2025 LDUB Film Festival & Palm Beach SWEDE Fest
Call for Submissions
In 2025, the 12th year of the LDUB Film Festival, we have again joined with our friends at the SWEDE Fest of Palm Beach to put on a joyous cinematic weekend of celluloid visions. Of course we speak of celluloid metaphorically these days.
We shall open the festival on March 28, 2025 on the Main Stage of the Lake Worth Playhouse with the ever frolicsome Palm Beach SWEDE fest presenting 'bad movies by good people'. Those unfamiliar with this decade long institution or our wildly raucous
evening last year will find themselves immersed in hilarious 3 minute, no-budget remakes of Hollywood hits done by amateur and professional filmmakers.
The evening concludes with the audience bestowing a 'Best of Fest' recognition on an outrageous movie..
Submissions to the SWEDE Fest are separate from the LDUB Festival, are without charge and should be fowarded to info@swedefestpalmbeach.com.
On Saturday March 29 and Sunday March 30 the action continues on the main stage of the Lake Worthy Playhouse for the our 12th LDUB Film Festival bringing movies from across the globe in a variety of genres and formats.
The LDUB Festival seeks exciting new features and shorts, narratives and documentaries, music videos, animations and experimental works to delight our audiences. While the festival has no geographic, age or experience restrictions we encourage works from S. Florida filmmakers and invite accepted filmmakers to attend the festival and meet other artists and the audiences. Submissions will be judged by a panel of critics and filmmakers as well as our audiences.
As we have at previous festivals, the Lake Worth Playhouse will offer technical classes / seminars free of charge and open to the public on topics like editing, camera choice, lighting, financing a film, drones, screenwriting, etc. Topics and schedules will be posted as festival time approaches on https://lakeworthplayhouse.org/ldubfilmfestival/.
Now in its 12th year the LDUB Film Festival with its colleagues from SWEDE Fest Palm Beach remains LIVE with a big silver screen, popcorn on the floor and film lovers on the edge of their seats. Please follow our organizations' progress on https://lakeworthplayhouse.org/ldubfilmfestival/.
It has been our tradition to bring movie lovers and movie makers together to share their passions for the best movies that we can find. We solicit material by filmmakers from around the globe and are looking for superbly made movies that display a unique imagination and eye of the artist.
If your movie amazes we want to see it, no matter what your age, your experience, where its from or its length.
Student competition is encouraged and open to elementary, middle, high school and college, art or film school students; any with a valid student ID submitted on FilmFreeway with their work.
Past award winning films have included animations by an 8 yr old 1st time filmmaker to titles that hat gone on to Cannes and have been short listed for the Oscars.
We promote local filmmakers by showcasing their work and creating a collaborative space for the community and artists to share; all the while fostering the next generation of movie makers. We offer works in progress screening for local artists to get peer-to-peer and audience inspiration
Again, your movie may be any topic, any length and you may be of any age or locale. Student submissions need valid student ID submitted with the work on FilmFreeway. English subtitles will be required for works not in English.
Filmmakers with a 3 minute or so Hollywood parody using found objects should contact info@sweedefestpaslmbeach.com for inclusion in the raucous Swede fest evening.
SEE YOU AT THE MOVIES MARCH 28 -30, 2025
JURIED AWARDS INCLUDE:
• Best Narrative Feature
Best Documentary
• Best Short
• Best Student Film
Best Screenplay
Best Music Score
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Music Video
Others Awards & Prizes to be announced
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