Fringe Flicks Season 5 Callout

For Season 5 of Fringe Flicks, we’re looking for short films that don’t quite behave: surreal comedies, strange dramas, experimental videos, animated nightmares, political satire, lo-fi inventions, polished provocations, micro-shorts, awkward little miracles and anything else that feels too weird, funny, furious or alive to sit comfortably in the mainstream.

Fringe Flicks is PVTV’s underground short film night in Liverpool, built for filmmakers and audiences who like cinema with edges: strange, anarchic, playful, unsettling, excessive, formally adventurous or impossible to categorise.

Selected films will screen across three Fringe Flicks events in 2027, with each programme curated as a live, communal cinema night rather than a generic festival block. We care less about industry polish than voice, imagination, energy and whether the film feels alive.

Key details

Status: Open for submissions
Next deadline: Second deadline
13 August 2026
Final deadline: 17 December 2026
Notification date: 4 January 2027

Submit your film

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Free submission routes

We want Fringe Flicks to stay accessible to filmmakers who may not have easy access to festival submission budgets, industry networks or formal film opportunities.

For Season 5, we offer free submission routes for filmmakers based in Merseyside and for under-represented filmmakers based in North West England or North Wales.

The under-represented regional category is intended for filmmakers who face barriers to film exhibition because of class, race, gender, disability, income, lack of industry access, or other forms of under-representation. We won’t ask for proof, but we ask filmmakers to use these categories in the spirit intended.

Supporters and funders

Fringe Flicks is supported by The DCP Works, The Local Neighbourhood Fund for Brownlow Hill, the People’s Postcode Lottery Grassroots Grants programme, thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery, Liverpool CVS, and Liverpool Community Print Station.