It’s been a busy week, we are fast approaching our festival notification date. Having experienced both sides as a filmmaker and a festival programmer – rejections are definitely one of the least enjoyable aspects of the whole festival experience. I feel especially for filmmakers! You pour love, time, effort, energy and money into getting the … More How to handle festival rejection
We are still in lock-down so decided to revisit this page and update it with a few of the new entries which have since appeared online. 2019 was our first ever festival, it will always hold a special place in hearts! For the benefit of those who were unable to attend the festival back in … More Watch Films From OXISFF 2019 (update)
Hello everyone! We hope you are all well and that your 2021 is getting off to a good start! We appreciate everyone is living life online right now so we have tried not to bombard everyone with lots of updates or newsletters, keeping in mind how saturated we all are with emails and online meetings. … More Festival updates
And we’re done (for now)! OXISFF 2020 was completely different to how we were planning to run, we tried to make the most out of a difficult situation. Before I launch into who won what, I would like to say a few thank-you’s. Firstly a “MASSIVE” thank you to the team and also all of … More OXISFF Awards 2020
Phew! So here we are in our final week, “week eleven”. It’s been an unbelievable ride, but like all good things… The tone of last week’s Thrillers/Crime Doesn’t Pay block was starting to lighten up by the end of the block, just in time for some comedy and kooky films! Next stop – The Awards! … More Comedy and Kooky
It’s been a wild journey so far, and that continues this week! Following on from last week’s emotional block, we have a wild roller-coaster of tension heading your way. The last four films are slightly lighter in tone and prove that Crime Doesn’t Pay! You can watch our teaser for this block below (which is … More Thrillers/Crime Doesn’t Pay
This week is best described as ‘emotional’ and one of our favourites. We appreciate this might not be the easiest block to watch, but for those of you willing to let your guard down – you will be rewarded with some absolutely beautiful films. Grab the tissues… Buy tickets to watch these films at The … More Loss
Following on from our two shortest blocks (Microshorts and Children’s Films), we now and go the other way and return with the longest block of the festival. We hope you don’t mind reading subtitles, we wouldn’t want you to miss out on any of these amazing entries! … More International Drama
Our original intention was to hold a free Children’s Festival the day after our main festival in March. Sadly we were unable to run, but to make up for this fact – we now plan to showcase this particular block of films online – for free! All you need to do is sign-up and get … More Childrens Films
Welcome to week 6, our Microshorts blocks which are a collection of 20 short films mostly under five minutes which are often experimental, musical or animated. The block runs for approximately 1 hour 45 minutes. See our trailer below: If you haven’t already get your online festival tickets here! Where Were You? (UK, dir. Dan … More Microshorts
