The Worst Film Festival is Back!
Where Flops are the Feature and Cringe Builds Community

Move over Oscars, there's a new festival in town and it's gloriously bad. The Worst Film Festival is here to flip the script on failure and shine a spotlight on the projects that didn’t quite go as planned. Our mission? To bring creative missteps out of the shadows and celebrate them as necessary, hilarious, and even beautiful stepping stones on the path to artistic growth.

Everyone has a project they'd rather forget - an overexposed short, a plotless epic, a sound mix that sounds like it was recorded in a wind tunnel - but at The Worst Film Festival these cinematic calamities take center stage. Because let’s be honest: failure is part of the process, and it’s time we embraced it.
This isn't about mockery. It’s about meaning, and screenings are followed by a live Q&A. We believe that the worst work often paves the way for our best so we’re creating a space where filmmakers of all sorts can laugh, learn, and lift each other up, one glorious mess at a time. After the HUGE success of our inaugural year we are excited to bring this festival back to our community.

The Worst Film Festival was founded in 2024 by Danielle Cheifetz (Founder & Producer, Kraken Cove Productions), Cheryl Isaacson (Founder & Director, Lincoln Street Studios), and Keren Southall (Producer).