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Pegasus Film Festival

The Pegasus Film Festival is a student-run festival for filmmakers under 19 from anywhere in the world, organized by DFW high school students through Pegasus Media Project's youth leadership program. It screens narrative, documentary and animated shorts of 30 seconds to 8 minutes and holds a screenwriting event for scripts under 10 pages, with workshops, panels, networking, a red carpet, live-broadcast filmmaker Q&As and an awards ceremony. Recent editions have screened at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas; the 2026 festival ran June 5–7. The 2027 festival is set for June 11–13 in Dallas. Submissions are taken through FilmFreeway; the 2027 call had not opened when this was checked.

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Jun 11, 2027 – Jun 13, 2027
Angelika Film Center & Café – Dallas
Pegasus Media Project (student leadership team; founder Niloo Jalilvand)
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Categories
Narrative Short Film
Non-Fiction Documentary Short Film
Animated Short Film
Screenplay (under 10 pages)

Notable

Open only to filmmakers under 19; films run 30 seconds to 8 minutes ↗︎
Pegasus Media Project calls it the largest youth-run film festival in the country ↗︎
A year-round youth leadership program puts DFW high school students in roles such as festival director, producer and publicist ↗︎
2026 festival ran June 5–7 in Dallas with workshops, panels, script readings, a red carpet and live-broadcast filmmaker Q&As ↗︎
Listed as running 11 years on FilmFreeway; the festival site archives selections back to 2016 ↗︎
Sources
  1. HOME | PFF Pegasus Film Festival
  2. Pegasus Media Project Pegasus Media Project
  3. Pegasus Film Festival FilmFreeway

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