YOUNG FILMMAKERS COMPETITION Screening

CCFF March 6-15 2026
Ten days of award-winning feature films, documentaries, shorts, silent films and events for the community, all for free. Popcorn too.

The YOUNG FILMMAKERS COMPETITION (YFC) is free and open to anyone age 18 and under from the United States. We use the platform Film Freeway to solicit short films. They are judged on creativity, originality and artistic/technical mastery. Awards will be presented to the top 3 films, a Michigan prize and the Audience Favorite on March 13 at a Hollywood red carpet style screening and ceremony at the GhostLight Theater immediately following the 6:00 pm screening. Attend a YFC screening on March 11 or March 12 to cast your vote for the Audience Favorite. The YFC is juried by Doreen Bartoni, Dean Emeritus, School of Media Arts at Columbia College Chicago. This screening includes 19 short films.

You may also like the following events from CCFF:

• Next month, 8th March, 02:00 pm, The Pincher's High Voltage Heist Film Screening in Sawyer
• Next month, 9th March, 04:00 pm, ELIO FILM SCREENING in Benton Harbor
• Next month, 10th March, 04:00 pm, ALL MONSTERS ATTACK Film Screening in Benton Harbor

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