The International Multicultural Film Festival "IMFF" awaits you for 1 week of independent films made by filmmakers from vastly diverse ethnic and religious communities across the globe!
IMFF will celebrate diversity in traditions, opinions, cultures, and religions. It will celebrate those filmmakers who are struggling to showcase their works, within a climate of marginalisation and isolation, racial or religious discrimination, secularism, sectarianism or anti-religious sentiment. IMFF is not to open a cultural war but to build bridges of tolerance, understanding, and inclusion.
International Multicultural Film Festival 2021 will be held in Melbourne and Perth, (Australia) in June and it will be restricted to short films only during its first year. The organisers plan to extend it to cover all films in 2022 and extend the in-house and online screening to other major Australian capital cities.
*The first annual event of IMFF will be open to short films including drama, documentary, music clips, animation and so on. We encourage entries from anywhere around the world.
* There is no particular theme recommended but we encourage films telling stories about diversity, inclusion, and tolerance.
Films have no race or religion! We all use moving pictures as a medium to tell a story or pass a message or change the world around us. So IMFF is not about race or religion, but about a vast group of people and communities who happen to be diverse in their race, religions, skin colour, political views, traditions and cultures. Thereafter, the major criteria for entry are that films should be either:
* MADE BY ANYONE TELLING STORIES ABOUT OUR RICH DIVERSITY, CELEBRATING OUR DIFFERENCES THROUGH INCLUSION AND TOLERANCE, AND PROMOTING A MORE PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE ON THIS PLANET.
We look forward to seeing your submissions and welcoming you to the first year of the International Multicultural Film Festival between the 12 and 18 June 2021.
Awards & Prizes:
The official selection will be carefully picked by our panel of expert judges, and will constitute the films nominated for an award. The films screened at the event will be selected from the official selection and promoted on our social media platforms and website, and the best ones will receive awards at the film festival in a range of categories. The winners will get our official laurels and will be featured on our Facebook page and website and in our media press releases.
The IMFF 2021 will have four major awards:
1- Winner of the best short drama film: $250 + laurel
2- Winner of the best short documentary film $250 + laurel
3- Winner of the Best Director: gifts + laurel
4- Winner of the Best Producer/Production: gifts + laurel
Note: We may withdraw any award where the criteria are not met.