Drugstm presents:

CAT FLY GLITCH FEST
Film - Video Games - Synthesizers - Community

A special iteration of Cat Fly Indie Film Fest - featuring screenings, workshops, art installations and networking opportunities galore centered around all things glitch, tech, and visual art.

In addition to a film screening, this event will also feature interactive installations of indie video games and synthesizers.

Cat Fly is an Asheville-based film festival that serves up and coming indie filmmakers of the Southeast Region, cultivating community and the passion of homegrown filmmaking. We have been serving the North Carolina community since 2017.

We classify ourselves as a non-competitive film festival, as we hope to foster a mutually beneficial community of filmmakers, programmers and film-goers.

GLITCH FEST SUBMISSION CRITERIA:

Narrative, experimental or animated films or music videos created in the south eastern United States containing any of the following elements:

-Glitches in time, space or memory

-Glitchy visual effects created with in-camera recording, lighting design or post production

-A prominently synth-based score

-Score or sound effects featuring circuit bent technology

-Synth(s) featured as props / mis-en-scene

-Themes of futurism, technology, augmented reality and/or time travel

-horror, sci-fi and experiemental films preferred, but any genre will be considered

-the weirder the better

-films needed in QuickTime ProRes file format.

-MUST be associated with the Southeast region of the United States in a significant way (i.e. film was shot in the Southeast; directors, producers, actors are from or based in the SE; the story is about Southern culture; etc.)

-Please include a FILM POSTER, LOGLINE, any BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOS and HOW TO CREDIT YOUR FILM ON THE POSTER IF SELECTED with your submission. Please allow an option to download from FilmFreeway directly.

-By submitting, the submitter and filmmaker(s) agree to grant Cat Fly Film Fest permission to share provided imagery for marketing and promotional purposes of the festival. If no film poster or BTS photos are provided at submission, Cat Fly will not be able to promote your film to our audience.

Notes:
-We consider short films to be 0 minutes - 20 minutes in length

-Music videos must feature a regional independent band or musician and be under 6 minutes in length.

-Longer independent films and features (20 minutes or more) will NOT be considered for this event. Save them for the spring :)

-No cutoff date for when the film was made, but cannot have screened at a past Cat Fly Indie Film event (excludes Mythic Music Video Showcase, BYOF and test screenings).

-Payments made to Cat Fly cannot be refunded.

-Cat Fly believes in inclusivity of minorities, women and the queer community in film.

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  • The venues were great, festival was great, and the festival staff were welcoming. Will submit again so I have a chance to come back again!

    May 2024
  • It is an honor to be a part of the Cat Fly Halloween Mini-Fest. Even though I was unable to make it to the Festival personally due to an injury, the Cat Fly Staff was very supportive and generous to our short film, RENA. Thank You and looking forward to next year.

    November 2023
  • Whitley Albury

    Despite knowing about Cat Fly for years, this was my first year participating and attending. This festival was exactly what my filmy heart needed!

    October 2023
  • Such a fun event. Such great people.

    October 2023
  • What a cute fest! 🫶🏽😻 I was so thrilled to get accepted to Catfly fest! Asheville is soooo DOPE and the artists there….MY GOD! 🔥 Fa FIRE! So bummed that I couldn’t attend but was glad that one of my cast members went. This was her very first festival and she told me that she had a blast! Brittany, you are so dope! I hope to meet you one day girly❤️❤️

    October 2023