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.

For our 2021 On-line Festival, we will be unable to present an award bowl to the winners, and we will not be having an Audience Favorite Award.

Deadline for submissions for 2022: July 15, 2022. We will open our Film Freeway site for submittals in early 2022.

We accept submittals only through Film Freeway. Please click here to link to our Film Freeway site.

We’re going virtual this time around.

The 14th BWFF will be online starting January 7, 2022. The BWFF Committee feels that the COVID risk is still too great to allow us to safely have an in-person festival. While vaccination rates in our area are high, so are infections and hospitalizations. So let’s all be smart and safe and settle in for some good movie viewing at home this winter.

You can view the listings for the 35 films in our Festival right now. Then, starting in January, we will make available for viewing an evening’s worth of films each week. (But you won’t have to watch them all in one evening if you want to spread them out.) We’ll post information on Facebook about the films we are releasing each week. It will all be free– a way for Big Water to say “thank you” to our community for the sacrifices that you have made during the COVID pandemic. (Running an on-line festival turns out to not be cheap– so any donations you would like to make will be gratefully accepted. You can do that buy clicking the button at the top of this page or when you register to watch the films.)

We’ve got films from eleven different countries represented in our line-up, shorts and features, funny films, sad films, films to make you think, films that will leave you feeling good. We think you will really enjoy this year’s Festival.

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Later in the year we’ll announce the winners in all of our film categories. You will get to vote online for the Audience Favorite award- a ballot will appear after you’ve watched the film and you simply have to rate it 1 through 4– just like we do in the theater.

We really do hope that for the 15th Big Water Film Festival we will all be able to gather again with friends to watch films and meet the filmmakers who made them, but until then we hope you enjoy this year’s films.

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