20-Minute-Film Competition

The TFF short film competition is all about your creativity!  Whether as a newcomer or already as a professional, we welcome your contribution to the film competition.


General eligibility requirements:

  • “You” could mean: an individual or group composed of several people, in the group the person of Tibetan heritage must have played a leading role in production of the film (director, writer, producer, camera work).

  • You can only be involved in one film entered into the competition.

  • You do not infringe any copyright (see below).

  • The film does not exceed the length of  20 minutes.

  • The film needs to have English subtitles.

  • The film must have been made after December 2019 and not have been screened publicly before. 

  • You must enter the film for the competition by 5th June 2022.


Copyright

No copyright may be infringed, meaning that no music or film material from a third person can be used if the rights to use it have not been granted (e.g. using clips from Hollywood films or music by Lady Gaga etc.). By submitting a competition entry or by participating in the competition, you are granting the organisers of the festival (Filming for Tibet) the right to show the film at the festival, place the entire film or in part on the website of the organisers of the festival and to use the film in its entirety or in part for advertising purposes, to integrate the film into documentation of the festival and to make the film available to third parties.


Film Format

There are no format guidelines. Any form of image capture technique can be used. Even cartoons and mobile phone recordings are allowed. There are no guidelines on artistic form.
In the case that the competition submissions show major qualitative differences, the festival management reserves the right to introduce categories.


Submitting

Applicants are requested to submit the registration form via Google Form (see below). The film should be submitted digitally to shortfilms@tibetfilmfestival.org in the form of a download link (WeTransfer or similar).
If you would like to directly upload your film onto our server, then please get in touch with us at shortfilms@tibetfilmfestival.org with “Submission Help” in the subject.

The competition participants will be informed by email whether their film has been selected.