Silk Road Film Festival (7)

Festival start: 07 March 2018      Festival end: 11 March 2018

Silk Road International Film Festival (SRFF) is held annually during the month of March in Dublin, Ireland.

The Silk Road Film Festival celebrates cinema, culture and art, presenting films from regions, which were once part of the historical network of the Silk Road ancient trade routes and focuses in particular on Asian, Arab, Persian, African, Mediterranean and European cinema. The festival is held in Ireland to promote cinema of the Silk Road internationally and to facilitate international contacts between filmmakers thus narrowing distances between people and cultures, breaking boundaries and fostering cross-cultural collaboration and social change. World renowned filmmakers attend each year to give master classes and seminars, such as Bela Tarr, Mahmoud Kalari, Tony Kearns, Alex Oh and Vittorio Storaro.

The 7th Silk Road International Film Festival will have film screenings, premieres, exhibitions, panels, chats with industry guests, free courses and workshops.

*All films screened at the Silk Road International Film Festival have an opportunity to win a video on demand distribution agreement with Silk Road ON DEMAND (www.silkroadondemand.com)

The 2018 edition of SRFF categories:

• SILK ROAD DOCUMENTARY
• SILK ROAD FEATURE
• SILK ROAD ANIMATION
• SILK ROAD SHORT
• STUDENT FILM IRELAND
• STUDENT FILM INTERNATIONAL

The 2018 edition of SRFF will present The Silk Road International Film Festival Awards in following categories:

A – SILK ROAD DOCUMENTARY
Best Documentary
Best Director (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Cinematographer (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Music Score (This prize is shared with other categories)

B – SILK ROAD FEATURE
Best Feature
Best Music Score (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Director (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematographer (This prize is shared with other categories)

C – SILK ROAD ANIMATION
Best Animation
Best Director (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Music Score (This prize is shared with other categories)

D – SILK ROAD SHORT
Best Short
Best Director (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Actor (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Actress (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Cinematographer (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Music Score (This prize is shared with other categories)

E – STUDENT FILM IRELAND
Winner wins a trip to participate in International competition in Notre Dame University International Film Festival, Lebanon in November. Flights & Accommodation covered.
Sponsor: Film Festivals Cinergy

F – STUDENT FILM INTERNATIONAL
Best Student Film International

HONORARY AWARD

*All films screened at the Silk Road International Film Festival have an opportunity to win a video on demand distribution agreement with Silk Road ON DEMAND (www.silkroadondemand.com)

GENERAL ELIGIBILITY
SILK ROAD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL RULES AND REGULATIONS
READ THE FOLLOWING RULES & REGULATIONS CAREFULLY

Silk Road International Film Festival will be held annually during the month of March.
Silk Road International Film Festival (SRFF) welcomes films from countries, which were part of the historical network of ancient trade routes across the Afro-Eurasian landmass that connected East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean and European world, as well as parts of North and East Africa.

The Countries/Accepted Territories
Silk Road Countries
Middle East & Asia, North & East Africa, Caucasus Region
Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, East Timor, Brunei, China, Japan, Korea, UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, Kurdistan, Egypt, Oman, Palestine, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Israel, Russia, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Somalia, Sudan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
EUROPEAN UNION (EU), plus EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA), EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION (EFTA), PRE-ACCESSION & SCHENGEN COUNTRIES
EUROPEAN UNION (EU)
Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, Greenland, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, San Marino, Monaco, Vatican City, Andorra, Liechtenstein
EUROPEAN ECOMONIC AREA (EEA):
Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway
PRE-ACCESSION COUNTRIES:
Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Iceland, Turkey, Kosovo
OTHER SCHENGEN COUNTRIES:
Andorra, Monaco, San Marino
EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION (EFTA):
Switzerland
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1 – GENERAL ELIGIBILITY

Unless a Special Waiver is granted by SRFF
Films must have been produced during the production years 2015 and 2016
The festival presents current film productions from the countries listed.

2 – ELIGIBILITY FOR THE SILK ROAD FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS

The 2018 edition of SRFF will present The Silk Road International Film Festival Awards in following categories:

A – SILK ROAD DOCUMENTARY
Best Documentary
Best Director (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Cinematographer (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Music Score (This prize is shared with other categories)

B – SILK ROAD FEATURE
Best Feature
Best Music Score (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Director (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematographer (This prize is shared with other categories)

C – SILK ROAD ANIMATION
Best Animation
Best Director (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Music Score (This prize is shared with other categories)

D – SILK ROAD SHORT
Best Short
Best Director (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Actor (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Actress (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Cinematographer (This prize is shared with other categories)
Best Music Score (This prize is shared with other categories)

E – STUDENT FILM IRELAND
Winner wins a trip to participate in International competition in Notre Dame University International Film Festival, Lebanon in November. Flights & Accommodation covered.
Sponsor: Film Festivals Cinergy
F – STUDENT FILM INTERNATIONAL
Best Student Film International

3 – ELIGIBILITY BY CATEGORY
Silk Road Documentary: To submit to this category any non-fiction film of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, with the exception of entirely scripted or improvised fictionalizations of actual events are accepted. If your documentary contains some dramatization of actual events, you may submit to this category, but we will ultimately decide which program is best suited for your project, if accepted. In order to qualify as an International Documentary Feature Film, the director or producer must be from a country part of the Silk Road territories or at least one country from the Silk Road territories must be a place of production. Please see territory listing under Rules & Regulations.

Silk Road Feature: To submit to this category, your film must be a scripted or improvisational work of fiction of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a "mockumentary" style. In order to qualify as an Silk Road Feature Film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction. Director or Producer must be from a Silk Road Territory or the film was produced in a Silk Road territory.

Silk Road Animation: To submit to this category animation must be any frame-by-frame animated video or film made for the cinema, television, video, internet and the mobile phone may be entered with a running time of 50 minutes or more.

Silk Road Short: To submit to this category, your project must be a narrative fiction, documentary or animation of Silk Road territory origin with a running time of less than 50 minutes, including credits. In order to qualify as a Silk Road Short Film, the producer or director must be from a Silk Road Territory or was produced in a Silk Road Territory.

Student Film Ireland: Films, animations, documentaries made by Students attending Universities/Film Schools in Ireland.
***Student films: Must state what school, college and university which you are attending in the submission. *** Will not accept previous submissions

Student Film International: Films, animations, documentaries made by Students attending Universities/Film Schools Internationally (excluding Ireland) ***Student films: Must state what school, college and university which you are attending in the submission.
*** Will not accept previous submissions
*Exceptions require an authorization of the festival.

4 – SELECTION COMMITTEE & JURY
Selection Committee: SRFF will solely appoint selection committees to review all submissions. The committees will decide on the official selections.
5 – SUBMISSIONS
To submit your film to the Silk Road International Film Festival, you will have to complete the online submissions form at http://silkroadfilmfestival.com/submit-film/. Alternatively you can submit through FilmFreeway.

All films must be submitted via one of three accepted formats: Digital upload via Silk Road International Film Festival website, Festhome, or a Vimeo link entered directly on the submission application, or mailed to us on a single disc (Blu-ray or DVD). We do not accept links via e-mail! If you choose to provide a Vimeo link on your submission application, please ensure that you select “Anywhere” under the “Where can this video be embedded” section of your video’s privacy settings.