Submissions for our 2026/27 season are open via FilmFreeway.
Entries for the Indy Film Library must provide a trailer, stills, synopsis and screening information, contact details, and information they wish to be included in a film profile. Director statements are also welcomed. Projects must also be submitted with English subtitles. Incomplete submissions will not receive reviews if the filmmaker does not update them within two weeks of Indy Film Library’s request.
Upon submission of their film, the filmmaker supplies consent to Indy Film Library to publish a review of their film, alongside their trailer, even if the review is negative. Every piece written will contain constructive notes, however we make no guarantee of a positive review, and reserve the right to publish criticism - as well as to keep all reviews public permanently. Filmmakers may request for their names to be removed from the write-up.
At time of submission, the filmmaker also supplies consent for Indy Film Library to screen the film if it is selected, either as part of its physical annual festival in Amsterdam, or as part of one of four online focus showcases (focusing on short student films, experimental art, music videos and horror shorts) which will be hosted throughout the year. As part of this, upon submission, the filmmaker confirms they have the right to publish all material contained in their production (music, art-work, etc), and that the film is in its final, completed form.
Further to this, if the filmmaker has used artificial intelligence (AI) to generate part or all of the film, for animation, soundtrack, effects etc, they are required to confirm the following:
-Which AI programme was used?
-Who created the visuals and or sounds that the AI used to build the animation?
-Did someone from your team create a base set of images and or sounds, before the AI helped to make them move, create a whole soundtrack, etc?
-Or, did you give the AI a text prompt, before it took those keywords, and created the film's images and sounds from things it had been fed en masse, before animating and scoring the film? AI engines working on this basis regularly make non-consensual use of artists' labour, and Indy Film Library is ethically opposed to such production methods.
Films which fail to confirm these details, or which are submitted even when they were made simply by feeding an AI a suggestion may still be reviewed. However, Indy Film Library will not rate them, and it will not select them for competition in its annual showcase.
Indy Film Library will not accept submissions for its script contest which are in any way AI generated.
Indy Film Library does not pay screening fees.
