<strong>Film Classification (Genres): </strong>

All films will be classified into the following genres;
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	<li><strong>Fiction: </strong>This genre as the name suggests will house all films works based on imagination and not necessarily fact.</li>
	<li><strong>Documentary: </strong>This Genre will house all films that are based on factual events or facts about a person(S) or place(S).</li>
	<li><strong>Animation:</strong> This genre will house all film works consisting of a series of Drawing, puppets; both computer and non computer generated, to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence.</li>
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<strong>Film Categories:</strong>

There will be two main categories that films can be submitting under;

<strong>Competition: </strong>This category will be for films that will be competing for the various awards on offer. These could be either feature films or short films.

<strong>Non–Competition: </strong>This category will house all films that submitted for purposes of exhibition and not competition. They could be either feature films or short films. These submitted films will undergo a selection process that will determine which films will be screened during the film festival.

<strong>Awards: </strong>
The following are the awards to be competed for at the festival:
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	<li><strong>Best Cinematography:</strong> This award will be given to the film that receives highest points for cinematography awarded by the judging panel as per the set judging criteria.</li>
	<li><strong>Best Costumes: </strong>This award will be given to the film whose Costumes will attract the highest points awarded by the judging panel in line with the set judging criteria.</li>
	<li><strong>Best Music Sound:</strong> This award will be given to the film whose sound (Music &amp; Sound effects) receives the highest points awarded by the judging panel in line with the set judging criteria.</li>
	<li><strong>Best Screenplay:</strong> This award will be given to the film whose screen play receives the highest point awarded by the judging panel in line with the set judging criteria.</li>
	<li><strong>Best Student Film: </strong>This award will be given to the film that collects the highest points awarded by the judging panel for student films competing in this category in line with the set judging criteria.</li>
	<li><strong>Best Short Film:</strong> This award will be given to the film that collects the highest points awarded by the judging panel for short films competing in this category in line with the set judging criteria.</li>
	<li><strong>Best Feature Film</strong> (Full length film): This award will be given to the film that collects the highest points awarded by the judging panel for feature films competing in this category in line with the set judging criteria.</li>
	<li><strong>Film of the Year: </strong>This award will be given to the film that collects the highest points overall. The judging panel score will constitute 60% of the overall score and the general public vote will constitute 40% of the overall score.</li>
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