How to Submit Your Film
Interested in adding your film to the Kinema collection? Visit our Filmmaker Page and complete the film submission form to submit your film.
Our Reviewal Process
We review films weekly to ensure they are at festival-level quality, fit our content acceptance guidelines, and are rightfully owned by the individual or organization that has entered the submission. Once approved you will receive instructions on onboarding your film.
Policy: Acceptable Use & Community Guidelines
We are committed to providing a safe and respectful community where filmmakers and film enthusiasts can come together to enjoy and share their work. To ensure that everyone has a positive experience at Kinema, we have established the following Acceptable Use & Community Guidelines. By uploading your films to Kinema, you agree to abide by these guidelines and to use our platform responsibly and lawfully.
Copyright Provisions
Kinema respects intellectual property rights and expects our users to do the same. Please ensure that you have the necessary rights and permissions to upload and share your films on Kinema. By uploading your films, you affirm that you have the right to share the content and that you will not infringe on any copyright or other intellectual property rights. If we receive a valid copyright infringement notice, we reserve the right to remove the content and suspend or terminate your account.
Offensive Content
Kinema is committed to providing a safe and respectful community for all users. We do not tolerate any form of hate speech, harassment, or offensive content. Offensive content includes, but is not limited to any content that:
Is racist, sexist, homophobic, or discriminatory in any way
Is sexually explicit or pornographic in nature
Promotes violence or harm toward others
Is harassing, abusive, or defamatory.
Contains hateful or discriminatory speech
Promotes or supports terror or hate groups
That invades others' privacy or violates their right
Provides instructions on how to assemble homemade explosive/incendiary devices, weapons or firearms
Exploits or endangers minors
Depicts or encourages self-harm or suicide
Depicts animal cruelty or extreme violence toward animals
Promotes fraudulent or dubious money-making schemes
Conveys false or misleading claims about vaccination safety or health-related information that has a serious potential to cause individual or public harm
Spreads false or misleading information about voting or seeks to obstruct voting
Contains denials that a real-world tragedy did not occur
Makes use of fake news, deep-fakes, propaganda, or unproven or debunked theories that have the potential to cause serious harm to a person, group, or the general public.
Violates any applicable law
If we receive a complaint about offensive content, we reserve the right to remove the content and suspend or terminate your account. We may also report the content to the appropriate authorities if we believe it violates the law.
Booking Films
Anyone can book a film on Kinema to show at their screening event. However, please ensure that you have the necessary rights and permissions to screen the film in public. Kinema is not responsible for any legal issues that may arise from the screening of a film booked on our platform.
Consequences of Violations
If you violate these guidelines, we may take action against your account, including removing your content, suspending your account, or terminating your account. We reserve the right to take legal action if necessary.
Reporting Violations
If you come across any content that you believe violates these guidelines, please report it to us immediately. We will investigate all reports and take appropriate action.
Thank you for being a part of the Kinema community. Let's create and share great films together!
Thank you! If you have other questions, email films@kinema.com.