About

The MINT Chinese Film Festival is the first Chinese film festival held in Keswick, in the heard of the northern English Lake District, Cumbria, UK. The festival is co-founded by Yixiang Shirley Lin (MSc graduate in Film, Exhibition and Curation), and Carol Rennie (MSc and PhD in Chinese Literature), owner/operator of the Keswick Alhambra Cinema.

The Festival will be launched on 3-5 February 2023 at the Alhambra Cinema, Keswick, UK. The 2023 edition focuses on the cross-cultural communication of Chinese cinema and women’s representation in film, providing an occasion for filmmakers, spectators, critics and scholars to watch, award and discuss Chinese film. The three main parts of the festival include 1) the feature film and short film programmes, 2) panel discussions/workshops, 3) the Audiences' Choice Award for the best short film, and Q&As

The festival curation takes into account a mixture of industry and academia in inviting film professionals, student societies and experts to deliver productive events to be involved in this festive environment with collective synergies that allow them to share their valuable experiences and thoughts. There will be a rich film programme that combines a selection of Chinese language films in different formats with paratextual events, including cultural workshops, pop-up events, panel discussions, and filmmaker's talks.

Awards & Prizes

The Audience Choice Award, the only competition strand of the MINT Chinese Film Festival

What do we offer to shortlisted filmmakers?

The festival provides filmmakers opportunities to live exhibitions, film promotion events, audience Q&A, forums and workshops and other sidebar events.

The winner of the Audiences' Choice Award will be announced after the event shortly. The sole winner may have the chance to obtain a digital prize, cash rewards, a cinema membership card, interviews with the press and international touring screenings opportunities in support of the filmmaker's future creative development.

Rules & Terms

Submissions open from 05 December 2022 to 10 January 2023

Submission Guidelines:

-Eligibility:

(1) films made in the Chinese-speaking world or within the Chinese Diaspora.

OR

(2) by Chinese filmmakers working anywhere in the world OR a filmmaker of ANY nationality who captures a sense of Chinese story or Chinese culture anywhere in the world.

-Deadline:

Regular: January 1st, 2023. 4pm (Time in Greenwich, London, UK)

Delay: January 10th, 2023. 4pm（Time in Greenwich, London, UK)）

-Qualification:

Production Time: Recent short films made after 2018

Feature-length films are considered for submission. (Film produced no earlier than 2020). Interests in exhibiting feature-length films should be submitted via email that is titled “feature film submission”

Format：

Resolution >= 1920*1080p; Format H. 264, MP4.

Should your film be selected, you will be required to provide an H. 264 MP4 file or a DCP of your film and promotional kist, including high-quality film stills, film synopsis, film filmmaker biographies and high-quality trailer and so on)

Length:

Short films: Less than 40 mins; Mid-length: 40-60 mins.

We accept overarching genres and formats including but limited to narrative films, experimental films, documentaries, animations, a single episode from the film series, poetry films, essay films, and artists’ moving images.

We do not accept advertisements, promotion videos, MV, Vlog and Tiktok videos.

Subtitles:

All films to submit must include English subtitles. We recommend submitting the film with burned-in English and Chinese subtitles. The Srt subtitles file is accepted by email to the festival team.

Subtitles in Chinese are recommended if the language of the film is non-Chinese.

NOTICE: All films must be submitted via Film Freeway; the festival committee does not accept other platforms of submission.

If any problems or questions occur before the deadline, please email us: mintchinesefilmfest@gmail.com

Source: https://filmfreeway.com/MINTChinesefilmfestival