๐‡๐Ž๐’๐“๐„๐ƒ ๐๐˜ ๐‹๐ˆ๐…๐“-๐Ž๐…๐… ๐†๐‹๐Ž๐๐€๐‹ ๐๐„๐“๐–๐Ž๐‘๐Š
๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—น๐—บ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜„๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€

๐‡๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐ข๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐š๐ญ๐žโ€ฆ

๐ŸŽฅ ๐๐จ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ ๐›๐ฒ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ ๐๐š๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ข
Picked up by Netflix (and later the BBC) via Lift-Off's Film Market Representation

๐ŸŽฅ ๐“๐ž๐ž๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž ๐‹๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐› ๐›๐ฒ ๐Œ๐š๐๐ฌ ๐„๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ก๐ฌ๐ž๐ง
Distributed by California Pictures via Lift-Off's Film Market Representation

๐ŸŽฅ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐“๐ซ๐š๐๐ž ๐›๐ฒ ๐Œ๐š๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ฌ
Distributed to Amazon Prime by Indie Rights, Santa Monica, via Lift-Off's Film Market Representation

๐ŸŽฅ ๐Š๐ž๐ง ๐…๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐›๐ฒ ๐‰๐จ๐ฌ๐ก ๐‹๐š๐ง๐ž๐ซ
Picked up by Devilworks via Lift-Off's Film Market Representation

๐Ÿ† ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ญ-๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐’๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐–๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ž:
Oscar winners Rachel Shenton and Chris Overton for The Silent Child, Brian Jordan Alvarez for You Are What I Want and The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, Stephanie Koenig for The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, and Charlotte Le Bon for Judith Hotel.

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐˜-๐—ข๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€?

Unlike festivals, the Lift-Off Showcase is something that combines online focus groups, peer-to-peer feedback, and annual interaction with our nomination screenings forming part of an annual showcase day at Pinewood Studios, access to our Writer's Room, invitations to attend the Lift-Off Season Awards, and the potential to have your project released on Lift-Off's incredibly successful YouTube Channel.

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐—ณ ๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€?

โญ ๐—™๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฝ ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป (event day listed when you submitted โ€“ we do these monthly)
You will be invited to an initial online focus group, where you will engage with the other monthly selected filmmakers and screenwriters from the various showcase categories we list monthly on FilmFreeway. You will receive feedback from the group via a private online screening of your project.

โญ ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜€ (Feb/Mar)
All accepted films will be considered for Season Award nominations, but regardless of consideration, you will be invited to all of the nomination screenings as a judge, if you wish to partake, happening at The John Barry Theatre, in the world-famous Pinewood Studios in Feb/March (date and times tbc).

โญ ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ (Feb/Mar)
The nomination screening attendance is also grouped on the same day with an in-person event at Pinewood centred around you and your work. Following a tour of the studios, we will discuss your career, the industry, and the various opportunities you face.

โญ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—”๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐˜€ (Feb/Mar)
You will then be invited to our actual Season Awards, a black-tie event where we award the top-voted films from ALL of the Lift-Off city-based festivals and Showcases from the entire year. Not just a fancy event in a world-famous filmmaking location, but an exceptional night for networking and getting yourself inspired for the future that awaits you within the industry.

๐Ÿ”ด ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐˜-๐—ข๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐—š๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฎ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ง๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น...
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"๐‘ป๐’‰๐’†๐’”๐’† ๐’”๐’‰๐’๐’˜๐’„๐’‚๐’”๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’Š๐’‡๐’‡๐’†๐’“๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’†๐’†๐’…. ๐‘ญ๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’๐’๐’š, ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‚๐’ ๐’๐’“๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’–๐’๐’…๐’†๐’“๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’…๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†๐’“ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’” ๐’ˆ๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’”๐’Š๐’ƒ๐’๐’† ๐’๐’‘๐’‘๐’๐’“๐’•๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’Š๐’• ๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’•๐’ ๐’‰๐’†๐’๐’‘ ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’Š๐’“ ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†๐’“๐’”, ๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’๐’“๐’”, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’”๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’†๐’๐’˜๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’–๐’„๐’„๐’†๐’†๐’…!" โญโญโญโญโญ
๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ต ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐˜€, ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ

๐Ž๐ฎ๐ซ ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ญ-๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐’๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ ๐จ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ฃ๐จ๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐–๐ก๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐Ž๐ฌ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ซ ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฏ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ณ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Š๐จ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ . ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ง๐ข ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ญ-๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿโ€™๐ฌ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ฌ ๐›๐จ๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐ฅ๐š๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ก ๐ฉ๐š๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ.

๐‹๐ˆ๐…๐“-๐Ž๐…๐… ๐๐„๐“๐–๐Ž๐‘๐Šโ€™๐’ ๐‚๐Ž๐Œ๐๐„๐“๐ˆ๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐ & ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’ ๐’๐“๐‘๐”๐‚๐“๐”๐‘๐„

The official panel judges all submissions. After the event finishes, deserving projects are placed on the Season Award Nominations Shortlist.

Lift-Off Season Award Nominations are then given based on merit within each category. They are judged against the current crop of nominations from our city-based festivals this Season.

๐’๐„๐€๐’๐Ž๐ ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ ๐๐Ž๐Œ๐ˆ๐๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐๐’

Lift-Off Season Award nominations screen at Lift-Off's HQ, the prestigious Pinewood Studios, during the celebration held at the end of the Lift-Off Season. The Season Awards celebrates the best-of-the-best from the nominations throughout the Lift-Off Season.

Find out more about the Season Awards
๐Ÿ‘‰liftoff.network/seasonawards

- All support queries must be sent via. support@liftoff.network.
- All submissions are to be sent digitally via FilmFreeway
- The official jury allocates Season Award Nominations
- Proudly, we have no other restrictions for screening your work. This includes your work's premier status, age, and/or whether your work has been made available online.

Overall Rating
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Networking
  • One of the most useful screening/networking events we've ever been part of! Such a pleasure to join a second time this year. Looking forward to the next one!

    October 2023
  • Bukola Bakinson

    The Lift-Off Global Network welcomed us and gave us a tour of Pinewood Studios. There was a lovely mini cinema setup with snacks available for us to have. We watched a great selection of films and had a very useful feedback session after watching the films. All in all it was a lovely experience and we also got a chance to join the Lift-Off Network Hub.

    December 2021
  • Joy Shannon

    Wonderful fest! So glad to be in it with After The LockDown: Black In LA.

    July 2021
    Response from festival:

    Thank you for sharing your work with us Joy, pleasure to screen it to our audience!

  • Judit Papp

    Great festival and on the top with communication and networking. Thank you!

    April 2021
    Response from festival:

    Thank you Judit. Really glad you enjoyed the festival experience, we look forward to seeing what comes next from you!

  • Mark Rose

    This was a great festival and Alaska Long Hunters was glad to be apart of it! Hope to work with them again sometime.

    April 2021
    Response from festival:

    Beautiful documentary Mark, thanks for sharing it with our audience!