submissions are closed for the season

The Simply Weird Film Festival is back for the 2026 season!

What is Simply Weird?

A long running short film festival hosted in Atlanta.  Weird is wonderful! — and we’re here to celebrate it. If your short film dares to be bold, bizarre, and brilliantly strange, we want to see it! 

Join us for two evenings of wacky films from around the world.

From strange ideas to the downright bizarre, we’re here to celebrate the bold, the unique, and the wonderfully weird. If your film defies convention and thinks outside the box, we want to see it!

So you think your film is weird?

SUBMISSION CRITERIA:

Horror-Comedy | Horror | Science Fiction | Animation | Documentary | Mockumentary | Experimental — if it’s weird, it’s welcome.

Runtime:

Keep it short and strange: 15 minutes or less.

Perks:

Filmmakers of selected films will receive 2 festival passes.

AWARDS & PRIZES

🌭🏆 THE GOLDEN WEIRD WIENER AWARD 🏆🌭

Forged in the neon fires of absurdity and blessed by the ghost of a 1950s hot dog vendor, this sacred sausage is bestowed upon the film that warps reality and bends audience brains into ecstatic spaghetti. The people will vote. The weird shall rise. And one filmmaker will take home the gloriously grotesque, possibly inter-dimensional Golden Weird Wiener. Worship it. Fear it. Win it.

Two of these trophies will be given out this year - one each night of the festival. 

Winner is voted on by the audience.

🏆  BEST OF THE FEST TROPHY 

This award goes to the short film that best embodies the essence of simply weird - bizarre, unhinged, unexpected - but also well rounded short film. 

Winner of this prize will be chosen by our festival jury panel. 

Trophies will be crafted by our friend and local Atlanta artist, Evereman.

FESTIVAL DATE + VENUE 

Sunday, October 25th - 6p - 9:30p

Monday, October 26th- 6p - 9:30p

Doors open at 5:30p

Two-day passes are $20, and single-night passes are $15 - Get Tickets

Red's Beer Garden

📍 1328 Boulevard SE, Atlanta, GA 30315

Check out our friends at Red's Beer Garden - Our venue partner for the last two Simply Weirds!

https://www.redsbeergarden.com/

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