In 2009, Filmstock was founded to connect audiences with creative visionaries, and has now become Arizona's #1 name in short film, and a powerhouse networking event for the community!

A submission to Filmstock means a chance for your short film to be played at a the best and longest running short film festival in Arizona, with hopping parties, enthusiastic audiences and terrific colleagues you have yet to meet!

Filmstock ensures that the audience fully enjoys the terrific lineup of quality entertainment by some of the freshest and best minds in the business, and simultaneously ensures each film gets the audience's full attention.

Each Official Selection is reviewed by notable figures in the industry and are up for votes by the audience!

With over eight awards handed out at each of the four Filmstock Film Festival events throughout the year, there are few places with this big of an opportunity for your work to be seen and celebrated by industry members and audiences alike.

Best of Fest
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Sound Design
Best Actor
Best Production Design
Audience Choice
Barry E Wallace Citizenship Award

*Awards subject to change

Feature Film: We consider features to be longer than 44 minutes and no longer than 180 minutes, and may consist of any of the genre listed in our categories. We understand not all films fit perfectly into a given category, so if you do not see a category that you feel properly categorizes your film, please select the closest you can.

Short Film: We consider films longer than 1 minute and shorter than 45 minutes, and may consist of any of the genres listed in our categories. We understand not all films fit perfectly into a given category, so if you do not see a category that you feel properly categorizes your film, please select the closest you can.

When submitting screeners please be aware that the festival will reject films containing hate-speech, explicit sex, full-frontal nudity and/or gratuitous violence.

Films are selected on the merit of their story (or main idea/theme), their entertainment value, and their production value. To see more detail of how we make our selections, screen film submissions and theme of our event, please visit our website at filmstockfilmfestival.com/submissions. Festival Organizers reserve final say on event selections.

Submission fees will NOT be refunded for disqualified or rejected film submissions.

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  • What a fantastic group of people, classic venue and great programming (I'm biased of course). Like independent filmmakers striving to make their film appear to be bigger than it is, the organizers go out of their way to put on a show which exceeds the present size of the festival and THIS is why it will continue to grow into the vision they've projected! I look forward to visiting again in the future, whether as a participant or an audience member!

    December 2016
  • Alejandro Montoya Marin

    I've been touring film festival cuicuts for 5 years, and THIS is one of the best. Great people, great movies , great venues , awesome parties. A weekend that's well worth flying to Phoenix and experiencing. The organizers of this festival DEFINENTLY treat the filmmakers like friends and people. Been there twice and can't wait for 2017!

    December 2016