Submit to the 2025 MOFF
The Maine Outdoor Film Festival (MOFF) is an international film festival featuring outdoor adventure and conservation films – documentary, narrative, and beyond – which relate to topics and experiences surrounding the beauty, vastness, interactivity and volatility of our planet; and how its power influences human experience.
MOFF’s signature event is the annual flagship festival each July in Portland, Maine. Filmmakers, outdoor aficionados, environmentalists and lovers of art & storytelling converge for outdoor adventure and conservation film in Maine’s cultural hub. Each day, the festival features a panoply of programming including indoor daytime screenings, industry panels, and artist networking events. And each night an outdoor theater is erected: a 20’ inflatable screen with a modern audio and projector system.
After the Portland flagship festival, MOFF produces a late-summer/fall tour of northeast venues (called MOFF Selects Tour), connecting community and the outdoors through film.
WHAT WE VALUE
An unwavering focus on top-notch storytelling and its profound potential to strengthen communities and relationships to the natural world.
The opportunity to celebrate and to think, to inspire and be inspired, to educate and to learn, to dance and to be still.
The festival is proud to elevate Maine-made and Maine-themed films, while also connecting our audience with films from across the world.
MOFF invites and encourages work from new, emerging, and veteran filmmakers working in short and feature length.
Film Requirements:
Must be an outdoor film. Films can be from anywhere in the world.
See length-requirements under categories below.
Please use FilmFreeway to submit a 4K or HD (720p minimum) .mov or .mp4 file delivered via vimeo or dropbox or google drive.
You must have legal rights and/or permission to use all music. No exceptions.
Please read and understand all terms and conditions at the bottom of this page before submitting.
Categories:
Feature (50 minutes or more)
Short Feature (16:00 to 49:59)
Short (0:00 to 15:59)
Awards:
Best Maine Film
Best Maine Student Film
Emerging Filmmaker
Conservation Award
Best Feature
Best Short Feature
Best Short
Prizes
Every award comes with a fancy certificate and a prize from one of our sponsors. Best Maine Film also receives a check for $500.
Where Your Film Will Be Shown if Accepted:
During the 2025 Maine Outdoor Film Festival Flagship event in Portland, July 23 to July 27, 2025.
It will also potentially be shown during the MOFF Selects Tour which travels the state of Maine with specially curated 90-minute screenings in late summer/fall, with a schedule of 12 to 16 screenings.
To Submit
How much to enter? What are the deadlines?
Depends on the category and when you submit.
Feature (50 minutes or more)
Early Bird – February 1, 2025 – Fee 55.00
Regular – March 1, 2025 – Fee 65.00
Late – April 1, 2025 – Fee 75.00
Short Feature (16:00 to 49:59)
Early Bird – February 1, 2025 – Fee 40.00
Regular – March 1, 2025 – Fee 50.00
Late – April 1, 2025 – Fee 60.00
Short (0:00 to 15:59)
Early Bird – February 1, 2025 – Fee 25.00
Regular – March 1, 2025 – Fee 30.00
Late – April 1, 2025 – Fee 35.00
The festival reserves the right to accept films after the deadline.
Notification Date for all categories is approximately June 1, 2025.
Terms you agree to by submitting a film
Term and Conditions: Important, please read closely.
No Umbrella Media LLC (a Portland, Maine video agency) owns Maine Outdoor Film Festival LLC, so the agreement is between you (the filmmaker) and No Umbrella Media LLC. By entering a submission to the Maine Outdoor Film Festival, you agree to all of the terms and conditions stated below and herein.
1. If your film is accepted to the 2025 Maine Outdoor Film Festival, you agree to give No Umbrella Media/MOFF a nonexclusive license to use, publicly perform, publicly display, copy, distribute, and create derivative works of your submission in connection with the “Maine Outdoor Film Festival”. Here is where your film will/could be shown:
1 to 3 times in-person at the Portland Festival 2025 (July 21 to July 31, 2025)
0 to 7 times in-person on the MOFF Selects Tour 2025 (August 1 to December 31, 2025)
2. If preference or previous agreements exist and you wish to opt-out or discuss the arrangement of any of these screenings, please do so in writing/email prior to submitting your film.
3. You agree that no screening fees will be paid to the filmmaker. MOFF does reserve the right to pay filmmakers a stipend. We agree that No Umbrella will give all credits that we practicably can, given case-by-case circumstances.
4. You warrant that all copyrighted material–music, pictures, web content, videos, art, graphic design, etc. (this is not an exhaustive list, rather it is exemplary)—is either owned by you, or that you have express written permission to use any copyrighted material found in your submission. No exceptions.
5. You agree, that in the event that the previous bullet point turns out to be not true (you have infringed someone else’s copyrights), to indemnify and hold harmless No Umbrella Media/MOFF for any claims or threat of claim against the same, and that you will pay for (first), or reimburse (last resort), all costs associated with defending any such claims against No Umbrella Media/MOFF for violation of another’s copyright as a result of your submission.
6. You warrant that you have full consent and permission from all people who appear in any identifiable manner in your submission to use their persona in your submission, their knowing and understanding that their image or likeness may be used commercially.
7. You agree to hereby release, indemnify, and hold harmless No Umbrella Media/MOFF from any and all claims, including, without limitation, claims for damages for libel, infringement of rights of publicity, invasion of privacy, portrayal in a false light, or any other claim from any person based on use of your submission.
Contact The Festival:
Moff @ maineoutdoorfilmfestival [dot] com