Call for Applications: Films, Unexecuted Screenplays & Production Market Projects (Saudi Arabia)

Deadline: 4 January 2024

Applications are now open for registration in the Saudi Film Festival’s competitions of films, Unproduced scripts and production market projects.

Competition Prizes

Documentary Film Competition
- Golden Palm for Best Documentary Film
- Jury Prize
- Unique Documentary Subject Award
- Tuwaiq Mountain Award for a film about a Saudi city
- Golden Palm for Gulf Film – Documentary
Short narrative film competition
- Golden Palm for Best Short Film
- Jury Prize
- Golden Palm for Best Actor
- Golden Palm for Best Actress
- Golden Palm for Best Cinematography
- Golden Palm for Best Animated Film
- Abdullah Al-Muhaisen Award for First Film
- Golden Palm for Gulf Film – Short
Feature Film Competition
- Golden Palm for Best Feature Film
- Jury Prize
- Golden Palm for Best Actor
- Golden Palm for Best Actress
- Golden Palm for Best Musical Composition
- Golden Palm for Best Cinematography
- Golden Palm for Best Editing
- The Golden Palm for Gulf Film – Feature Film
Production Market Awards
- Development grant for a feature film
- Production support grant for a feature film
- Post-production support grant for a feature film
- Development grant for a short film
- Production support grant for a short film
- Post-production support grant for a short film
Unexecuted scenario competition
- Best First Feature Screenplay Award
- Best Second Feature Screenplay Award
- Third Best Long Screenplay Award
- Best First Short Screenplay Award
- Best Second Short Screenplay Award
- Ghazi Al-Gosaibi Award for Best Screenplay for a Saudi Novel

Terms of participation for the production market

Submission must contain people from the following roles (producer, writer or director).
At least one of the following roles must be of Saudi nationality (producer, writer, or director).
It is allowed for one person to play more than one of the following roles (producer, writer, or director), provided that no less than two people apply.
Submission must meet the production market registration requirements.
The project must contain completed text. (Even if it was in the initial versions).
The project must be a feature film or short film.
Projects for television programs or a separate episode within a series program are not accepted.
The project must not be a television series, whether documentary or dramatic.
It is not allowed to participate in more than two projects.

Conditions for scenario submission

The scenario must be Saudi. (author or subject).
The scenario must be implementable in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The script must be submitted in Arabic, and must be by a single writer or shared between two writers at most.
The writer himself must submit an application to participate. The scenario must not have been purchased or produced previously.
The intellectual property rights of the script must be the responsibility of the co-writer, and if the script is based on another person’s life story or adapted from another author, legal documents must be submitted that grant the applicant the right to do so.
The applicant has the right to participate in more than one scenario, provided that there are no more than three entries.

Deadlines