Southern Oasis Film Festival is a celebration of Filmmakers, by FIlmmakers and true Cinephiles. Whether you shot a guerilla style film or a budgeted film, we want to see it. Southern Oasis Film Festival champions the artists, encourages collaboration and growth! We welcome films from all over the world!

We cant wait to see you at the festival, where the love of cinema knows no bounds. Created by cinephiles for cinephiles, we celebrate the diverse and boundless world of film. At our festival, we embrace the notion that film is an art form that transcends boundaries and genres. Whether it's drama, comedy, horror, documentary, or experimental, we believe that every film has a story to tell and deserves to be shared.

Our mission is simple: to provide a platform for filmmakers to showcase their work and for audiences to experience the magic of cinema in all its forms. We believe in the power of storytelling to inspire, provoke thought, and evoke emotions. That's why we welcome filmmakers from all backgrounds and genres to participate in our festival.

Check out our competition festival coming up as well!

Awards & Prizes

2025 Awards List Coming - Summer 2024

Rules & Terms

Non-English films must be accompanied by English subtitles.
Films with explicit content resembling X-rated material are not permitted.
Decisions made by the judges are considered final.
Screening fees for showcasing films are not covered by us.
Refunds will not be provided.

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  • Justin MacGregor

    Grateful that our film THE FOUNDER EFFECT took part in the festival, and so pleased that it was recognized as this year's Best Foreign Feature! Great communication from their team. Wish we could have attended in person. We look forward to submitting another project down the line. Keep up the great work SOFF Team!

    March 2024
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  • Harry Waldman

    Thanks for selecting "Enter the Room" into your festival. The communication was clear and concise and the festival was kind enough to give me a waiver for my next submission. I wasn't able to attend the event in person, but had a very good experience overall, and will definitely consider submitting future projects to Southern Oasis Film Festival.

    March 2024
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  • J. Trimble

    I have so much gratitude for this festival. The organizers are always gracious and a pleasure to work with. They make it clear from day 1 that they are here to celebrate filmmaking, and they assemble a stellar lineup of films. Although Covid temporarily drove the festival online (in Feb. 2021), hopefully the virtual screenings extended their reach, and more people will discover what a treasure this is.

    July 2021
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  • Jim Politano

    I was really glad my movie got accepted and was looking forward to going to Knoxville where our niece lives. Unfortunately COVID hit and the festival supposedly happen on line. But I never got any notification either with my regular e-mail or spam. They also have never updated their Facebook page and took down their website even though I check every day. No mention of any awards either. I'll have to contact Film Freeway to see if this festival even took place.

    June 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Jim, I do apologize that you feel like the festival did not happen. However your film "The Class Analysis" was selected as part of the festival to screen but was not nominated nor did it win any awards. The Festival did stream via Twitch like we posted, as that is all that we could do during a pandemic, as we lost all of our sponsors as well as almost every volunteer. Our website went down after tracking visits, people were more responsive to Facebook than anything, so instead of paying out more money from our already struggling, built from the ground up festival we chose to stick to emails and FB. I will acknowledge that a few other people claim to have not received emails, and that is a frustration to me as I only used the mass email blaster from inside of Film Freeway and a few others mentioned not getting emails, and for that I am sorry. That is a concern since the festival relied on FilmFreeway for communication and it seems to not have worked well at all. I sincerely apologize for your troubles and frustrations, and sincerely hope you will give us another shot next year. - T

  • lucinda luvaas

    It was a pleasure to be part of the Southern Oasis Film Festival! Thank you for choosing Road 721!

    February 2021
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you for submitting and we look forward to having you next year!