The Royal Film Commission Jordan | OPPORTUNITIES BULLETIN #233 October 2022

OPPORTUNITIES BULLETIN #233 October 2022

N.B. The information below is provided directly by the organizers of events, festivals, audio-visual organizations or independent film projects. The Royal Film Commission - Jordan (RFC) cannot be held accountable for it.

In this bulletin:

1. Call for submissions: Jordan Children’s Film Festival
2. Call for submissions: Berlin International Film Festival 2022
3. Call for submissions: Torino Film Lab SCRIPTLAB 2023
4. Call for submissions: Tribeca Festival
5. Call for submissions: Toronto Arab Film Festival 2023
6. Call for submissions: Montreal International Animation Film Festival

All those who have interest in participating and competing for the festival’s prizes are advised to review the following conditions and send the submission application no later than COB on Sunday, 23rd October 2022.

To be eligible for consideration, all films must meet the following requirements:

- The film must not have been released before 2020.
- The film must not have been previously broadcast or shown on any TV channel or public online platform.
- The film must be in digital formats, MOV or MP4 in high quality.
- The film should not contain scenes or contents that are not appropriate for the targeted age groups from 6 to 16 years old.
- A selection committee will choose eligible films to compete.
- Intellectual property rights must be considered when submitting the films.
- The film should be translated into Arabic for non-Arabic language films or have the required files to provide translation or dubbing into Arabic.
- Long and short narrative and animation films will be accepted.
- The application for submission is available through the following link:
https://forms.gle/JFUowjFXGAnP2hDZ9

For more information, please email: Jcff@film.jo

The 73rd  Berlin International Film Festival (hereafter referred to as the “Berlinale”)will take place from 16th until 22nd of February 2023 and is calling for sumbissions.

The Festival presents official awards. Prizes are also awarded by independent juries in the different sections.

Films can be submitted to the following sections and programmes: Competition, Encounters, Berlinale Shorts, Panorama, Forum, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale Series and Berlinale Classics.

General Regulations

• Only films that have been registered can be considered for selection.
• Film registrations are accepted exclusively online at www.berlinale.de.
• Films which have been submitted and viewed for previous editions of the Berlinale may not be registered again.
• Only films completed within the 12 months prior to the start of the Festival may be registered.
• World premieres are preferred in all sections. However, except for German films, a theatrical release as well as a festival participation in the country of origin will be accepted.
• While feature-length films need a minimum running time of 60 min, Berlinale Shorts accepts films up to 30 min, short films for Generation will be accepted up to 20 min. Films for Perspektive Deutsches Kino (German productions only) need a minimum length of 30 min.
• Documentary forms can be submitted to all sections.
• Every submitter will receive a written notification about the result of the selection screening.

Submission deadlines (the following deadlines must be met without exception):
Feature-length films: registration of films and receipt of selection screeners by 2nd November, 2022.
Short films: registration of films and receipt of selection screeners by 16th November, 2022
Berlinale Series: registration of series and receipt of selection screeners by 23rd November, 2022

For more information, please visit: https://www.berlinale.de/en/film-entry/submission/start.html

ScriptLab, the annual screenwriting programme powered by Torino Film Lab (TFL) will be back in 2023.

ScriptLab is looking for both experienced and emerging writers/directors (or teams of a writer and a director) coming from all over the world. The programme targets fiction feature films, both original ideas and adaptations, in early stages of development, and specifically in 2023 the Lab will have a special attention for comedy projects, in a wide definition of the genre.

Over the course of nine months, the 20 selected projects starting in a treatment stage will grow – divided into five groups – thanks to the support of professional tutors and script consultants and to the peer-to-peer experience with the other fellow filmmakers.

Besides accepting submissions of projects, ScriptLab welcomes also five story editor trainees that will work side by side with each tutor to complete the groups.

The programme includes three residential and two online modules and comes to and end during the TFL Meeting Event, where the teams - together with their producer (if any) - will have the possibility to pitch their stories to an audience of specially invited international producers, sales agents and other film industry professionals, to have one-to-one meetings with decision makers, and may also receive some awards thanks to the TFL partners.

Follow the links to access the call for applications for projects & story editors trainees.

The deadline is on 7th November, 2022, 2:00 PM CET

For more information, please send to: sofia.falchetto@torinofilmlab.it

The 22nd Tribeca Festival (TF23) will take place from 7th until 18th June 2023. ’s official 2023 dates are June 7-18, 2023. For over 20 years, Tribeca has worked to bring the community together through innovative storytelling across film, TV, immersive, games, talks, audio storytelling, and more!

Rules and Regulations:

Selected projects from all categories will be presented to the public at the Festival. Submitted projects must not:
• have been screened or exhibited publicly in the New York region
• have had ANY public screening, broadcast, distribution, or exhibition before 1st January, 2022.*
*Not applicable to Tribeca Games submissions.

Feature and Short Films:
Tribeca showcases short and feature films from emerging talent and established filmmakers with distinct voices and bold new ideas. Films invited to participate in the 2023 Tribeca Festival will be shown in the section determined most appropriate by Festival programmers, in their sole discretion. Films will also be considered for the online section which will premiere on  Tribeca At Home platform.

Eligible projects include feature films (runtime ≥ 40 minutes). Short films (runtime < 40 minutes); including documentaries, narratives, animation, experimental films, and music videos.

Tribeca NOW:
Tribeca NOW is a platform that discovers, highlights, and celebrates independent episodic work, including short and long form pilots/series, of both narrative and documentary genres. Eligible projects include episodic projects created for broadcast television and/or streaming, and web series. Submitted projects must show the potential for serial growth; standalone short films will not be considered.

Additional to consideration as an Official Selection of TF23, filmmakers submitting to Tribeca NOW will also be considered for the Tribeca Creators Market, a first-of-its-kind, private industry market held during TF23 that brings together emerging feature film, episodic, immersive, podcast, and games storytellers to pitch new projects to and network with a wide range of industry members, including distributors, producers, networks, funders, and more. Interested participants must have prepared pitch materials (i.e. scripts, look books, etc.) in advance of the event for Market staff to review. All filmmakers chosen as Official Selections of the Tribeca NOW section will receive an automatic invitation to the Tribeca Creators Market.

Eligible projects include
Long form episodics and short form episodics, inclusive of web series.

The deadline for submission is on 26th October, 2022

For more information, please visit: https://www.tribecafilm.com/festival/submissions

The 4th annual Toronto Arab Film Festival will take place from 25th until 28th May, 2023 in Toronto.

The Toronto Arab Film Festival is a non-for-profit festival dedicated to bringing films from, and about the Arab world, to Toronto audiences.

The latest edition featured 50 films from 19 countries, with in-person and virtual screenings, as well as social, networking and professional development events.

In 2023, the Festival will primarily take place in-person, with selected screenings and programming available online.

Rules & Terms

- must have been completed after 1st January, 2021
- must be in English, or have English subtitles at the time of submission.
- accepted formats: shorts, features, documentaries, fiction, experimental
- must complete the submission form via FilmFreeway indicating the following:
- the film's premiere status
- the film's availability/restrictions for physical and virtual screenings
- the film's geoblocking availability

Short films will be automatically entered into the following competitions:
- Audience choice award
- Jury Award for most promising filmmaker
- Best Canadian Film*
* Only applicable to Canadian films

Feature films will be automatically entered into competition:
- Best Feature Film Award

The deadline for submissions is 31st October, 2022

For more information, please visit: https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoArabFilm 

Submissions are now open for the 10th Edition of Montreal International Animation Film Festival taking place in August 2023.

Filmmakers are invited from all over the world to submit their works in a wide range of genres and styles. The Festival converges in Montreal and in Cannes France as Animation Day in Cannes, engaging audiences and developing new opportunities in the fastest growing and morphing cinema art form; animation.

ANIMAZE is the Montreal based international animation film festival and industry conference providing a showcase for animators and animation producers to showcase and market their works including technology and anything animated in the digital landscape as a digital art or even for research purposes in the field of science.

Rules & Terms

By entering your film for consideration for the 2023 ANIMAZE Montreal International Animation Film Festival, you authorize that your work is cleared for Festival exhibition and accept full legal responsibility for the intellectual property therein.

Entry into the Festival constitutes permission to exhibit your work at ANIMAZE Montreal International Animation Film Festival and/or at the Animation Day in Cannes.

If your film is accepted, you will receive an invitation letter with further details, technical requirements for downloadable files, and deadlines.

Accepted films will receive an invitation letter by email. Films not accepted will also be notified by email by the notification deadline.

Please make sure you submit a Wetransfer downloadable version high resolution - ( less than 2 GB ) The Festival must receive all submissions via a Vimeo link for review as well and as a Wetransfer film file.

*Notification dates are subject to change, please check the Festival's website every few weeks for updates.

The deadline for submission is on 10th December, 2022

For more information, please visit:https://filmfreeway.com/MontrealInternationalAnimationFilmFestivalANIMAZE