Wirksworth Short Film Festival

This is the first Edition of The Wirksworth Short Film Festival.
The Festival will take place in Feb 2025 and the main two day festival in July 2025
In Jan we will pick the first selection and the selected films will be shown.
The festival itself takes place in Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
We encourage all styles and genres of filmmaking, from horror to drama.
By entering the film category you will be entered into the other awards automatically.
The Festival committee will view all films, films will be marked independently by our judges.
The Festival Committees decision is final.
Selected Films will be placed on our website and screened to an audience.

Winners of each Edition will go forward to the Grand Final which will take place in Late July 2025. Details of this event will be shared on social media, our website and email to our submitters.
We are currently we are working towards sponsorship for the festival. Details will follow once these have been finalised.
Our Horror Short Film Festival that took place in August 2024 attracted over 300 audience members and all of the 47 films submitted were screened.

The festival is run by an award winning filmmaker and festival creator, he is supported by a number of well established filmmakers and actors. We are all passionate about Independent film making and our aim is to allow your films to be viewed by a passionate audience, who will share with us and yourselves their views on your films.