Audience Awards’ Faith & Spirituality AudFest is dedicated to spreading enlightened ideas and pushing humanity forward to join together.

Filmmakers from around the world are invited to submit to the Audience Awards 2018 Faith & Spirituality Shorts Film Festival. We seek short films 45 minutes or under that explore the issues and faith and spirituality.

How this festival works: We are an online community supporting filmmakers and their films. If accepted into this festival, you will upload your film to theaudienceawards.com where the public will be able to screen, comment and vote for your film during the online portion of the festival.

****In the event that your film is accepted to this festival, you will receive an email that explains how to submit your film. You will then need to upload your film before the festival start date at The Audience Awards.***

HOW THE WINNERS ARE DETERMINED: From the first round, The top 3 films with the most votes and the top 4 jury-selected films advance to a finals round are judged by an esteemed panel of industry jurors. The top 5 final jury winners from the finals round are deemed the finalists.

ABOUT AUDIENCE AWARDS: Audience Awards provides filmmakers the opportunity to change the world through stories, win prizes and build an audience. Films are judged by the audience as well as industry professionals. Previous jurors represent Vice, YouTube, Variety, Sundance and the list goes on. We are committed to providing a stage for diverse, emerging talent and their creative work. Our platform is dedicated to celebrating the power of storytelling and building an audience. Created by filmmakers, for filmmakers, Audience Awards offers an invaluable platform for exposure.

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1st Place Jury Award: FUJI Camera + Digital distribution deal

2nd Place Jury Award: Toolkit Pouch + Digital distribution deal

3rd Place Jury Award: Digital distribution deal

4th Place Jury Award: Digital distribution deal

5th Place Jury Award: Digital distribution deal

***In the event that your film is accepted, you will receive an email that explains how to submit your film to the online film festival. You will then need to upload your film before the festival start date.***

All submissions must be 45 minutes or under in length.

Films may have been exhibited or previously distributed.

No purchase necessary to enter or claim a prize. A purchase does not increase your chances of winning. Odds of winning will depend on the total number of entries received. Entry via the Audience Awards account and connection is required. You must have the authority to submit the film for our consideration.

Anyone may submit to this festival, but videos will be judged for admittance into the festival before audience and jury voting opens. Preliminary judging will be based on the quality of content and adherence to the assignment. Videos will be judged by a score of 1-3. Videos that score a 1 will not be allowed to compete in the festival. The film must not (i) infringe any rights of publicity or privacy, moral rights or IP rights, including any music-related rights, (ii) be defamatory or indecent, and (iii) violate any applicable laws. You must have obtained and been able to prove that you have all the necessary rights to the music in your film. Creative commons licenses will not be accepted and do not prove that you have the rights to the music on your film.

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  • Marcel Klapp

    The three top ranking films of the "audience round" went into a final jury round together with four other jury picks. The winners now are three of those four!? Seriously!?

    November 2017
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks Marcel for the feedback. The semi-finalists are juried by the finalist jury panel and are judged according to the quality of the films.

  • Kinda hard to follow, some people complained about having to provide so much information to vote. but otherwise very interesting!

    November 2017
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks Terri. We make sure people are real when they vote. Cheers!