Hirpinia Film Festival

We accept narrative short films of any genre, theme and country. No documentaries or experimental films.

Short Films must be 30 minutes maximum.

Any language is accepted, but if dialogues are not in English or Italian, subtitles in English or Italian are required.

By submitting your film, you are allowing the festival to screen the film, promote the film with the elements at our disposal, insert a few seconds from the film in the trailer of the event, publish infos on our website and use the elements listed on your submission in any manner useful to run the festival. 

You must be legit regarding all the necessary rights including music rights appearing in your film.

Films can be submitted only via FilmFreeway. For any questions you can write to: hirpiniafilmfestival@gmail.com

For the screening of the film at the festival it is required:

-a Full HD .mp4 or .mov file
-at least two 1920 x 1080 JPG or PNG still images from the film
-a poster
-a brief biography of the filmmaker

The selection process is divided in 3 steps: Official Selection, Finalists and Winners. The official selected films can apply the festival logo and laurels on their films but they will not screened in the online and live event. Only finalist films will be screened and will be in competition for the awards.