This is a festival that pushes the boundaries of presentation. We especially love to showcase locally made films, this is all about expanding options for people to present and discover cinematic work in digital age.

We screen our selection in an independent cinema in or local port city of Wilmington, NC. Our entire festival is streamed online live and stored on our website so that people from across the world in different time zones can view together.

We're looking for anything creative in the film form, including music videos, documentaries, westerns, experiments, shorts and, features.

We are looking to showcase the underground of filmmakers that have gone undiscovered thus far in the digital age. We love films that are lofi, strange, unconventional, distinct, and ambitious.

Local filmmakers will vie for the coveted GutterBliss Film Grant! This relatively tremendous film grant will be given to one of six finalists for the purpose of making a future film.

All finalists will recieve a mystical golden gutter to boast their status as a top pick by the the GutterCast team.

All selected films will recieve a laurel.

Everything goes!

We don't care about runtime, genre or subject. All art asks us for engagement and we want to expand our engagment to showcase work from across all corners of the world.

If your film is selected then you will have to send us a download link or make the film downloadable so that we can play it at our live screening and on our online stream.

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  • Joel Caetano

    Great experience. Thanks for selecting my movie ARAPUCA!

    October 2024
  • Parker Croft

    Being part of GUTTERCAST was an amazing experience. Although we couldn’t attend due to scheduling conflicts, we were really impressed by the festival’s outstanding support and dedication to both the films and the filmmakers. Their professionalism truly stood out.

    October 2024
  • Bradley Pearce

    I was not able to attend but I am really thankful for GutterCast screening my film Confluence and many other really rad films. Hoping to submit something next year too.

    October 2024
  • Pélagie GALANAKIS

    super
    awesome
    wicked good vibes

    October 2023
  • Happy, friendly, enthusiastic and professional.
    Love the communication and updates....and hope to be part of this festival again in the future!

    September 2023