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MUFF 2013 REGISTRATION GUIDELINES

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DEADLINE
February 15th, 2013
Late registration deadline: March 1st 2013, $15 fee payable by Canadian cheque or international money order to The Montreal Underground Film Festival or PAYPAL: info@muff514.com

ELIGIBILITY
Independent productions accepted only
Films produced, financed, or initiated by a major motion picture studio are not eligible for screening at the Montreal Underground Film Festival.

Prior Screenings
Previous or scheduled screenings at other festivals are acceptable. The "Montreal Premiere" status is preferred, but not mandatory.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
FORMAT
Preview copy: DVD or Quicktime ONLY. Before sending your computer-burned DVD to us, please test it on a stand-alone DVD player.
Screening copy: Mini DV tape OR a high resolution QuickTime file

NOTE: It really makes our life much easier if we can assemble our shorts programmes with your film already in a high resolution QuickTime file or on a Mini DV tape

SHIPPING ADDRESS
MUFF 2013 c/o Peut-être Vintage
6029A, ave. du Parc
Montréal, QC H2V 4H4  Canada

Mandatory Accompanying Materials

  • Completed and signed entry form
  • Preview copy. Please label preview copy with the title, running-time, and contact information.
  • Please send a photo and synopsis of your film by e-mail for our website
  • If receipt of entry is required, include a self-addressed stamped postcard.
    (Please note that we are in Canada, US stamps don't work here…)

SELECTED FILMS
Only filmmakers of selected films will be contacted.
 
If your film is selected, you must provide the following before April 1st, 2013:

  • The screening copy in Mini DV or high resolution QuickTime file
  • Promo material if available.

Shipping
For all materials, shipping and handling costs to the festival office will be covered by the entrant. Preview copies and promotional material will be retained by the festival.

THIS IS WHAT WE WANT
Unknown, alternative, mysterious, HARDCORE, avant-garde, novel, private, radical, resistant, revolutionary, subversive, GORE, clandestine, unbowed, VIDEO ART, cloaked, unconventional, undercover, ANIMATION, buried, hermetical, subterranean, SUSPENSE, cadaverous, underfoot, illegitimate, DOCUMENTARY, bootleg, EXPERIMENTAL, shady, abstruse, covert, buried, clandestine, covered, DOCUDRAMA, cryptic, DOCUTRAUMA, dark, disguised, eclipsed, esoteric, (un)exposed, screened, FILM NOIR, enclosed, undisclosed, clouded, unperceivable, THRILLER, indiscernible, sequestered, invisible, latent, masked, sub-terrestrial, mystical, EROTIC, sexy, obscure, occult, unusual, private, unseen, concealed, recondite, SOFTCORE, secreted, shadowy, shrouded, FICTION, surreptitious, ulterior, undetected, HORROR, secluded, unrevealed, oblique, suspended. GIVE US WHAT YOU GOT!