Maui Film Festival will be held at Wailea and Maui Arts & Cultural Center. June 4 - 8, 2014.

The Maui Film Festival believes in the power of Original Cinema.Original Cinema is the rocket fuel that powers the Maui Film Festival by revealing its character, igniting its passion, focusing its vision and soothing its soul.

Especially when filmmakers explore what it means to be human alongside Humankind's relationship to all Life, Original Cinema can move culture and shift paradigm, moves culture and build a future worthy of generations yet unborn.

"The Maui Film Festival exceeded my expectations. The Celestial Cinema is mind-blowing! It's also one of the best places anywhere in the world to launch a movie."
— Trevor Groth, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival

Each year, since 2000, the Maui Film Festival has presented five days and nights of under-the-stars Film Premieres, Special Screenings, Festival Tributes, Filmmakers Panels, and world-class Special Culinary Arts Celebrations that include an Opening Night Twilight Reception, Taste of Wailea, Taste of Chocolate, Filmmaker/Patron Brunch, Starry Night MoonDance and/or VIP Party at Spago.

According to the prestigious Hawaii Tourism Authority, the Maui Film Festival is one of only six "Signature Cultural Events" in Hawaii-and the only one that takes place on Maui.

More importantly, from the perspective of filmmakers considering submitting their work for consideration, the Festival has also been hailed as "Hawaii's Answer to Sundance" in the Los Angeles Times by respected entertainment writer John Horn.

indieWIRE has described the Maui Film Festival as a "'jewel-box' festival - able to handle anything without becoming unwieldy or impersonal. Flawlessly planned.  The national press is taking notice, with the Hollywood Reporter,Variety, LA Times, Entertainment Tonight, CNN, E! and Vanity Fair all reporting on its goings-on, Watch for even greater things to come!”  

Among others, this list includes: Associated Press, Hollywood Reporter, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Vanity Fair, LA Weekly, People, Premiere, Rolling Stone, Screen International, USA Today, Vanity Fair, Variety, VH1 Music,Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, AOL, E! Online, Entertainment Weekly, FilmFestivals.com, The Hollywood Reporter, Huffungton Post, iMDb, indieWIRE, Bravo, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, Starz Cinema, CNN Headline New, Jimmy Kimmel Live, E! (US + Intl), Moving Pictures, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Late Night with David Letterman, Movie Television, Reelz Channel USWeekly.com, CNN International, Modern Luxury Hawaii, Angeleno, San Francisco Magazine and Los Angeles Magazine.

Each year's event also features an eclectic program of approximately 50+ narrative, documentary and international features and short films that are enjoyed by a diverse audience of 20,000. The festival has had the honor of screening films with budgets between $50,000 and $75,000,000 that have been provided by major studios and their mini-major divisions, independent distributors and first-time filmmakers.

Film premiere and special screenings take place primarily within the Wailea Resort at three state-of-the-art outdoor "theaters", the 3,000+ seat 35mm, HDCam, BluRay and Dolby Digital equipped Celestial Cinema, and the 600+ capacity toes-in-the-sand Seaside Cinema (formerly known as the SandDance Theater).

Festival screenings are also held at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center's 500 seat Castle Theater (in 35mm and HDCam) and/or beautifully refurbished 250+ seat McCoy Theater (multiple digital formats).

Since its inception, many critically acclaimed films have graced the silver screens at the Festival's open-air and majestic indoor venues. 2013's program included: Short Term 12, The Way, Way Back, 20 Feet From Stardom, The East, Much Ado About Nothing and Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau. Noteworthy films screening in in earlier years included: Beasts of the Southern WIld, Samsara, Liberal Arts, The Intouchables, People Like Us, Kumare, Lola Versus, Te Art of Rap, Big Easy Express and Decoding Deepak among many others. Noteworthy past Festival premieres have included: Waste Land, Nowhere Boy, The TIllman Story, Beginners, Life in a Day, happythankyoumoreplease, Submarine, The Future, Another Earth, The Freebie, Queen of the Sun, The Concert, Boy, Cyrus, The Cove, The Visitor, Young @ Heart, 500 Days of Summer, Mad Hot Ballroom, Hustle and Flow, Whale Rider, Napoleon Dynamite, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Waitress, Food Inc;, Son of Rambow, Once, Bottle Shock, Surf's Up, The Illusionist, Garden State, The Notebook, Chicken Run and Step into Liquid again, among many others.

As noted in much of the press coverage that the Festival has received over the years, the Maui Film Festival is also widely known for the quality of its highly placed industry attendees and honorees.

The Hollywood Reporter has written that "The Maui Film Festival is the embodiment of relaxed elegance providing ample opportunity to enjoy stargazing of both the Hollywood and heavenly varieties shoulder-to-shoulder with its A-List honorees." And the mavens at independent film's touchstone 'publication' indieWIRE noted that "The Maui Film Festival Serves Up Feasts, Stars and Enlightenment. It's where the seaside rules and studio execs retreat and where there's enough A-list presence on and off screen to make it an island celebration deserving of its industry recognition."

Last but nor least, Variety-the often cited 'Bible of the Entertainment Industry' recently reported that "Growing as an international destination for cineastes and industry insiders.the Maui Film Festival, the film festival circuit's favorite sun-baked sibling, continues to celebrate cinema from the intersection of smart and heart. With open-air screenings, the festival once again ditches traditional Hollywood devices like black ties and red carpets for flip-flops, all for the sake of a more intimate experience. The fest's lineup, which includes Hollywood fare (alongside) a selection of smaller cinematic endeavors from around-the-world that focus on human triumph."

We hope you'll choose to honor us with your submission. We look forward to viewing it and thoughtfully considering it for inclusion in this year's exemplary film program.

Aloha,

Barry Rivers, Director and the Maui Film Festival 'ohana (family)

Film Submission Rules And Regulations

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Submission Deadline

All film submissions must be shipped prepaid and packed in proper containers postmarked no later than their respective deadlines. Details follow below for categories, methods and amount of payment(s).  

• Late Submission Entry: 
  Submissions postmarked AFTER February 15, 2014 and NO LATER than March 15, 2014
• WAB Extended Submission Entry: 
  Submissions postmarked AFTER March 15, 2014 and NO LATER than April 15, 2014

Definitions of Categories and Terms:
* Print Source - The company or representative that will be providing the film print to the festival (This is not the film lab). 
* International Sales Agent - The company or representative that is in charge of selling the film rights worldwide.   

International Shipping Information
DVDs and/or BluRay discs sent from outside the United States must be accompanied by a commercial invoice (containing the film's title, run time, format (color or B&W), value of shipment and sender's name and address). DVDs and/or BluRay discs  should be marked "For Festival Screening Only." 

Completion Date - Films must have been completed no earlier than January 1, 2013.  

Synopsis- A short typed description of the film's content.  

Credits - A complete principal cast and production credits   

Presentation - Selected films must be made available for Festival presentation in 35mm, HDCam or BluRay. 

Language - Foreign language films must be made available with the original language soundtrack and English Subtitles. 

Prior Screenings - Entries will not be accepted that have screened publicly at another Film Festival or Special Screening anywhere in Hawaii or have, or will have, been broadcast anywhere in the U.S. before September 30, 2014. 

Prior Submission - Films previously submitted to Maui Film Festival will not be considered. 

Additional Screenings - The Maui Film Festival reserves the right to host one additional screening of any 2014 Maui Film Festival at Wailea Audience Award and/or other Special Award winning films so long as such screening takes place prior to September 30, 2014.

Format - All films must be submitted as DVDs or BluRay discs. All entries, and accompanying materials, will not be returned and will become the property of the Maui Film Festival. 

Accompanying Materials - Please include a printed copy of the Entry Confirmation Form with your submission DVD. Incomplete entries will not be considered. 

Early Bird Submission Entry Fees: 
*Submissions postmarked AFTER October 18, 2013 and NO LATER than January 2, 2014. 
$60 for any film 41+ minutes in length.
$35 for any film 40 minutes or less in length.  

Regular Submission Entry Fees:  
*Submissions postmarked AFTER January 3, 2014 and NO LATER than February 15, 2014. 
$75 for any film 41+ minutes in length.  
$40 for any film 40 minutes or less in length.  

Late Submission Entry Fees:  
*Submissions postmarked AFTER February 15, 2014 and NO LATER than March 15, 2014. 
$100 for any film 41+ minutes in length. 
$50 for any film 40 minutes or less in length.  

WAB Extended Submission Entry Fees:  
*Submissions postmarked AFTER March 15, 2014 and NO LATER than April 15, 2014. 
$125 for any film 41+ minutes in length.   
$65 for any film 40 minutes or less in length.   

Entry Fee Waiver: The submission fee is waived for films that have 50% or more of the film footage shot in the State of Hawaii. No other waivers or exceptions will be granted. Please do not ask.  

BluRay disc and DVD Labeling - Preview BluRay discs and DVDs must be labeled with the film title, running time, WAB tracking # and contact information (including name, address and phone number).   

Receipt Acknowledgment - Without a Box will notify the sender by email when the package is received and processed in our system.  

Notification - Films selected for screening in all categories will be notified no later than May 10, 2014.  

Shipping
If a film is invited to participate, the film must be shipped prepaid, insured and packed in proper containers. The Maui Film Festival will be responsible for return shipping charges. The Maui Film Festival will not pay international shipping on US films.  

The Maui Film Festival does not assume any liability for damage to prints due to improper containers or otherwise. All films in our possession will be insured against damage or loss while participating in the festival. 

Materials - Materials of films selected for screening become the property of the Maui Film Festival and can be used to promote the Maui Film Festival at Wailea and the programs of the Maui Film Festival in all mediums including film, television, radio, print and the internet.  

Contact Information - By providing Maui Film Festival with your contact information, you agree to receive communication from us including submission confirmations and our email newsletters providing festival updates. Contact information will NOT be sold or shared with third parties. 

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