Cash Prize $200 for Filmmakers from the Superfest International Disability Film Festival

The Superfest International Disability Film Festival invites all creative filmmakers all over the world to participate with their films and compete within the festival to portray disability through their films.

About the Festival:-

• Superfest Disability Film Festival is the longest running disability film festival in the world. Since it first debuted in a small Los Angeles showcase in 1970 it has become an eagerly anticipated international event. 
• For more than 30 years, Superfest has celebrated cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex, unabashed and engaging lens. 
• Superfest is one of the few festivals worldwide that is accessible to disabled filmgoers of all kinds.

Conditions:-

• By submitting to Superfest, filmmakers are granting permission to show their film at the festival (virtual and in-person as public health safety permits) and to exhibit all or portions of their film at Superfest Showcases during the one year time period that follows the festival.

• Filmmakers are also required to provide captioning and audio-description for accessibility to the widest possible audience in order to have their film screened. To learn more about audio description, click here.

• The participation isn’t free and the fees ranges from $20 to $40 according to each category.

Film Categories:-

• Early Bird.
• Shoestring Budget.

Criteria and Awards:-

• All accepted films receive $100 short films / $200 features.

• Best of Festival: Full Length Feature

  • A work of exceptional quality. The film is judged to be the most outstanding full length feature film.

• Best of Festival: Short Film (under 45 minutes)

  • A work of exceptional quality. The film was judged to be the most outstanding short film.

• P.K. Walker Award in Innovation in Craft

  • Film judged to make the most innovative use of narrative, cinematography, or other filmmaking techniques to encourage exploration of the experiences of people with disabilities.

• Disabled Filmmaker Award

  • Film judged to be an outstanding work in which a person with a disability has a significant role in producing the film, e.g. producer, director or writer.

• Advocacy Award

  • Film judged to have the most powerful message for disability justice.

• Artistry Award

  • Film that best links disability and the arts.

• Access Award

  • Film with the best accessibility through captioning and audio description.

• Liane Yasumoto Jury's Choice Award

  • This award is presented to the finalist deemed by the judges to be singularly outstanding film that is not recognized in other award categories.

• Travel awards may be available.

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