Got a Film? Submit by our Friday Deadline!

Our team is already reviewing film submissions and yours could be next.

We’d love to see your work on the big screen at CFF ’26! Don’t miss your chance to submit your film before regular submissions close this week.

In this Newsletter:

• 🎥 Film Submission Open Call Deadline: Friday, March 27

• 🌱 Opportunities & Events

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🎥 Open Call Regular Deadline: March 27

This week is your last chance to submit a film to CFF ’26 by our regular deadline! While we’re accepting submissions through May 15, submit by this Friday, March 27 to avoid additional fees. Our team is already hard at work reviewing films, and we’re excited to watch yours! Submit today on FilmFreeway.

• 🍿 March 27: Regular Deadline

• 🎥 May 15: Extended Deadline (an additional $15 will apply to all submission fees)

For more info on the festival, our submission categories, and more, check out FilmFreeway and our Open Call FAQ.

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🌱 Opportunities & Events

• 3/27-3/28: Environmental Film Festival at Yale

• 4/2: Creative Capital for Artists, 2027 Creative Capital Open Call for the Creative Capital Award + State of the Art Prize

• 4/6: Changing Climate Changing Lives Film Festival, Film Grants

• 4/7: New York Foundation for the Arts Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants

• 4/13: Berkeley Film Foundation, 2026 Documentary Grant Program

• 4/14: Woodman Family Foundation, Housing Stability Grant for Artists

• 4/15: Science New Wave Fund III

• 4/18: Co-Creation Studio and Agog: The Immersive Media Institute, 2026 WORLDING INCUBATOR on Climate Futures

• 4/25: Hahapocalypse: A Comedy Show to Support Climate Activists Under Attack

• 4/29: Chicken & Egg Films, 2027 (Egg)celerator Lab

• 5/20: Center for Craft, Craft Archive Fellowship

• Ongoing: Northeast Historic Film, the Chicago Film Archives, & the Lesbian Home Movie Project, The Woman Behind the Camera

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