1.The Gujarat International Film Festival of India is a festival of short films. The competition will be held on May 2012 at Surat.

2.The competition is open to all national and international participants.

3.All films must be submitted on VCD/DVD for consideration of the selection committee, before April 20th 2012.

4. Each entry must be accompanied by a completely filled in entry form.

5.All entries must be sent to the GIFFI prepaid and insured for your own protection.

6.VCDs/DVDs submitted will not be returned, except under extreme circumstances, $ 10 fee is needed for the return of the submission after the festival.

7.If selected for the festival, exhibition prints may be presented in either 35mm film's, beta cam sp (PAL) video, dig beta (PAL) or high quality DVD, the festival will accept other formats on a case by case basis and subject to availability of equipment.

8. The selection of the Films for the GIFFI will be announced not later than May 1st 2012.

9.Please notify us by email, fax of any changes of address. The festival committee reserves the right to accept or refuse any film without assigning any reason whatsoever.

10.The Gujarat International Film Festival of India reserves the right to use excerpts and pictures from the film for promotion and public relation purposes..

11.The film can be in any language, but it should be subtitled in English or Hindi. If the language of the film is English or Hindi, it is not required to be subtitled.

12.Running time of the film should not be less than 30 seconds and should not exceed 30 minutes.

13.No refund of the travel expenses is provided for the participants attending the festival; festival will provide free lodging only for one day and only for one representative for each of the selected films.

14. Academy Award Trophy and the cash prizes awarded for all the competition winner in each category are similar.