Submit Your Film

Would you like to screen your film at one of the UK's most popular and well-respected festivals? As of 1 March 2010, we're accepting submissions for this year's Cambridge Film Festival. It’s our 30th birthday and for this special occasion we’re eagerly awaiting your creative shorts, features and documentaries.

How to submit

We strongly encourage you to submit your work via the brilliant and ease to use online system, Withoutabox. You can also send your film via post using our submission form (.doc).

Key dates

Our earlybird fees for submissions postmarked before 1 May 2010 are £20 for shorts and £30 for features and documentaries.

Final deadline: 31 May 2010 unless you submit online using Withoutabox when there's a special extended deadline of 15 June 2010.

So get yourself started!

Why you should submit

Successful entries will be given at least one screening during the Festival, when we welcome an average of 14,000 admissions per year. All selected submissions are also eligible for our annual People's Favourite Film Award which is voted for by our audience via the Festival website. Winners have included high-profile features such as BROKEN FLOWERS and VOLVER but in 2007, the Canadian submission ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS – which had its world premiere in Cambridge – took the first place thanks to a vigorous campaign of audience participation.

Find out more

For further details on the submissions process, please refer to our submission guidelines and FAQs (PDFs).

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