RULES & TERMS
• Principle photography to be shot in the Midwest U.S. -- Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, Kentucky, and Michigan.
• Producers and/or Directors currently reside in one of the above states
• Please submit all short film(s) to Filmfreeway.com. DVD copies will not be accepted.
• Films should be no shorter than 1 minutes or no longer than 30 minutes including credits.
• NO FEE WAIVERS are available.
• “MATURE SUBJECT MATTER”: Must be noted on FilmFreeway Project Details • We do not accept films containing: Porn, Child Pornography
• No submissions will be accepted after the extended deadline.
• Entry does not guarantee screening at the festival.
• Entries that have been chosen for screening at Shawnee Shorts Film Fest 2017 will be notified. We will not automatically contact you if your film has not been selected for presentation.
• Films must not have a distribution agreement in place at the time of the festival or they will be ineligible for screening. If you receive distribution prior to screening, please contact us.
• The film may not be copyrighted by anyone other than yourself or you must have full written permission to submit and screen this film. The film must have clear copyright of all audio and images presented in the film. Not having clearance could be grounds for non-acceptance to the festival.
• Please ensure if you are submitting a film that contains copyrighted/trademarked material by anyone other than yourself, that you have obtained clearance for that material used. The burden of determining that any
material is not protected by copyright, trademark, rights of privacy, publicity or any other proprietary rights rests with the entrant.