2026 Volunteer Film Screener

The Academy Award®-qualifying Santa Fe International Film Festival is accepting screeners for 2026 and beyond! With this new recognition from A.M.P.A.S.®, winners of SFiFF's Best Narrative Short, Best Animated Short, and Best Documentary Short awards may qualify to enter the Academy Awards® (provided the films otherwise comply with the Academy rules), and we look forward to receiving even more submissions in 2026.We are seeking assistance watching and reviewing all of these exciting new films. Potential screeners must be able to commit to watching a very large number of films in an extremely short period of time between February and September (with the bulk of screening between June and August), conveying their feelings in a concise and nuanced manner. It's a delicate, complex process, calling for the utmost discretion along with great taste and understanding of the SFiFF Film Program. Sound like you? Please Fill Out This Form. Thank you, SFiFF Programming Team