The Bay Area Indies Film Festival, now in its third year, features diverse and unique voices in cinema. We're looking for a range of genres and filmmaking styles (scripted and documentary). We embrace low-budget films and inclusion of minorities and under-heard voices in cast and crew.
And, we'll be returning to the beautiful Delancey Street Screening Room, located on the scenic Embarcadero in San Francisco!
Bay Area Indies (BAI) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based filmmaking collective, originally founded under the name "Scary Cow" in 2008. We are a group of 200+ screenwriters, directors, cinematographers, editors, actors, and more, celebrating the indie filmmaking spirit. In addition to volunteering as production crew, our members enjoy pitch sessions, writers' group meetings and networking events.
The 2026 Bay Area indies Film Festival will include BAI members' films as well as outside submissions via FilmFreeway.
And this year the Bay Area Indies Film Festival is open to films from all over the country--and the world!
We are looking for creative, nuanced short film stories (narrative and doc) that showcase fresh voices and original points of view in cinema.
