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Zed Fest Film Festival & Screenplay Competition
Zed Fest Film Festival and Screenplay Competition was founded in North Hollywood California in 2010 to encourage and support low budget independent and amateur filmmakers & screenwriters who work in the horror, science fiction, action, art house & other interesting genres.

Call for entries is January 1st with a deadline around the 4th of July

The festival main event is usually held the second weekend in November, and an awards ceremony around the last week of December.

Zed Fest's Inspiration
You’ve heard of “B-Movies” right? The low budget second movie in a double feature. They were usually bad, real bad. But you probably have never heard of “Z-Movies” have you? The Z-Movies (or as Zed Fest likes to call them “Zed-Flicks”) were usually the independent no budget films that were even worse than the “B’s” (Actually many of what is considered an old B-Movie today were actually “Z’s” back when they first came out.)They actually think that the “Z’s” are better.

These so-called bad movies were made by people with such passion for their projects that they would not let anything get in the way of their completion. Our hero, Phil Tucker could not afford to have a robot costume made for his classic ROBOT MONSTER, but he knew a guy with a good gorilla suit, then had a space helmet made out of papier-mâché, and just kept going. If that is not passion for your work, then what is?

Zed Fest was created just to honor and acknowledge filmmakers who persevere against all odds to get their movies made no matter what the final result. And in our competitions we look past the final finished result whether “bad” or “good”, and recognize the spirit of passionate filmmaking itself. So, just because a film is accepted and honored here at Zed Fest does not mean that it is a “Bad” movie as much as it means that they think the filmmakers themselves are pretty “Bad to the bone”!