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Waterloo International Film Festival ()

Deadlines

31 Mar 2017
Call for entries

15 Apr 2017
Early deadline

15 Jun 2017
Standard deadline

15 Jul 2017
Late deadline

15 Aug 2017
Festival closed

25 Aug 2017
Notification date

26 Sep 2017
29 Sep 2017

Address

45 Howe drive , N2E 2Y5 , Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Festival description

Short film festival >3' 45'<

Feature film festival >45'

Festival requirements

Film festival

Fiction

Documentary

Animation

Fantastic

Terror

Experimental

Music Video

Other

Genres

Themes

Has submission fees

International Festival

Physical Location

January 2012

Production countries: Required

Shooting countries: Required

Director nationalities: Required

Debut Films

School projects

Short Films >3' 45'<

Feature Films >45'

Languages
Afrikaans Albanes German Amharico Arab Armenian Bengali Belorussian Burmese Bulgarian Catalan Czech Chinese Korean Croatian Danish Dari Dzongkha Scottish Slovak Slovenian Spanish Esperanto Estonian Faroese Farsi Finnish French Gaelic Welsh Galician Greek Hebrew Hindi Dutch Hungarian English Indonesian Inuktitut (Inuit) Icelandic Italian Japanese Kurdish Lao Lapp Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malaysian Maltese Nepali Norwegian Pashto Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Somali Kiswahili Swedish Tagalog-Filipino Tajik Tamil Thai Tibetan Tigrinia Tongans Turkish Turkmens Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Basque Vietnamese Bosnian Khmer (Cambodian) Georgian Akan Mongolian Latin Azerbaijani Sinhala Malayalam Zulu Guarani Georgian Dholuo Creole Telugu Luxembourgish Chechen Marathi Asturian Kannada Malagasy

Subtitles
English

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This festival is not currently open for submissions.

Festival description (Edition: )

Festival start: 26 September 2017 Festival end: 29 September 2017

Waterloo International Film Festival is a fun, relaxed event with films and filmmakers from around the world, highly entertaining gala parties featuring live music, comedy, and DJ's, and film industry professionals as guest speakers.

Cash prizes, and/or engraved statuettes are awarded to the best of the fest in the following categories:

"Best of the fest" - $1000 CDN & engraved Statuette awarded to the top feature film at WIFF

"Best Short" - $500 CDN and an engraved statuette awarded to the best Short film at WIFF

Waterloo Region High School competition
1st place - $250 CDN and award
Runner up - $100 CDN and award

Engraved statuettes awarded to:

"Best performance in a feature film"
"Best performance in a short film"
"Best Director"

Prizes and qualifications

Cash prizes, and/or engraved statuettes are awarded to the best of the fest in the following categories:

"Best of the fest" - $1000 CDN & engraved Statuette awarded to the top feature film at WIFF

"Best Short" - $500 CDN and an engraved statuette awarded to the best Short film at WIFF

Waterloo Region High School competition
1st place - $250 CDN and award
Runner up - $100 CDN and award

Engraved statuettes awarded to:

"Best performance in a feature film"
"Best performance in a short film"
"Best Director"

Rules

Rules & Terms

We encourage the submission of international film or video entries, but all entries must be in English or have English subtitles.

All entries must be available for screening during the festival. We welcome Feature Films, Short Films, Documentaries.

You may submit as many entries as you like. Each entry requires its own entry fee. Fees are not refundable.

Only online submissions are accepted.

If your film is chosen to show at the Waterloo International Film Festival, you must send a full quality DCP file no later than 2 weeks prior to the festival screening.

All films should have been completed within 2012-2017.

All awards are based on the overall merit of the entry. Decisions by the judges are final.

Festival does not deal with any copyright issues. All copyright issues should be resolved by the film authors.

Filmmakers and screenwriters retain 100% all of the rights to their projects and materials that they submit to the Waterloo International Film Festival.

Festival organizers have the right to use extracts of the film for promotional purposes.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless us, our officers, affiliates, employees, and partners from any and all claims and liability arising out of entering or transmitting your film to the Waterloo International Film Festival.

A confirmation e-mail will be sent if your film is selected and approved by the Festival.

International Feature

Short and Feature Films >45'

Fee

-8%

Early 35$ 32.2$ 15 Apr 17

Standard 50$ 46$ 15 Jun 17

Late 65$ 59.8$ 15 Jul 17

Extended 80$ 73.6$ 15 Aug 17

Submissions deadline
15 Aug 17

Save up
4$

Submit

Feature films originating from any country

Canadian Feature

Short and Feature Films >45'

Fee

-8%

Early 35$ 32.2$ 15 Apr 17

Standard 50$ 46$ 15 Jun 17

Late 65$ 59.8$ 15 Jul 17

Extended 80$ 73.6$ 15 Aug 17

Submissions deadline
15 Aug 17

Save up
4$

Submit

Feature Films originating from Canada

Shorts

Short Films >3' 45'<

Fee

-8%

Early 15$ 13.8$ 15 Apr 17

Standard 30$ 27.6$ 15 Jun 17

Late 45$ 41.4$ 15 Jul 17

Extended 60$ 55.2$ 15 Aug 17

Submissions deadline
15 Aug 17

Save up
2.4$

Submit

Short films of any genre originating from any country

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