School of Media Studies

FINAL CALL: Documentary Directors Awards in FilmFreeway

Dear Filmmakers,

This is the Last Call to Documentary Directors Awards. They are giving a  30% discount valid until September 8, 2018, if you submit through FilmFreeway. Use this code: FINALDOCDIRA30

The code also applied as a Waiver Code to enter the Festival.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

This festival is dedicated to all documentary directors in particular, and to all filmmakers in general. The mission of Documentary Directors Awards is to soar well-produced  and excellently directed documentaries, bring them to the level they deserved, and to promote the strong, unique voices they carried.

ENTRY CATEGORIES

Special Categories (Opens for documentary directors only):

  1. Documentary Directors Awards for Best Directing in a documentary short
  2. Documentary Directors Awards for Best Directing in a documentary feature
  3. Documentary Directors Awards for Best Directing in a music video
  4. Documentary Directors Awards for Experimental Directing
  5. Documentary Directors Awards for Visionary Directing
  6. Documentary Director of the Year Award
  7. Documentary New Director of the Year Award

GENERAL CATEGORIES

Documentary Feature: Foreign Language Documentary Feature (open for a non-English speaking documentary with subtitled or dubbed)

Short Documentary:  Foreign Language Short Documentary (open for a non-English speaking documentary with subtitled or dubbed)

Newcomer

Music Videos

Producer

Cinematographer

Editor

Script Writer

Makeup 

Art Director

Story

Sound 

Music

Animation

Special Effects

DURATION GUIDELINES:

Documentary Feature: over 60 minutes in length

Documentary Short: run time of 59 minutes and below

Music & Video: under 5 minutes in length

International movies with various spoken language are welcomed but must be added with English subtitles.

AWARDS CEREMONY

Documentary Directors Awards will hold an Awards Ceremony that will take place in September 2018. The overall winner will get a special handmade trophy. Winners will receive physical awards/

HOW TO SUBMIT?

Click here to submit through FilmFreeway and enter the discount code FINALDOCDIRA30 to get a 30% off discount.

 

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