A New Season of WISFFF is about to start. Wait for the White Stag Banner to Beckon you to Adventure!
The Wild Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival is soon back for a new season. Last season, the Phoenix from the Ashes was appropriate… this season the White Stag calls to you to follow us for an amazing adventure in film.
Welcome to the new season of WISFFF.
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So, what is WISFFF?
We're an independent, filmmaker-run festival celebrating the films and filmmakers working in our favourite genres: science fiction, fantasy, horror and all the strange, wonderful things that live somewhere between them.
We're specifically a short-film festival, with categories for Micro (2 minute), Mini (10 minute) and Short (25 minute) films. We’ve been asked to run for full length features, but if you want that you’re going to have to bombard us with messages.
With WISFFF, you enter your film once and we assess it across all the categories for which it is eligible. You don't need to keep paying to enter cinematography, directing, VFX, performance, production design, etc. If we think you've done something particularly well, we want our judges to notice it.
There are awards, laurels and, in selected categories, prizes. We're always trying to find more useful prizes for filmmakers rather than simply adding things for the sake of having a longer list.
Prize sponsors and additions for the new season will be announced as they are confirmed.
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WISFFF at Genesis Cinema, London
WISFFF found a home at Genesis Cinema in London, and we rather like it there.
It's a proper cinema with great character, awesome picture and stunning sound, but more importantly there's a wonderfully welcoming, film-obsessed atmosphere to the place.
Our screenings have increasingly become more than simply sitting in the dark watching films. Filmmakers meet filmmakers. People talk. Contacts get swapped. Projects get discussed. An unexpected amount of networking happens.
Which is exactly how we like it and we’ll encourage it more.
WISFFF continues to grow, with films arriving from around the world and an increasing range of ideas appearing on screen.
Please keep doing that.
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Yes, Horror Counts.
We get asked this surprisingly often.
Yes. Horror is included. It even has its own subgenre award. Indeed last season a Horror won the overall award.
Science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller, animation, fan films, pulp, comedy, documentary, music videos, pilots and films that are frankly rather difficult to describe are all welcome — provided there's a home for them somewhere within the wonderfully elastic boundaries of sci-fi and fantasy.
The festival is open to filmmakers from the UK, worldwide, the Up/Down/LSide/RSide Dimensions and, naturally, the Outer Spiral Arm of the Galaxy.
English is the festival's first language. Films in other languages are very welcome, but they need English subtitles/closed captions.
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About Those Discount Codes…
If we've seen an advert, trailer or post for your film and sent you a discount or waiver code, there's a reason.
We'd genuinely like to see your film.
We make films and enter festivals ourselves, so we know how many automated "special offers" filmmakers receive during a festival marketing cycle.
That's not what we're trying to do.
If we've contacted you, something about your film caught our attention and made us think it might belong at WISFFF.
And if we didn't happen to see your advert?
Ask us.
Filmmaking is about networking after all.
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A Small but Important Thing About WISFFF
We're independent.
We're filmmakers too.
We know what it's like to make something with too little money, too little time, a crew held together by enthusiasm and caffeine, and then send that film out into the festival world wondering whether anybody is actually going to watch it.
We watch the films.
That's rather the point… send those adventures in space, time, and magic our way.
Welcome to the new season of the Wild Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival.
Let's see what you've made.
