2020 Sundance Ignite Short Film Challenge

Rules and Regulations

The Ignite Short Film Challenge is open to filmmakers between the ages of 18 and 25 who join the Sundance Co//ab community. One entry per person.

All submissions will be viewable to the community.

Films must adhere to Sundance Co//ab’s code of conduct.

All submissions will be given equal consideration, the finalists and 10 fellows will be determined by the consensus of the designated Sundance Ignite judges.

Only those submissions that meet the criteria outlined in the challenge description can be selected as the winner.

All work submitted must be entirely your own; you cannot include film clips or music created by others without their written permission. If your film features people, you must obtain their consent.

Only one director per submission can be considered for the Ignite Fellowship. If two or more directors are identified for a single submission, priority will be given to the director who completed the submission. Films can only be submitted once.

Only the director of the film can submit and be considered for the fellowship.

All work must be completed between August 2018 and March 2020.

Any film not in English must include English subtitles.

Work re-submitted from previous editions of the Sundance Ignite Challenges on the Adobe Project 1324 platform will not be considered.

All work must be submitted online in digital video format.

Employees of Sundance Institute are not eligible to submit.

Sundance Institute is not responsible for any misdirected, improperly submitted, technically or artistically un-viewable, lost, incomplete, late, or damaged entries.

The challenge closes on March 31, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. PST.