Eligibility
- The filmmaker has to be a woman/ transwoman of Asian origin, residing in any part of the world.
-All genres – short fiction/fiction feature, non-fiction, animation, experimental and student films – are welcome.
- If the film has more than one Director, at least one of them should be a woman.
- Films made between October 1, 2018- October 10, 2019 are eligible for entry. The last date for submission is October 10 2019.
Rules
- Participants may send multiple entries, but separate forms are required for each entry.
- Films made in any language other than English are required to be subtitled in English, and will not be accepted for the pre-selection viewing.
- All required permissions from copyright holders should be acquired before entering the work into the 16th IAWRT Asian Women’s film festival.
- All image formats and aspect ratios will be accepted. The sound requirement of our festival venue is that it be mono mixed on two channels.
- Films that are already available online, will not be considered for the festival.
- If a film is selected, the copyright holders of the film should permit free-of-cost public screening at the festival and at any related events.
- If a film is selected we require a high res mov file to be submitted to us no later than Jan 30th, 2020.
- Please specify if we have permission for your film to be a part of the traveling packages.