El Paso Vertical Film Festival

The El Paso Vertical Film Festival, listed on FilmFreeway as the Vertical Cinema Film Festival, is a new festival for films shot and framed vertically for phone screens. It accepts work in all genres and at every budget level, from solo phone shoots to professional crews. Prizes include a grand prize for vertical storytelling, which comes with a meeting with the founder of the VerticalCinema.TV platform, plus an audience award and awards for micro-shorts and shorts up to 45 minutes. The first edition is set for April 9–12, 2027, at Old Sheepdog Brewery in El Paso; its submission window closed in September 2026.

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