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Entry Guidelines

Welcome to the Northern Territory’s own annual 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 Out There Section judging process, it must adhere to the following conditions:

1. Principal creators of entries must be permanent residents of a state or Territory other than Northern Territory or a country other than Australia at 16 July 2007;
2. Entries must contain vision of the 2007 Fist Full of Films Featured Object (FFoFFO – formerly known as the keyword), BALLOON. This must be clearly visible at some point in the main body of your film, between the opening frames and the closing credits;
3. ‘Out There’ entries must feature footage of, or reference to, the Northern Territory of Australia;
4. Entries must not have been screened publicly prior to FFF screenings;
5. Maximum length of entries, including credits, is 5 minutes;
6. All entries must be submitted on MiniDV tape or DVD;
   
7. There is no limit to the number of entries submitted (as long as they’re all different!);
8. Entries must be accompanied by a still from the film for publicity purposes;
   
9. Entries must not infringe copyright. All music used must have permission from the licence holders (for more information see www.apra.com.au).
10. Entries must be received or postmarked no later than 5pm 16 July 2007 and delivered to GPO Box 2429, Darwin, NT, 0801.
11. 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!
12. 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 FFF’s ‘Out There’ 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 film to receive the Fist Full of Films Tourism NT ‘Out There’ Section Best Film Award.
• The winner of the Tourism NT Best Film

Screenings

FFF Out There Best Film Award winner will be screened at the Fist Full of Films Galah Awards Premiere at the Deckchair Cinema on 20 August 2007.

FFF Out There finalists will be screened at the Deckchair Cinema on 21 August 2007, as part of the 2007 Darwin Festival program (see Darwin Festival and Deckchair Cinema programs for times).

Subsequent screenings 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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