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We're open for submissions from 1st December 2024 and currently have four categories you can submit to:
Rising Spirit award: Best micro-budget feature film - Over 60 minutes in length, under £150k in production budget
Rising Spirit award: Best micro-budget short film - Under 30 minutes in length, under £3k in production budget
Independent Spirit award: Best feature film - Over 60 minutes in length, over £150k in production budget
Independent Spirit award: Best short film: Under 30 minutes in length, over £3k in production budget
We have paused our Emerging Spirit competition for 2024/25 season and will be reopening later in the year. You can find more details on the competition here.
Selection Process
Our selection process involves a number of stages designed to ensure impartiality but also to ensure that each film selected has gone through a balanced approachto agreeing on the final lineup.
Initial viewing
Films are watched
by a minimum of two people from the programming team
Scoring
Films are considered and marked using considerations such as technical achievement, originality and story
Review
Films are discussed between members of the programming team and festival directors
Programme Review
Films are looked it in relation to the overall proposed programme, considering consistency of themes, tone and genre variety
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