Madeira Film Festival ()

Festival start: 27 March 2020      Festival end: 01 April 2020

THE NEXT EDITION OF THE MADEIRA FILM FESTIVAL WILL BE MARCH 27 - APRIL 1 2020.

We continue to accept submissions but please not your film will be submitted to the 2020 edition NOT 2019. This is due to Government elections on Madeira.

Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

The entry fee is 30 / 40 / 50 Euros depending upon submissions date and irrespective of genre and running time. Exhibiting filmmakers will be offered 3 nights accommodation including breakfast on Madeira during the festival.

Call for entries
The call for entries starts on August 16th 2018 and will remain open until April 2nd 2019.

The Madeira Film Festival is non – competitive. Rather than present awards MFF offers delegates the status of ‘AMBASSADOR OF THE LAURISSILVA’ thus helping to preserve and create awareness of Madeira’s endemic Laurissilva forest.


The Madeira Film Festival organisation fervently believes there is no better place in the world to stage a film festival than on the piquant Island of Madeira and there is no better place on Madeira to stage a film festival than in glorious Reid’s Palace Hotel and the Municipal Theatre in Funchal.

The crux of the Madeira Film Festival is to pay homage to the resilience of Madeira’s endemic Laurissilva Forest by screening a slate of films which are expansive, unsettling and profound,films which will hopefully impinge upon the viewers imagination.

One of the most effective measures that can be implemented in order to raise awareness of the Laurissilva forest and subsequently it’s preservation is through the undisputed persuasive strength of audio- visual communication. The aspiration of the Madeira Film Festival is to become one of Europe’s foremost film festivals, by sheer virtue of location there exists an inherent capacity to attain this.

The Laurissilva Ambassador award to festival delegates.

SUBMISSIONS


Deadlines: Entries must be submitted online before March 2nd, 2020.


SELECTED FILMS


Exhibiting filmmakers will receive a full festival pass granting access to all films, panels and workshops.


Exhibiting filmmakers will receive one ticket for a the annual music event.

The Selection Committee will at its own discretion select the exhibiting films.

If a film is selected we must receive a DIALOGUE LIST in English, an exhibition copy in either BLU RAY, DVD or .MOV file before April 1st 2019.

It is imperative to understand that MFF hereby reserves the first right to announce the list of films included in its Final Lineup. The submitter shall in no case, prior to the announcement by MFF of its Final Lineup, publicly confirm that the submitter’s film is part of MFF.

The final MFF programme selection will be announced by the end of April 2nd 2019.

If a film has not been selected, MFF will inform by email within one week of the announcement of the final MIFF Programme selection. For the avoidance of doubt, MFF will not in any way whatsoever provide any justification and/ or comments regarding the reasons for non-selection of a film.