Opportunity brief
We invite short film submissions from all around India in the crime genre. Once the submitted short films are undergone through a review process by our jury, the top films will be screened at Criminologia E Cinema 2026, which will be held on November 27, 2026 at National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar. The winners of the event will be awarded a first prize of ₹60,000, second prize of ₹30,000, and third prize of ₹10,000 on stage during the event.
The guidelines for submitting short films are listed below.
- The film should engage with the subject matter of crime or related areas in a creative and interesting way. We encourage filmmakers to base their short films on knowledge and reality.
- The maximum runtime is 12 minutes total, including all opening and closing credits.
- You can have a maximum of 10 members who own the film and an unlimited number of members who work on the film.
- The films should be submitted in an HD MP4 file (1080x1920) in the standard 16:9 Landscape ratio.
- The film can be in any language, but English subtitles must be included.
Submission of the short films are through online mode only.