Holding our REDUCED ENTRY FEES for year 8!!

Check out our chat show! https://youtu.be/o_ZkMtIp9RQ

The FantaSci Short Film Festival is dedicated exclusively to short (20 minutes and under) fantasy and sci-fi films. Like you, we're filmmakers ourselves. So we know there's a dearth of outlets to get your passion projects seen.

We are a founding member of the Best of Film Fest family (http://bestoffilmfest.com/).We have live screening blocks of only the best, award winning films chosen by our judges.

With the global pandemic improving, we are planning on returning to our live screenings! We also have a gala streaming awards event! Be sure to watch last years awards on our web site.

We'll have lots of categories from comedy and drama to fan films, even machinima! Here's an idea of the categories we'll have:

Best of the Fest
Best Comedy
Best Drama
Best Action
Best Use of Genre
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Ensemble
Best VFX
Best Sound
Best Sound Design
Best Music
Best Cinematography
Best Costumes
Best Make-Up
Best Set Design
Best Teen Film
Best Fan Film
Best Machinima
Best 3D Animation
Best Fantasy
Best Horror
The William Shatner Indie Auteur Award
Audience Choice Award
The Judy Lawrence Memorial Award

All films must be 20 minutes or less.

As our name implies, we only accept films in the fantasy or sci-fi genres. We are not a horror festival, but there is certainly some cross-over. To that end, we have a horror category, as well. Feel free to submit your horror films. And genre-oriented docs, too!

You must own all the rights to your film and hold this festival harmless against any and all claims. Also, by submitting your film to our festival you give us permission to use stills or clips for promotional purposes, such as promo trailers, awards reels, web site images, etc.

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  • Kaylin Allshouse

    Yeah!!! This festival was great! It's a chill time hanging out in a brewery with like minded sci fi and fantasy creators - even a DMC DeLorean joined us outside the venue. Would absolutely recommend.

    September 2023
  • Anastasia Tota

    Thank you for selecting Lullaby Backup! It was a pleasure and honor to participate to the Fantasci Short Film Festival. I hope I can share soon some other creation with you!

    August 2023
  • Noemi Lopez

    Got an email that my film "The Laundry Machine" was selected and got access to download the laurels but then never heard back from the team if it was screening or not... not happy with the communication process. Wish someone reached out with updates on this to have a better idea what happen.

    June 2023
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    Response from festival:

    Apologies. We keep up-to-date via our social channels (Twitter and FB). We will try harder moving forward!

  • Sesselía Ólafs

    We are incredibly honoured for receiving awards in three categories for our film Betur sjá augu(See No Evil) Best Writing, Best Directors and Best Foreign Film.
    I was sad to miss the ceremony as it was online and I would have enjoyed watching it. It might be good for next year to send a heads up email with a link to those nominated, as all the information was only shown on facebook and sadly most things seem to get buried there. I did however find the recording and it was lovely to watch and see both interviews with filmmakers and some lovely feedback for the winning films.
    Thank you and best of luck for the future ❤️
    I love your format and that I can watch the recording.

    June 2023
  • Ricardo Salcedo Martínez

    Worst interaction with a festival. I got a Filmfreeway notification I had been selected and I received the corresponding laurels, but then noticed my film wasn't on their list of films to be screened on their FB page. Seeing the discrepancy I wrote a message to their FB page and I sent an email to them, neither of which they responded. Extremely rude. I don't mind not being selected, or even there being a mistake where I'm told that I am but then finding that I'm not, however, for them to not even have the decency to get back to me is pretty offensive. Feels like they don't really seem to care after receiving the submission fee. Complete disappointment.

    June 2023
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    Response from festival:

    We're very sorry to have disappointed you, Ricardo. As it states on our web site, as part of the Best Of Film Fest family, not all selections are screened. We are working to expand our screenings for next.