Avalonia Festival

Often named a FilmFreeway Top 100 Ranked Festival with a 5 STAR RATING from reviewing filmmakers after our first four fun and free live events and filmmaker-honoring webpages, Avalonia Festival V promises to be our most exciting festival yet!

Go to the home page on our website (hyperlinked on the left side-bar) or copy and paste the below URLs to experience Avalonia Festival I, II, III and IV to see how we HONOR, CELEBRATE & PROMOTE our Winning Avalonia Filmmakers:

https://avaloniafestival.com/2019/11/30/avaloniafestival4/

https://distancefromavalon.com/avalonia-festival/
https://distancefromavalon.com/avalonia-festival-ii/
https://distancefromavalon.com/avalonia-festival-iii/

Our LIVE EVENT, after three successful events in New England , moved to ABET" - All Beaches Experimental Theater on Neptune Beach in Jacksonville, Florida, USA ! The free event for filmmakers, their guests, general audiences and invited film industry VIPS happened on December 8, 2019.

For Avalonia Festival V, we are moving a few blocks over to The Den at LionShare Co-Work, and our moving our event up a month on the calendar to November 7, 2020 to better accommodate filmmakers' schedules! We our keeping tabs on the COVID19 situation closely and will act accordingly. On the off-chance we are not legally allowed to hold our live event as planned, we will postpone the Live Event to a later date and still announce, honor, celebrate and promote our winning filmmakers on our websites and social media as planned.

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We most recently added Avalonia Photography Competition ( " APC " which can be found here https://filmfreeway.com/APC

HONOR. CELEBRATE. PROMOTE.

This is the mantra of Avalonia Festival , a film festival you can trust ! Low entry fees and a website that actually HONORS, CELEBRATES and PROMOTES you and your work as a filmmaker, photographer and Actor! Check out our websites for the prior four festivals (Dec 2017, April 2018, Dec 2018, Dec 2019) and see why we we were named a FilmFreeway Top 100 Best Reviewed Film Festival several times!

Our webpages aim to promote our festival's winners! We know that most filmmakers cannot travel to make all the festivals they are accepted into; so we make our jam packed website an INTERACTIVE experience for the filmmaker and their fans! When every Avalonia Filmmaker sends their fans to our website, they are exposing EVERY OTHER WINNING FILMMAKER to new film fans and connections! Compare our website to any other festival and see that we earn your entry fees!

Many films (or their teasers or stills) are right on our website! Our concentration is on short films and this year we're raising the maximum time in most categories to 21 minutes and under ! Films 3 minutes or 1 minute or less in duration get additional savings on entry fees! Some categories like Web-Series and TV Series have longer run time cut-off and for longer films YOU MAY ENTER a "clip" , "preview" or "scene" in any category you feel is appropriate for your work.

STUDENTS: Use PromoCode " AvaloniaStudent " for 15 % off your entry fees!
Any Student currently enrolled or recently graduated in high school, college, university, film school or trade school quality as "student status". Please make a note about your status in your submission cover letter.

In addition to many traditional and unique genres to enter your film in; including Drama, Comedy, Doc, Feline, Canine, Vampire, and Romantic Comedy. Our ThoughtCrime category has proven to be very resonant with today's edgier filmmakers. Special Award Recognition has also been given to films which stand out. This year we are adding a SPORTS and FAMILY/KID FILM category to our line-up of genres!

Here is our youtube page with video clips from our previous Live Events
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxxeZv9F7xNiZa7Ghpc59DiG7T7zn5GzA

Here's a report on Avalonia Festival IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP2BTeJqHmI

Here is an interview about Avalonia Festival:
https://festivalreviews.org/2018/03/03/interview-with-festival-director-mike-messier-avalonia-film-festival/

So, what is Avalonia?

Avalonia Festival is named in honor of a continent lost is the mists of time, as if dissipated by magic; thus we are here to celebrate the unique Art of our own world of creation. More info on our backstory is here: https://distancefromavalon.com/

How did our Festival Creator come to the point in life where Avalonia was so important? Discover by watching the informative and fun video "Disregard the Vampire - A Mike Messier Documentary" about indie filmmaking here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9jFqZCB9o4&t=171s

Did you get to the end of this description? If you did, and you are reading this, use PROMO CODE "THANKSAF" for a 17 percent discount on ALL your entries !