DIMFF film submission deadline extended

Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival 2021 (DIMFF) has extended their film submission date. The extended deadline is now on October 29, 2020.

The process of film submission is filmfreeway that one can find easily through its website: www.dimff.net. ‘Till the first deadline of DIMFF 2021 film submissions we have got 167 films from 23 countries in three categories and we hope we will get more films in the new deadline’, DIMFF Manager Mohammed Farhad Hossain Fahad confirmed.

This festival has three categories; Screening, Competition, and One Minute Film, a press release said on Saturday.

This year for the first time, DIMFF 2021 adds an award on the Screening category, the ‘DIMFF Best Film Award’. Anyone from any place around the world with no age limitation can submit their film in the Screening category, and the film length can be of any duration.

In the Competition category, only university students can submit their film with a maximum 10 minutes long; the best film from this category will receive ‘Cinemascope Best Film’. For the school going students from 1 to 12 grade, DIMFF has introduced the ‘One-minute film’ category, which can be the 1-minute length with titles and credits and the best film from this category will get ‘ULAB Young Filmmaker’ award. 

It is also mandatory to add English subtitle in films, and one director can submit at least two films in this festival, the release added.

The 7th Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival- DIMFF 2021 has started its film submission process from 3rd April 2020 and the festival's curtain will raise on 26 & 27 February 2021.