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For Virginia and Mid-Atlantic college and Virginia high school filmmakers, you can submit to our Poe Film Festival Awards competitions for free! Simply upload your film and provide your contact information to us at submissions@poefilmfestival.com. Read more…

The Pro Film Awards event celebrates great storytelling in documentary form too. If you’ve produced a documentary film that is creative, unique and evocative, we are looking for you. Edgar Allan Poe’s “Theory of Composition” Read more…

The Poe Film Festival is honored to announce the films selected for our Professional Filmmaker screenings at the historic Grace Street Theater, 934 W. Grace Street, Richmond, VA (on the VCU campus), on Sunday afternoon, Read more…

In concert with our sponsor, the Virginia High School League, the Poe Film Festival is proud to announce its exciting new event for Virginia’s young filmmakers. The 2018 High School Showcase, a film screening show Read more…

This year’s College Film Awards event offers an incredible value for our College filmmakers. First, their film submissions are FREE through this website!  (Do not use Withoutabox or Film Freeway.) Second, careers may be ignited Read more…

We’re pleased to announce that the prestigious Virginia Screenwriters Forum, a state-wide organization of the top award-winning Virginia screenwriters, has teamed with the Poe Film Festival to honor our top 2018 college screenwriter with a Read more…

Kudos to Tom and Sharon of the Virginia High School League for their outstanding production in Charlottesville last week of the VHSL Film Festival. We enjoyed every minute. Thirty-two official selection films from 34 participating Read more…

American University Art Institute of Washington Catholic University of America Christopher Newport University College of William & Mary George Mason University George Washington University Georgetown University Hampton University Hollins University Howard University John Tyler Community Read more…