Blog: Filmfestivals

Submit to our festival to support our newly forming Fort Myers student local film festival community! We will be bringing a new art festival to Southwest Florida, the inaugural Florida SouthWestern Edge Film Festival event, hosted by local and student filmmakers from neighboring colleges FSW/FGCU!

The event will be hosted in an auditorium at Florida Southwestern State College. This festival is an exclusively student film festival (for submissions); with the exception of current teachers or school faculty members, only student filmmakers (high school, college, grad school, any school) may submit to this film festival! To promote growth in our local film community, we also welcome and feature a completely free "Florida Student" category!

Please note: only films created by students, teachers, or school faculty members may be submit to this event. Failing to scan and provide an ID card from the school or university the filmmaker is from to the e-mail: "fswffestival@gmail.com" following submission may result in disqualification or non-selection in the festival.

Critical Edge Film & Art Festival Network strides to bring together a growing cinematic and artistic community with quality local, independent, student, experimental, and international filmmakers through our annual festival events. We've either hosted festival or have festivals planned in Tallahassee, Orlando, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Nashville, Fort Myers, and New Orleans!

Learn more @
Website: www.ceffnetwork.org
Instagram: @ceffnetwork
Twitter: @criticaledgeff
Facebook: facebook.com/ceffnetwork
Students & Educators only - Florida SouthWestern Edge Film Festival - https://filmfreeway.com/fswff

Like & share our page on Facebook and e-mail a screenshot to ceffnetworkofficial@gmail.com and receive a code for 10% off submission to the CEFF Network festival of your choosing!

WE ACCEPT & LOVE INTERNATIONAL FILMS!

CEFF Network Festival Competition Prizes:
- iPitch.tv Media Market Subscriptions ($117-$299 value each) - "iPITCH.TV gives Screenwriters, Filmmakers and Creators the ability to pitch and sell TV or Movie ideas directly to Entertainment Industry Buyers by submission of written and/or video pitches."
- InkTip Script Listings ($60 value each) - “InkTip is a market connecting scriptwriters and creative project visionaries with industry professionals and production companies, and has helped hundreds of films get produced!“
- Festival waivers and discounts ($25+ value each) - check the “Awards and Prizes” section. Some CEFF Festivals may offer submission waivers to some of our partner festivals (like the Fort Myers Film Festival or Sick ‘n’ Wrong Film Festival in Orlando)
- Screen-time and publicity during one of our LIVE film festival screenings.
- Winners and selections receive TWO sets of laurels per every ONE selected submission! One set of laurels is from CEFF Network, and the other is from the specific festival you submit to.
- Filmmakers behind selected films who are festival attendees will have the opportunity answer questions about their film and be photographed while our work is showcased.
- Selected films promotional materials will be shared across our CEFF Network social media pages prior to the festival.
- Photo/Art Categorical Submissions enter an ongoing competition for display on our website and various social media pages on our Photography page(film submissions are excluded from consideration without our prior emailed request).