Submissions for the FIFTH ANNUAL Cayuga Film Festival will open for submissions on NOVEMBER 10, 2024!
🔥 FILMS MUST HAVE BEEN MADE IN NEW YORK OR BY NEW YORK RESIDENTS! 🔥
Whether it’s your first festival, or your 30th, there’s something really special about having your work screened and celebrated in a community excited about film.
Films must have been completed after July 2024. 

✨MAIN CATEGORIES✨
High School: Filmmakers currently in high school.
College: Filmmakers currently enrolled in a college or university.
Emerging: Filmmakers out of college and under 30. (aka baby seasoned filmmakers)
Open category: Filmmakers over the age of 30 (aka seasoned filmmakers)
In association with Cayuga Community College and Auburn Public Theater, CFF provides a space for narrative, documentary, experimental and animated short films to be screened and seen by filmmakers of all ages
All films accepted will be provided with festival laurels.
AWARDS AND PRIZES:
- Audience Choice Award
- Best Open Documentary (both categories), Animation, Narrative and Experimental
- Best Emerging Documentary (both categories), Animation, Narrative and Experimental
- Best College Documentary (both categories), Animation, Narrative and Experimental
- Best High School Documentary (both categories), Animation, Narrative and Experimental