Thank you for your interest in submitting your film to the 2011 Element Film Festival. Please take the time to fill out the form to the right. Films may be submitted electronically if they are under 300MB or by mail to the address below.

Submissions and Fees:

Sorry! Submissions are closed.

Mail submission and payment to:

Element Film Festival
c/o School of Film & Photography
MSU – Bozeman
P.O. Box 173350
Bozeman, MT 59717-3350

Make checks payable to:
Science and Natural History Filmmaking Forum

Accepted Formats

HD:
1920 x 1080p Apple ProRes encoded Quicktime file
1920x1080p Apple Animation encoded Quicktime file
1920x1080p H.264 encoded Quicktime or .MP4 file (please use 50Mbps or higher)
HDV 1080i NTSC

SD:
DV 480i NTSC

Frame rates of 24p, 30i, and 30p are all acceptable, but please be sure to specify the frame rate of your film.

Accepted Media:

USB thumb drive
DV/HDV tape
Data DVD - only if you can fit your film onto a single data DVD at high quality. Single-layer DVDs can hold 4.7GB. Dual-layer can hold 8.55GB.
*No video DVDs please - data DVDs only. Video DVDs are unnecessarily low in quality.