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Directors Awards: Final Call with Privilege

This is the Final Call for Directors Awards. The Festival will be wrapping up soon. Take this chance to submit your film and let it soar internationally.

Reaching the final deadline, the Festival is giving a 20% Privilege Submission Fee when you submit through FilmFreeway. Enter this code: FORDIRECTORS20. This code is valid until October 7, 2018.

Directors Awards is a yearly Film Festival dedicated to all directors in particular, regardless of their age and background, and to all filmmakers in general. The purpose of Directors Awards film festival is to promote the craftsmanship of directing to the position and attention it deserves. The assessment of all the performance in the judging process will be from the directors point of view.

Directors Awards receives submission in Special Categories, that is opened for directors only, and in general category, that is accepting all profession in the film industry.

They encourage newcomers and students who wish to shine their debut as a director to enter the New Director of the Year Award category, and professional directors to make their reputation soars internationally.

Special Categories (Opens for directors only):

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

General Categories: 

Director Awards for Feature Narrative

Directors Awards for Foreign Language Feature Narrative

Directors Awards for Feature Documentary

Directors Awards for Short Narrative

Directors Awards for Foreign Language Short Narrative

Directors Awards for Short Documentary

Directors Awards for Foreign Language Short Documentary

Directors Awards for Newcomer

Directors Awards for Music Videos

Directors Awards for Producer

Directors Awards for Cinematographer

Directors Awards for Editor

Directors Awards for Script Writer

Directors Awards for Makeup

Directors Awards for Art Director

Directors Awards for Story

Directors Awards for Sound

Directors Awards for Music

Directors Awards for Animation

Directors Awards for Special Effects

Directors Awards for Lead Actor

Directors Awards for Lead Actress

Directors Awards for Supporting Actor

Directors Awards for Supporting Actress

Directors Awards for Ensemble of Casts

Duration guidelines: 

Feature Films: minimum running time of 60 minutes.

Short Films: run time of 59 minutes and below.

Documentary Feature: over 60 minutes in length

Documentary Short: run time of 59 minutes and below

Music & Video: under 5 minutes in length

 

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