For communities outside of Washington state, we are inviting them to participate in the festival virtually by sending a short video that represents their culture. The videos will be played during the festival and will also be in our You tube channel. If you would like to attend ICFF virtually, please fill out the ICFF-virtual-performer-application no later than April 3rd, 2023. Before recording the video, please review the details about the technical and content requirements below:
ICFF Video Requirements
- Min resolution: 720p, max: 1080p
- Shoot in landscape mode.
- Good lighting, tidy background
- Clear sound, no/min background noise
- Please test your video before sending
- Reserve top/bottom right corner of the video for ICFF watermark
- Video length should not exceed 3 minutes. We will introduce you, so you do not have to include that in the video.
- Performer name, company/troupe name, short blurb on how to introduce the performance/performer and any other info that is desired to be shared/shown on the screen should accompany the video as a separate document.
- Upload the video to the provided cloud storage location. No WhatsApp, email fragmentation. Use the following naming convention while uploading: <type>_<provider>_<name>
E.g., “food_Mary_pasta_recipe.mp4,” “music_John_paradise.m4v,” “art_burcu_ebru1.mp4,” “lecture_Jack_history_of_apachi_dance.foo”
Content of the Video
The content of the video could be anything that represents your culture but please keep in mind that our target audience are kids, and we would like to see kids taking the main roles in the videos. Please see below for some content ideas about video:
- Music (chorus, playing musical instruments, etc.)
- Dance
- Food (food preparation)
- An introduction of an artifact (from traditional, historical, to contemporary objects that represents your culture)
- A children’s game from your country
- A folktale read by a child (if you provide images, we can include those images and the reading in the video.)
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