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Bringing alternative and exciting film content to Scarborough, UK. The next festival is now live 20-23rd March 2025. Grab your tickets now!!!

25/09/2026

SEND US YOUR SHORTS 🎬🎞️🍿 Submission via FilmFreeway

We are looking for short films under 30 minutes in length, of any genre with a strong link to Yorkshire, the Humber and the North East. A maximum of 10 films will be screened and judged by the audience.

Scarborough Film Festival returns in March 2027 for a 4th year of film, workshops, music and exhibitions, showcasing a diverse array of films from across the UK and the rest of the world. This year we are on the move as our usual festival hub at the McCarthy Cinema in the Stephen Joseph Theatre is under redevelopment. We will be popping up across the town in exciting venues which have previously included a boat, Woodend Art Gallery, The Cask and Keg, a micro-cinema in the Bike and Boot Hotel, Mandy Apple Art Gallery, the Railway Club and Beckview Studios - a state of the art recording studio.
We will still be curating an eclectic programme of events and we look forward to building even stronger community links with this slightly altered format.

Our ever popular Regional Shorts will be returning, showcasing the best films from around our region. The winning film will be decided by an audience vote and will receive a cash prize of £150.

02/07/2026

The festival would not happen without our amazing volunteers 🌟🌻🎉

A shout-out to all those that volunteered at this years festival, and if you would like to be involved in future festivals or events drop us a message.

📸 photo by simon heaton

30/06/2026

It would not be a film festival without the amazing film makers. 📽🎞🎥

Each year at the festival we champion regional talent through our shorts screening. From animation to docs to fictions, this catergory celebrates the talent and storytelling of local makers and this year was no exception! We also had a networking session post screening which hopefully sparked new ideas and collabs!

This year winning film of both audience award and jury award was Hannah Congdon's The Long Away Game, and we were joined by the films star Sabriah.

A big thankyou to our jury Harrison, Alice and Jordan and our audience for deciding on the two awards and to all the filmmakers, who films we had the pleasure of screening.

Submissions will be opening soon for next years competion and we can not wait to see your films!

📸simon heaton

Festival supported by Film Hub North in partnership with Stephen Joseph Theatre

29/06/2026

We had the pleasure of welcoming the incredible Pauline Black to this years film festival back in March, where she gave an introduction to her documentry 'Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story' Stephen Joseph Theatre

📸 by simon heaton
Festival was supported by Film Hub North Stephen Joseph Theatre

17/06/2026

What a wonderful time we had on the second day of of SFF2026, with screenings of The Stimming Pool, I Am Martin Parr with intro from Jonathan Wallis and closing the day with Little Voice and a performance from the Funky Tuesday Choir. All held at Stephen Joseph Theatre

We still have a few copies left of our photozine with Emma Warley and Joe that accompanied pur photo doc screening, if any one wanta to grab one.

Festival supported by Film Hub North

📸photos taken by simon heaton or sff team

15/06/2026

We realised we had not shared photos from this years festival! So over next week we will be highlighting the different events from our 2026 festival. First up Music Videos and gig at Beckview Studios

We screened a series of music videos made by local makers or set in Scarborough, followed by a q and a with Jon Plant and Jess Cope John Anthony Cope and then a gig from Orchard NALGO BAY and

All was washed down with support from the ever amazing 🍻

📸 All photos taken by Simon Heaton
The festival was kindly supported by Film Hub North and our partner Stephen Joseph Theatre

12/06/2026

Yesterday we got the pleasure to talk about our recent project 'The Sensational Cinema Project' at a Film Hub Scotland event around community participation.

This project involved working with young people at Blueberry academy, personalised learning and Yorkshire Coast Sight Support.

We explored the history of the Stephen Joseph Theatre , going behind the scenes, thinking about access, our cinema experiences, films we like and ghosts!

We worked with Jayne Shipley who facilitated this amazing project, and .riley.art who was our filmaker helping everyone create the animated film which these stills are from.

We will be uploading the full film soon so keep an eye out!

This project would not have happened without funding from Film Hub Scotland training and support from Charlie Little, and support from staff at Stephen Joseph Theatre

19/04/2026

Join us on Saturday, 25th April for COAST TO CREDITS… here are just a few of the inspiring people you’ll meet!
Beatrice Neumann, Jordan Hogg, Rich Askew, James Pierechod, Nick Granville-Fall ✨🙌

18/04/2026

Coast to Credits will feature tonight on 📻

You’ll be able to hear us on any of these stations: BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Leeds and BBC Radio Humberside 6-8pm tonight.

You can listen back on if you miss it.

in conversation with the fabulous . Thanks for having us 🙏🏼

17/04/2026

If you are embarking upon/ thinking about/ in pursuit of a career in the film industry, this event is for you!

All tickets are bookable now at the SJT Box Office and on the website (link in bio) there are three different tickets - the full day including a free lunch, all talks and both film programmes, and then the two short film programmes which can be booked separately. All tickets for everything are FREE!!

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Scarborough
YO11 1JW

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