Submit your film or short script to WOFFF
2024 Submissions to WOFFF
Submissions for WOFFF24 are now closed, sign up to our newsletter to be notified when we’re accepting submissions again later this year.
2024 Timeline
January Submissions open
June Submissions close
July Selected filmmakers notified
September – October WOFFF24 online
21 September WOFFF24 at Depot
November Submission for WOFFF25 open
Who can 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, we welcome all genders.
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 film to the Women Over 50 Film Festival?
Submissions to WOFFF24 are now closed, and we will open submissions for WOFFF25 in November 2024.
What are the guidelines?
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
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 now closed.
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.