Late Submissions Deadline for Leeds Young Film Festival is Friday 29^th January 2016

Made a film for a young audience? Or are at the start of your career in film yourself? Leeds Young Film Festival supports young and old, emerging or established, national and international filmmakers and hosts competitions both for short films BY young people, and for short and feature films FOR young people. Young independent filmmakers from the UK have the chance to win £500 worth of cash prizes.

You can submit to the festival through FilmFreeway.

Submission categories and competitions:

-       The Golden Owls: Competition for young filmmakers from Leeds.
        Submissions through http://leedsyoungfilm.com/ only.

-       The INDIs (Independent Directions): UK-wide competition for young
        independent filmmakers up to the age of 25.

-       International Short Films BY Young Filmmakers

-       International Short Films FOR Children and Young People

-       International Feature Films FOR Children and Young People

Leeds Young Film Festival takes place over a week every Easter and welcomes young people and their families to the largest film event of its kind in the north of England. Now in its 17th year, the festival features a programme of the best new and unseen cinema for young people from around the world, made both for and by young people, as well as classic screenings, moving-image related workshops and masterclasses. It takes place in three of the city’s most loved venues and is the highlight for film lovers, filmmakers and film stars to be from the age of five years upwards.