Description: Our main projects include the annual Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival and Iris on the Move, our UK wide touring programme.
The Iris Prize is a film and media organisation committed to increasing audiences for LGBTQ+ stories. Our main projects include the annual Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival and Iris on the Move, our UK wide touring programme. Our partnership with Film4 / All4 delivers a million viewers for our Best British programme of shorts films. We also support the production of new content via the £30,000 Iris Prize; our Documentary Film Finance Fund invests £20,000 annually in one British documentary; and our community
Our annual Cardiff based film festival with 25 partners in 20 countries is one of the biggest celebrations of LGBTQ+ film in the UK. We are a BAFTA-qualifying queer film festival and home of the prestigious Iris Prize £30,000 film award - the world’s largest short film prize. The 17th edition will open on Tuesday 10 through to Sunday 15 October 2023.
• 15 short films from the UK make the cut for the Iris Prize Best British Short Supported by Film4