Arogya Sena 7th Smita Patil Documentary and Short Film Festival SPIFF 2018 : spiffpune.in

Organisation : Arogya Sena Pune
Competition Name : 7th Smita Patil Documentary and Short Film Festival (SPIFF) 2018
Contest Last Date : 30th September 2018
Terms & Conditions : https://www.contest.net.in/uploads/33239-fff.pdf
Website : http://spiffpune.in/

Arogya Sena SPIFF

7th Smita Patil Documentary and Short Film Festival (SPIFF) will be held on December 8 – 9, 2018 in Pune. SPIFF is organized by Arogya Sena, a self-funded organization which works with a certain ideology.

Related : Marathi Chitrapat Parivar PSFF 8th Pune Short Film Festival 2018 : www.contest.net.in/28876.html

All the programmers of Arogya Sena are strictly conducted as per the ideology, tradition, protocol and discipline of the organisation.

Dates & Last Dates

Early Submission Last Date: 30th April 2018
Regular Submission Last Date: 31st August 2018
Extended Submission Last Date: 30th September 2018
Film Screening 8th and 9th December 2018
Award Ceremony 9th December 2018

Awards

Best Short Film:
1st Prize – Rs. 15,000/-
2nd Prize – Rs. 10,000/-

Best Documentary:
1st Prize – Rs. 15,000/-
2nd Prize – Rs. 10,000/-

Best Director:
Fiction: Rs. 8,000/-
Documentary: Rs. 8,000/-

Fees

Early Submission Fees ((Non-refundable): Rs.600/-
Regular Submission Fees ((Non-refundable): Rs.1000/-
Extended Submission Fees (Non-refundable): Rs. 1200/-

Rules & Terms

** Duration: up-to 40 Minutes
** Format: Documentary or Short Film could be shot on any camera but English subtitles are compulsory for languages other than English.
** The Documentaries or Short Films lacking sufficient technical qualities will also be rejected. The entries shall be judged on the basis of originality, craft, entertainment and artistic quality, without regard to cost of production or subject matter.
** Final Screening: Documentaries or Short Films selected by pre-selection committee will only be eligible for final screening at the competition venue.
** Acknowledgement of the awards: Entrants must agree to acknowledge the award on the film itself if wins the award.
** Return of the copies: Copies for the festival will be retained by the organizers’ film archive for cultural, non-commercial, nonprofit festivals and archival screening in the future.
** A submission will be considered complete only after the DOWNLOAD IS ENABLED for the film’s preview screener in FilmFreeWay.
** FESTIVAL MAY NOT NECESSARILY ASK FOR DOWNLOAD indivisually if it is not enabled and the entry might be rejected.
** For consideration as STUDENT SHORT FILM The director of the Student Short Film must be a current or recently graduated full-time student, and made as part of their course at the institute.

** If the film is submitted under student category You have to upload your student photo ID proof. The submission will be considered only after receiving the submitting student’s valid ID proof by email to contact AT spiffpune.in. Please quote your FilmFreeWay tracking number in the subject line of the email

** If the film has more than one director, the team should nominate one of the directors as a key person for all communication.
** Submission will only be considered valid after receiving all the required documents and the final screening copy of the Documentary or Short Film on or before 30th September 2018 and will be considered as the final entry.
** The original submitter of the selected film will be notified by email by November 12, 2018. Please ensure that you have provided us with your correct/valid email.
** After notification of selection, the film may not be withdrawn from the festival under any circumstance.
** Due to large number of entries we receive, we will not be able to offer any feedback to those films not accepted.
** Results declared by the pre-selection committee and final juries will be treated as final and all the participants will abide by them. International winners will receive the award amount via online transfer which might take 30 days.
** If the submitter is not the filmmaker/producer it is submitter’s responsibility to convey the details to the filmmaker/producer/right holder within fifteen days of the email sent by the festival regarding the remittance process.
** Failing to communicate might delay the remittance process and after 30 days festival reserves the right to cancel the remittance.
** The communication will only happen on the email id provided at the time of submission unless requested to update the email id.
** The winners will be informed regarding the additional documents required if any for award remittance, only after receiving the documents the remittance process will start.
** International remittance WILL ONLY HAPPEN VIA PAYPAL.
** For collection of trophies and certificate submitter will have to make the arrangments festival may not necessarily make the arrangments.