TAG! Queer Shorts Festival is your Portland, Oregon-based international festival of short film, featuring work made exclusively by queer and trans directors. We are hosted by the historic Clinton Street Theater in Portland.
The 2025 edition of Tag! Queer Shorts Festival was held on April 5-6. Learn more about our 2025 selections and our other past programs using the buttons below!
Filmmakers! Tag! will take a break until early summer, swing by our FilmFreeway page on July 1 to submit your work for the 2026 program!
Tag! will again offer awards with cash prizes in 2026!
The Quest Center for Integrative Health returns as an award sponsor with the AWARD FOR THE POWER OF COMMUNITY which will go to the film that best showcases the way queer community builds alternative systems of power through chosen family, culturally-specific leadership, and reimagined roles of care.
The MILAGRO AWARD for HISPANE/LATINE CREATIVITY is for the film that best embodies Latino/a/e creativity in filmmaking. To be considered for this award, the director must identify as belonging to an ethnic group rooted in Latin America or other Spanish-speaking areas of the world, regardless of current region of residency or the language of the film production.
The FESTIVAL DIRECTOR'S AWARD will go to a film that the festival organizer selects on the basis of both technical merit and embodiment of the festival's values of authentic, humanizing storytelling.
TAG! is a QTBIPOC-run festival that seeks to amplify the voices of queer artists of color.
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TAG! is available to partner with people and organizations on special curated events.
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Is your film right for TAG!? Check out our technical and content guidelines here.
TAG! is working to make the film festival more inclusive. Here's what you can expect and how you can help.
learn moreOne of the joys of organizing the festival is getting to know so many wonderful and talented artists who are making a positive impact on queer communities through their storytelling. Here are a few we'd like you to meet.
Learn about our featured directors!