AWARDS

Open Vision Film Fest will consider any short film under 40 minutes.

We do not provide a fee waiver.
We do not accept:
1. Amateur videos
2. Pornographic films
3. Films with a poor production quality: bad sound, bad montage, lack of subtitles films, video resolution less than 720p HD. Subtitles must be in English and attached in Srt- format.
5. Extremist or propaganda content from religious or political organizations

For all Categories:

1. Attending this competition implies acceptance of its rules and its decision, which is final, and the waiver of any claims;
2. Submissions are accepted through FilmFreeway;
3. Submission fee's are nonrefundable;
4. The organization of Open Vision Film Fest accepts no legal responsibility for the films in competition and its contents;
5. Submitting your film does not guarantee festival acceptance or screening. Acceptance into the competition does not guarantee award or prize.
6. All films must be presented in their original language with English subtitle. Please, attach to your Submission subtitles in Srt- format.
7. The film selected for the competition must be sent in FullHD format (.MP4, .MOV or .MKV) via file hosting for ovffest@gmail.com;
8. We accept all films in categories: Short film, Music & Dance Video, Documentary & Travel Short Film, Fashion & Social Media
9.Premiere status is not required.
10. Submission of several films is permitted. Each submission requires an entry fee.
11. All films must have been completed after 1 January 2018.
12. Short film entries must not exceed a running time of 40 minutes.
13. All filmmakers accept that if their film is selected for competition, they grant permission for the Open Vision Film Fest to screen the film at all platforms (Instagram. Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook etc), as well as part of the film (a few seconds) for the festival's promotional trailer.
14. To participate in the Opem Vision Film Fest, submitted films must comply with current legislation regarding copyright and the right to privacy of individuals. Therefore, participants guarantee that the films submitted to the festival do not violate current legislation regarding exploitation rights, rights to honour, privacy or image or intellectual property rights and / or industrial and / or any other third party rights.
15. The submiters confirm that they have the right to publicly display the film, including images, music, texts, art and all that is in the copyright law. The submiters confirm that their sort films can be published at the Open Vision Film Festival's platforms (Vimeo, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook etc)
16. In case of force majeure circumstances, changes to the dates of the festival are provided.
17. Open Vision Film Fest reserves the right to change our programming, rules and event parties without notice.The films of the winners of the film festival will be published in the international magazine Marika and shown in the final stage of the festival at the end of the year.