Terms & Conditions:
SQIFF is a not-for-profit Festival which receives public funding for promoting and supporting LGBTQIA+ filmmakers and communities. We will offer set screening fees for films received via submissions of £100 for feature films and £30 for short films. Our Festival is ticketed on a sliding scale with free entry available to anyone who could not otherwise afford to come along. SQIFF is designed to be accessible to the most marginalised and exploited people within our LGBTQIA+ communities.
We are looking for:
SQIFF is interested in showing work created by and about LGBTQIA+ individuals and communities. We are open within this to all subject matter, styles, and film lengths. We screen all films in the Festival with English language subtitles or captions for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences. We also put on some screenings with audio description. We therefore appreciate films which integrate captioning, audio description, and/or other access measures.
Year of completion:
Films may have been completed at any time.
Premiere status:
We do not have any premiere status requirements and it's ok if your film is viewable online.
Fee waivers:
Submission fees are on a Pay What You Can basis. Please choose the submission fee you are able to afford. If you are able to pay to submit your film, we very much appreciate this as it helps support the most marginalised and exploited queer communities to submit their films and attend our Festival. If you need to submit your film for free, that's completely fine and we will treat your submission the same as everyone else's.
The Pay What You Can price options for feature films are $30, $15, $5, or free.
The Pay What You Can price options for short films are $10, $5, $3, or free.
This submission policy is to challenge the lack of access to filmmaking and institutional film culture for people from the most marginalised and exploited backgrounds. If you have any questions about what to pay for your submission, please email info@sqiff.org.