Not Another Home Movie (NAHM) Film Festival is a one-day annual and hybrid festival at the heart of George Washington University. The festival promotes personal storytelling, showcasing top short family films created by families around the world and family films created by GWU students. Our website aims to include storytelling modules to guide people with the creative process. We are reinventing the home movie genre and giving the power of storytelling to people everywhere.

All the winners will be chosen by a selection committee, which will include film curators, cinematographers and student filmmakers, and there will be an awards ceremony.

The filmmaker must own the submitted film or have permission to use any copyrighted images or music.

All scripts must be delivered in PDF format.

Film and script submissions need to be appropriate for ALL AUDIENCES.

Screenplay winners are chosen by our selection committee.

Film winners are chosen by the grand jury.

We do not pay screening fees to show films during the festival.

All films need to provide a 1080p mp4 stereo mix for the festival screening.

Physical Media
If you are mailing us physical media such as a hard drive, or Blu-ray Disc and would like to have them returned after the festival, please provide the necessary packaging and pre-paid postage so we can slip it into the mail immediately following the conclusion of the festival. The festival will NOT return physical media at the festivals cost.