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Hobnobben Film Festival

Ft. Wayne, IN, United States, North America

09 - 11 Oct, 2020

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Hobnobben Film Festival

Ft. Wayne, IN, United States, North America

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General Information

edition

5th

Contact details

Cinema Center 437 E. Berry St. Ft. Wayne, IN 46802 United States

46802

submissions@hobnobben.org

260-426-3456

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Venues

Cinema Center Inc 437 East Berry Street Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802, , United States Show me on the map
Spectator Lounge 437 East Berry Street Fort Wayne, IN 46802, , United States Show me on the map

About the festival

UPDATE: Our festival will now be held Friday, October 23 to Sunday, October 25, 2020 at the historic Embassy Theatre in Fort Wayne!

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At Hobnobben Film Festival, we aim to champion unique and diverse storytellers. Our 5th annual festival will be held October 23rd -25th at Cinema Center, a 501c3 non-profit art-house theater, located in the downtown Fort Wayne arts district. Cinema Center’s mission is to provide unique opportunities to explore our world through the art of film, and Hobnobben allows us the opportunity to do this – like whoa.

Fort Wayne is a great place to live, a great place to visit and a great place to have a film festival – we take our filmmaker hospitality seriously and want everyone to feel welcome and heard. Any selected filmmakers in attendance will receive two VIP filmmaker passes to the festival, free of charge.

Did we mention this is our 5th annual festival? Yeah, five years of amazing films, amazing filmmakers, amazing memories, and amazing audiences. We are legit stoked for October and want you to be a part of it.

Diversity: Need it. Want it. Gotta have it. No seriously, the stories we tell and who tells them matters. We want to hear as many voices as possible. We don’t have an international category, for example, because we want to see international submissions in ALL our categories.

Proceeds from the festival go toward supporting, maintaining and programming Fort Wayne’s non-profit art-house movie theater, Cinema Center.

Best of Awards will be given in each of the following categories:
Narrative Feature
Feature-Length Unscripted
Animated Shorts
Unscripted Short
Fiction Short
Student Work: High School and Undergraduate
First-Time Filmmaker and Advanced Student
Indiana Reels
WTFw: What the Fort Wayne?

About

UPDATE: Our festival will now be held Friday, October 23 to Sunday, October 25, 2020 at the historic Embassy Theatre in Fort Wayne!

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At Hobnobben Film Festival, we aim to champion unique and diverse storytellers. Our 5th annual festival will be held October 23rd -25th at Cinema Center, a 501c3 non-profit art-house theater, located in the downtown Fort Wayne arts district. Cinema Center’s mission is to provide unique opportunities to explore our world through the art of film, and Hobnobben allows us the opportunity to do this – like whoa.

Fort Wayne is a great place to live, a great place to visit and a great place to have a film festival – we take our filmmaker hospitality seriously and want everyone to feel welcome and heard. Any selected filmmakers in attendance will receive two VIP filmmaker passes to the festival, free of charge.

Did we mention this is our 5th annual festival? Yeah, five years of amazing films, amazing filmmakers, amazing memories, and amazing audiences. We are legit stoked for October and want you to be a part of it.

Diversity: Need it. Want it. Gotta have it. No seriously, the stories we tell and who tells them matters. We want to hear as many voices as possible. We don’t have an international category, for example, because we want to see international submissions in ALL our categories.

Proceeds from the festival go toward supporting, maintaining and programming Fort Wayne’s non-profit art-house movie theater, Cinema Center.

Best of Awards will be given in each of the following categories:
Narrative Feature
Feature-Length Unscripted
Animated Shorts
Unscripted Short
Fiction Short
Student Work: High School and Undergraduate
First-Time Filmmaker and Advanced Student
Indiana Reels
WTFw: What the Fort Wayne?

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

Entrants must fully comply with these Entry Rules & Regulations in order to be considered eligible for the 2020 Hobnobben Film Fest.

- Only films completed after July 7, 2019 will be accepted
- Non-English language films must be subtitled in English.

SUBMISSION POLICIES AND PROCESSES

All films must be submitted via Hobnobben Film Festival's FilmFreeway Account and be viewable through FilmFreeway submission platform to be considered for festival screening.

POLICIES UPON ACCEPTANCE

Accepted films will be notified via email at the address included in the FilmFreeway submission form. The notification will include information in regards to the required formats and medium for the exhibition copy of the film and delivery deadlines.

Please add the @Hobnobben.org domain to an accepted senders list to ensure receipt of festival emails, our primary mode of communication.

By submitting, you confirm that such exhibition of submitted work will not violate or infringe upon any rights whatsoever (including copyright, trademark, musical or contract right) of any person or entity. Submitters further confirm that they are authorized to submit film.

By submitting, you agree to have your film, if selected, be shown 1 to 3 times during the festival.

Additionally, submitters indemnify the Hobnobben Film Festival and Fort Wayne Cinema Center, Inc. from any and all claims, demands, losses, costs, damages, and attorney's fee arising out of or in connection with third parties in regards to the screening of submitted film.

Any awards will be distributed to the production company of the winning film or to the person identified as a representative of the winning film’s production company in the credits thereof. All decisions of the Festival regarding the distribution of awards will be final and binding on all participants. If a representative from an award-winning film is not available to be present during Awards Ceremony, it is the responsibility of film's production company to provide Hobnobben with shipping address and correct postage to mail award. The Festival will not be liable for the distribution of any award to any party.

By submitting, you are stating they understand, and hereby agree to the terms written in the General Festival Rules submissions to Hobnobben Film Festival 2020.

Thank you for your interest in submitting your film with the Hobnobben Film Festival. Should you have any questions regarding this process or your film’s eligibility, please email submissions@hobnobben.org.

Ratings & Reviews

Categories and fees

Narrative Feature
Entry fees
Early Bird (29th February, 2020) $20
Regular (30th May, 2020) $35
Late (30th June, 2020) $40
Description

Open to all narrative genres (e.g.:live-action, animated), 40 minutes or longer.

Feature-Length Unscripted
Entry fees
Early Bird (29th February, 2020) $20
Regular (30th May, 2020) $35
Late (30th June, 2020) $40
Description

Open to any feature-length unscripted films, 40 minutes or longer.

Animated Shorts
Entry fees
Early Bird (29th February, 2020) $15
Regular (30th May, 2020) $20
Late (30th June, 2020) $30
Description

Open to animated shorts of any genre, not to exceed 40 minutes.

Unscripted Shorts
Entry fees
Early Bird (29th February, 2020) $15
Regular (30th May, 2020) $20
Late (30th June, 2020) $30
Description

Open to all unscripted shorts, not to exceed 40 minutes.

Fiction Shorts
Entry fees
Early Bird (29th February, 2020) $15
Regular (30th May, 2020) $20
Late (30th June, 2020) $30
Description

Open to all fiction submissions, not to exceed 40 minutes.

Student Work: High School & Undergraduate
Entry fees
Early Bird (29th February, 2020) $10
Regular (30th May, 2020) $15
Late (30th June, 2020) $20
Description

Open to all submissions from those currently enrolled as a student, or by a recently graduated student, with a graduation date no longer than one year from submission. All genres accepted. Anything up to 40 minutes can be submitted to this category.

First-time Filmmaker & Advanced Student
Entry fees
Early Bird (29th February, 2020) $15
Regular (30th May, 2020) $20
Late (30th June, 2020) $25
Description

Open to all submissions from first-time filmmakers and graduate students. All genres accepted. Anything up to 40 minutes can be submitted to this category.

Indiana Reels
Entry fees
Early Bird (29th February, 2020) $15
Regular (30th May, 2020) $20
Late (30th June, 2020) $25
Description

All submissions to this category must be directed by a resident of Indiana (or those from Indiana), be shot in Indiana, or highlight an Indiana-based story. Anything up to 40 minutes can be submitted to this category.

WTFw: What the Fort Wayne?
Entry fees
Early Bird (29th February, 2020) $15
Regular (30th May, 2020) $20
Late (30th June, 2020) $25
Description

Bring your weird to Fort Wayne. Have a film that defies description or categorization? Trippy music video? Experimental art piece? Something we don’t yet have a term for? Submit it here!

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