Central Alberta Film Festival (CAFF) is a not-for-profit cultural organization with a mission to educate, support and promote visual arts and cinema of Alberta & Canada. CAFF is a bridge between the audience, critics and the contemporary filmmakers who want to showcase and discuss their work.

This festival is a platform to incubate Canadian, Albertan and international talent. In a rapidly evolving film industry CAFF is a catalyst to enhance cinematic experience with excellence and support Canadian artistic values.

Rules & Terms

General guidelines for film submission

*You must include a trailer for your submission. If your film is selected you must supply a DCP copy of your submission in order to be screened at our festival. If your film is nominated you must send a video acceptance speech to be used at the Awards Gala in the event that your submission is the winner and you are not able to attend in person.

*By submitting your entry you are agreeing to allow CAFF to use your submission in promotional events for CAFF (example: CAFF screenings for Culture Days) and to screen your film online.

How to submit

Exclusively through FilmFreeway.

If you have any questions about CAFF or would like to make a film submission for one of our upcoming events, please contact us by email at info@cafilmfestival.ca or through the contact form. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
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  • Owen Ljunggren

    My team and I are so grateful to have won both the "Best Short Narrative" and "Best Lead Male Actor" awards for our film Hope You're Doing Well. Having made the film in Red Deer, it's an honour to be able to show it there once again. We will absolutely be coming back next year!

    October 2024
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  • Mark Riddle

    CAFF is a fantastic festival that I look forward to every year. The team behind the festival are amazing, the films are all excellent, and the filmmakers that you meet are all great and talented people who live and breathe filmmaking. You go for the movies, but you stay for the incredible community at CAFF.

    October 2024
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  • Adam Bentley

    Thanks for sharing Sneck-Rise with your community!

    October 2024
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  • Samantha Shannon

    Wonderful. This is not what I was expecting from my first ever film festival experience, especially in little ol Red Deer.
    So earth shatteringly humbled to be selected in the line up for No Demo Net Zero. The friday night screening was incredible. The quality of CAFFs involvement was so far beyond the humble independent theatre and what you might expect from a non Major Hub city in Alberta. The Carnival theatre was able really make this feel like a REAL deal, actual big screen working theatre. Theatre 3 was very comfortable for the nearly 2 hour show.
    A host table with beautiful branding in the foyer, the hard printed passes was so so pinch me level professional. Again exceeded my expectations. Why are more people not talking about this festival? It seems like one that would have much more notoriety with the level of presentation value of the event.
    The line up of films were varied but all seemed quality. Blue Warbler was a stand out narrative for me as a viewer.
    I'm an incredible novice level film maker, and it was a very pinch me moment to be surrounded by industry professionals also sharing their films with passion. Audience members seeing our film that wasn't just friends or family was a reason why we make films, and that happened for us last night!
    Whether this is my first and only "premiere" or "the one that started it all", it will be a cherished memory for me for always.

    October 2024
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    Response from festival:

    We're so thrilled to hear that your first film festival experience was unforgettable and that CAFF exceeded your expectations! 🎬✨ Being a part of this talented community is just the beginning of many great things to come—here's to more pinch-me moments!

  • G-Hey Kim

    Great experience!
    It really encouraged me a lot. Thank you so much.

    May 2024
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