We're looking for short films - around 30 minutes and under. Our spotlight categories are
"Feel Good" films and films that Inspire Positive Change - but we are open to any genre of film, from any filmmaker in any part of the world. This festival is family friendly, just something to keep in mind when submitting. Thanks!
Entry Fee: $10
High School students submit for free!
Entry Categories:
(All under 30 minutes)
Narrative Short
Show us those works of fiction!
Documentary Short
Any topic as long as it is "family friendly" - be it local Mississippi stuff or fancy,
smancy International stuff.
Experimental
Send us the weird and the fractal oddities you have created.
Mississippi Shorts
Made in Mississippi? This is your category!
Animation Shorts
Send us your animations, pretty please.
Other
If it doesn't fit in the other categories, enter it here. Music videos,
even public service announcements - let us see 'em.
Student Shorts
This one's for the student filmmakers (Ages 18 and under)! Submit anything under the sun. No entry fee! Must be able to provide proof of school attendance.
Mississippi Student Shorts
Mississippi Student filmmakers (Ages 18 and under)! Submit anything under the sun. No entry fee! Must be able to provide proof of school attendance.
Here are descriptions of those spotlight categories we mentioned earlier:
"Feel Good"
Our spotlight category is "Feel Good" films.
This can be any type film: documentary, narrative, music video, experimental, etc.
But it must leave us with that "AfterGlow" experience - you know what we're
talkin' bout.
"Inspire Positive Change"
This is for the films that inspire positive change. Can be any type - documentary, narrative, etc. Films that foster community service, raise awareness of important social issues that have an impact on a local and global level.
AWARDS
Best of Festival (Winners will receive an InkTip Script
listing to promote to its network of producers)
Best AfterGlow (Feel-Good)
Best Film to Inspire Positive Change
Best AfterLaugh (Comedy)
Best AfterDoc (Documentary)
Best AfterDark (Dark Narrative)
Best AfterWeird (Weird Film)
Best AfterThought (Thought Provoking Narrative)
Best Mississippi Film
Submission deadline: August 15th, 2017
Official Selection Notification: TBA
Festival Date: October 6-7, 2017
InkTip: Where producers go for scripts and writers.
Winners of the Best of Festival Award will receive an InkTip Script Listing to promote themselves and their scripts to InkTip’s entire network of producers, managers, and agents.
Companies who are InkTip members include: ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, 20th Century Fox, and many more.
Producers have made more than 315 films from scripts and writers found through InkTip.
Submit your film here: https://filmfreeway.com/festiv…/GrenadaAfterglowFilmFestival
Awards and Winners
will be announced
at the festival.
Questions?
Contact Isabella Kinder (Festival Director):
Email: isabellak@grenadaafterglow.com
Call: (662) 614-5424