Hong Kong World Film Festival is an international contest that presents a carefully curated program with international films, narrative, documentary, and short films from established and emerging filmmakers… Our community is passionate about film, and HKWFF always strives to create a relaxed environment where filmmakers and audiences can truly connect.

Categories

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RULES

HOW DOES IT WORK?

HKWFF ACCEPTS FILMS IN ANY LENGTH, GENRE AND LANGUAGE. NON-ENGLISH FILMS MUST HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES. BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR PROJECT PLEASE READ ALL RULES AND REGULATIONS. RECEIVE OUR COMPANY ASSISTANCE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS.

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HKWFF

AVAILABLE CATEGORIES

  1. Feature Film 
  2. Short Film
  3. Feature Documentary
  4. Short Documentary
  5. Music Short
  6. Music Feature
  7. Educational Feature
  8. Educational Short
  9. Animation Short
  10. Animation Feature
  11. Foreign Language Feature
  12. Foreign Language Short
  13. Television Series
  14. Television Series Comedy
  15. Best Television Documentary
  16. Best Television Mini Series
  17. Feature Screenwriting
  18. Drone Filming
  19. LGBT
  20. GoPro Filming
  21. Black Lives Matter
  22. Pandemic
  23. Trailer
  24. Stop-Motion/Time Lapse

Rules and Terms

– In order to submit a film, you must own the rights or have permission from the owner.

– Hong Kong World Film Festival relationship will exclusively be related to the film submitter.

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

– All fees are non-refundable.

– Hong Kong World Film Festival will not be responsible for damaged copies.

– Not all the submissions are selected for the official competition. Our Judges are free to make their own choices and no answers will be given about not selected films.

– Hong Kong World Film Festival can consider any film to be disqualified if the festival considers the content inappropriate. If you have any question regarding this decision you might contact us at our email address hongkongiff@gmail.com

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

– The applicants (submitters) must accept Hong Kong World Film Festival Rules and Terms.

– All submissions in personal categories required the name of the person and the category. You can easily send us this information in the cover letter on the FilmFreeway website.

– Submitting your movie, you authorize Hong Kong World Film Festival to use, distribute and share the film poster, trailer, synopsis and movie stills on our social media.