The International Festival of Outdoor Films with Valuable Prizes by FilmFreeway

FilmFreeway is inviting all filmmakers to take part in

The International Festival of Outdoor Films (IFOF) competition, that is a touring competition festival with sixteen years of history. It is one of the largest outdoor touring competition festivals in the world. In 2021 IFOF visited 30 places in Czech and Slovak Republic. The 19th festival 2021 started in October in Ostrava and continued in other cities. IFOF focuses on sport and outdoor, adventure, extreme, adrenalin and travel film.

1. main festival Award – GRAND PRIX
2. award in each category (A, B, C, D) – 1st, 2nd, 3rd place;
3. special award

• Filmmakers from the Czech Republic and all around the world, professionals as well as amateurs, film and TV producers are welcome to participate in IFOF competition tour. Submitted films must fulfill the conditions and rules of this competition. Also films submitted in the previous years of the IFOF or for other competitions and festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad can be submitted. The submitted films are not limited by year of creation.
• Submitted films will be divided into the following categories announced for the relevant year.

1. Adventure and extreme sport film – outdoor sports (except for mountain climbing and water sports, for example, mountain biking, skiing, extreme skiing, ski-alpinism, speleology, paragliding, parachuting, aviation, motor sports, and others)
2. Mountain film (mountain climbing films, rock climbing, ice climbing, man & mountains)
3. Adventure water sport film (rafting, watercraft sports, canoeing, yachting, diving, surfing, long-distance swimming, man & water)
4. Travel film (films exclusively of travel nature, not listed in the A, B C categories)
5. The films may also be animated, historical (filmed in previous years or black & white). The films must be listed in one of the above cathegories. Otherwise the films will be considered Non-Competing (N) category, in which the film can be screened but without any entitlement to any award.

• Application form for the IFOF competition and touring festival must be sent for each film separately using the IFOF form available on IFOF web page, via FilmFreeway. All mandatory fields have to be filled in (contact addresses, tel. numbers, e-mails, etc). A functional copy of each film must be available to festival organisers by 31. 5. 2022: You can also use any file share service (like Vimeo, weTransfer, Dropbox, etc.) and send the download link to info@outdoorfilms.cz, enable for download on FilmFreeway. Optimal video requirements: HD1080p, HD1080i, HD720p, HD720i. Formats: wmv, mp4, mov(h264), mpg. IFOF jury has the right to exclude damaged copies, or copies of poor quality from the competition.
• The application will be accepted if, by May 31st, 2022 the following conditions are met (films, applications or other materials sent later will be automatically registered into the following Festival year 2023):

1. The application form includes all mandatory data and short description of the film (up to 500 characters).
2. Copy of the film received without any errors.
3. Films must be either in Czech or Slovak language, or with dialogue list including timecodes in English (please send to info@outdoorfilms.cz).
4. At least 3 photographs (also more is possible) are sent in an electronic format to info@outdoorfilms.cz. Photographs to be sent in the highest possible quality. Photographs will be used for film and IFOF presentation.

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