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The Brightside Film Festival

Jersey City, NJ, United States, North America

06 - 07 Mar, 2021

Category

Short

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The Brightside Film Festival

Jersey City, NJ, United States, North America

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General Information

edition

7th

Contact details

141 Bright St Jersey City, NJ 07302 United States

07302

cullenfilmsllc@gmail.com

732-299-5945

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About the festival

We have been doing film series events at the Brightside Tavern and decided to turn it into a festival. Filmmakers Chris J. Cullen and Chris Capaci have come together to create this 13th season event, which now runs twice a year. We will be celebrating the short film in many different categories on two screens with a fun award show at the end of the night. We wanted to make a small shorts fest in Jersey City at a great venue where people can meet up, screen their films and celebrate their work as well as making it affordable. We are known as a big networking event where many people meet up and end up working together as they return the next year with a new film and new friends. We now have a much bigger event with more days. We are in Jersey City and would love to have a number of NJ and NY filmmakers to join us for this special day as well as filmmakers from all over the world We made the fees affordable for everyone and we have a great venue for the short films. This season we are celebrating the student filmmaker with special screenings and awards the day before as well as having some new things planned as we grow.

We will have awards for different short film categories as well as other surprises.
Best Short Film
Best Comedy Short
Best Horror/Thriller
Best actress in a short drama
Best actor drama
Best actress in comedy short
Best actor in a comedy
Best Director
Best NJ Short film
Best Student Film
Best short script-not produced
Best Cinematography
and more additional awards for student film night

About

We have been doing film series events at the Brightside Tavern and decided to turn it into a festival. Filmmakers Chris J. Cullen and Chris Capaci have come together to create this 13th season event, which now runs twice a year. We will be celebrating the short film in many different categories on two screens with a fun award show at the end of the night. We wanted to make a small shorts fest in Jersey City at a great venue where people can meet up, screen their films and celebrate their work as well as making it affordable. We are known as a big networking event where many people meet up and end up working together as they return the next year with a new film and new friends. We now have a much bigger event with more days. We are in Jersey City and would love to have a number of NJ and NY filmmakers to join us for this special day as well as filmmakers from all over the world We made the fees affordable for everyone and we have a great venue for the short films. This season we are celebrating the student filmmaker with special screenings and awards the day before as well as having some new things planned as we grow.

We will have awards for different short film categories as well as other surprises.
Best Short Film
Best Comedy Short
Best Horror/Thriller
Best actress in a short drama
Best actor drama
Best actress in comedy short
Best actor in a comedy
Best Director
Best NJ Short film
Best Student Film
Best short script-not produced
Best Cinematography
and more additional awards for student film night

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

The entry fee is different in each category. Submissions that are in other languages should have subtitles or dubbed in English. We prefer online submissions but if you need to mail it to us send us an email first.
For filmmakers since it is a small venue with limited seating we will give two free passes to your films block.
No refunds on submission fees once completely submitted and in the judging process.

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Categories and fees

Medium Shorts
Entry fees
Early Bird (16th August, 2020) $25
Regular (31st December, 2020) $40
Late (31st January, 2021) $45
Description

Any short film from 6 minutes to 18 minutes

Long Shorts
Entry fees
Early Bird (16th August, 2020) $30
Regular (31st December, 2020) $45
Late (31st January, 2021) $50
Description

Short films with the length of 19-45 minutes

NJ Short Films
Entry fees
Early Bird (16th August, 2020) $20
Regular (31st December, 2020) $40
Late (31st January, 2021) $45
Description

from 1 minute to 30 minutes

Short Scripts
Entry fees
Early Bird (16th August, 2020) $25
Regular (31st December, 2020) $40
Late (31st January, 2021) $45
Description

from 1 page to 30 pages in length

student films-(college)
Entry fees
Early Bird (16th August, 2020) $20
Regular (31st December, 2020) $35
Late (31st January, 2021) $40
Description

Please list if your film is high school or college!!! Numerous students submit their films and we are unable to see if it is a high school submission or a college one. Make sure you let us know when you submit your films, Thank you

Short Shorts
Entry fees
Early Bird (16th August, 2020) $20
Regular (31st December, 2020) $35
Late (31st January, 2021) $40
Description

Any short film shorter than 5 minutes.

Student Films (High School)
Entry fees
Early Bird (16th August, 2020) $10
Regular (31st December, 2020) $30
Late (31st January, 2021) $40
Description

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