Selection Process

  Unrestricted View has a team of of in-house and guest programmers for each festival.

How we select the films for the festival

Every film is reviewed by between 2-4 members of the festival programming team..

No programmer will be assigned a submission if the submitting filmmaker is known to them personally.

Each programmer rates each submission on FilmFreeway leaving a score and notes. During this process, submissions are also flagged as possible award nominees.

Once the submission process is closed the core festival team meet to decide which films are selected for the official programme. If some films have mixed reviews from the programmers. They will be watched again by the core team to decide. This is also the stage when the nominations are decided.

No submission that involves any of the festival or guest programming team is eligible for nomination.