The Wild Indie Sci-fi & Fantasy Film Festival continues to grow and celebrate our favourite genres of film. Enter once, your film is assessed for all the categories. It's shorts specific. There's prizes for some categories and we are trying to get more all the time. It's a big screen in Greenwich, London again.
Festival Announcement : FrameForge - Prize Sponsor for 2022.
Best Children's Scifi or Fantasy Film added.
Festival Announcement : Final Draft - Prize Sponsor for 2022.
Festival Announcement : NUKE (Foundry) - Prize Sponsor For 2022.
Festival Announcement : Stan Winston School of Character Arts - Prize Sponsor for 2022.
Festival Announcement : Crixus Studios - Prize Sponsor for 2022.
Best Poster Award added
Best Comedy Award added
2022 Early Bird Teaser at : https://youtu.be/8at62y06D_0
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We hope 2022 is happy, healthy, and prosperous time for all. We are happy to confirm the festival screening and awards will be taking place at the Greenwich Odeon, London, UK on September 10th, 2022 in screen 10.
The Wild Indie Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival 2021 was also hosted at the same venue, Greenwich IMAX Odeon Theatre in London on the 29th May 2021, in the IMAX capable screen 9. And… “Oh My Word It Looked Good!!”. The large screen and auditorium enabled us to have a safe and socially distanced crowd, our thanks to Odeon for making the bigger screen and auditorium available. We had an awesome selection of films at the screening, with many more films on the online version of the festival. The online festival site ran for 3 months. There are some photos of the screening event on here. In truth… on the 29th May, 2021… it was just really nice to be back in a cinema sharing film-maker magic with like minds.
The 2022 awards still include the 2-minute Sci-Fi Challenge in collaboration with London Short Film. There are a number of challenges, awards and prizes for Micro (2min), Mini (10min), and Short (25min) film categories within the genre... BUT note our timings have changed this year to encompass more options.
The 2021 trailer can be viewed on here:
https://youtu.be/pQezUJrQroY
News for the 2022 season will come to you via the the social media channels, particularly the Facebook Page, mainly because the text isn’t limited in characters like other channels.
To answer a question asked all the time. Yes HORROR is included.
The festival is open to all (UK, Worldwide, The Up/Down/LSide/RSide Dimensions, even the Outer Spiral Arm (of the Galaxy). English is the festivals first language ; other languages are welcome but should be closed captioned to English. Awards are listed in full below.
If we've had the good fortune to see an advert for your film and sent you a discount/waiver it's because we really want you to enter. We make films and enter festivals ourselves so we know just how many offers you'll get on a marketing cycle. If you've got an offer from us, it's because we think your film fits? If you we didn't see your ad'... ask us.
This event is completely independent of Wild Indie's production (but again ask us if you want to find out about any of those projects).
Awards & Prizes
1. The event will be screened at our now regular venue of the Greenwich Odeon, London with fantastic picture and sound quality in front of an audience of genre fans, producers, professionals and non-professional filmmakers.
2. A laurel for all "Official Selection" will be awarded for all films short-listed. We will notify some shortlisted entries after “normal” deadline date. Specific nominations (e.g. Cinematography, etc) will also receive "nominations" laurels to specify recognition in that field.
3. Currently laurels and awards will be presented for shortlists, official selections, and winners for categories:
Overall Best Film
2 Min
Best Film
2 Min Sci-Fi Challenge Best Film
10 Min
Best Film
25 Min
Best Film
Best Cinematography
Best Physical SFX
Best Digital SFX
Best Director
Best Editor
Best Production Design
Best First Time Filmmaker
Best Restricted Budget (Under $3000)
Best Actor
Best Score/Sound
Best Student Film
Best Young Filmmaker (under 25)
Best Animated Film
Best Fan Film
Best Pulp Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film
Best Actor/Performance
Best Script/Screenplay
Bet Stunts/Action Sequence
Best Children's Scifi/Fantasy Film
Best Comedy Award
Keep It Reel Award
Best Poster Award
Where appropriate - Runner's Up awards will also be given from the category nominees.
(up to 30 Secs additional reel time for credits is acceptable for the 2 min)
(up to 60 Secs additional reel time for credits is acceptable for the 10 min)
(up to 120 Secs additional reel time for credits is acceptable for the 25 min)
(The judges maintain the right to; give joint awards or not award a category award if a winner/s can not be clearly defined/separated).
6. The prizes will be given according to award and judges. This decision is final.
7. The Keep it Real Award – Is an award/laurel for the best application of real science in a film.
Whilst the film festival is independent, Wild Indie is the event organiser's company. We do "Sciencey stuff" for various clients. One of the Directors is a NASA Astrobiology Institute Co-Investigator for education resources of a project involved in creating the sensor arrays for space probes. We've worked on subjects from Shark Tagging to information films for UNEP about chemical pollution. Keep your science real (but entertaining).. you'll get a shout from us.
8. The best screenplay/script prize will be awarded to completed films that have entered the festival. Film entries have the option to send an accompanying script or screenplay for consideration.