Spreading enlightened ideas

Audience Awards’ Faith & Family AudFest is dedicated to spreading enlightened ideas and pushing humanity forward to join together.

Filmmakers from around the world are invited to submit to the Audience Awards 2018 Faith & Family Shorts Film Festival. We seek short films 30 minutes or under that explore the issues and faith and spirituality.

HOW THE WINNERS ARE DETERMINED: From the first round, The top 3 films with the most votes and the top 4 jury-selected films advance to a finals round and are judged by an esteemed panel of finalist industry jurors.  The top three final jury winners from the finals round will screen at Audfest 2019 in Los Angeles and compete for our prestigious Best of Fest Audience Award.

ABOUT AUDIENCE AWARDS: Audience Awards provides filmmakers the opportunity to change the world through stories, win prizes and build an audience. Films are judged by the audience as well as industry professionals. Previous jurors represent Vice, YouTube, Variety, Sundance and the list goes on. We are committed to providing a stage for diverse, emerging talent and their creative work. Our platform is dedicated to celebrating the power of storytelling and building an audience. Created by filmmakers, for filmmakers, Audience Awards offers an invaluable platform for exposure. Our filmmakers don't just gain exposure - like press and social media engagement - but also opportunities to accelerate their careers.

ABOUT AUDFEST: Your days at AudFest will be filled with invaluable industry panels and workshops, your nights filled with screenings, networking parties and awards ceremonies. AudFest is the capstone of 365 days full of stellar filmmaking and an opportunity for us to provide opportunity and exposure to our filmmaker family. We play with cameras, gear, learn from industry experts, get mentored by industry execs. We award three pioneer filmmakers and screen your amazing films. Everyone who submits to this festival receives a pass to attend AudFest! See you there!

ABOUT THE CHROMACOLOR PRIZE: The first place jury winner will receive one ChromaColor color corrections in ACES (the motion picture academy's color space developed to best accommodate digital cinematography) and mastering to HDR of any project up to ten minutes in duration. https://www.chromacolor.video/

SUBMISSIONS DUE BY

Submissions Closed

VOTING OPENS

Apr 03, 2018 at 12:00pm MDT (America/Denver)

VOTING CLOSES

Apr 09, 2018 at 12:00pm MDT (America/Denver)

WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Apr 17, 2018 at 12:00pm MDT (America/Denver)

FINAL ROUND PRIZE DESCRIPTION

Every accepted film into the festival receives an AudFest All Access pass. Top 3 films as determined by the jury in the finals round screen at AudFest.

FINAL TEAM AWARDS

1st Place Jury Award: AudFest Screening and All Access Pass and ChromaColor color correction package

2nd Place Jury Award: AudFest Screening and All Access Pass

3rd Place Jury Award: AudFest Screening and All Access Pass

ENTRY FEE

$25 (or enter for FREE when you upgrade to pro. Learn More!)