All filmmakers must be 16 years or older in order to enter.
All submissions must be no more than 5 minutes in length and include at least 50% drone footage.
News/Documentary entries can be up to 10 minutes in length.
Show reel entries should be no more than 3 minutes in length.
By entering, you authorize that your work is cleared for festival exhibition and accept full legal responsibility for the intellectual property therein. Entry into the festival constitutes permission to exhibit your work at the festival and on the festival’s website and social media. The Southern California Drone Film Festival reserves the right to use excerpts of any submitted film for promotional purposes only, including but not limited to broadcast on TV or the Internet.
The person submitting the entry acknowledges that he or she has obtained consent and from any and all owners, creators, writers, actors, producers and/or other authorized representatives of the film whose consent is required to submit the content to the festival.
It is the sole responsibility of the person submitting to secure authorization and permission from the copyright owner(s) of any and all copyrighted content or materials included within the submitted Film. It is the sole responsibility of the person submitting to secure authorization and permission from the owner(s) of any and all trademarked content and materials included within the submitted film.
All those who enter will receive an email from FilmFreeway notifying them of their judging status. Finalists will be posted on the festival website and shared on SoCal Drone Film Festival's social media. Finalists will need to provide exhibition format digital files and additional information.