Wollongong Film Festival (0)

Festival start: 29 October 2016      Festival end: 30 October 2016

Wollongong Film Festival is in its Inaugural year with many more to come. Wollongong Film festival is about celebrating Women in Film both on and off screen with all proceeds going to One Girl www.onegirl.org.au.

It is about giving a voice to Women Filmmakers and a voice to Women's stories.

Let's promote and award the talents of Women in the Australian and International film industry.

Wollongong Film Festival offers established and emerging Filmmakers an opportunity to showcase their various talents by accepting all film genres as long as a woman is in one of the following key positions on the film: Director, Producer, Writer, Lead female Protagonist, Editor, or Cinematographer.

Cash Prizes: 2,500$

Wollongong Film Festival will be awarding prizes in the following categories:
Best Student Film
Best Film
Audience Choice
Most Empowering film
Most Empowering Female

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: In order to qualify for entry:

A female must fill AT LEAST ONE of the following key positions on the film: Director, Producer, Writer, Lead female Protagonist, Editor, or Cinematographer.

A completed entry form and an entry fee must accompany each film or video submitted. Entries must be submitted Online.

Foreign language work must be dubbed or subtitled in English. Please, do not send elaborate presentation materials, press kits, binders, etc. with your entry, if selected we will contact you with press requirements.

All that is necessary for submission is a synopsis or contextual statement about your work. These are the only items that the programmers will see when they evaluate your submission.

If your film is selected for the festival we will contact you about images and press kits. If you are working in a part of the world where an entry fee would prohibit you from submitting your film, contact us at wollongongfilmfestival@gmail.com to request a fee waiver.

The festival selection committee makes all programming decisions. If accepted we will notify filmmakers by email and phone. Films not selected will receive notification by email.

Be sure to notify us of any other special screening/presentation information we might need to know.

CATEGORIES Please select only ONE category for your entry when completing your entry form either Best Student Film or Best Film Open, you will automatically be submitted to the categories of Audience Choice, Most Empowering Film and Most Empowering Female.

For the inaugural year we are limiting the festival to short films only, they must be a minimum of 3 minutes and a maximum of 45 minutes and filmed after 1st January 2014.
AWARDS Although the art of film making is not competitive, Wollongong Film Festival does give awards. The festival jury will present awards for Best Short in the three categories, Audience Choice, Most Empowering Film and Most Empowering Female.

Before entering you agree you have carefully read and understand the complete rules of the festival. You attest that you hold the exhibition rights to the film/video being entered. If accepted, you grant permission to Wollongong Film Festival to show your film/video and to use it for promotional purposes for the 2016 festival.