Entries must be in English or - Subtitled or dubbed in English.
All entries should be sent via FilmFreeway. Please don't send discs or any downloadable files to us.
Works in progress are not accepted.
Films must be completed after January 1, 2018.
Entry fees are non-refundable.
To qualify, at least one of the key artistic team must be from or resided in Southwestern Ontario for a portion of their life, or been about or filmed in Southwestern Ontario.
The decision of the judges and selection committee is final.
Terms and Conditions:
By submitting to the festival, you agree to allow your film (or other artistic work) to be screened by the festival during the festival run, for which you are submitting, at no charge to the festival. If there are to be any additional screenings, we will come to a mutual agreement between the filmmaker and the festival.
All Films selected by the festival will be asked to provide promotional materials, but we ask that no promotional materials be sent until selected and notified.
By submitting to the festival you are admitting copyright ownership of everything submitted and by submitting a work for consideration (a Work), entrant hereby grants the Festival the following non-exclusive, irrevocable rights to use and display the names, voices, photographs, likenesses, and biographies of the entrant and the Work's director and producer for advertising, publicizing, and promoting the Works in any media
The festival reserves the right to disqualify any submission at any time, if there is any question of ownership, copyright infringement or any sign of disrespect (in any form of media) to the festival or its representatives. The Festival will not be held responsible for any inclusion of uncleared materials in your film.
All submitters will be automatically subscribed to the Forest City Film Festival newsletter and may opt-out at their option at any time.
Films that are posted publicly on YouTube or other public video sites cannot be screened in competition at our festival. The exception to this is the animation category. We ask that films submitted not screen in the London region between August 15 and October 28 outside of the festival.
Films that are official selections are not permitted to withdraw from the festival after September 15th.
Only filmmakers that attend the festival for a Q&A with their film will receive a percentage of the door to be determined at the discretion of the festival organizers.
Films that already have a major distribution deal are not considered for competition but we may want to screen them out of the competition.
Promotional films do not qualify for competition.
FCFF reserves the right to update or modify these terms and policies without prior notice.