Mansfield Town Film Festival (2)

Festival start: 26 July 2024      Festival end: 28 July 2024

Mansfield Town Film Festival 2024

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Celebrate the silver screen as Mansfield Town Film Festival returns in 2024.

Bringing together a stunning mix of filmmakers with a strong focus on diverse, working-class talent from across the country, and internationally, enjoy three electric days of incredible short films shown in the beautiful Mansfield Palace Theatre - perfect for those with a love of film.

Featuring an array of short films, music videos, documentaries, and animation as well as international shorts, our film festival offers three days of unique programming, entertainment, and fresh perspectives.

Complete with an opening ceremony, live screenings, an in-person awards evening, masterclasses, Q+As, and more! There’s plenty to enjoy or simply soak up the atmosphere in the thriving heart of our town.

During our inaugural year, MTFF welcomed hundreds of filmmakers from all over the world to the Mansfield Palace Theatre for three days of incredible films. Our festival was opened by Palme D'Or winning filmmaker Ken Loach who will be attending MTFF24.

Our festival will conclude with a lavish in-person awards evening, celebrating all the incredible talent shown at MTFF24, and rewarding the chosen few, selected by our jury panel of industry veterans and local stars, with the soon to be converted 'Mansfield Film Award', or 'Manny'.

Categories include;

Heart Of Mansfield Award (Best In Festival)
Working Class Voices Award
LGBTQIA+ Voices Award
Women's Voices Award
Disabled/Neurodiverse Voices Award
Best Narrative Short
Best Documentary Short
Best Animated Short
Best Student Short
Best International Short
Best Music Video
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Original Score
Best Performance In A Leading Role

The 'Heart Of Mansfield Award', is a prize awarded to the best in the festival which personifies our founding principles, and not only moves our jury, but our live audiences too.

Jurors to be announced soon.

Your Mansfield Town Film Festival fee covers
• Competition entry;
• Up to 4 Festival Passes for cast and crew of films selected for the festival;
• Free entry to all workshops, masterclasses, and Q&A;
• Free entry for all selected filmmakers to the Mansfield Film Awards Ceremony;
• Discounted stays at a local hotel during the festival;

MANSFIELD TOWN FILM FESTIVAL 2023 ENTRY PROCEDURE

Submissions MUST use Festhome and MUST have been completed after 1st January 2021.

Submissions MUST include an on-screen viewer for selection purposes.

Filmmakers agree that if selected, their films will be showcased during our main festival July 26 - 28 2024 at Mansfield Palace Theatre.

As well as at monthly community cinema events taking place after the festival, in order to increase accessibility to the arts within priority neighbourhoods in around the Mansfield district.

Filmmakers will be notified in advance if we would like to screen their film at a community cinema event, and will only do so with express permission from the filmmaker.

Films entered into the Working Class Voices, LGBTQIA+ Voices, Women's Voices, Disabled/Neurodiverse Voices, UK Narrative Shorts, UK Documentary Shorts, UK Animated Shorts, and International Shorts categories MUST BE NO LONGER THAN 30 MINUTES.

Films entered into the UK Student category MUST BE NO LONGER THAN 15 MINUTES.

Films entered into the Music Video category MUST BE NO LONGER THAN 4 MINUTES.

The films accepted into the Festival are required to provide for screening .MOV or MP4 digital files. Delivery costs of the screening media must be borne by the applicant or forwarding festival. Screening material will not be returned.

Payment is via Festhome.

If selected the screening copy should be with the festival AT LEAST one week before the start of the festival.

The final deadline is 1st May 2024. On receipt of the submission, the entrant will receive an email confirmation and a reference number from Festhome that should be quoted on all future correspondence. Selection notification to all applicants will be as early as possible but at the latest several weeks before the festival.

Screening material should be supplied as soon as selection to the festival has been received, to allow time to check the technical quality. By submitting your film, you are giving permission for Mansfield Town Film Festival to screen your film without any charge or fee during the festival and subsequent screenings organised by the Mansfield Town Film Festival.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

If your film identifies with either; WORKING CLASS VOICES, LGBTQIA+ VOICES, or WOMEN’S VOICES, DISABLED/NEURODIVERSE VOICES, please submit it in the respective category no matter the genre of film.

If your film DOES NOT identify with any of our specialist diversity categories, please submit to the respective UK category if the film has been produced in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland.

If the film has been produced OUTSIDE OF the UK, please submit to INTERNATIONAL SHORTS.

Submission Categories;

Working Class Voices
“One of the founding principles of MTFF is to hold a spotlight to working class filmmakers from across the globe, by submitting your film to this category, you acknowledge that your project tells either a story rooted within the working class experience, or has been produced by a creative team from a working class background.”

LGBTQIA+ Voices
“One of the founding principles of MTFF is to hold a spotlight to LGBTQIA+ filmmakers from across the globe, by submitting your film to this category, you acknowledge that your project tells either a story rooted within the LGBTQIA+ experience, or has been produced by a creative team who identify with this initialism.”

Women’s Voices
“One of the founding principles of MTFF is to hold a spotlight to female filmmakers from across the globe, by submitting your film to this category, you acknowledge that your project tells either a story rooted within the female experience, or has been produced by a female lead creative team.”

Disabled/Neurodiverse Voices

“One of the founding principles of MTFF is to hold a spotlight to disabled and neurodiverse filmmakers from across the globe, by submitting your film to this category, you acknowledge that your project tells either a story rooted within the this experience, or has been produced by a disabled or neurodiverse lead creative team.”

UK Narrative Shorts
“Narrative short films, made in the UK, of any genre, up to 30 minutes in length.”

UK Documentary Shorts
“Documentary short films, made in the UK, of any genre, up to 30 minutes in length.”

UK Animated Shorts
“Animated short films, made in the UK, of any genre, up to 30 minutes in length.”

UK Student Shorts
“Narrative Short Films, Documentaries, Music Videos, and Animations, made in the UK, produced by a current student studying the craft, from any genre, up to 15 minutes in length.”

International Shorts
“Narrative Short Films, Documentaries, Music Videos, and Animations, made outside of the UK, from any genre, up to 30 minutes in length.”

Music Videos
“Music Videos, made anywhere in the world, of any genre, up to 6 minutes in length.”

Mansfield Film Awards;

Our awards ceremony will be hosted on the evening of the final day of the festival, the ceremony will be held at Mansfield Palace Theatre, and will be hosted by a local comedian. Awards will be presented by members of our festival jury, as well as local personalities, and industry professionals.

Our awards jury will be updated with bios as new members join.

Those nominated for a Mansfield Film Award will receive notification alongside notification of official selection to the festival.

Awards will be decided in the following categories;

Working Class Voices Award
LGBTQIA+ Voices Award
Women's Voices Award
Disabled/Neurodiverse Voices
Best Narrative Short
Best Documentary Short
Best Animated Short
Best Student Short
Best International Short
Best Music Video

As well as a ‘best in category’ award, our supplemental craft specific awards, listed below, will be nominated and chosen out of the films nominated in the primary ‘best in category’ selection.

Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Original Score
Best Performance In A Leading Role

The 'Heart Of Mansfield Award', is a prize awarded to the best in the festival which personifies our founding principles, and not only moves our jury, but our live audiences too, and could be awarded to ANY nominated film.

MANSFIELD TOWN FILM FESTIVAL IS OPERATED BY SHARP EDGE PRODUCTIONS LTD. (SEP) WHOM IS THE RESPONSIBLE PARTY. SEP RESERVES THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO WITHDRAW, POSTPONE, CANCEL OR MAKE ANY ALTERATION TO (OR PART TO) THE FESTIVAL SCHEDULE OR FESTIVAL PROGRAMME WITHOUT PRIOR CONSULTATION. Postal Address: MANSFIELD TOWN FILM FESTIVAL, 23 The Connexion, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 5PB. United Kingdom. Telephone: 07519 606413, email: jay@mansfieldtownfilmfestival.com, web address: www.mansfieldtownfilmfestival.com. Mansfield Town Film Festival is operated by Sharp Edge Productions Ltd, a trading name of Jay Martin.