Hi everyone! We are in our 5th Season of monthly family friendly Christian Film Festivals (CFFs) on the 4th Saturday of each month! Our next monthly film festival you can enter is 27 Feb 2021. We have enough entries for the 28 Nov 20, 26 Dec 20, and 23 Jan 21 film festivals! We have done 33 monthly Christian Film Festivals! We limit the amount of films in each festival to about 17 + / - depending on length to ensure every film is shown, and that gives everyone the best chance for awards. We schedule films based on the date they are accepted, so the sooner you enter and are accepted the sooner you get scheduled! We only accept, screen, and recognize family friendly films and scripts because our CFF has kids in our audience each month! We treat each entry like it was our own - we have been ranked in the top 100 film festivals by FilmFreeway 13 times, including #9 out of over 6,000 film festivals in the world in April 2018!
The Christian Film Festival (CFF) is a small monthly film festival located in Newport News, VA, USA! It is held on the last Saturday of each month! The purpose of the Christian Film Festival is to showcase Christian movies, music videos, cartoons, documentaries, educational films, music videos, soundtracks, pictures, and scripts, recognize the people who made them happen, and encourage others to make more!
We try and limit each CFF to 3 max of each type of entry (like 3 max short films and 3 max mini-films etc.) so everyone has the best chance for awards - if you get bumped to a later CFF no issues it is because we want you have the best chance for awards!!
Just sign up, send us a screen shot or poster, the link to your trailer and movie, we will post the screen shot or poster to our Facebook page, and then join us on the last Saturday of each month at Menchville Baptist Church in Newport News, VA to enjoy the shows, fellowship, and win awards.
The categories you can enter to win awards are feature film (45 minutes and over), short film (15-44 minutes), mini film (less than 15 minutes), web series, animation/cartoon, student, advertisement, documentary, educational, music video, soundtrack/score, song, web series, and script/screenplay.
The address for the film festival is 248 Menchville Road Newport News VA 23602.
You don't need to buy or bring tickets - the CFF is free.
You don't need to come to the CFF to win awards we e-mail everyone their digital awards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you do decide to come to a CFF we will print out one of your award certs and do a presentation photo in front of our CFF backdrop for your Facebook page!
The Director of the Christian Film Festival is Richard Collins, an award-winning Christian author and filmmaker whose first 3D animated adventure, 'Raegan and RJ in Space: First to Mars' won the BEST ANIMATION GOLD award at the Christian Family Film Festival in Ellington NY on 6 August 2017, BEST ANIMATION award at the CHRISTIAN CINEMAFEST on 18 February 2018, and was selected for, and shown at the Faith Film Festival in MT Juliet Tennessee on 17 Oct 2015, the Christian Worldview Film Festival in San Antonio Texas on 14 March 2016, the Big Cross Film Festival in Los Angeles CA on 9 Nov 2016, and the HIS Film Festival in FT Lauderhill FL on 21 April 2017! Richard Collins has also won many book awards for his Christian kids graphic novel series 'Raegan and RJ in Space'! Most recently he published a FREE App Game for iPhone, iPad, and Android called 'Raegan and RJ's Space Adventure!' for kids to enjoy! He is now working on the first run of Raegan and RJ action figures!
Charities! The CFF gives a portion of every entry fee to charity! So far we gave $430 to Charities! if you enter the CFF you are helping Christian Charities!
If the $20 entry fee is too much, or you do not like to travel, we also have an 'Christian Online Film Festival (COLFF)' set up through FilmFreeway with the exact same rules and award laurels, but it only costs $10! Here is the link: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/ChristianOnlineFilmFestival
The COLFF is conducted on the 3rd Saturday of each month and is done entirely online at our Facebook page. If you have never entered a film festival before the COLFF is a good introduction and a way to experience a contest and get film festival awards without alot of expense or drama, because it is 100% on line at our Facebook Page. So please consider that one also.
1. Digital Award Laurels for all award winners: The digital award laurels you can win are best feature film (45 minutes and over), best short film (15-44 minutes), best mini film (less than 15 minutes), best animated film/cartoon, student, documentary, educational, foreign film, music video, advertisement, song, soundtrack / score, script, best director, best producer, best female lead and supporting actor, best male lead and supporting actor, best teen lead and supporting actress, best teen and supporting actor, best child lead and supporting actress, best child lead and supporting actor, best soundtrack / score / song, and best web series.
2. Digital Award Certificates for all award winners
3. Digital Award Poster for all award winners.