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Where New Voices Are Heard, Seen and Celebrated

🎬 Submit Your Film to The Newbie Film Festival

We invite filmmakers from around the world — especially first-time and emerging creators — to submit their films to The Newbie Film Festival, where new voices are seen, heard, and celebrated.

Our mission is to spotlight powerful storytelling that inspires, challenges, and connects communities through film.

Whether this is your first project or your next breakthrough, we welcome your vision.

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Why Submit to The Newbie Film Festival

✔ Built specifically for first-time and emerging filmmakers

✔ Faith-friendly and purpose-driven storytelling welcomed

✔ Awards & recognition

✔ Panel exposure and education

✔ Networking with industry professionals

✔ Pathway into The Newbie Film Academy ecosystem

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Selected filmmakers receive exclusive opportunities to connect with The Newbie Film Academy for training, mentorship, and distribution pathways.

🎥 Who Should Submit

We welcome submissions from:

• First-time filmmakers

• Independent creators

• Student filmmakers

• Faith-based and purpose-driven storytellers

• International filmmakers

• Underrepresented voices

If your film has heart, meaning, and a story worth telling — we want to see it.

🎞 Accepted Categories

🏆Best Experimental / Creative

🏆 Best First-Time Filmmaker

🏆 Best Faith-Based Short Film

🏆 Best Documentary

🏆 Best Narrative Film

🏆 Best Youth Film

🏆 Audience Choice Award

📋 Submission Guidelines

• Films must be completed within the last 3 years

• Submissions must be original work

• English subtitles required for non-English films

• Digital submissions only

• Trailers encouraged

• One submission per entry

About The Film Festival

The Newbie Film Festival celebrates emerging filmmakers, writers, directors, and actors from around the world. Created to uplift fresh voices in cinema, the festival provides a platform for first-time and independent creatives to share their stories across cultures and genres.

Beyond film screenings, the festival fosters education, connection, and inspiration—bringing filmmakers and audiences together in a supportive creative community.

We thank everyone who came out to support this year’s festival, and we look forward to seeing you again next year.

Submit Your Film

Where New Voices Are Heard, Seen and Celebrated

👉 Submit Your Film on FilmFreeway

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About The Film Festival

Film Festival Director, Joan Montreuil

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