The festival will run from March 23rd-26th 2017 in Somerville, MA and has been voted one of the top twenty coolest film festivals in the world by Movie Maker Magazine. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, December 15th.

Flights and accommodation will be provided to winners in each category to attend the events. The festival will also host to the 2017 BIFF Awards, which were inaugurated in 2003.

Prizes are offered in the following categories: The Breakthrough Feature Award which honours those filmmakers whose feature films represent the Best of Ireland and the Irish on Screen, the Global Vision Documentary category which awards work that challenges, highlights or explores global issues with a unique Irish gaze, Most Inspiring Short Film which awards a piece of work that recognizes an up and coming Irish Filmmaker.

Submit to The Irish Film Festival, Boston

Upcoming Submission Deadlines

Below is a range of deadlines for film festivals which have recently announced a call for entries, or those with upcoming submission deadlines, to which Irish filmmakers may submit their work. 

Dingle International Film Festival, December 9^th

Running from March 23^rd-26^th, the annual festival in Dingle, Co. Kerry also features the Animation Dingle Awards, which marked Ireland's first ever Animation Awards ceremony in association with Animation Ireland in 2015.

• Short Film
• Feature
• Documentary
• Student Short

Submit to the Dingle International Film Festival
Submit to Animation Dingle

Silk Road Film Festival: Last Submission Deadline, December 12^th

The Silk Road Film Festival celebrates cinema presents films from regions which were once part of the historical network of the Silk Road ancient trade routes and focuses in particular on Asian, Arab, Persian, African, Mediterranean and European cinema.

• Feature
• Documentary
• Animation
• Short
• Student Film

Submit to the Silk Road Film Festival

IWM Short Film Festival, April 28^th

Entries opened this Thursday, December 1^st for the annual festival hosted by Imperial War Museums.

Films will be judged in the categories of Best Documentary and Best Creative Response, with four additional awards for IWM Special Category: States of Emergency, Best Use of IWM Archive Material, Best Student Film and the Audience Vote Award.

Submit to Visit IWM Short Film Festival 

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