The premiere and longest running short film festival in Lancaster. Our exciting and friendly festival based in the historic City of Lancaster in the North West of England. Our festival and screenings are held at the city's own "Dukes Cinema".
We continue to improve our festival year on year as a small independent team. We accept submissions from all UK based short film makers and we screen two categories; "LA1Shorts Best Film" and a local "Lancashire Audience Choice" category where the winner is selected by audience vote. Everyone has to start somewhere with basic kit and skill, so we like to support grass roots filmmakers too.
To submit to LA1Shorts your film should be MADE IN THE UK and have a maximum length of 15 minutes. If you enter the "Lancashire Audience Choice" category you must have a Lancashire postal address.
This festival offers filmmakers the opportunity to screen their film in front of a packed auditorium at Lancaster’s renowned Dukes Cinema. We aim to allow networking and chat with other filmmakers pre screenings in the gallery - come and find us!.
We show all "selected for screening" short films at the Dukes Cinema, Lancaster. This screening event will be open to filmmakers and the general public.
The "LA1Shorts Best Film" will be decided by a judging panel on the evening. Everyone attending the screening will have the right to vote for their favourite film for the "Lancashire Audience Choice" award. Both the “Best Film” and "Lancashire Audience Choice" winners will be announced and rewarded that evening.
Kindly supported by The Dukes Theatre, Atkinsons and Film Hub North.