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Corto e Fieno - Rural Film Festival | Call for entries

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Corto e Fieno is a festival of short films dedicated to telling the story of the rural world and the relationship between man and work in nature. It consists of two competitive sections: Frutteto, for live action films, and Germogli, for animation. Films of all genres and nationalities are accepted, produced from 2022 onward, with a maximum length of 30'.   The 15th edition of the Festival will be held in Omegna and Gozzano on October 4-5-6, 2024.   https://corto...

B!TCHFEST: FILM FESTIVAL & SCREENPLAY CONTEST CALL FOR ENTRIES

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Welcome to the 1st annual B!TCHFEST: An International Women’s & LGBTQIA+ Film Festival & Screenplay Contest with a groundbreaking in-person event for both Filmmakers and Screenwriters in the heart of Los Angeles. At B!tchFest we’re not just breaking glass ceilings; we’re shattering them into a million pieces by unleashing the Power of Female and LGBTQIA+ Voices in Film and Television! Get ready for a cinematic celebration that&rsqu...

Early Bird Deadline Approaching - February 1st, 2024

The "Early Bird Deadline" for film submissions in the 2024 season ends on February 1st! We urge all filmmakers to submit their work as early as possible—just a few days left until the deadline. Every film that wins an award at our film festival receives a jury statement, gets screened in front of the audience at the cinema, and their interview is printed in our catalog alongside the jury statement, ensuring visibility for posterity! Join us for this exciting and beautiful event a...

15th Annual New Media Film Festival® Offers a Unique Look Into the Future

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Los Angeles,– As the New Media Film Festival® (NMFF) marks its 15th year of innovation and storytelling excellence, anticipation builds for a groundbreaking event on June 5-6, 2024, in the heart of Los Angeles. A prestigious panel of judges from Marvel, HBO, PBS, BBC, Grammys, Emmys, Simon & Schuster, and Rolling Stone will give out $45,000 in awards and evaluate creator submissions from over 20 countries that explore visions of the future through AI, animation, virtual reality,...

Celebrate Diversity in Film! 12th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival - Call for Entries

INDIE FILMMAKERS … Do you have an awesome film? Celebrate Diversity in Film with New York City's WINTER FILM AWARDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL   All Genres - Shorts - Features Animation - Horror - Music Video - Documentary Drama - Comedy - Web Series - Experimental - Student Work   Winter Film Awards is New York City -- showcasing the eclectic diversity and excitement of the independent arts world. The Fest celebrates the outstanding work of emerging filmmakers in a...

Call for Entries

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Caminhos Film Festival is the main celebration of Portuguese cinema. Although focused on national cinematography, the festival provides competitive and non-competitive sections for international cinema. Productions from film schools compete in the Essays Selection, while in other parallel  sections international shorts and features are highlighted allowing the audience to meet their confluences with the festivals programme. Fiction, documentary or animation, all genres are welcome. ...

DOKUARTS 2023: Call for Entries!

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DOKUARTS 2023: CALL FOR ENTRIES! Deadline May 31, 2023 After three long years, we are delighted to finally announce our next festival edition: DOKUARTS will take place from October 4th to October 15th, 2023, thanks to the renewed support of Berlin’s Capital Cultural Fund. We will move our program to three new venues: Kino in der Kulturbrauerei, Kino in der Brotfabrik and Klick Kino. A fourth venue will be the Haus für Poesie.   DOKUARTS screens documentaries on the ar...

NatureTrack Film Festival Announces Dates for 5th Anniversary Edition Oct. 6-8, 2023

New Festival Team Revealed First Time in Goleta at Fairview Theatre and Return to Los Olivos Submissions Open Now - Calling for Nature-Centric Films   (Goleta, CA) Celebrating the return of the beloved NatureTrack Film Festival (NTFF) for its 5th year is cause to break out the champagne.  Lots of exciting news to reveal like new co-directors for the fest, addition of a development director to the team, add in a new location, official dates, plus call for open submissions to the n...

Earlybird deadline approaching soon!

  Calling all independent filmmakers! Mirror Mountain’s earlybird deadline is coming up next Monday July 18th. We want to see the most unique, creative and original films out there, so submit your work today! Films of any length and any genre are welcome. Info: http://bit.ly/1DsPZy7 ...

Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival Call for Entries 2021

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    Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival is calling all fantastic filmmakers to submit their feature films, shorts and music documentaries to the 17th edition of the festival. Deadline is the 2nd of May.   Selected feature films will compete for Grossmann’s most prestigious award, the Vicious Cat.    Selected short films will compete for the  Slak's Vicious Cat award for Best Short Film or the Melies d’Argent award wh...

Call For Entries: TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2021

We promised we will return with glitter and glory - and we will. From March 10th till 14th, 2021 we celebrate 20 years of Tricky Women/Tricky Realities - 20 years of passionate commitment to the visibility of female* animation artists in the world. The call for the anniversary edition is open. We are looking forward to your animated films.  The submission is free of charge and will close on October 1, 2020. We are looking forward to your entries in the following categories: Int...

Call For Entries: TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2021

We promised we will return with glitter and glory - and we will. From March 10th till 14th, 2021 we celebrate 20 years of Tricky Women/Tricky Realities - 20 years of passionate commitment to the visibility of female* animation artists in the world. The call for the anniversary edition is open. We are looking forward to your animated films.  The submission is free of charge and will close on October 1, 2020. We are looking forward to your entries in the following categories: Int...

Punto y Raya Festival

PUNTO Y RAYA FESTIVAL seeks to recapture the spirit of Cinéma Pure and Absolute Film formulated by the European avant-garde in the 1920s, consolidating this unique artform laying at the intersection between Fine Arts and Media.

Consolidated since 2007 as the world event for Abstract Art in Motion, the festival invites artists to explore audiovisual arts in their purest state: Form, Colour, Motion and Sound. No representation!

The event takes place every two years in a different country, co-produced and hosted by major art centres and museums across Europe, including Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), CCCB Centre for Contemporary Culture (Barcelona), HARPA Concert Hall (Reykjavík), ZKM (Karlsruhe), CeTA Audiovisual Technology Center (Wroclaw), and Austrian FilmMuseum (Vienna), amongst others.

The programme features:

- International Short Film Competition
- National Panoramas
- Guest Screenings & Retrospectives
- PyRformances (live audiovisual performances)
- Academy Programme (Masterclasses, Round Tables, Workshops...)
- Junior Programme (for family audiences)
- Installations

All info at

www.puntoyrayafestival.com

 

Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival Call for Entries 2020

  Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival is calling all fantastic filmmakers to submit their feature films, shorts and music documentaries to the 16th edition of the festival, taking place in July 2020 in Ljutomer, Slovenia. Deadline is the 3rd of May.   Selected feature films will compete for Grossmann’s most prestigious award, the Vicious Cat.    Selected short films will compete for the  Slak's Vicious Cat award for Best Short...

Technology Meets Creativity – 11th Annual New Media Film Festival®

  11th Annual New Media Film Festival®       NEW DATES - FEBRUARY 3 - 4 2021 11th NEW MEDIA FILM FESTIVAL  at The Landmark 10850 W. Pico Blvd LA CA  90064 ...

ZFF Co-founders Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri to step down after the 15th Zurich Film Festival!!

In accordance with the long-term strategy of the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF), Co-founders Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri are planning for their succession after 15 years of operational leadership. The co-directors will be stepping down from their current posts at the beginning of 2020 but continue to work with the festival on a strategic level. Christian Jungen, chief cultural editor at “NZZ am Sonntag” will serve as the festival’s new Artistic Director. The search for th...

17th CATACUMBA UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL. Call for entries

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INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Shortfilms <30 min. UNDERGROUND, CLANDESTINE AND EXPERIMENTAL. Fiction, Animation. Prizes 2000€. Spanish, Catalan, English or French SUBTITLES. Since 2017. Regulation: www.catacumba.org Registration: Mobiveta / Festhome / Clickforfestivals / ShortFilmDepot / FilmFreeWay 17th CATACUMBA UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL aims to collect independent cinematographic proposals that offer an alternative look. Works that subvert morality somehow, disarticulate the repress...

TRIESTE SCIENCE+FICTION FESTIVAL 2019 – CALL FOR ENTRIES

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The 19th edition of  Trieste Science+Fiction Festival – organized and promoted by the film and audio-visual research and experimentation Centre La Cappella Underground – will run October 29th - November 3rd, 2019. Submissions are open, the deadline being July 31st, 2019. Guidelines and instructions for submission to the 2019 edition are available here. Films shall be submitted via FilmFreeway at https://filmfreeway.com/TriesteScienceFictionFestival Trieste ...

Dates for 2019 announced

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The dates for the 2019 Manchester Animation Festival where announced on Thursday 23 May. The Festival will take place from Sunday 10 - Thursday 14 November. Calls for entries have opened an submissions can be made up to the 26 July. Submissions are welcomed for short film awards and industry professionals in the Industry Excellence Awards ...

Winners of the 2019 Tiburon International Film Festival 'Golden Reel Awards'

The winners of the 2019 Tiburon International Film Vestival 'Golden Reel Awards' were announced on Friday, April 19, 2019, in Tiburon, California. Best Film: Eternal Winter [Hungary] Best Director: Attila Szasz, for: Eternal Winter [Hungary] Best Actor: Dragos Bucur, for: Hawaii [Romania] Best Actress: Marina Gera, for Eternal Winter [Hungary] Best Documentary: As Time Goes By, directed by: Simone Aleandri [Italy] Best Sc...

DOKUARTS 2019: Call for Entries!

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DOKUARTS 2019: CALL FOR ENTRIES! The 12th edition of DOKUARTS takes place from October 10-27, 2019 at Zeughauskino Berlin. An international symposium entitled NUANCES NOW will be held on Friday, 11 October 2019. Information on this year’s edition, detailed conditions of participation and the online application form can be found at www.doku-arts.com Entering a film DOKUARTS screens documentaries on the arts and by artists. Films of all lengths may be submitted for selection. DOKUART...

CALL FOR ENTRIES for 15th Zurich Film Festival!!

7Submission for the 15th Zurich Film Festival is open from February 15 to June 30, 2019! The 15th Zurich Film Festival will take place from September 26 to October 6, 2019. Films can be submitted via the platform Withoutabox. COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM The Golden Eye endowed with a CHF 25'000 cash prize will be awarded in each of the two categories International Feature Film Competition and International Documentary Film Competition by two separate juries. The cash...

CALL FOR ENTRIES: San Francisco Green Film Festival 2019

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Join the West Coast's leading event for films & discussions that spark green ideas and actions.   Submit your film now to the 9th Annual San Francisco Green Film Festival, September 11-18, 2019. greenfilmfest.org/submit   DEADLINES Early Bird: March 22 Regular: April 12 Late: May 5 ...

3rd Indian World Film Festival-19

3rd Indian World Film Festival-2019   Entries Open: Feature Films, Shorts films, Animation, Documentaries & Music Videos.   Submission deadline: 22 Feb 2019   To submit entry visit: http://miniboxoffice.com/indianworldfilmfestival   For Participation Email: IWFF@miniboxoffice.com   Submit online: https://filmfreeway.com/IndianWorldFilmFestival   ...

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