CALL FOR ENTRIES - KPFF 2021!
=== CATEGORIES ===
1) Long Documentary (above 50 minutes, no upper limit)
2) Short Documentary (10 minutes to 49 minutes)
3) Long Fiction (above 50 minutes, no upper limit)
4) Short Fiction (10 minutes to 49 minutes)
=== CRITERIA ===
1) KPFF is primarily a documentary festival acting as a platform for the contemporary political documentary from India. The festival also screens a number of documentaries from the Southasian region as well as fiction films from India and Southasia, which in their aesthetics and content speak to our political present.
2) Whereas the filmmakers can be from anywhere in the world, subject matters must be of direct and compelling socio-political relevance in India in particular and Southasia at large. The films must be shot in India/Southasia.
3) Only productions completed on or after 1 January 2019 are eligible for entry in KPFF 2021.
4) PRIORITY: Productions completed in the past year (2020) will receive priority. Productions that have not been released publicly will receive priority.
5) Films may be in any Southasian language, but have to be subtitled or dubbed in English.
6) A film that has been submitted for an earlier edition of the KPFF and not been selected, cannot be submitted again.
7) PREMIERE: The festival will give strong priority to films which would have at least a Kolkata premiere at KPFF. Indian, International and World Premiers would be most welcome.
=== VIDEO/AUDIO FORMAT ===
Films must be submitted via online screener ONLY. We do not accept DVDs, pen drives or hard drives.
Films may be submitted via ourcinema.in OR via filmfreeway.com (please don't make duplicate submissions) meeting the following criteria:
1) Video bitrate: 25 Mbps, Codec: H.264, mp4 or mov
2) Audio: 320 Kbps, AAC, 2 channel stereo
3) Aspect ratio 16×9, Resolution 1920 x 1080 pixels
4) English subtitles
=== IMPORTANT DATES ===
Regular Submission Deadline (for productions with a completion date between January 2019 and September 2020): 1st OCTOBER 2020
Late Submission Deadline (ONLY for productions with a completion date during October 2020): 1st NOVEMBER 2020
Notification Date: 15th NOVEMBER 2020
Confirmation of Premiere Status: 20th NOVEMBER 2020
Submission of final screening copy: 30th NOVEMBER 2020
Announcement of final film list: 15th DECEMBER 2020
Entries must be submitted through
http://www.ourcinema.in/festival/submission/
OR
https://filmfreeway.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival
(Please use either of the two. Do not make duplicate submissions.)
=== SPECIAL SCREENINGS ===
Apart from the selection made from entries by filmmakers, KPFF reserves the right to screen a limited number of invited films curated by the selection committee. The latter includes special screenings and retrospectives.
=== FEES AND AWARDS ===
1) There are no submission fees to enter a film.
2) There are no monetary awards. The best award offered by KPFF is a lovely, lively, critical, engaging cinema audience, and the chance to meet and interact with the contemporary filmmaking community, in one of the most vibrant festivals of political cinema in the subcontinent.
=== RULES ===
1) Stick to the deadlines, for your entry to be eligible.
2) The festival organisers may make an exception to any of the criteria or rules if deemed necessary.
3) The decision of the selection committee is final.
4) Once a film is selected and the filmmaker notified, it is the responsibility of the filmmaker to ensure that a screening copy reaches the Festival desk within the stipulated date. It is also the filmmaker's responsibility to correctly inform the Festival about the premiere status of the film. This is a requirement, failing which a selection will, unfortunately, stand revoked.
5) Films once selected (and notified) cannot be withdrawn.
=== PROMOTIONS ===
The Festival reserves the right to use up to 10 minutes of the film’s running time for promotional use. Information submitted by the filmmakers may also be used for promotional purposes.
=== TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION ===
1) KPFF offers comfortable shared accommodation only to film directors of selected films, for ALL categories.
2) KPFF offers travel reimbursement (equivalent to 3 AC train fare on normal trains) to and from the city of residence (within India) of the film director(s) of selected films, as specified in the submission form. The travel reimbursement is offered ONLY to participating filmmakers in the LONG DOCUMENTARY and LONG FICTION categories.
3) KPFF is delighted to welcome other members of the film crew of selected films, who are willing to bear their own travel and accommodation costs.
4) KPFF is unable to offer travel reimbursement to filmmakers participating from outside India.
5) KPFF does not offer travel or accommodation to filmmakers residing in Kolkata, as specified in the submission form.
=== FESTIVAL ARCHIVE ===
KPFF reserves the right to store a copy of selected films in the Festival Digital Archive. The films may be used for future non-commercial screenings by the People’s Film Collective, with prior intimidation to the filmmakers.