Blog: Film festivals

CINEMA CLUB CONTEST
"An event created by filmmakers for filmmakers”

The Collective and In The Mirror Films are working together to create a short film contest where every month different directors will compete to win the session.

The winner of each session will be elected by the audience !
For every session, you receive feedback from an industry professional to help develop your art.

The wining shorts will go directly to the grand final that will happen the first week of June and the BIG PRIZE is the production of your next Short Film.!
A jury composed by teachers from The Collective school and a special guest from the movie industry will elect the winner of the big prize on the day of the Final.

Movies and Party!

After the presentation of the short films, the analysis if our specialised guests and the election of the wining short, each event will be followed by DJ set to make us feel like sharing more around a beer offered by our sponsor La Cervesera Artesana and get the opportunity to network ! Don't forget your business cards !

Christmas Film Festival Berlin presents the Christmas theme in all its wonderful and curious varieties. National and international feature films and short film programs bring a new light to the old-fashioned Christmas subject. Unconventional Christmas movies come to the foreground. Next to comedies also critical, tragic, satirical and scary movies are part of the program. Knowing that Christmas time polarizes many people, it is still worth to embrace the heartily ‘Spirit of Christmas’. In the dark season of the year the cinema turns into a magical place that makes you think, touches you and sometimes cast a smile on your face.

The Christmas Film Festivals festival is for those who want to escape the Christmas rush or do not have their loved ones around and of course passionate cinephiles. Let us take a fresh look at the usually rather traditional Christmas time.

➨ The number of Awards given out Monthly vary depending on submissions. Each month the trophy and Film God of the month selection Changes. The winning films will be contacted at the beginning of every month. Not all winning films will screen but will be invited to attend the festival.

➨ The winning chosen films will be screened with 5 other Selected films competing for the yearly award, each film receives a unique God of Olympus trophy 1 of 12 engraved, Other (Selected) winning films in other selected categories will screen as well on an amazing full sized theatrical screen at the Laemmle NoHo 7. Seating for 240, Your Guests, Cast and Crew will be invited, as well as Top industry professionals, Producers, Distributors, Directors and Actors. We will fill the seats. There will be a red carpet event with Professional Photographers that will Dropbox the pictures for free, Q&A with all of the filmmakers, We will record this and give it to you. And an awards presentation where the films will receive their Trophies and certificates.

➨Each film will be Presented your Unique Film God Trophy 1 of 12 Gods on Olympus, Take Photos, and have a filmed Q&A.

➨These 6 top (OLYMPUS GOD) films will Compete against 6 other top (OLYMPUS GOD) films of the year at our second annual festival held at the Laemmle NoHo 7 in January 2020 In North Hollywood, to win the Film God of the year Statue.

➨Each Winner in the other categories receive a Digital Certificate and can get the Film God Trophy which is different and Unique for each Category monthly, 1 of the 12 God Trophies pictured, as well as 7 Different PNG Laurels.

➨ Our Judging panel includes Women, Minorities and Immigrants and is comprised of working Industry professionals as well as non Filmmakers to keep the Judging fair and unbiased, something most film festivals lack.

➨ Networking opportunities at the Bi annual Festival to meet top industry professionals: producers, distributors, directors and actors.

➨We have over 90 Award Categories with recognition in areas most festivals fail to recognize.

➨ We are Sponsored by Simple DCP - You will get a discount if we screen your film and we will Pay for the hard drive and delivery.
They create Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs) for theatrical exhibition. This is the Standard now if a film plays in a theater.
Simple DCP provides you with the tools and expertise to master your film with confidence.
Awards & Prizes

Awards- Monthly/ Bi Annually

A different God and Trophy represents the 12 Selected films of the year each film representing that Greek god of the month.

➨Film 1- Zeus
➨Film 2- Poseidon
➨Film 3- Hades
➨Film 4-Athena
➨Film 5-Aphrodite
➨Film 6 -Apollo
➨Film 7-Hermes
➨Film 8-Dionysus
➨Film 9-Hephaestus
➨Film 10-Demeter
➨Film 11-Artemis
➨Film 12-Ares

Awards & Prizes

{Best Picture }
Over the six months leading up to the festival in July six selected films for the overall film God will be selected one each month it will be screened at the festival all Receive 1 of the 6 Film God Trophies they represent for that month for (FREE) at the festival, and receive the {Digital Certificate} by email

{Trophies}
➨Film 1- Zeus
➨Film 2- Poseidon
➨Film 3- Hades
➨Film 4-Athena
➨Film 5-Aphrodite
➨Film 6 -Apollo
➨Film 7-Hermes
➨Film 8-Dionysus
➨Film 9-Hephaestus
➨Film 10-Demeter
➨Film 11-Artemis
➨Film 12-Ares

International competition official short film competition 10 international film festival in the mountains.

Patagonia Eco Film Fest, calls filmmakers from all over the world to participate in the 9th International Environmental Film Festival of Patagonia which will take place in Puerto Madryn city, Chubut, Argentina from September 5-10, 2024.

The festival will accept documentary, fiction, animation films, about environmental issues.

The 11th Annual Toyama International Film Festival will take place in June of 2024 in Toyama Prefecture. With such great success in previous years, we are excited to once again share the visions of filmmakers from all over the world with our local community in the countryside of Japan.

Submissions will be open until April 14th, 2024.

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The Annual Toyama International Film Festival (TIFF) began in the rural prefecture of Toyama, Japan. Started by a few English teachers in the area, we hoped to reach people not just in Japan, but around the globe.

The first TIFF took place in a small room inside of a shopping center, where about 70 people watched the 10 films we had received. The following year was a tremendous success with over 100 submissions from different countries, quite a step from our first year. The event was held in the city of Toyama at a local independently-owned venue, Bodegas-Mambo with around 80-100 guests coming to view the films. Every year since, we hope to expand even further and provide an even larger venue for participants and the movie-going community in Japan.

Today, with over 1200 submissions each year from countries around the world, TIFF has become a highly-anticipated annual event and a staple of Toyama's international community.

Note: Due to time constraints, we cannot accept films that run over 10 minutes. However, any genre of short film will be considered for exhibition.

This festival is an initiative born of the Director Miguel Becerra Ortiz, with the support of the city Council, where you will be able to see projections of the selected short films.

This event aims to promote film culture through the short film.

March 7-9
Irish Cinema Showcase
Contemporary animated, live action and documentary feature length and short Irish films from local and international filmmakers.

YoFi Microfest is a cousin to YoFiFest, the Yonkers Film Festival.

The Micro Fests were created to bring year round themed screenings and programming that connects audiences to films with specific topics or genres.

The YoFiDMAC (Digital Media Arts Center) is conveniently located in the booming downtown Yonkers waterfront, a 30 minute train ride from midtown Manhattan, along the scenic Hudson River. We draw filmmakers and audiences from New York City, Westchester County and the Lower Hudson Valley, Rockland County, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Each year, more than 300 teenagers and filmmakers turns Cañada de Gomez into a huge cinema studio. In this 40 thousand inhabitants city of Argentina, the 72 Hours Short Film experience takes place. This is a unique experience in Latin America and it is fully-developed and self-managed by the local government. Secondary students from different schools are put together randomly to conform teams which will be led by experts. Their aim is to make 12 or 15 short films in only three days. In this race against the clock, they have to go through all the stages of a film-making process, from the creative stage in which they have to imagine a plot to the encounter with the public in an Avant Premiere with a crowded audience.

In the 9th edition of this experience, 72 Hours Short Film opens call to national short films realized in Argentina. They will be shown as part of the movies schedule that will be taking place simultaneously with the 72 hours experience. The films must be general public oriented, especially those movies oriented to a young audience.

The aim of the 9th edition of the 72 Hours Short Film Festival is to promote the passion not only for watching but also for making films.

BASKING FOOD FILM, is a festival of short films and / or advertising of agri-food products of differentiated quality that will take place within the framework of the Basking Food Festival event in Bilbao from April 29 to June 2, 2019.

Only for Spanish Filmmakers.

Sicilymovie – Agrigento Film Festival is a festival of feature films, short film, documentaries, videoclip, spot and animation shorts, created and organized by the Southmovie Association, which was created with the aim of bringing outdoor cinema for everyone to the heart of Sicily: the evocative Valley of the Temples of Agrigento, a city named Italian Capital of Culture 2025. The themes addressed in the works of directors from all over the world are multiple and educational.

The ninth edition of Sicilymovie is aimed at the best productions and distributions of short films and documentaries in the world who will compete for the Golden Demetra, the representative statuette of the Festival which recalls ancient Greece, cultural symbol of ancient Akragas, the city of Agrigento.
The project is supported and sponsored by the Valle dei Templi Archaeological and Landscape Park of Agrigento, the Municipality of Agrigento, the Sicily Film Commission and the Tourism Department of the Sicily Region. The Valle dei Templi Archaeological and Landscape Park is about 1300 hectares wide and here belong the remains of the ancient city of Akragas and the surrounding area up to the sea. The Valley of the Temples was declared a "World Heritage Site" by Unesco in 1997. Today the Valley of the Temples has more than one million visitors a year.

PLACE, DATE AND DEADLINE

Sicilymovie - Agrigento Film Festival will take place from 18 to 21 July 2024 at the Valley of the Temples of Agrigento

The deadline for the call will be 2024, May 31 at 23:59

ONLY FOR ITALIAN FILMMAKERS // SOLO PARA CINEASTAS ITALIANOS

Since the International Short film Contest Festival “Ciudad de Soria” considers at all times Short Films CINEMA in capital and appreciates as essential culture dissemination, our purpose is to promote as mean of audiovisual expression; the contribution to acknowledgment and dissemination. This format must be essentially and basically a part of CINEMA.

OJO DE PESCADO International Film Festival for Children and Youth is an annual event in Chile that gathers the most recent and exclusive film and TV contents from all over the world aimed at children and youth.

The Festival is organized by the OJO DE PESCADO CULTURAL CORPORATION, an exploration and action platform that, through the exhibition of films and the promotion of audiovisual creation, aims to help guarantee the right of children and young people to the integral education and communication and expression of their opinions.

The 11th edition of Ojo de Pescado Film Festival will take place online through the entire Chilean territory and in person only in the Region of Valparaíso (if the health situation allows it) between november 5 and november 15, 2024,

Competition Categories are:
- Short films for children.
- Television or web series for children.
- Feature films for children and adolescents.
- “Young Filmmakers” (short films made by children or young people).

The San Pedro International Film Festival was founded to celebrate the diverse culture and community of San Pedro with a wide spectrum of independent film, documentaries, and shorts. SPIFF is committed to exhibiting films that embody inspiring entertainment for all. Works that express fresh voices and differing global perspectives, with the intent that these films enlighten audiences while providing invaluable exposure for filmmakers, local and international.

In our first year, we had the first Los Angeles screening of Silver Linings Playbook. In our second year we hosted Ernie LaPointe, Sitting Bull's Great Grandson. In 2015 we celebrated the 20th Anniversary of The Usual Suspects with director Bryan Singer. We also had two short films either win or be nominated for an Academy Award! In 2017 we hosted the 30th Anniversary of Friday the 13th with director Sean S. Cunningham. We are very excited about our seventh year!

Prolific American writer and poet Charles Bukowski called San Pedro home for 15 years. Some of DW Griffith’s early short films were shot in San Pedro. These days you’re more likely to find film crews for NCIS, Mad Men, and Dexter. Other films shot in San Pedro include ‘King Kong’, ‘Chinatown’, ‘Point Break’, ‘Silence of the Lambs’, ‘The Usual Suspects’, ‘Pearl Harbor’, ‘Titanic’, ‘500 Days of Summer’, and a ton more. SPIFF is thrilled to present our 5th edition in a city with such a rich film history.

Luleå Film Festival hosts various competitions,
The best Swedish and international documentary award, best Swedish and international short film award, a special prize for young filmmakers on a regional, and national level, and much more...

International festival of fiction short feature films.

Golden Eye—is an international festival for movie and TV cameramen and camerawomen .

Festival’s main goal is to motivate cameramen and camerawomen and people in movie-TV industry, and support their professional development.

The International Festival of Golden Eye will cover the cost of flight and accommodation of the nominees.

Royal Holloway University of London is proud to announce its third official Film Festival!

The festival will take place in just one day, on Sunday 2nd of June, from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm, in Founder's Building at Royal Holloway.