Lights. Camera. Help. The Nonprofit Film Festival is the world's first film festival dedicated entirely to nonprofit and cause-driven films.  This 3-day event gives films-for-a-cause the attention they deserve by putting them up on the big screen in a theater setting.

As a charity event, it's free to submit your cause-driven film and all of the proceeds from ticket sales go directly to the winners of our judges prizes.

Submissions open on March 27th, please bookmark this page and com back for the submission form.

The 2009 Lights. Camera. Help. Nonprofit Film Festival

On July 31st – August 2nd, 2009, Lights. Camera. Help. hosted the first of it’s annual film festival of nonprofit and cause-driven films. The organization began planning the event in January, 2009.

• Submissions opened on April 30th with the Reel-to-Reality event.
• Over 140 documentaries, PSAs and short films were submitted in 2 months.
• 20 finalists were selected for screening.
• Tickets were sold to two screenings and one party.
• 3 Judges selected 1 film to win the Jury Prize.
• The organization that was the subject of the winning film received all the proceeds from the festival, $1,000.

2010 Timeline:

March 27th: SUBMISSIONS OPEN

March 27th: REEL-TO-REALITY

May 1st: PRE-SALE TICKETS AVAILABLE

June 30th: SUBMISSIONS CLOSE

July 1st: TICKETS ON SALE NOW

July 29th: FILM FESTIVAL BEGINS

August 30th: FILM FESTIVAL ENDS