Women Over 50 Film Festival

📝 WOFFF GUIDELINES

1. Your film has to have a woman over 50 at its centre on-screen or a woman over 50 in the core creative team, either as a writer, producer or director.

2. The maximum length for films are:

Animation: 12 mins
Drama (including comedy): 25 mins
Documentary: 25 mins
Experimental: 12 mins

3. Your film has to be in English or have English subtitles.

4. If you are a non-student filmmaker, you must pay a fee to submit your film (Early Bird, Regular, and Late Submissions have different fees).

5. You can submit more than one film, a submission fee must be paid for each film you submit and a separate application must be made for each film.

6. Submission to WOFFF constitutes agreement to all rules, regulations, and conditions here and your consent for your film to be considered for any awards that may be given at WOFFF.

7. Submission also certifies that all film and music rights, licenses and clearances have been obtained in accordance with UK copyright laws. WOFFF will not be responsible for any copyright infringement.

8. By submitting, you agree not to withdraw your film from WOFFF after the WOFFF selection team has accepted it.

9. By submitting, you give us permission to use publicity stills provided and up to 30 seconds of footage for use in WOFFF marketing and publicity.

10. WOFFF is committed to making screenings and events accessible to all, including people who are D/deaf and Hard of Hearing. If your film is selected, you give WOFFF permission to add inclusive features, like subtitles or captions to your film if it doesn’t already have them.

11. By submitting, you agree that if your film is selected, WOFFF will screen it at WOFFF26, an in-person festival (in a physical venue), or as part of WOFFF26, a virtual, online festival.

12. If your film is selected, you permit us to screen your film at the WOFFF Best of the Fest tour and other WOFFF events following WOFFF26 until December 2027.

13. A “Student Film” is one directed by a student currently in full or part-time adult education or who has graduated in the last academic year (i.e., for WOFFF26 submissions, students who graduated in 2025) that complies with all the rules about film submissions. WOFFF will require proof of student status. Proof of the director's student or recent graduate status must be submitted in English or with an English translation. Please see Custom Form for further information about student submissions and attachments you must send WOFFF.

14. If submitted to the Student category, you must inform WOFFF of your official school, college or university email address and postal address.

And you must inform WOFFF of the course and the qualification you are studying for. See the Custom Form for further details.

15. WOFFF is committed to screening a diversity of older women’s voices worldwide. A limited bursary fund is available to assist filmmakers with their submissions fees to enable them to submit work to WOFFF.

Since 2017 WOFFF has offered bursaries to filmmakers from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, the USA and the UK.

To apply for a submission bursary, please request further information by sending an email to info@wofff.co.uk.

16. By submitting, you confirm that you have secured informed consent from all participants in your film. We may ask for proof of this informed consent.

📝 WOFFF SHORT SCRIPT GUIDELINES

17. This is a competition for completed short drama film scripts up to five minutes in length. Feature film scripts or the first five minutes or any section of a longer film script are not eligible.

18. This is a competition for scripts which have not yet been produced as films.

19. Your short drama film script has to have a woman over 50 at its centre or be written by a woman over 50.

20. The maximum length for your film script is 5 filming minutes (no more than 7 pages, including title page). Industry standard software is preferred but not essential. Industry format software such as Final Draft or Fade In can be purchased online, or programmes such as Celtx, Trelby or Writer Duet are free to download.

21. Your film script must be in the English language.

22. You must be over 18 years old.

23. You must pay a fee to submit your film script. Student script submissions are free.

24. You may submit more than one film script, but you must pay a submission fee for each entry and make a separate application for each film script.

25. The deadline for this competition is 22 June 2026 OR the date WOFFF receives 50 scripts, whichever is sooner.

26. Your script must not be AI-generated. We will run random checks and we may ask further questions if we suspect your script is AI-generated.

27. Submission to WOFFF constitutes agreement to all rules, regulations, and conditions here and your consent for your script to be considered for any awards that may be given at WOFFF.