Gimli FIlm Festival

About the festival

The Gimli Film Festival is widely recognized as Manitoba's premier Film Festival, and the largest rural Film Festival in all of Canada! It is our mandate to support filmmakers by paying minimum IMAA screening fees to ALL films that screen as part of our festival!

It is our aim to bring critical, boundary-pushing cinema to our local audiences in the beautiful summer lakeside community of Gimli, Manitoba. We annually showcase the best narrative, documentary and experimental feature and short films from around the world.

We have dedicated annual series focused on Icelandic cinema, social justice documentaries, Indigenous cinema, woman-driven cinema, films from the Circumpolar region, environmental films and more. Our 20th annual Festival - running this July 22 to 26th - will celebrate GFF's 20th anniversary and also Manitoba's 150th celebration of joining Canada. To mark these occasions, GFF has launched "The Manitoba Project" which will present new commissioned short films by Manitoba's best filmmakers, a Manitoba film retrospective at GFF 2020, and other innovative activities throughout the year. More info here: https://gimlifilm.com/the-manitoba-project/

For more information about the submission process or about the Festival in general, please feel free to contact our team at submissions@gimlifilm.com

-Grand Jury Prize (feature films)
-Audience Choice Award (feature films)
-Best Canadian Short Film
-Best Manitoban Short Film ($750)
-Beset International Short Film
-Indigenous Spirit Award (Awarded annually to an Indigenous Filmmaker)
-Best Canadian Feature Film
-Best Manitoba Filmmaker (all Manitoba filmmakers eligible)
-RBC $10,000 Emerging Pitch Competition ($10,000 | must submit application via website)

About

For more information about the submission process or about the Festival in general, please feel free to contact our team at submissions@gimlifilm.com

Terms and rules

All films submitted will be screened by our programming team and all films accepted will be paid a base artist fee as dictated by the Independent Media Arts Alliance 2019 Fee Schedule *OR* the fee/percentage agreed upon by the filmmaker/distributor:
http://www.imaa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMAA-fee-sched-2019_EN.pdf

*To apply to be a part of RBC's $10,000 Emerging Filmmaker Pitch Competition you must be a Manitoba resident and apply online here:
https://gimlifilm.com/dev_2018/submit-2/2018-rbc-10000-emerging-filmmaker-competition/

**Please note, the Gimli Film Festival DOES NOT offer refunds once a film submission fee has been paid.**

Ratings & Reviews

Categories and fees

Feature Films

Entry fees

Early Bird (2nd December, 2019) $10

Regular (15th March, 2020) $25

Late (15th April, 2020) $50

Description

Any film longer than 45 minutes.

Manitoban Short Films

Entry fees

Early Bird (2nd December, 2019) $0

Regular (15th March, 2020) $0

Late (15th April, 2020) $0

Description

THIS FORM IS FOR MANITOBA-BASED FILMMAKERS ONLY. To apply here, you MUST be a filmmaker currently living in Manitoba, Canada. Anyone submitting with a non-Manitoba address to this form will have ALL of their submissions disqualified, in this category and all others. Your film must be less than 45 minutes, however programming priority will be given to films less than 25 minutes long.

Canadian Short Films

Entry fees

Early Bird (2nd December, 2019) $5

Regular (15th March, 2020) $10

Late (15th April, 2020) $20

Description

To apply you must be a non-Manitoba filmmaker who is born or living in Canada. Your film must be less than 45 minutes, however programming priority will be given to films less than 25 minutes long.

International Short Films

Entry fees

Early Bird (2nd December, 2019) $7

Regular (15th March, 2020) $12

Late (15th April, 2020) $25

Description

To apply you must be a filmmaker living outside of Canada. Your film must be less than 45 minutes, however programming priority will be given to films less than 25 minutes long.