Festival Details

The Redemptive Film Festival is a Virginia based festival aimed at providing a forum for filmmakers (professionals or students), to showcase and be rewarded for their work on themes that depict the redemptive purposes of God, either through human beings or supernatural occurrences; and to participate in the process of redeeming and empowering victims of modern day slavery. The festival is now in its fifth year. Films can be of any genre and need not be overtly religious, nor draw conclusions. The exception to this rule is our exclusive "Distinctly Gospel" category.

Entries are judged by a panel of professionals with years of experience in many aspects of cinema and television. All entries which meet the Redemptive Film Festival's strict standards of excellence will receive the Redemptive Storyteller Award (for more information, see Awards page).

There will be a special Redemptive Film Boot Camp which will run concurrently with film screenings on Friday, November 12. Sessions will include, Film Animation, Marketing the Redemptive Film, Developing the Story and Cost Cutting Techniques. The Jurors' favorites are screened at our Grand Awards Ceremony to be held at the Regent University School of Communication Main Auditorium, Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 5:00 P.M.

For the purposes of this competition, a redemptive film is any film whose main purpose is to depict the act of redeeming, rescuing, or delivering any person from a state of crisis or helplessness. We believe that most often, God uses humans to redeem other humans, though sometimes He intervenes through other methods. We are looking for films that portray this reality.

Films which demean religion, include gratuitous violence, nudity or profanity are not suited for this competition. Films do not need to reflect Christian teachings but must adhere to basic Judeo-Christian Values, such as the respect for life, justice and morality.

Categories

Student (Short Films Only):
*    Narrative
*    Animated Shorts (1-10 Minutes)
*    Documentary Shorts (less than 30 minutes)

*    Scripts (45 pages or less)

Professional
*    Commercials
*    Public Service

*    Announcements
*    Narratives (Any length up to 120 minutes)
*    Documentaries (any length up to 90 minutes)

Professional Low Budget

($30,000 and below)
*    Commercials
*    Public Service Announcements
*    Narratives (Any length up to 120 minutes)
*    Documentaries (any length up to 90 minutes)

Distinctly Gospel
Exclusive category of the Redemptive Film Festival
*    Show Opening (show opening for any televised

      Christian television program)
*    Come to Church (televised advert for church

      attendance)
*    Gospel PSA
*    Parables (earthly stories with heavenly

      meaning, less than 5 minutes)
*    Gospel Shorts (any genre, less than 15

      minutes)
*    Short Bread (any genre, less than 30

      minutes)

*    Manna (any genre, longer than 30 minutes,

      but less than 2 hours).

*    Scripts (maximum 90 pages)

Please note: Professional low budget films will receive the Professional award but will be judged separately from othe higher budget films