We accept family-friendly short films (15 minutes max.). Ours is a community-based, human-scale, family-friendly festival. We show all types of films in a family-oriented festival. Categories include Comedy, Drama, Family & Home, Horror, Female Film Makers, and Kids/Animation.
We are taking a Sabbatical in 2024! Back in 2025... This festival has grit: we carried on right through the pandemic, via a drive-in format, but now we need a break!
Marcellus is a village in a wonderful setting along Nine-Mile Creek, with a limestone gorge, woods, valleys and the Finger Lakes nearby. We've grown in size and sophistication as a festival, but hopefully maintained our small-town values: bucolic, broad minded and surprisingly worldly. This is a village film festival: popcorn is the only thing on the menu, Mr Spielberg is unlikely to be here, and the volunteers working on the festival do it between their real jobs. We take the time to view and comment on all submissions, and even more on the Official Selections. And we think there will be some hidden jewels in the screenings, with new film-makers to watch out for. We sometimes shorten the name to M3F3!
Features:
- Youth (18 yrs old or younger) are free to submit! Use the coupon 'Youth' at submission time
- Student movies are 50% off! Must include student ID!
- Youth (under 18yrs) Free!
- Special Category 2025: Climate Change
- Payment of prize money within 7 days via paypal or venmo
Prizes will be given to the winners in each category, with an overall prize awarded by the audience and Festival Director to the most outstanding film submitted. We anticipate the awards in each category to be around $50, with the overall prize in the region of $100. Festival submission fees go towards prize monies, so these amounts go up or down depending on the number of submissions we get each year.