GENERAL RULES
Official Rules and Regulations for the Yala International Independent Film Festival (YIIFF) 2021
ELIGIBILITY
1. Productions produced after January 2018 are eligible.
2. Entries must be postmarked by the deadline date.
3. Entrant confirms and warrants required legal authority to submit the entry into the Festival and to use all music, images, and content in the entry.
4. Entrant will allow usage of the film for festival screening regardless of any distribution deals made.
5. Entrant will allow usage of clips from the entry and all related publicity material submitted for promotional use on television, radio, in print, web and at live Festival events.
6. Upon notification of acceptance, trailers may be sent via email links to YouTube. This is great marketing for getting an audience excited about your film.
7. All Decisions by judges, programmers, and organizers will be final and no refund of the entry fee will be permitted.
8. Filmmakers will pay all transportation costs of shipping exhibition BluRays / DVDs to the festival.
9. Screening DVD's must be labeled with the work’s title, running time, director(s) name(s), contact number, Production company (if), email and Tracking number.
10. DVD SCREENERS, EXHIBITION BLU-RAY'S and Flash Drives WILL NOT BE RETURNED.
SUBMISSION FORMAT
1. Films must be submitted via a secure online screener.
2. Submission Eligibility
-All submissions must have been completed after March 31, 2021.
3. Premiere Status
- NEPAL Premiere status is preferred.
4. Selection of Films
YALA International Independent Film Festival will complete the selection process by April 15, 2021, and will contact all submitting parties by email with programming status at that time.
5. Festival will invite accepted film’s director/Producer/Artist/film crew to attend the festival. Festival will provide food and accommodation during the screening.
6. The accepted film must be received by Blu-ray, Mpeg, MOV or AVI format by 15/04/2021 to be played at Yala International Independent Film Festival, June 12- 15 2021.
7. The festival aspires to provide the best quality projection possible but will not be held liable for any failure in the technical quality of the projection, nor will fees be refunded in any such case.
ADDITIONAL SUBMISSION RULES
1. Works in progress will automatically be disqualified.
2. NO press materials will be accepted until films have been announced.
3. If your film is accepted, you will receive a notification email from the festival. Your acceptance will be conditional on meeting promotional/press kit, informational and film print submission deadlines.
TRAVELLING YIIFF
The term “TRAVELLING YIIFF” refers to a program where YIIFF travels inside Nepal screening movies, free of cost for educational and awareness purposes for the general public. This program intends to make the general public aware of cinema culture in and around the globe encouraging the young Independent voices and stories.
NOTE: This is optional for the makers, only if they (filmmaker) wanted to participate in this program.
If agreed follow the following link: http://www.yiiff.org
ACCEPTANCE OF RULES:
Submitting a signed entry form constitutes full acceptance of the YIIFF rules outlined herein and on the entry form. YIIFF reserves the right to decide all questions not specifically addressed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
NISHA SHRESTHA
Festival Director
Yala International Independent film festival (YIIFF)
PO Box 8975, EPC no. 707
Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: 977-1-5542787/9813630786
festivaldirector@yiiff.org
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN March 30, 2021.
For further queries: nepalindiefilms@yiiff.org