Submit your entries

The Southern California Drone Film Festival recognizes and honors the  skill and creativity from amazing aerial visual storytellers.

Submissions are on Film Freeway:

Categories include: 

• News/Documentary  
•  Landscape/Nature  
•  Architecture    
•  Sports  
•  Film Editing  
•  Single Take  
•  Cinematic FPV  
•  Freestyle FPV  
•  Show Reel  
•  Southern California Spirit  
•  360° Video/VR  
•  Drone Photo  
•  Student Video  
•  Student Photo 

All filmmakers must be 18 years or older in order to enter. 

All submissions must be no more than 5 minutes in length and include at least 50% drone footage. 

News/Documentary entries can be up to 10 minutes in length.  

Show reel entries should be no more than 3 minutes in length. 

By entering, you authorize that your work is cleared for festival  exhibition and accept full legal responsibility for the intellectual  property therein. 

Entry into the festival constitutes permission to  exhibit your work at the festival and on the festival’s website and  social media. The Southern California Drone Film Festival reserves the  right to use excerpts of any submitted film for promotional purposes  only, including but not limited to broadcast on TV or the Internet.

The person submitting the entry acknowledges that he or she has  obtained consent and from any and all owners, creators, writers, actors,  producers and/or other authorized representatives of the film whose  consent is required to submit the content to the festival.

It is the sole responsibility of the person submitting to secure  authorization and permission from the copyright owner(s) of any and all  copyrighted content or materials included within the submitted Film. It  is the sole responsibility of the person submitting to secure  authorization and permission from the owner(s) of any and all  trademarked content and materials included within the submitted film. 

All those who enter will receive an email from FilmFreeway notifying  them of their judging status. Finalists will be posted on the festival  website and shared on SoCal Drone Film Festival's social media.  Finalists will need to provide exhibition format digital files and  additional information.