Just Film Festival (Birmingham) is a two week online film festival mixing feature length and short films that help us to imagine a better world. It runs online from 18 June - 4 July 2021. The festival will include ten feature films and 20 shorts in a variety of genres including drama, documentary and animation. Our members have already suggested feature length films from a wide range of established and emerging filmmakers. We are inviting submissions of short films of up to 5 minutes duration.
The Festival is being run by Birmingham Co-operative Film Society, with support from Central England Co-op and the Co-operative News. Birmingham Co-operative Film Society (aka Birmingham Film Co-op) has been screening monthly social justice films under the slogan "Just Film: for a fairer world" since 2010.
See www.justfilm.coop/festival for more details.
Short Films are invited in three categories. These are - Telling Co-operative Stories, Social Justice Documentary and Social Justice Drama. A panel of judges will select the top films from each category, these will then be promoted and screened as part of the festival. An overall winner in each category will be selected and the Director given a £150 cash prize. Further category details can be found in the descriptions for each category.
All categories will be judged on the following criteria: originality, content, narrative, creativity, cinematography, pacing and performance.
There is an additional prize - selected from across all categories - for the best submission where the participants are all aged 25 and under. Please request consideration for this category when completing your entry form.