By submitting your film, you agree that Fighting Spirit can use parts of your film (including trailer/teaser/film poster) for promotional purpose.
To submit a film, you must have created the project yourself, own the rights or have permission from the owner of the content to submit the film to us.
Rules and Terms:
Please read all rules and requirements before submitting your project:
1. We do not accept any films made before 2018.
2. Documentaries, non-fiction, animation, arthouse, and short films of the action or martial arts genre are open for unsolicited submission to the festival.
3. Documentaries, non-fiction, animation, arthouse, and short films of the action and martial arts genre are also selected by invitation from Fighting Spirit Film Festival.
4. All films must include English subtitles if selected (this is so we are fully inclusive for people who may not speak English as a first language, or people with hearing needs). Adding subtitles is the responsibility of the film maker. This also applies to films which are not in English language.
5. Fighting Spirit is not responsible for broken or non-functioning films.
6. Films do not have to be screened publicly to be eligible for our festival, or awards.
7. To be eligible for awards, short films must not be available for public viewing on any video hosting sites such as Facebook, Youtube, Vimeo, etc.
8. Short films should ideally be under 20 minutes, but anything up to 30 minutes may be considered subject to our panel.
9. Fighting Spirit Film Festival is a competitive event and unless notified otherwise, all shorts (except those that are publicly online) officially selected are eligible for competition. Not all submissions received are selected for Fighting Spirit Film Festival.
10. All films are nominated and voted upon by a jury of film professionals, from an independent point of view.
11. All genres and formats are considered eligible for nomination into one or more competitive categories.
12. Fighting Spirit Film Festival reserve the right to refuse to accept any submission deemed by the Festival to be inappropriate, or not fitting in with our values (see event description). Should you wish to question FSFF about their decision, you can contact us by email on info@fightingspiritfilmfestival.com