The North Park Film Festival is a fully independent screening series in San Diego, CA. For 2025 expanded to six unique screening events themed around shorts, experimental animation / arthouse, music videos, and women's voices. We have even bigger plans for 2026!

We got our start in 2021 with a humble driveway screening that expanded in size and scope with each year. Inspired by the gratitude and appreciation of our audiences and filmmakers, we expanded our ambitions to become the North Park Film Festival in 2023, allowing us to share this experience with more people than ever.

Our programs have ranged across genres and tones, including world premieres and opportunities for our audiences to see films that they may not discover or be able to access otherwise. Our screenings, behind-the-scenes discussions and director's Q&As have taken place at venues such as North Park Media, the Blind Lady Alehouse, and the Digital Gym Cinema Park & Market, with upcoming events at Verbatim Books, Bab & Friends Gift Shop, and more TBA soon...

Can't wait to see you there!

Awards & Prizes

The NPFF Golden Ghost awards

Rules & Terms

General Submissions Rules for the North Park Film Festival.

The North Park Film Festival accepts no responsibility for loss or damage of entries to or from North Park Film Festival.

Rules & Regulations

1. Film entrants must provide a FilmFreeway online screener.
2. Entry forms and payments will not be processed without accompanying preview copies in one of the accepted formats for film applicants.
3. All entries must be in English or - Subtitled, Dubbed in English, unless special arrangements have been made with the festival.
4. All films selected for screening at the festival grant North Park Film Festival the right to use stills and excerpts of up to two minutes for promotional purposes. Trailers will be provided by the applicant if requested.
5. Festival is not responsible for any lost, stolen or damaged entries.
6. Exceptions to the festival regulations must be authorized by one of the festival directors.
7. Multiple entries are permissible, but each entry must be accompanied by a separate entry and fee.
8. Submissions will not be returned
9. All fees are nonrefundable.
10. Submitting to the festival for consideration is not a guarantee of being programmed.
11. Submissions falsely entered the local or student free entry categories will be excluded from consideration. Entrants in these categories may be contacted for verification of the local or student status of their entry.