ATTENTION:
Based on recent global events, COVID19, federal and state mandates, and circumstances beyond our control, many of our vendors and partners COULD NOT provide their business or service to us.
In response to these developments, and with very heavy hearts, the AOF MEGAFEST has postponed the 2020 event until 2021. Other local festivals such as Anthem and Electric Daisy Carnival have canceled their events entirely. We fought postponing up to the very last moment and we are deeply saddened by the turn of events. All accepted 2020 works will be screened live during the combined hybrid 2020/2021 event that will run 7.26.2021 to 8.1.2021. All 2020 Award winners will be honored at the live award show in Las Vegas that is dedicated to them. Seminars, after-parties, events, screenings, and the film market will all be live in Las Vegas.
Thank you for your understanding.
Stay safe, stay healthy, keep creating and
God Bless you all!
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The Sixteenth Annual Action On Film International Film Festival and Writer's Event/ MegaFest is truly the festival of the independent filmmaker and writer.
MegaFest is accepting submissions for feature Narrative and Documentary, short Narrative and Documentary, New Media, Music, Lyrics, Poetry, Prose, Unboxing Videos, Spoken Word, Photography and Poster Art. Shorts will play before a feature or in a shorts program unless other accommodations have been made. All genres are welcome. The festival programming staff will place your film in the appropriate category. We bridge the gap between the industry and the indie filmmaker with guests like Debra Kara Unger, Nick Mancuso, Harry Lennix, Eric Bana, Mark Ruffalo, John Savage, and many others in attendance every season. We also feature top distributors and buyers from companies like Siguste Entertainment, Multivisionnaire Distribution, Showcase Entertainment, Gorilla Pictures, Storyoptic Films, Relativity Media, The China Film Group, and more.
With a Sixteen year history of recognizing filmmakers at every level in some of the most gorgeous cinemas in the world, we create screenings and opportunities that no other festival offers.
Action On Film means; 'The Action a director takes to make his or her vision come true and then the "re-action" to that effort by the audiences who watch it. Sure, we love action films but we get just as inspired by Comedy, Drama, Animation, Documentary and Experimental Projects.
Filmmakers like Karlos Alastruey, Tracey Birdsall, Stan Harrington, Anabelle Munro, and many others credit us with getting their starts. We have featured the work of hundreds of filmmakers and producers via our television programs; The AOF Channel from NBC and the currently running Del Weston's Action On Film which airs on Time Warner Cable, Champion Broadband, Peg Media and of course online.
Our 11-day event caps off with a sold-out Writers' Award Show and Dinner and 4 star-studded Black Tie Dinners and Award Shows which have been selling out for fourteen years straight. Got a great project? Come be a part of the show!
Please note: due to the high level of abuse and bad behavior by waived submitters in the past years, our festival will no longer offer fee waivers. Please do not ask.
With great sponsors like Ghost Hack, Boris FX, Soundly, Write Brothers, Sony, Avid, The Stella Adler Academy Theater Los Angeles, Quickfilm Budget, Pond 5, MovieMagic, and many others, the AOFMegaFest gave out over $250,000 in cash and prizes in 2019 alone.
In addition, sponsors like Hollywood Rentals and others give out full equipment package rentals for up to two weeks to make a filmmaker's film production dreams come true.
We also feature many of our filmmakers on the Del Weston's Action On Film weekly television program which airs in the Los Angeles Market and across the country. This exposure alone is worth thousands of dollars in promotion and advertising for your projects.