Submissions are Open.
Summer edition winners will be announced on 04, August 2022, through our website and social media.
All our winners will be invited to attend the award ceremony to receive their award in our next year's festival, which will be held on August 27, 2022, at Raleigh Studios Hollywood.
The screening and Award Ceremony will be held at the Charlie Chaplin Theater.
Each winning film receives a free VIP filmmaker pass, they will have access to their screening blocks, festival Red carpet Interviews, Awards ceremony.
LAIFFA is a quarterly film festival that celebrates Short and Features from around the world.
Best of the Fest "Best Picture Winner' of every quarterly festival wins the specially curated LAIFFA trophy.
Films entered in multiple categories may win multiple awards!
Films for the screening during the festival will be selected by our programming Dept. from the pool of winning films. Not all winning films will be selected for the screening, but all winning filmmakers will be invited to the award ceremony.
The annual festival mega event will be held on August 27, 2022.
Venue: Raleigh Studios, Hollywood
5300 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA
90038
All winning films will be awarded a hard copy Certificate during the award ceremony.
PLEASE NOTE: We will not make our winning films available for online viewing.
• Best Picture
• Best Drama Short
• Best Drama Student Short
• Best Comedy/Dramedy Short
• Best Horror Short
• Best LGBT Short
• Best Foreign Short
• Best Travel/Time-Lapse Short
• Best Animation Short
• Best Web Series/New Media (Live-Action or Animation)
• Best Documentary Short
• Best Documentary Feature
• Best Music Video
• Best Trailer/Promo
• Best Screenplay Short (Max 20 pages)
• Best Screenplay Feature
• Best Feature Film All Genre
• Best Foreign Feature
• Best Editing (Additional Category)
• Best Original Music Score (Additional Category)
• Best Cinematography (Additional Category)
• Best Producer (Additional Category)
• Best Director - Music Video (Additional Category)
• Best Director- Animation (Additional Category)
• Best Director - Documentary Short (Additional Category)
• Best Director - Documentary Feature (Additional Category)
• Best Director - Short (Additional Category)
• Best Director - Student Short (Additional Category)
• Best Director Feature (Additional Category)
• Best Woman Filmmaker (Additional Category)
• Best First Time Filmmaker (Additional Category)
• Best Actress (Additional Category)
• Best Actor (Additional Category)
• Screenplay 1st place
• Screenplay 2nd place
• Screenplay 3rd place