About

Brilliant Indie Film Awards (BIFA) is an international multi-genre Film Festival aiming to promote independent film to the filmmaking community, producers and distribution companies via seasonal online screenings and social media. We don't represent a particular city or state - we want to provide an equal opportunity and experience regardless of the location of participants.

categories

BIFA accepts submissions in the following groups of categories:
FILM
SCREENPLAY
MUSIC VIDEO
PHOTOGRAPHY
All subcategories are listed at our website here


PRIZES & awards

CERTIFICATES
Every winner will be presented an individual electronic certificate with the name of the author and the project. Certificates will be sent directly per e-mail shortly after the announcement of winners.

LAURELS
All selected projects, quarter-finalists, semi-finalist, finalists and of course winners will receive a laurel ready to be posted on social media or to be added to the poster of your project.

PROMOTION
We will use our social media, website and FilmFreeway site to promote the best filmmakers and their art to the filmmaking community. We will also gladly interview you and give you public space at our website. More information regarding the interview can be found here.

screening

We want others to see the most brilliant projects. Therefore we will screen segments of the best five seasonal projects and the end of every season online. To view more information about the online screening click here.

What can you expect from us?

  • Staff with experience in managing film festivals
  • Active communication: maximum response time is 24 hours
  • Certificates designed in cooperation with a professional graphic designer
  • Promotion of your art: we will use our social media and website to get you and your project noticed