ENTRY GUIDELINES
You may submit your film to the 2021 SFJFF beginning on October 5, 2020.
There is only one deadline for the Festival: February 12, 2021.
All entries must be RECEIVED by February 12, 2021.
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival showcases new independent American and international Jewish-subject cinema. Now in its 40th year, the Festival is the oldest and most prestigious Jewish Film Festival in the world, with total attendance of approximately 35,000. The Festival presents dramatic, documentary, television, experimental, and animated features and shorts about Jewish history, culture, and identity. The 39th festival will be held at San Francisco's historic Castro Theatre, with additional screenings in Berkeley, Oakland, Palo Alto, and San Rafael.
Deadline and Fees
All entries must be RECEIVED by February 10, 2020.
$25 - Shorts (under 50 min)
$35- Features (over 50 min)
Entry Forms
Complete entry forms can be found at the Festival’s web site at jfi.org
Look for the “2020 CALL FOR ENTRIES” link on our homepage and submit through FilmFreeway
Exhibition Formats and Subtitling
The Festival screens DCP, ProRes, BluRay, and 35mm. All non-English language films must be subtitled in English.
Premiere Status
Feature length narratives and documentaries should not screen or broadcast in Northern California prior to or during the Festival. Please note that Northern California includes the metropolitan areas of Sacramento, San Jose, Contra Costa, Monterey and the Napa/Sonoma Valleys, as well as the San Francisco Bay Area.
Preview Screener Format
Preview screeners can be either online links or DVD (NTSC format preferred; PAL and non-region 1 DVD permitted). Screeners of foreign language works must be subtitled in English.
Rough Cuts
The SFJFF accepts rough cuts of almost completed films as Festival entries. Rough cut entries must have an expected completion date of May 1, 2020 or earlier.
Packaging & Labeling
If mailing a DVD, please label your DVD with the title, director’s name, shipper's name (if different from director) and shipper's address.
Returning Preview DVDs
We are not able to return preview DVDs unless you include a stamped self-addressed envelope with your entry. If you choose not to include a stamped self-addressed envelope and your film is not accepted into the Festival, your submission(s) will be destroyed.
Cost of Shipping Previews
All preview DVDs costs, TO and FROM the Festival, must be paid by the sender.
International Entries
We suggest that entries from outside of the U.S. be sent via Air Mail Registered or by an express service. We cannot accept preview entries shipped via air freight if customs and delivery fees have not been prepaid.
Authorization
You must affirm with your signature on the entry form that you are authorized to submit this film to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. If your film/video is accepted, your signature also authorizes us to retain a copy of the submitted work in our non-circulating Festival archive and to use a two-minute promotional excerpt from it for festival promotion and on the web in perpetuity.
Notification
You will be notified of the outcome by email by June 8, 2020.
To enter works or for further information, contact:
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Programming Department
145 Ninth Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.621.0556 tel
415.621.0568 fax
http://www.sfjff.org
Email: jewishfilm@sfjff.org