Festival Data:

• Established: 1998
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 1000
• Media Attendance: 10

• Competitive

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

Open to professional, first time, and student filmmakers with any budget for consideration for North America’s premiere truly indie festival whose mission is to exhibit, promote and reward the best national, and international talent in all genres from mainstream to controversial in a competitive casual atmosphere, that brings together emerging filmmakers, film enthusiasts, critics, distributors and indie film lovers.

Named one of the best film festival investments and one of the top 40 indie friendly businesses in the world, FirstGlance continues to cater to truly indie filmmakers from around the world, making FirstGlance, Philly’s Best and Biggest Indie Film Fest!!

In celebration of our new decade all official selections get a great thank you package from the festival and has opened to International and Foreign Entries with our new categories.

Open to all genres!!
Feature Length (over 60 min.)
Feature Documentary (over 45 min.)
Short Narrative (under 30 min.)
Shorts Too (under 10 min)
Mini-Docs (under 30 min.)
Student Shorts (under 20min.)
Graduate Student Shorts (under 20min)
Shot in Philly
Music Videos (under 5 min)
Animation (under 30 min)
Foreign Language shorts (under 30 min)
Foreign Language Shorts Too (under 10min)

FirstGlance will be awarding over 60,000 in cash and prizes in 2008!!

Film Submissions:

• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.firstglancefilms.com/ FGPA11application.pdf