Mafloum FastFilm Festival Announcement

Dear Filmmakers, Directors, and Workers in the Production, Pre-Production, and Post-Production fields around the world, we invite you to participate in the Mafloum FastFilm Festival (MFFF) from Maazoul Multimedia Network. This festival is for films made quickly and spontaneously by filmmakers. The films will be shown every Sunday on Maazoul network platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram).

Mafloum is not like any other festival. It is a weekly festival, and films are shown every Sunday night.

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Who is entitled to participate?

- Workers in filmmaking and audiovisual productions from all countries, including filmmakers, directors, video editors, photographers, and other workers wishing to participate in this experience, whether professional or amateur, who have practical experiences in one of the production or creative fields, even if they have simple experiences.

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Film length: All films are acceptable: long, short, and medium.

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Film genre and technology: Unspecified. (Fiction - Documentary others...) (Animation - Camera others...)

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Language: Not specified; all languages are welcome. If the films are in languages other than Arabic and English, it is preferable to attach a translation file in English or Arabic.

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Requirements and Preferences

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1—The film must be specially made to participate in the Mafloum festival to ensure its spontaneity and preserve the idea of the random movie. The filmmaker has the right to publish her/his film and dispose of it as she/he wants.
2- The film should contain a story, in other words, it should not be just a motion picture, or just video art, or only an editorial video, it should only be a film with a story or conflict.

3- The picture and the music that will be used in the film must either be (original): explicitly made for the movie, or music and videos that do not have a copyright claim, or it should be Royalty - Public Domain so that YouTube and Facebook do not block the film.

4- It is preferred that the film be made (the working time) with a period not exceeding three hours and two weeks as a maximum from the date of the show to preserve the idea of spontaneity and making.
5- It is forbidden to talk about squirrels in films in any way, positive or negative.
6—The films must be sent before two o'clock in the afternoon every Sunday so that we have time to publish them.

7- Maazoul Network can show the films on all its platforms (Youtube - Facebook - Instagram) and others. The filmmaker can show her/his film wherever they want. We do not have any authority or ownership of the movie. We want to show the films within the festival period, every Sunday, and keep the cinema Maazoul Network platforms For everyone, except in exceptional cases (for example, the filmmaker wants us to remove the film from Maazoul platforms for an important reason).

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To participate, you can send your films to Maazoulnetwork@gmail.com. Please title the email with the Mafloum FastFilm Festival and include a brief explanation of the film in the text.

About Mafloum

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Mafloum is a fast-paced, independent film festival that relies on films made spontaneously and with simple preparations. We try to select films produced by professional filmmakers or multimedia production professionals who want to make quick films and test this experience. We also try to keep sample space for new filmmakers and people interested in expressing themselves through Films.

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Mafloum started as the Sunday Night Film Maazoul network, and we tried to work on a fast-made Film every Sunday night.

In Mafloum, we try to escape as much as possible from the rules and intricacies of production and the cinematographic and visual industry codes and templates in general, and our focus is on the story or the simple story with a bit of randomness. Fast-made films are free from production rules and pressures, and they maintain quality and try to test our cinematic or storytelling instincts.

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SEND YOUR FILMS WITH PRIDE, WE ARE WAITING

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Thanks a lot, and a hundred Flowers

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