Cardora Micro-Movie Film Festival

***During the Covid19 pandemic shutdown, Cardora Film Festival is still running online. All winners will be able to use our exclusive moviecard feature to share your movie with as many people as you like.***

Cardora Film Festival is looking for the best micro-movies from around the world! We have a festival every month. Our goal is to maximize the number of people who see each winning movie.

The Cardora Film Festival features charming, intriguing and intelligent stories or some kind of vignette or tableau vivant (about 1-2 mins long) with high production values which are suitable for adults and children. Movies can be live-action, animation or experimental.

You can enter any movie that you have ever made! The Cardora Film Festival is non-exclusive and you can submit films from your back catalogue and which have already been on the web or in other film festivals.

We will accept movies from filmmakers anywhere in the world and in any language or no language at all, but for the moment, if there is dialogue in a language other than English, please offer a version that includes sub-titles.

Entries need to be a minimum of 1080p and you must hold all the rights to the picture and sound. You can even re-edit movies in your catalogue to fit the time requirement of Cardora. (Please no ads or commercials.)

At Cardora we offer each submitter a critique of their entered film. If at first your film is not accepted and you follow our critique - for example improve the sound or shorten the cut, and you then meet our standards, we will accept your film without the need to re-apply.

Winning movies will be shown in two ways:

1) Community cinema screenings across the UK

Cardora Film Festival is a member of Cinema For All, a British Film Institute partner, which represents over 1,200 community cinemas in the UK. The Cardora Film Festival is offered for free to all community cinemas to show as a program of shorts before their feature movie screenings. There is also a Cardora community screening near the world famous Pinewood film studios every month.

2) Cardora.co as an online festival, archive and profile page

All winning films will be kept in an archive of festival winners on www.cardora.co. Filmmakers also get their own profile page. Cardora.co is a unique platform for movie distribution and viral promotion, because all winners can send their movies out as Cardora Moviecards, with personalised selfie attached if you wish.

Not only can winning filmmakers send their films out as Cardora Moviecards to promote their work, so can the ordinary members of Cardora, because Cardora is also an online personalized moviecard service offering high quality, charming and beautiful story-driven micro-movies.

Thus, Cardora can help you build your audience in preparation for crowdfunding and traditional finance raising and help with packaging by attracting talent. A potentially very large audience could see your work and it could even go viral.

Finally, every film gets its profile page so that filmmakers can comment on how they made it and why or say anything else they wish about their film and winning filmmakers also get their own profile page and a chance to offer their artistic statement and talk about their filmmaking style and plans.