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Awards 2024
FILM FESTIVAL 2024
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Submission Criteria

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN

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This link will take you to Film Freeway, where we are accepting submissions.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

About

FLOW (Florida Opening Worlds) Film Festival and Film Market is an international Film Festival that focuses primarily on promoting women in the film industry in non-traditional senior and leadership roles, and the films that employ them. Our mission is to encourage the growth of opportunities for women in important and male-dominated positions in the film industry, to fight gender bias and pave the way for an aspiring new generation of female film makers, through highlighting both their significant and high quality contributions and the films and film industry stakeholders who employ them.

AWARDS

  • Best Short
  • Best Feature
  • Best Screenplay
  • Best Animated Feature
  • Best Animated Short Film
  • Best Music Video
  • Best Made in Florida
  • Best Documentary
  • Best Student Short
  • Best Director
  • Best Female Director
  • Best Actor
  • Best Actress
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Sound
  • Best Score
  • Best in Editing
  • Best Screenplay
  • Best Visual Effects
  • Audience Choice Award
  • Honorable Mention

Rules & Terms

Content submitted to FLOW festival will be promoted on our website, in printed materials (such as the festival program) and in our press and marketing activity (this can include presenting films that we have selected to the press). The filmmaker gives us the right to use the name of the film and the images submitted for the uses listed.

Qualifying Crew Positions

Films that will be accepted into the Festival shall submit Crew List along with the submission and shall have hired women on the following non-traditional roles:

Cast will not be eligible for consideration.

  • Best Short
  • Best Feature
  • Best Screenplay
  • Best Animated Feature
  • Best Animated Short Film
  • Best Music Video
  • Best Made in Florida
  • Best Documentary
  • Best Student Short
  • Best Director
  • Best Female Director
  • Best Actor
  • Best Actress
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Sound
  • Best Score
  • Best in Editing
  • Best Screenplay
  • Best Visual Effects
  • Audience Choice Award
  • Honorable Mention

Once a film is officially accepted to the festival, the filmmaker can no longer withdraw it from the festival lineup. The filmmaker is also responsible for submitting the screening materials at least four weeks before the festival. If the screening will be a world premiere, please let us know as we will do our best to promote to the local community, and please keep us abreast of production and marketing activities!

FLOW Film Festival is hereby granted the right to utilize an excerpt (about 1 minute or less) from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the Festival for promotional purposes. The individual or corporation submitting the film hereby warrants that it is authorized to commit the film for screening, and understands and accepts these requirements and regulations. The undersigned shall indemnify and hold harmless FLOW Film Festival and its assigns, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees, and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered.