33rd Images Festival Call for ON SCREEN Submissions
Established in 1987, IMAGES FESTIVAL is the longest running and most influential moving image festival in Canada. Our ON SCREEN program is an annual survey dedicated to contemporary artist’s film and video presented in a cinema context and to moving image in all its forms.
Images presents work that counters dominant mainstream narratives and provides alternative ways of thinking and seeing that expands the understanding of media art through our programming and education-based initiatives.
Images Festival does not select films based on any particular themes, genres or aesthetic categories but selects moving image works that share formal and political sensibilities which emerge from recent critical discourses between contemporary art, cinema and media arts.
DATES
The 33rd edition of Images Festival will take place between April 16 to 22, 2020.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Monday, October 14, 2019.
GENERAL SUBMISSION ELIGIBILITY
Images Festival will consider works that have been completed in the last three years, including short, mid-length and feature films. Artists maintain final edit and copyright control.
If you submit an incomplete film (rough cuts, works-in-progress), the picture must be locked. We do not offer funds for the completion of works, or take on commissions.
STUDENT SUBMISSION ELIGIBILITY
Images Festival will accept student works that have been completed in the last academic year (2019/2020) for consideration in our annual International Student Showcase program, which is programmed by students and/or recent graduates. The work must not exceed 20 minutes in length in order to qualify.
Student artists and filmmakers can submit a maximum of two submissions/works. If there are multiple submissions, only the first two works submitted by each student will be reviewed.
If students elect to submit to the general On Screen Competition program (rather than in the student category), the entry fee requirement applies.
PLEASE NOTE: Student works may NOT be entered into both the Student and On Screen Competition programs.