Blog: Film festivals

THE FESTIVAL:

The International “Cinema Povero” Film Festival is open to everybody: rich film-makers, poor film-makers of any gender or religion all welcome provided they have developed a beautiful, original idea on a limited budget.

COVID-19 UPDATE: We will still hold our festival, though the format would be via online streaming due to COVID-19 restrictions. Same rules apply. For more info, visit www.miwaff.com.

MIWAFF AWARD WINNERS receive not only our prestigious awards but also recognition on IMDB and a one-year membership at iPitchTv.com! Film screenings will be available for streaming during our Festival period.

MIWAFF promotes all types of film, whether it is indie or studio based. Our mission is to unite filmmakers and artists in a competitive atmosphere by giving out prestigious Wreath Awards under a democratic process of popular vote. Our Festival recruits artists involved in film. This Jury of artists collectively votes on which film will be playing at our festival, and moreover, votes on which films get nominated and win.

The “KINOSVET” International Children's Cinema and Television Festival will be held from September, 2024 in Minsk, Belarus.

Festival "KINOSVET" is designed to develop, inspire and support young cinematographers; those who will soon influence the mass culture in their countries. The festival will allow those who want to make this world better, to be seen and heard. And also give a wide range of viewers the taste of a highly moral, deep, humane, inspiring art.

What movies and TV shows are shown around the world today? Who teaches contemporary and, most importantly, future artists and media ways to illuminate moral and, spiritual laws? Who controls the content and ideological direction of the most meaningful and strong types of art? The festival’s purpose is to seek, find, and give a venue to young talents who can create beautiful and meaningful art that makes our world brighter and kinder.

Festival goals:

development of cinematography;
moral education of children and adolescents;
the formation of personality with the help of cinema;
initiation of the younger generation to spiritual culture;
increasing the interest in creating films focused on children and youth audiences.


Festival tasks:

to fill the world with good pictures with humane ideas, moral values in order to make our world brighter;
to revive children’s, youth and family cinema;
to draw the attention of society around the world to social problems that are associated with children, people in need and nature;
to promote true, universal spiritual values;
to educate a new generation of filmmakers;
to expand and strengthen filmmakers connections from different countries both for children and youth;
to draw the attention of state, public and commercial organizations to supporting children’s and family filmmaking as well as to encouraging of the young authors.

In a historical moment in which the fear of different seems to prevail and the values of equality and social justice are neglected for the benefit of a widespread selfishness, it seems important to us to experiment new initiative to promote the positive values that the Associazione Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo tried to convey in these years using the universal language of the music. Solidarity, hospitality, integration, civil commitment, those are the values we want to pass on through cinema and Audiovision’s language, in an active citizenship experience above all young people, to give our contribution to a wide cultural sensibility growth, with a view to a supportive, multicultural and cohesive society.

Officine social movie: 5nd cinema and Audiovision’s festival dedicated to social issues and civil commitment and to dissemination of content that promoted solidarity, hospitality, social inclusion, cultural diversity and rights values.

Officine social movie is born for an attempt to create new artistic context and new formulas to convey, through cinema and audiovision’s versatility, the idea of cultural and social commitment above expressed. An open festival to short films presented by young emergent and independent filmmakers and videomakers, a showcase dedicated to projection of titles (movie, docu-movie, animation…) on call through film distribution channels also alternative. Projections that will be enriched by guest’s presence (filmmakers, authors, screenwriters, actors) with whose the audience will have the opportunity to confront at the end of projection.

We want to report that Officine Social Movie is born with the intention to pose the same caution both on the final result, the festival that will take place at Arezzo from 22th may to 28th may 2024, and on the project creation and implementation process. One of the targets is in fact the involvement of a group of young people who can share an active citizenship, giving space to their creativity.

To arrive to the festival made up by the step of design, analysis, planning and management, communication and critical vision of short films in the competition, will be part of the project itself, with the same importance of the festival days.

The group will be composed by some young people of the promoter association with around twenty people of the students from the Multimedia, cinema and graphic design sections of Liceo Artistico “Piero della Francesca di Arezzo” that, flanked by expert and operation, will draw the outlines of the festival, will draw up the national competition announcement, will be an integral part in the selection of short films in competition and will be part of the jury who will designate it the winners.

The students, in addition of being part of the group of the design team, will be involved in the creation of an own short film too, to be presented out of competition, as well as for the project and the festival’s video-photographic documentation.

The Officine Social Movie project has as leader the Association “Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo” (OMA), in collaboration with Officine della Cultura, the Liceo Artistico Coreutico Scientifico Internazionale “Piero della Francesca”, annex to Convitto Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele II” of Arezzo and Poti Pictures, with the support of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, contribution Prodigio Divino and Associazione Autismo Arezzo. Media partner of the event Teletruria.

Bases:

All filmmakers can participate.

You can register all the short films you want.

The duration of the films will be between 1 and 40 minutes.

Films must be produced between 2015 and 2020.

The fee to register your movie will be € 10 for each movie.

All film genres can participate.

Deadline: August 16, 2020

Screen: August 29, 2020

Prizes will be awarded to each genre, in addition to the best director, actor, actress, photography, script, edition, special effects, etc.

Our film festivals have double type of projections:
- Online: on the Vimeo platform there will be a private screening
only accessible to festival guests
This screening will be online for 24 hours, to facilitate viewing to guests.
- Live: we have agreements with several emblematic places in Barcelona
It is necessary to confirm the attendance to the place.

In both projections you can vote online for the Audience Award

The prizes will be known the day after the screenings.

Unselected films will have the opportunity to enter the Official Selection by public vote After the deadline, a vote will be opened for 3 days.
and the 4 most voted movies will go to the Official Selection
with the possibility of winning the prize

Participants voluntarily accept the foundations of this film festival.

Bases FESTIVAL DE CINE EXPERIMENTAL 2020
Duración: cortos de 1 minuto a 30 minutos. Características: mínimo de 50 minutos
Películas realizadas entre 2015 y 2020
10 € por cada cortometraje, 13 € por largometraje
Tema principal: Experimental. Cualquier género puede participar
La presentación de la fecha límite puede 15 de junio / La proyección: 30 de mayo de 2020

Todas las peliculas inscritas (sean seleccionadas o no) podrán optar al AUDIENCE AWARD. Este Award se podrá ganar por votación popular en la página web que indique el Film Festival. La votación comenzará despues del Last Deadline hasta el día del Festival

Europa Film Festival is an event for directors from around the world. All themes wil be accepted.

The Europa Film Festival belongs to a festival platform that covers the whole year. The company Teknochat, s.l. is the owner of this platform.

From this 4th edition, Europa Film Festival will be on the prestigious platform of Moviescreenpro, from Los Angeles. The screening of the selected films will be online, in a private pass.

All movies must have subtitles in English

The webpages of the festival are:
- http://teknochat.foro.bz/h10-europa-film-festival
- https://www.moviescreenpro.com/europafilmfestival

Horror Film Festival Barcelona.
Short Films and Horror Feature Films. All genres are also admitted as long as they have the subject of terror, horror.

Bases INDIE DOC PRO 2020
Duration short films 1 minute to 49 minutes. Feature films: 50 min minim
Documentaries made from 2015 to 2020
10€ for each short doc, 16€ each feature doc
Parent topic: DOCUMENTARY.
Deadline submission OCTOBER 16th / Screen OCTOBER 31st
Submit films by Festhome
All Selected films will be eligible for the AUDIENCE AWARD. This Award may be won by popular vote on the website that indicates the Film Festival. Voting will begin after the Last Deadline until the day of the Festival
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Bases 2020 STOP MOTION FILM FESTIVAL

Duration: short from 1 minute to 30 minutes.

Features: minimum of 50 minutes

Films made between 2015 and 2020
€ 10 for each short film, € 14 for feature film

Parent topic: Stop Motion. Any gender can participate

Deadline for submission September 14 / Screen September 30, 2020

Send movies via Festhome.com

All registered films (whether selected or not) may qualify for AUDIENCE AWARD. This Award can be won by popular vote on the website indicated by the Film Festival. Voting will begin after the Last Deadline until the day of the Festival.

Bases SOUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2020

Duration short films 1 minute to 30 minutes. Feature films:

50 min minim

Films made from 2015 to 2020

10€ for each short doc, 16€ each feature doc

Parent topic: MUSIC / DANCE : al genres

Deadline submission april 16th 2020 / Screen april 30th 2020

Submit films by Festhome.com

All registered films (whether selected or not) will be eligible for the AUDIENCE AWARD. This Award may be won by popular vote on the website that indicates the Film Festival. Voting will begin after the Last Deadline until the day of the Festival.

Only for Latinamerican film-makers // Solo para cineastas latinoamericanos y se abrió un capitulo para España y lenguas extrangeras con subtitulos en español para el 7º festival 2023.

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

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. Regarding the Unification Program of ARFF International, all 4 editions will gather at Amsterddam November/December 2024, till then Barcelona, Paris & Berlin editions will take place online.


See you Around & Fest Regards

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

International Short Film Festival of India GOA is conducting a innovative international short film festival and invites participation from aspiring and upcoming independent filmmakers. A unique short film Festival, focusing on opportunity creation for global filmmakers.We celebrate the work of these artists by sharing their films in a city that triumphs originality, creativity and the weird.

Friends! We are waiting for you! You can influence the whole course of our festival.
The vote of three of the independent jury right in the room! The jury of filmmakers against the press and the audience!

OUR FESTIVAL OUT OF POLITICS

It connects people, their kind hearts and creativity. The first festival was held in 2018 in Moscow, Russia, 2019 - in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, March 2021 - in Moscow and Podolsk.

FESTIVAL ORGANIZER

The festival is organized by the Vyatkin Publishing House. We publish books in author's gift and leather hand-made bindings, make documentaries, short-length films and presentation videos. The publishing house is a permanent member of international and Russian exhibitions, festivals and forums. The publishing house also participates in organizing charity events, psychological and thematic seminars, meetings with authors, film directors and actors.

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE FESTIVAL

Our festival selects films based on the principle of dueling, as in sports. The films must pass through several stages: the official selection, the semi-final and the final. The final takes place in the form of a battle-duel, which is evaluated right in the hall by the filmmakers, the audience and the press.

The aim of the festival is to encourage young filmmakers to make new films, to appreciate their creativity and to introduce filmmakers to the culture and life of the world. We accept films of all genres from all over the world and give new filmmakers the opportunity to evaluate their films and compete with other famous filmmakers. These are films made from the heart and for people of all genres who deny aggression and war.

Each film that passes the official selection will receive laurels. And at the end of the festival, of course, a buffet and a photo shoot.

EVENTS DURING THE FESTIVAL

The final screenings
Screenings of "a single session" best movies not released in rent
Pitching of film projects
A script competition in Russian
Workshops and a round table for filmmakers
Excursion program
Interactive action
Children's program
Special presentation program
Gala concert and awarding of winners
Photo session with the winners and stars
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"Sezze Film Festival" is a cinema and entertainment event dedicated to Italian and foreign short films.

The 2024 edition in its 6th edition will have special prizes dedicated to films, documentaries, web series and music video clips.

The Festival will be held in Sezze (LT) on 16 and 17 December 2022 for the Documentaries, Music Video Clips and Web Series categories.
For the Short Films and Feature Films categories it will take place in September 2023.

Prizes will be dedicated to the best works and their artistic and technical figures.

For information and applications:

sezzefilmfestival@libero.it

https://www.facebook.com/sezzefilmfestival/

ONLY FOR SPANISH FILMMAKERS (and residents in Spain) // SOLO PARA CINEASTAS ESPAÑOLES Y EXTRANJEROS RESIDENTES EN ESPAÑA.