MAFF International Film Festival for Documentaries on Nature in Estonia

Film Free Way invites filmmakers to participate in the MAFF Nature Film Festival in Estonia. The festival promotes nature-oriented and sustainable ways of life and respect for the nature-connected traditions of indigenous people. It showcases a variety of new international documentaries about wildlife, conservation and the environment that inspire, inform and ignite change.

Categories:

Films can be submitted in one of two categories:

• NATURE - documentaries that depict the natural world in its diversity.
• MAN AND NATURE - documentaries that depict the relationship and balance between nature and humanity.

• Festival Grand Prix for the Best Film (Grant of 3000 Euros)
• Best Director (one in each category).
• Best Cinematography (one in each category).
• Best Editing (one in each category).
• Special Jury Prize (one in each category).
• Audience Award.
• Special Prizes.

• MAFF considers creative documentaries (15+ min) completed after January 1, 2020.
• The festival does not accept fiction.
• Films may have been previously entered in other, similar festivals.
• Films that have been submitted for consideration in previous years are not eligible, not even if the film has changed significantly since the last time it was submitted.
• The number of entries by one author is not limited.
• Participation at the festival is free of charge.
• The festival does not pay any screening fee to entrants!
• Entrant guarantees that third parties have no claim on the submitted films.
• Acceptable preview screener must be a private/password-protected and downloadable MP4 or MOV (max 5 GB) file of the English version. The festival does not accept films that are free to view online.

Each entry must be accompanied by the items below:

• 3 publicity stills from the film
• full production credits
• director's/presenter's contact (e-mail & postal address)
• synopsis max 100 words
• trailer or teaser (YouTube or Vimeo link)

Selection Process:

• Entrants will be notified via FilmFreeway of their selection or rejection to the festival by August 1, 2022.
• Upon selection of a film, the festival will contact the applicant via FilmFreeway and will request to fill a binding entry form. Participant shall not withdraw the film from the program once the selection is confirmed with the binding form.
• All competing films will be translated into Estonian.
• For purposes of translation each competing film must be accompanied by the items below:
• time-cued subtitle file in English either in .srt or .txt (or timecoded dialogue list).
• list of species in Latin (if any).
• The full list of films admitted to the program will be published on the festival website www.matsalufilm.ee by September 5, 2022.
• Full details on all films and program information will be announced on the festival website www.matsalufilm.ee by September 10, 2022.
• All participants will receive a participation certificate.
• All screening copies must reach the festival by August 20, 2022 at the latest.
• Participant consents to the organizers publishing information about the film on the festival website as well as in all printed festival and press materials.
• All screening copies will remain in the festival archives and will be exclusively used for the festival promotional events and in educational purposes.
• With each film selected to the festival one person - director, producer, cinematographer or official representative - is invited to attend the festival. The organizers will cover the costs for accommodation during the festival and transfers between Tallinn and Lihula. Contributions to travelling expenses are not included in the payments made to delegates.

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