UofT Film Festival

Read the Rules and Regulations below before completing the submission form.

Video Submissions should be addressed to: U of T Film Festival, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3, Canada.

Video Submissions can also be dropped off in person at the Hart House HUB, attention U of T Film Festival.

Deadline

1.      Submissions must be received no later than March 2, 2011, at 5pm. Early submissions encouraged.

Selection

2.      A selection committee will view all eligible submissions. All decisions by the selection committee are final.

Eligibility

3.      The Festival is open to all film and video makers who are affiliated with the University of Toronto (students, staff, faculty, alumni), members of Hart House and students registered in a Toronto-area Film School.

4.      The Festival is open to all lengths and genres but there is a strong preference for shorter works.

5.      Films and videos must be in English or have English sub-titles.

6.      Incomplete entries are ineligible.

Special Affiliations

7.      The submission form asks you whether you are a member of the Hart House Film Board. Film Board members are eligible for special juried prizes.

8.      The submission form asks whether you are enrolled in at least one Cinema Studies class. A Cinema Studies jury will consider these entries for a Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) Spotlight.

NOTE: Special Affiliations is an administrative question only. Entrants can be BOTH Film Board members AND Cinema Studies students. Entrants affiliated with both the Film Board and Cinema Studies may therefore be viewed twice, by two different juries and eligible for any and all related prizes, and will be screened in the most appropriate program.

Special Calls
In addition to our open-call, where we look at anything and everything, the Festival is especially looking for contest and theme entries:

9.  The Shitty Film Contest! seeks the worst movies imaginable under 1-minute in length. Shitty prizes will be awarded. To be considered by the Shitty Jury, mark the appropriate place on the submission form. Open to all shitty filmmakers. Hosted by CINSSU.

10.  Movie-parodies wanted for The U of T Film Festival 3^rd Annual “Sweding” Contest. (“Sweding” is a new term to describe a movie parody, based on the exploits of the characters in the movie Be Kind Rewind). The Best entries will be screened and “sweding prizes” will be awarded. Rules: Parody any movie you like in 3 minutes or less. To be considered for the Sweding Contest mark the appropriate place on the form.

11. Video or film installation art to be exhibited at our reception after the screening.

Technical Guidelines

12.  All submissions must be on NTSC standard (PAL will not be screened).

13.  All submissions must be on DVD or VHS. DVD’s must be region-1 or “region-free”.

14.  Preview VHS and DVD’s will not be returned although applicants are invited to pick up all preview materials in person after the festival.

15.  Do not send master tapes until asked to do so.

16.  Multiple entries are accepted but each entry must be accompanied by a separate form and submission tape or disc.

17.  All tapes and discs must contain only the movie being submitted, cued to the front of the tape or disc. In other words, do not submit tapes or discs containing more than one entry or with material other than the movie being submitted.

18.  We strongly suggest that all submitted materials begin with at least two-seconds of black ideally followed by an 8-to-2 countdown and another two-seconds of black at the end of the movie.

19.  Preview tapes and discs must be labeled with title, running time and contact information. Poorly labeled material is looked down upon.

20.  The entrant is responsible for all shipping fees.

Notification

22.  Entrants will be notified of acceptance, via email, by March 15, 2011.

Publicity Materials

23.  If you submit a movie please send, via email: B&W and/or color stills from the film. The sooner you send us photos the better the chances they will be used in publicity materials.

Final Delivery

24.  If your film or video is selected, you will be asked to deliver a final screening copy by March 10. You can indicate that your DVD or VHS preview copy be used for screening purposes. If a final screening copy is not received by March 10 the festival will screen your DVD or VHS preview copy. Additional accepted formats are data files (,mov or .avi), flash, miniDV, DVCam.

Submission Fee

25.  There are no submission fees.

Submission Address

26. Submissions should be addressed to: U of T Film Festival, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3, Canada.