Although every effort has been made to provide complete and accurate information, as of the date of writing, the CRFF reserves the right to make changes, updates or improvements to this web site, at any time, without notice.
Eligibility
- Anyone residing in, or having produced their film in, the Rocky Mountain region (CO, AZ, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT and WY) is eligible to submit to the Castle Rock Film Festival (CRFF), except as noted below.
- Scripts will only be accepted by those RESIDING in the Rocky Mountain Region, as defined above.
- The Castle Rock Film Festival is for new works completed after 1 January 2008.
- Any individual filmmaker is limited to three submissions per (CRFF) festival.
- Two (2) copies of each submission is required (hardcopies for scripts).
- A title and short description of the work must be submitted. Space for this description will be made available, for all submissions chosen to be shown at the festival, on the Castle Rock Film Festival web site.
- See additional format, length and rating requirements on the Submissions page.
Submissions that do no meet all eligibility and submission requirements will be disqualified.
No submitted materials nor monies will be returned for any reason.
Returned checks will incur an additional $5 fee to CRFF above that which is charged by the submitter's bank, and must be remedied by the submission deadline.
Recent Policy Changes
CRFF is now accepting films already available on DVD.
CRFF originally had a policy which followed the traditional progression for marketing films, i.e. film festivals, then theatrical releases, then DVD. So, films already on DVD were previously not accepted for submission into the festival.
However, as we all know by now, with the growing popularity of alternate ways to view movies (on-line, hand-held devices, TV on-demand, etc.), traditional marketing/distribution for independent films is not necessarily the only way to go anymore, and so we are changing with the times as well. The film festival is now just another part of the overall marketing process regardless of whether the film is available on DVD or not.
Therefore, beginning with the 2010 submission season, CRFF is now allowing the submission of films already available on DVD. We are also working on a policy to allow those DVDs to be sold at the festival should the submission be accepted for screening. Check back to this web site for future details on this DVD sales opportunity.
Agreements
By registering or submitting films/trailers/reels/scripts and descriptions (collectively "Content") for the Castle Rock Film Festival participants (hereafter "Filmmakers") agree to the following:
- Submitters agree that the content being submitted is their own, and that they have legal and proper consent to use any animal or person featured in the video without exclusion. Submitters must indemnify the Castle Rock Film Festival, its directors, and its sponsors against liability arising from the display of said content.
- Submitters retain copyrights to their submissions. Submitters grant to the Castle Rock Film Festival and its assignees and affiliates a royalty-free license to share the submissions, such rights granted from the time of the submission through the duration of the Castle Rock Film Festival and five years thereafter.
- Submissions, or any part thereof, may be shown by the Castle Rock Film Festival for any advertising or promotional purpose related to the Castle Rock Film Festival's business or to the Castle Rock Film Festival.
- Trailers may be shown on the Castle Rock Film Festival web site and may not be afforded copy protection.
- Submissions will not be returned and the Castle Rock Film Festival accepts no responsibility for loss or damage to entries.
- Submitters agree to complete any forms that the Castle Rock Film Festival may determine necessary to comply with governmental tax and related laws.
NOTE: The Castle Rock Film Festival is run by Castle Rock Film Festival, LLC. Either and/or both may be referred to simply as "CRFF".
