Film Selection Process

Every year STXIFF receives hundreds of film submissions, in many categories, from all over the world. Our head programmer coordinates a team of industry professionals who screen each film through a secure screening website. Multiple programmers will rate the technical and artistic aspects of each submission during the screening process. Once all films are rated, the STXIFF head programmer will officially select as many films as possible based on that year's available screening time and the film's final rating.

PROGRAMMERS - José Alaniz, David Anshen, Serhenna Bazile, Linda Belau, Ed Cameron, Jorge Chapa, Adam Gregory, Bobby Jasso, Reuben Marin, Joe Martinez, Walt McAlexander, Mara Lee Moats, Robert Moreira, Catherine Palacios, Farzaneh Razzaghi, Jorge Rubio, Quint Rogers, Jonathan Salinas, Jamin Teran, Silvia Vera, Jeffrey Ward

Are you interested in becoming a STXIFF programmer? Let us know here.

Submit Your Film & pitch

All submission are through our FilmFreeway page. We accept short and feature length narrative and documentary films. Early bird submissions begin early November, the final submission deadline is in May.

You can find out more about each category and read the guidelines on filmfreeway.com/stxiff