Your film or video may originate from anywhere from the world! Any nationalities and any production can enter our International Categories.
To enter Thai categories, your film or video must be a Thai production, produced in Thailand and the producer(s) and the director(s) of your production must be Thai citizens.
The official languages of ITFF are English and Thai. All non-English or non-Thai language entries must have English or Thai subtitles. (Except for music videos)
We would like to have Thailand premieres, but it is not a requirement. Productions submitted to the Festival must have been completed after January 1, 2017. Works-In-Progress are not considered. Productions that are nominated at previous editions of ITFF are not considered.
All genres of production are welcome (For example: comedy, drama, action, sci-fi, documentary, thriller, horror, art projects, etc...), except pornographic content. Over-sexualized contents are not allowed. You may have used any of the execution techniques (For example: film, animation - traditional or computer generated 2D or 3D) to execute your production.
You may submit multiple productions and can apply in as many categories as like as long as your production meets the criteria of the selected category you wish to submit to. Each submission will be considered and charged separately.
All entered films and videos must be the original work of the author or authors. Multiple authorship is allowed. ITFF and its organizers shall not be responsible directly or indirectly for any liability arising from any violation of any copyright laws.
ITFF is granted the right to use the submitted films and film stills for promotional purposes on the internet, television and other media, an excerpt of maximum 10% of the length of each submitted film may be used for that purpose. Please note that we will not in any way upload nor release your film or video online, with the exception of a poster and/or a trailer of your production.
[In other words: The Rights of your production remain with you and/ or the original right-holder(s) of the production. We only require the rights to screen your production during the Event. We only upload the trailer of your production (if you have provided one to us), the poster of your production and we may excerpt 10% of your production for promotional purposes.]
ITFF does not consider films that require screening or rental fees.
The festival does not accept any free entries, nor do we hand out fee waivers.
Entry Fees are non-refundable.
Your production entry cannot be withdrawn from the competition after 1st of July 2020.
The decisions of our judges are final and will not be reconsidered by any means.
All films and video productions submitted that are meeting our requirements are eligible for nomination for ITFF Film and Entertainment Industry Awards.
For more information, please visit our website at www.thaifilmfestival.com
Note: In a case of an emergency (e.g.: spread of COVID-19) or a natural disaster or any unexpected event that could cause health or safety concerns, we reserve the right to postpone, move, modify or cancel the live event of ITFF2020 and/or hold the Award Ceremony of ITFF2020 online and publicly announce the winners online. If such unusual circumstances appear; then the awards, trophies and prices will be send/posted to the winners. Otherwise however, we are confident in and well-prepared that the live event of ITFF2020 will be held as usual, scheduled in the middle of September 2020, Bangkok, Thailand.
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