Festival Internacional de Cine Hispano (5)

Festival start: 20 June 2026      Festival end: 20 June 2026

From the creators of the Depth of Field International Film Festival, Docs Without Borders Film Festival, and the WRPN.tv Women’s International Film Festival (among a few other successful festivals) and, under the umbrella of the WRPN.tv Network we bring you the Hispanic International Film Festival (HIFF)

To ensure that each screenplay or film is read, studied, and rated individually,
HIFF has instituted a system in which entries do not compete against each other but are recognized for their merits.
They compete against themselves: each entry is judged on its merits and scored according to an inherent value system.

When it is your turn to be evaluated, the judges focus on your screenplay, not on all the other screenplays in the cue. This ensures that they won't have comparisons going on in their minds when they should focus entirely on you.

What makes us different?......

Top-winning films at our other successful festivals have already received distribution through our exclusive distributor relationships:

- Guaranteed distributor review by Worldwide Motion Pictures for features, Adler & Associates for features and shorts, and “Cardinal XD Distribution among others that visit our on-line network, WRPN.tv, every so often.

All for selected: Best of Show and Best of Festival.

- Other festivals claim to invite distributors to a venue: We Deliver Them To You Directly, Guaranteed.

- A festival that runs as a web-based competition PLUS, the Best of Show Awards will screen at WRPN.tv sponsored Multi-Festival Event Rehoboth Beach, DE 2026

- HIFF, with WRPN.TV Entertainment Network, also offers a unique opportunity to show your film to a world-wide community of video fans from dozens of countries that filmmakers would not normally have access to, in the form of an optional on-line video exposure opportunity. This feature is available for "Best Of festival" “Best Of Show,”
“Outstanding Excellence,” “Excellence,” and even some “Exceptional Merit” winners.

Distribution
HIFF, in cooperation with our distribution colleagues, is proud to offer guaranteed
distributor review to the top winners in Best of Festival Category*:

"Best of Festival Award: Selected by genre, category and country. Presented to an outstanding entries from among the Best of Show Winners."

"Best of Show" selected by genre, category and country, so there will be over one BOS, i.e. BOS Documentary (Domestic), BOS Documentary (Foreign) and so on.

* (Please note: If there is insufficient competition within any category, HIFF reserves the right to withdraw a "Best of" presentation in that category.)

Other award levels include:

“Outstanding Excellence,”
" Excellence,"
" Exceptional Merit,"
"Jury's Choice Award,"
" Merit,"
"Kudos Endeavor,"

Don’t forget Feedback: The one element most festivals ignore.

We do not just ask you to pay a fee, then if rejected, we just forget about you.

With us, rejected films have access to Feedback: The one element most festivals ignore.

Instead of paying submission fees and getting nothing in return,
EVERYONE who submits to HIFF will receive EITHER OF TWO benefits:

Either 1): your film is already competition caliber, and becomes an Official Selection,

OR 2): you’ll receive a letter outlining exactly what is keeping it from being accepted.

If you can make corrections, you resubmit for FREE.
First-time filmmakers: when have you ever received a letter and had the festival explain WHY your film was rejected?

Much less let you resubmit for FREE even the following season (In case you did not have enough time to fix it)

REQUIREMENTS TO SUBMIT

Only ONE of the following is needed to submit:

• Produced or directed by a person of Hispanic Origin.

• Film has a Hispanic Lead and/or supporting actor.

• Film Contains a subject related to Hispanic issues.

Films produced in a non-Spanish speaking country can be submitted, provided that one rule described above applies.

-Films must come from any of the following countries:

Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Spain
Uruguay
USA
Venezuela

Films produced in a non-Spanish speaking country can be submitted, provided the other rules described above apply.

REFUNDS POLICY: In the event you withdraw your submission before being Officially Selected, you will receive a refund.
If you withdraw AFTER being Officially Selected, there will be NO refunds.
All our judges, from selection to awarding, are paid. We don’t use unpaid volunteers.

We don't have any control or influence over Polaris Pictures or any of our associate distributors deciding to offer you a production deal or even answering your email. We merely open the door for the top winners.

Winning an award in a subcategory does NOT qualify for screening and sending to our distributors.

We screen only Best of Festival winners.
Our screening event is designed to collect audience reactions, which our distributors will use to inform their decisions. We don't conduct after-screening networking parties or seminars.
Video interviews of the viewing audience may be conducted and shown on WRPN.tv
If a Best of Festival winner decides not to screen live, fails to submit the required materials, or does not respond to our requests, we reserve the right to cancel the live screening. However, the award winner will still retain their award.
Ordering award certificates is optional.