The Early Bird Deadline to submit features and shorts to Leeds International Film Festival is May 1^st

You can SUBMIT to the festival through Withoutabox or FilmFreeway

There are £4,500 cash prizes available across our short film competitions. LIFF is also a qualifying film festival for the Academy Awards and BAFTA.

The winning films in the Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition and World Animation Award are eligible for the Academy’s Short Film Awards. The festival’s British and Yorkshire short film competitions are BAFTA qualifying.

Short Film Awards

·         Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition- £1,000 Prize

·         World Animation Award- £1,000 Prize

·         Best British Short- £1000 Prize

·         Yorkshire Short Film Competition- £500 Prize

·         Dance Short Film Competition- £500 Prize

·         Fanomenon International Competition (Genre / Fantasy Short Films)- £500 Prize

·         Dead Short Competition (British horror shorts under 10 mins)

·         Music Video Award

In addition to the short films, feature-length fiction films and documentaries can also be submitted. The full line-up for LIFF28 can be viewed online at leedsfilm.com.

Key Dates 2015

·         Earlybird Deadline: May 1st 2015

·         Regular Deadline: July 31st 2015

·         Late Deadline: August 31st 2015

·         Filmmakers notified: September 30th 2015

·         Leeds International Film Festival: 4th-19th November 2015

The Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) is the largest film festival in England outside London. Founded in 1987, it is held in November at various venues throughout Leeds. In 2014, the festival welcomed over 40,000 visitors and showed over 300 films from around the world, shorts and features, commercial and independent.