Northwest Filmmakers' Festival

The archived festival conditions describe audience awards, decided by audience ballots at the end of the festival, and judges’ awards selected before the festival and announced in its printed programme. Judges determine their own categories and criteria, which vary between editions. Selected work also forms the Best of the Northwest touring programme. These are the festival’s historical award arrangements; no current award programme is announced.

HISTORICAL RULES — 46TH EDITION (2019 SUBMISSION CALL; EVENT MOVED TO MARCH 2020). These are archived entry conditions, not a current open call. Eligibility: Permanent residents of Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington may submit two works of any length or genre released since January 1, 2017. Student entries (college and university only) must be from a school located in the Northwest. Entries truly originating from outside one of these states/provinces will be deleted. Please, if possible, submit your film with an embedded copy—upload, Vimeo, etc.—within the FilmFreeway interface (steps will become clear as you go through the process). If you absolutely must send a DVD, please address it to: 46th Northwest Filmmakers' Festival Submissions 1219 SW Park Avenue Portland, OR 97205 USA CATEGORIES AND FEES IN THE ARCHIVED FILMFREEWAY CALL Feature (all genres): runtime 60:00 or greater. Short (all genres): runtime 0:01–19:59. Long Short (all genres): runtime 20:01–59:59. The listed late-entry fee is US$2 per category. The listed opening date is 1 April 2019, late deadline 15 November 2019, and notification date 17 January 2020. The organizer’s later festival page says submissions are closed and notifications are in January 2020. OFFICIAL DIRECT ENTRY FORM — ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS The original 2019 direct call offers free submission through the festival website, with a US$2 FilmFreeway alternative. The form requires first and last name, email, state/province of residence, address, film title, director, short/feature/long-short classification, genre, completion date no earlier than 1 January 2017, total runtime, screening format, short synopsis, short biography and a URL to the complete film. A password is requested if needed; producer name and phone number also have fields. Listed genres are narrative, documentary, animation and experimental. Listed screening formats are Quicktime/Pro Res, DCP, Blu Ray, 35mm, 16mm and Super 8. Applicants must state previous Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival screenings, identifying films and years, and answer yes or no to permission for inclusion in a post-festival touring programme. The direct form lists long shorts as over 30 minutes and under 55 minutes, differing from the FilmFreeway category limits above; neither set is a current call. The original August deadline and October notification are superseded by the later FilmFreeway dates and January notification update. SCOPE Fresh Film Northwest is a separately named youth festival, also integrated into PIFF43; its age-specific conditions are separate from these general festival rules. The Northwest Exposure script competition belongs to the 2018 edition; its conditions are not presented as rules for the 46th edition.