The world’s first moving images were shot in Leeds in 1888 by Louis le Prince. Today Leeds is a major centre for film production and exhibition. A qualifying event for the BAFTAs and the Oscars, Leeds International Film Festival is a national celebration of global filmmaking culture. LIFF primarily supports outstanding new talent and established talent that has not received deserved exposure in the UK. LIFF considers narrative, documentary and animated films, in feature-length and short f...

The Early Bird Deadline for the 30th Leeds International Film Festival is April 1st The Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) is accepting submissions for its 30th anniversary edition. LIFF is the largest film festival in England outside London. In 2015 the festival welcomed over 45,000 visitors and showed over 300 films from around the world. You can SUBMIT to the festival through Withoutabox or FilmFreeway LIFF is a qualifying film festival for the Oscars&re...

Final Submission Deadline is September 11th for Leeds International Film Festival This is your final chance to submit your features and shorts to Leeds International Film Festival 2015. Submissions are open until September 11th 2015. You can SUBMIT to the festival through Withoutabox or FilmFreeway. There are £5000 cash prizes available across our short film competitions and LIFF is also a qualifying film festival for the Academy Awards and&n...

The Early Bird Deadline to submit features and shorts to Leeds International Film Festival is May 1st You can SUBMIT to the festival through Withoutabox or FilmFreeway There are £4,500 cash prizes available across our short film competitions. LIFF is also a qualifying film festival for the Academy Awards and BAFTA. The winning films in the Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition and World Animation Award are eligible for the Academy’s Short Film Awards....

One week left to submit to Leeds International Film Festival The final deadline for short films submissions to the Leeds International Film Festival is on the 19th September. LIFF is a BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festival for short films. There is £6000 worth of prize money across our seven competitions- International, Animation, British, Yorkshire, Dance, Fantasy and Horror.  More info can be found here http://www.leedsfilm.com/submissions-2014/ LIFF supports new inno...

With £6000 in cash prizes and seven categories in its Short Film City programme, the 28th Leeds International Film Festival offers fantastic opportunities to short film makers who submit their films to the festival. Entries that are selected at LIFF28 qualify for both the Academy Awards® and BAFTAs. We are now considering films for both the Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition and the World Animation Award. The winning film in each competition will recei...