Seeing your work on the big screen is a way to share your personal vision with a live audience. It’s a door that opens into the professional world of filmmaking. And it’s an opportunity to network with emerging and veteran filmmakers.

You take the Laurels that film festivals like ours give to accepted films and place them on your poster, personal website, and IMDB page. It means that your work is held in esteem by our panel of established, professional filmmakers. It becomes a part of your professional portfolios and presentations to representatives and executives in the film and streaming world.

The Lowell Film Festival is first about the art, the craft, of filmmaking, with business included as an important, though supporting, role.

The Lowell Film Festival caters to those with an appetite for the future of filmmaking.

Our short film student film festival is about cinema education. The Lowell Film Festival educates:

• Tomorrow’s filmmakers
• Today’s cinema aficionados

The Lowell Film Festival is more than an event; it’s a student cinema community for filmmakers allowing them to explore peer work, attend workshops, and engage at peer/mentor networking events.

As a community, the Lowell Film Festival offers ongoing support to high school and college filmmakers as we share progress, support, and mentorship.

The Lowell Film Festival is a cinema forum fueling movie-making learning, launching, and linking among tomorrow’s cinema leaders.

You, as a student film maker, will be among equals and those capable of supporting your short film and cinema vision. The Lowell Film Festival seeks to teach via an immersive cinema and filmmaking experience exclusively for, with, and about the filmmakers of tomorrow. 

With a focus on short films crafted by students, the Lowell Film Festival offers a moviemaking and movie premiere experience joining audiences and tomorrow’s filmmakers as they discover new films and new ideas together.

The Lowell Film Festival is a launching pad for tomorrow’s filmmaker as we help student film makers gain:

• Media career establishment and success
• Film making prestige
• Cimema education
• Professional development
• Movie industry networking opportunities
• Friendship with likeminded cinema artists