WRPN Women's International Film Festival

While WWIFF is a female-focused film festival, we will also accept films produced and/or directed by men if one or more self-identifying top production members are female (including but not limited to cinematographers, producers, writers, editors, or films featuring a strong female presence on screen). We will not exclude films directed by men if the topic is significant to women and women's issues.

WWIFF is granted the right to use an excerpt from any film submitted and accepted for competition at the festival for promotional purposes.
A clip of winning entries may also be streamed on the WWIFF.COM website and WRPN.TV.

The number of awards granted at any level will fluctuate based on the total number of entries received for each competition deadline. Just as entering major categories does not ensure selection or award, entering sub-categories also does not ensure selection or award; Filmmakers who enter sub-categories only (without entering a major category) may be rejected if the judges do not feel the submitted sub-category is of merit, even if the film itself is of merit and could have been award-worthy. Conversely, films may also receive awards for sub-categories written by the judges, even if the filmmaker did not submit to them.

Winning an award in a subcategory does not qualify for screening and sending to our distributors.

Also, your film name will appear in the official selection list only if you have submitted the entire film into one of the 20 major (full-price) categories (films submitted for judging at reduced-rate, production value sub-categories only will not be listed).

Subscribing to our WRPN.tv mail list is highly recommended to ensure you receive award notifications and additional discounts. We are not responsible for winners missing opportunities because of their failure to receive or read emails.

The individual or corporation submitting the film warrants that it is authorized to commit the film for screening and understands and accepts these requirements and regulations.

The competition reserves the right to refuse entries, and there are no waivers.
DVD's WILL NOT BE RETURNED!

REFUNDS POLICY: In the event you withdraw your submission before being officially selected, you will receive a refund.
If you withdraw after being officially selected, there will be no refunds.
All our judges (selection and awarding) are paid. We don’t use unpaid volunteers.

Submissions other than English must be subtitled or dubbed.
If there is insufficient competition within any category, WWIFF reserves the right to withdraw a "Best of" presentation.

To ensure that each film is studied and rated individually, WWIFF has instituted a system to ensure that entries do not compete against each other but are recognized for their merits. They compete against themselves: we judge each entry on individual merits and score on an inherent value system. We want to ensure that the judges’ focus is on you when it is your turn to be evaluated, not on all the other films that are on cue. This ensures that they will not have comparisons going on in their minds when they should focus entirely on you.

Judges score on a performance scale, and winning entries are recognized and awarded not only for Best of Festival and Best of Show but also for two Awards of Excellence levels, two Awards of Merit levels, a Kudos Endeavor Award, or no award.
Best of Show honors are granted to the top scoring entry/entries for each season; awards of excellence are granted to entries with truly exceptional artistic and technical achievements, and notable achievements are recognized at the Award of Merit and 'Kudos' award levels.

The Best of Festival award is granted to one production in any category.

Filmmakers understand that if their film is accepted for live screening at the film/video screening festival, they grant full and unrestricted permission for WIFF to screen the film/video of the festival's choice and charge an admission fee for the presentation of the digital video program.

The filmmaker understands and accepts that they do not take part in receiving any funds from the box office proceeds, which are fully kept by the festival to help cover the overall cost of the festival presentation.

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.

The filmmaker will make available to The Festival (WWIFF) a new and pre-checked BluRay/ DVD / Thumb Drive or DCP for the actual video presentation at the festival.

The undersigned shall indemnify and hold harmless WRPN WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, WRPN.TV, and ROMAN PICTURES from and against all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees and costs of the court) which may be incurred because of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered.