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Entry Guidelines

Welcome to the Northern Territory’s own short film competition.

Please read the following very carefully – we wouldn’t want all your hard work making a film going to waste because it didn’t fulfil the entry requirements!

Conditions of Entry

In order for your entry to qualify for inclusion in the Long Shorts Section judging process, it must adhere to the following conditions:

1. Principal creators of entries, must have been NT residents for at least 6 months at 16 July 2007;
2. Principal creators must have a body of short film work – all finalists will be asked to supply evidence of their experience;
3. Long Shorts entries must have been produced within the 12 months prior to 16 July 2007;
4. Long Shorts entries must not have been screened publicly prior to FFF screenings;
5. Maximum length of entries, including credits, is 10 minutes;
6. All entries must be submitted on MiniDV tape or DVD;
7. Entries may only be submitted to one section of the competition, eg. if you have submitted your entry to the Homegrown Section, you cannot enter the same film in the Long Shorts Section;
8. There is no limit to the number of entries submitted;
9. Entries must be accompanied by a still from the film for publicity purposes;
10. Entries must not infringe copyright. All music used must have permission from the licence holders (for more information see www.apra.com.au);
11. Entries must be received or postmarked no later than 5pm 16 July 2007. Hand delivery to Brown’s Mart Community Arts, corner of Smith St and Harry Chan Avenue, Darwin, NT. Postal deliveries to GPO Box 2429, Darwin, NT, 0801;
12. Fist Full of Films and Brown’s Mart Community Arts will not be held liable for any loss or damage to entries submitted. Do not submit the original – send a copy!;
13. Entrants implicitly accept FFF and BMCA’s right to screen entries in full or in part as part of promotion of Fist Full of Films short film competition and/or screenings.

NB. Entrants who do not accept and adhere to the above will not be eligible for judging.

Judging

• Entries to the Long Shorts Section will be shortlisted by the Fist Full of Films Selection Panel before being submitted to the FFF Judging Panel, a group of nationally and internationally respected Australian film industry professionals.
• Finalists will be notified by Friday 27 July 2007.
• Non-finalists will not be contacted and should assume their entry has not qualified for judging if they have not been contacted.
• Judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• Judges will select one entry to receive the Darwin Film Society Best Film – Long Shorts Section and a $750 cash prize, courtesy of the Darwin Film Society.
• Other entries may receive Judges’ Commendations, however no prizes are attached.

Screenings

FFF Long Shorts Section Best Film will be screened during the FFF Galah Awards Premiere at the Deckchair Cinema on 20 August, 2007.

FFF Long Shorts Section finalists will be screened at the Deckchair Cinema, 21 August 2007, as part of the 2007 Darwin Festival program (see Darwin Festival or Deckchair Cinema programs for times).

Subsequent screenings of finalists will follow as part of the FFF Regional Screenings Tour, with dates in Katherine (as part of the Flying Fox Festival), Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy and Alice Springs to be announced. (Other locations to be confirmed.)

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