The 2010 Wisconsin Film Festival is open for film submissions. We welcome narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated films or videos of any length.

Although many of the films we show are specifically curated from international film festivals, production companies, and other industry sources, the fresh films shared through the submissions process give this festival a more complex, unexpected appeal (e.g., festivals can all show the same “hit” films, but it’s how they choose film submissions that often expresses their character).

Some of the world-class filmmakers featured in 2009 are Agnès Varda, Jia Zhang-Ke, Ramin Bahrani, So Young Kim, Johnnie To, Ellen Kuras, Werner Herzog, Doris Dörrie, James Benning, Brillante Mendoza, Carlos Reygadas, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Doug Pray, Christian Petzold, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Pablo Trapero, Shane Meadows, Lee Chang-Dong, A.R. Murugadoss, Bill Plympton, Ken Jacobs, Majid Majidi, Molly Dineen, Fernando Eimbcke, and Terence Davies. The festival’s opening night film was 500 Days of Summer with director Marc Webb (a Madison native) and very delightful screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber in attendance, playing to a packed house of 1,200. (See the 2009 film guide here: 2009.wifilmfest.org/films).

Fees range from US$10 to US$30, and there is a single deadline date for each of the three submission categories.
Best of luck with your current and future film projects!

The Wisconsin Film Festival welcomes narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated films or videos of any length.

Although these guidelines refer frequently to Wisconsin filmmakers, the Festival is open to films from around the world. The largest number of films are submitted in the Open Reel category.

There are three categories:
Open Reel (general submissions of any length, open worldwide)
deadline: Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

Wisconsin’s Own (films of any length from filmmakers with “Wisconsin ties”)
deadline: Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

Wisconsin’s Own Student Shorts (films under 60 minutes by Wisconsin college students or Wisconsin residents attending college in another state)
deadline: Thursday, December 31, 2009.

For more information go to the link above or feel free to call 877-963-3456 or 608-262-9009 or info@wifilmfest.org.