Bloody Flicks Awards

About the Film Festival

Welcome to the annual Bloody Flicks Awards! We're looking for the best and brightest in independent horror and cult cinema to submit your films. Remember the legendary John Carpenter made his mark with a student film, so if you are a student/amateur filmmaker and have something original to showcase - this is the festival for you! We value creativity most of all, so scare, gross us out and shock us! We have 5 awards on offer, the only rule we have is that your film submission needs to be 30 minutes or under.Sfilmmaker is our exclusive platform for cooperation in China, and we look forward to your good film.

Best Film, Best Foreign Film, Best Director, Best Music, Best Actor/Actress.

Genre ：Science fiction Horror Thriller Violence Suspense
Subject ：Unlimited
Video Format ：MPEG4 MOV

Submissions are open now open for our 2024 event. If you are submitting a foreign film we do ask you to provide hard-coded English subtitles. Voting on awards will be done by attendees and our independent judging panel with winners announced on 11 March 2024. Each winner will receive a commemorative award certificate. We ask that all submissions also agree for Bloody Flicks Awards to use stills from the film in promotional social media posts to advertise the festival. There is no limit on the number of films you submit but we do ask that they were produced from January 2022 onwards. Submissions are only made through Sfilmmaker. We ask that the file format of the screener be private links or downloadable. Please note all submissions are subject to fees and these are non-refundable and final.

Categories and fees

Short Film

Video length ：1 - 30
Short films only (30 minutes long max)

Submission Deadline2023/12/24

Standard: 7.5 Dollar / Student： 7.5 Dollar

Trailer Showcase

Video length ：1 - 3
Have you shot a feature or short film you want to shout about? Submit your trailer or short clip (under 3 minutes) and you can feature in our trailer showcase to be played during the event.

Submission Deadline2023/12/24

Standard: 0 Dollar

Feature Film

Video length ：60 - 200
We will be screening one feature film as part of the Bloody Flicks Awards, could it be yours? Submit it for consideration today

Submission Deadline2023/12/24

Standard: 8.7 Dollar / Student： 8.7 Dollar