Following the massive success of last year's inaugural Festival, The Susquehanna Film Festival returns to historic Williamsport, PA by founder Tim Yasui, a career Hollywood-based film executive originally from Williamsport. Only 3 hour drive from Philadelphia and only 4 1/2 hour drive (or less) from PITTSBURG, NYC, WASH DC, BALTIMORE and surrounding major markets, Our Festival will celebrate and acknowledge not only domestic and international films, but also regionally produced films from Pennsylvania and local Williamsport, Pennsylvania area. We will encourage all film makers, young students who are studying Film to submit their films (minimum 20 minutes) which otherwise might be ignored by the national festivals - and all genres including Horror, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Documentary, Foreign, Short Films , Student films and films from Williamsport and around Pennsylvania are welcome in our Festival!

Awards & Prizes

Experienced talented and independent judges will help us determine the awards given to best Student Films (minimum 20 minutes in length), best Pennsylvania made films, best Documentary films, best short-films (minimum 20 minutes running time), best drama, best horror, best comedy, best animation, best foreign film and best Williamsport Film. An Awards event will be held at the District Cinema at Lycoming Valley in Williamsport, Pennsylvania where we will announce the winners and present them with their awards on the final evening Sunday night following the Friday, Saturday and all-day Sunday Festival screenings.

Rules & Terms

Each film submission must be for a film (minimum of 20 minutes in length for short and student films) that has not yet been commercially exploited on digital platforms/physical media (i.e. DVD, Blu Ray disc etc) nor on Television. We will not accept any films with pornographic content or extreme political views condoning violence of any kind. Each submitting party must guarantee that they have 100% rights to the submitted content and approve this clearance for Festival screenings/Public screenings. If selected, the submitter must deliver either a Pro Res 1920 x 1080 2K HD file or a DCP file or a DVD or a Blu Ray disc for screening playback, a high rez JPEG poster file and a Synopsis for inclusion in the Festival Program guide.

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  • Joseph C. Stillman

    What a pleasure it was for us to have our feature “Bear” in the Susquehanna Film Festival! Tim and his staff made the whole experience memorable and the community could not have been nicer! Thank you for a wonderful time and great hospitality! It was an honor.

    October 2025
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks so much for the kind words Joseph and we really enjoyed having you in our inaugural SFF - best wishes for a bright future in film making!

  • Alireza Rofougaran

    It was a pleasure to have screened my film “Ali Vs. Ali” to this festival and although i was not able to attend personally, i did receive good communication from the festival as it proceeded! Best of luck to Tim for future editions.

    October 2025
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    Response from festival:

    Thank you so much for being a part of our inaugural Susquehanna film Festival Ali! The audience loved your film and we are looking forward to seeing your work again soon!

  • Lynn Estomin

    The Susquehanna Film Festival was a wonderful experience for screening independent film. Tim Yasui did an excellent job organizing the event and the venue was superb. This is a hidden gem in rural PA, scheduled just in time to see fall colors on the Sysquehanna River.

    September 2025
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    Response from festival:

    It was such a pleasure having you participate at our inaugural Susquehanna Film Festival Lynn, and we especially are appreciative of your support in the community for our event and for engaging as a presenter - looking forward to having you back next year!

  • Walter Haussner

    Tim did a fantastic job with this inaugural edition of the festival. Though I was unable to attend, I was there in spirit. His communication with the filmmakers was outstanding and the promotional trailers he produced were exquisite. Filmmakers, do yourself a favor and submit to the next edition of this festival. You won't be sorry.

    September 2025
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    Response from festival:

    We really appreciate your participation this year at our inaugural Susquehanna Film Festival, Walter and for supporting our event even in spirit - we're looking forward to your next film! all the best, the SFF : )

  • Andrew Stirling MacDonald

    This is one of my favorite festivals I attended all year. Very high-quality communication, venue, production value, and organization. Everything planned out well in advance, including planned opportunities to meet and network with other indie filmmakers. They actually converted the videos to be optimized for theatrical projection, so every project I watched looked and sounded incredible. I highly recommend this festival, both to submit and attend in person if you can.

    September 2025
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks so much for the kind words Andrew, and for your appreciation of our DCP conversion too! We wanted to put everyone's film on screen to the best of our mutual ability and are looking forward to having you back next year!