Go to...

• Filmmakers Area

Festivals Area

Industry Area

Festhome TV

Susquehanna Film Festival (1)

Susquehanna Film Festival

Deadlines

21 Feb 2025
Call for entries

30 Apr 2025
Early deadline

30 May 2025
Standard deadline

11 Aug 2025
Late deadline

11 Aug 2025
Final deadline

5
days

12 Aug 2025
Notification date

20 Sep 2025
22 Sep 2025

Address

P.O. BOX 6245, 90212, Beverly Hills, California, United States

Festival description

Short film festival >25'

Festival requirements

Film festival

Fiction

Documentary

Animation

Fantastic

Terror

Experimental

Music Video

Other

Any Genre

Any Theme

Has submission fees

International Festival

Physical Location

Production date: Any

Production countries: Any

Shooting countries: Any

Director nationalities: Any

Debut Films

School projects

Short Films >25'

AI Tools

Any language

Share on Social Networks

Facebook
Tweet

English

Festival description (Edition: 1)

Festival start: 20 September 2025 Festival end: 22 September 2025

The Susquehanna Film Festival is the 1st festival of its kind to be held in historic Williamsport, Pennsylvania by founder Tim Yasui, an LA-based independent film producer and film distributor who was originally born and raised in Williamsport. Our Festival will celebrate and acknowledge not only international films, but also regionally-produced feature films and short films from the Greater Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic states. We will encourage all film makers and young students also who are studying Film to submit their films which otherwise might be ignored by the national festivals.

Prizes and qualifications

Screening Fee Shorts: 15$
Screening Fee Features: 20$

We will have talented and independent judges who will help us determine the awards given to best Student Films, best Pennsylvania made films, best Documentary films, best short-films, best drama, best horror, best comedy, best animation. An Awards event will be held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania where we will announce the winners and present them with their awards on the Monday evening following the Saturday and Sunday Festival screenings.

Information for Film Makers

Rules

Each film submission must be for a film that has not yet been commercially exploited on any digital platforms nor on physical media (i.e. DVD, Blu Ray disc etc). We will not accept any films with pornographic content or extreme political views condoning violence of any kind. Each submission must come with a guarantee that the person submitting has 100% rights to the content and approves this clearance for Festival screenings/Public screenings. If selected, the submitter must make available either a DCP file or a Blu Ray disc for screening playback, a high rez JPEG poster file and additional marketing information for inclusion in the Festival Program guide.

Best Animated Film

Short and Feature Films 70'<

Fee

-8%

PRO 23%

Early 15$ 13.8$ 11.55$ 30 Apr 25

Standard 25$ 23$ 19.25$ 30 May 25

Late 30$ 27.6$ 23.1$ 11 Aug 25

Get an Annual Pass and get the maximum discount on festival and submission fees

Submissions deadline
11 Aug 25

Save up
6.9$

Submit

This category is for Animation (Animated films) genre only. We suggest a minimum running time of at least 70 minutes or more.

Best Action Film

Feature Films >75'

Fee

-8%

PRO 23%

Early 15$ 13.8$ 11.55$ 30 Apr 25

Standard 25$ 23$ 19.25$ 30 May 25

Late 30$ 27.6$ 23.1$ 11 Aug 25

Get an Annual Pass and get the maximum discount on festival and submission fees

Submissions deadline
11 Aug 25

Save up
6.9$

Submit

This category is for the Action/Thriller (narrative) feature film genre. We suggest a minimum running time of at least 75 minutes or more

Best Comedy Film

Feature Films >75'

Fee

-8%

PRO 23%

Early 15$ 13.8$ 11.55$ 30 Apr 25

Standard 25$ 23$ 19.25$ 30 May 25

Late 30$ 27.6$ 23.1$ 11 Aug 25

Get an Annual Pass and get the maximum discount on festival and submission fees

Submissions deadline
11 Aug 25

Save up
6.9$

Submit

This category is for the comedy (narrative) feature film genre> We recommend a minimum running time of at least 75 minutes or more.

Best Horror Film

Short and Feature Films 75'<

Fee

-8%

PRO 23%

Early 15$ 13.8$ 11.55$ 30 Apr 25

Standard 25$ 23$ 19.25$ 30 May 25

Late 30$ 27.6$ 23.1$ 11 Aug 25

Get an Annual Pass and get the maximum discount on festival and submission fees

Submissions deadline
11 Aug 25

Save up
6.9$

Submit

This category is for the horror (narrative) feature film genre. We suggest a minimum running time of at least 75 minutes or more.

Best Drama Film

Feature Films >75'

Fee

-8%

PRO 23%

Early 15$ 13.8$ 11.55$ 30 Apr 25

Standard 25$ 23$ 19.25$ 30 May 25

Late 30$ 27.6$ 23.1$ 11 Aug 25

Get an Annual Pass and get the maximum discount on festival and submission fees

Submissions deadline
11 Aug 25

Save up
6.9$

Submit

This category is for dramatic (narrative) Feature films. We suggest a minimum running time of at least 75 minutes or more.

Best Documentary Film

Feature Films >75'

Fee

-8%

PRO 23%

Early 15$ 13.8$ 11.55$ 30 Apr 25

Standard 25$ 23$ 19.25$ 30 May 25

Late 30$ 27.6$ 23.1$ 11 Aug 25

Get an Annual Pass and get the maximum discount on festival and submission fees

Submissions deadline
11 Aug 25

Save up
6.9$

Submit

This category is for full-length Documentary films (we suggest minimum of 75 minutes or more)

Best Short Film

Short Films 30'<

Fee

-8%

PRO 23%

Early 15$ 13.8$ 11.55$ 30 Apr 25

Standard 25$ 23$ 19.25$ 30 May 25

Late 30$ 27.6$ 23.1$ 11 Aug 25

Get an Annual Pass and get the maximum discount on festival and submission fees

Submissions deadline
11 Aug 25

Save up
6.9$

Submit

This category is for short films that are thirty (30) minutes or less in all genres.

Best Pennsylvania Made Film

Feature Films >75'

Fee

-8%

PRO 23%

Early 15$ 13.8$ 11.55$ 30 Apr 25

Standard 25$ 23$ 19.25$ 30 May 25

Late 30$ 27.6$ 23.1$ 11 Aug 25

Get an Annual Pass and get the maximum discount on festival and submission fees

Submissions deadline
11 Aug 25

Save up
6.9$

Submit

This category is exclusively for Student Films, Short Films, Feature length films (Documentary, Drama, Horror, Comedy, Animated Films) shot entirely within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania using local production crew. On screen talent (actors and actresses) need not be from Pennsylvania. We suggest a minimum running time of 75 minutes or more.

Best Student Film

Short and Feature Films

Fee

-8%

PRO 23%

Early 10$ 9.2$ 7.7$ 30 Apr 25

Standard 20$ 18.4$ 15.4$ 30 May 25

Late 25$ 23$ 19.25$ 11 Aug 25

Get an Annual Pass and get the maximum discount on festival and submission fees

Submissions deadline
11 Aug 25

Save up
5.75$

Submit

Submissions limited to full-time High School, College undergraduates and Graduate School Film students

Festhome holds accountable fees festivals by holding the payment of the fees of most newer festivals until they have viewed the submissions, held their festivals and other methods.

Discover great films & festivals, one click away