Enter Your Film
The Santa Cruz Film Festival is now accepting submissions for its 11th Season!
Submit today for consideration!
Since 2002, the Santa Cruz Film Festival has celebrated innovative and original filmmaking in and for the Greater Monterey Bay community. Over the past ten years, SCFF has screened over 1,100 independent films and videos including over 200 locally-produced works to nearly 100,000 enthusiastic and dedicated film lovers.
Films and videos of all lengths and formats completed after January 1, 2011 are eligible for submission and consideration including Narrative, Documentary, Animation, Experimental, Student, and Youth-produced works. Download our FAQs document to find out more about submitting.
Submit online via Withoutabox or download the application here. SCFF does prefer online entries submitted via Withoutabox, which provides eco-friendly, cost-saving, paperless submission to film festivals around the world.
Withoutabox’s internet-only submission platform features online applications via one master entry form, online fee payments, press kits, and the option to use Secure Online Screeners, an economical, eco-friendly, and secure alternative to traditional hard-copy DVD submissions. Fill out one master entry form and take advantage of quick entry, extended deadlines, and powerful submission management tools. There’s no extra cost to you, and by submitting, you’ll join Withoutabox’s global filmmaker community and stay in the loop about international exhibition opportunities.
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EARTHVISION
The Festival is proud to continue the tradition of the former EarthVision Environmental Film Festival, whose mission and vision were incorporated into SCFF’s overall programming in 2008. Beginning for 2012, EarthVision is being expanded and recast as the EarthVision Environmental and Social Justice Film Section, and will include films that raise awareness of humanitarian issues alongside EarthVision’s historical environmental focus. Learn more here. Audience Awards are given for both an environmental film (EarthVision Environmental Award) and for a film that explores important social, economic, political and cultural issues (Spirit of Action Prize). A feature-length film and a short subject film are each honored with both awards.
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Celebrating today's most creative independent moving image artists, SCFF presents Audience Awards in the following 14 categories:
- Best Narrative Feature
- Morton Marcus Documentary Feature Award
- Emerging Filmmaker Prize (honoring a first or second-time feature filmmaker)
- EarthVision Environmental Feature Award
- EarthVision Environmental Short Award
- Spirit of Action Prize (feature)
- Spirit of Action Prize (short)
- Best Narrative Short
- Best Documentary Short
- Best Animated Work
- Best Experimental Work
- Best Student-Produced Work
- Evan Kuhn Youth Film Award
- Best Locally-Produced Work
FEES AND DEADLINES
The regular deadline for submissions is February 10, 2012, with an early bird discount for entries postmarked by December 2, 2011.
Fees are based on film length and postmark date with the exceptions listed underneath.
Early Regular Late
entry postmarked by December 2 February 10 February 24
Feature (60 min. and longer) $60 $65 $75
Short (59 min. and shorter) $40 $45 $55
Youth Works (Under 18) $25 $30 $40
(any length)
Works entering into the EarthVision Environmental and Social Justice Film section are as follows:
Feature (60 min. and longer) $55 $60 $70
Short (59 min. and shorter) $35 $40 $50
Works made by University level students and Santa Cruz/Monterey local filmmakers are as follows:
Feature (60 min. and longer) $40 $45 $55
Short (59 min. and shorter) $25 $30 $40
