Fairy Fang Films is proud to announce our inaugural festival on Tuesday, October 21st, 2025!

Founded by NYU Tisch alumni Salomé Sowa and Gianluca Umaña, the event will take place at Low Cinema—a 44 seat independent theater, co-founded by documentarian John Wilson, Davis Fowlkes, and Cosmo Bjorkenheim—and Ridgewood’s first movie theater built since 1927. The festival brings together independent filmmakers of marginalized identities to share and screen their work, meet fellow creatives, and forge connections in an industry that too often overlooks intersectional voices.

Our festival—the first of many—aims to shift that tired narrative. We seek artists with a love for the craft who are ready to break through the crowded landscape: unique voices with something urgent to say and stories that demand to be seen and heard. This is a night to celebrate what makes you, well… you!

The festival is specifically tailored to uplift films whose director or key crew identify as LGBTQIA+, femme, neurodivergent, or BIPOC+.

Spanning four hours of curated programming, whimsy, concessions, and exclusive photo opportunities, the event will close with a Q&A panel featuring the artists who made this night possible.

 Our screenplay competition welcomes both short and feature-length submissions, with a $500 prize awarded to the winner. For those seeking deeper engagement, we also offer an application tier that provides professional coverage and feedback on your script.

This is an event for those who refuse to contort themselves into tiny boxes— who have big questions to ask in a world that likes small answers. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply!

For those of us that feel like wanderers in the night- for artists that are unsure of their place, but hopeful they’ll find a path- we aim not only to provide foundations, but a home.

Submit Your film via the FilmFreeway link below, and start your journey with us. :-)

Key Dates

  • Submissions Open: August 25, 2025

  • Rolling Review: Ongoing until final deadline

  • Final Deadline: October 12, 2025

  • Festival Date: October 21, 2025