MISSION & OBJECTIVE

The Noe Valley Girls Film Festival’s ("NVGFF") mission is to encourage young girls to make movies with goals of creating a new generation of movie makers, promoting Noe Valley, and having fun. With today’s technology, anyone can learn to make a movie.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

NVGFF is seeking short film submissions made by girls anywhere in the world in two age groups (ages 11-15 and age 10 and under). Submissions are due by August 1, 2021, and the finalists are expected to be announced in late-August, 2021. The Festival will be held virtually on September 11, 2021. At the festival, we expect to present the top submissions, have a well-known local filmmaker present awards to the winners, and to have a raffle.

ABOUT THE FOUNDERS

In early 2016, a group of girls living in Noe Valley decided to form NVGFF. They loved making movies and wanted to give an opportunity to other young girls to make and present their movies to a real live audience. The girls started creating films in elementary school and have collectively made almost fifty movies. They enjoyed filmmaking so much that they decided to start a festival for all of the girls of Noe Valley. They have been meeting every week and believe the film festival will be a great way to bring the people of Noe Valley together to watch films and to empower girls in the art of filmmaking.

There are two age groups -
Ages 10 and under
Ages 11-15

Please note that prizes are the same for both age groups.

1st place-$350

2nd place-$200

3rd place-$100

Submitted films must be:

G-rated (please keep in mind that we will have very young children attending)
5 minutes or shorter
Created by a female
Filmmaker must be age 15 or under as of September 12, 2020
Feel free to make a film about anything, but try to make it interesting!

DO NOT mail or ship your entry by any method without permission.

Please ensure that if you are submitting a film that contains copyrighted material by anyone other than yourself, that you have obtained legal clearance for that material used. By entering your work, you agree to this and the terms of service.

Films will be accepted only if they comply with all the criteria and requirements and cannot contain any inappropriate content (offense to kids, religious/minority groups, pornography, etc.).

All films selected for the festival are automatically entered into competition for cash prizes awarded by the festival organizers, judges and audience. For each age group there will be $350, $200 and $100 prizes for first, second, and third place.

License

By entering a film into the NVGFF the applicant is granting NVGFF a non-exclusive license to exhibit the film during the Festival or on the NVGFF website. Moreover, by entering a film in the NVGFF the applicant is granting NVGFF a non-exclusive free of charge license to use fragments of the film for marketing purposes.

For more information, please visit www.nvgff.com

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  • Srecko Lebinec

    Very nice festival. Thanks so much

    September 2023
  • Craig Campbell

    We love this amazing festival -- thank you!

    December 2022
  • Jacqueline Sánchez-Carrero

    Fantastic Festival!! Our students girls are happy because this festival is to young people like them. Thank you Noe Valley Girls FIlm Festival!

    September 2022
  • Оксана Готчиева

    Thank you for the festival! Our girl with disabilities made it to the finals! Anyuta sends her regards! Thanks to all the participants and congratulations to the winners!

    September 2022
  • Kayla Ring

    Amazing festival! I was so excited to be a finalist for my films!

    September 2022