Roselle Park Short Film Festival

Roselle Park Short Film Festival Rules and Terms:

Submit your movie via FilmFreeway.com

Short films of all genres are accepted. The Festival prefers short films 10 minutes or less but will consider short films no longer than 25 minutes in length, both including title and credits.

For pre-screening, the Festival only accepts film submissions on via FlimFreeway.com, Vimeo, YouTube, or another online line screener with links and passcodes if necessary to view the film.

Films can be with dialogs, silent or without dialogs. Films in languages other than English require English subtitles and should retain the original language audio.

Roselle Park Short Film Festival reserves the right to select entrants based on scheduling and other factors. Films that trivialize or glorify violence or weapons will not be considered.

Student films must be produced by a student enrolled in a school (junior high school, high school, college, or graduate school), including teenage filmmakers. Proof will be required. To be considered under student or teenage category, the film-maker must be a student or teenager at the time of the film submission. Homeschooled teenagers will be accepted with proof of age and homeschool status.

No more than two entries will be accepted as long as they are submitted separately. Entered films public release date can be no older than January 1, 2015. Roselle Park Shorts Film Festival are open to all international, national, regional, or local filmmakers. Prior Roselle Park Short Film Festival award winners will not be considered for entry. Emphasis will be placed on filmmakers who can attend the film festival screenings and/or activities.

After an acceptance email has been sent, filmmakers are responsible for permitting the festival to send or download a copy of the film. If the entrant does not allow or permit the Festival access to the film, the Festival reserves the right to reject the film for the festival and the acceptance email will be null and void.

Deadlines

Final Deadline
MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE ADDRESS ABOVE BY August 1, 2018 TO BE CONSIDERED BY JUDGES

Extended Deadline - May be permitted at the sole discretion of the Festival.

Films not in English MUST submit one version of the film with English subtitles

If selected, please have photo stills of the short film including a still of the director, writer, and film stills, and include a synopsis, production credits to send to us immediately after being notified. Any press, film description, and writer and director's bio must be sent upon festival selection notification. Photos should be in JPEG format at least 300 dpi.
Roselle Park Short Film Festival reserves the right to secure substitute materials from other sources.

Reproduction acknowledgment
Film entrants give Roselle Park Shorts Film Festival and its affiliates full rights to have work exhibited, photographed, locally telecast, posted on Roselle Park Shorts Film Festival and Roselle Park Arts website and Facebook page, and other social media and other media reproduced in part of promotional purposes.

Term & Conditions

All decisions are final.

By the submission of a film to the Roselle Park Shorts Festival the entrant/submitter/filmmaker hereby grants the right to utilize an excerpt or the full film from any film submitted and/or accepted for exhibition at the Festival for promotional purposes or any other Roselle Park Short Film programs or activities beyond the Festival program.

Roselle Park Short Film Festival's cancellation policy:
The Festival reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel any event due to a storm, power outage, flood, war, civil unrest, fire, earthquake or any other circumstance deemed beyond the Festival's control. Our policy is to cancel all movie screenings during severe storms and power outages until electrical power is stable and restored in order to protect projection and audio equipment from potentially permanent damage.

Submission a film, by the Filmmaker hereby irrevocably offers to Roselle Park Shorts Film Festival the right to screen the film, at the 2018 Roselle Park Loves Arts festival at times to be determined by the Festival in its sole discretion. The Filmmaker hereby grants the right to utilize an excerpt or the full film from any film submitted and/or accepted for exhibition at the Festival for promotional purposes or any other Roselle Park Shorts Film programs or activities beyond the Festival program. Filmmaker understands and agrees that once Festival accepts Filmmaker’s offer by selecting the Film for the Festival, Filmmaker shall have no right to remove the Film from the Festival, If Festival selects the Film for the Festival, Festival shall have the irrevocable right, but not the obligation, to screen the film at the 2018 Roselle Park Shorts Film Festival, in Festival’s sole discretion.

The individual or corporation submitting the film hereby warrants that it is authorized to commit the film for screening, and understands and accepts these requirements and regulations. The undersigned shall indemnify and hold Roselle Park Shorts Film Festival, Roselle Park Arts and its Festival, and the Borough of Roselle Park, its employees, volunteers and its affiliates, harmless 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 in connection with the Film involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered. In particular, the Filmmaker expressly warrants it has obtained all necessary copyright clearances for original works of authorship used in the film.

If accepted, the contact person must respond to all requested items by the deadline given in the acceptance email or risk being rejected from the festival.

Roselle Park Shorts Film Festival reserves the right to cancel or change screening dates without prior contact.

Questions can be directed to RoselleParkLovesShortsFilmFest@gmail.com and note in the title RP Shorts Question.

We encourage the filmmakers to enjoy the film fest, love the opportunity to show film and network, and enjoy the Arts Festival and all the Roselle Park has to offer.