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Submit Your Film or Screenplay in 3 Easy Steps

The Ventura Film Festival is the largest and most prestigious film festival in Ventura County and is regularly attended by Academy Award (Oscar) winning celebrities and provides a high quality and memorable festival experience for independent filmmakers and writers by exhibiting all accepted films in HD on $100,000 state of the art Barco Digital Cinema Projectors at Cinemark theaters.*

1) pay via credit card or PayPal**

2) upload your preview screener online (YouTube or other online video web site)

3) fill out the submission form below

Why submit to the Ventura Film Festival?

1) It’s for a good cause – All proceeds are donated directly to select non-profit organizations like Save the Redwoods and Surfrider. The entire event is a 100% volunteer based charity fundraiser for the environment.

2) World class theaters and projection – You want a high quality memorable festival experience and/or red carpet world premiere for your independent film, teleplay, or screenplay.

3) Fair submission process – Each and every submission is viewed or read and given equal consideration. We want you to be accepted into our festival!

4) Hang-out with the stars – You want to have your film screened in the company of Academy Award (Oscar) winners and other Hollywood and industry people.

5) Meet exciting and talented people – You want to network with a global base of talented Ventura Film Festival filmmakers and script writers. Hundreds of filmmakers and writers from more than 26 countries participated in the last Ventura Film Festival.

6) The red carpet experience – You want to have fun and experience VIP treatment at our opening night red carpet gala event at the 1,200 seat Majestic Ventura Theater that includes a VIP dinner, awards, red carpet, step and repeat banner, flashing lights from photographers, and limousine service. Check out our Facebook to see the kind of fun we have.

7) Relax on the beach – All of the above and want to take a mini-vacation to some of the nicest beaches and top-rated resorts in the world in Ventura, Malibu, Los Angeles, Ojai, and Santa Barbara during your trip to the Ventura Film Festival. Hollywood, Disneyland, Magic Mountain, The Getty Museum are just a few of the hundreds of nearby world class destinations that are a short drive from the Ventura Film Festival!

8) Great reviews – The Ventura Film Festival regularly screens Academy Award (Oscar) winning films and has received great reviews such as being named “The Party of the Year” by a local actress and “Better than Hollywood” by one of the stars of West Side Story.

*All films are projected on state of the art Barco 4k Digital Cinema Projectors at Cinemark theaters except for special screenings which may use other equipment and be held at other locations and the opening night which is held at the 1,200 seat Majestic Ventura Theater and projected on their huge 45 foot screen.  Cinemark theaters range in size from 100-300 seats and have plush seats and world class screens averaging 30 feet wide.

**All submission fees are non-refundable.

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