Hi everyone we have started our 9th season - the next monthly Christian Online Film Festival is 18 May 2024! This will be our 80th monthly Christian Online Film Festival! We hold the COLFF on the 3rd Saturday of each month all online at our Facebook page! Once you are accepted you will be sent your COLFF date! We usually cut it off a week out and then start pushing entries to the following month! We limit the amount of films in each festival to give everyone the best chance for awards, so don't wait till the last minute to enter, or you may not get in!
The purpose of the Christian Online Film Festival is to showcase Christian movies, music videos, cartoons, documentaries, educational films, music videos, soundtracks, pictures, and scripts, recognize the people who made them happen, and encourage others to make more!.
The COLFF is conducted all online at our Facebook Page on the third Saturday of each month.
Just sign up, send us a screen shot or poster that best represents your film, the link to your trailer and movie, we will post the screen shot or poster or trailer link to our Facebook Page and Web Site Page, and then on the last Saturday of each month join us online at our Facebook Page to watch the shows and be recognized.
The categories you can enter to win awards are feature film (45 minutes and over), short film (15-44 minutes), mini film (less than 15 minutes), animation/cartoon, student, advertisement, documentary, educational, music videos, songs, soundtrack/score, pictures, web series, and scripts.
We limit each COLFF to 2 or 3 of each film type (Documentary, Mini-Film, Animation, etc.) to give everyone the best chance for awards. So you may get bumped to next month's COLFF depending on how many of your film type has been entered before you. It's no big deal everyone can wait a month for their awards it's just a month!
The Director of the Christian Online Film Festival is Richard Collins, an award-winning Christian author and filmmaker whose first 3D animated adventure, 'Raegan and RJ in Space: First to Mars' won BEST ANIMATION at the Christian Georgia Film Festival on 20 August 2022, BEST ANIMATION at the Christian Georgia Online Film Festival on 30 Nov 2021, BEST ANIMATION GOLD award at the Christian Family Film Festival in Ellington NY on 6 August 2017, BEST ANIMATION award at the CHRISTIAN CINEMAFEST on 18 February 2018, and was selected for, and shown at the Faith Film Festival in MT Juliet Tennessee on 17 Oct 2015, the Christian Worldview Film Festival in San Antonio Texas on 14 March 2016, the Big Cross Film Festival in Los Angeles CA on 9 Nov 2016, and the HIS Film Festival in FT Lauderhill FL on 21 April 2017! The graphic novel adaptation of this award-winning animated adventure won a Readersfavorite book award in 2016! Richard Collins has also won many book awards for his Christian kids graphic novel series 'Raegan and RJ in Space'! Most recently he published a FREE App Game for iPhone, iPad, and Android called 'Raegan and RJ's Space Adventure!' for kids to enjoy! He is now working on the first run of Raegan and RJ action figures!
We have an IMDB page for the Christian Online Film Festival! If you are a COLFF award winner you can add your award credits to your IMDB pages here is the link -
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0023169/overview/
We have a T-shirt shop set up online so COLFF award winners can order an award winner T-shirt that you can wear around the set or recording studio to let everyone know you are #1 when it comes to family friendly entertainment! We don't control the prices the T-shirt company does here is the link -
https://collinsprod.logosoftwear.com/
Finally: The Christian Online Film Festival is conducted on line the third Saturday of each month, but it has a counterpart, the Christian Film Festival, which is conducted on the last Saturday of each month. If you would like to have your film shown at a live screening, then please also enter the CFF FilmFreeway web site is: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/ChristianFilmFestival so check it out!
1. Digital Award Laurels for all winners. The digital award laurels will be awarded on the festival date for each of the following categories: best feature film (45 minutes and over), best short film (15-44 minutes), best mini film (less than 15 minutes), best animated film/cartoon, student, documentary, educational, music video, advertisement, web series or episode, best still picture/photography,best script, best director, best producer, best female lead, best female supporting actor, best male lead, best male supporting actor, best Teen female lead, best Teen female supporting actor, best Teen male lead, best Teen male supporting actor, best child lead, best child supporting actor, and best cast, best soundtrack. In addition, every entry will get a web page on our web site!
2. Digital Award Certificates for all winners!
3. Digital Award Poster for all winners!
All entries are eligible for all awards. Each entry is evaluated by the Director and staff and awarded COLFF awards based on its own merits, so more than one film could receive the same award - ie two films could have a BEST ACTRESS award, etc. We do not categorize awards, which means there is only BEST ACTRESS award not BEST ACTRESS in a Feature Film, BEST ACTRESS in a SHORT FILM, or BEST ACTRESS GOLD, BEST ACTRESS SILVER, BEST ACTRESS BRONZE, etc. etc. There is just BEST ACTRESS and none, 1, or 10 actresses could get it in a given month. Same with all the award categories - ie 6 girls could get BEST ACTRESS CHILD or BEST ACTRESS TEEN, or 1 could get it, or none. So if you are an actress in a Feature Film and you do an award winning performance for that month you will 'share' the same BEST ACTRESS award with the actress who did an award winning performance in the Short Film category. You get separate award certs and all but it is still just BEST ACTRESS. We have thought about changing it and categorizing like many award contests do, including the Oscars, but a BEST ACTRESS is a BEST ACRESS regardless of whether she was in a Feature Film or Short Film, and it wasn't her fault she was in a short film versus a feature film. Each entry usually wins at least one award, but there is no guarantee of an award for each entry because this is a contest. All decisions by the Director as to awards and the month your entry in the COLFF is shown are final.
