Submit Your Short Film at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: Asia, Check the Terms and Conditions!
By: Amelia Rosary Dewi
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Competition, Idn Media, Short Film

Submit Your Short Film at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: Asia, Check the Terms and Conditions! Amelia Rosary Dewi Jun 17·3 min read

Sundance Film Festival: Asia, presented by XRM Media and fully supported by IDN Media, is proud to announce a Short Film Competition sponsored by Argo as part of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: Asia. Argo is a streaming platform and global curator of short films. The competition is open to Indonesian filmmakers and aims to discover, nurture, and bring attention to emerging talents who are within the territory to a global platform. To know more about the terms and conditions, keep on scrolling!

1. General terms and conditions

Applicants must comply with some requirements. For entrant eligibility, film director(s) must be at the age of 18 or above as of the deadline of submitting the application. If the entry has more than one director (maximum 4 directors), all joint-directors must be at the age of 18 or above.

Film director of the entry must be an Indonesian. If the entry has more than one director (maximum 4 directors), all joint-directors must be Indonesians as well. Later, winners of the competition should make every effort to attend Sundance Film Festival: Asia’s activities upon the request of the organisers, including but not limited to Awards Night, Panels, Q&A Session of respective screening(s). More details will be announced in due course, so stay tuned!

2. Film production and genre

It should be noted that entries must be completed on or after 1 January 2019 (the last date of production must fall on 1 January 2019 or after). The running time of each entry has to be between 3 and 20 minutes, including opening and end credits. For non-English dialogue, entries must have burnt-in English subtitles. If entrant(s) are not able to submit the screening copy with burnt-in subtitles, they are required to attach the transcript for Jury Panel reference in a separate email.

How about the genres? Are there any requirements? No. All genres of shorts are accepted, unless music video clips and commercial advertising videos. There are no premiere or prior screening restrictions. Shorts that have been publicly exhibited, distributed, entered, or have won prizes in other contests are eligible to enter the competition. The competition has no restriction on the number of entries, but each entry should be entered only once in the competition.

3. Awards for winners

Not only receiving a cash prize of 2,000 USD sponsored by Argo, short films that win the competition will be screened at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: Asia. More than that, works selected will be automatically submitted for consideration for entry to Sundance Film Festival 2022 in Utah! Global distribution will also be offered.

Submitted short films will be curated by a jury of representatives from the Sundance Institute, IDN Pictures, Argo, and a Sundance Film Festival alumni director, Joko Anwar. This competition will be a golden opportunity for Indonesian filmmakers to move forward to a global stage. For further information on submission procedures and rules and regulations, please visit our FilmFreeway page: https://filmfreeway.com/SundanceAsia.