ELIGIBILITY for FILM & THEATRE
GIFT Fest invites young artists from around the world to submit content for consideration. We vow to encourage work that meets the following criteria:
1. Creative team and crew must be 18 years or younger by September 1, 2020.
2. A minimum of 50% of the creative team (writer, director, cinematographer, editor) must identify as female or nonbinary, unless you are submitting under the Ally category
Note: Ally submissions require that a minimum of 50% of the people on screen or stage identify as female or nonbinary AND the story is centered around female or nonbinary individual(s).
3. A minimum of 50% of the people on screen or stage must identify as female or nonbinary, unless you are submitting for the Shelter-in-Place category.
To accommodate for the challenges around the pandemic, our new Shelter-in-Place category allows for submissions with any combination of genders on screen.
4. The story cannot center around romance.
Notification is on a rolling schedule as entries are received.
GUIDELINES for FILM & THEATRE
- Pieces must be 10 mins or less.
- Submissions from any genre of film are acceptable (i.e. narrative, documentary, animation, experimental, music video, etc.).
- Submissions from any type of performance art are accepted (i.e. theatre, improvisation, spoken word, dance, etc.).
- Content must be in English or subtitled/translated to English.
- Any piece selected can be used for promotional purposes.
ELIGIBILITY & GUIDELINES FOR ART AND MUSIC
1. Artists must be 18 or younger by September 1, 2020 and identify as female or nonbinary.
2. Musicians must be 18 or younger by September 1, 2020. The composer/songwriter must identify as female or nonbinary. And a minimum of 50% of the musicians must identify as female or nonbinary.