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Leeds International Film Festival Last Call for Entries 2015

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Final Submission Deadline is September 11th for Leeds International Film Festival This is your final chance to submit your features and shorts to Leeds International Film Festival 2015. Submissions are open until September 11th 2015. You can SUBMIT to the festival through Withoutabox or FilmFreeway. There are £5000 cash prizes available across our short film competitions and LIFF is also a qualifying film festival for the Academy Awards and&n...

2016 CALL FOR ENTRIES!

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We're accepting films to our 3rd year!  We will boast 7 days of independent cinema from all over the world in a modern theater in the heart of the world-famous arts distrcit in North Hollywood, California!  All genres accepted.  Awards given in multiple categories.  Check us out at www.nohocinefest.com.  We are on Withoutabox and Film Freeway! ...

Open Call for Submissionsfor the Third Annual Reel Indie Film Fest (RiFF)

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The beat goes on Open Call for Submissions for the Third Annual Reel Indie Film Fest (RiFF) DEADLINE: June 30, 2015 (TORONTO, June 8, 2015) – The Reel Indie Film Fest (RiFF) is ready to get down and dirty for 2015. The festival is currently accepting submissions for the 2015 edition. Filmmakers are invited to submit their films and music videos at www.reelindiefilmfest.com/apply. Taking place in Toronto, October 13 -18, 2015 as part of Indie Week, one of Canada’s...

Cannes: SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York launches 3rd edition and opens Early Bird submissions during the Cannes Film

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Cannes: SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York launches 3rd edition and opens Early Bird submissions during the Cannes Film Festival 2015! SR Socially Relevant (TM) Film Festival New York wrapped its 2nd annual edition after week-long screenings of 53 films from 33 countries and four industry panels in March. SR Film Festival honored Albert Maysles posthumously with the Lifetime of Inspiration Award while the festival’s special Justice and Peace Award went to Israeli Filmmaker Guy Da...

Terror Film Festival 2015 Call For Entries is OPEN

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Terror Film Festival is a blood-chilling, alien-probing, super-thrilling online international film festival designed for filmmakers and screenwriters that runs every October! And our Call For Entries is now open! We are the only film festival in the world that offers the opportunity for filmmakers and screenwriters to get major exposure by bringing the audience right to their film. Also, being online removes the shackles of venue limitations (which limits the amount of people who can s...

Call For Entry - 26th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival

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26th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival – February 4-14, 2016 – San Diego, CA - USA  http://www.sdcjc.org/sdjff/ The San Diego Jewish Film Festival (SDJFF) is part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture (SDCJC) at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS in La Jolla, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Since its inception in 1990, the San Diego Jewish Film Festival has become one of the largest and most prestigious fe...

The Uranium Film Festival's "Yellow Oscars" 2011 to 2014

Since 2011 the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro awards its "Yellow Oscar" to the best nuclear films of the festival. Now April 25, 2015, the festival will honour the winners of the 5th International UraniumFilm Festival in Quebec-City. Here is the list (pdf) with all awarded films until 2014. www.uraniumfilmfestival.org ...

FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA 2015 - Call for submissions

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The Festival du nouveau cinéma is looking for films, interactive works and performances for its 44th edition wich will run from October 7 to 18, 2015 in Montreal! Send us your works BEFORE JUNE 1st, 2015 to maybe be part of the Festival this year! Early bird rate before April 30, 2015! Two easy ways to submit a short or feature film on line:  - via Zone Festival - via Withoutabox   For more information, you can write to soumissions@nouveaucinema.ca &...

Best Short Film Competition - EVER!

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Best short film competition - EVER!! The winning filmmaker wins up to $25,000 to shoot one of the top 10 scripts. Winning writer receives up to $10,000 for their short script! Writers judge filmmakers and filmmakers judge writers. It’s that simple! We fund you to collaborate. The writers review films and decide the best filmmaker. The filmmakers read scripts and decide the top 10 scripts. The winning filmmaker selects one of the top 10 scripts to shoot and we fund the production. The sc...

The Minneapolis Underground Film Festival announces their call for entry

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Minneapolis, MN January 6, 2015 - The 2015 Minneapolis Underground Film Festival is officially announcing their call for entries through Withoutabox.com and FilmFreeway.com. Minnesota made films submission fees are waived until June 12, 2015. The 8th Annual Minneapolis Underground Film Festival official Call for Entries is open to anyone with a desire to submit their work. The categories include: feature film, documentary feature, experimental/avant-garde feature, music video, short film and MN...

Let the Community Decide who to fund! We Fund you to Collaborate!

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Writers judge filmmakers and filmmakers judge writers. It’s that simple! We fund you to collaborate. The writers review films and decide the best filmmaker. The filmmakers read scripts and decide the top 10 scripts. The winning filmmaker selects one of the top 10 scripts to shoot and we fund the production with the entry fees. The screenwriter gets paid and their script made. The filmmaker gets funded to shoot the script. Imagine a community that reviews your work,, provides you with abu...

DISCOUNTED ENTRY FEE! LAST DAY!

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Take advantage of a discounted submission fee TODAY ONLY!!!  Just follow our website instructions.  Go to www.nohocinefest.com for details.  Submit your film to our 2nd Annual festival, which will take place over week long period in April in the heart of Los Angeles!  HURRY!     ...

DISCOUNTED ENTRY FEE! LAST DAY!

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Take advantage of a discounted submission fee TODAY ONLY!!!  Just follow our website instructions.  Go to www.nohocinefest.com for details.  Submit your film to our 2nd Annual festival, which will take place over week long period in April in the heart of Los Angeles!  HURRY!     ...

NCFA Open for Entry

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Folks;   It’s Autumn!  At Eno River Media Productions Fall ushers in our quarterly North Carolina Film Awards season and we need your help for it’s success!   What is the NCFA? The Mission of the North Carolina Film Awards is to strengthen the independent film, television and video industry.  The NCFA shall identify and recognize an array of talented filmmakers and their movies from across the state, region and nation. Features and shorts, are welcome at the ...

SIMA 2015 Call For Entries!

FILMMAKERS & CHANGEMAKERS submit your films to the 3rd annual Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA) SIMA's global documentary competition and traveling series honors eye-opening impact films from around the world that inspire activism, compassion and social transformation.  ENTRY CATEGORIES International DOCUMENTARY FEATURES and SHORTS that provide deeper insight into the realities of global development, global activism, and the human conditi...

The 5th International Uranium Film Festival Call For Entries

Founded in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro the International Uranium Film Festival has become the world's premier film event about nuclear power. The festival welcomes any film with nuclear, uranium, radioactive or atomic background: Movie, Documentary, Animation, Music Clip, Experimental, Fiction and Non-Fiction, Shorts and Features. Films about nuclear desasters like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima; films about nuclear scientists like Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, Otto Hahn or Albert Einst...

10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts - by Elliott Grove

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We thought this was interesting! So we are sharing!     10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts by Elliot Grove   Here are 10 ways to really annoy distributors.   1) Make it nearly impossible for a distributor to see your film Let’s say a potential film buyer misses the one and only screening of&nbs...

Cucalorus Film Festival

The 20th annual Cucalorus Film Festival takes place November 12-16, 2014 in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. The non-competitive festival showcases more than 200 films from all over the world and attracts an accumulated audience of 14,800 cultural travelers who come to celebrate the art-form and connect with peers. The festival's spirited celebration has been recognized as a breeding ground for young artists, new ideas and lifelong friendships. Festival programs focus on dance, music videos, emerging artists, social justice, works-in-progress, and international cinema. Cucalorus creates an opportunity for intimate engagement between audience and artist through the festival’s retreat-like atmosphere, resulting in friendships that extend far beyond the festival’s 5-day celebration.

Call for entry (short and feature films) - 16th edition

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The 16th Edition of the Festival International du Film d'Aubagne will take place from 16 to 21 March 2015. Our Festival has 2 main axes : the young creation and the relation between music and image.  The Calls of Entries for the 2015 OFFICIAL COMPETITIONS are opened : FEATURE FILM OFFICIAL COMPETITION Opened to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd feature having a music score and completed after September 2013 Download the rules and the registration form ...

Awards of the 15th edition

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FEATURE FILM COMPETITION Grand Prix for the Best Original Score HROSS i OSS (Of Horses and Men) Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson,  Music by David Thor Jonsson Reward valued at 2000€ Best Direction PETER FRANZEN for Tumman Veden Päällä (Above Dark Waters) Best Script L'ARBITRO Script & Direction by Paolo Zucca & Barbara Alberti Best Actress  IOANA FLORA in A Long Story Best Actor OZ ZEHAVI in Paradise Cruise Best Film&...

Let the community decide who to fund!

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We are an online competition that funds writers and filmmakers, both short and long format.   We are unique, in that we ask writers to judge filmmakers and filmmakers to judge writers.   The  winning filmmaker, as chosen by the screenwriters, chooses one of the top 10 scripts to buy and shoot, and we fund it with the entry fees.   ...

WHo Funds short films?

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Receive funding by judging scripts and having your film judged by writers. Pls share. www.writersandfilmmakers.com     ...

TFF 2014 Review: Gabriel

By Maria Esteves – April 19, 2014 Lou Howe’s directorial debut of GABRIEL premiered during the 13th Tribeca Film Festival at the SVA theatre, New York, Thursday, April 17, 2014. The post premiere Q&A session immediately followed with director Howe, lead actor Rory Culkin, cast and crew members moderated by artistic director Frederic Boyer, Tribeca Film Festival. Questions posed by Boyer and the audience to director Howe and cast included: “Describe the film style, th...

THE END OF FACEBOOK. Ever thought of paying facebook to 'boost' or promote your film and get more likes? THINK AGAIN!

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Watch this crazy video and learn how FB is deliberately diluting your fb likes with fake people to reduce your organic reach, even if you pay to 'boost' your likes/fan page. Crazy! http://www.booooooom.com/2014/02/25/end-facebook/ ...

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