Local Heroes Film Festival is a presentation by the Edmonton Short Film Festival.

As an Alberta-based festival, we proudly showcase locally produced short films alongside diverse national and international voices, creating opportunities for audiences and filmmakers to engage with stories from Alberta and beyond. Our goal is get short films in front of as many people as possible! This new festival offers Alberta filmmakers the opportunity to share their short films (up to 30 minutes) at free community events throughout the province. Special community events celebrate content created by or with an emphasis on BIPOC, Women, Pride and Family.

We accept films of any creation date and genre (including web series, trailers, commercials, music videos and more)!

Your ONE-TIME submission to Local Heroes gives you the potential opportunity to have your film screened for the next five years at one or more community event.

Awards & Prizes

Screening fees are paid to the filmmaker every time a film is selected for screening at a community event.

Rules & Terms

Submitted films may be selected for more than one community screening. The number of opportunities to be screened will vary depending on our community partnerships and venue availability.

We request that films be kept available for five years from the submission date to allow us the most possible opportunities to have the film shared at our events.