21 Apr 2016
Call for entries
15 Jun 2016
Festival closed
31 Aug 2016
Notification date
23 Sep 2016
25 Sep 2016
Festival start: 23 September 2016 Festival end: 25 September 2016
Welcome to 4th Woodpecker International Film Festival, 2016
Woodpecker International Film Festival (WIFF) is India's premier competitive film festival focusing on issue-based cinema. Launched in the year 2013 the festival will be organising its 4th annual edition in September 2016.
WIFF aims not only to showcase the rich mélange of visual creativity in the film industry worldwide but also to promote films, documentaries and advertisements focusing on socially pertinent themes like environment and wildlife, gender, Livelihoods, public health, disability and children through this film festival. A major attraction of the film festival would be off-screen activities. Seminars, conferences, workshops and master classes to help filmmakers and film enthusiasts explore contemporary issues, network with professional associates, hone their filmmaking skills and share the power of storytelling through cinema.
ENTRIES OPEN for 2016 edition: Submission Deadline- June 15, 2016
The festival is now accepting entries for the 2016 edition in the following categories:
Environment, Forest & Wildlife, Livelihoods, Gender, Films on Disability, Health and Sanitation, Children Films, Art & Culture, CSR Films, Animation, Films on North East, Student Films, and PSAs.
Entry Form and Guidelines are available on the festival website www.woodpeckerfilmfestival.in.
For any query, please feel free to call at +91-84680 01879 or email us at info@woodpeckerfilmfestival.in
The prestigious Woodpecker Awards carries a Trophy and Citation.
Genres: Short Film, Documentary, Animation, Community Videos on any of the competition categories.
Duration: Films up to the length of 60 min only (including credits).
Cut off Year: Films produced between 2014 - 2016 are eligible for the festival.
Films already screened in the earlier edition of the festival are not eligible for re-entry.
Entries are invited in all languages.
Non-English and Non-Hindi language productions must include English subtitles.
Entrants may submit more than 1 film in the festival. Each film must be accompanied by a separate Entry Form and Entry Fee.
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2016
Standard Fee
50$
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46$
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15 Jun 16
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46$
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15 Jun 16
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46$
Submissions deadline
15 Jun 16
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50$
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46$
Submissions deadline
15 Jun 16
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50$
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46$
Submissions deadline
15 Jun 16
Standard Fee
50$
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46$
Submissions deadline
15 Jun 16
Standard Fee
50$
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46$
Submissions deadline
15 Jun 16
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50$
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46$
Submissions deadline
15 Jun 16
Standard Fee
50$
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46$
Submissions deadline
15 Jun 16
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30$
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27.6$
Submissions deadline
15 Jun 16
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