For All

How is made Red Dot Cinema unique?

• Traditional film festivals: Organize screenings of the films only once and at one location only.

• Red Dot Cinema: Organizes multiply screenings of the films at different cities around the world, allowing many people from diverse culture background to watch the films.

• Traditional film festivals: Unless you are invited to the opening event or special talks, most audience watch the films and leave at the end.

• Red Dot Cinema: We hold small discussion sessions at the end of the screening among the organizer, special guests, and all the audience at each screening event, so that people can vote for their favourite films, give their comments, discuss certain issues, and share their interpretation of the films to make the event interactive and meaningful.

• Traditional film festivals: Are usually held at cinemas and theaters.

• Red Dot Cinema: We made use of interesting and creative spaces for our screenings, such as cafes, bars, coworking spaces, art galleries, rooftops, boutiques, etc as part of the Red Dot Cinema experience. Without being restricted to a fixed seat of the cinema, participants are encourages to roam around and interact with one another in a causal setting.

 

Why doesn't Red Dot Cinema distribute films through online streaming?

• We believe by focusing on physical screening events, Red Dot Cinema gives a different experience from online streaming.

• Physical screening is an event which the participants anticipate, while online streaming can be viewed by an individual at their free time.

• Physical screening provides a place where people come together for interaction, while online streaming is usually watched alone.

• Physical screening grabs the attention of the participants throughout the whole program, while attention for online streaming is short an people often skip the content within the first few minutes into the film.

• Physical screening can include other contents such as discussion, performances, Food & drinks, exhibition, talks, music etc to make the event fun and interesting, while all these are absent for online streaming.

 

 

For Filmmakers

Will filmmakers be paid by licensing the screening rights to Red Dot Cinema?

• Submission of films to Red Dot Cinema is voluntary, filmmakers will not be paid for licensing their films to Red Dot Cinema. However, filmmakers will still have total control of their films, and the license to Red Dot Cinema only last as long as you wish.

 

Reasons:

• We hope to help budding Asian filmmakers to gain recognition for their works

• We wish to discover young, talented filmmakers by searching for great short films all across Asia, and share them with the world.

• We hope that when many people see their works at screenings around the globe, many many more will see them on Youtube, Vimeo, or Youku, giving the filmmakers valuable comments and recognition.

• We want to keep it affordable for our screening partners

 

We collect a minimal fee from our screening partners so that anyone can put up a screening of your films anywhere, whether it is a guerilla style screening at a café or a bigger screening in theaters.

 

 

What is the difference between Red Dot Cinema and other film festivals?

 

1. Multiple screenings, many locations

• Traditional film festivals screen your films (if you are nominated) only once at one location. Red Dot Cinema screens your films multiple times across many locations in the world for as long as you wish.

 

2, From offline screenings to online sharing

• After each screening, if your film can capture the audience, even more people will watch your films through the Internet, sharing them and making them go viral. All the credit will be yours.

 

3. Little limitation for submission

• Any films, documentaries, animation, stop-motions etc, which is made in Asia or has an Asian theme,  which is also under 40min, is welcome to submit to Red Dot Cinema.

 

Your films don’t need to be:

• Premiere screening

• A totally new film (made within 2 years is OK)

• In any Asian language (any language or none is fine)

 

Your films could have been:

• Participated in other film festivals

• Screened publicly

• Shared online

 

 

4. Do my films require subtitling in other languages besides English?

• English subtitle is sufficient, but you may also submit different versions of the films with subtitle in different languages.

• We also provide subtitling services in most Asian languages, and some other languages please contact us for more information. reddotcinemaasia@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

For screening partners

 

1. What is required of a screening partner?

 

It is simple.

• Purchase a screening license from Red Dot Cinema’s website from only $70 ($50 for schools and NPOs).

• Find a venue with a projector, screen, and speakers, such as cafes, your backyard, lecture hall, gallery, be creative

• Setup an event page on your website, Facebook, Meetup.com etc, and invite all your friends, filmmakers, and film lovers.

• Also invite other communities or interest groups who are interested in the topics of the films.

• Publicise the event on online event portals, social media, and at the venue itself. 

• You may also include a local short film from your country, performances, exhibition, art & design, food & drinks, and games etc to make your event fun and creative.

• You may collect a fee for tickets, pay for the costs, and keep the profit. 

 

2. Do you provide subtitle other than in English?

• Yes, we provide subtitling service for most Asian languages and some other languages for a fee, please contact us for more information. hi@weareonesingapore.com

• We recommend that you do your own subtitling with English transcripts provided by us.

 

3. How should I price tickets for Red Dot Cinema?

• Pricing of tickets is entirely decided by you.

• You may consider a price to cover the costs for the venue, equipment, printing, food & drinks, and some profit for the next screening.

• Tickets should be reasonable for your audience so that more people can enjoy the event together.

 

 

4. How would Red Dot Cinema help to promote my screening events?

• We will provide you softcopies of our logo, posters, program sheet, graphic designs, press release etc for you to use them in marketing the events through social media, and by printouts. You may add in your event information and design for the posters without alternating our branding.

• We will also post your events on our website, social media channels, and send press releases to local media to promote your events.

• Screening partners also have great responsibility to ensure there are enough participants to make it a great event and to cover your expenses.

 

 

For other enquiries contact us at hi@reddotcinema.com