Shorties Submissions
Shorties Winner 2016 ‘Call Me Peg Leg’ Dir. Mattr Media on the big screen at London Surf / Film Festival
ENTRIES TO THE SHORTIES SHORT FILM CONTEST 2025 ARE NOW OPEN.
The Shorties is a key part of the festival and open exclusively to surf filmmakers from or based in Britain and Ireland. It’s a platform for established and emerging home grown talent to flex their creative muscles and an opportunity for the best to be selected for screening as part of the festival programme.
The competition is not constricted by genre; surfing and surf culture are wide open to creative interpretation and we welcome submissions that explore all aspects and angles of surfing through documentary to animation and anything in between.
To be considered for selection, the short films must have a running time of no more than five minutes and have been created after March 2022 by film-makers from or based in Britain and Ireland.
If you’re looking for ideas and inspiration, you can check out past winners HERE. We also have some great interviews with filmmakers about the art of filmmaking that you can check out in our RESOURCES.
Here is a simple five step guide to entering The Shorties
1) Shoot your 1 – 5 minute film on any format camera exploring any aspect or angle of surfing/ surf culture, but remember the resulting short must be available as a hi-res digital file for upload.
2) Official LS/FF Shortie stings must be added to the front of the film. They are available by emailing us HERE.
When emailing please include the four images, screen grabs or stills from your film for publicity purposes. Images to be jpegs of 1920 x 1080 – 3 to be supplied as portrait and 1 to be supplied as landscape. Please also send a link to download your trailer or a 15 second extract too.
3) Read the guidelines plus terms and conditions of the Shorties Contest HERE
(NB The Shorties is open exclusively to filmmakers from or based in UK or Ireland.
If you’re from somewhere else and have a short film you’d like to submit, please check out international submissions)
4) Upload your film to your Vimeo/ Youtube channel and then fill in the Submission form HERE.
5) We will contact you to confirm your acceptance into the Shorties Competition.
Good luck!
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
The final entry deadline for all shorts is **30th September 2025**. Entries will be viewed by the London Surf / Film Festival and key members of the screening panel who will decide on the shortlisted films to be screened at LS/FF.
LS/FF 2022 Shortie of the Year Seth Hughes & Izzy Henshall Credit Adj Brown x LS:FF
Amble Dir. Seth Hughes LS/FF 2022 The Shorties Winner
Gabbi Zagni Winner Shorties Emerging Talent 2017
Shock and awe at London Surf / Film Festival Image: Adj Brown x LS/FF
Mesmerised, delighted and entertained at LS/FF 2017