Blog: Film festivals

All films must be produced and shooted in the mediterranean countries or in countries with strong cultural links.
a) The Meditrranean countries are: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Slovenia, Spain, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lybia, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Monaco, Montenegro, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Tunisia and Cyprus.
b) The countries with strong cultural links are: Jordan, Kurdistan territories (Iran, Irak, Syria, Turkey), Mauritania, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Portugal and Romania.c)As a special case films shooted at Kurdistan territories should be at least 50% in Kurdish language.

We don't try to pigeonhole you into a specific genre. The only stipulation is the film must tell a story of hope. We want to build up and encourage our audiences, not tear down and discourage them.

Submission deadline July 25th 2017. All independent filmmakers within the US are eligible.



Lostwood Media is proud to present, in conjunction with Paul Brenno, the first Tioga Film Festival in Tioga North Dakota!

Sponsored by the Tioga EDC & Tioga Chamber of Commerce and organized by Dennis Lindahl.

The Tioga Film Festival will be held at the Tioga Movie Theater August 5th, 2017 in Tioga, North Dakota. Deadline submission is July 25th, 2017. All filmmakers from the USA are eligible to participate and there are no limits to submissions. Each submission is required a submission form and fee.

The Film Festival is part of a weekend event in Tioga. Which includes sidewalk sales, A drone camp and more. Selected and winning films will be shown at the Tioga Movie Theater from 11:00 am until 7:00 pm. Winners will be announced and notified no later than August 1st, 2017. Films will be FREE to view throughout the day. A schedule will available on this page as well as our facebook pages.

The Tioga Movie Theater is located at: 15 1st Street NE Tioga, ND

The 2019 Culver City Film Festival will be December 3rd - 8th and will be held at Cinemark 18 & XD at the Howard Hughes Promenade. Additional venues to be announced soon. All submissions are only $30.00 ($25.00 for Gold Members). Submissions are Open for shorts and feature narratives and documentaries, as well as music videos and even experimental films. Have your film screened in the heart of screen-land Culver City, CA and home of Sony Pictures and many film companies and distributors.

Submitting your film does not guarantee festival acceptance or screening. Acceptance into the festival does not guarantee award or prize. Submission fees are nonrefundable. Culver City Film Festival reserves the right to change our programming and event parties without notice.

The second Côte d'Azur Sport Film Festival will take place from September 26 to 28 of september 2017, three days of projection, debate and seminar to communicate the Olympic values and spread the importance of sports practice.

The Festival is promoted by the FIFS Association and organized by an ad hoc committee, after the first edition held in Sophia-Antipolis in October 2016, the FICTS challenge (Federation International du Cinema et Television Sportif, associated with the International Olympic Committee) is renewing itself with the Côte d'Azur, it is gaining volume and expanding its scope.,While maintaining its roots in Sophia-Antipolis, the diffusion of films and the organization of thematic symposia on the culture and values of sport will also take place in Nice, such as the National Sport Museum, an emblematic place. The Côte d'Azur sports cinema festival is now an integral part of the international circuit organized by the eponymous federation, which includes 16 festivals in as many countries.

ONLY FOR FILMMAKERS FROM SPAIN

PLEASE:
- SUBMIT NO MORE THEN 3 SHORT FILM.
- SUBMIT YOUR SHORT FILM TO A SINGLE CATEGORY.
- CLICK LIKE ON "Asfilmfestival" FACEBOOK PAGE.

AS FILM FESTIVAL (AsFF) is the first international film and visual art festival managed by people with Asperger Syndrome. It was born as a follow-up of a wider program, started up by Not Equal Association in 2008, and based on the idea of using cinema as a tool for social inclusion. AsFF is unique because it is not a festival about autism, but a film festival made by people with autism. For this reason (this is our claim) “it is equal to the others festivals, but different”.

AS FILM FESTIVAL (AsFF) è il primo festival di cinema ed arti visive realizzato con la partecipazione attiva di persone che si riconoscono nella condizione autistica. Nato come follow-up di un programma in più fasi avviato dall'associazione Not Equal a partire dal 2008 e fondato sull'uso del cinema come strumento di aggregazione ed inclusione sociale, AsFF è un progetto unico nel suo genere: non un festival sull'autismo, ma un festival di cinema vero e proprio, fatto anche da persone autistiche. Ecco perchè, come recita il claim, è un festival uguale agli altri, però diverso.

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.

SiembraFest is a biennial and itinerant Colombian film festival that tours different municipalities in the department of Cundinamarca, facilitating the circulation and appropriation of national film productions, while providing tools for rural communities to actively participate in the construction of their own image.

Through its actions it generates emotional experiences that transform the public. The Festival de Cine Colombiano al Campo is a high-impact initiative that contributes to the generation of alternative exhibition scenarios and the development of new audiences in rural areas of the country, intervening in community spaces that promote the encounter of cinema with art and popular culture.

As part of our effort to contribute to the growth and consolidation of the creative industries, training activities will be held on topics of interest, promoting the meeting of the audiovisual and film sector in the regions.

The Festival de Cine Colombiano al Campo is a space for the promotion, diffusion and support of cinematographic works of national production. Any audiovisual work that represents the natural, social and cultural values of rural communities in Colombia is a film with the particular seal of SiembraFest. Works that address the traditions, practices, popular knowledge, manifestations of daily life or problems that affect rural communities in Colombia, through fiction, documentary and animation, may be submitted.

We value the creative freedom of national filmmakers and filmmakers, which is why our selection will include films of any format, length, genre or technique, as long as they are productions of quality, relevance and cinematographic pertinence. The viewing and deliberation of the films will be in charge of the Programming Committee, constituted by a group of cinephiles, experts in cinematography and subjects related to rurality who share criteria with the artistic direction of SiembraFest.

ONLY FOR COLOMBIAN FILMMAKERS

Purpose of the Festival

FICAE - Diseases International Short Film and Art Festival opens the 4th edition of the Festival (4FICAE). It is open to all creators of audiovisual content that want to show their short films in all type of cinematographic genres whose main theme is directly related to some type of disease or health issues.

The purpose of this festival is to promote social awareness about diseases as a process of life in order to help destigmatize them. In addition, the festival seeks to promote artistic creation through audiovisual language to make it more visible and transmit knowledge about diseases, both those that involve changes to the health state, and those that are considered as social diseases and their consequences.


Dates and Venues

The Festival will take place in several venues in the city of Valencia during the last week of February and first week of March 2018.


The Festival will take place at different locations in the city of Valencia during the first week of March 2017.

FICAE is an initiative of Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and of the association VINCLES.

Nišville Foundation organizer of famous Nišville Jazz Festival which was rated as one of best jazz festivals in a world according to British magazine The Guardian. Last 8 years within the festival was Nišville Movie stage that becomes Nišville Movie Summit this year.

Nišville Movie Summit wants to bring together filmmakers of short and long movies to present them on a summit. Through this summit, we want to fuse jazz music and movies.

Competition: 8 will include feature films, 12 documentaries, 16 feature films and 20 silent films.

Feature films and silent films will be limited to thirty minutes duration, while the documentaries will be shown regardless of the playing time. The criteria will be linked on the one hand the aesthetic level of these films, and on the other - their authentic connections with jazz music.

Silent films with musical accompaniment pianist: Films that have been produced by Academy students accompanied by pianists and other musicians (movies will be obtained through the academies and art faculties). Authors can submit scores or to pianists, following action film Music improvise on the spot. These films should encourage creativity among students who produce movies about existence, and with the musicians who have an obligation to music "follow" developments on the canvas. The compound of creativity in both art, creating new kind creation.

In an exhibition part of Nišville Movie Summit will present a selection of some, a wider range of viewers, known movies (Django, La La Land, Bird, Mo Better Blues, Round Midnight, Born to be Blue, Miles Away, Artist ...) who meet the criteria for participation in the festival. As in any major film festivals, there is a possibility that some of these films are shown in the official program, but it does not compete for festival awards, because the idea of the festival "Movie Nišville Summit" is to find a new author values in domestic and world cinema when comes to the permeation of the film and jazz. Films that have received significant international awards are to be presented at the festival, but two awards at the festival, in this respect, would not bring anything significantly new

20th FILM AND WINE FESTIVAL "CITY OF LA SOLANA 2024".

Semillero Green Film Fest 2020 es la 10º edición del Concurso Nacional de Cortometrajes de Temática Ambiental. Su objetivo principal es fomentar la creatividad y apoyar la realización nacional independiente de obras audiovisuales cuyo contenido esté referido a la temática ambiental.
El concurso posee dos categorías de participación:

SEMILLERO
Incluye a todas aquellas personas residentes en la Argentina, con domicilio acreditable en el país, o de nacionalidad argentina y que residan en el exterior, mayores de 18 años, a través de la presentación de una o más obras.

SEMILLERITO
Incluye a todos los niños y niñas de nacionalidad argentina de entre 5 y 13 años, que estudien en las escuelas de educación primaria de todo el país, a través de la presentación de una o más obras. Se podrán presentar también las escuelas primarias de todo el país, tanto de gestión pública como privada.

Falcon International Film Festival is changing the way that people think of short films. We are looking for the very best short films that are entertaining and tell a story. The sort of short films that people want to watch. That makes them laugh. Or cry. That shock and surprise.

OFFICIAL IMDB QUALIFYING AWARD

The new season is now open!! Send your movie and win our trophy.

The FIFFLONDON is a monthly festival with yearly live screening in London that awards the best movies from every corner of the planet.

The winners of the monthly edition will automatically enter the annual competition, free of charge.

We strongly believe that every movie is the result of hard work and, as such, they deserve our jury’s full attention during the evaluation and the best works deserve our acknowledgment and appreciation.

The selected movies, as well as the winners, will receive a golden laurel wreath, which can be used in advertising material.

Winning films are announced on our website and our social media page.

FIFFLONDON is a monthly film competition. Each month, our Jury will award the best films through private screenings. The Best Picture monthly winners will compete in December 2021 for the Best of Fest award (best film of the year). FIFFLONDON’s annual judging team will select the winners in all the main categories, such as Narrative Film, Documentary and Animation.

As a part of this festival occurs every month, there are more chances to hang the golden laurel on your favourite movies!

Films entered in multiple categories may win multiple awards.

The Grand Rapids Feminist Film Festival (GRFFF) is celebration dedicated to elevating voices and showcasing talent from historically underrepresented groups in mainstream media.

Our mission is to:

● Bring awareness to the lack of diverse representation in front of and behind the camera
● Inspire and empower media creators of underrepresented and marginalized groups to engage in filmmaking as a feminist act
● Examine media through the intersecting lenses of gender, sexuality, race, ability, class, age, etc.
● Cultivate a welcoming safe space that fosters cross­-cultural understanding

Now in its sixth year, the GRFFF was originally the brainchild of independent publisher The Bandit Zine as a film version of their magazine. What started as a small evening showcase has now grown into an all-day festival that includes interactive workshops and panels, performances by local artists, and films screened from around the world.

This year, the festival will be held at Wealthy Theatre in Grand Rapids. We'll be hosting speakers, a drag show and upwards of 30 short films

We’re excited to see the fest grow even more this year, and are so happy to be a part of the ever­-evolving Grand Rapids feminist community.

GRFFF is run entirely by volunteers and is made possible through community partnerships and sponsors.

The main purpose of La mida no importa-Size Doesn’t Matter is to promote short film production and culture.

Further information: www.lamidanoimporta.cat

The 3nd edition of "MOVIEMMECE - Cinefestival of Biodiversity of Food and Cultures" will be held in Naples, Italy, in October 2019.

The contest can be attended by Italian autors and filmmakers under 35 who realized a short movie about food topic. Food should be understood as a vehicle for cultural exchange and for research into social, environmental, cultural, ecological or civil issues. The winner will receive a prize of 1000 Euros. More prizes will be assigned by juries composed by schools and cinema students. The partecipation in the contest is free of charge.

The festival aims to sensitize the target abut the food topic as a very relevant social and ecological issue, connected with human rights, biodiversity conservation and ecological sustainability of human productions. So, the young film makers selected by the Festival will be invited in Naples during the screening days, for public screening of their works and meeting with the public, institutions exponent and other young and senior film makers, to share and compare their works.

More info on www.moviemmece.it

Most Festival is an annual event that aims to showcase the best international audiovisual work linked to viniculture, wine and cava. At the same time, the festival aims to make a toast for good cinema by projecting unreleased films by great authors.

Held in the Penedès, a zone very close to Barcelona (Spain) with a long winemaking tradition and several wine-related tourist attractions, the festival wants to promote viniculture and arts linked to wine and cava through audiovisual works and also explore all aspects of winemaking, especially values such as quality, diversity, wine tourism and ties to the region.

MiTS is a festival that uses the videodance as a tool of mobilization and transformation social.

Both the dance and the video are aesthetic means very powerful expression, which can ask ourselves as a society and help us to mobilize and integrate groups who are at risk of social exclusion.

MiTS proposes a space of diffusion, of debate, of interrelation. Without neglecting an artistic aesthetic enjoyment, also opens us doors to ask ourselves as a society of active and participative way.

Harrogate Film Festival provides a forum for young and established filmmakers to offer short films in competition. Submissions are welcomed from filmmakers based anywhere in the world. The only exclusions are for films funded by national film studio and television companies or affiliated organisations. Harrogate Film Festival cannot provide any financial support for any aspect of the submission process.