2025 Winter Film Festival - Submissions Now Open

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NYC’s Winter Film Festival Submissions Now Open!

CELEBRATE DIVERSITY IN FILM #WFF2025
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | FEBRUARY 19-23 2025
Emerging Filmmakers – All Genres – All Lengths
Documentary, Narrative, Horror, Music Video, Animation and Web Series

Did you make an amazing film, music video or web series? Celebrate Diversity in Film with New York City’s WINTER FILM FESTIVAL! The 13th Annual celebration of independent film will run February 19-23, 2025. They seek fresh voices and creative indie films from emerging filmmakers in all genres – feature length and shorts, narrative fiction, documentary, animation, horror, web series and music videos.

SUBMIT YOUR FILM via FILM FREEWAY –> https://filmfreeway.com/festival/WFA

Early Bird Deadline … September 6, Regular Deadline … October 18, Late Deadline … November 8

Works of all genres, forms, and lengths are considered. All selected films are screened at LOOK Cinemas in New York City on Screen 4 (70 seats) or Screen 5 (130 seats).

Winter Film Festival is dedicated to helping emerging filmmakers get recognition and press – they work to ensure their films get written articles, video promos and red carpet interviews. They create an SEO enhanced page on their website for each accepted film, written reviews for all films over 20 minutes and tons of on-camera interviews.

Questions about the Festival, judging process or what they are looking for? Check out the FAQ –> https://winterfilmawards.com/about_us/winter-film-awards-faq/

WINTER FILM FESTIVAL IS NEW YORK CITY. Like the city itself, they showcase the eclectic diversity and excitement of the independent arts world. They are an all volunteer, minority- and women-owned registered 501©3 non-profit organization. Their mission is to promote diversity, bridge the opportunity divide and provide a platform for under-represented artists and a variety of genres, viewpoints and approaches. They believe that only by seeing others’ stories can you understand each other and only via an open door can the underrepresented artist enter the room.

People are making films in the world’s biggest cities and tiniest villages. They believe that everyone deserves a fair shot to get their voice heard! They seek to show different genres, different viewpoints, different stories, different perspectives and different countries. They seek to show the work of men and women and non-binary, gay and straight and bi and other, and the work of black, white, Asian, Latino and everyone else in any combination. They seek to show the work of people from right here in New York and also from every corner of the world. They seek to show comedies and romances and dramas and horror and documentaries and experimental and the weird and the unusual and the universal and the controversial. They seek to show films made for virtually zero budget and films made with multi-million dollar budgets. They seek to show something you haven’t seen before or didn’t realize exists.

Requirements

• All films must have been completed not earlier than January 1, 2022.
• Films must be in English or have English subtitles