Festival start: 21 May 2023
Festival end: 21 May 2023
Welcome to the Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival! In May 2022 we will be hosting LA's Premiere Comedy Event!
IMDb qualifying.
We have had our hand in producing comedy for over 15 years and this is not our first rodeo. In 2010 we began the Chicago Comedy Film Festival. After 9 years successfully running in Chicago we are expanding based on feedback that filmmakers want a strong comedy film festival in Los Angeles. As filmmakers and producers ourselves, we have produced short and feature films. We know how sacred it is to produce your own content and then ask a committee of people to review your work. We will be an inclusive, welcoming festival, and we promise to make your experience with us memorable. The Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival is a film festival for the comedy filmmaker. Let’s have a laugh!
Join our alumni like Colin Mochrie, Lauren Lapkus, Matthew Gray Gubler, Ego Nwodim, Mindy Sterling, Margret Cho, Steve Martin, Jane Lynch, Sarah Silverman, Natalia Dyer, Michael Cera, Keegan-Micheal Key, Christopher Titus, Janeane Garofalo, Fred Armisen, Richard Belzer, Jackie Mason, Bill Maher, Luke Perry, Gary Cole, Rowan Blanchard, Jack Quaid, Cheri Oteri, Kristen Johnson, Micheal Boatman, Nancy Travis, David Koechner, James Masters, Kaitlin Doubleday, Alexis Knapp, Rex Lee, Rosanna Arquette, Yumi Lambert, Fred Willard, Kevin Farley, Adrian Grenier, Patton Oswald, Mel Brooks, Lou Diamond Phillips, Doug Jones, Thomas Lennon, John Bradley, Sunita Mani and many others!
Best Feature
Best Short
Best Web Series
Top TV Project
Top Female Filmmaker
More To Be Added
Terms and Conditions:
Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival is hereby granted the right to utilize an excerpt from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the Festival for promotional purposes. Payment of submission fee does not guarantee inclusion in our festival. If your film is chosen as an official selection Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival does not compensate for travel, accommodations, or appearance fees unless otherwise offered. Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival reserves the right to schedule changes and may at any time revoke a film screening, festival passes, accommodations, and any other filmmaker agreements for any reason. Films with theatrical release prior to festival dates will not be accepted. ONLINE SCREENERS ONLY. Once the film is accepted to Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival, DIGITAL COPIES will be requested. The committee reserves the right to rescind any screening engagement if the film is not delivered on time. Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival holds your screeners in a secure fashion and takes the filmmakers rights very seriously. Please note that technical glitches will not be adjusted during the screening of your film.
Your screener must be in final format upon acceptance and filmmakers will not be allowed to have private technical meetings with the projectionist due to Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival contractual rules with the theater. The individual or corporation submitting the film hereby warrants that it is authorized to commit the film for screening, and understands and accepts these requirements and regulations. Upon acceptance, Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival may offer contract options to join the Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival Youtube network and/or work with Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival digital partners as Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival. The undersigned shall indemnify and hold harmless Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees, and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered. By submitting you consent rights to trailers, teasers and release copyright for promotion during and after festival in perpetuity.
If a film no longer intends to screen and does not notify the festival of this change prior to 5 business days from the date of acceptance, a $500 (US) fee will be charged back to the main point of contact provided in the submission form.
Feature Film
Short and Feature Films >31'
Fee-8%
Early50$46$
22 May 22
Standard55$50.6$
09 Jul 22
Late60$55.2$
06 Aug 22
Extended65$59.8$
07 Oct 22
Submissions deadline
07 Oct 22
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4.4$
Submit
Comedy features (not pilots) that are 31 minutes and longer. Entrants must be 18 and over. No student projects. MUST NOT HAVE A DISTRIBUTION RELEASE PRIOR TO FESTIVAL.
Short Film
Short Films 30'<
Fee-8%
Early50$46$
22 May 22
Standard60$55.2$
09 Jul 22
Late65$59.8$
06 Aug 22
Extended70$64.4$
07 Oct 22
Submissions deadline
07 Oct 22
Save up
4.8$
Submit
Comedy shorts 30 minutes or less. Students may submit in this category but you must provide the name, email, and phone number of your academic adviser. Entrants must be 18 and over.
Web Series
Short Films >5' 30'<
Fee-8%
Early60$55.2$
22 May 22
Standard65$59.8$
09 Jul 22
Late70$64.4$
06 Aug 22
Extended75$69$
07 Oct 22
Submissions deadline
07 Oct 22
Save up
5.2$
Submit
Please qualify for the specified run time. A web series, if accepted, will be allowed to screen up to 10 minutes of the series. Do not submit your whole series if it exceeds the run time of 30 minutes. Choose select episodes to include in your screener.
TV Pilots
Short Films >5' 55'<
Fee-8%
Early60$55.2$
22 May 22
Standard65$59.8$
09 Jul 22
Late70$64.4$
06 Aug 22
Extended75$69$
07 Oct 22
Submissions deadline
07 Oct 22
Save up
5.2$
Submit
5-55 minutes only. Television pilots for traditional TV and video platforms.
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