How to Submit to Our Film Festivals

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This year’s SciFi & Fantasy film event was held Sunday, 10/20/2019 from 3-9 PM at The Bug Theater, 3654 Navajo Street, Denver Colorado 80211. Learn more. Here’s our Nominees (updated 10-20-19), PDF. Here’s the event program, PDF. Here’s the Poster. Submitters attended the live event for free; crew, family and friends purchased $5 tickets and/or donated at the door. Also, this year, we offered free admission with a SciFi & Fantasy related costume. Learn more  here.

Thanks to everyone for sharing your filmic vision with us! We screened shorts, music videos & trailers followed by a brief awards ceremony. We received 60 entries. We screened 36 submissions, including 13 trailers and 23 full-length submissions. Learn more.

Submitters are invited to create your own award graphics & certificates based on our Awards Master, PDF, which should be roughly backward-compatible with previous award titles. Of course, we’re always happy to create a certificate for you upon request at the conclusion of our live event. Here’s an example certificate, PDF.

Please note, beginning 2020, we ask you to create a free picture profile with AIAFilmmakers. Basic membership will never require you to enter any payment information. Advanced member features like premium content, discounted tickets, schwag and special events will eventually be made available to members as part of a selection of paid plans. For now, we’re in open enrollment at least until late 2020. Learn more.

The Association of International Activist Filmmakers regrets that we are unable to screen all of our official selections to our three film festivals. We hope to screen more submissions in upcoming years as we obtain funding and sponsorship. We are planning an annual fundraiser beginning 2021.

Colorado Intl. SciFi & Fantasy Film Festival #CISFFF2019
Colorado Intl. SciFi & Fantasy Film Festival #CISFFF2019

Find updates herehere, here. Also, here. Our 3rd annual activism film festival event was held July 28th, 3-9 PM, The Bug Theater, 3654 Navajo Street, Denver Colorado 80211. Here’s news about #CIAFF2019. For $5, attendees enjoyed a little over 5 hours’ worth of “edutainment.” Such a deal! If you’ve submitted in the past, or plan to submit in the future, we appreciate your continuing support and sharing our activists & links. Thanks!

We screened a sampling of Award, Finalist, Semi-Finalist and Selected shorts & music videos. We screened trailers for some longer selections. Here’s the Program, PDF,  Poster, more. Here’s INTL Awards, PDFUSA Awards (8-2-19), PDF. Here’s Nominees, PDF. Learn more about Denver’s own totally intimate and eclectic The Bug Theater. This year’s 2nd cannabis & hemp film festival #CICHFF 2019 was held Sun., April 14th, 3-9 PM at The Bug Theater. Here’s the Poster, #CICHFF 2019.

Find out about FilmFreeway’s new Gold MembershipAlso, before you submit, check out these thoughts courtesy of Greg Sorvig , Director of Film Programming, Heartland Film posted at MediumFor our festivals, here’s our basic review process.

  • When we receive a submission, we decide whether or not to “Select” it.
  • From these very basic Selections, called “Official Selection” we choose submissions to move up to “Semi-Finalist” and “Finalist.”
  • From these, which we now call “Nominees”, we select “Award Winners”.

We decide festival screeners based on the following guidelines: 1. Ease of ability to timely download films from FilmFreeway or Vimeo, 2. Level of communication with submitters, 3. Availability at our chosen venue, and 4. Appeal to a broad cross-section of our judges, volunteers and local filmmaking community. Also read here.

During the week following the conclusion of our live event, we publish all award titles, etc. in PDF format. On occasion, a new submission, which we receive late, is advanced directly to “Semi-Finalist”, “Finalist” or even “Award Winner.” These submissions will also be included in the “Nominees” listing, which we put together during the week following the conclusion of our live event. As a new operation, we’re still working out our awards, events, and various plans and practices. Thanks for your patience! Read more.