This event will be the culmination of a grassroots effort to find and share stories of our environment and our role within it. Open submissions for short films -- everyone can be a filmmaker, and we encourage all kinds of work, whether long-term projects or pieces made over a weekend. Share your story, your community, your environment with us.

Partners:

Ninth Wave Global are an organization, community and think-tank working to re-imagine exploration and generate space for investigation and positive change in environmental and community settings.

Equinox Mountain Film Festival, September 22nd - 24th 2023:

Best Film (category 1)
Best Film (category 2)
People's Choice
Best Cinematography
Best Animation
Best Heritage Project*

*Heritage Project relates to indigenous filmmakers celebrating the living heritage of their culture or related topics.

Shortlisted applicants will be screened at our weekend event in Upstate New York, at the end of which the finalists will be announced.

Finalists will be rescreened at the festival and online on Sunday 24th September, with the winner announced after the screenings.

All shortlisted filmmakers will receive free entry to the event.

Submission Parameters:

Category 1
- Maximum 15 minutes, including title and end credits.
- Minimum 5 minutes.

Category 2
- Maximum 5 minutes
- No minimum

All forms of storytelling welcome!

Broadly environmental focus (including our role within it)
Applicants will be assessed on the strength and conviction of the message being portrayed, as well as the cinematography of the piece.

Film may have been previously screened, but no previous award winning films will be considered for the first place prize

If your film is in a language other than English, please provide English subtitles for judging purposes.

Applicants are responsible for the quality of the video.

Please submit your piece along with its title, a short description (max 100 words), and a chosen still image.
We intend to use short clips from the shortlisted films, together with the above, as promotional content. Please let us know if you are unhappy for us to do so.

Applicants are responsible for obtaining any necessary rights and permissions for third-party materials included in their films, including music, trademarks, logos, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights. Equinox Mountain Film Festival expressly disclaims all liability or responsibility for any violations of the foregoing.

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  • Equinox is a wonderful festival deeply involved in environement. It has been such an honnor to be selected to the competiton. Long live Equinox. :)

    October 2023
  • Excellent Quality Film Festival. Promotes a very important message about our environment. Well organized. Prompt communication by Equinox Team Members.

    October 2021
  • Sébastien Pins

    So pleased and gratified to have received the "Best Cinematography" award for my short film "Traces"! Another big thank you to the entire festival team and to the jury! 😀

    September 2021
  • Bea Pántya

    A very special, amazing and well-organized festival, in a beautiful environment, embended into an important topic, with great and meaningful films. If you are a filmmaker, it is worth visiting the festival, you will meet incredible people, there is so much focus on sharing ideas and experiences, about film-making, and bigger-than- filmmaking issues as well. I really liked the personal tone of the festival and the conversations following the movies.

    October 2019
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    Response from festival:

    It was amazing to meet you Bea! Thank you for your support and sharing your beautiful film with us, can't wait to see more of your work in the future!