Valor Community Film Festival is Arizona’s most prestigious Veteran focused Film Event. As a crucial part of Valor Film and Music Festival, our mission for this event is to help expand our veteran's social, artistic, and support networks to reduce the risk of homelessness and suicides. To achieve our mission we annually provide an inclusive community-wide film festival that aims to showcase the talent of all local civilian and veteran filmmakers and raise awareness of the struggles veterans go through.
Community film submission fees allow Valor Film Festival to provide free entry to our nation's heroes. Veteran Submissions: Please submit your film by email to the festival Producer, Gina Ruggiero (gina@creativedrillsergeants.org), to register FREE!
All films will cover a spectrum of veteran focused and non veteran focused categories.
Valor Film and Music Festival is brought to you by Creative Drill Sergeants (CDS), a Veteran owned and operated 501c3 nonprofit organization focused on healing Veterans through creativity and the expressive arts.
1.) Entries will be judged based on the following criteria:
a.) Artistic Merit (e.g., Story, Creativity, Entertainment Value)
b.) Technical Merit
c.) Subject Matter
2.) Winning Films will then be screened on the day of Valor Community Film Festival,
May 29, 2022. A list of winners will then be uploaded to valorfest.org
3.) The director of each winning film will receive a physical trophy to take home
4.) The Film awarded with Best of Fest will also receive a $300 USD cash prize