Overcome Film Festival (2)

Inizio del Festival: 23 ottobre 2018      Festival si chiude: 29 ottobre 2018

The Overcome Film Festival is a venue for all storytellers, filmmakers, and artists to tell the world their stories of survival and triumph over adversity. It is the focus of the film festival to give survivors a voice and a venue to share their life experiences and provide hope to others. Everyone is invited to participate with their work. Animation, narrative and non-narratives, audiovisual poetry films, and experimental works are accepted.
The Overcome Film Festival especially encourages the entries of anyone who wants to share their experiences in overcoming challenges, illnesses, disabilities or any other factor that has contributed to their growth as a person and motivated them to celebrate their existence.

The Overcome Film Festival is an international event and everyone all over the world is encouraged and welcome to participate.

Short and Feature international films (all countries).

The Overcome Film Festival will publish the name of the winners online and certificates will be awarded. As the festival is about providing a voice to survivors, financial awards and prizes will be foregone in lieu of certificates.

Award Categories:
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
BEST AUDIOVISUAL NARRATIVE POETRY
BEST NATIONAL SHORT FILM
BEST NATIONAL FEATURE FILM

BEST DIRECTOR OF AN INTERNATIONAL FILM
BEST DIRECTOR OF A NATIONAL FILM
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST EDITING
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST DOCUMENTARY STORY IN A FEATURE FILM
BEST FICTION STORY IN A FEATURE FILM
BEST DOCUMENTARY STORY IN A SHORT FILM
BEST FICTION STORY IN A SHORT FILM
BEST ACTOR IN A FEATURE FILM
BEST ACTRESS IN A FEATURE FILM
BEST ACTOR IN A SHORT FILM
BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT FILM
BEST ACTOR IN A NATIONAL FILM
BEST ACTRESS IN A NATIONAL FILM
OVERCOME FESTIVAL THEME AWARD

Winners will be notified via email. The Overcome Film Festival cannot accept the following works:

-Anything that you are not the author and copyright holder of the work you submit.

-Offensive, illegal, discriminatory, or harmful works.

-Anything that discloses the personal information and likeness of any individual that you do not have written permission to do so.

-Anything that you are not comfortable allowing us to show in public.

Submission means you read and agree to the complete rules and terms of the festival on the festival's website.

The Overcome Film Festival will not pay screening fees and it is assumed that any submitted film is both available to be screened, with no legal restrictions, and without expectation of a fee being paid.

-Please be aware that if your film is selected to run in the festival, you will be requested to subtitle and narrate your film as the focus of the festival is to include everyone.