Underground International Film Festival (2)



Deadlines

19 Aug 2023
Call for entries

30 Sep 2023
Early deadline

26 Jan 2024
Standard deadline

15 Feb 2024
Late deadline

10 Mar 2024
Festival closed

15 Mar 2024
Notification date

30 Mar 2024
31 Mar 2024

Address

Karve Road,  411038, Pune, Maharashtra, India


Festival description
Short film festival 30'<


Festival requirements
 Film festival
 Fiction
 Documentary
 Animation
 Fantastic
 Terror
 Experimental
 Music Video
 Other
 Any Genre
 Any Theme
 Has submission fees
 International Festival
 Physical Location
 January 2019
 Production countries: Any
 Shooting countries: Any
 Director nationalities: Any
 Debut Films 
 School projects 
 Short Films  30'<
 Any language
 Subtitles 
English
Share on Social Networks
 Facebook 
 Tweet




Photo of Underground International Film Festival
Photo of Underground International Film Festival
Photo of Underground International Film Festival
Photo of Underground International Film Festival

English


Festival start: 30 March 2024      Festival end: 31 March 2024

Stories and storytellers surround us despite that, most stories go unheard and cannot reach their audience.

UGIFF is India's first underground film festival.

UGIFF is the festival, promising to bring stories that struggle to reach and garner independent cinema.

Festival of Global Artists, Storytellers, and Audiences.

Come, witness the disruption, be a part of the movement.

Celebrate Cinema| Promote Art | Support Artists'

Our goal is to give you an appreciation of a wide variety of genres, from horror, sci-fi, and fantasy to comedies, thrillers, and music-related films. Besides finding great films, we intend to showcase and promote talented local and international storytellers.

We intend to present a wide range of work exploring the various definitions and interpretations of the concept of 'Underground'.

Bringing innovative and challenging selections that challenge and appease the interests of all film lovers, we aim to support and contribute to the globally thriving arts community.

Best Indian Short
Best International Short
Best Music Video
Best Experimental Short

Rules & Terms

UGIFF is looking for independent projects from all genres, particularly low or no-budget ones and accepting all film/video submissions. Film and Video submissions are accepted in all categories.

We encourage local, national and international submissions.

We love all genres and screen a variety of films from documentary to narrative, animation and music videos.

The Underground International Film Festival will be a hybrid Festival experience, with Festival films screened at screening venues as well as virtually on the UGIFF Channel, making the Festival available to its wide variety of avid film lovers.

The Festival will present the best in international and independent films from around the globe.

1. To submit a film, you must own the rights or have permission from the owner.

2. Feature films: Priority is given to Indian premiere, and films that have not been screened in theatre, OTT Platforms, local festival or Indian broadcast before our dates.

3. We are looking for films which are produced January 2019 onward.

4. Films must not have been released on VOD, or available to Indian audiences.

5. If you change your screener link or password, and do not notify us on your own, it could end up not being seen.

6. If DOWNLOAD IS NOT ENABLED Festival may not ask for the downloads and may reject the film.

7. All entered films grant the festival a non-exclusive limited use agreement to use selected portions of submitted films to use the following:

The Film’s title, the Film’s synopsis, photographs, trailers and other Publicity Deliverables, and any of the principal cast members’, director(s)’s, writer(s)’s, producer(s)’s, crew members’ names, voice, biographical information, and/or likeness, in the following media: UFFI’s website, Social Media (including Twitter, Instagram, facebook, youtube), the printed festival film guide, the festival mobile app, radio, television and press releases throughout the universe, in perpetuity, without compensation, permission, or notification, solely for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, and promoting the Film Festival and the Film’s screening for which the entrants are solely responsible.

8. Filmmakers fully retain all rights, title, and interest in their films and all Intellectual Property. Also, the organizers will be able to share the information with its publicity partners.

9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF AWARDS: Entrants must agree to acknowledge the award on the film itself if wins the award.

10. RETURN OF COPIES: Copies for the festival will be retained by the organizers in archive of the festival for cultural purposes.

11. CANCELLATION/REJECTION: Festival reserves the right to cancel any submission or take any action against any breach of regulations or any misbehaviour disturbing the course of the festival and reserves all the rights to refuse or reject any registration/entry of any submission(s) or persons or institutions.

12. Submission will only be considered valid after receiving all the required documents and the final screening copy of the film(s)

13. After notification of selection, the film may not be withdrawn from the festival under any circumstance.

14. Results declared by the programming team and juries will be treated as final and all the participants will abide by them.

15. All Fees are non-refundable and by submitting your film to the festival, you accept the terms and conditions mentioned.

16. The festival relationship will exclusively be related to the film submitter.

17. Any Foreign film that is not in English must have English subtitles.

18. Students must present a valid Student ID to receive our student discount.

19. Filmmakers can submit the film in multiple categories to become a multi-award film. Still, the decision about the selection is strictly determined by our judges' team and no selection is guaranteed.

20. FESTIVAL WILL NOT HAVE ANY BINDINGS TO GIVE ANY CLARIFICATION OR JUSTIFICATION REGARDING THE RESULTS TO ANYONE.

21. IMPORTANT NOTE: The Festival reserves the right to change the rules and regulations or in the competition's schedule. Dates and guidelines are subject to change without prior notice.



  

 
  

Discover great films & festivals, one click away

Register
Login