About us :

Palm Beach Shorts is a bi-monthly online awards event. The festival will welcome any independent project from all genres. The Festival is looking for independent projects from all genres, particularly low or no-budget ones and all countries. The selection process has two parts. First, the submitted projects are judged through private screenings by our internal programming team, and they will select the Finalist films of each edition. Then the Festival's jurors, who are a random team of invited experts mainly from the film industry, will privately review the films and award the best projects. All of the winners will receive the official laurel and an achievement certificate and can request an online screening.

Awards & Prizes:

Best narrative Us short film
Best international short film
Best first time filmmaker short
Best student short
Best documentary short
Best animation short
Best experimental short
Best horror short
Best dance short film
Best sci-fi short
Best Covid film
Best music video
Best web series
Best micro-short
Best pilot
Best women empowerment short
Best human rights‘ film
Best LGBTQ short
Best female director
Best male director
Best producer
Best original screenwriting
Best unproduced short script
Best cinematography
Best editing

Rules & Terms

– In order to submit a film, you must own the rights or have permission from the owner.
– Any Foreign film that is not in English must have English subtitles.
– All fees are non-refundable.
– Not all the submissions are selected for the official competition. Our Judges are free to make their own choices and no answers will be given about not selected films.
– Palm Spring Shorts can consider any film to be disqualified if the festival considers the content inappropriate. If you have any question regarding this decision you might contact us at our email address.
– Filmmakers can submit the film in multiple categories in order to become a multi-award film. Still, the decision about the selection is strictly determined by our judges’ team and no selection is guaranteed.
– Submitting your movie, you authorize the festival to use, distribute and share the film poster, trailer, synopsis and movie stills in our social media.
– Films can be available online and still be entered in the competition for our festival.
– Multiple submissions and multiple category submissions are accepted.
– Films must have been completed within the past 5 years.
– Shorts must be less than 50 minutes.
-We do not require premiere status.

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  • Thank you one and ALL for choosing CopyCat Killer for Best Horror Short! And LOVE the certificate looks AWESOME!

    April 2026
  • Camy De Mario

    I am beyond grateful to Palm Beach Shorts for awarding "A Tale of Two Tails" as "Best Animation Short". So exciting, thank you very much!

    April 2026
  • Jennifer Booth

    Thank you Palm Beach Shorts for the Award Winner recognition for Notes for Tomorrow film! It was an honor and greatly appreciated!
    Jenn Booth

    April 2026
  • On behalf of the cast and crew of Sensus Mori (2025), we thank Palm Beach Shorts for the opportunity to showcase our film to bright new audiences and share our story in new collaborative spaces.

    December 2025
  • Thank you so much for Selecting my short film script "Voices in the Night". Palm Beach Shorts is a well organized professional festival with good communication. Very professionals. I was honored to be part of your festival.

    December 2025