• Each entry must be submitted In DVD format OR via Filmfreeway.com. Label each film with your name, address, telephone number, and film title.
• If your film contains mature subject material, please indicate this in an email to filmfest@wizardworld.com
• Applicants submitting films that contain significant non-English spoken dialogue must provide on-screen English subtitles
• Accepted entries may be invited to host a 10 minute Q&A session immediately following the screening of their film
• You may submit a 15-30 second trailer to be used in future CON Film Festival promotional materials
• Though your film may fit into more than one category, please select the ONE you feel best classifies your work
• Excluded from consideration are works such as previews and advertising films, sequences from feature-length films such as credit sequences, unaired episodes of established TV series and unsold TV series pilots
• Short and feature films do not have any premiere requirements. U.S. and international films do not forfeit their eligibility for submission to the Festival if they were previously released theatrically or on DVD, broadcast on television or the internet, or screened at any number of film festivals in the world
• Any films submitted for 2015 consideration must have been completed between the years of 2013-2015
• It is the sole responsibility of the Applicant to secure authorization and permission from the copyright owner(s) of any and all copyrighted content or materials included within the submitted Film. CON Film Festival: Sacramento expressly disavows any responsibility for, and will not be held responsible for, unauthorized inclusion of any copyrighted content or materials within or relating to the submitted film, including any content or materials that are or may become the basis for any third party claims for copyright infringement
• Upon completion of the Festival selection process, CON Film Festival: Sacramento will attempt to contact the Applicant using the contact information provided on the submission form to notify the Applicant of the film’s acceptance status. CON Film Festival: Sacramento disavows any responsibility for, and will not be held responsible for, any failure to contact the Applicant using the contact information provided on the submission form. It is the sole responsibility of the Applicant to ensure that the contact information provided on the submission form is correct throughout the entirety of the submission period
• CON Film Festival: Sacramento are under no obligation to provide to the Applicant or any other representative of the Film any comments or feedback regarding the submitted film, any information relating to the manner in which the film is, will be, or was reviewed nor any reasons why the Film, should it not be accepted for exhibition at the Festival, was
not accepted
CON Film Festival: Sacramento is hereby granted the right to utilize an excerpt or a still from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the Festival and in perpetuity for exhibition as well as both pre and post-festival promotional purposes. The individual or corporation submitting the film hereby warrants that it is authorized to commit the film for screening (including but not limited to multiple screenings in multiple U.S. locations), and understands and accepts these requirements and regulations. The undersigned shall indemnify and hold harmless CON Film Festival: Sacramento from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees, and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered. CON Film Festival: Sacramento is under no obligation to provide comments regarding submitted films to any applicant.
