RPM Fest 2022 was co-hosted by UMass-Boston, Harvard University (CAMLab) and the Brattle Theatre (Cambridge) from Oct. 17 to Oct.23, 2022.
Revolutions per Minute festival (RPM Fest) is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, experimental film, essay film, animation, documentary, video and audiovisual performance.
We are looking for any work that experiments with the formal possibilities or hybrid form of film, audiovisual, animation and video under 10 minutes ( and the medium length and essay film categories will accept the work from 10 mins to 30 mins) .
Submit your work (produced after July 1st, 2021) through FilmFreeway.
Selections by Sept. 1st, 2023.
Due to the number of submissions, RPM Fest regrets that we can only notify applicants whose work is selected for the program.
RPM Fest 2023 will take place at UMass-Boston and other Boston venues in October 2023.
We are a non-competitive festival and do not offer awards or prizes.
We pay honorarium for solo artist program and a small amount of screening fee.
Alumni may ask for the submission discount code.
As for the submission discount/waiver code, we offer it to filmmakers who may be facing financial difficulties and are unable to pay the submission fee.