Witney Film Festival is now open for submissions! Entering it’s third year, the festival opens with it’s traditional collaboration of short films and 2011 brings the exciting introduction of a feature length film screening in a more alternative venue.

The first Witney Film Festival was inspired by a request to screen a single graduate film at
the local cinema. This idea quickly evolved into an exhibition to promote independent film,
projecting the creativity of directors, screen writers, cinematographers and editors from
Oxfordshire and around the world. Last year ‘Seclusionville’, a thriller by local film maker
Richard J. Moir was screened alongside a Romanian animation, a documentary by Witney’s
young carers, a mockumentary set in Oxford and the evening was closed by ‘Atroz (Awful)’,
the dry-humoured, Spanish teddy bear. Organised by Daniel Newton and Jenny Learney with
great support from volunteers and local businesses including Screen Witney, the Hollybush and Abingdon and Witney College.

The call for films commences this month, the festival is seeking 12 short films (under 15
minutes) of all genres to be screened at the Corn Exchange and one feature length to be
showcased in our new venue, St Mary’s Church. Each venue has a 200 capacity and 2010 was
a sell out. We are very excited to encompass both a feature film and a new venue, particularly
a venue as architecturally striking and atmospheric as St. Mary’s in the heart of the town. The
festival takes place in October and the submission deadline is the 1st September, for more
details please email: witneyfilmfestival@gmail.com.

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