Taking place weekly beginning in 2010, the Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Festival pairs one feature and one short for each of its weekend screenings. The Festival presents First, Second, and Third Place awards, determined  by both jury and audience voting; winners with feature-length works receive $1,500 USD, $1,000, and $500 cash, respectively, and short film category winners take home $750, $500, and $250, respectively.

Past selections have received distribution with studios and independent distributors, and have been broadcast on major cable networks. Some success stories include Rob Stewart's SHARKWATER, winner of the Festival's Best Documentary award, which was picked up by Warner Bros., and Don Henry's DESERT OF BLOOD, which found its home on The Movie Channel.

Films are exhibited at the Wilshire Screening Room, on the in-house Christie 2K Digital Cinema Projector. The Screening Room itself is one of the industry's most sought-after private facilities for screening events, called "the best small room in town" by Variety, and boasts the nation's widest variety of in-house equipment. This boutique, 49-seat screening room is frequently the locale for studio, union, AMPAS, and indie screenings.

The Festival welcomes submissions of feature and short narratives, documentaries, animation, and experimental films as well as music videos and TV projects created using high definition technology. The Festival aims to provide an excellent opportunity for promising indie films that may not gain wide distribution to be shown in one of the world's most legendary communities.

For the chance to present your film in Beverly Hills using some of the industry's finest HD technologies, submit to the Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Festival today!