New Film Festival Coming in 2024

Yeh! Nah! AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE! - Feature Film Category

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Australian Premiere Preferred! We are looking to include in our program feature length genre films that preferably havw not been screened previously in Australia, as we want our festival to show your film, FIRST in Australia. This is for all Australian and International productions. Must be have been completed after after June 30th, 2023. Duration must be 50mins or longer. We won't be able to allow late entry for feature films so that we have enough time to select and program from the submissions and produce an effective marketing plan for the event. We will consider works in progress but the project would need to be ready for screening by no later September 13th 2024 to be eligible.

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Yeh! Nah! We made it just for you! - Short Film Category

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This is your chance to make a brand new original horror or genre film! Open to Canberra, Australian & International Filmmakers. The film must fit in a festival that will run close to Halloween!

Your film must have started production after 30th March 2024 and completed specifically for our festival by the entry deadline.

• One character must say "Yeh! Nah!" out loud, on screen at least once to be eligible.

• Your film must also include either a visual or audio reference, without breaching copyright or ownership, of the Festival Director's favourite horror film, of which the answer to this will be revealed on this website.

• End Credits must state somewhere: "This short film was produced for Yeh! Nah! Horror Film Festival 2024."

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Yeh! Nah! Horror! - Short Film Category

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Slashers, Monsters, Zombies, Spooky Ghosts and Ghouls, Paranormal, Psychological - everything Horror. Must be have been completed after January 1st 2023.

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Yeh! Nah! Horror Comedy! - Short Film Category

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Our Horror Comedy category is looking for films in the Horror genre that either make you smirk or straight out laugh out loud. Dark comedy, blood and guts and classic zombie gore is welcome if you think it will get a great audience reaction. Must be have been completed after January 1st 2023.

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Yeh! Nah! Genre! - Short Film Category

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Thrillers, Sci Fi, Aliens, and Fantasy - the GENRE category - if you have a short film that will get a great audience reaction and has less horror and more of the other stuff, submit it to this category. As long as it feels like it would fit into a festival run close to Halloween! Must be have been completed after January 1st 2023.

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Yeh! Nah! I'm from Canberra! - Short Film Category

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Being a festival based in Canberra, we welcome and support Canberra filmmakers to submit their existing horror and genre projects in their own category! (If you are making one for us specifically, please submit to We made it just for you category!) All Canberra produced projects must have been produced after January 1st, 2023. Projects are permitted to have screened already at other festivals, but please do note we will preference first local films that are newer, with premiere status and looking to have premiere screenings for our program.