Moscow Experimental Film Festival 2016 Call for entries

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Our 1st Moscow Experimental Film Festival is the first in its kind in Russia – which gives an excellent opportunity for both Russian artists and filmmakers together with talent from around the world to showcase their work side by side, reaching this minor approach in seeing things differently in film out to a wider audience in our country.

MEFF is launched for the first time by a strong ambition to create a festival that fully devotes itself to a well-deserved and close up look at a wide range of experimental categories. This guarantees exclusive and thorough attention to talents that might have previously been overlooked by the vast number of conventional filmmaking festivals that only spare a small corner for experimental categories within their programmes, as well as to the works that are lost online in the vast variety of content nowadays.

Since it's our first year, we decided to open our call to everyone who will come and find us - be that FILMS THAT HAVE ALREADY PREVIOUSLY BEEN RELEASED ONLINE and FILMS THAT HAVE BEEN EXCLUSIVE TO FESTIVAL SCREENINGS ONLY - ALL QUALIFY. It will be down to us to select the best ones out there, irrespective of its degree of exclusiveness and availability to the audience in the past. Our priority here is to showcase the best and most interesting work side by side, hopefully giving very gifted people the opportunity to showcase their talent and for the audience to have a real gasp of fresh air over the running days of our festival.

So whether you are an amateur starting out or an established experienced professional – we would like to encourage you to submit if you do practise pushing the boundaries and experimenting within the film medium. “Underground, urban, trashy” – are the words we’re not afraid of either, as long as it allows us to focus on unconventional ways of narrating into the audience’s mind, rightfully breaking their pattern of accommodated filmic perception through the brave and exquisite vision of our participants.

Curated at a secret location in Moscow, to be revealed well in advance (TBA)

Awards and prizes:

Our jury comprises of people whose opinion is valid in a nowadays era of such varied backgrounds as contemporary art, experimental film, contemporary theatre and dance, both invited foreign guests and Russian connoisseurs. Their presence and attention will bring a wider range of audience and will offer professional and caring feedback during the course of our festival in the context of each of their representative specialised backgrounds.

The jury will choose and award the BEST work in each category. Works from official selection will receive the festival’s official selection vine-leaf circlet logo file

Rules and terms:

Please take your time to read the below terms and rules before submitting your work.

* ONLY EXPERIMENTAL FILMS WITH UNCONVENTIONAL NARRATIVE STRUCTURE ARE ACCEPTED BY MEFF. 
* PUBLICLY AVAILABLE (ONLINE OR ELSEWHERE) AS WELL AS FILMS PREVIOUSLY ONLY SCREENED AT FESTIVALS - ALL QUALIFY FOR SUBMISSION. 
* RUNNING TIME LIMITATION is 40 MINUTES or less. More than 40 minutes will not be considered. 
* Films and videos can be from any year due to the young nature of our festival. 
* You may have multiple entries and submit to multiple categories. 

* You will be required to provide film and production stills and a 60-second or less clip or trailer for the festival publicity purposes. 
* Your film (applies to non-English language films) needs to be provided with English subtitles at the moment of submission. 
* If your film will be selected, you’ll need to provide a dialogue list in English (applies to films in any language). 
* You will need to submit an HD as the least resolution for screening your film in the case if it will be selected.

* By submitting, the participant filmmaker/artist acknowledges and agrees that if selected for the festival - their film will be screened in a live venue in front of live audience. 
* By submitting, the participant filmmaker/artist acknowledges and agrees for the festival to use publicity material (film, production stills, posters, 60-second or less clip 
etc.) from selected films to promote the festival in print and online. 
* By submitting, the participant filmmaker/artist warrants that they are the rightful owner of the submission and do not violate or infringe on any trademark, trade name, copyright, literary, dramatic, musical, artistic or other intellectual property or personal rights.

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