GO Independent International Film Festivals

01/17/2025

🎬Sharing a webinar with the basics and updates of the film festival world 🌎, and your place in it. Hosted by friend and colleague Jon Fitzgerald, co-founder of the Slam Dance Film Festival. Get your laurel on!🌿

Slamdance co-founder Jon Fitzgerald and filmmaker Justin Giddings break down the exact strategies of getting into top-tier film festivals!

01/17/2025

Slamdance co-founder Jon Fitzgerald and filmmaker Justin Giddings break down the exact strategies of getting into top-tier film festivals!

07/17/2023

Final Friendly Reminder. Today is the final Deadline to order your 2023 SoCAL Fest Keepsake Trophy! Thank you to everyone who has already claimed theirs!
Artist Circle, Official Selection, Award Nominee, Award Winner

07/12/2023

Introducing the 2023 MICO Award Nominees! Awards presentation to be hosted in concert with our newly re-branded DC AFTER DARK International Film Festival at the Angelika Film Center this Autumn. Stay tuned. Details coming soon!

Neil Chase
Debra Gipson
Sri Mirajkar
Katty Vocal
Michelle D. Wardlaw

06/27/2023

Some shots of The Southern California International Film Festivals’s return to live screenings, this past Thursday in San Diego, California!

06/23/2023

The SoCAL Fest Virtual Q&A; open to ALL this evening , PST / 8PM, EST. Please join us. Fee Free!
https://ohyay.co/s/socalfest

Moderated by Founder & Executive Director Fernando A Mico.

06/22/2023

The SoCAL Fest LIVE Screening is tonight! Live Q&A to follow!
For tickets:

Get Tickets for SoCAL Fest General Admission 2023. Ticket sales close June 23rd 2023.

06/06/2023

The complete list of SoCAL Fest Award Nominations have been posted! Please check the link below. Congratulations to all the Award Nominees!

2023 SoCAL Award Nominations

05/31/2023

The 2023 SoCAL Awards Nominations are being posted and will be complete by the end of the week. Please check to see if your submission is listed! The Award Winners List will be posted by June 27, 2023.

2023 SoCAL Award Nominations

05/29/2023

Very excited to announce that TWO of our upcoming screenplays "Nine Tenths of The Law" (written by Nick Gambino & Koura Linda based on the novel by Claudia Hagadus Long) and "Dancing Beyond" (written by Sarah Daly based on the book by Monica Canducci) have been accepted to the Southern California International Film Festival Screenplay Competition!

We love both of these stories very much and are really thrilled to see the scripts doing so well in festivals while we finish developing the projects and get them ready for production!!