The 2016 Regular Deadline is TODAY! Submit Your Films and Screenplays NOW!

We are already receiving an astounding number of quality submissions this year from all over the world, and the regular deadline is just now upon us! Submit your film before MIDNIGHT and you will save money! The late deadline is October 23, but prices for feature films and short films are raised by $10 after today. 

The 2016 ATLFF Screenplay Competition also has the same deadlines, so if you have a script finished, submit now and save some cash!

WonderRoot's Local Film Series is Open for Submissions!

WonderRoot is looking for submissions for its Summer Local Film Series! Experimental shorts, documentaries, narratives, animation, music videos, and video art are all considered.

The deadline for submissions is May 15th and the next screening will be on June 18th at the Plaza Theatre. Jury prizes will be awarded and winning filmmakers receive funding to submit their work to other local and national film festivals, as well as a private consultation with the Creative Director of the Atlanta Film Festival.

Submit your local film today!

2014 Call For Entries Closed: A Record 3,194 Films Submitted

Our last deadline to submit films for the 2014 festival (March 28 - April 6) was this past Friday, and for the third year in a row, submissions for the Atlanta Film Festival have shown a remarkable increase.

The 2013 fest received 2,810 submissions, the 2014 fest hit 3,194. A historic milestone, as ATLFF has never had more than 3,000 submissions in a single period. What's equally eye-popping is that 75% of those 3,200 submissions came in by October 10th of this year. An entire month sooner than when we hit 75%* last year, as well as a full month ahead of this year's November 8th Late Deadline. Two months after we opened the 2014 call for films, we were about even with 2013. By August, submissions accelerated, not slowing down till after the Late Deadline. 

We'll take that growth and pace as a sign that we're putting on the kind of fest filmmakers are looking for. We'll also take that as a hint to how much sweat-equity we should be investing into the 2014 fest. Already some of that sweat-equity we're pouring into our "Bring #Artists2ATL" Kickstarter campaign (which coincidentally launched the same day as our last deadline). We'd like to cover the travel of as many of the filmmakers representing the 200 plus 2014 official selections as humanly possible.

Our DVD players, laptops and iPads have been fed steady diets of independent film since May. That won't be stopping anytime soon as you can guess. Fortunately, Kristy, Christina, Sailor, and I, have a great group of screeners, interns, and of course staff, assisting us in getting all these films watched. 

I believe that's enough blabbering for one evening. I'll bring this in for a landing.

Our Kickstarter plea video is below. Give it a watch when you have a free moment. Hopefully the goal will resonate, and you'll share the campaign with your own networks. Early awareness and exposure is a major key to Kickstarter success. We're only two days into the campaign, so there's time to get the word out far and wide before the December 22 pledge deadline sneaks up on us.  

Now if you'll pardon me, this stack of documentaries needs watching.

Charles
Artistic Director

*I'm known as a numbers geek if you can't tell. 

2014 Numbers by Category

FEATURES

Narrative Features
384

Documentary Features
316

EXPERIMENTAL &
MUSIC VIDEOS

Experimental Shorts
127

Music Videos
231

SHORTS

Narrative Shorts
1716

Animated Shorts
185

Documentary Shorts
201

Puppetry Shorts
34