Cubestream™ Film Festival

"We are pleased to announce the first annual Cubestream Film Festival™. This unique film competition will take place exclusively online on our platform--a content-driven festival that lives and breathes on your desktop or mobile device. in order to enter the festival, you must sign in to your Cubestream™ account, or register with a new account with us."

Before you begin your submission, please select the category that best suits your project from the list below:

Fiction Feature Films

Any work of fiction originating from any country in the world with a running time of 50 minutes or more, of any genre, including films that are shot in a "mockumentary" style. In order to qualify as a Fiction Feature Film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction. Narrative Feature Films have no premiere requirements or prior screening restrictions that would impact Festival eligibility. Fiction Feature Films may have been screened at any number of festivals or other public theatrical exhibitions anywhere in the world, broadcast or streamed on television or the Internet, and/or released via any home video or other public distribution platform and still remain eligible for Festival consideration.

Documentary Feature Films

Any nonfiction film originating from any country in the world with a running time of 50 minutes or more, not including entirely scripted or improvised fictionalizations of actual events. If your documentary contains some dramatization of actual events, you may submit it to this category, but we retain the ultimate right to decide which program is best suited for your project. Documentary Feature Films have no premiere requirements or prior screening restrictions that would impact Festival eligibility. Documentary Feature Films may have been screened at any number of festivals or other public theatrical exhibitions anywhere in the world, broadcast or streamed on television or the Internet, and/or released via any home video or other public distribution platform and still remain eligible for Festival consideration.

Short Films

Any scripted or non-scripted work of fiction or nonfiction/documentary film of any genre originating from within the United States with a running time of less than 50 minutes, including credits. Short Films have no premiere requirements or prior screening restrictions that would impact Festival eligibility. Short Films may have been screened at any number of festivals or other public theatrical exhibitions anywhere in the world, broadcast or streamed on television or the Internet, and/or released via any home video or other public distribution platform and still remain eligible for Festival consideration.

Episodic Content

Any scripted or non-scripted work of fiction or nonfiction/documentary series of any genre, originating from anywhere in the world, presented in or intended to be presented in a multi-episode format. Applicants may submit single or multiple episodes of a single project, if all episodes play continuously in one single video file for digital upload and do not exceed the 10GB file size limit. We accept both short-form and long-form content. You may submit episodes that have previously been screened at other festivals or broadcast and/or streamed via another platform, but you must also submit subsequent episodes that have not been screened by or released to the general public. For example, if your pilot episode has screened at another festival or is available online, you may only submit it if you currently have additional episodes that have not been screened anywhere or otherwise made available to the public.

Fees

Each entry is accompanied by non-refundable fees. The entry fee (and service fees, if any) are not refundable. Entries will not be processed without the payment of the the fee(s).

Copyrights

By uploading your film to our platform for this festival or for any other reason, you agree that your work (full film, trailer, reel, etc.) can be uploaded/embedded on our website. By uploading your film and paying the entry fee, you agree to let Cubestream™ use your submitted data for promotions of our platform and the Cubestream™ Awards, in perpetuity. The filmmaker and/or institution making the submission must own the rights to do so, and is solely responsible for the content being provided. Your voluntary submission grants Cubestream™ the right to create a page for your submission without infringing on the copyright or any other intellectual property of any kind. The posters may make a request to remove the film link at any time.

Festival Committee

The decisions of the Festival Committee are final, and no letters, email, text messages or other communications will be accepted or read. Mo inquiries or arguments will be entertained. The organizer's reserve the right not to award any or all of the prizes, at its discretion. The Festival director reserves the right to make all decisions about the festival and how it is conducted.

Disclaimer

The applicant agrees to have read and accepted the rules & regulations for participation in the Cubestream™ Film Festival, and confirms that she or he has the authority necessary, or has obtained the authority required from right’s holder of the property to enter this film in our festival and make it available for others to see.
By entering your film for consideration, you authorize that your work is cleared for festival exhibition and accept full legal responsibility for the intellectual property it contains. Entry into the festival constitutes your permission to exhibit your work online at Cubestream™.COM or any other related Cubestream™ venue. Cubestream™ INC. is also hereby granted the right to utilize, at its discretion, any emails, uploads, application forms, and any other form of submission by which you submitted your entry, as well as excerpts, for promotional purposes, from any submitted work. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Cubestream™, INC. from and against any and all liabilities, losses, claims, damages, and/or expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees, and costs of the court) incurred because of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered. Cubestream™ DOES NOT PAY SCREENING FEES. By submitting your film by any means, you acknowledge that the festival will not pay you to present your work.

Laurels

Filmmakers can use Cubestream™ laurels on their winning/nominated/selected films ONLY. They can be used on posters as well as on other media available. Laurels will be made available to winners of the awards within 10 days of the ceremony.