{"id":2003,"date":"2017-09-13T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/09\/13\/film-submission-tips-premiere-status\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T20:00:05","slug":"film-submission-tips-premiere-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/09\/13\/film-submission-tips-premiere-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Submission Tips: Premiere Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Day-2-3-11-13-91-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are looking to submit your film to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/festivals\/film\">2018 SXSW Film Festival<\/a>, make sure your film meets our premiere status requirements!<\/p>\n<p>SXSW Film understands that many of the films submitted to our festival are being entered to other festivals around the world. However,<strong> it is very important to keep us posted if your premiere status will change<\/strong> from what was listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/apply-to-participate\/film-submissions\/\">your application<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/festivals\/film\/lineup\/\">2017 lineup<\/a> included <strong>85 World Premieres<\/strong>, <strong>11 North American premieres<\/strong>, and <strong>5 U.S. Premieres<\/strong> from a submission pool of 2,432 feature films. <\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Films that play in our <strong>Narrative and Documentary Feature Competition categories consist solely of world premieres<\/strong>. This is a case where the premiere status of your film is key.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>While the premiere status is a factor in our final decision-making, <strong>we don&#8217;t place tough restrictions for our shorts program<\/strong>.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The SXSW Film Festival plays a number of shorts that have appeared on the internet or played at other festivals. <\/strong>If SXSW Film really connects to and loves a short and has received minimal attention, we will try to share it with our enthusiastic audience.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>For Episodics, your series content cannot be available online, have already had its broadcast premiere, or be available in any other form.<strong> Remember, your content must include a pilot or first episode.<\/strong><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>If you get invited to another festival and want to know where your film stands here at SXSW,<strong> you can email <a href=\"mailto:filmfest@sxsw.com\">filmfest@sxsw.com<\/a> after October 20.<\/strong> We may not be able to give you an answer, but we\u2019ll do our best!<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cart.sxsw.com\/\" class=\"button\" target=\"_blank\">Submit Your Film Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about submitting to SXSW, watch our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8eGQNN6g90g\">How To Submit Your Film video<\/a> and check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/support.sxsw.com\/hc\/en-us\/sections\/201312865-Film-Submission\">Film Submission FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Join Us For SXSW 2018<\/h3>\n<p>Grab your <a href=\"https:\/\/cart.sxsw.com\/products\/reg-film\">Film Badge<\/a> today for primary access to all SXSW Film events including world premieres, roundtables, workshops, and parties. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/attend\/\">Register to attend<\/a> by <strong>Friday, October 20<\/strong> and save before prices go up in November. Make your hotel reservations through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/hotels\/\">SXSW Housing &amp; Travel<\/a> for the best available rates. We hope to see you in March!<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sxswfestival\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sxsw\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sxsw\/\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/news\">SXSW News<\/a> for the latest SXSW coverage, announcements, application tips, and updates.<\/p>\n<p><em><small>Screening from 2018 SXSW Film Festival &#8211; Photo by Anthony Mireles<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/film\/2017\/film-submission-tips-premiere-status\/\">Film Submission Tips: Premiere Status<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\">SXSW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: SxSW Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking to submit your film to the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, make sure your film meets our premiere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":2002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2017\/09\/FeaturedSpeakers_September_1280x720-640x360.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-wj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}