This festival was founded by many independent filmmakers from all over the world in an effort to make independent film more prevalent in smaller towns and bring a more diverse range of content to the Southeastern, United States. We have partnered with some of the top creative professionals from all over the world to bring an integrated festival, which includes film, music, and workshops. Our annual festival is headquarted in Nashville, Tennessee and we host satellite festivals all year around the Southeastern United States.
Our mission is to make independent film more prevalent, in not just the larger cities, but help promote connections between filmmaking professionals, audiences, and entertainment professionals in rural areas.
We are proud to welcome to our 2019 judges to date: Aqua Caitlin (Costume Designer), Alice Felton (Production Design), Diane Devore (Writer), Craig McMahon (Production Designer/Producer TWC), Dana Frank (Photography), Paul Kostabi (Artist/Musician), Nikki Palomino (Radio Personality), Leonardo Santaiti (Actor/Director), Elizabeth Kiehner (Film Production/Thornberg and Forester), Kat Slatery (Actor), Clay Kraski (Actor), Kenyon Phillips (Actor/Musician), Orlando Vargas (Actor/Kill The Messenger), Clark Seydel (Film Collective), Manabu Inada (Motion Design), Andrea Facini (New Media), Jeremy Harrison (Actor), Holly Stephey (Radio Personality/Philanthropist), Maria Ragusa Burfield (Photography), Lawayne Bontrager (Director), Dewayne Bontrager (Director), Joseph Semense (Producer), Azmyth Kaminski (Actor/Musician), Daniel Collins (Actor/Musician), Deisha Oliver-Millar (Public Relations), Sandy Fox (Filmmaker/Producer), Lex Lang (Actor/Filmmaker).
Submit your resume to info@southeasternfilm.com or message us on facebook/southeasternfilm to be considered for our Junior Board members or with general questions.
We offer a 5 day waiver for all film professionals from January 1st to January 5th annually, so anyone from around the world can enter the festival. We do not offer waivers to individual projects on a case by case basis, since we offer a waiver period, but your work will screen in our festival, if it is a selection. If you would like to enter the festival, please click the link below.
https://filmfreeway.com/festival/SoutheasternFilmFestival
We wish you the very best for your projects and career, we would look forward to reviewing your work, as we are a festival focused on giving independent distribution to filmmakers in the Southeastern United States. Our fees our nominal to try to help filmmakers, we work hard to raise sponsorship money, so we don't extend the cost of the festival to film entrants.
Officially Selected artists will receive All Films Pass + Red Carpet & Awards Ceremony Invitation for two guests, guarantee a spot for live screening, Q&A spot.
Winners and Honorable Mentioned gets all mentioned above + Award
In addition to networking with like minded individuals, the cash and prizes, the following awards will be given to top films: Best Film, Best Direction, Best Writing, Best Music Video, Best New Media, Best Animation, Best Student Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Music Score, Best Sound Design, Best Animation, Best Visual FX, Best Special FX, Best Costume Design, and Best Make-Up.