Terms & Conditions
The Weindorfer Short Film Festival is an Australian film festival. Entries are open for 2025. Official Competition. Films must be 2-5 minutes (not exceeding 7 minutes with titles and credits).
The Weindorfer Short Film Festival offers two categories:
Under 19 years old
Open sections (19 years and above)
All finalists will have their films premiered at Weindorfer Day on 4th May 2025 at Wilmot.
The Weindorfer Short Film Festival
The Weindorfer Short Film Festival 2025 official competition is open with entries closing on April 20th 2025
Judging of the under 19 and open category commences on 21st April 2025 and winners will be announced at Weindorfer Day on Sunday, 4th May 2025 at Wilmot, North West Tasmania.
Eligibility
Only people domiciled in Australian may enter (this includes Australian residents currently overseas). This condition applies to all members of a group entry.
Films must show a connection to the Weindorfer story or legacy, Cradle Mountain, the Tasmanian Natural Environment and/or, show how one or two people can make a positive difference to the world.
Films must be between 2–5 mins in duration (not exceeding 7 minutes with titles and credits).
Films can be of any genre.
Up to 2 film entries per person (or group, if entering a group submission) will be accepted.
The film can only be entered into a single category.
Films must be original and produced within 12 months preceding the close of entries.
Films submitted in languages other than English must include English subtitles.
Films must be suitable for viewing by a general audience and must not depict graphic violence, sexual themes or use inappropriate language.
Filmmakers are responsible for ensuring all copyrights in their film, including video, audio and text is cleared for all the uses described in these Terms & Conditions.
Films can be created on any device and must be submitted in 16:9 format as an MP4.
Filmmakers of Films deemed to be Finalists agree to:
Grant the non-exclusive rights to The Weindorfer Short Film Festival to launch their films in front of a live audience.
Not air or share your film publicly until after the launch event.
Grant The Weindorfer Short Film Festival the non-exclusive rights to screen their films in front of live audiences at various locations in Australia
Grant the non-exclusive rights to The Weindorfer Short Film Festival to screen their films on the website and its social media platforms including but not limited to Facebook.
Grant the non-exclusive rights to The Weindorfer Short Film Festival to include clips of their films in a promotional trailer and to promote the festival.
Permit screenshots and production stills of their Film, if requested by The Weindorfer Short Film Festival.
Any screening of Films, live or online, will be done with no changes to the Films unless authorized by the Filmmaker, who will be credited in each instance.
Judging Rules
The judging panel’s decisions and The Weindorfer Short Film Festival's determination are final and are not subject to appeal in any way.
By submitting your entry to The Weindorfer Short Film Festival you warrant and represent that:
You grant Weindorfer Association Incorporated the rights to use the film as stated in these Terms & Conditions and in the associated materials for publicity.
Weindorfer Association Incorporated accepts no responsibility for late, lost, incomplete, incorrectly submitted, delayed, illegible, corrupted or misdirected entries, nor for claims due to error, omission, alteration, tampering, deletion, theft, destruction, transmission interruption, communications failure or otherwise.
Weindorfer Association Incorporated has no control over communications networks or services, the internet, or computer or telephone networks or lines and accepts no responsibility for any problems associated with them, whether due to traffic congestion, technical malfunction or otherwise. Weindorfer Association Incorporated is not liable for any consequences of user error including (without limitation) costs incurred. Entries via email or other electronic transmission are deemed to be received at the time of receipt by Weindorfer Association Incorporated and not at the time of transmission by the entrant.
All entries will be acknowledged by return email to the email address provided by the entrant.
Each winner will be notified by email to the nominated email address provided by the entrant.
Winners names and films will be published on the Weindorfer website.
Weindorfer Association Incorporated will not publish the full address of any entrant.
If a prize is unclaimed by the entrant, Weindorfer Association Incorporated reserves the right to award the prize to the next best valid entry as considered by the The Weindorfer Short Film Festival team.
Weindorfer Association Incorporated will not be liable for any loss (including, without limitation, indirect, special or consequential loss or loss of profits), expense, damage, personal injury or death which is suffered or sustained (whether or not arising from any person’s negligence) in connection with The Weindorfer Short Film Festival
If due to any reason whatsoever Weindorfer Association Incorporated becomes aware after an entrant has been selected that the entrant has not complied with these terms, that entrant will have no entitlement to participate in The Weindorfer Short Film Festival, even if Weindorfer Association Incorporated has announced them as participating and that entrant will be required, at the direction of Weindorfer Association Incorporated to return or forfeit participation.
Weindorfer Association Incorporated may, in its sole discretion, disqualify any or all entries from, and prohibit further participation by, any person who tampers with or benefits from any tampering with the entry process or with the operation of the program or acts in violation of these terms, acts in a disruptive manner or acts with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.
If for any reason any aspect of the The Weindorfer Short Film Festival is not capable of running as planned, including by reason of infection by computer virus, telephone network failure, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any cause beyond the control of Weindorfer Association Incorporated, then the committee may in its sole discretion cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the program, or invalidate any affected entries, subject to the approval of the relevant authorities in the relevant state, if required.
Without limiting any other paragraph, Weindorfer Association Incorporated may at
its discretion amend any aspect of this competition or of these terms, subject to applicable laws and subject to the approval of the relevant authorities.
Weindorfer Association Incorporated is the Promoter of the The Weindorfer Short Film Festival Program. The contact details are as follows:
Contact Details
EMAIL: info@weindorferfilmfestival.com.au
PHONE NUMBER: 03 6459 0422
Website: https://weindorferfilmfestival.com.au/
