San Diego Film Week is a countywide celebration promoting the diverse filmmakers, actors, film festivals, production companies, studios, schools, artists and creatives that make up the San Diego film industry. Film Week’s mission is to showcase, celebrate and grow San Diego’s film industry.

Held from November 9th-17th, 2024, The 7th Annual San Diego Film Week is a celebration of film in America's Finest City. Film Week screens a variety of locally produced independent films and attendees will also enjoy filmmaker Q&A’s, red carpet photo ops, exciting parties and an awards celebration.

HIGHLIGHTS
Screens dozens of locally produced films
Conference Style Workshops and Panels
Preview Night and Opening Red Carpet Gala
Awards Ceremony and Closing Night

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
Film Week accepts short and feature narrative and documentary films, webisodes, music videos, and commercials from student, independent and professional filmmakers.

INDEPENDENT/PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES
SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

Narrative Shorts (under 45 minutes)
Documentary Shorts (under 45 minutes)
Narrative Features (over 45 minutes)
Documentary Features (over 45 minutes)
Commercials (30 or 60 seconds)
PSA's (30 or 60 seconds)
Music Videos (under 5 minutes)
Art/Experimental Films (under 45 minutes)
Trailers (under 3 minutes)
Digital Series Episodes (any length)
TV Shows (under 60 minutes)
Animation (any length)
Binational films (films made entirely or partially in Tijuana Mexico)

STUDENT CATEGORIES

Narrative Shorts (under 45 minutes)
Documentary Shorts (under 45 minutes)
Commercials (30 or 60 seconds)
PSA's (30 or 60 seconds)
Music Videos (under 5 minutes)

AWARDS AND PRIZES

We love recognizing and rewarding talent! We have various opportunities to win awards and be recognized for your work.

SAN DIEGO FILM WEEK TENTATIVE AWARDS

A-List Acting Awards
Emerging Actors Awards
Best Short Documentary
Best Music Video
Best PSA/Commercial
Best Trailer
Audience Choice Awards
Best Sketch Comedy/Webisode
Best Comedy
Best Drama
Best Horror Sci

Feature Film
Best Narrative Feature
Best Documentary Feature

Genre Awards
Best Horror/ Sci-Fi/ Late Night Short
Best Drama Short
Best Comedy Short

Honorary Awards
Women in Film
Diversity in Film
Lifetime Achievement
Binational Award
Trailblazer Award

A-LIST ACTOR AWARDS

The A-List Actors Awards is for more established actors that are continuing to build their career with San Diego based productions.

A-List Acting Awards* for actors with at least 2 lead or supporting roles in films screened as part of San Diego Film Week AND who have previously been honored with an Acting Award through the Film Consortium. Actors must have at least 4 on-screen lines to qualify.

*Keep in mind that the films’ director submits the actors for the A-List Actor Award consideration. Actors are allowed to submit themselves.

EMERGING ACTORS AWARDS

The Emerging Actors award is for up and coming actors that are starting their career or just starting to work more in San Diego based productions.

Emerging Actors Awards for actors with at least 2 lead or supporting roles in films screened as part of San Diego Film Week. Actors must have at least 4 on screen lines to qualify.

PLEASE NOTE: The person who entered the film into San Diego Film Week will receive an email to submit the actors for the Emerging Actor Award consideration. Actors are allowed to submit themselves. Emerging Actors must not have won an Emerging Actor Award or an A-List Actor Award in any previous years.

DETAILED ELIGIBILITY

Films released after January 1, 2022 and produced in San Diego county utilizing 80% cast, crew, and locations from San Diego are eligible for the 2024 San Diego Film Week. Also non-local films made by former or current San Diego residents are being considered for the festival.

NON LOCAL FILMS MADE BY FORMER OR CURRENT SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS
Films made nationally or internationally by former or current San Diego Residents are accepted under the category "National or International films made by former or current San Diego Residents".

STUDENT FILMS
Student films must have been produced for an official college level or high school level class or workshop in order to be eligible for awards in the student category.

Film Consortium San Diego reserves the right to disqualify any films at any time in the awards process for violations or misconduct, plagiarism, etc.

RULES

- Is your responsibility to promote and market the screening of your film in order to ensure attendance and participation by your cast, crew, and associates.

-You confirm that your film is not and will not be made available online or accessible to the general public prior to its screening for 2024 San Diego Film Week.

-You confirm that your film has not and will not screen publicly at a film festival or other venue in San Diego County prior to its screening for 2024 San Diego Film Week.

REFUNDS

All submission fees are NON-REFUNDABLE.

MEDIA AND MATERIALS

We cannot guarantee that any media and materials provided for the festival will be returned unless specific requests are made.

PREMIERE STATUS
Film Week reserves the right to reject films that have already screened in San Diego County or films that are already available online.

For questions please email filmconsd@gmail.com

Overall Rating
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  • SDFW 2023 offered a week-long celebration of local films, and workshops. The festival kicked off with a networking event at a local film studio, and closed out with a classy awards night in Balboa Park. The encore performance was a special screening of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!", a cult classic filmed right here, followed by a chat with the filmmakers. Everything was well planned out and my cast and crew had an excellent time. Thanks, SDFW!

    December 2023
  • Brent Bokovoy

    I love San Diego film week! This year they had a ton of great local films and workshops. The film parties and award shows are really fun and a great place to network with others in the industry.

    November 2023
  • jeff arballo

    This was our first experience with San Diego Film Week and San Diego Film Awards and we have to say that we were so impressed with the attention to detail and organization of all of the different screening and events. The Organizers of San Diego Film Week kept in contact with us as our film was being screened and provided more than enough staff to accommodate ticketing, answer questions and support the screening. I would highly recommend this event to anyone who is showcasing their film. IT is among the Best of the Best!

    July 2019
  • Great Festival! We were nominated for a San Diego Film Award and enjoyed the showing.

    July 2019
  • Ace Davis

    I had a great time, the people were great and the experience was amazing. Can't wait for next year!

    May 2019