CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR THE 9TH ANNUAL MIDWEST WEIRDFEST!
Submit your work to the 9th annual cinematic celebration of all things frightening, fantastic, underground, paranormal, off-beat, and just plain weird! MidWest WeirdFest is consistently in the Top 100 Best Reviewed Film Festivals on FilmFreeway - indeed usually in the Top 50 - and that’s out of over 12,000 film festivals!
Raymond P. Whalen the star of the documentary VORE KING greets audience members following the award winning film's screening at MidWest WeirdFest 2017. (Photo by Luong Huynh)
MidWest WeirdFest is now accepting submissions for the 2025 event in the following categories:
FEATURES - DOCUMENTARIES - SHORTS - SHORT DOCUMENTARIES - ANIMATIONS - TV/WEB CONTENT - MUSIC VIDEOS
This festival also hosts a screenplay competition, and accepts:
FEATURE SCREENPLAYS and SHORT SCREENPLAYS
Enter your film or screenplay with our completely online submission process: DVD and BLU RAY screeners, and paper copies of scripts are neither required nor accepted. Just choose one of the two following submission platforms and click on its logo to enter online.
Submit a YouTube or Vimeo screener of your film using FilmFreeway. FilmFreeway's HD upload system is fully integrated with both of these popular online video-sharing websites.
All festival rules, conditions and fees for MidWest WeirdFest are described in full on the FilmFreeway site.
Entry deadlines for the 2025 festival are - Earlybird: July 31, 2024. Regular: October 31, 2024. Late: December 17, 2024. Extended: January 17, 2025.