An annual film festival hosted at the University of Pikeville by the school's Film & Media Arts program.
The goal of the UPIKE Film & Media Arts Festival is to promote the art of filmmaking on both the UPIKE campus in Pikeville, KY and in the surrounding tri-state area of KY, VA, and WV.
Hit the "Sign Up" button on the page to submit your film via Film Freeway to our festival.
IMPORTANT: We are mainly interested in submissions that were at least partially shot in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia or created by individuals from or currently living in those states though we are accepting films from across the United States.
These entries can come from professionals, college students, high school students, and middle school students, and we are accepting works of all lengths (shorts and features) and types (documentary, animation, music video, and traditional narrative). For more information on rules and regulations check that section out further down the page.
We plan to hold a variety of events over the course of the 2 day festival (Friday April 8 and Saturday April 9, 2016), but the primary event will be competitive screenings of films in the University's Brown Auditorium. We encourage the filmmakers whose works are selected to screen also bring their friends and family to support them by voting in our audience choice award competition that will take place during each screening block.
We prefer to accept submissions to our festival through this page using the Film Freeway platform. It's very easy to create a film freeway account, upload a digital copy of your film to YouTube (as an unlisted video) or to Vimeo as a password protected video, and then put that information into your account here on film freeway. Once you've submitted your film to our festival it's easy to use the site to find and submit to additional festivals so we encourage you to take advantage of those opportunities as well.
If you have any additional questions please email us at [email protected]
The goal of the UPIKE Film & Media Arts Festival is to promote the art of filmmaking on both the UPIKE campus in Pikeville, KY and in the surrounding tri-state area of KY, VA, and WV.
