AtomaCon Film Festival

AtomaCon is an annual 2-day media convention held in Charleston, South Carolina. Atomacon Film Festival is happy to return for 2024!

In addition to 2 days of films, enjoy our Media Arts programming track. Meet and greet with industry veterans and media experts with over 20 hours of panels, screenings, and Q+As.

As a geeky convention, we're looking for short films under 30 minutes that fall into typical "geek" genres - science fiction, fantasy, horror, and fan films. However, if you've got something that doesn't quite fall into those genres, like a documentary about cosplay or an experimental stop-motion short starring GI Joes, we'll take a look at that too. We love retro comedies, parodies, gaming films, and and anything that a sci-fi convention would love. We have also this year decided to open up a short screenplay competition. If you have an awesome geeky, horror, sci-fi short screenplay. We want to read it. We are now opening the festival up to allow feature length films for 2024.

Female, POC, LGBT, and other underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to submit. AtomaCon is female-run, and we are dedicated to showcasing voices that are not traditionally lifted on the film circuit. Additionally, we like to see good, thoughtful roles given to minority and female actors, and for their characters to be treated with dignity instead of tokenism and victim-hood. And that goes for ALL entries!

We also have a special regional category for filmmakers from Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Be sure to submit in our regional film category if you would like to be considered for our Best Regional award!