Mallards International Film and Art Festival ()

Début du Festival: 23 août 2024      Fin du Festival: 25 août 2024

Welcome to the inaugural Mallards - an International Film and Art Festival (MIFAF) - 2024.

It's an annual film-festival with Live Film Screening, Art & Award Festival, with core aim to promote films, and be another step up in the filmmakers' careers. It will be a creative and rolling event to give flavours of every states of India, so this time we’re organising this event in capital city of India, in New Delhi, on special day 8th March, 2024, I.e. on International Women’s Day.

The festival also continues to select jury members who are assigned to various sections of the festival in each edition. The festival invites filmmakers, critics, actors, writers, composers, cinematographers and many agents and distributors from all over the world.
We are an organisation committed to selecting, awarding, promoting, featuring and screening international and Indian projects of all genres. There are approximately 4 events planned during the 3-day festival. All events will take place in person this year in the campus of Creative School Of Drama, Delhi
Don't let your vision go unnoticed—submit your entry today!

Depending on available scheduling time, and the number of films curated, prizes and honours maybe offered for the following categories -

1. Documentary Film (Any length)
2. Narrative Feature (Above 30 minutes)
3. Short Film (Less than 30 minutes)
4. Women’s Films (Any length)
5. Experimental Film (Any length)
6. Student Film (Any length)
7. Drone Films (Any length)
8. Web and New Media (Any length)
9. Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / 360° Video Creations (Any length)
10. Animated Film (Any length)
11. Film on Women (Any Length)
12. Horror / Science Fiction / Genre Feature Film (Above 40 minutes)
13. Psychological Thriller (Any Length)
14. Mobile Film (Any length)
15. Young Filmmaker (Under 18) (Any length)
16. Debut Filmmaker (1st or 2nd Film) (Any length)
17. LGBT Film (Any length)
18. Educational Film (Any length)
19. Films on Disability Issue (Any length)
20. Film on Religion (Any length)
21. Film on Nature / Environment / Wildlife (Any length)
22. Travel Film (Any length)
23. Silent Film (Any length)
24. One Minute Film
25. Postmodern Film (Any length)
26. Free Speech (Any length)
27. Short Script work
28. Television / Pilot Program or Series (Any length)
29. Music Video (Any length)
30. Trailer/Teaser (5 minutes or less)
31. Film/Video Poster
32. Photography (Photos from film set included)
33. Treatment / Synopsis
34. Best VFX Artist
35. Crime short
36. Micro short
37. Romantic short
38. Comedy short
39. Selfie video
40. Family / Children Film
41. Feature Film Script
42. Performing Arts
43. Amateur Film
44. Special Category: Best Director (Any Length)
45. Special Category: Best Actor (Fiction) (Any Length)
46. Special Category: Best Supporting Actor (Fiction) (Any length)
47. Special Category: Best Actress (Fiction) (Any Length)
48. Special Category: Best Supporting Actress (Fiction) (Any length)
49. Special Category: Best Sound Designing (Fiction & Documentary) (Any Length)
50. Special Category: Best Cinematography (Fiction & Documentary) (Any Length)
51. Special Category: Best Editing (Fiction & Documentary) (Any Length)
52. Best Producer
53. Best Film Score – Soundtrack

This film-festival is for everyone!
We don’t care about your background, your belief, your orientation, your previous life: nothing! We just care about the story.

If we think the movie is worth our festival, we will select it, if we don’t, we will reject it, it is as simple as that. Filmmaking taste, like any taste is subjective, so don't get discourage if you are not selected: you may be rejected by us and then win an Oscar next year, you'll never know!

1) Films of all genres with a maximum length of 180 minutes are accepted.

2) Films in a non-English language must be subtitled in English.

3) Films must have been completed from January 1st 2000 onwards.

4) Films must have a minimum of 720p image quality.

5) Screenplays must have an industry formatting (Final Draft, Celtx etc)

6) Selected movies will be required to send a DCP for the yearly screening.

7) Submitters must own the rights to submit the films/screenplays.

8) MIFAF can use short's material for promotional purposes.

9) MIFAF will not release, under any circumstances, the full short film.

10) Multiple entries are allowed.

11) MIFAF has no obligation to disclose information about the committee.
12) Submitters must be 16 years of age or older.

12) All work's ownership and rights remain with the original holders.

13) MIFAF reserve the right to refuse inappropriate works.
15) MIFAF has the right to add, change, or delete guidelines at any time.

14) The filmmakers acknowledge that submitting a film doesn’t ensure the film will be accepted, and that the yearly edition might be moved online in case not enough submissions to cover the expenses are reached.