"Hang on to Your Shorts!" Film Festival

The Hang on to Your Shorts Film Festival is entering its 11th year of bringing great short films and art to the iconic Jersey Shore. In April of 2024, the Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival was held in the great city of Red Bank, New Jersey.

Your art deserves a real movie theater. Accordingly, our 2025 event will be held at Basie Center Cinemas, 36 White Street, Red Bank, NJ.

New Jersey is the home of a lot of great film festivals. The Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival is unique because it is an intimate and inviting affair, without pretense. We celebrate your art, and we celebrate you! Hang Onto Your Shorts strives to create connections among filmmakers and actors, and these connections often result in collaborations that screen the very next year.

In celebration of the spirit of the Jersey Shore's musical history, we recently added a "Music Video" category to the awards. We also aim to promote the arts with future creators and collaborators. Accordingly, we have special STUDENT film rates.

We look forward to sharing our creative universe with you, and we look forward to meeting you! Join us in our pages (Facebook, Instagram).