Welcome to The Phoenixville Film Festival! A 501c non-profit organization dedicated to celebrate the work of independent filmmakers across the globe.

**ABOUT THE FESTIVAL**
Phoenixville Film Festival is an annual event that takes place in the historic town of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. It's about 30 minutes outside The City of Philadelphia, and it's hosted at the famous Colonial Theatre. That's right—the same theatre from The 1958 film The Blob starring Steve McQueen.

The festival is a celebration of independent film that includes film screenings, filmmakers panels and workshops, after-parties and an awards ceremony.

The festival is aimed at attracting independent film fans and filmmakers alike. You'll get to spend four amazing days and nights exchanging ideas, making new contacts, and enjoying some compelling and interesting films encompassing a wide range of tastes.

MISSION & OBJECTIVE
The mission of the non-profit Phoenixville Film Festival is to bring artists and audiences closer together through cinematic story telling. Our goal is to provide a platform for artists to advance their craft, engage with the community, and promote their work.

We believe that film is a powerful medium that can be used to tell stories that matter—stories that inspire us, teach us, make us laugh, or cry, and more. We also know how hard it can be for artists to get their work seen, heard and appreciated by those who might be interested in it. That's why we're dedicated to creating opportunities for filmmakers at all levels of experience.

We want you—the filmmaker and the screenwriter —to feel supported by our team and valued by our community. We hope that this festival will be an opportunity for you to connect with other filmmakers as well as an audiences alike.

Awards & Prizes

The program culminates with an awards ceremony on the last day of the film festival. During that time, we'll present the awards for the following categories

-Best Feature Film
-Best Documentary
-Best Short Film
-Best Animation Short Film
-Best Short Documentary
-Best Local Film
-Audience Award
-Best Feature Screenplay
-Best Short Screenplay
-Best Local Screenplay

Rules & Terms

**FILM ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS**

You agree to the following terms and conditions of The Phoenixville Film Festival.

1. By submitting a film to The Phoenixville Film Festival, you grant permission to screen your film in a theatrical venue.

2. The Phoenixville Film Festival does not have a premiere requirement.


3. All films must be the original work of the filmmakers and all filmmakers must have the necessary rights. Films must not be owner by a major studio (Paramount, Warner Bros, etc) The festival is not liable for any rights issues.

4. All films must be in English or subtitled in English.

5. Films must be recently produced within the last 3 years. Please, no projects created before 2022.

6. The festival is unable to pay screening fees and does not offer any waivers.

7. The Festival disavows any responsibility for, and will not be held responsible for, any failure to contact the Applicant using the contact information provided in FilmFreeway. It is the sole responsibility of the Applicant to ensure that the contact information provided in FilmFreeway is correct through the end of the Festival period.

8. Only completed entries (including entry form, payment, and final exhibition film copy) will be considered. The Phoenixville Film Festival does not consider works in progress.

9. If your film has been selected, you will have 15 DAYS TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR ACCEPTANCE. If we do not hear from you within 15 days of notification, your film’s status as an official selection may be revoked. 


10. The Festival will attempt, but is under no obligation, to view a submission that arrives after the designated deadline without refund of the submission fee.

11. The Festival reserves the right to disqualify any film for non-payment of the submission fee. The Festival will attempt to contact the applicant with the information on the application form to resolve the non-payment status but is under no obligation to do so.

12. The Festival is under no obligation to, and does not, provide comments or feedback regarding the submitted Film to the Applicant or any other representative of the submitted film. The Festival will not be held responsible or liable for the contents of any internal comments or feedback regarding any submitted film obtained by the Applicant or any other representative of the submitted film or any third party.

13.No film submission shall be associated with any current member of the Board of Directors of Phoenixville Film Festival. For the purposes of this rule, "association" includes, but is not limited to, direct involvement in the creation, production, or significant financial interest in a submitted film.

**SCREENPLAY SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS**

1 . In order for submissions to be considered for competition, the script may not have been produced or filmed prior to this festival.

2. All scripts must be the original work of the writers.

3. Scripts must be in English.

4. Scripts may be of any genre or theme.

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  • Chauncey Babe Film Company

    The programmers were great and extremely helpful throughout the process. Will definitely be submitting future films here.

    January 2025
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  • Danny and Aimee Donnelly

    Thank you Phoenixville for a fantastic festival experience. The screening location was perfect. The historic Colonial theater is a great draw as it's right in the center of town, you get a lot of foot traffic and curious people popping in. The networking was terrific, we met so many awesome filmmakers at this fest. The panels were good too. All around wonderful festival, definitely worth submitting to. I hope to be able to be a part of it in the future.

    November 2024
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  • Amanda Brooke Avery

    I've been to so, so many festivals and I can't say enough nice things about this one. It was well organized, had a beautiful variety of films, and most importantly (to me!) -- the programmers/staff were engaged, warm, and just all-around lovely people. Really wonderful experience here.

    October 2024
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  • Jim Morrison

    This was an amazing festival. The best kind! Kyle, Leah, Joe and staff go above and beyond. They genuinely care about the art of filmmaking. You can see how hard they were all working, and yet maintained a fun and welcoming vibe.
    The town of Phoenixville and theatre were simply amazing.
    It was truly an honor to be selected. Would I submit again? Oh you bet!

    Thank you so much.
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    October 2024
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  • Brandon Wood

    Everything about this festival is great! The people, the venue, the films! If I have one very minor gripe, it's that there should be more films under 10 mins that are selected (some of those shorts were looooong).

    October 2024
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