RULES & REGULATIONS
TBIFF - The Buddha International Film Festival
To participate:
The Festival is open to filmmakers from all over the world (INTERNATIONAL / NATIONAL) & We are accepting all genres.
The Film submitter should be an authorized person or an organization ; Film Director or Film Producer or Production Organization.
You can submit as many films as you wish.
The short films must have been made from the 1st January 2010 till the deadline for registration, and it is not a problem if they have been previously screened, shown on the Internet or in other festivals.
Our Jury's Decision about your film's selection is the final.
The films may be in English, Marathi, Hindi, Spanish, European Languages or in any other language with English subtitles. For the selection process are not necessary English subtitles but if your film is selected we will ask you English subtitles for the public screening.
The organization can use pieces from the selected films (10% maximum) to promote them and the festival.
Selected short films of TBIFF will become part of "other film festivals organized by us".
Categories mentioned on FilmFreeway website with 'Non-Screening but in Award Competition' will not going to screen, as they are kind of award ceremony competition.
All content mentioned in categories' sub-section is the part of 'Rules and Terms' section.
Our jury's decision is the final decision about selection, there is zero scope of reconsideration or any argument. We share only digital laurels to official selections and certifications to winners through email. We are socially inclined festival so we always give support to many many filmmakers.
Competition Categories:
Short Films
Feature Films
Animated Short Films
Documentaries
Experimental Short Films
Music Videos
Animated Feature films
Ad Films
TV Series
Web Series
Smartphone Shorts
Screenplays
Trailers
Running time:
The short films upto 59 minutes,
The feature films or Documentaries should not be more than 4 hours
Format:
All of the submitted films can participate, no matter the format. The screening will be from a 1080p digital file (participants will be informed about the format needed for the screening with time enough).