Located in the heart of the film industry, the Webdance Film Festival is a premier international film, television, and new media festival that is devoted to finding and highlighting the best cinema in the world. Our Jury will award the best films through private screenings.

We Are Inspired by Innovation, Ingenuity, and Creativity in Filmmaking.

Thousands of films are made every year by extremely talented, innovative, and visionary filmmakers that are left unnoticed. We aim to celebrate these filmmakers for their efforts and share with the world the raw talent that we discover along the way. Does your film fit the bill? Click the button below to submit!

AWARDS
Each main submission category has 7 award categories. One project from our main submission categories that demonstrates outstanding craftsmanship, storytelling, and technical achievement will receive the **Cinema Laureate Award, which includes our laurel trophy statue. Additional award categories include: First-Time Director Award, Student Award, and Genre Awards. The Official Selections are viewed by our team of judges and award ballots are submitted for each project.

*Best Director
*Best Cinematography
*Best Editing
*Best Visual FX
*Best Musical Score

Note: ** denote a trophy category. * denote a certificate category. All films in award categories will receive Award laurels. All selected projects will receive Official Selection laurels.

PRIZES
All films selected into the Webdance Film Festival (including Official Selections, Nominated Projects, and Award Winners) will be given a special prize package from InkTip.

All Award Winners will be given Lifetime Access to CINELEADS - a web-based app for filmmakers to find potential clients. The app automatically analyzes websites based on keyphrases and location, and shows the quality of existing video along with contact information so that you can reach out and pitch your work to them.

Webdance Film Festival is open to all genres and all countries. All films will go through a comprehensive evaluation process.

The process involves these stages:
>Our team of industry professionals will review all submissions and choose category and award winners.
>If a film is not selected as a category winner it will either be an "Official Selection" or "Not Accepted".
>Award Winners and Official Selections will receive official laurels and a certificate.
>Winners are notified on the Notification Date.

Things to know before submitting:

Submission of your film to Webdance Film Festival confirms that the festival has the permission to exhibit your film(s) during the festival and /or at any other Festival event. Submission of a work implies that the Festival can employ moving image excerpts and reproduce stills of exhibition promotion. Credit will be given to any filmmaker or screenwriter of such material is used in Festival promotion. Original copyright holder retains all rights to their work.

Important Rules:

All filmmakers submitting a film to the Webdance Film Festival (hereafter known as ‘The Festival’, ‘We’, ‘Us” and ‘Our”), accept and agree to comply with the following Terms and Conditions:
1. The Festival only accepts online registrations and submissions to be assessed. We accept films in any language; however, films not made in English must have English subtitles.
2. By submitting a film to The Festival, the submitter agrees that the film may be screened online in its entirety, online, in a live theatrical venue, and any other venue chosen by the festival.
3. We are only accepting films that have been produced during and after 2013 at this time.
4. A minimum of 150 total submissions is required in order to award a film with the Cinema Laureate Award and trophy.
5. All awards are given at the discretion of the judges and are pending the number of submissions per category.
6. All submission fees are non-refundable.

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  • Sorry to hear the live event was canceled. Very excited though to have been recognized with the comedy award. Thanks, Webdance and best of luck in the future.

    October 2018
  • I was looking forward to possibly meeting and connecting with others or possibly being featured online somewhere, but unfortunately the live screening was canceled due to complications and there is no online posts of any sort that I can tell. I am very happy with the communication from the team but I am also a little sad at seeing the results of "winning". I really appreciate the affirmation of winning the award though!

    April 2018
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    Response from festival:

    Hi Josh! Thank you for the review. I am sad to hear that you aren't completely thrilled with the results, but I understand. We are slowly trying to catch up to everything. We have just posted the results on the website and are now moving onto the next task. We will be posting to our social media accounts next. If you have a photo of yourself holding the certificate, we'd love to promote that image and your project for you. Thanks!

  • javad daraei

    I am very happy and welcome every year to participate in your festival and thank you for this fine festival

    April 2018
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks for the review, Javad!

  • While I'm ecstatic to have been awarded a Science Fiction award, unfortunately, the live screening and awards event was cancelled due to an issue with the venue. I was disappointed since it was in LA where I live and I would have enjoyed meeting other filmmakers and sharing our work.

    April 2018
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks for the review, Tom! We apologize for the unfortunate circumstances and we will try to make it up to you. Step one, we have reached out to InkTip to provide you and the rest of the winners with a special prize package, which you should be receiving shortly.