Please read our terms of entry before submitting your short film for competition.
Films must be between 1-40 minutes in length (including credits).
Only short narrative genres are accepted. Music videos and documentaries are not valid for this contest.
Filmmakers must have copyright over all footage and soundtrack.
Films must be of high-quality, at minimum FULL HD (1080p).
Filmmakers will be required to submit promotional stills for marketing purposes if their work has been selected.
Open to international filmmakers.
Open to first-time to professional filmmakers.
We accept films already submitted and/or selected to other film festivals.
We don't discriminate against any films that have been published online via a video hosting website such as YouTube or Vimeo.
All films must be produced on or after January 1, 2016.
Breakout Film Festival is unable to give feedback on individual short films upon result notification. We are not a reviewing festival.
We do not accept free submission/entry waiver.
Films in a foreign language (other than English) must include English subtitles.
We do not provide refunds upon result notification.