The Cranford Film Festival will be held in person on Saturday April 26, 2025 (watch our website cranfordfilmfestival.org for updated information).
Filmmakers: Deadline is March 16, 2025.
Tickets: Purchase at cranfordfilmfestival.org starting in March, 2025.
Sponsors: for those individuals/sponsors who wish to be a part of the festival our deadline is March 22, 2025. Please go to our site cranfordfilmfestival.org for more information on sponsorship. We will air commercials of our major sponsors at the festival on April 26, 2025.
Festival Consultant Lew Goldstein said: “We are appreciative of the community support for this festival given the success of our film festival over the years. Our partnership with the Cranford Theatre and sold out audiences have made this film festival attractive to filmmakers locally, nationally and worldwide.
Watch for updates on our website at cranfordfilmfestival.org and on our Facebook and Instagram pages.
Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to providing the best in worldwide short films to you this spring as we celebrate the fifth annual Cranford Film Festival.
Stay healthy everyone!
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The festival focuses on screening short films (less than 20 minutes in length) in the categories of fiction, documentary, animation, IPhone, music videos and student films.
Best of Festival awards are given in each of the categories and festival goers will be able to watch and listen to filmmakers explain their films during the festival.
Filmmakers will be notified as to whether or not their films will be screened as official selections at the festival after the review of all films by a panel of judges concludes. Those filmmakers whose films are official selections which will be shown at the festival will be asked to submit their film in DCP format.
Award winners will be notified after the conclusion of the festival. The Cranford Cougar award recipients, as judged by the those attending the Festival, in each of the six categories will receive recognition for their achievements. The Best of Fest award is a judges award given separately to films in each category which convey the message of their film in a superior manner and model excellence in filmmaking. Recipients of these special awards will also be able to access a laurel after the Fest on the festival site on FilmFreeway.com
The final schedule of films that will be shown will be posted on/around April 10, 2025.
Notification of selection to filmmakers will be made on or around April 1, 2025.
Go to cranfordfilmfestival.org for submission information or to the Cranford Film Festival site on filmfreeway.com).
Tickets to the festival may be purchased at the festival’s website page www.cranfordfilmfestival.org Tickets sold will benefit the Cranford Schools Friends of the Performing Arts.
Sponsorship: Sponsors are directed to the festival website cranfordfilmfestival.org for more information on how they can participate in this event. The deadline for sponsorship is March 22, 2025.
Best of Festival Awards in each of the following six categories: fiction, documentary, animation, IPhone, music videos and student films.
