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Opens for Submissions and Deeply Discounted Gold Passes on August 1.Bellmore, NY (August 1, 2026)  The 30^th Annual Long Island International Film Expo (LIIFE) opens for submissions on August 1, 2026.

For the past 29 years, LIIFE has been the premiere filmmaker community on Long Island, and one of the most respected festivals of its kind in the world; showing over 100 short and feature length independent films in many different genres each year from filmmakers around the globe which screen at the historic Bellmore Movies.

LIIFE events include informative and entertaining panels, networking with filmmakers from around the world, opening night party, directors audition panel, celebrity appearances, closing night awards ceremony in a theater and most of all, quality independent films.

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Don’t miss out on early bird pricing and a chance to be a part of LIIFE.  We accept quality films of every type: Shorts, features, documentaries, music videos, episodic pilots, foreign, domestic, Long Island, student, animation, sci-fi, horror, LGBTQIA+, drama, comedy, and we have a screenplay competition with the prize of a live read.

You can enter the Long Island International Film Expo at https://filmfreeway.com/LIIFETheLongIslandInternationalFilmExpo

And for a limited time, you can buy a Full Access Gold pass at the early bird price of $65. Regularly $175, this deep discount will be in place until October 31, 2026. You can buy your passes at https://liife2027.eventive.org/passes/buy

Also open for submissions is our sister, horror film festival, Scared For Your LIIFE, which will be held on Saturday, December 19, 2026 at the Huntington Cinema Arts Center. You can enter at https://filmfreeway.com/ScaredforyourLiife

For more information, please go to www.LongIslandFilm.com or email longislandfimexpo@gmail.com