Reel Teal Film Festival is a student-run film festival presented by members of the Flicker Film Society at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Reel Teal aims to present innovative films from filmmakers, students, and enthusiasts, and to promote a community that fosters competition and cinematic diversity. Complete with a teal carpet, photographers, and Q&A with filmmakers, Reel Teal encompasses all your film festival and award show needs!
Every year we bring the best local productions alongside the best international selections to offer a "teal" carpet night of short films. We create an environment that is equally satisfying to the big production filmmaker as it is to the everyman college student.
This is our sweet 16, and what better way to celebrate than to have our festival in person! Last year, despite being solely online due to COVID, was very successful with over 3,000 submissions and we hope to raise the bar even higher for this year.
With Reel Teal, we want to stress the duality of amateur and professional, artistic and entertaining. As always, we’re more than proud to have our event in Wilmington, North Carolina, home to one of the largest film communities east of Hollywood.
Awards include Audience Choice, Best Narrative, Best Local, Best Animation, Best Experimental, Best Documentary, and Best Music Video. All winners will be announced the day after the festival on our Instagram.