San Diego, CA - The 2017 San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival (SDIKFF) will take place from August 25^th to 27^thatthe Schulman Auditorium in Carlsbad, California. On behalf of the SDIKFF committee, we cordially invite you to submit your film/TV/Screenplay to the 2017 San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival.

Aiming to promote positive educational impact on children and the youth, the San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival actively supports innovativefilms made by filmmakers from around the globe. The festivaloffers an excellent multicultural platform to engage aspiring filmmakers, kids, and educators alike: screening quality films, television episodes, and screenplay showcaseplay in short and feature length, as well as works in documentaries, animations, educational visual arts, and mixed media.

In addition to the film screenings, as the regular program, the 2017 SDIKFF will host Opening Night Gala, Culture Forums, Industrial Panel Discussions, Screenplay showcase, Red Carpet Award Ceremony;  Family Film Market, cultural fashion competition and live broadcasting the award ceremony in to the three day festival.  This year, at the opening day, SDIKFF will host “ Golf with the stars” tournament with “Links at Summerly” gulf club. These events will help facilitate interactions between filmmakers and the local kids. Youth and adultcritiques will give comments to the selected films after screenings, and volunteer interpreters will assist with non-English speaking filmmakersduring the events. The Cultural Forum events will focus on topics such as film production in different culture contexts and countries. An outstanding committee of industry personnel is serving on the film juries. And film distributors will be present at the festival to secure wanted material.

Please download the submission form through our official website http://sdkidsfilms.org.The deadline for film submissions to the 2017 San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival is July 1, 2017.  Filmmakers can submit films early and often. The complete film festival guidelines, rules, application information and the film submission form can be found at http://sdkidsfilms.org/Submission.html .

Also, filmmakers are welcome to submit films to our preferred online submission platforms. Here are out three online submission platforms:

   Withoutabox: http://www.withoutabox.com/login/14617       

   Festhome: https://festhome.com/f/168

   Film Freeway: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/SDIKFF

   ClickForFestivals: http://www.clickforfestivals.com/san-diego-international-kids-film-festival

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call 310-541-8040 or e-mail info@sdkidsfilms.org