Bfi London Film Festival

T he British Film Institute (BFI) is a non-profit organization founded in 1933 to promote understanding and appreciation of film and television in the UK. It operates 2 cinemas; publishes books and the monthly film journal Sight & Sound; has one of the world's largest archives of films, television programmes, and related materials; and organizes the annual London Film Festival. Other activities include providing an information service for researchers, sponsoring educational programmes, and selling copies of material from its archives to film producers.

Open submissions

Deadline for receipt of online submission forms and screeners:

• Short films (40 mins or less) - 22 June • Feature length films (more than 40 mins) - 6 July

Please fill in the required fields through the online submission form if you wish to submit your film for consideration, and for international features and shorts please complete the PayPal form which you will be directed to from the online submission form.

(Please note international features and shorts will not be considered without completed payment confirmation and completion of the correct online form).

Fees

The fee for International features is £45 including VAT.

The fee for International shorts is £15 including VAT.

Packages post (or courier) marked on or before the deadline will be accepted.

On completion of your online submission (and completion of payment for International submissions), you will be emailed a confirmation email. Please include this with a DVD copy of the film plus a synopsis as soon as possible, and your PayPal receipt for international submissions. Please ensure the following information is included when you send your screener:

• Online submission confirmation email • PayPal receipt for international features • English Title / Original Title • Director's name • Country of Production • Running Time • Full contact detailsincluding postal address, telephone numberand email address.

Viewing

For viewing purposes we accept any region DVD. Please ensure there is sufficient postage when sending submissions as we will be unable to retrieve any package with insufficient postage. Viewing material should be insured by the sender and sent via airmail or courier (at the sender's expense) to the address sent to you on your confirmation email.

If you do not have a DVD and would like to submit your film in another format please contact us. Under certain circumstances and by prior arrangement we can also view Beta SP and DigiBeta (Pal or NTSC) and work online screening on 35mm.

If you would like to submit a link for your film, please contact us directly. While some of our programming team are happy to view online, we would prefer to receive DVD screener submissions.

The programme is finalised between July and September. You will hear from us by mid-September at the latest, normally by email. If your contact details change during this period please let us know so that we may update our records.

Please complete one form per film you wish to submit and ensure that all the required fields (marked with an *) are completed. Once the form and payment are completed, you will receive an email confirmation with details of where to send your DVD screener, and a PayPal receipt. Please include these with your submission(s). If you do not receive these confirmations, please email lffsubmissions@bfi.org.uk as soon as possible.

Please ensure you have read and agree to the rules and regulations of the BFI LFF before submitting your film for our consideration, available at http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node

Film details

Please complete this form if your film’s country of production is outside the United Kingdom.

• English title

• Original title

• Director

• Primary country of production

• Second country of production (if applicable)

• Third country of production (if applicable)

• I s your film an international feature? (over 40 minutes) Yes

• Is your film an international short? (40 minutes or under) Yes

• Running time (in minutes)

Categories – please select all that apply

• Fiction

• Documentary

• Family Film

• Animation

• Other category

• Previous (festival) screenings and awards

Your Contact Details

• Your name

• Production company

• Address

• How would you prefer to be addressed in correspondence?

• International Sales Agent (if applicable)

• Country of residence

• E-mail Address

• Mobile Number (inc. international dialling code)

• Telephone Number (inc. international dialling code)

• Fax Number

• Website

Please click the Submit Form button below to complete your application and upload your materials. DO NOT CLOSE YOUR BROWSER WINDOW while the files are uploading.

You will then be re-directed to PayPal to complete the submission fee.

Within 24 hours of submitting your application you should receive an automatically generated email confirming that we have received your submission form.  This will be sent to the email address you entered on the first page of the form.

If you have any problems please contact Michael Blyth at lffsubmissions@bfi.org.uk

Thank you.

Exercise 67. Read the submission form of BFI London Film Festivalagain and find the

English equivalents.

1. заявка (на участие в фестивале)

2. просмотровая копия

3. подтверждать

4. подтверждение

5. НДС

6. отправление бандеролью

7. краткая сценарная заявка

8. квитанция

9. название

10. продолжительность (фильма)

11. почтовый адрес

12. контактные данные / координаты

13. информация о фильме

14. стоимость пересылки по почте

15. недостаточный

16. быть застрахованным

17. просматривать

18. связаться с кем-л. напрямую

19. обстоятельства

20. по предварительной договорённости

21. окончательно оформлять / завершать

22. Мы с вами свяжемся.

23. обновлять

24. помечать / отмечать

25. если применимо

26. страна проживания

27. код города

Exercise 68. Translate into Russian.

1. Unfortunately Von Trier missed the submissions deadline; Nymphomania was simply not finished.

2. Some 200 venues across the UK have already confirmed they will host more than 400 special events of the “Family Arts” Festival.

3. There is still no formal confirmation that the high-profile director will attend the event.

4. When he was younger, he said, “most people thought that VAT meant vodka and tonic.”

5. You’d best keep the receipts just in case.

6. Commercials take up a third of most programmes’ running time.

7. They last raised postage rates in June this year.

8. He thinks the audiences are showing insufficient interest in their new film.

9. They have to finalise casting before production starts early next year.

10. Our video laws need updating now more than ever.

11. What'sthediallingcodeforCambridge?

12. The eventmarked his retirement from show business.

13. Due to unforeseencircumstances, we have had to cancel the concert.

14. It’s amazing that they managed to make an award-winning film under the circumstances.

Exercise 69. Match the words to make collocations. Translate them into Russian and use