Blog: Film festivals

The fourteenth edition of the Student Film Festival FENACIES Uruguay opened its inscriptions on April 1st, and will remain open until June 10th. As every year, all the students from all over the world (from Primary to University) can register their short films totally free, which will be displayed in Montevideo from September 9th to 15th.

FENACIES is an organization founded in 2011 that started with the aim of creating a cinema festival specifically to youth, where competition would be fair and creativity and effort of these would be valued.

At first, the festival was avowed of cultural interest by the Ministry of Education and Culture, educational interest by the Primary Education Council, and tourist interest by the Ministry of Tourism and Sport. Furthermore, in 2015 UNESCO declared it of educational and cultural interest.

The main aim of the festival is to strengthen the audiovisual education between the youngest, and through the short films realization they can express their ideas so that then they can see reflected on the big screen.

During the week, the short films that are selected will be shown in a public and state cinema. On September 15th will be announced the winners in the closing ceremony.

VI NATIONAL RURAL FILM FESTIVAL OF AYACUCHO

The Rural Film Festival emerged in the city of Ayacucho in 2016 from an initiative presented by Mr. Emilio Quiroga to the Directorate of Culture to promote audiovisual production in our city.
Below, we list some of the central ideas, according to time and resources, that have been and will be developed within this space:
- General direction and coordination of the Rural Film Festival.
- Promotion and promotion of the movie theater and alternative projection spaces.
- Linkage and cooperation between rural and urban schools.
- Generation of socio-educational projects in schools, institutes and training centers.
- Provision of courses and training open to the community.
- Production of content and audiovisual resources for Municipal offices.
- Production of local short films that cover fiction and non-fiction stories, documentaries, on various topics.
Every year we launch an open call nationwide for fiction and non-fiction short films that cover Rural life from its form and/or content. Our intention is to get to know and enrich ourselves with productions from other places in our country.
The Festival provides training and support programs with theoretical and practical tools for audiovisual production to those who join this initiative. We refer to teachers and students from schools, institutions, neighborhood headquarters, organizations or groups who wish to participate.
This experience became a much larger phenomenon around the initially proposed Film Festival. We are motivated by the need to consolidate a space that seeks to generate identity, value culture, emphasis on human relationships and also commercial links that derive from this massive meeting that can be used to make goods, services and trades visible in pursuit of profit. mutual of the community.
Another important point is to strengthen the ties of our community with those people and groups that come to our city from both nearby towns and also from other cities and provinces of our country summoned by the social event that the Festival represents.
We will use the Festival as a construction tool committed to our social context and in accordance with sustainable production mechanisms considering current communication channels and technology. We will approach the audiovisual understood as an object to think about and in constant transformation.
It is necessary, from our intervention, to guarantee access to a symbolic language, essential to navigate the world around us and construct the images and sounds of our time, this being a necessary task for the development of society, the strengthening of democracy , equity and access to work.

Only for national Brazilian filmmakers

13th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival-24 is an amalgamation of unleash cinematic creativity & madness of cine-goers of beautiful city of Kolkata. The Kolkata city is the hub of Bengali Cinema, a culturally rich & destination of many budding filmmakers since past century. The festival objective is to give momentum to the short cinema & to foster the growth of new breed of filmmakers.

The humble journey of KSIFF has began in year 2012 to mark the 100 years celebration of Indian cinema & to salute the contribution of the Bengali film industry towards the development of cinema in India. The 2012 to 2023 editions of festival were huge success with participation from all over India & foreign nations and are the trendsetter festival in India & now in huge demand among young filmmakers.

The festival provide platform to aspiring and professional filmmakers for showcasing their talent with networking & marketing opportunities in film industry. The festival also hosts master classes & short film market. The festival objective is to create short films culture, promotion of upcoming filmmakers, developing sources of revenue generation for short films and to make short film making a commercial enterprise.

We are a collective of filmmakers at Logroño, Spain, our target it is to fight against hate and racism with our festival, open to shortfilms and videoclips.

The Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival is Pittsburgh's premiere film festival for truly independent films, and a headline event for micro-budget and no-budget films from around the world. PIIF offers a fantastic opportunity for undiscovered filmmakers to showcase their achievements, filmmakers who posses an independent vision and operate to create innovative work outside the studio system. We screen more films than all comparable festivals, screening 12 hours a day on both Saturday and Sunday, while still having relevant industry discussions between filmmakers in our filmmakers lounge. The 2016 and 2018 Best Feature Film secured a distribution deal as a result of our recommendation, upon winning our festival. PIFF uses the strength of the independent film making community to put on a fantastic festival. PIFF is an indie film festival by and for indie filmmakers.

The 24th Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) will run at multiple venues in Brooklyn, NY and online from June 4 - 13, 2021.

Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), is a 10-day International, competitive festival. Discovering and promoting independent filmmakers at their first or second film is at the very center of the festival's year-round efforts. BFF’s mission is to provide a public forum in Brooklyn in order to advance public interest in films and the independent production of films; to draw worldwide attention to Brooklyn as a center for cinema; to encourage the rights of all Brooklyn residents to access and experience the power of independent film-making; and to promote artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure. BFF, inc. is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

The festival is for and by independent filmmakers. The organizers of BFF bring 23 years of festival experience to this annual event. BFF accepts submissions in six categories: Narrative Features, Documentary Features, Short Narrative, Short Documentary, Experimental, and Animation. Submissions are open from June to March of the following year. The final selection of 150+ films is announced in May, and the festival takes place in June. All the films that make up our final lineup come from submissions only. Each selected film plays twice. They are all eligible for several awards and the smallest film can win the top award: Grand Chameleon. In addition to our film programs, BFF also hosts multiple filmmaker parties and networking events at venues in and around Brooklyn.

Many of the award-winning films from the Brooklyn Film Festival have gone on to have theatrical releases, to have nationwide broadcasts on PBS and HBO, and to be nominated and awarded at both the British and the American Academy Awards. BFF is also proud to be a Canadian Screen Award qualifying festival.

Did you know each year a transformation happens in Los Angeles, CA? People from around the globe gather to attend the largest and most prestigious Black film festival in the United States. From 100 million dollar blockbuster premieres to newly emerging Hollywood talent, The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) showcases a broad array of Black creative works from the world over, highlighting those that reinforce positive images and help to destroy negative stereotypes. Nowhere else can audiences find this unique opportunity to come together through film and art to explore new worlds, meet new people and acquire new information and ideas.

PAFF is designated as an official qualifying film festival for narrative live action and animated short films for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Venerated by tens of thousands every year, PAFF screens more than 175 new films across 6 screens in state of the art digital projection to the delight of an audience of sophisticated movie lovers. PAFF’s audience loves PAFF and PAFF loves them. Each year PAFF becomes a pilgrimage for attendees who hail from all over the United States and the World! Known for its industry panels, special events and great parties, we invite filmmakers to take this one-of-a-kind opportunity to connect to their core audience and experience the special magic of PAFF.

Did we mention celebrities? Celeb sightings: Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Danny Glover, Idris Elba, Mo’Nique, Kevin Hart, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Phylicia Rashad, Lou Gossett, Jr., Issa Rae, Taraji P. Henson, Trevor Noah, David Oweloyo, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Majid Michel, Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood, Kerry Washington, Nate Parker, Salli Richardson, Dorian Missick, Jesse Williams, Michael Ealy, Anthony Anderson, Omotola, Boris Kodjoe, Whoopi Goldberg, Omari Hardwick, Chadwick Boseman, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Shia LaBeouf, CCH Pounder, Omar Epps, Regina King, Sanaa Lathan, John Legend, Tika Sumpter, Tim Roth, Van Vicker, Gabrielle Union, Alfre Woodard, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Wesley Snipes, Meagan Good, Loretta Devine, Bill Duke, Lisa Raye, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Hill Harper, Mario Van Peebles, Eriq LaSalle, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Sharon Leal, Stacey Dash, Billy Dee Williams, Terrence Howard, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Omar Benson Miller, Isaiah Washington, Joy Bryant, Regina Hall, Jussie Smollett, Robert Townsend, Ja'Net Dubois, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Djimon Hounsou, Glynn Turman, Vivica Fox, Kimberly Elise, Don Cheadle and the list goes on and on.

The Human Environment Care Film Festival (HECFF) is Canada's premier cultural event devoted exclusively to the exploration of Human-Environment care, Human rights issues, Environment protection, and a special section of this year (CoronaVirus and New World)through film.

Our competitive sections are:

Human-Environment
Environment protection (care)
Humanity and human rights
Special section:
Coronavirus and New World

Non-competitive section:
All submitted films include documentaries, features, and animated that are over 30 minutes length and related to the competition section will come to the non-competitive section.

Through Festhome, the following artists are encouraged to submit their work:

Filmmakers and Animators. Works should relate to Human-Environment care, Human rights issues, Environment protection, and a special section of this year (CoronaVirus and New World). As this is an art festival, creative endeavors are encouraged.

HECFF aims to:

• Advance and encourage debate and awareness of Human-Environment care, human rights issues, environmental issues, and a special section of this year (CoronaVirus and New World) amongst the broader community through creative media.

• Showcase and support Canadian and international artists who are concerned with Human-Environment care, Human rights issues, Environment protection, and a special section of this year (CoronaVirus and New World).

COVID-19 Notice: At the moment we cannot know if the festival will be held LIVE or not, but in any case, we will hold it. If the law won't allow for live screening, we will make an online screening of all the films with Q&A, live interviews with the directors, and live events through streaming platforms and all the awards will be given normally.

La Fondazione “Pasquale Battista”, in collaborazione con l’associazione Alice in cammino e le arti, AL.i.c.e AreArtiEspressive, in partnership con Ibrida Festival – Festival delle arti
intermediali e Apulia Film Commission, con il patrocinio dell’Accademia del Cinema Ragazzi di Enziteto, dell’Assessorato all’Industria Turistica e Culturale della Regione Puglia, del Comune di Bari, sponsor unico Levigas, indice un Bando di concorso di
cortometraggi e film d’artista destinato a cittadinǝ residenti, domiciliatǝ o natǝ in Italia.

Il concorso è rivolto ai/alle videomaker e videoartistǝ emergenti, indipendenti, pertanto si divide in due Sezioni: una Sezione Cortometraggio, dedicata alle opere che utilizzano una narrazione di stampo prettamente cinematografico; una Sezione Film d’artista dedicata ad opere “ibride”, che si avvalgono del linguaggio video come strumento di espressività in senso libero e ampio, non prettamente lineare. In questa categoria possono rientrare opere audiovisive come documentari, fiction, ma anche animazioni 3D, grafiche, ecc.

The FICMY International Film Festival of Mérida and Yucatán has as its main objective to promote and disseminate Mexican and Latin American cinema (free theme), supporting new filmmakers and providing an important exhibition space, being the most relevant festival in southeastern Mexico. Likewise, one of the priorities of the festival is destined to the exhibition of works that have among its central themes to rescue, preserve, strengthen, prevent and spread the values, principles, traditions, customs, native languages, artistic expressions and the great diversity of the original peoples of the whole world.

The Festival Villa del Cine is a four day experience where the streets and theaters of Villa de Leyva, Colombia become a stage dedicated to celebrate, encourage and reward the seventh art.

The FENAVID International Film Festival is held annually in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Organized by the Audiovisual Foundation (FUNDAV), the Festival has become the most important film event in Bolivia and one of the most relevant in Latin America.

Since its first version, carried out in 2001, more than 10,000 audiovisual works from 30 countries have been presented at this meeting, which has transcended the borders of Bolivia and America.

In each version, FENAVID offers the public more than 150 screenings of feature films, short films, music videos and a series of audiovisual works that are exhibited free of charge for the public.

FENAVID always has first-rate guests. The event was attended by internationally renowned figures such as Celso Franco, protagonist of "7 boxes", Marisol Correa, Colombian actress, Alexandre Rodrigues and Leandro Firmino de Hora (protagonists of the acclaimed Brazilian film "Ciudad de Dios"), the Argentine producer Vanessa Ragone (winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2010), Bolivian directors Marcos Loayza and Rodrigo Bellot and Argentine actress Aymará Rovera, to name a few.

Beyond glamor and film screenings, FENAVID is a macro meeting where producers, directors, actors, specialists and a whole multitude of people passionate about cinema converge.

During the days of its realization, the Festival has a series of parallel activities, such as children's film shows, video clip competition, workshops, talks, colloquia and debates.

One of the most anticipated events of FENAVID is the Santa Cruz 100X100 Film Production Meeting. It consists of bringing together 25 emerging film talents in Latin America. The chosen ones travel to Santa Cruz de la Sierra and, during the development of the festival, have the mission of producing a short film in 100 hours.

Embers Virtual Water Sports Festival is celebration of the water.

If you love the water and have a story you want to share then we would love to hear from you.

Embers is a social enterprise and all profits from the festival will be going to Uganda where over 50,000 people are currently displaced due to flooding. Someone drowns every 80 seconds, swimming saves lifes so lets share the swim love.

We have a selection of speakers lined up to take part in the event and films will be shown alongside speakers sharing their stories. The audience will be an international audience.

Love the Water. Respect the Water

Festival de cine sobre derechos humanos de HUMANO, se lleva a cabo en Tijuana Baja California México en octubre 2021.

El Festival de Cine Humano es el primero en promover y reconocer a los creadores que abordan temas relacionados con los Derechos Humanos en México. en esta segunda edición y debido a la pandemia covid-19 el festival se adaptará a la competencia única de cortometraje.

HUMANO este año da la bienvenida a las producciones que hablan de historias de humanos que experimentan violaciones a sus derechos, el abuso a nuestro planeta y animales.

Programa Covid-19, da la bienvenida a producciones en cualquier formato que hablen del aislamiento, soledad, abuso y cualquier otro tema relacionado con la situación de la pandemia.

HUMANO, al lanzar una amplia red, incluye producciones que examinan los derechos de: acceso a nuestro planeta, grupos étnicos, acceso y equidad en la educación, acceso a la salud, desigualdad de género, desafíos migratorios, racismo, xenofobia, misoginia, homofobia, depresión, accesos a atención médica y cualquier tipo de abuso durante la pandemia covid-19 y otros obstáculos que impiden una dignidad. Y la vida equilibrada en todo el espectro humano.

HUMANO es una invitación a mostrar a quienes, a través del cine, defienden a quienes no tienen acceso a una vida digna, a un mundo igualitario, a un planeta y un medio ambiente limpios. HUMANO anima a la vieja y nueva generación de artistas a expresarse a través del cine, sin temor a exigir igualdad y calidad de vida, luchando a través de su arte por los objetivos de poder vivir como un ser humano digno. A través del poder del cine, HUMANO aprovecha el mensaje visual, permitiendo a los asistentes elevar su conciencia y el diálogo sobre los derechos humanos a un nuevo nivel. Aprovechar tanto las plataformas digitales tradicionales como las vanguardistas del siglo XXI.

Durante 3 días se realizaran actividades paralelas relacionadas con el Cine en sus diferentes formatos y géneros. Ayúdanos a ser parte de la educación en materia de derechos humanos a través del cine.

El arte con Causa y Responsabilidad Social.
Y a ti que te hace HUMANO?

Change is a step towards adding something new, it is never a loss, but it brings with it all the signs of the transformation that each individual faces. From the past to the present, from the real to the surreal, The metamorphosis - Evolution and Revolution will be the theme of the second edition of Etnabook, Catania Book and Culture Festival. The emotional effort of transformation requires energy which gives value to every action. The world of national and international literature has always given ample space to the search for the self, to the process of formation and to interior and exterior renewal. For this reason, evolution and revolution, the last stages of an individual and collective metamorphosis, will be at the center of the debate of the first great Catania Book Festival, giving voice to authors, booksellers, readers and artists who will tell the change present in their stories.
The event will take place from 25 to 27 September 2020 and will be a cultural glue for all bookstores, cultural spaces and libraries not only in the city of Catania, but also in the province. For the second consecutive year the event will consist of a three-day event full of meetings, book presentations, exhibitions, screenings, previews, a writing workshop, the contest A book in a page and, last but not least, the Etnabook literary contest - Culture under the volcano (award ceremony during the inaugural evening of the festival).
The technical jury, which will evaluate the works participating in the competition, will be composed of personalities from the world of publishing, culture and journalism. The best works of the categories in the competition will receive a plaque and a cash prize.
The competition will include three sections:
• Poetry;
• Fiction / Essay - Enrico Morello Award. The section is dedicated to the memory of the writer, the first winner of the Culture under the volcano competition, who died prematurely;
• A book on one page.

To complete the rich possibility of participation will be the competition dedicated to booktrailers, a section entirely devoted to the cinematographic transposition of literary works.

The Etnabook Festival event is organized by the NO_NAME cultural association chaired by Cirino Cristaldi.

Festival de Video Latinoamericano

Around International Awards ✈ Barcelona ✈ Paris ✈ Amsterdam ✈ Berlin.

Annual Independent event with 4 major programs for all Features, Shorts, Documentaries, Experimental, Commercial, Music Video, Animations, Student Films, TV, Series, and New Media. The international community evaluates the all-genre creations to serve ARFF Official Laurels and to certify the awarded filmmakers at the end of the annual festival run. Thus, all the ARFF Finalists will be mentioned multiple times to have the best out of the entire year altogether. Submit today to participate in all 4 programs, regarding the unique system of ARFF International. Submissions made via Festhome are getting evaluated and selected, directly for the yearly festival run and participating in the Official Certificate Program exclusively. Monthly selection is available on other associated platforms.

See you Around & Fest Regards

The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation awards this prize to an audiovisual project, with the winning entry receiving 5000 euros to support the production of the finished work.

The prize aims to promote education, discussion and analysis of bioethical issues with a social impact, through work aimed at a general audience.

São Paulo Film Festival (SPFF) is an independent film festival that takes place in the most frenetic and populous city in Brazil.

SPFF seeks to support and inspire independent short film from all over the world, by a genuine expression that can stimulate new thoughts to the art of cinema. The Festival SPFF is an organization dedicated to the discovery and development of new artists, with visions beyond the border of the imagination that can thrill audiences from all countries.

Different from most festivals. We watch all the films. Our jury is composed mostly by filmmakers.

Shorts, Animations and Documentaries. Any genre.

Dec 15 - 17, 2024
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São Paulo Film Festival (SPFF) é um festival de cinema independente que ocorre na cidade mais frenética e populosa do Brasil.

SPFF procura apoiar e inspirar curtas independentes de todo o mundo, por uma expressão genuína que pode estimular novos pensamentos para a arte do cinema. O festival SPFF é uma organização dedicada à descoberta e ao desenvolvimento de novos artistas, com visões além da fronteira da imaginação que podem atrair audiências de todos os países.

Diferente da maioria dos festivais. Nós assistimos todos os filmes. Nosso júri é composto principalmente por cineastas.

Curtas, Animação e Documentários. Todos os gêneros.

Online + Presencial. O Festival ocorrerá no dia 15 de Dezembro de 2024 no Cine Belas Artes apenas dos filmes finalistas. Os filmes semifinalistas serão exibidos online até o dia 17 de Dezembro de 2024.