B Beside The Seaside is an international B-Movie Festival for Horror, Sci-fi, Martial Arts, Action, Odd, and any over the top, Extream, Crazy films with a bit of comedy thrown in for good measure. This is NOT a festival for poignant dramas.

This festival is to celebrate B-Movies in all their glory. Judging for the best feature and best short film award will be based on pure entertainment value!

The festival will be hosted by the Southport Bijou Cinema in Merseyside, England which is easy to get to from Liverpool, Preston, Wigan, Bolton, Manchester, Blackpool etc.

We select several feature and short films to be part of our festival which will take place over 2 days.

If your film is selected you will get 2 free tickets to all the screenings.

We have partnered with howmanyfilmsinayear and all films entered into the festival will now also receive a review from howmanyfilmsinayear and appear on https://www.instagram.com/howmanyfilmsinayear. The reviews will not be posted unit the selections have been announced or if selected, until it has been screened at the festival.

Best feature
Best short
Seriously Good
Best one-liner
Best comedy sidekick
Most over the top death scene
Coolest VFX
Coolest practical effect
Best scream
Strangest item used as a weapon
Most bloody
Most disturbing
Most Amusing

SUBMISSION 
Submission can be made exclusively through filmfreeway.com

FORMAT 
The films accepted into the Festival are required to provide for screening a .mov or MP4 digital file.

FEES 
All fees are non-refundable

LANGUAGE 
All films must be English or have subtitles in English.

COMPLETION TIME 
All films must have been completed after January 1, 2021

COPYRIGHT 
We are not responsible for your content if you do not have permission to use it. Please make sure all content is yours, all music is original, or you have permission from the artist to use it.

PROMOTION 
B Beside The Seaside International Film Festival can use trailers/teasers/film posters for promotional purposes.

CATEGORIES 
Short films are classed as any film under 45 minutes, feature films are classed as films of 45 minutes or greater.

DISCLAIMER 
The applicant agrees to have read and accepted the rules & regulations for participation in the B Beside The Seaside International Film Festival. The applicant confirms that they have the authority or has obtained the requisite authority from the producer/rights holder to enter this film in the B Beside The Seaside International Film Festival and make available the digital media for screening.

Overall Rating
Quality
Value
Communication
Hospitality
Networking
  • Teddy Saxon

    Lovely little cinema as the venue, everyone was very welcoming and the guys who run this are amazing…..some great films shown….definitely recommended as a film maker

    July 2024
  • Dead End Film House

    B Beside the seaside rules so hard. Communication was perfect. We will be submitting again! Thanks for including Call Ghost!

    July 2024
  • Stanley Pomianowski

    This is the perfect kind of niche festival for my film. Thank you B Beside the Seaside B Movie Festival!

    July 2024
  • Peter Cobbler

    Thanks to Ben, Dave and all the team for the selection and the award. B beside the seaside is a super festival in a lovely town. We hope to come back one day !

    July 2024
  • Absolutely loved the festival and people in Southport England! Hopefully I will be back.

    September 2023