Short Film Submission Guidelines

We welcome all short films that are of interest to the LGBTQ+ community! We have multiple options for creators. Short films able to be added must have a listing page and one of the following:
  • A trailer watchable on GayMovieDB.
  • The short film trailer and the full-length film watchable on GayMovieDB.
  • The short film watchable on GayMovieDB.com without a trailer.
Listing Guidelines:
GayMovieDB pulls a title's information from The Movie Database. For any title to be listed on GayMovieDB, it must be listed on TheMovieDB.org containing the information below.
Required Fields:
  • Original Title (in the film's spoken language)
  • Translated Title (only if original title is not in English)
  • Film Overview (in English)
  • Poster/Cover Art In Portrait Format (at least a resolution of 800px x 1,200px)
  • Poster/Cover Art In Landscape Format (at least a resolution of 2,000px x 1,125px)
  • Genre(s)
  • Release Date
  • Runtime (in minutes)
  • Spoken Language
  • Video(s)/Trailer(s)
  • Backdrop Artwork/Screen Capture (at least a resolution of 2,000px x 1,125px)
Optional (But Recommended) Fields:
  • IMDB ID
  • Brief Tagline
  • Production Country
  • Director(s)*
  • Cast*
* If you add cast and directors to your listing on TheMovieDB, you should complete profiles for them on TheMovieDB as well. This populates the information on GayMovieDB.
Trailer/Full-Length Film Guidelines:
  • Trailer and/or videos must be posted to YouTube in 720p (or higher) video and quality audio.
  • If your film is foreign, your title must contain the name of your film in both the spoken language and English.
  • It is important that you set a thumbnail for your video with a resolution of at least 1,280px x 720px. YouTube requires landscape thumbnails.; portrait thumbnails, such as posters and cover art are not acceptable for your video thumbnail.
(If your trailer/short are available through a different streaming medium, please contact us to see if we are able to use the platform to link it to our page.)
You also have the option to have your short film published to our official YouTube's "Short Film" folder, allowing people to discover it easily.
Short Film Submission Form:
Once your film and/or trailer is posted on YouTube and listed on TheMovieDB, please complete the form below. Be sure to provide the URL from your title's page on TheMovieDB and applicable YouTube links, as well as any additional information you feel is pertinent.
After we receive your submission, it will be manually reviewed by our staff to ensure all of the above guidelines are met. If our staff deems it of interest to the LGBT community and guidelines are met, your short film will added to our site upon the next update (typically within 48 hours).
If the full-length short film is available for purchase, please let us know so that we can add affiliate links as well. Currently, we link to iTunes, the Google Play Store as well as Amazon.