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20% discount to submit to Filmmakers of the Year Festival

This is the invitation for all filmmakers to have a great chance of submitting their films with a discount of 20% from the original submission fee when you submit through FilmFreeway. Enter this code: FOTY20
The code will valid until July 18, 2018.
If your film has previously won awards or you feel your film is good enough to compete with the winning filmmakers from around the world, then this Film Festival is for you.

The Filmmakers of The Year Film Festival (FYFF) was established to celebrate filmmaking in general. Our main mission is to honor and promote films that have won awards and at excellent quality carrying unique methods of storytelling, produced with exceptional technique and crafted with passion and love for the betterment of filmmaking.

We receive submissions from all over the world. The festival accepts feature and short film, and documentary (any length), and we welcome ambitious newcomers to star their excellent films. The festival appreciates all the hard work every department contributes to making a film. With an all-in-one package, juries of the festival will value various performances such as directing, cinematography, editing, performance, story, acting, sound, production design, costume design, music, etc. The festival would give separate awards if they got selected.
This is the submission guidelines:
MAIN CATEGORIES
International Feature Film
Feature-length narratives with a minimum running time of 60 minutes.

International Short Film
Short narrative films with runtime < 59 minutes.

Documentary Feature Film
Documentary feature with runtime > 60 minutes in length.

Documentary Short Film
Documentary short with runtime < 59 minutes.

Newcomer Film
We welcome newcomers in the movie industry. The film director must state that the movie is his or her third movie (or under) on his/her application. The category opens for all genres with any length.

ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES
The following additional categories are open for all films (any length, any genres):
Director
Producer
Cinematographer
Production designer
Costume designer
Makeup artist and Hairstylist
Sound designer
Editor
Screenwriter
Music director
Visual effect art director
Film concept
Animator (for animation film)

Our prominent festival group past winners include seasoned filmmakers, the actor that has won the Academy Award, to new filmmakers with such great potential. We conduct a press conference, awards ceremony, a workshop, and many films are screened. Working together with the largest Indonesian cinema network, several private foundations and international culture centers, and having good connection with influential members of high-ranking society, the festival has managed to conduct yearly outstanding awards ceremony attended by kings, sultans, queen, ministers, senators, parliament members, notable guests, artists, international celebrities, local celebrities and leading newspapers.

Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival (FYFF) will give awards for the overall winner as Filmmaker of the Year 2018. Filmmaker of the Year Platinum Award, Filmmaker of the Year Gold Award, or Filmmaker of the Year Silver Award will be also granted to the winners.
Filmmakers, take your chance to become the Filmmakers of the Year 2018 and let your skills and inspiring films be known to the larger audience.

CLICK TO SUBMIT through Filmfreeway, and enter the code FOTY20

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Kind regards,

Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival

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