wave of the year competition
Submission Checklist
Submit before midnight 30th September 2024.
Submission must satisfy rules highlighted below.
Submissions must satisfy video formats for projectionists highlighted below.
Paypal payment of €30 made to paypal.me/irishsurffilmfest.
Submissions sent to irishsurffilmfest@gmail.com via wetransfer or similar.
Email payment confirmation made to irishsurffilmfest@gmail.com.
By submitting to the festival the applicant understands that he/she/they has a legal right to submit the film including ensuring all clearances have been obtained. By submitting to the festival the applicant agrees to the rules and terms.
rules
1. There will be five categories: bodyboard, paddle surf, women’s, tow surf, and under 18’s.
2. Riders in women’s and U18’s categories may submit into other categories if they wish.
3. Each rider can have a max of 2 entries per category (video entries only), although only 1 wave (at the judge’s discretion) will be considered as a finalist. If submitting to more than one category the waves must be different. There is no requirement that the wave is unseen, ie not published online prior to the festival.
4. The wave should be caught from (and including) the 1st of November 2023 to the 30th of September 2024.
5. Generally speaking, rides that have been completed (a tube that is made, or maneuver that is landed) will be favoured over waves that aren’t, similar to general rules in livesurf competitions. The judge(s) decision will be final.
6. The video must be submitted in the format set out in the submission guidelines.
7. The submitted video must be a maximum of 30 seconds (only the waves, we will add introduction name of rider and filmer, etc) and have a maximum of two angles (one land angle and/or one water angle and/or one drone angle, if available).
8. The clips should only include raw audio or no audio.
9. The top three waves (as decided by the judge(s)) in each category will be featured in the festival. Other runners up may also be featured on ISFF socials. This may be subject to change.
10. A submission fee of €30 will be charged per wave submitted, made payable via the paypal link: paypal.me/irishsurffilmfest.
11. The finalists will receive two free tickets to the event (main event & after party).
12. The WOTY clip must be submitted to irishsurffilmfest@gmail.com. In this email, the filmer(s) must be CC’d. There should also be an agreement about how the cash prize will be split between surfer and filmer in percentage terms. For example “surfer 50%, filmer 50%”, or “surfer 40%, filmer 1 30%, filmer 2 30%”, etc.
13. In each category, a cash prize of €500 + product will be awarded to the winner as decided by the judge(s).
VIDEO FORMATS FOR SUBMISSIONS
(both short film and 30 second preview, and wave of the year submission)
Advice from Palas cinema projectionist:
• For a DCP (digital cinema print) conversion, it would be best that we receive the master files as Quicktime ProRes (422 HQ is best). We can convert other .MOV and .MP4 codecs, but there could be a noticeable drop in quality.
• 24FPS is preferred frame rate and ideally in 2K or 4K resolution, however full HD is also workable.
• DCI-P3 colour space with 2.6 gamma would be best, but if you only have it in rec709 then that is fine.
• The Palas cinema is set up for 5.1 surround. Anything below that is ok (stereo, mono, ect), however 7.1 and above would not be compatible.
Submissions sent to irishsurffilmfest@gmail.com via wetransfer or similar. Email should also include proof of paypal payment for submission (paypal.me/irishsurffilmfest).