Live Screenings. Awards. Promotion. Feedback.

Screenings. Awards. Promotion. Feedback.

Our first live event will be held at The Actress & Bishop in Birmingham on 27th February 2022. It’ll be a modest & intimate full day of screenings, networking, filmmaker Q&As and awards for the best films.

22 Awards are up for grabs. Nominees also receive certificates. All Official Selections get custom Laurels.

ALL Official Selections will receive Promotion on our various social media sites and will be Reviewed on our Podcast.

ALL submitted films will receive a scoring sheet for Feedback.

AWARDS

Awards will be given in the following categories chosen by our judges from the official selections, (apart from the Audience Award which will be selected by audience members at the live screening):

1) Best of the Fest (Audience Award)

2) Best Short Film (5-45 mins)

3) Best Micro Short Film (1-5 mins)

4) Best One Minute Film (1 min)

5) Best Comedy

6) Best Drama

7) Best Horror

8) Best Fantasy or Sci-Fi

9) Best Animation

10) Best Documentary

11) Best Music Video

12) Best Mobile Short

13) Best Student Film

14) Best Director

15) Best Writer

16) Best Male Performer

17) Best Female Performer

18) Best Young Performer

19) Best Editing

20) Best Cinematography

21) Best Score

22) Best Sound

Additional and honorary awards may be added based on the submissions.

All winners will receive an award (design TBC).

All nominees and official selections will also receive printable certificates, or they can be collected in person at the event.

All winning, nominated and official selected films will receive custom laurels for use in to promotion.

All winning, nominated and official selected films will receive promotion and listings across our Twitter, Instagram & Facebook pages and website.

Feedback

We appreciate that feedback is very important to filmmakers and we know and have experienced first hand the disappointing factor of submitting to film festivals and receiving no further feedback beyond being told that you’re selected or not.

For our event, we want to be more transparent. EVERY submission will receive a scoring sheet for their film, marking relevant categories out of 10. This scoring sheet will be sent out to all submitters once the official selections have been notified. All submissions will receive the scoring sheet whether they are selected for the festival or not.