How to win – our festival service

World-wide recognition for Your films

The submission of films into a competition enables you to reach an international public and attain world-wide recognition at highly respected festivals. We may lead your tourism film to the desired goal: promote your destination worldwide, the gain of international awards at the most prestigious festivals and possible reach of the summit, the Grand Prix CIFFT for the worldwide best tourism film of the year awarded in Vienna, Austria.

How does our Full Service help you?

  • no laborious and time consuming studying of competition entry-forms in foreign languages,
  • no entry procedures, no comprehensive filling out of forms
  • we check and meet all deadlines
  • we select and specify the most relevant categories for your entry
  • we dispatch and ship your material in time and reliably
  • we inform you about the festival results
  • we send you catalogues if available
  • and you don’t have to care about complicated foreign payment transactions (e.g. in Non EU countries and USA).

Charges and costs

The price for the complete package is € 3.520,– per film and per year. All entry fees of the competitions* are already included in this amount. This includes also the charges for handling fees, courier, customs duties, etc. In case of winning there might occur extra costs for the shipment and customs handling of your award.
The material required for the competitions (10 DVDs, .mov file in high resolution if possible, film related data, synopsis, pictures from the film and the director) have to be sent to the CIFFT General Secretariat.

* Please take note, that your film might not be eligible for all 14 member festivals. We do not assume responsibility, if one of the festivals get´s cancelled owing to unforeseen events.

How to participate?

Fill in the entry form and send it together with the pictures via e-mail to info@cifft.com.
A signed copy of the entry-form together with the DVDs has to be sent to the CIFFT General Secretariat.
Only tourism films produced or released within the last 2 years will be accepted. It is preferable to enter an English version of the film. We check the technical state of your copies and send you a complete itinerary of your upcoming CIFFT competitions.

Promotion & Publicity

The entrant must own the copyright of the participating film/online media or have the permission to use it.
You are required to assign the streaming rights to the festival organizers during the period of judging and for public viewing. The entrant allows the public viewing, TV-showing and reproduction on festival winner-DVDs for festival publicity purposes.
In case you do not allow one of the above mentioned activities, please inform us. The entrant bears all costs of copy right infringements that may occur through the publication of the film.

Download the CIFFT entry form (PDF)

Who has successfully used our Full Service (e.g.)

AERA Property&Destination. Aera MHC Kft

Airborne Motion Pictures OG

ArGe Mozart

Art Media Film- & TV-Produktion

Austrian National Tourist Office

Dubrovnik Tourist Board

Göteborg&Co

Hungarian National Board

Industria Film Studios

Lindstrand España (for Turismo y comunicaciòn de Salamanca)

Marshal’s Office of the Lublin Voivodship

Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, etc.

Polish Tourism Organisation

ScienceVision Filmproduktions GmbH

Tirol Werbung GmbH

Tourism Association of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

VideoOn for Patronato de Turismo de Segovia y Junta de Castilla y Leòn and Turismo y Comunicaciòn de Salamanca y Junta de Castilla y Leòn

Vienna Tourism Board

Visit Scotland

VNR.TV

Wonderful Copenhagen Film & News Production

 
… and many more