Each year, the festival becomes a lively community of filmmakers and the audience. As film screenings are accompanied by a brief presentation and discussion of the film, the directors of the selected films are preferably present at the festival in order to introduce their films and discuss their works after the screening.
Festival does not have competition program. In addition to the film program, the festival involves discussions, round tables, exhibitions and special programs.
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For the festival, all films and video productions, which have been produced after January 1st 2012 and have not yet been submitted to World Film Festival at earlier years, are eligible.
Entry fee
No fee is charged for film entry.
Screening
fee
For the screening of the selected films no charge will be paid.
Deadlines
for entry
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 20th, 2013
All materials needed for completing the film entry must have arrived to the
festival by 23.59 at that date (local time).
Please note that it is important to enter your documentary at the earliest possible moment to facilitate previewing the films.
Format, language and version
World Film Festival accepts the following screening formats (PAL): Blu-Ray, HDV, MiniDV. DVD is not eligible as a screening format.
Films and videos should be in English, or in their original versions with English subtitles.
Expenses and returns policy of the preview copy
All postal/shipping expenses to the festival are to be paid by the entrants, as well as all other expenses incurred, such as insurance, etc. When filling out shipment or customs forms, please assign the package a value that does not exceed 10 Euros or 10 dollars and state on the envelope: “No commercial value, for cultural purposes only”.
Please note that World Film Festival will not return submitted preview materials to the entrants.
Authorizations
In case of selection, the copyright holder of the film authorizes the
World Film Festival to:
- use a trailer or a 4 minute clip of the production for promotional purposes
(in case of short documentaries the length can be agreed separately). It will be included to the festival web site, but
could be used also for promotion in social media, television or at the festival
location.
- use all publicity material, including separate press kits of the film to
promote the festival
- keep the DVDs of selected documentaries in its archive for non-circulating
use and educational and research purposes
Transport of the screening copy
Transport
The festival must receive the screening copy of the selected film by March 1rst 2014 at the following address:
World Film Festival 2014
J.Kuperjanovi 9
Tartu 50409
ESTONIA
The festival will return the copy within four weeks of the end of the
festival to the address specified by the applicant at the entry form.
Transport costs
The costs of transport of all videos (both from the EU as well as from
outside the EU) to the festival office are the responsibility of the applicant,
but World Film Festival will pay for their return delivery to the destination
of choice.
Insurance
Insurance for the shipping of films and videos to and from the Estonia is the
responsibility of the participants.
In order to submit your film, the festival must receive:
- preview copy of the film on DVD or Blu-Ray (PAL) (English
subtitles, dialogue or voice-over). The DVD's will stay in the possession of the festival for
internal/educational use only, any other use will be negotiated separately with
the copyright holder
- completed entry form
Selection procedure and authorizations
The documentaries will be selected by the festival program committee with international expertise in social and cultural research, media and film making, including experience in visual anthropology and documentary film making.In case of a film being selected, the festival will notify the successful applicants by the end of December 2013. We also try to contact those whose film has not been selected, but in case no notifications received, the entrants should consider their film entry as not selected for the festival program.