Short Focus Film Festival

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• Short Focus Film Festival does not pay screening fees to filmmakers or distributors for the permission to show their films.
​• Entrants may submit more than one film. Each film must be submitted separately via FilmFreeway. 
• Entrants can submit in any genre/style (see categories).
• Duplicate entries will only be considered once. 
• Entrants under 16 should request their submission fee to be paid for by a parent/guardian. 
• The entrant must be authorised to submit their work and not in breach of any copyright/distribution agreements. Short Focus Film Festival will not be held liable for the screening of films that do not meet this criteria.
• The film must be under 25 minutes in length.  Films that exceed this duration will not be considered.
• The film must have been produced no earlier than 2024. 
• All languages are accepted. Non-English language films must have hard-coded English subtitles or an accompanying .srt file.
• All films chosen for screening are hand-selected by our curators, who will notify applicants as to whether or not their work has been successfully shortlisted on the notification date.
• It is the festival's final decision as to whether or not the film will be screened in our cinema programmes. The selection of your film does not guarantee a cinema screening. ALL selected films will be guaranteed an online screening.
• All films screened online are done so securely. Only festival ticket holders can access the online screenings for the duration the festival.
• If production stills are not already included on your FilmFreeway profile/press pack, we will use an appropriate screenshot from the film for promotional materials.
• Once submitted, the payment for your film is non-refundable.
• We do not accept submissions via email. Any links to your work sent to us via email will not be considered as a submission. 
• Fee waivers will only be considered in exceptional cases and under the sole discretion of the festival's organisers.
• All officially selected entrants are welcome to attend the screening. However, if you choose to attend, any travel, guest, and accommodation expenses will need to be arranged and paid for by the entrant.
• Payment for submission is not a guarantee of your film being selected for screening.
• The submission fees shown on this website are relevant to the period during which they are shown i.e. 'Early Bird', 'Regular', 'Late Deadline' etc. and will change accordingly. All prices are listed on our FilmFreeway profile and website.