The first ever Loch Ness Film Festival debuted September 2010 at various venues. We screened everything from shorts, features, documentaries to established previously released films at the box office. The range of films we screen are diverse and can come from every corner of the globe to just somebody around the corner from where we live and to somebody with no budget to someone with high budgets and funding.

Loch Ness Film Festival is not a competitive film festival with awards and competitions, everyone who makes a film and wants to screen their film is a winner in our eyes. The festival is basically a non-profit film festival that covers it's costs through local sponsorship, submission fees and ticket sales.

We do not provide free or discounted accommodation or travel to selected filmmakers but we do offer a free pass to the filmmaker and a friend of their choice for attending the Block their film is being screened in and hope they enjoy the festival, the crack, the highlands and overall enjoy their visit to Loch Ness and the Highlands.

We do not look down at any particular film being submitted for selection. We value the strength of idea, imagination and story telling over the notion of budgets and techincal experience and to be as entertaining as possible. We are very open minded to censorship but we do not want anything submitted which is to graphic in terms of violence. We do not have the resources to screen every film we wish but we will give it our best shot over the weekend of the event.

Once you have submitted your film and paid the submission fee, we will notify you by email of conformation and receipt and watch your film and consider it for the final selection which will be published on April the 27th 2012 on this website timetable page with all selected filmmakers emailed.