Falstaff International Film Festival is a brand new festival which will be hosted at  Stratford-upon-Avon between November 16th – 22nd.

The festival will comprise of various programmes including educational seminars, panel discussions, workshops, screenings, the Midlands Shorts Competition, the FIFF Student Film Competition and the FIFF Awards Ceremony.

If the following list of awards are anything to go by the festival should be a pretty big affair:

Best UK Feature, Best UK Short, Best UK Documentary, Best UK Animation, Best Feature, Best Short, Best Documentary, Best Animation, Debut Feature, Best Director, Best Music Video, Midlands Shorts Competition Award, Student Film Competition Award, Special Achievement Award, Best Actor, Best Actress.

Submissions are free to enter and the deadline is open until September 15th. Send your entries on DVD to:

Falstaff International Film Festival, PO Box 5114, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 1JA

You can get in cantact at: info@fiff.org.uk

And you can keep up to date with them at www.fiff.org.uk, MySpace and Facebook.