We strongly encourage you to review the following carefully. By submitting your project, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to all of the following rules and terms. All projects that have been submitted by our final deadline and that adhere to the following terms will be considered for inclusion in the 2020 edition of Serile Filmului Gay (Gay Film Nights).
If you have any further questions, please contact us at office@serilefilmuluigay.ro
1. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Each submission must include a final screener version of the film, accompanied by the cast list, stills, the synopsis and a YouTube link to the trailer, in order for the film to be taken into consideration by our selection team. Once we have all necessary materials, the submission will be marked “In Consideration”. It is the submitter’s responsibility to make sure that all requirements are met.
2. SCREENERS
All projects must be submitted via secure online screener - either as a password protected Vimeo link attached to your submission, or uploaded directly to FilmFreeway. The submitter is responsible for ensuring that their screener link and password are active through at least May 1st 2018. In the event of a password or URL change after submitting, email us immediately. If we discover an error with the screener, we will attempt to email the submitter for an update. Online screeners must be available to stream. We do not accept any films that must be downloaded.
We DO NOT accept DVD or Blu-Ray screeners. In addition, we cannot accept screener links via email, they MUST be attached to your submission.
We only accept 2D films.
3. SUBTITLES
All foreign-language films must be submitted with English subtitles. If we discover a submission is missing subtitles, we will attempt to email the submitter for an update. Failure to provide working subtitles by the final submission deadline will result in disqualification.
4. WORKS IN PROGRESS
Works-in-progress are NOT eligible for submission.
5. DEADLINES
Please keep track of the deadlines closely. There is a regular deadline: December 15th 2019, and a late deadline on February 1st 2020. Submissions postmarked after the day mentioned above will be taken into consideration for the next edition of the festival.
6. ACCEPTED FILMS
The download links must be available permanently until May 1st 2020 for inclusion in the festival.
Should your film be accepted in the 2020 edition of Serile Filmului Gay / Gay Film Nights, you grant SFG the right to utilize an excerpt from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the festival for promotional purposes.
All accepted films will screen multiple times during and after the festival, with the possibility of an encore screening for select films/shorts blocks when appropriate. All scheduling is purely at the discretion of the SFG staff.
By entering your film to be considered in Serile Filmului Gay / Gay Film Nights International Film Festival you offer the organizer the right to broadcast the film not more then 5 times before, during and after the festival, in the name of promoting the festival.
Films and videos should be of interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, intersex and/or transgender people. We seek feature, narrative and documentary films.
7. SCREENING FEES
Serile Filmului Gay / Gay Film Nights DOES NOT PAY SCREENING FEES for submitted films. By submitting your project, you acknowledge that SFG will not pay to present your work.
8. OTHER FEES
Serile Filmului Gay / Gay Film Nights DOES NOT PAY transport, accommodation and any other EXPENSES that film directors or other staff of the production company will incur if they will have the possibility to come to Romania during the festival.
9. COPYRIGHT & LEGAL TERMS
By entering your film for consideration to the Serile Filmului Gay / Gay Film Nights International Film Festival, you authorize that your work is cleared for festival exhibition and accept full legal responsibility for the intellectual property therein. The submitter and all those associated with the project shall indemnify and hold harmless PRIDE Romania, and any representative or affiliates from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees and court costs) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered.