Submissions for 2024 are open, the deadline is Tuesday 25 June 2024
Find out more about submitting to WOFFF and submit your film or short script by visiting our FilmFreeway page.
Who’s eligible to submit to the Women Over 50 Film Festival?
Everyone is eligible to submit a short film or script to Women Over 50 Film Festival. There’s no upper or lower age limit and it’s not only open to women. As long as your film centres on a woman over 50 or part of your core creative team is female and over 50, your film is eligible.
When can I submit my short film to the Women Over 50 Film Festival?
WOFFF24 submissions are now open. You can find out more and submit your films on our FilmFreeway page.
The small print
To be eligible for Women Over 50 Film Festival your short film must:
- have a woman over 50 at its centre
OR
- have a woman over 50 as a writer, director or producer
Your film should be under
- 12 minutes for animation or experimental films
- 20 minutes for dramas (including comedies)
- 25 minutes for documentaries
And your film should also
- be in English or have English sub-titles
Our submissions are hosted by Filmfreeway which offers free HD online screeners, unlimited video storage, digital press kits and more.
View our FilmFreeway page for much more detail on submitting your film or script.
The Women Over 50 Film Festival Student Prize for short films
At WOFFF we aim to increase conversations between generations and although we know not all students are young people, many students are, and we offer a Student Prize to encourage this dialogue to open up further.
Festival Director, Nuala O’Sullivan says, “At WOFFF we want to make a difference in the fight for gender and age equality and we hope this new initiative will encourage emerging and student filmmakers to consider older women as cast and crew when they’re creating work.”
Full details on how to submit can be found on our FilmFreeway page. Submissions for our 2024 festival are open until Tuesday 25 June.
Bursary on submission fees
At WOFFF we’re committed to screening a diversity of older women’s voices worldwide. A bursary fund is available to assist filmmakers to submit work to WOFFF. Since its introduction WOFFF has offered bursaries to filmmakers with work from Afghanistan, Egypt, Germany, Iran, Korea, Nepal, Sri Lanka, UK and USA to enable them to submit their film without a submission fee.
If you’d like to find out more about this bursary, please get in touch with us on info@wofff.co.uk.
WOFFF24 Key dates
January 2024 Submissions open
Tuesday 25 June Submissions close
Mid-July 2024 Selected filmmakers notified
7 September WOFFF24 online begins
21 September WOFFF24 is in Depot, Lewes, find out more and buy tickets now
7 October WOFFF24 online ends
