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Please read the Rules and Regulation below carefully before making a submission.

SUBMIT YOUR FILM MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM

SUBMISSION:

GUIDELINES SUBMISSION:

OPEN SUBMISSION: August 30 – October 25, 2017

Notification Date: November 1, 2017

Awards Ceremony: November 2017

Festival email: internationalcinemasociety[@]gmail.com

- You can nominate yourself, or people you know, living or dead.

- Send your or his/her winning list and registration, as well as your name and your relation to the person to our email: [email protected]

- Submission with film or documentary is required, including for the general category that is open the filmmaker him or herself.

- The Festival accept lifetime film or documentary and from any genre.

- For Lifetime Achievement Awards submitter, CV and other supporting documentation or related information like photos, clipping, or other films title (from the same filmmaker) are strongly suggested.

- Films submitted could be from any genre and do not have any premiere requirement.

- Non-English speaking film/documentary should be translated in English or dubbed.

CATEGORIES:

- General
The submitter may submit him or herself or another filmmaker he/she knows. Submission for this category is for the filmmaker in his/her leading reputation (director, producer, artist, special effect artist, writer, film musician, etc.). Submission must be completed with his or her film/documentary.

- Short Documentary
A documentary film with a maximum length of 49 minutes.

- Documentary Feature
A documentary with a minimum runtime of 50 minutes. \

- International Feature film
A narrative feature film with duration > 50 minutes.

- International Short film
A short narrative film with film duration <50 minutes.

- Emerging Filmmaker
This category opens for newcomer or students who have won awards for his or her first film. Submission must be completed with his or her film/documentary.

Awards Type Categories:

1. Achievement Award
2. High Achievement Award
3. Highest Achievement Award

These three above categories are open for films that have previously received recognition. The Festival also accept the first-time filmmaker with an extraordinary winning list from other Film Festival.

Newcomers are encouraged to enter into the Emerging Filmmaker category.

Winners from these three above categories will receive a well-framed certificate of acknowledgment, special pin, and handmade sash if they attend the Awards Ceremony in person. Award recipient who can’t attend the Awards Ceremony will receive e-certificate after the Festival Event (latest one month after the Event).

TO ENTER INTO 1, or 2, or 3 type Awards Category above, please submit below. Submission could be a film or a person.
Submission fee:  US $150

Submission category:

Apply for:

Film Title/Director/Duration:

Person Name / Film applied for

4. Lifetime Achievement Award

This Award Category opens only for a filmmaker with an excellent reputation in the film industry, or with at least having a regional reputation, or a seasoned or well-known filmmaker with a minimum of 7 years experience in the film industry or film education. The winner of this category will receive a special trophy, pin, and handmade sash if they attend the Awards Ceremony in person.
CV and other supporting documentation or related information like photos, clipping, or other films title (from the same filmmaker) are strongly suggested for this category.

Lifetime Achievement Award winner will receive a trophy of acknowledgment, special pin, and handmade sash if they attend the Awards Ceremony in person. Award recipient who can’t attend the Awards Ceremony will receive e-certificate after the Festival Event (latest one month after the Event).

TO ENTER INTO Lifetime Achievement Award Category above, please submit below.
Submission is only applicable for a person.

Submission fee: US $300

Submission category:

Film Title/Director/Duration:

Applied for (name):


Membership Program

Annual Membership Type:

Diamond Membership
$950 US

- Up to 50% Discount to most Film Festivals Alliance participating festival members main category submission fee
- Interview of your film or yourself to be featured in International Cinema Society website and MovieMaker Magazine or TheFilmReporter or other media partner
- 1 month advertisement banner of your film in the Film Reporter main page.
- 1 time email blast of your film profile to more than 5000 film festivals world wide
- 1 time email blast of your film profile to more than 15.000 film distributors, production house and producers
- $200 US Voucher to Digital Transfer Service
- $350 US Voucher to Merchandise Agents Online Shops
- 1 time main spot for you standing banner in the festival main event.
- Diamond Membership Card with your photo.

Platinum Membership:
$450 US

- Up to 35% Discount to most Film Festivals Alliance participating festival members main category submission fee
- $200 US Voucher to Digital Transfer Service
- $350 US Voucher to Festival Merchandise Agents Online Shops
- Platinum Membership Card with your photo.

Gold Membership:
$250 US

Up to 25% Discount to most  Film Festivals Alliance participating festival members main category submission fee
Gold Membership Card with your photo.

 

Pay your annual membership here:

Your annual membership type:

Submitter Name:

Membership Name & Profession:


Please read the terms and condition carefully before making a submission.

This agreement pertains to all work/s submitted to the Festivals through Film Festivals Alliance (FFA):

By submitting your film/s or screenplay or music video or photo/s to the Festivals through Film Festivals Alliance, you are agreeing to all TERMS AND CONDITIONS below in full.

1. Submitters are at the age of 18 or above as at the deadline of submitting the application.
2. Submitters are legally eligible to submit the work/s. Submitters must have all rights secured before submitting.
3. The competition is open for all.
4. The submitter guarantee that all rights and releases have been legally secured, including music rights, songs, etc and the submitter releases the Festival and all its member from any legal action whatsoever.
5. A. E-mail the Festival, the link to your film.
B. If filmmaker wish to screen his/her film, 2 DVD PAL and 1 (one) blu-ray (optional) or DCP, must be sent. Mark case and DVD, with the title, length, and director's name. Please mark your film with "No Commercial Value - For Cultural Purposes Only" either on the envelope and the shipping invoices. Although every possible care will be taken with DVDs while in our possession, however, we cannot accept responsibility for unforeseen loss, stolen, or damage of entries. Please do not send originals. Te Festivals do not receive downloads of any kind.
6. All transportation/shipping costs (including customs clearance) to Jakarta, plus fees for insurance while in transit, must be borne by the participants (please write: For Cultural Purposes only - Not for commercial use). The Festival Director reserves the right to refuse any shipment involving unpaid costs.
7. All submissions should be sent pre-paid.
8. The Festivals will not return your screening and exhibition copies.
9. All submission fees are non-refundable.
10. All selection committees' and juries' decisions are finals.
11. Only producers or directors can receive the physical awards at the Awards Ceremonies.
12. Regardless of the Prize and winning status, winning filmmakers who can't attend the Awards Ceremony, will only receive laurels.
13. The Festivals have the right to disqualify a winning film for any reasons, without having to explain the reasons to the submitter.
14. Submission of an entry gives the Festivals and or FFA permission to have accepted work exhibited, photographed, locally telecast, and reproduced either in part or whole, for educational or publicity purposes. Filmmakers can request in writing that their material should not be used for such purposes after the Festival.
15. The Festivals do not pay any screening fees. Not all winning films will be screened. The festivals and or FFA have the full right to select the winning films to be screened.
16. Festivals Directors may deny participation to any film unable to meet the technical requirements for a public screening of good quality.
17. Festivals Management and or FFA reserves the right to make changes in the profile of the Festivals if it becomes necessary to do so due to circumstances beyond their control.
18. All filmmakers/submitters are expected to keep communications with Film Festivals Alliance and the Festivals professional and in good taste. Failure to do so may result in disqualification at any point in the adjudication process, including the nullification of Official Selection status or nominations. That stated, the Festivals and or FFA will only communicate with the person who submitted his/her film to the Festival/s, and that Festival/s should not be expected to communicate with any other persons.
19. The submitter/filmmaker also acknowledges that remediation of any sort will be limited to a refund of their submission fees.
20. The festivals and or FFA have the right to work with any institution and partner festivals for all kind of cooperation, including joint events or promotions.
21. The Festivals and or FFA reserve the right to make any necessary changes in regulations or scheduling.
22. Films could be from any year.
23. All disputes in respect of any matter relating to the Festivals and or FFA shall be subjected to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts in North Jakarta. Any dispute arising as a result of submission to the Festivals and or FFA will have a recourse limited to the lesser of either the submission fee paid or the cost of correcting the issue.

By submitting to the Festivals through FFA, submitters/filmmakers:
- indicate that they have read, understand, agree with, and will comply all of the Terms and Condition above, and accept all of the terms and conditions herein, in their entirety, without modification.
- agree to indemnify us and hold us and our employees, owners, affiliates, and partners harmless from all claims and liability associated with your participation or entry to the Festival.


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