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The inaugural Shortie Film Festival will be held October 3rd and 4th 2019 in Brooklyn, New York. Shortie is an independent, international festival for films 30 minutes or less. The festival fosters and propels emerging and provocative filmmaking with two days of screenings, Q&As, and afterparties for a audience seeking new voices and perspectives.
The Shortie Film Festival received over 300 submission from more than 40 countries in our first open call. Entries are select...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Raise your hand if you think Soairse Ronan should have won Best Actress for BROOKLYN. Anyone? Yes, it’s an exercise in futility since Ronan was only a nominee in 2016. Lucky for her, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut LADY BIRD, from A24 films and just shown at the Telluride Film Festival, is where Soairse gets redeemed.
Or, you could say given a second chance to make a first impression as an emerging woman trapped ins...
CALL FOR ENTRIES!
Submissions are now open for the 7th Annual Art of Brooklyn Film Festival (June 7-11, 2017.) AoBFF is the only independent, international festival in the world exclusively devoted to Brooklyn film and media. We program films of all lengths and genres that have a connection to the BK scene through cast/crew, production, or location.
AoBFF is a creative hub, platform and showcase for independent film and media makers in Brooklyn and around the world. We partner with film dis...
Crown Heights Film Festival
October 29 – 30, 2016
The Crown Heights Film Festival (CHFF) brings exceptional local and international short film to Central Brooklyn audiences. The festival showcases a curated selection of short films: narratives, animation, documentaries, and cross-disciplinary/experimental films. Our mission is to provide a voice and opportunities for filmmakers in short form, to foster cross-arts collaboration, and to provide a social forum for filmmakers, Central Brooklyn residents, and the wider arts community.
To learn about the past issues of the festival, please go to www.crownheightsfilms.org.
Crown Heights Film Festival is hosted by FiveMyles Gallery located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
FiveMyles Gallery is a 501©3 not-for-profit exhibition and performance space where art and community connect. Featured works focus on giving emerging, merited, and well-established artists the opportunity to present their work in solo and group exhibitions. Place, personal vision, politics, identity and experimentation are an integral part of programming at FiveMyles.
Visit http://www.fivemyles.org/crown-heights-film-festival or contact info@fivemyles.org for more information about the Crown Heights Film Festival and how to submit your work.
FiveMyles Gallery | 558 St Johns Place | Brooklyn, NY 11238 | 718.783.4438
Brooklyn, a period drama starring Saoirse Ronan as an Irish immigrant to America, is about love, loss and what Ronan wore. Costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux spoke with me about creating wardrobe for the film's Trans-Atlantic cast:
http://www.thalo.com/articles/view/1161/costume_designer_odile_dicks_mireaux_spruces_up
Brooklyn was a selection of the New York Film Festival and opens theatrically on November 4.
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In the only Urdu/Hindi film he ever made, Indian cinema’s Bengali language grandmaster Satyajit Ray used chess as a metaphor, setting it against the backdrop of the crumbling Navabi rule over Avadh (Lucknow), and its imminent take-over by the British East India company. It was simply called Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players). Another chess film, a 30-minute short made in 1988, was called Queen Sacrifice. The present film manages with just a pawn sacrifice! Two feature-length recent ...
The 5th Annual Art of Brooklyn Film Festival (May 13-17, 2015) opened submissions on October 1st, 2014 with a special early bird rate of $25 that will last until October 31st. Filmmakers can submit via Withoutabox, and — for the first time — Film Freeway.
http://www.theartofbrooklyn.org/submissions.html
The 5th Annual Art of Brooklyn Film Festival (May 13-17, 2015) opened submissions on October 1st,&nb...
READY? RUMBLE!
Submissions are now open for the 6th Annual Silver Sound Showdown Music + Video Festival. Submit your awesome music video or band to www.silversoundshowdown.com
Showdown is actually two simultaneous events: it is a music video festival AND a battle of the bands. We will showcase 21 of the best music videos and 5 of the best bands anywhere, ever.
PRIZES
The director of the winning music video is paired up with the winning ...
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is a unique event that brings Brooklyn’s celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. The award-winning AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for exciting emerging creators and established voices. We partner with film distributors and media organizations, host world-class talkbacks, create innovative programming for networking and skill building, and screen in state-of-the-art theaters for enthusiastic audiences across Brooklyn.
The International Uranium Film Festival from Rio de Janeiro is coming to Washington DC and New York Brooklyn now in February 2014 with more than 60 movies & documentaries, animated films about the nuclear fuel chain, about uranium mining, about Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Washington DC - February 10-12, 2014 / Climate change, energy security and demographics continue to determine the global development agenda well into the twenty-first century. At the ...
The International Uranium Film Festival from Rio de Janeiro is coming to Washington DC and New York Brooklyn now in February 2014 with more than 60 movies & documentaries, animated films about the nuclear fuel chain, about uranium mining, about Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Climate change, energy security and demographics continue to determine the global development agenda well into the twenty-first century. At the same time, the nuclear industry portrays nuc...
WILLiFEST spotlights independent filmmakers from around the world. We encourage you to submit your work and join us in New York City for a professional, fun-filled festival of screenings, industry panels, networking opportunities and after-parties.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Williamsburg International Film Festival, voted top 10 coolest film festival by MovieMaker Magazine, was established to provide a platform for the creative visions of today's emerging artists of all disciplines. The film festival is an opportunity for filmmakers to enhance their careers by exposing their projects to a powerful audience, gaining crucial media exposure and strengthening industry relationships.
In addition to premieres, the festival features film selections from a multitude of categories. Screenplay, Commercial and Soundtrack competitions round out the offerings.
At WILLiFEST, we pride ourselves on elevating the filmmaker's experience. This festival was created for the artist, by artists, and we look forward to taking you, your film, music video or screenplay to the next level.
Narrative Feature Films
Any narrative work of fiction with a running time of at least 50 minutes from any country of origin. In order to qualify as a Narrative Feature Film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2013.
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Any non-fiction film with a running time of at least 50 minutes from any country of origin, NOT including entirely scripted or improvised fictionalizations of actual events. If your documentary contains limited dramatization of actual events, you may submit in this category, but we will ultimately decide which program is best suited for your project, if accepted. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2013.
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Short Films |
Any narrative or documentary film from any country of origin with a running time of 49 minutes or less. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2013.
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Animated Films |
Any animated film in any style of animation from any country of origin with a running time of any length. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2012.
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Student Films |
Any U.S. or International narrative or documentary film of any length. Proof of school enrollment is required. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2013.
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Music Videos |
Any film or video in sync to music from any country of origin with a running time of less than 10 minutes. No premiere status is required. Music Videos do not have a completion requirement.
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Screenplays |
Any feature-length, English-language, narrative screenplay of any genre with a minimum of 15 pages.
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Any film or video that sells a product or service from any country of origin with a running time of less than 7 minutes. This category also includes Public Service Announcements (PSA) which promotes public awareness. Commercials have no premiere or completion requirements. |
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Soundtracks
A film or video music soundtrack from any category of film or video. Sample selection(s) should be less than 20 minutes. There is no completion requirement.
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American Theatre of Harlem is currently accepting submissions for its 9th Annual CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival. This year's festival runs from October 17 to October 20, 2013.
CULTURES COLLIDE celebrates the efforts of multicultural films and filmmakers and features an industry panel. Each night concludes with an Audience Choice presentation, where the audience selects its favorite film.
CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival screens in the arts community of Fort Greene, ...
WILLiFEST was established to provide a platform for the creative visions of today's emerging artists. The Williamsburg International Film Festival is the film component of WILLiFEST. The film and music festival is an opportunity for artists to enhance their career by exposing their art to an influential audience, gaining crucial media exposure and strengthening industry relationships.
Partnering with major universities, local non-profit organizations and industry leaders our Educational Panels introduce the artist to new technologies that affect their craft as well as gaining perspective on how the business-side of their industry is changing and real world methods to assist in successfully generating a livelihood from their art.
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Thanks to everyone who helped to make the 8th Annual CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival a success. Each evening, audiences were delighted and moved by the depth and dimension of the work of our local filmmakers.
The Festival opened with the free Community Night presentation of GhettoPhysics, an innovative film that explores the power dynamic from the hood to the highest levels of global engagement. The Audience Choice selection for each night is as follows: Thursday, February 2...
American Theatre of Harlem is currently accepting submissions for its 8th Annual CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival. This year's festival runs from February 23 – February 26, 2012. CULTURES COLLIDE celebrates the efforts of multicultural films and filmmakers and features an industry panel. Each night concludes with the Audience Choice presentation, where the audience chooses its favorite film. The CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival, located in the arts community of Fort Greene, B...
Director: Dmitriy Rozin.
Make Me a Man is about a Russian immigrant family where the husband (and a father) is trying to prove his manhood, his ability to control the hardship the family is facing. Upon arrival to Brooklyn, USA, the father and the son are forced to look for work. Trying to “make a man” out of his son, the father takes him along to the gathering at the daily laborer location. Shortly, a Hassidic Jew, who needs his pool washed, drives in. The father suspects that the employer tries to molest his son at the poolside, but when they get home, it turns out otherwise.
7th Annual Cultures Collide Film Festival
CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival celebrates the efforts of multi-cultural films and local filmmakers, screening short and full length films and an industry panel. CULTURES COLLIDE kicks off on Thursday, March 3 with a Free Community Night screening of For the Next 7 Generations. This award winning documentary by Carole Hart tells the story of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers from all around the world who come together to help us create a new way of...
New York is abuzz with news about the arrival of a more famous festival, Tribeca, but this past Sunday night, the film-goers of Park Slope were instead asking, "What about Wallabout?"
This festival now in its second year is sponsored by the Pratt Institute, and on Sunday night in a very "Brooklyn" bar complete with two bars--one loungey one downstairs and another with folding chairs set up in rows--16 student films selected from over 75 submissions captivated the audie...
Filming to start in less than a month on a feature length documentary about making a 20+ year career out of what is typically a dead end job. The job, bicycle courier. Some great films have covered what being a courier is like on a daily basis. But this film will be a new look at how two messengers have fought to find new ways to hold onto the job they love....
WILLIAMSBURG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL logo
The Williamsburg International Film Festival | WILLiFEST spotlights independent filmmakers from around the world. We encourage you to submit your work and join us in New York City for a professional, fun-filled festival of screenings, panels, networking opportunities and after-parties.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Williamsburg International Film Festival, voted top 20 coolest film festival by MovieMaker Magazine, is the film component of WILLiFEST. WILLiFEST was established to provide a platform for the creative visions of today's emerging artists of all disciplines. The film and music festivals are opportunities for artists to enhance their careers by exposing their films and music to a powerful audience, gaining crucial media exposure and strengthening industry relationships. In the LiVE it UP! Pavilion, Donna Drake, a nationally syndicated TV talk show host, interviews filmmakers and local celebrities. The Filmmakers' Lounge provides filmmakers a space to promote their films and network with each other in between their screenings.
In addition to red carpet premieres, the festival features several film competitions. A Screenplay competition rounds out the offerings. The closing night award ceremony will honor award winners in each category. At WILLiFEST, we pride ourselves on elevating the filmmaker's experience. This festival was created for the artist, by artists, and we look forward to taking you, your film or your screenplay to the next level.
The categories of entries we are accepting for the 2012 Williamsburg International Film Festival are as follows:
U.S. Narrative Feature Films
Any narrative work of fiction with a running time of at least 50
minutes. In order to qualify as a U.S. Narrative Feature Film, the
submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction. No
premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after
January 2010.
U.S. Documentary Feature Films
Any non-fiction film with a running time of at least 50 minutes, NOT
including entirely scripted or improvised fictionalizations of actual
events. If your documentary contains limited dramatization of actual
events, you may submit in this category, but we will ultimately decide
which program is best suited for your project, if accepted. No premiere
status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2010.
International Narrative Feature Films
Any narrative work of fiction with a running time of at least 50
minutes. In order to qualify as an International Narrative Feature Film,
the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational
fiction, and production must have occurred outside of the United States.
No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after
January 2010.
International Documentary Feature Films
Any non-fiction film with a running time of at least 50 minutes, NOT
including entirely scripted or improvised fictionalizations of actual
events. If your documentary contains limited dramatization of actual
events, you may submit in this category, but we will ultimately decide
which program is best suited for your project, if accepted. In order to
qualify as an International Documentary Feature Film, the film must be
unscripted and production must have occurred outside of the United
States. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed
after January 2010.
U.S. Short Films
Any narrative or documentary film of U.S. origin with a running time of
49 minutes or less. No premiere status is required. Films must have been
completed after January 2010.
International Short Films
Any narrative or documentary film of international origin with a running
time of 49 minutes or less. In order to qualify as an International
Short Film, production must have occurred outside of the United States.
No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after
January 2010.
Animated Films
Any animated film in any style of animation from any country of origin
with a running time of any length. No premiere status is required. Films
must have been completed after January 2010.
Family Fare
Any live action or animation of any length from any country that
celebrates the whole family coming together to enjoy and share the
movie-going experience. Any subject matter considered. All films should
be appropriate for general audiences. No premiere status is required.
Films must have been completed after January 2010.
Student Films
Any U.S. or International narrative or documentary film of any length.
Proof of school enrollment is required. No premiere status is required.
Films must have been completed after January 2010.
Music Videos
Any film or video in sync to music from any country of origin with a
running time of less than 10 minutes. No premiere status is required.
Music Videos do not have a completion requirement.
Midnight Treats
A treat for true cinephiles and casual filmgoers alike, this
non-competition section presents an eclectic mix of horror, sci-fi,
over-the-top comedies, explicit animation and bizarre stories that defy
categorization. Midnight Treats have no premiere or completion
requirements.
Screenplays
Any feature-length, English-language, narrative screenplay of any genre. Scripts must have a minimum page
count of 60 pages and a maximum page count of 240, all pages numbered
and in standard industry format. Title page or email should include
author name(s), title, street address, phone number, email address and
WAB ID#. We only accept electronic submissions. Digital
formats accepted are Final Draft or Adobe PDF documents. After
completing the on-line application process and paying appropriate fee,
digital screenplay submissions should be emailed to screenplays@willifest.com
or uploaded to Withoutabox.com. Title page must include author name(s),
title, home address, phone number, email address and WAB #.
Awards are presented for all categories except Midnight Treats.
GENERAL RULES
Each submitted film must be accompanied by the appropriate fee. Please write the title of the film on all checks or money orders. Entries must be submitted on DVD (NTSC Region 0 or 1). International films can be submitted on NTSC or PAL Region 0 (Region-free) DVDs. Screeners should be straight-play DVDs with only your film and no menus. We accept works-in-progress. Screener DVD must be labeled with title, running time, entrant's name, category, phone number and WAB ID# on the disc face with permanent marker. Screeners should be viewed for playback quality before mailing in. Please DO NOT use paper labels.
Foreign language work must be subtitled in English (or dubbed where permitted). Only films completed after January 2010 will be accepted except for Music Videos and Midnight Treats which do not have a completion requirement. Student Films are projects completed by filmmakers when they were enrolled in school. Students must include a copy of school ID.
WILLiFEST is an HD projection festival utilizing file-based server technology. We do not project from videotape and request exhibition copies of films be submitted as a file or alternatively, a DVD or Bluray Disc. We also project 35mm film on a limited-basis and these situations will be discussed with filmmakers upon acceptance and decided by our
Programming Department.
For information on additional WILLiFEST news and events, visit us at www.willifest.com.
Best of Luck!
the WILLiFEST team
American Theatre of Harlem is currently accepting submissions for its 8th Annual CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival. This year's festival runs from February 23 – February 26, 2012. CULTURES COLLIDE celebrates the efforts of multicultural films and filmmakers and features an industry panel. Each night concludes with the Audience Choice presentation, where the audience chooses its favorite film. The CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival, located in the arts community of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, culminates in the presentation of the Community Treasure award. The submission deadline is January 6, 2012. For questions and submissions info contact: culturescollide@americantheatreofharlem.org
Director: Tordy Clark.
BW Mockumentary, reality style film followning Beatrice, who resorts to a little prostitution to make
ends meet while her husband Jimmy is in the slammer.
(The rest of the film follows thus:
On his release, she asks him to go straight, But with a new baby, and Jimmy's brother Frank showing up to mess things u even more, their fortunes go from bad to worse. Jimmy wants to be a millionaire businessman but he's the worst huslter in history.
As things spiral out of control, Beatrice is forced to make a hard decision.)
NYC`s premiere animation festival, Animation Block Party runs from July 28-30 2007 in Brooklyn, NY.
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