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Chicago Underground Film Festival (0)

Deadlines

13 Sep 2013
Call for entries

01 Oct 2013
Early deadline

14 Nov 2013
Standard deadline

15 Dec 2013
Late deadline

15 Dec 2013
Festival closed

13 Mar 2014
Notification date

02 Apr 2014
06 Apr 2014

Address

2044 W Chicago Ave #155, 60622, Chicago, IL, United States

Festival description

Short film festival 59'<

Feature film festival

Festival requirements

Film festival

Fiction

Documentary

Animation

Fantastic

Terror

Experimental

Music Video

Other

Any Genre

Any Theme

Has submission fees

International Festival

Physical Location

Production date: Any

Production countries: Any

Shooting countries: Any

Director nationalities: Any

Debut Films

School projects

Short Films 59'<

Feature Films

Any language

Subtitles
English

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Prizes and qualifications

AWARDS
Although the art of filmmaking is not competitive, The Chicago Underground Film Festival does give awards. The festival jury will present several awards to films and videos selected as best or most interesting in whatever categories they see fit. Additionally “Made in Chicago” and Audience Choice awards will also be presented.

Rules

Preview copies must be NTSC DVD or Blu-Ray or a secure online screener (withoutabox, Vimeo etc). Foreign language work must be dubbed or subtitled in English. Please, do not send elaborate presentation materials, press kits, binders, etc. with your entry. All that is necessary to send is a clearly identified DVD and, if you like, a synopsis or contextual statement about your work. These are the only items that the programmers will see when they evaluate your submission. We don’t want you to pay for unnecessary materials, and they generate lots of waste. If your film is selected for the festival we will contact you about images and press kits. or better yet: put these materials online and type the URL into your entry form.

ENTRY FEES
Entry fees must be in U.S. funds only. Pay through Withoutabox or with this form through Paypal, check or money order. Checks and money orders should be made out to IFP Chicago (DO NOT make checks out to Chicago Underground Film Festival ).

ENTRY FEE EXCEPTIONS
Entry Fees are not required from filmmakers who have screened at CUFF in the past. If you are working in a part of the world where an entry fee would prohibit you from submitting your film, contact us at info@cuff.org to request a fee waiver. Please understand that we rely on entry fees for the operation of the festival and only request waivers when necessary.

SHIPPING
Cost of shipping exhibition prints to the festival is the responsibility of the entrant. Exhibition copies must be sent to the festival prepaid. All film reels, cans, videotapes and cases must be labeled with the title of the entry. The festival will cover return shipping via FedEx or US Mail. The entrant or the recipient must pay additional charges for express shipping or transshipments to foreign film festivals. The festival cannot accept responsibility for damage or loss of materials while in transit. Please use only plastic or bubble pack envelopes when shipping entries.

MAIL ENTRIES TO:
Chicago Underground Film Festival
2044 W. Chicago Ave
PMB # 155
Chicago, IL 60622

NOTIFICATION
The festival selection committee makes all programming decisions. If accepted we will notify filmmakers by email and phone. Films not selected will receive notification by email. If accepted, the print of your film or presentation video will need to be in our office by March 1, 2014. Be sure to indicate aspect ratio of your film/video as well as any other special screening/presentation information we might need to know. CUFF prefers high quality digital files for exhibition of video work.

CATEGORIES
Please select only ONE category for your entry when completing your entry form. For our purposes ‘feature’ refers to films 60 minutes and over. ‘Experimental’ refers exclusively for non-narrative, non-documentary works. We reserve the right to re-categorize submissions as we deem appropriate.

RETURN OF SUBMISSIONS/SCREENERS
Due to the large number of entries received submission materials and videos will not be returned.

Narrative Short

Short Films

Fee

-8%

Early 30$ 27.6$ 01 Oct 13

Standard 35$ 32.2$ 14 Nov 13

Late 40$ 36.8$ 15 Dec 13

Submissions deadline
15 Dec 13

Save up
2.8$

Submit

Fiction films or videos less than one hour long

Experimental Short

Short Films

Fee

-8%

Early 30$ 27.6$ 01 Oct 13

Standard 35$ 32.2$ 14 Nov 13

Late 40$ 36.8$ 15 Dec 13

Submissions deadline
15 Dec 13

Save up
2.8$

Submit

Experimental films and videos less than one hour long

Documentary Short

Short Films

Fee

-8%

Early 30$ 27.6$ 01 Oct 13

Standard 35$ 32.2$ 14 Nov 13

Late 40$ 36.8$ 15 Dec 13

Submissions deadline
15 Dec 13

Save up
2.8$

Submit

Documentary films and videos less than one hour long

Animation Short

Short Films

Fee

-8%

Early 30$ 27.6$ 01 Oct 13

Standard 35$ 32.2$ 14 Nov 13

Late 40$ 36.8$ 15 Dec 13

Submissions deadline
15 Dec 13

Save up
2.8$

Submit

Animated films less than one hour long

Narrative Feature

Feature Films

Fee

-8%

Early 35$ 32.2$ 01 Oct 13

Standard 45$ 41.4$ 14 Nov 13

Late 55$ 50.6$ 15 Dec 13

Submissions deadline
15 Dec 13

Save up
3.6$

Submit

Fiction Films or videos one hour or longer

Experimental Feature

Feature Films

Fee

-8%

Early 35$ 32.2$ 01 Oct 13

Standard 45$ 41.4$ 14 Nov 13

Late 55$ 50.6$ 15 Dec 13

Submissions deadline
15 Dec 13

Save up
3.6$

Submit

experimental films and videos one hour or longer

Documentary Feature

Feature Films

Fee

-8%

Early 35$ 32.2$ 01 Oct 13

Standard 45$ 41.4$ 14 Nov 13

Late 55$ 50.6$ 15 Dec 13

Submissions deadline
15 Dec 13

Save up
3.6$

Submit

Documentary Films one hour or longer

Animation Feature

Feature Films

Fee

-8%

Early 35$ 32.2$ 01 Oct 13

Standard 45$ 41.4$ 14 Nov 13

Late 55$ 50.6$ 15 Dec 13

Submissions deadline
15 Dec 13

Save up
3.6$

Submit

Animated Films or Videos one hour or longer

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