OVERVIEW:
Films submitted to Tag! will be considered for the winter 2021 festival, which will be held live at our new Portland venue if permitted by local health authorities. In the event that COVID-19 restrictions are still in place, the festival will be either rescheduled or organized as an online event.
Tag! may also consider films submitted to us early in the season for inclusion in our special online coronavirus community support series. Filmmakers whose work is selected for these online events will be contacted in advance by festival organizers.
CONTENT:
Tag! reviews films of all genres and themes provided that they were made by queer or trans filmmakers. In general we favor work that is directed and produced by people whose perspective on the topic they are exploring is informed by their own life experience.
Sexually explicit content is permitted, however we are sensitive to issues of consent and do not accept work that involves participants in sexual activity or explicit nudity who cannot or did not consent (e.g. children, animals, hidden cameras, etc.).
We appreciate our non-queer allies who make films featuring LGBTQ+ subjects, however this is a festival designed to amplify the creative voices of queer and trans - identifying filmmakers and we request submissions only from individuals who self-identify as queer or trans people.
SUBMISSION RULES:
Submissions will be accepted online only via FilmFreeway and we require projects to include embedded or linked versions of the films. We cannot evaluate physical media.
Please submit only competed work; rough cuts will not be evaluated.
Work that is available for public online viewing (without password protection) or that is in commercial distribution is not eligible for submission, but may be considered for an invited screening; contact festival organizers for details.
WAIVERS AND DISCOUNTS:
In order to support filmmakers who do not have the resources to pay submission fees, we provide a limited number of fee waivers. Please contact the festival at info@elinverso.com to request fee waivers.
Filmmakers from the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, British Columbia) may be eligible for discounted fees. Contact the festival at info@elinverso.com if you wish to request a fee discount.
SELECTED FILMS:
By submitting your film, you are granting non-exclusive permission for us to exhibit it in one or more festival programs.
We require captioning on all films we screen for accessibility. SRT files must be provided for all selected films—even those in English—prior to exhibition.
Exhibition copies of films accepted for our special online events much be made available by electronic transfer within 14 days of notification. Films accepted for live screenings must arrive at the festival by two weeks before the exhibition date using Dropbox or similar cloud storage/file transfer service. We can accept physical media such as USB drives if necessary. In either case, any costs involved in getting films to the festival are the filmmakers' responsibility.
By submitting a film, you grant the festival permission to use trailers, stills, descriptions, biographies and other submitted materials for the purpose of festival promotion and publicity.
Tag! keeps an archival copy of each festival's full program. Out of respect for the creative property rights these copies will not be re-screened without prior consent of the original submitter or their legal representative.
Submitters bear the sole responsibility to clear all content of work submitted from any and all potential legal claims including, without limitation, claims based on libel, defamation, copyright, or trademark infringement. The festival disavows liability for any such actual or potential legal claims and submitters indemnify the the festival from any and all fees and expenses, including but not limited to attorneys’ fees, that each of any of them may incur in connection to such claims.
DISCLAIMER:
We are pleased to operate the Tag! Queer Shorts Festival with financial and other support from community partners. Opinions expressed by festival organizers and the creators of content screened in festival programming are their own and do not necessarily reflect the view of community partners, sponsors, or venues.