Creative Guts Film Festival

For the third year, Creative Guts presents the Creative Guts Short Film Festival. Independent filmmakers from New Hampshire and beyond are invited to submit their short films to our short film festival, starting on Friday, May 1st.

The festival will be hosted at Red River Theatres in Concord, New Hampshire, on the evening of Thursday, July 30th. We welcome film submissions from any genre that are 15 minutes or shorter. Submissions to this festival are $15. As a nonprofit organization, Creative Guts relies on these modest fees to cover production costs and sustain opportunities like this for our creative community. If this fee is a barrier, please email hello@creativegutspodcast.com to request a submission waiver.

The spirit of this festival is to celebrate the creativity, voice, and collaboration of filmmakers. We encourage submissions from creatives of all backgrounds and at any stage in their filmmaking journey to apply. Show us your creative guts!

A jurying process will be conducted to approve selected films. Youth may submit works to the festival with a release by a parent or guardian. We strive to make our film festival as accessible as possible, and require an open caption file.

Tickets to the festival will be available for purchase through Red River Theatres website starting in June. Filmmakers of selected films will receive one free ticket to the festival.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 14, 2026

Submit at https://filmfreeway.com/CreativeGutsShortFilmFestival.