The Frankenstein Awards are a sacred Rite of Passage for Young Creators of Monsters. The Frankenstein Awards are not just a film festival. They are an initiation. An initiation into our Community, an initiation into the Arts, an initiation into your ability to create life. This is a celebration of cinematic misfits, mad scientists, first experiments, reckless imagination, and lovingly stitched-together dreams. If you’ve built something strange, brave, or alive- this is where it belongs.

Our philosophy: The Frankenstein Awards exist to honor bold creation, not perfection. We recognize films not for isolated technical achievements, but for: originality, vision, imagination, heart, gusto, and contribution to the greater monster-making community. These awards are about becoming, not polishing.
Our inaugural Frankenstein Awards ceremony will be: filmed and released online. A show for the world to see…or fear. Selected filmmakers will become part of a growing mythos, archive, and community centered around bold creation.

If your film is strange, heartfelt, daring, or alive in ways you can’t fully explain- Submit it. Your monster deserves to walk. To march. To take over the world!

Event Date: November 7, 2026

The Frankenstein Awards will present four trophies for each category. Winners receive a custom Frankenstein Awards monster trophy-physical symbol of creation, risk, and cinematic life. These are not certificates. They are artifacts.
As the Frankenstein Awards grow, additional prizes, support, and donor-provided awards may be added to selected categories. The laboratory is always expanding.

Each category may receive up to four Frankenstein Award trophies, bestowed upon films that rise from the slab and walk on their own.

THE IGOR AWARD
Short Film (up to 10 minutes). Filmmakers through the end of 7th grade. Welcome aboard! This category honors the earliest experiments-the first sparks of madness, curiosity, and cinematic electricity. If you are young and already making monsters, the laboratory doors are open.

THE YOUNG MAD SCIENTIST AWARD
Short Film (up to 10 minutes). Filmmakers through the end of high school. You’ve graduated from assistant to architect. This category recognizes young creators who are beginning to command their visions, take risks, and push their craft into darker, weirder, braver territory.

THE FRANKENSTEIN AWARD - INDEPENDENT SHORT
Short Film (up to 10 minutes). Open to filmmakers after high school. You’re playing with the big boys now. This category honors independent short films that demonstrate strong vision, originality, and a sense of cinematic identity-films that feel fully alive, even in small bodies.

THE FRANKENSTEIN AWARD - INDEPENDENT FEATURE
Feature Film (50+ minutes). This celebrates independent features that sustain their vision across a full runtime and dare to build something ambitious, personal, and strange. If you’ve stitched together a feature on passion, ingenuity, and obsession-this is your table.

THE FRANKENSTEIN AWARD - STUDIO FEATURE
Feature Film (50+ minutes). This category honors larger-scale productions that fully carry imagination, courage, and soul. We love this scale of monster and look forward to the lightning you grab from the skies. Thank you for your service.

Go to Film Freeway to enter:
https://filmfreeway.com/FrankensteinAwards