Submission Guidelines for 2025 St Kilda Film Festival
File Naming Convention:
Please follow this convention when naming your film file before uploading your film to Hightail: “name of the film – audio format (stereo or 5.1) – framerate"
For example: "The Big Lebowski - 5.1 - 25p"
Required Video Format
SKFF will screen QuickTime screener copies as per the below specifications:
- Supported QuickTime Video Codecs: Apple Pro Res 422 / 4444 or H.264
- Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (the festival will not be screening in 4K. 4K versions of films are able to be screened, but if possible, please supply 1920x1080 versions).
- Frame Rate: 25p or 50i
- Data Rate: up to 150 Mbit/s
NB: The Festival will be screening with equipment that is formatted for screening content at 25p/50i. The Festival takes no responsibility for the quality of presentation of films screened in frame rates other than 25p/50i.
Required Audio Format
The St Kilda Film Festival can screen films with stereo and 5.1 channel surround sound.
For 2-CHANNEL STEREO ONLY, audio track allocation must be:
- Left
- Right
For 5.1-CHANNEL SURROUND, audio track allocation must be:
- Left
- Right
- Centre
- LFE
- Left Surround
- Right Surround
NB: Track configuration. Your submitted video must contain a single audio track - configured with stereo or surround channels. Films with multiple mono tracks or discrete tracks to form stereo / surround will not ingest correctly.
If you are going to submit a film with 5.1 channel surround sound, plus a stereo mix down within the same file, please allocate the stereo mix as follows:
- Left
- Right
- Center
- LFE
- Left Surround
- Right Surround
- Lt (Left Total)
- Rt (Right Total)
If the above track layout is presenting any issues, please label your film file name with the track layout that you have sent through.
Subtitle Files for Open Captioned Sessions
To increase the accessibility of the Festival, we will be screening additional 'mixtape' sessions with subtitles. Alongside your film, please supply a subtitle track (as a separate SRT. file) to ensure that your film can be included in these sessions.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us via email: filmfest@portphillip.vic.gov.au
