After a very successful first year, the second edition of Elevation Film Festival will return to Maker Heights (Cornwall, UK) on 6-7 September 2025. Earlybird submission deadline January 31st 2025, final submission deadline March 31st 2025.

Elevation celebrates emerging voices in artistic, experimental, and expanded cinema across southwest England, the UK and internationally.

We welcome filmmakers to showcase their work across a weekend of screenings, talks and workshops, connecting regional and international artists in a vibrant community celebration of moving image culture. We accept national and international submissions of artists' and experimental film, installation and expanded cinema performance, plus films of any genre made in Devon & Cornwall.

Elevation is an in-person film festival with screenings held at Patchwork Studios and other spaces in the historic Barrack Block at Maker Heights in South East Cornwall, UK. This is a unique cultural, artistic and historical landscape. Centred around a historic barrack block building occupied by a community of visual artists and musicians, Maker features a campsite, inspiring views and access to beaches and woodland.

Taking place from 6 to 7 September 2025, Elevation is supported by Patchwork Studios, Maker Camp, Rame Conservation Trust, and the wider community of artists based at Maker Heights.

Elevation is curated by a team of film enthusiasts and artists based at Maker Heights. The programming team includes Richard Ashrowan, the founder and former Director of Alchemy Film Festival in Scotland, Emily Saunders, Becky Hand and Chris Stacey.