Film Festivals
Since 2015, Blue Forge Films has hosted film festivals for both emerging and established filmmakers. Discover a current festival or scroll down to explore past winners.
Current Film Festivals
Perspective Film Festival
Watch and vote throughout January 2021 at www.tiny.cc/perspectivefilmfestival.
Films must be two to fifteen minutes in length, rated below NC17, and showcase a unique perspective physically, emotionally or spiritually. Submission does not guarantee inclusion in the festival. Our panel of industry judges will select the finalists to be included and contact them within 72 hours of submission. Judges are different for each festival.
Awards:
Best Film: $100 cash prize, trophy, and laurel certificate.
Audience Favorite: Laurel certificate.
Best Actress: Laurel certificate.
Best Actor: Laurel certificate.
Best Original Score: Laurel certificate.
Leap Film Festival
Submissions welcome until 9am Pacific Time on February 20, 2021.
Finalists will be announced February 25, 2021, by 9pm Pacific Time.
Festival will be available to watch free online throughout March 2021.
Awards will be announced on March 31, 2021.
Films must be two to fifteen minutes in length, rated below NC17, and feature a nonlinear timeline and/or a leap in time essential to the plot of the film. Submission does not guarantee inclusion in the festival. Our panel of industry judges will select the finalists to be included and contact them within 72 hours of submission. Judges are different for each festival.
Awards:
Best Film: $100 cash prize, trophy, and laurel certificate.
Audience Favorite: Laurel certificate.
Best Actress: Laurel certificate.
Best Actor: Laurel certificate.
Best Original Score: Laurel certificate.
The submission fee is $15. After payment, you'll be redirected to a form to send us a link to your film. All finalists will be required to send us a MOV or MP4 of their film. Submit your film.
Past Festivals & Winners
One Room Film Festival
Watch the entire festival for free here.
Best Film: Capitulate
Best Actress: Amber Rainey
Best Actor: Greg Laurel
Best Original Score: Capitulate
Audience Favorite: The Scavenger Hunt
Take 8 Film Festival 2015
Watch the entire festival at BlueFlix.
Best Film: Vindicta (The director's cut of the feature film adaptation is due in 2021.)
Best Actress: Faith DiMarco
Best Actor: Gregory Marks
Studio Choice: In the Pudding (Made into the feature film Macbeth the Musical Parody on BlueFlix.)
Take 8 Film Festival Forest
Watch the entire festival at BlueFlix.
Best Film: The Niobe Strain (The feature film adaptation is due in 2021.)
Best Actress: Angela DiMarco
Best Actor: Nathaniel Devish
Studio Choice: Caught on Film (The web series adaptation of the film is available here to watch for free.)
Take 8 Film Festival White Room
Watch the entire festival at BlueFlix.
Best Film: Talking to Angels (The animation/live-action hybrid of this film is due in 2021.)
Best Actress: Stacey Venzel, Angela Faro
Best Actor: Ed Stone
Studio Choice: Eat (Combined with Park Dead by Rogue Raven Productions to create a feature film due in 2021.)
Take 8 Film Festival Catacombs
Best Trailer: Park Dead (Combined with Eat by Rogue Raven Productions to create a feature film due in 2021.)
Blackwood Film Anthology
Watch the entire anthology at BlueFlix.
Best Film: For the Birds
Best Actor: Bill Read
Best Actress: Faith DiMarco
All participating filmmakers share in the revenue earned from the sale and rental of the dvd and digital edition.
Saint August Chapel Film Anthology
Watch the entire anthology at BlueFlix.
No awards were granted for this event. All participating filmmakers share in the revenue earned from the sale and rental of the dvd and digital edition.
Wonderland Film Anthology
Watch the entire anthology at BlueFlix.
Best Film: Promise of Paradise
Best Actor: Erik Rainey
Best Actress: Lisa Rempel
All participating filmmakers share in the revenue earned from the sale and rental of the dvd and digital edition.
Spark Forge Film Festival
Best of Show: Tradewind (Adapted into the short film Trade, winner of the Best Shorts Competition for Disability Awareness and available now at BlueFlix.)
Forge Flashpoint Film Festival
Though established filmmakers were welcome, this series of five festivals primarily worked with emerging filmmakers and included a hands-on workshop on writing and production.
Best Film: Gender Studies 101
Best Actress: Faith DiMarco
Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 2
Best Film: Tears, Home is Where His Heart Is, Within the Study (a three-way tie)
Best Actor: Maxwell DiMarco
Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 3
Best Film: Buyer's Remorse
Best Actress: Stacey Venzel
Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 4
Best Film: Sands of Time
Best Actress: Brianne DiMarco
Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 5
Best Film: Nothing Less
Best Actress: Amber Rainey
Best Actor: Maxwell DiMarco