IMPORTANT: Please send us ONLY films related to the topic of our festival, e.g. films about sexuality, pornography, gender and sexuality, sex work, or sex activism. The selection-committee is looking forward to all kinds of films about all kinds and types of sexuality and diversity.
FORMATS for the screening copy: only the following formats are accepted: MP4, MOV, H.264 or DCP file. All screening copies [DCP, H.264-MP4 file] must arrive at least 1 month before the start of the festival! Burnt in subtitles are to be delivered (if otherwise inform our team in advance).
SUBTITLES a MUST! If the original version of the film is not in English, the film must be subtitled in English and we only accept films where the subtitles are already burned in. (Exception: films without language).
Please note that short films cannot be longer than 18 minutes and in case your short film is longer we are open to receiving re-edited versions that meet the timeframe restrictions. Or you can submit this film as a feature or documentary.
There are NO FEES to be paid for doing a submission. In case there are any distribution costs to be covered, please do not submit via FilmFreeway but contact us directly: office@pffv.at and before you submit your film.
The PFFV may freely use press and PR material to promote the Festival and also adapt this material to the style of the promotional activities.
The PFFV reserves the right to postpone and/or cancel the festival under compelling circumstances. It also reserves the right that locations may change in the course of planning the festival.
The PFFV also reserves the right that due to the given circumstances of the time (e.g. a pandemic) the festival may change into a pure online screening or the festival may build up an online version in addition to an offline version - the filmmakers hereby agree to these two variants of a festival.
RIGHTS
1. You guarantee that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the film you submit to us and that you are entitled to transfer the rights to us as specified in this agreement.
2. By submitting the film, you guarantee that all (intellectual property) rights needed for screening during PFFV and other uses described in this agreement have been cleared. By submitting the film you guarantee that the screening or other use of the film by PFFV does not infringe rights held by third parties.
3. By submitting the film you agree to indemnify the festival against all third-party claims in connection with screening the film during PFFV and other uses described in the terms. This includes covering any legal costs that might be incurred.
4. Screening: The festival is entitled to show the selected films during the duration of the festival any number of times. If you submit you grant the PFFV the right to show your film and have after programming is finished there is no right to withdraw.
5. Curation: The festival carefully curates its film program, meaning that if your film is selected, it will be screened as part of one of the curated short film programs with titles such as LESBIAN PORN SHORTS, GROUP PORN SHORTS, POLITICAL PORN SHORTS, and others. This is a cultural reference and is of course a descision of the curational programming team. These program titles do not define the gender or sexual identity or orientation of the filmmakers or performers of the film. To submit your film, you must have read and understood this, be comfortable with it, and hereby agree that your film may be included in one or more of the festival's short film programs named with various program titles, sometimes quite imaginative. If your film is selected for the festival and the selection team wishes to show your film as part of a program whose heading does not match the categories you have checked, or to a newly invented category, someone from the festival will contact you to discuss it further.
6. Fees: Due to our economic situation, we only accept films that are without fees. If there are any fees, please let us know BEFORE submitting, otherwise we have the right to reject the accepted submission later. We would like to convey a fair cooperation and aim at constant improvements.
7. Best-of programs, PORNights & after-festival-selections: If the film receives an award at PFFV the festival reserves the right to show the film free of charge as part of a best-of program to promote the winning films/filmmakers as well as the festival. If the film is to be shown the submitter will be informed ahead of time. This not only applies to all the winners but in general if the festival is invited to curate something for other events, all films of the PFFV can be taken and shown.
8. Press screeners & material: You grant PFFV the nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual and unlimited right to make copies of the film in order to make these copies available to the press only. The festival guarantees to exercise this right within reason and always with the benefit of the filmmaker in mind. These copies will not be used for commercial screening purposes by any means. If any of your material is sued for press - we will inform you.
9. Educational use: You grant PFFV the nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and unlimited right to use the archived copies for non-commercial educational purposes (workshops, lectures).
10. Promotion: If your film is selected to be included in the program you grant PFFV the nonexclusive, royalty-free right to show – online, via television or in cinemas, in a single form or as part of a showreel – a trailer or excerpts of up to 1 minute of the film for advertising and promotion purposes. If the film is to be shown the submitter will be informed ahead of time.
11. As Filmmaker you agree that also after the festival dates you agree that your film in the short film rows can be shown again as promotion for the festival. This means that after the festival we show all short film series once again in Schikaneder to give all persons the chance to see films that could not get tickets at the festival. (PORNNIGHTS)
12. DCP SHIPPING etc.: Outbound and return shipping is at the risk of the sender. Place of jurisdiction is Vienna. All film copies from non-EU countries must be marked on the packaging with the customs declaration "For cultural purposes only, consignment has no commercial value". Costs incurred due to false declarations will be charged to the sender.
13. No film may be withdrawn from the Festival program after it has been submitted.
14. If the film/artwork is successfully accepted into the Festival's program, travel or accommodation expenses may not be assumed to be paid by the Festival.
15. The Festival will not send notifications to entrants whose films have not been selected for the Festival.
