Los Angeles Film Festival

Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Fiction Documentary Animation

About

Los Angeles Film Festival is a world-class event, showcasing the best in American and international cinema, to an enthusiastic audience or more than 75,000. A high-profile event, the Festival is an excellent platform for launching a film. It's A typical audience festical with a respectable number of European arthouse films.

Awards

Selection to the LA Film Festival qualifies films for prestigious awards, including:

Film Independent Spirit Awards (feature films)
Cinema Eye Honors for Non Fiction Filmmaking (documentary feature films)
Academy Awards® in the Narrative, Animated, and Documentary Short Film categories (short films)

Jury awards in the categories:

US Fiction Competition. World premiere requirement.
Documentary Competition. World premiere requirement.
World Fiction Competition. World premiere requirement.
Nightfall Competition. World premiere requirement.
LA Muse Competition. World premiere requirement.
Short Fiction Film Competition

Audience awards:

Audience Award for Best Fiction Film. All world premiere films are eligible for the audience award.
Audience Award for Best Documentary Film. All world premiere films are eligible for the audience award.
Audience Award for Best Short Film

Rules

Restirctions

World premieres of feature-length films are the highest priority for the LA Film Festival. Premiere status is not a consideration for short films.
Feature films that have had public or festival screenings in Southern California, including Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties are ineligible.
Feature films must have been completed after June 1, 2015.
Submission is available via Filmfreeway system.
We prefer all screeners to be submitted digitally online. However, if absolutely necessary, we also accept two DVDs (Region 0 or 1 and NTSC preferred). For short films (under 50 min.) or music videos, submit one DVD.

Audio language: original

Subtitles language: english

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

Artistic Director: Mr. David Ansen
Festival Director: Mrs. Stephanie Allain
Associate Director of Programming: Mr. Doug Jones

Documents

Filmfreeway submission

Place

United States
Los Angeles

Official website

filmindependent.org

Contacts

Address:

Los Angeles Film Festival
Film Independent 9911 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035 USA
United States

Phone: +1-310-432 1240
Fax: +1-310-432 1203

Email:

LAFilmFest@FilmIndependent.org
programming@filmindependent.org

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Dates & Deadlines

Opening date
November 03, 2015
Earlybird Deadline
November 20, 2015
Regular Deadline
December 14, 2015
Late Deadline
January 15, 2016
Notifications
May 06, 2016
Event dates
1 — 9 June 2016

Categories & Fees

Documentary Feature Films

Feature-length, documentary and non-fiction films (51 minutes or more)

Earlybird Deadline — €45
Regular Deadline — €68
Late Deadline — €90

Alternative Digital Content

Short form digital content with non-narrative structure made for online distribution. Including gaming videos, camera hijinks, editing trickery, abstract cinematic expressions and conceptual video creations.

Earlybird Deadline — €9
Regular Deadline — €14
Late Deadline — €18

Episodic Competition

Fiction or non-fiction digital web series that demonstrates online storytelling. Multiple episodes can be submitted, as long as it does not exceed 12 minutes in total, or a single episode may be submitted up to 12 minutes.

Earlybird Deadline — €14
Regular Deadline — €18
Late Deadline — €23

High School Short Films

Short films that have been shot, directed and produced by high school or secondary school (pre-college/university) students. Adult supervision must be limited to an advisory capacity only. (20 minutes or less)