us, when you get an official selection notification, it means your film, screenplay, or novel passed through the stringent acceptance process (by the selection judges) and is now ready to go in front of the awarding judges. It doesn't mean your film is screening.
Once you receive an award notification, Best of Festival winners will be screened at our Rehoboth Beach, DE, event.
We screen only the Best of Festival winners.
Our screening event is to collect audience reactions to be used by our distributors. We don't conduct after-screening networking parties or seminars.
Video interviews of the viewing audience may be conducted and shown on WRPN.tv
The Film Festival (WWIFF) reserves the complete right to change the program dates and times and to possibly not screen the video despite being selected for screening.
WWIFF, with WRPN.TV Entertainment Network will also offer a unique OPTIONAL opportunity to show your film to a worldwide community of video fans from over 80 countries, to which filmmakers would not usually have access as an optional online video exposure opportunity. This feature is available for "Best of Festival," "Best of Show," "Outstanding Excellence," "Excellence," and even some "Exceptional Merit" winners.
4. Our founders are active Committee Members for the Universal Film and Festival Organization (UFFO.ORG), a U.K.-based non-profit founded to implement best business practices for festivals
5. Any film that is rejected receives free feedback.
6. Free Early bird entry of any rejected film into WWIFF’s next season upon completion of the suggested edits
7. $40.00 flat fee for all Student Film Entries, regardless of deadline status
8. Unique Category distinctions (Art-house Films, Alternate Media, LGBT, Webisode, Horror, Sci-fi, Tight Shorts, Loose Shorts, Dust Collector for pre-2009 films, and 13 others!)
9. Opportunities for Sub-Category Awards (cinematography, score, original concept, direction, SFX, acting, etc.) Winning an award in a subcategory does NOT qualify for screening and sending to our distributors.
Guaranteed distributor review by Worldwide Motion Pictures Corporation (WWMPC.COM), Adler & Associates, Cardinal XD, and CCS Releasing for our selected "Best of Festival" and "Best of Show" winners (Rhodium Screenplay winners reviewed by Polaris Pictures).
Opportunities for sub-category awards include cinematography, score, original concept, direction, SFX, acting, writing, editing, and many more!
Winning an award in a subcategory does not qualify for screening and sending to our distributors.
WWIFF, in cooperation with our distribution colleagues, is proud to offer a guaranteed distributor review to the top winners in these award levels in the major categories*:
"Best of Festival Award: Presented to an outstanding entry from among the Best of Show Winners in each production type."
"Best of Show" selected by genre and domestic/foreign), so there will be over one BOS. BOS Documentary (Domestic), BOS Documentary (Foreign), and so on.
"Award of Outstanding Excellence"
*(Please note: If there is insufficient competition within any category, WWIFF reserves the right to withdraw a "Best Of" presentation in that particular category.)
Other award levels include:
"Award of Excellence"
"Award Of Exceptional Merit"
"Jury's Choice Award"
"Award Of Merit"
"Kudos Endeavor Award"
Ordering award certificates is optional.
