The IFAP Awards

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Feature, Short

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The IFAP Awards

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About the festival

The IFAP Awards is an annual five day film festival celebrating the independent filmmaker. With so few opportunities at bigger festivals for indie filmmakers to have their films seen, great indie content goes unnoticed. We look for those hidden gems. The awesome films and content that often gets passed up. We look for visionary groundbreaking content that often goes unseen and unheard. There’s nothing better than seeing your hard work on screen in front of an audience that will appreciate it. There’s nothing better than hearing your name called and walking up to the podium to be acknowledged for your hard work. That’s our festival, that’s our award show. We look forward to seeing you on the red carpet.

All nominees receive free access to the entire festival, panels and workshops as well as free entry to the award show. Winners will receive the IFAP award in their perspective categories. The award categories are as follows.

Best Picture Domestic.
Best Picture International
Best Documentary.
Best Short Documentary
Best Director
Best Short Film.
Best LGBTQ Film
Best Tri State Film
Best Web Series.
Best Screenplay .
Best Actor.
Best Actress.
Best Supporting Male Actor.
Best Supporting Female Actor.
Best Music Video
Best Black Stage Play
Best Emerging Black Filmmaker
Audience Choice Award
Best Short Documentary

About

The IFAP Awards is an annual five day film festival celebrating the independent filmmaker. With so few opportunities at bigger festivals for indie filmmakers to have their films seen, great indie content goes unnoticed. We look for those hidden gems. The awesome films and content that often gets passed up. We look for visionary groundbreaking content that often goes unseen and unheard. There’s nothing better than seeing your hard work on screen in front of an audience that will appreciate it. There’s nothing better than hearing your name called and walking up to the podium to be acknowledged for your hard work. That’s our festival, that’s our award show. We look forward to seeing you on the red carpet.

All nominees receive free access to the entire festival, panels and workshops as well as free entry to the award show. Winners will receive the IFAP award in their perspective categories. The award categories are as follows.

Best Picture Domestic.
Best Picture International
Best Documentary.
Best Short Documentary
Best Director
Best Short Film.
Best LGBTQ Film
Best Tri State Film
Best Web Series.
Best Screenplay .
Best Actor.
Best Actress.
Best Supporting Male Actor.
Best Supporting Female Actor.
Best Music Video
Best Black Stage Play
Best Emerging Black Filmmaker
Audience Choice Award
Best Short Documentary

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

Films both domestic and international must be High Definition. International entries must be in English, or subtitled in English.
Works in progress will be accepted but must be clearly marked as such and what changes will be made when final and finished film is completed.

Feature films up to 120 minutes including credits will be accepted.
Stage plays up to 180 minutes will be accepted.
International Films up to 120 minutes including credits will be accepted.
Full length Documentaries up to 120 minutes including credits will be accepted.
Short films 20 minutes or less including credits will be accepted.
Short Documentaries up to 20 minutes including credits

To qualify for the Tri State Short Film category fifty percent or more of your film
must be shot in the Tri State area, Washington or Maryland.
. LGTBQ films up to 120 minutes including credits will be accepted.
Screenplays up to 120 pages will be accepted.

Web series entrants may submit two original episodes of your series for consideration (as one file). Each episode must be no more than 15 minutes, all genres accepted: drama, comedy, documentary style, reality based.
. Music videos will be a maximum of ten minutes in length including credits.
Your film, screenplay and music video must be copy written and must be the sole property of the submitter If your film is selected upon being contacted you will be required to send a file of your film.

Ratings & Reviews

Categories and fees

Feature Films
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

Documentaries
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

International Films
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

Your film must be subtitled in English.

Web Series
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

Entrants may submit two original episodes of your Web series for consideration (as one file). Each episode must be no more than 15 minutes in length including credits. All genres accepted: animation, drama, comedy, documentary style, reality based.

Music Videos
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

Your video can be no longer than ten minutes.

Short Films
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

Films twenty minutes or less.

Tri State Breakout Film
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

Short films made in the Tri State area are eligible to submit to this category.

Feature Screenplay
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $35

Short Documentary
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $20
Regular (31st August, 2020) $25
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

Short Documentaries twenty minutes and under.

LGBTQ
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

Best Black Stage Play
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

Best New Emerging Black Filmmakers
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

This category is solely for filmmakers with two years or less of filmmaking experience of African descent who have completed a short film. Twenty minutes or less.

Audience Choice Award
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $35

This category is strictly an online category for Feature Films. Films will be viewed on Vimeo via a private link. This will be the only way your film will be viewed. Privacy of all filmmakers material is of the utmost importance to us. so be assured there will be no public viewing of your material. Feature Films entered into this category are not eligible for Best Film or any Best Actor or Supporting actor categories.

Best Short Documentary.
Early Bird (30th June, 2020) $25
Regular (31st August, 2020) $30
Late (30th November, 2020) $30

This category is a strictly online category. Films will be shown via a private vimeo link.

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