11th Annual Garden State Film Festival (GSFF), April 4 to 7, 2013

The Garden State Film Festival was founded to promote the art of film making on all levels by showcasing a wide variety of film, video and animated works, as well as to provide educational programs in the creative arts to the public by industry leaders. Our goal is to present films of the highest quality in both production value and content.

The Garden State Film Festival's professional jury will select winning films in the following categories: Feature, Documentary in both short and feature length, Animation in both short and feature length, Short film, Music Video,Commercial, and PSA and trailers. There are separate awards for student films in all of the above categories (please state on notes which kind of student you are if it applies - Graduate, College, High School or younger) as well as the "Home Grown Awards" for films in all categories where 75% of principle photography is shot in the State of New Jersey. Submit online

Film Entries

We have started accepting film entries for our next festival.

Deadline is December 1st

Announcing the GSFF Movie Music Competition

This is the first competition of this kind in Film Festival History. Submit any original movie music from an independent film and it will be judged by music professionals with awards in multiple categories.

Screenplay Competition

We have started accepting screenplay entries for our next festival.