Requirements:

Films and videos: documentaries.

Exhibition Formats: 16 and 35mm film, and video in Betacam NTSC (no audience screenings in DVD) or Dvcam NTSC.

Films and videos must have been finished after June 2008.

Submissions:

Categories:
– International Competition for Feature and Medium-length films and Brazilian Competition for Feature or Medium-length films (running time longer than 40 minutes);
- International Competition for Short Films and Brazilian Competition for Short Films (up to 25 minutes);
- informative programs The State of Things, Latin American Focus and Horizon (non-competitive).

Submissions are free.

Submission material:
- completely fill out an entry form and
- send 2 DVDs of the film,
- accompanied by a photos CD and a filmmaker’s photo with minimum of 300 DPI (preferably Jpeg) to the festival’s head office.

If the original language of the film is not English or Portuguese, the copy must have English subtitles.

Mail costs – mailing costs of sending the tapes are the sender’s responsibility.

Producers and filmmakers can submit more than one film.

Each DVD entry should have just one title.

Awards:
The international jury will award the Best International Documentary and the Best International Short Documentary Film.

The national jury will award the Best Brazilian Documentary and the Best Brazilian Short Documentary Film.

The event is also open to partnerships, which result in different awards to be announced during the Festival’s closing ceremony.