Paris Lift-Off Film Festival 2022
- Physical Screenings in the City
- All films forming part of the screenings will be translated
- Networking, Workshops & Events
- Film Market Representation
- Lift-Off Season Award Nomination Qualifiers
- Season Award Winners Screen at Every Lift-Off Film Festival in 2023!

For over a decade Paris Lift-Off Film Festival has been a central part of the Lift-Off Launchpad for independent filmmakers looking to launch their careers. As one of the top emerging European Film events and professional showcases for blossoming talent - providing exceptional and genuine opportunities. Held at the beautiful screening location of the historic 'Lucernaire', in the beating heart of Notre Dame: The only indie film competition which promises true global screening opportunities to its winners, open possibilities of representation, and direct links to global sales agents and distributors. All in a perfect setting of unparalleled exposure. Nearly every major distributor from short film to features within mainland Europe has their head office in Paris.

Learn more about the Lift-Off Global Network and how we support our filmmakers. Watch coverage from our festivals, see the interviews and engage with our live workshops directly from our YouTube Channel. Simply copy and paste this link into a separate tab: https://www.youtube.com/c/liftoffglobalnetwork
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FREE SUBMISSIONS TO ALL LIFT-OFF FILM FESTIVALS WITH NETWORK MEMBERSHIP

Lift-Off Global Network invites you to join our Network Members' platform which will provide you with the resources you need to launch your filmmaking career.

Intermediate Membership is an annual subscription of $89, which entitles you to:

- Fee waivers to all Lift-Off Showcases (worth $300)
- Free tickets to Lift-Off Film Festivals and the Lift-Off Season Awards
- Career guidance from the Lift-Off co-founders
- The chance to apply for representation at international film markets including Cannes, EFM, and AFM

Our Professional Membership is an annual subscription of $189, everything Intermediate Membership offers you:

- Fee waivers across our entire festival network (worth $700)
- Access to an international film jobs database
- Access to scripts from our Network
- Upload your own scripts
- Access to a detailed 5-week production accelerator course

For more information please head to our website: https://liftoff.network/membership/

Awards & Prizes

Our prizes and awards stretch from the submission level, all the way through to the Lift-Off Season Awards at the end of each year. We offer as much as possible to all who submit, our officially selected filmmakers, our nominees, and winners.

At the submission level.

Value for your submission fee. Exclusive content emailed to every submitter up-to 24hrs from the time of submission.

High scoring films. If your film scores high but isn't included in our final programme you will be invited to our Lift-Off Online Film Festival initiative, an online competitions which run parallel with the respective live city screenings - where the top two winners get official selections at either of the next two Lift-Off cities.

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The Lift-Off Season Awards

To celebrate and look back on the Lift-Off Season, Lift-Off host a prestigious awards ceremony called the Lift-Off Season Awards. The black tie event sees filmmakers, press, and industry professionals gather at the world-famous Lift-Off Season Awards for a night of awards, music, and networking.

Visit https://liftoff.network/season-awards/ to find out more.

Nominees are chosen after each Lift-Off Film Festival.
The categories:

Best Feature Live Action Narrative
Best Feature Documentary
Best Short Live Action Narrative
Best Short Documentary
Best Director
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Music Video
Best Animation
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Post Production
Best Screenplay
Best Actor
Best First-Time Film

We can’t wait to see which films get nominated this year!

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Script Selections

The top 5 Screenplays will be showcased across the Community platform, featured in the Lift-Off newsletter which is sent to our 35,000 filmmakers, and shared across social media.

Screenwriters will be invited to include their work in our online Community portal. The portal is a curated database of quality scripts that are looking for production.

Lift-Off Community directors and producers are actively looking for projects to develop. They can use the portal to find their next potential projects, and contact the writers directly to discuss the optioning of scripts, development and rights.
All entries should be completed scripts, short or feature length, and you should be actively looking for collaboration or development.

Rules & Terms

If you pay a submission fee, we will screen your work. Our programme's are separated into categories based on your content's level of storytelling, production value, message and acting. During the festival we have two voting committees - our professional jury and the general public.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Our online festivals are NOT a pay for vote platform. If you invite your friends and family to watch either the physical or online screenings it is encouraged that they engage with as much of the content as possible and vote accordingly. This is why two votes are always counted from each audience member with both votes resulting in 1 point for each film. We are doing our best to invite new and exciting audiences to genuine indie film content - if you can encourage your audiences to do the same we will build a wonderful network of opportunity for all, no matter where you are starting out.

Proudly, we have no other restrictions for your work. This includes your work's premier status, it's age and/or whether your work has been made available online.
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  • Sahar Nasouti

    One of the best festivals. Thanks a lot for sharing my project in the festival schedule. I hope that I will be able to take part on the festival with my other projects ❤️

    December 2021
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    Response from festival:

    This is lovely to hear, thanks Sahar! Pleasure to screen your feature film Be Alive in the programme. Excited to see what comes next from you.

  • Shuttermaniac Productions

    The Lift Off Network prove time and time again, how much value they bring to the festival circuit. Their communication throughout is exceptional from the time you are hopefully selected through to solving logistics when visiting each festival physically. The hybrid online model they currently support has meant that all of our community, present and diaspora alike, mean that they can be a part of the process. I cannot highly recommend them enough.

    November 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks for this Lee, much appreciated. Looking forward to meeting you in person for your live screening in two week's time!

  • Bruce Super

    Here're some personal opinions :

    I submitted this year's Paris lift off film fest but frankly I am quite disappointed overall. Felt like a rip off for those indie filmmakers by offering the so called networking opportunities. I got to know my film was officially selected at the end of Sep and it was supposed to be great because based on my experience the film would be screened in cinema to be further judged. However , later I got noticed that due to covid the competition will be based on two rounds, the global audience judgement and judgement by a prof team. I have attended A list film festivals like Cannes Film Fest, Austin Film Fest, Shanghai Film Fest, and I have never heard that any random people can just pay fees to watch all films on vimeo and vote for their favorite ones. It's just amatuer. What if the filmmakers of the film A pay 50 friends or strangers to sign up for the voting part ? How do you keep the so-called global audience competition fair ? You can't let random people decide the destiny of a film. If Golden Global is chosen by random people, if Cannes is chosen by random people , then the value and charm of the fests are gone. If the fest can't host the off-line events , then it should call off the fest for a year , so people can pay fees and run for other film fests like Sundance, ironically , the submit  fee is almost the same. BTW, it seems every submitted film was officially selected ........... If you do vote as a global audience , you'd see more than 70 films are selected....

    I am living in France and I know exactly the possibilities to host a big event. Last month, a massive music concert called Global Citizen hosted by Live Nation was happening in Paris, Ed was there, and it's packed.  So for those film festivals , if you cannot host off-line events , just say it out before filmmakers submit. FYI, the networking offered by Lift-off is very limited, I joined the community , nothing interesting and exciting. 

    I understand the limitation of hosting events during covid but this is not the excuse to be a amatuer. 

    I found Around Film Intl Fest ( same logic of lift off coz it has 4 cities category ) is more useful and entertaining, if you compare the type of the fest.  

    November 2021
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    Response from festival:

    It was a pleasure to screen your first short film, New Year's Eve, in our New Voices programme Bruce.

    It's a shame you did not sign up to the Focus Group. As mentioned these are an initiative we ran specifically for people interested in networking. Everyone joins an E-Meet to introduce themselves and talk about their career aspirations, before giving and receiving feedback on each other's films.

    Audience choice finalists go through, but it's important to note that jury selections go through to the Network Round also. All finalists are announced next week.

    In any case we will absolutely take your feedback on board, and keep trying to offer as much value to filmmakers as we can (which we are pleased to see most of the people on here have recognised).

  • Michael Oswald

    Happy to have been part of this, it is clear that a lot of effort goes into this festival. Hope to take part again in the future.

    November 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Pleasure screening The Man Who Knew Too Much. Great to see so many people enjoying this feature film. All the best with your future projects - we would love to know what this includes, so be sure to reach out to us via the Lift-Off Network Festival Hub :)

  • Lucas de Jesus Ferreira

    a very good festival.
    It was a pleasure to participate in this event.

    November 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks for sharing How Many More? with our audience! We would LOVE to know more about what's next in your filmmaking timeline Lucas, be sure to reach out to us via the Lift-Off Network Festival Hub :)