For Filmmakers

SUBMIT YOUR FILM

LUNAFEST accepts film submissions from January 1st - April 30th annually. From amateur filmmakers, to film students, to aspiring indie stars, we look for filmmakers and producers from around the globe with unique films by…for…about women! Download our entry form, submit online at withoutabox, or tell a filmmaker friend about the festival! 

If your film is chosen by our LUNAFEST Board of Advisors as a winning film, LUNA will award you $1000. Additionally, your film will be shown at over 100 venues nationwide at community benefit events.

FILM FORMAT AND SHIPPING

  • Films accepted can be shorts, documentaries, fiction or narratives. There is a special category for student shorts.
  • Films should not exceed 30 minutes.
  • Each entry must be submitted on a separate DVD. With each entry, please include:
  • Labeled DVD with your name, address, telephone number, film title, and categories in which you are applying
  • Film entry form
  • $20 application fee by check made out to the Breast Cancer Fund (no fee for international applicants. Student fee: $15.00)
  • Foreign language film soundtracks must be in the original language with English subtitles.
  • Films can be submitted directly online through withoutabox.

DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSION 
All films must be postmarked by April 30, 2008. 

Ship to:

LUNAFEST
c/o LUNA
1610 5th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
Questions? Please Call: 510-558-7855 or use our online contact us form.

Download an entry form and submit your film today
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OUR WINNING FILMS

  • Winning films will be shown in VHS or DVD format and will not be returned. The films will be shown at up to 200 venues across the United States and Canada from September 2008 through April 2009.
  • Festival copies of winning films and press packed must be received no later than July 15, 2008

JUDGING
Films will be judged by LUNAFEST staff members and the LUNAFEST Board of Advisors, a group of key film industry professionals and leaders of community organizations. Criteria include creativity, content and how the film fits the “By…For…About Women” theme. The film’s integrity and the dialogue generated among its viewers will also be rated.

ELGIBILITY AND LICENSE
Clif Bar & Co. and the Breast Cancer Fund employees, relatives, and sponsored athletes are prohibited from entering. Each film entrant agrees that by submitting an entry to LUNAFEST™, Clif & Co. and the Breast Cancer Fund are granted, without compensation to the entrant and without any further approval or review, a non-exclusive, royalty free license to (1) show the entry at LUNAFEST™ events, and (2) use the name, picture, likeness and information about the entrant and the entry and its actors for advertising and publicity purposes in connection with LUNAFEST™ events, whether utilized in print or electronic media, television, video, film, radio, internet or other media.