Film Entries

You are invited to submit your films, feature films, documentaries, animation, or any other creative film expression for consideration for the upcoming film festival.

The Big Water Film Festival awards the following prizes: Best Feature, Best Short, Best Short-Short, Best Documentary, Audience Favorite, and the Loren Savitsky Young Filmmaker Award (filmmaker 25 years old or under). Each award comes with a certificate, a beautiful hand-made award bowl, and $150.

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2020.

Starting with the 2020 Festival we are accepting submittals only through FilmFreeway. Please click here to link to our FilmFreeway site.

COVID-19 Cancellation. BWFF 2020 is Cancelled. With regret, the Big Water Committee has decided that we will not be able to tell soon enough if we will be able to protect our patrons’, volunteers’, and filmmakers’ health adequately to allow us in good conscience to proceed with the 13th Big Water Film Festival. So, much like a hotel elevator, we are going to go right past 13 and look forward to 14– which will be held November 3-6, 2021.

All films that are submitted for 2020 will be rolled over for consideration for inclusion in the 2021 festival. The Committee will continue to screen films, and we invite filmmakers to continue to submit them.

Big Water has always been about community, and the last thing we want to do is endanger any part of our community, or seek the sponsorships that make the Festival possible at a time when so many of our community businesses are suffering economically.

We will so much miss our annual get-together.

Please stay safe and healthy! We look forward to gathering again in 2021.

2019 Awards: The 12th Big Water Film Festival is in the books! Thanks to everyone (filmmakers, volunteers, sponsors, and audience members) who made it happen. Here are this year’s award winners:

Best Feature and Audience Favorite: Love Them First, Lindsey Seavert and Ben Garvin
Best Documentary: From Seed to Seed, Katharina Steiffenhofer
Best Short: Wanted:Strong Woman, Marilyn Cooke
Best Short-Short: Fairy Tail, Justin and Kristin Schaack
Loren Savitsky Young Filmmaker Award: , Ouroboros, Emma Keehan

Honorable Mention: Fraser Syndrome and Me, Kyle Anne Grendys
Congratulations!

Check out our new ticket sales page. We’ve made purchasing tickets online very easy, and you can now purchase tickets online for all sites.

Special thanks to the Ashland Foundation for funding the purchase of a spotlight for our use at the Bay Theater. Filmmakers will no longer have to answer questions in the dark!

The schedule is up!

Our 2019 Schedule is posted! Our film descriptions are also posted.

New venues!

Our Bayfield showings are moving from the Bayfield Carnegie Library to the more spacious environs of the Bayfield High School Library. We hope this will give our audience more room to enjoy the films. Thanks to Blair and the City Library for their support these past years, and thanks to the Bayfield School District for welcoming us to their campus.

And remember that as of last year we are having screenings again in Washburn, at the Harbor View Event Center. Special thanks to our Washburn sponsors who are helping to make this happen: Ron’s Repair and Towing, Washburn Family Dentistry, and Olson Building Supplies.

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