...Hardacre Film & Cinema Festival...

For Filmmakers ...

You can now submit online using WithoutABox.com!

Or feel free to use the traditional means below.

Entry Form (PDF)

Entry Guidelines & Procedures (PDF)

Note: please make sure your entry form is complete before sending it to HFCF. You don't want an incomplete form to keep your film from being shown, do you?

HFCF Guidelines & Procedures

1. Entry Fees. Entry fee is $25 USD for each feature film*, $15 for each short film* and $10 for each student film (feature or short) submitted. Take $5 off the submission fee if you’re an Iowa filmmaker. Make check or money order payable to the Hardacre Film & Cinema Festival.
*Definitions: If 60 minutes or longer, it’s a feature. Less than 60 minutes, it’s a short. There is no limit to the number of entries. Entry fee is non-refundable.

2. Preview Copies. For jury selection purposes a preview copy of your submitted film must be submitted on DVD or 1/2" VHS (NTSC format only). Please make sure that DVD submissions will play back properly on a standard North American stand alone DVD player. If you would like your preview copy returned, please include a self addressed stamped mailing package.

3. Shipping. All films and will be returned to sender via USPS by August 30 following the festival. If your film is to be sent to some other location, you must make arrangements IN ADVANCE with the Festival Director. If there is a need for a more immediate return please arrange with the Festival Director. If the film prints are to be forwarded to other sites or film festivals following the screening the filmmaker will be responsible for any extra shipping charges. This reimbursement must be received in advance of shipping. While all entries are treated with the utmost care the Festival staff is not responsible for loss or damage to films or tapes.

4. Deadlines & Formats. Deadline for submissions is June 15, 2007. Films selected for screening and award winners will be notified by July 9, 2007. Selected entries must have a 35mm print, DVD or DV formats shipped to the HFCF office by July 27, 2007. The filmmaker will be responsible for the shipping expense of sending their film to our office. We also request that a press kit accompany the screening copy – which will be used for festival programs, promotion and media outreach. Please note: foreign language films must have English subtitles or an English language audio track available.

5. Non Winning Entries. The HFCF will do our best to notify every filmmaker who submits a film if you are not selected for screening at the festival. If you are not notified by July 14, 2007, it is safe to assume your work is not being shown and therefore, ipso facto, you also did not win an award. With the large number of entries we screen every year it is sometimes very difficult to notify every entrant. To help us help you, be sure your email address, telephone number or numbers and mailing address is clearly printed on the entry form.

6. Late Entries. Films may be accepted for late submission contingent on the number of entries already received and overall programming needs. To request a deadline extension, please contact the Festival Director.

Mail the Entry Form, submission fee and preview copy (VHS / DVD) to:

Hardacre Film & Cinema Festival
c/o Tipton Chamber of Commerce
609 Cedar St.
Tipton, Iowa 52772

Please note: incomplete submission packages may result in non-consideration.

For more information contact Festival Director Travis Alden at 563.886.6350 or info@tiptoniowa.us

Thank you for your interest in the Hardacre Film & Cinema Festival and we wish you the best of luck!