Romania International Film Festival (Ro-IFF) is the only international film festival that, from the very beginning, looked towards the Black Sea region’s film industry (Russia, Moldavian Republic, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Romania). Initially founded for the film productions mentioned above, due to it’s growth in 2009, another competive section was added – “Woman in cinema” – films directed by female directors.

• focuses on the promotion of European  Cinema, a mirror reflecting the needs and mentalities of different societies;
• is paying a special attention to the new  filmmaking including its own way of film expression.
• is paying a special attention to production from Black Sea Region
• is ment to be a link between countries which will have the opportunity of openly and directly compete with productions from all over the world.
• promotes women director,  in cinema.
• promote the multicultural diversity, creativity in cinema, innovation and the dialogue between the professionals.

• Members of the Juries will be Romanian and internationally well known personalities; any connection with films presented it’s forbidden.
• The long feature films submitted to the festival will be screened in 35 mm. Under exceptional circumstances, the Festival’s management could ask for Beta Digital, DVCam, miniDV or DVD. NTSC format can be accepted only for MiniDV or/and DVCam
• The documentaries and shorts submitted to the festival will be screened only in Beta Digital, DVCam, miniDV or DVD. The films selected in Underground section will be presented as above.
• All films presented in the festivals should be submitted in the original language,  with English or French subtitles. A dialogue list and a DVD should be submitted in advance, in order to make the necessary arrangements for electronic subtitling into Romanian.
• Submission of a film must be made on the official Festival entry form duly completed and sent to the Festival before 1st of August, each year. The sender shall inform the Festival about the details of shipment. The preview DVD will not be return. The film selected can not be withdrawn from the competition.
• The customs fees and cost of insurance of all prints offered for selection must be borne by the producers or responsible authorities. The Festival is paying for the transport of films and is responsible for cost of storage and insurance of films while on the premises of the Festival.
• In case of damage of a print , either during the selection process or at the Festival itself, the Festival is only responsible for the cost involved in making a new print according to the current laboratory rates for ordering a standard print in Romania;
• The DVD for the selection committee shall be sent together with the dialogue list in English or French and with sufficient documentation, promotion and advertising material to allow the best promotion of the film.
• The Festival is empowered to distribute these promotional materials to interested television channels, upon request.
• When submitting a film please send the DVD with subtitles in English or French
• If the film is selected please send long and short synopsis, principal cast and crew members, logline, 2-3 stills, bio-filmography of director, director photo; please mention if it is the first or second film of director; any publicity materials you have, the DVD with the trailer and 3-4 images from films; if the materials will not reach the Festival, the Festival director can withdraw the film from the competition;
• The Festival accepts long feature (min. 60 min.), documentaries (until 30 min. and over), short features (maximum 30 min.), completed after 1st of January of the year before the Festival; the films selected  must not been commercially distributed in Romania; with exception, films from “Woman in cinema” or from some countries from Black Sea Region (having low audiovisual production) could be completed after 1st of January two years before the Festival;
• The films will be presented 3 times according to FIAPF rules. The Festival abides to not hold for each film more than the three screening allowed by the international regulations, except for the winner or nominated films which can have other projections, for promoting them and/or the Festival, including screenings in other festivals partners of Ro-IFF;
• If you accept to submit your film, you accept also the rules

(Official Selection) – depending of the budget the Festival will decide each year the festival sections.

A number of cash prizes can be presented depending of the Festival decision. Only one ex-aequo prize can be accorded but only with the Festival acceptance. It’s not mandatory to present each year all the prizes. The Festival will decide.

• Festival Trophy
• Best CineBlackSea Director
• Best Woman Director
• Best Actor Award (male or female, regardless the section)

The amounts are subject to the Romanian taxation system. The Festival will decide in each year the cash prizes that will be offered, the number of prizes and if all the prizes will be in cash.

• In case of misunderstanding of the rules, the Festival will decide
• The films can not be withdrawn from the Festival
• When a film is submitted, the producer accept the rules of the festival.

When the film is selected, the Festival must receive a dvd from each film, together with the screening format.

Shipping the PRINTS – After selection procedure the producers/distributors will be announce where to send the festival prints.

How to Submit a film
Send a preview copy of your film to the selection committee.  Accepted format are: DVD (not NTSC format).

Each entry must be accompanied by

• a completed entry form (photocopies are acceptable) per film
• a press kit if available (the absence of press kit has no influence on the selection)

Entry fee
There is no entry fee

Shipping the preview  DVD
Cost of shipping to the festival is covered by the entrant.  Each preview must be marked with the title of the entry. Entrant's identification must be on the case and the tape. Do not forget to specify on your package the following mention: For cultural purposes only – no commercial value
No preview DVD will be sent back to the original sender, whether or not the film has be selected or not.

 All entries must be mailed to:

ARTIS Foundation / Ro- IFF
Film Entry
Attn. Cornelia Palos
61, Romulus street; sector 3
030562 BUCHAREST
ROMANIA

Shipping the exhibition prints
The go transport to the Festival for the selection process would be at your charge. All the transports of the selected films will be at our charge.

Entry does not guarantee placement in the program. However, each submission will be carefully considered. If your film is chosen, you will be notified.

For more informations, contact us :

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CORNELIA PALOS