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SUBMISSION CRITERIA for the 10-10-20 BlackMovieFest 3rd annual year:
In order to be submitted, all films must be under sixteen (16) minutes in length, including credits.
1. Because BlackMovieFest is more of a film maker marketing retreat than it is a film festival, the first submission QUALIFICATION is to list as #1 in the submission's FilmFreeway COVER LETTER a prior Official Selection & year Selected by one of the World’s Black film festivals in addition to listing that Selection in its FilmFreeway Screenings/Awards section.
Alternatively, a submitter may list as #1 in their FilmFreeway COVER LETTER the date of their Movie's previous screening at Hollywood's Indie Night Film Festival, Four Walled August 2019 Short Film Series, New York City's 2018 World Film Fair or that the Work was Released Worldwide through the Festival de Cannes 2019 Short Film Corner. BlackMovieFest will require that the listed Black film festival Official Selection be verifiable. Submissions not including this verified Black film festival listing & year of selection in its FilmFreeway COVER LETTER and Screenings/Awards section may be disqualified as an incomplete submission.
2. Listed as #2 in the submission's FilmFreeway COVER LETTER must be the name and the physical STREET ADDRESS of the Film's marketing representative who promises to attend your Movie’s total screening block, if it is Officially Selected by BlackMovieFest. If this street address is not supplied in the submission’s COVER LETTER, that submission may be disqualified as incomplete.
3. Listed as #3 in the submission COVER LETTER must be the URL web address of the submitted movie’s already published Short Film www.IMDb.com entry with POSTER. If this IMDb page web address is not supplied in the submission’s COVER LETTER, that submission may be disqualified as incomplete.
4. PRIOR to submission, the movie's under 30 seconds in length COMMERCIAL must already be published publicly on www.YouTube.com. Submitter is required to supply in its COVER LETTER the YouTube web address of the film's COMMERCIAL. If this YouTube address is not supplied in its COVER LETTER the submission may be disqualified as incomplete.
5. Other than works available through http://AfricanAmericanFilmChannel.com or http:/BadamiTV.com, starting with the Movie’s BlackMovieFest submission date, until October 13, 2020, the submitted short film must be available to the public ONLY through screening at other live, limited number of dates film festivals and/or through a code protected www.Vimeo.com online video post. Please include in your COVER LETTER a statement that the submitted Film will not be available to the public prior to its BlackMovieFest screening. Further, BlackMovieFest will give Official Selection preference to submissions that use that Vimeo code protected post as a linked screener on their FilmFreeway submission platform. Exceptions to the BlackMovieFest public accessibility rule will be made on a case-by-case basis. Please send to email@Entertainer.Academy the submission’s reason for needing to be such an exception.
6. In order for BlackMovieFest Officially Selected movies to be screened, the submission’s Blu-Ray disk must arrive at the BlackMovieFest address (9200 Milliken Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730-8511) by September 2, 2020. Alternatively, the Movie’s highest quality completed under sixteen (16) minute digital copy must be emailed as a www.WeTransfer.com attachment to email@Entertainer.Academy within one single week of the submitted Movie’s Semi-Finalist delineation announcement. Any submission may become disqualified if BlackMovieFest has not received the submitted movie by at least one of the above two deadlines.
7. Each BlackMovieFest movie screening with a representative in attendance during their movie’s total block will be followed by an up to five (5) minute marketing discussion period. This allows after movie viewing marketing discussions to be much fresher and on point, since no one attending will have to struggle to remember any particular work's content.
8. For 2020, as many as twenty-seven (27) short films will be screened at the BlackMovieFest public live event during Indigenous People’s Holiday weekend in Rancho Cucamonga, CA during the full October 10, 2020 day and evening.
9. No refunds.