Entry Form for ALL CATEGORIES

35mm - 16mm - Video - DVD - screenplays

RIFF 2011 - X Edition - Festival Dates: Rome, march 2011

deadline december 15, 2010

NEW!!! Current Award for best original work based on Internationa Enquiry.
The participation to the Current Award deadline is on the 15th of January 2011, a 15 minutes top length work will be selected based on International Enquiry main theme: or a survey about most important issues of our times which harks back to the “Vanguard Journalism”.

On Line Application Submitting your film for selection to the Roma Independent Film Festival automatically gives you different benefits:

1) RIFF Awards - if selected your film will be automatically listed in our FILMMARKET SECTION , an online catalogue listing RIFF participants. Allows Distributors, Agents, Web Content Buyers and other industry professionals to contact you directly

3) RIFF On Tour - The RIFF takes our hottest films on a non-stop trip to film festivals, screenings, and events around the world.* Monthly Screening Series - audience elected monthly winners will be entered into the annual RIFF Audience Award competition.

4) become an automatic member of "Associazione Culturale Roma Independent Film Festival"

NOTICE: As part of our mission statement, our organization may refer names and contacts of submitting filmmakers to independent distributors, creative agencies, press and internet companies. Tapes and other related materials, however, remain in the strict possession of the Festival's archive.

RULES & REGULATIONS

To submit your film to the Roma Independent Film Festival, please read our eligibility requirements below.

If you're able to comply with these rules, please complete our online APPLICATION
Enter your information in the required fields. Then simply send your film in DVD, PAL or NTSC, with Italian or English subtitles (if it's not already in English), press kit, and the appropriate application fee to:

RIFF - ROMA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
attn.: Fabrizio Ferrari
Via Po 152
Roma 00198 -Italy

Note: All international submissions please clearly mark "NO COMMERCIAL VALUE" on your packages.If you have any questions please call us @ + 39 06 45425050 or +39 338 5848704, or e-mail us . We'll return an answer within 24hrs.

If you're interested in also submitting your original, unproduced SCREENPLAY for competition, please click here.

Eligibility

1. Films must have been completed after december 2009.

2. Running time for all feature length films must be no less than 75 minutes. Running time for all short films must be no more then 75 minutes.

3. Films/videos must not have received worldwide network television distribution (including cable and PAY-TV). Competitive entries must not have commercial distribution in Italy to be eligible.

4. Foreign feature or short films submitted to the Festival must be subtitled in Italian OR English if not already an English language film.

5. Entries with prints on 16 mm, 35 mm, Digital Video and Beta PAL must be made available for presentation at least two (2) weeks before the festival date. Films requiring dual projection (interlock) or super 16 mm projection are NOT accepted.

6. Submissions are only accepted on DVD. Entries, as well as accompanying materials, will NOT be returned and will become property of the organization and its archive.

7. Those selected for screening during the RIFF Awards will be notified at least one(1) month before the event starts by telephone or e-mail.

8. Those selected for the monthly screenings will be notified at least thirty (30) days before the event date by telephone or e-mail.

9. One official entry form must accompany each individual submission, along with the individual submission fee.

10. For all the competitions, the project must be an Italian Premiere.

11. Film producers must also agree to include in future promotion material the mention of the participation at the Roma Independent Film Festival, the relevant section and any award received, along with the official RIFF logo, available on the Internet website.

The Jury

• RIFF AWARD recepients are determined by a jury of professional filmmakers, actors, distributors, agents and journalists.
  RIFF AUDIENCE AWARD is determined by audience votes.
  
• All awards will be split equally between the director and the production company of the film as shown in the credits.

What to Send

The following items MUST accompany all entry forms.

• DVD with English or Italian subtitles (if not already an English language film)
• Application fee (see next segment)

These items may be used in our catalogue or web site and may be released to the news media in order to promote selected films. Upon the receipt of your materials, a written or emailed confirmation will be sent to you.If your film is SELECTED the Festival will require the following:

• Completed composite print (and/or Beta PAL or DVD Master) to be received within 2 weeks of the event. Additional press kits, including B & W or color photos of cast and crew (on cd) 2 or more posters
• 1 additional DVD

Invitation and Attendance
Directors whose feature films have been selected for competition are invited as participants for 3 days. Room and board in a hotel for only one representative per film will be provided by the festival. Exceptionally, travel costs can be covered.

Application Fee:

Short Films & Documentaries ( 30 seconds to 72 minutes): Euro 10 - Feature Films (72 minutes and over): Euro 35 - Screenplay: Euro 35 - Submission Fee is Euro10 for all Students

Forms of payment: Secure Credit Card Payment or Money Transfer (use account information below)Unicredit Banca di Roma ag.(208) Roma 208- ABI: 3002(3) - CAB: 5016 - CIN: D - pay to the order of roma independent film festival (RIFF)SWIFT (BIC) : BROMITR 1208 - IBAN : IT12R0300205016000400829626

We do NOT accept money or postal orders

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Mailing address: RIFF - Rome Independent Film Festival (Attn. Fabrizio Ferrari)
Via Po 152
Roma 00198 -Italy