Wayfarer Film Festival (0)

Festival start: 13 October 2016      Festival end: 17 October 2016

“To wander is to be alive.”
― Roman Payne

This isn’t your mother’s film festival. Kicking off at an undisclosed location in the fall of 2016, the Wayfarer Film Festival embodies the spirit of the great American road trip, the lost traveler, and the unbeaten path. Each year, the Wayfarer Film Festival will takeover a different, unique venue for a weekend long celebration of independent cinema complete with awards, outings, parties, and of course film. We cannot wait to kickoff our inaugural year with an amazing line up and some kick ass films. Come get lost with us.

Cash Prizes: 1,000$

Top of the Rock – The Overall Best Film of the Festival

The Golden Tenderfoot Award for Best New Filmmaker

The Golden Gladiator Award for Best Fight Sequence

The Bronze Bombshell Award for Sexiest
Performance
Best Actor
Best Actress
The Golden Tenderfoot Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Best Ensemble
Best Villain
Best WTF Moment
Best Music
Best Kiss
Best Hero
Best Short Short
Best Short
Best Not So Short Short
Best Music Video
Best Production Design
Best Editing
Best Screenplay
Best Unproduced Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Director

You get the idea - we love to have fun and we'll make a very cool, very very awesome awards ceremony out of it all. Think the Oscars... but faster, and with less famous people.

The Administrative Staff of the Wayfarer Film Festival shall have the sole and final discretion in the choice of films to be screened at the festival. The Wayferer and its authorized associates shall appoint additional judges for, supervise, and participate in, the judging process and the assignment of any Awards by the festival. From the screening selections, the Wayfarer judging panel will determine Nominees and Award-Winners. Unless otherwise announced, all pictures screening at the Festival will be considered for all appropriate Awards with multiple Nominees in each category possible. The Wayfarer staff reserves the right to add an award category and eliminate, or not make any Award should circumstances warrant.

Features are defined as 60 MINUTES OR LONGER. Shorts are SHORTER than 60 minutes.

Submission Guidelines:

Initially, online submissions are accepted, but those films which make the final cut into the Top Level of Competition will be notified, at which time a DVD or BluRay (yes, we're fancy) copy WILL BE REQUIRED for FINAL JUDGING.

Films chosen for Exhibition at the Wayfarer Film Festival may screen in either DVD or BluRay.

IMPORTANT NOTE ON STUDENT ENTRIES: To qualify as a student entry, either the film's producer or director must have been enrolled in an academic institution at the time of the film's production. Students must provide documentation of student status (i.e. copy of student photo I.D.; transcripts, etc.) with entries.

FILMMAKERS MUST POST at least ONE DIGITAL PRODUCTION STILL image (no logos) along with SHORT SYNOPSIS and FILMMAKER BIOS/contact info; with primary production team members and lead actor names. After notification of selection, filmmakers may also post full digital press kits and photographs and send trailers and posters for the festival's use in promotion.

SCREENWRITERS entering the UNPRODUCED screenplay competition should send a PDF copies of the screenplay marked as a submission to WAYFARERFILMFEST@GMAIL.COM

Questions can be directed to Festival Director, Alex Scott at WAYFARERFILMFEST@GMAIL.COM

Filmmakers are responsible for ensuring that their motion pictures are free of legal or other encumbrances. Neither the Wild Rose nor any of its Staff or Associates shall bear any responsibility for infringement of copyright, breach of rights (i.e. music rights), or any other transgression which is reasonably understood to be under the filmmaker(s)' control. Though the staff of the Wayfarer Film Festival shall exercise all good judgment and care in handling filmmakers' submissions, filmmakers agree to hold the Wayfarer harmless for any damages and/or fees associated with their submissions and the shipping of same.