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WE LOVE FILM HERE AT NCFF, AND WE LOVE FILMMAKERS TOO!

Submissions are now open for 2025! 

submit through film freeway here

At our festival you can expect to find happy artists and enthusiastic audiences, making for a one of-a-kind experience. The Nevada City Film Festival also offers terrific opportunities to forum with other filmmakers and artists. Simply put, the Nevada City Film Festival is a festival created by filmmakers for filmmakers. Your experience at the festival is extremely important to us, and we put a lot of time and energy into making sure our artists have as good a time as our attendees.

THE PROCESS

Nevada City Film Festival proudly accepts entries via FilmFreeway.com, the world’s best online submission platform.

FilmFreeway offers free HD online screeners, unlimited video storage, digital press kits, and more.

Visit Film Freeway

IF YOUR FILM IS SELECTED

If your film is selected, we offer 2-nights of lodging and a travel stipend to help make for an overall great festival experience. We also offer participating filmmakers a 50% online revenue share, in addition to offering a screening fee of $100 per short film and $200 per feature length film.

Nevada City Film Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Fees collected through the Call for Entries process goes directly to our filmmaker awards, so please do not request a waiver, unless you meet one of the following requirements:

1. If you are an Applicant who identifies as LGBTQ, BIPOC, Arab-American, Latinx, AAPI or another disinvested identity group, then NCFF will provide a discount code for your submission fee upon request.
2. If you are an Applicant who lives in Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Sacramento, Sierra, Butte or Yuba Counties.

Contact jesse [at] nevadacityfilmfestival [dot] com for more information.

Prizes

In addition to the coveted NCFF Laurels winning films receive cash prizes as follows:

  • Best of the Fest, Judges Award $1500
  • Best Short Film Screenplay $1000
  • Best Doc Feature $1000
  • Best Narrative Feature $1000
  • Best Short Narrative $500
  • Best Short Doc $500
  • Best Short Animation $500
  • Best Director $500
  • Best Performance $500
  • Best Cinematography $500
  • Best Editing $500
  • Best Musical Score $500
  • Best Production Design $500
  • Audience Award $500

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Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that the Nisenan people are still here among us today, though nearly invisible.

We understand that we are on Nisenan land that was never ceded and the original tribal families have yet to recover from the near genocide of their people.

As a resident or visitor in Nisenan land, we support the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan tribe in efforts to stabilize their people as well as their campaign to restore federal recognition.

For more information and to support the tribe visit nisenan.org
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