Our film festival is something completely different. If you are frustrated with film festivals. IF YOU feel as though you spend EMBARRASSING amounts of money and time sharing your content, IF YOU feel as though you put so much work into crappy festivals and get nothing out of it other than other filmmakers in the same boat and an hour of terrible films, IF YOU have been accepted to many film festivals and never gotten a single introduction to distributor THEN KEEP READING BECAUSE OUR FESTIVAL IS FOR YOU.
What is it you need to become a great filmmaker? Nothing other than vision. What do you need to make get your films seen? An audience. Like It Film Fest offers the potential for that to every person that enters our festival.
THIS YEAR WILL WORK VERY DIFFERENTLY, we will be inviting a few filmmakers to participate in a type of 48 hour film festival in Edinburgh DURING EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL.
Last year our festival team along with people we met through Like It Film Fest Premiered a documentary at EdFringe. We want to bring that same energy to our return to an in person event. At the start of EdFringe 2026 we will give a prompt to the filmmakers in the UK and have a screening of the films made on the 27th of August.
We will still do our Stream of Online Submissions to an audience of 24,000 on Twitch but there will be a more selective process for those invited to the 48 hour film fest in Edinburgh.
Your submission is how you can win entrance into the 48 hour film fest. If your entry film is accepted to participate in our Edinburgh event it will be awarded Laurels and featured in our online event as well. Not every film accepted to the online event will be invited to the 48 hour festival.
Our online festival has been one of our proudest vehicles since before the popularity of remote shows. We send your work to our large twitch channel and socials. We also work hard to connect accepted members with each other!
NOTE: We are not a part of Edinburgh Fringe or the Fringe Society. We are in communication with Edinburgh Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe Performers to make sure our invited filmmakers can meet the talent that populated Edinburgh in August but we have NO official involvement as of yet with EdFringe.
The chance to meet other filmmakers and created art. People who want to expand their rolodex and meet more collaborators should join.
We will still do our stream to for filmmaker accepted to the Online portion on https://www.twitch.tv/caitlin
