Submit your short film to the 2025 Fleurieu Film Festival

Entries for the 2025 Fleurieu Film Festival are now open!

There is no theme that short films need to follow.

Key Entry Requirements

Submitted films must be 8 minutes or under (excluding credits).

Submitted films must have been completed within the two years prior to the date of entry.

Submissions may be of any genre.

TO ASSIST YOUR ENTRY,

WE RECOMMEND PREPARING THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION FOR YOUR FILM:

Young Film Maker

If you or your director were under 24 when the film was recorded.

Best of the Fleurieu

If your film was shot in the Fleurieu Peninsula region of South Australia.

Premiere Screening

If your film was to be a finalist, be prepared to answer to the best of your knowledge, if this will be a premiere screening of your film.

Film Download

If your film was to be a finalist, prepare a version of your film ready to be downloaded by the festival, the file specifications are either Apple ProRes or H264 (mp4) format with a bitrate of at least 20 mbps and 16:9 ratio.

Flim Sinipt

If your film was to be a finalist, what 5-10 second part of your film would you prefer to be on screen? Alternatively, you can let us choose if you want to!

Screenshots

If your film was to be a finalist, be prepared to submit 2-5 Screenshots of your film.

Production Stills

If your film was to be a finalist, be prepared to submit 2-5 Production stills during your film.

Community TV Screening

If your film was to be a finalist, decide if you give us permission to screen it in full on Adelaide community TV station Channel 44 Adelaide and CTV+ (Community TV streaming service). This is part of our relationship with Channel 44 Adelaide, and is typically a broadcast that includes interviews from the screening and awards night. This is entirely optional, and if it voids your ability to enter other festivals we completely accept your decision to not participate, it will not affect your film’s chance of being selected at our festival.

FULL RULES & TERMS:

Submitted films (“Submissions”) must be 8 minutes or under (excluding credits).

Submissions must have been completed within the two years prior to the date of entry

Submissions may be of any genre.

Entry fees before August 26th are $30 (AUD) or $26 (AUD) for Gold members and before December 2nd are $35 (AUD) or $30 (AUD) for Gold members.

Submissions to be received no later than 5.00 pm ACST 02/12/2024.

For a submission to be eligible for the “Focus on Fleurieu” Award the film must have either: been filmed or produced in the Fleurieu Peninsula (including Kangaroo Island); or had at least two key creatives (writer, director, producer, cinematographer) who were residents of the Fleurieu Peninsula (including Kangaroo Island) during the full production period. Eligibility must be indicated in the submission form.

International entries are only eligible for the Best International Prize.

Australian High School entries are be eligible for all categories, but will also be considered for a special high school prize.

By making a Submission, you take full responsibility for the film content and all permissions.

You warrant and represent that nothing in the Submission breaches any third party intellectual property rights, including but not limited to: copyright in music, sound recordings, still and moving images, scripts, any other visual or written material.

By making a Submission, you agree that you indemnify against and will keep harmless Fleurieu Films Incorporated (“FFI”) from, any and all claims arising out of or in relation to any breach of these terms and conditions.

You grant FFI the non-exclusive right to screen your Submission (in its absolute discretion) at any live film festival under the banner “Fleurieu Film Festival”.

If a virtual film festival becomes necessary for any reason and FFI wishes to stream your Submission, FFI will notify you in advance so that you may confirm your permission.

Unless you indicate otherwise (by indicating in the relevant fields in the submission form), you grant FFI the non-exclusive right to: use material related to your Submission in advertising related to the Fleurieu Film Festival; to broadcast your Submission on community TV (for example Channel 44, South Australia); screen your Submission at other live Fleurieu Film Festival related events (for example “pop-up” events, regional roadshows).

Any and all selections of Submissions for screening and the allocation and awarding of prizes are determined in the absolute discretion of FFI.

Although updated versions of Submission are allowable through the FilmFreeway platform, making updates may impact the selection and prize determination processes related to your Submission.

FLEURIEU FILMS INCORPORATED ACKNOWLEDGES THAT WE WORK ON THE TRADITIONAL COUNTRY OF THE KAURNA, PERAMANGK AND NGARRINDJERI PEOPLE OF THE FLEURIEU PENINSULA, AND WE PAY RESPECT TO ELDERS PAST AND PRESENT. WE RECOGNISE AND RESPECT THEIR CULTURAL HERITAGE, SPIRITUAL BELIEFS AND RELATIONSHIP TO LAND AND WATERS AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY ARE OF CONTINUING IMPORTANCE TO THE KAURNA, PERAMANGK AND NGARRINDJERI PEOPLE LIVING TODAY. WE EXTEND THIS RESPECT TO OTHER ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE GROUPS AND OTHER FIRST NATIONS.