Last Update - April 2025
With your submission you automatically accept our Rules and Terms.
1. Only work created after 2023 is acceptable.
2. You agree to use parts of your film (including trailer/teaser/film poster/stills) for promotional purpose.
3. Multiple entries are allowed for each filmmaker and each entry may be entered in multiple categories.
4. Eventual entry fees are non-refundable. It is your personal choice to submit, after reading and confirming our rules and terms, entails your personal full assumption of responsibility. If you use false informations to try to obtain a refund you commit an unlawful act. For any information NOT SPECIFIED in our rules or terms, write us. We always reply to all emails for eventual NOT SPECIFIED informations.
5. By submitting to the festival you confirm that you own the rights to the work submitted.
6. No short films longer than 40 minutes.
7. No Premiere status is required.
8. We do not accept extremist or propaganda content from religious or political organizations.
9. We don't have Live Screening for the current edition.
10. Films only be accepted with English subtitles.
11. You can add an "Additional Category" only after having choose a "Main Category" (like Best Short - Best Short Documentary - Best Student Short) first.
12. If your film is selected by our festival, you automatically agree that we may use images from your project for marketing purposes for our festival. If you do not agreed, and do not consent to give us promotional rights to your material, please let us know via email; and then we will withdraw your film from the promotion of our festival. If we do not receive any notification from you within 48 hours after your film is selected, we will assume that you agree this policy.
13. At our discretion, we may choose to transfer a film to the correct category. 13.1 We do not send feedback, if your film has not been selected or does not win, it means that it has not achieved an average rating sufficient or higher than that of other projects. 13.2 With your submission you accept the decisions of the judges and festival regarding your project status, and in no way will you be able to take action against them.
14. Write us for a pdf of Rules & Terms at the date of your submission or copy them.
15. WIFA is not a "prize event" (it means that there are no cash prizes or similar), but an independent and self-financed artistic reality, with artistic purposes and moral recognition for the authors of the best works.
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With your submission you also accept the Rules, the Terms & Policy of FilmFreeway.
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Judging Process
- All submissions will be viewed in their entirety. Submissions will be judged and scored based on criteria including: quality of screenplay, acting, production quality, originality, technical proficiency, cinematography, sound design, editing and set design. We support indie filmmaking and will award additional points to movies produced on a micro budget and/or minimal crew.
- All winners have the opportunity to feature their movies or trailers on our channels (only if they want).
Notification
The directors of submitted films that are accepted will be notified via e-mail.
WITH YOUR SUBMISSION, YOU AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED HEREIN. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ANY OF SUCH TERMS, CONDITIONS, RULES, POLICIES OR PROCEDURES, DO NOT SUBMIT.
