The 15th Eho Mountain Film Festival - EMFF will take place in Skopje, (The capital of Republic of Macedonia) from the 21 to the 25th October 2024.
Submission to the International Festival is open to all creative and nonfictional Mountain, Adventure, Extreme Sports, Nature / Ecology Films and Documentaries films of all running times connected with the festival promoted topics, style and production technologies. Official selection required, films to be completed and/or publicly screened after 1 January 2023 onward.
Films that have been previously publicly screened on Festivals and televised in Macedonia are not eligible for competition but still they can be screened at the festival in retrospective program.
EHO mountain film festival appoints an professional independent jury for all categories.
The official awards consist of an art work or a statue. Special mention awards can be given by the Juries, also by EHO mountain film festival management
The films can be submitted by directors, producers, distributors or national film authorities responsible for representing the films.
For the official Selection of the festival, the deadline for submissions to EHO mountain film festival is September 1st, 2024.
All submissions require English language subtitles, with exception of films with no dialog. To complete the submission, the EHO mountain film Festival requires a downloadable preview copy with a valid password until October 21, 2024.
In case the applicant is not able to provide the Festival with an on‐line preview copy, copy of the film accompanied with a hard copy of the submitted entry form should be send to:
Aleksandar Zarapchiev, ul Prashka 11/2-47, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Please mention: “No commercial value, for cultural purpose only” and “No value” or “Insurance value for custom purpose only 10 EUR”.
The DVDs will not be returned, except hard drive with DCP format or other format.
All submitted films (screeners) shall remain in the EHO mountain film festival archives and may be used for Festival and educational purposes. For any kind of public projection, permission from its authors will not be required. For easier storage, films can also be stored in a digital data base.
Not all films submitted at EHO mountain film festival Festival are selected and invited for screening by the Festival Selector.
Following materials will be required for all selected films:
‐High quality screening copy of the film in one of the following formats: DCP, HD formats: Blu Ray, HD DVD and HD H264 encoded QuickTime movie without integrated subtitles.
-Low quality copy with integrated subtitles for the purpose of translation.
‐English srt file
‐A brief synopsis (up to 50 words) and a long synopsis (up to 300 words)
‐Director’s biography/filmography
‐Director’s photography
‐Minimum of three film stills
‐Film poster in a digital format
‐Trailer
‐Press and/or promotional materials (poster, leaflet and/or press dossier)
The participants authorize the use of extracts from their work shown on television, cinema or Internet for the promotion of the Festival.
If any of the above are missing, the organizer has the right not to project the film, and to cancel the selected status of the film.
The festival has the right to change the submission categories of films, other than those that have been registered during the selection process.
Films will be screened with Macedonian language subtitles.
