Following the credits from a record lineup of international short films and anticipating a memorable debut at the new Uptown! Entertainment Alliance theater next year, the call has gone out for another showing of perspective-altering cinematic vision.

The West Chester Film Festival is now open to submissions, and the windows for entries will remain open until the Dec. 31 deadline. This year 75 short films were submitted for inclusion by filmmakers from as far away as Japan, Austria and South Africa.

Next year’s West Chester International Short Film Festival, the 13th annual, is scheduled to take place April 28-30.

Film festival entries are being accepted in several categories: young filmmaker, drama, comedy, documentary, animation, art or experimental, student drama, student comedy, student animation, student documentary and student art or experimental.

Learn more about submitting a short film to the West Chester Film Festival here, and check out previous VISTA Today coverage of Chester County’s film festival scene here.