NIKON FILM FESTIVAL (14)

Festival start: 07 July 2023      Festival end: 27 April 2024

The Nikon Film Festival is an event which encourages the video creation and promotes the emergence of new talents through a unique concept: enable everyone to create and share a short movie for free.

The challenge it proposes: realizing one or several short movies of 2 minutes 20 seconds on a set theme every year, nothing more.

For the 14th edition, theme will be "THE FIRE".

The winner of the Best International Film Award will receive:

- A Nikon kit composed of a Nikon Z 6II body and Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/4 S lens worth a total of €2,799 (recommended retail price);

- An Atomos Ninja V

- Screenings on Brut

More information on https://www.festivalnikon.fr/en

This Contest is open to all individuals, no matter your country. Participation dates for the Nikon Film Festival are available on the official website homepage. No delay will be tolerated.

To participate, you must register on www.festivalnikon.fr during call for films period, then complete your profile, information about your film and upload it before closing date for entries.

Each director can upload as many videos as they would like, as long as they are related to the theme.

The length of the video must be between 120 and 140 seconds including credits. As video players used to show films sometimes round length up to the next second, an additional second will be tolerated.

Videos submitted must be in High Definition, with minimum resolution of 1080 pixels (1920x1080p).

To guarantee that the works submitted are recent, the first broadcast or streaming of the video on any platform must not be earlier than 1 January 2023.

The Jury's decisions will be based primarily on the following criteria :

- Relevance of the video to the theme
- Quality and originality of scenario
- Technical quality, photography and direction
- Personal appreciation