Blog: Film festivals

Spello is a wonderful old medieval village with amazing history, art, tradition, nature, food and wine, in the beautiful Italian region of Umbria.

Spello is placed in the centre of Italian area between Florence, Perugia and Rome.

…… a film finishes and everyone stands up to leave the screening room, the film credits are however still being shown, and in doing so the immense work by those professionals, who contributed to the making of the film with passion and professionalism, is overlooked. How much hard work and sacrifice has been involved? Who are these people behind the scenes?

For this reason the "Festival del Cinema Città di Spello ed I Borghi Umbri" – “RASSEGNA CONCORSO LE PROFESSIONI DEL CINEMA“, was established in 2012; dedicated to those professionals behind the scenes of cinema:

http://www.festivalcinemaspello.com/fcs/index.php/it/spelloisff

The idea of the festival was created by Donatella Cocchini, President of L’Associazione Culturale Aurora and by movie director, Fabrizio Cattani.

FROM 8 YEARS THE FESTIVAL HAS A NEW SECTION DEDICATED TO SHORT FILMS BY PROFESSIONALS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE COMPETITION:
“SPELLO INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL”

The Festival is characterized because it rewards the best professions who work behind the scenes to make a film. The jury will decide the winners by evaluating overall the various processes and professions who participated, especially the script, the cinematography, the costumes, set design, makeup, sound, music.

The next edition will be held from 7 to 16 MARCH 2025

Next Year video-makers from all over the world will be able to show their works in this new international competition open to short film of any genre.

Ten days of live screenings, Award Event and for all winners a beautiful and original trophy exclusively create for the Spello Int’lShort film Festival.

ATTENTION ALL THE SELECTED SHORT FILMS AND THE FINALISTS WILL BE SCREENED DURING THE FESTIVAL DAYS.

SAN BENEDETTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ( Terms, Rules, prizes and motivations can be translated in 22 languages visiting our site https://www.sanbenedettofilmfest.it)

"MAGICSCREENPLAY" ( Terms, Rules, prizes and motivations can be translated in 22 languages visiting our site https://www.sanbenedettofilmfest.it/magic-screenplay/)


We built a festival in total freedom, without any external conditioning. An International Short Film Competition. A window on cinema from a privileged viewpoint: the city of San Benedetto del Tronto. Born in 2017, the SBFF has become one of the leading international events for the Adriatic Riviera and the Piceno region. The events will take place at the Palazzina Azzurra in San Benedetto del Tronto (AP) on Viale Buozzi 14.

"MAGICSCREENPLAY" - (Collateral Event to the SAN BENEDETTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL) was born from the need to combine the scenic, architectural and natural beauties of the Marche Region in syncrasia with the cultural, social heritage and identity need of the places and the human and professional resources that come from them, evolve and hope for an ever-increasing expansion of training, skills and abilities.

The Contest was born within a strategy of discovery and promotion of national and international emerging talents and represents the exclusive context to select, through a Quality Jury, the best pitch, with a predefined theme, to be declined into a consequent script.

After the selection, the one deemed to perform best will be subjected to development through the creation of a short film with a total length of no more than 15 minutes, produced by the Associated Professionals Association of Art & Management "IL SERPENTE AUREO," in collaboration with and with the support of the FILM COMMISSION MARCHE, the MARCHE REGION and under the patronage of the City of San Benedetto del Tronto.

ARTIST'S VISIONS - VISIONS FROM THE WORLD

- " There is no art form like cinema to strike the conscience, shake the emotions and reach the secret rooms of the soul" Ingmar Bergman

- " Life in the depths is completely different from life on the surface and has mysterious and terrifying aspects" Dario Argento

- " I am not an artist but a craftsman" "The heart must mediate between the brain and the hands" Fritz Lang

- " I steal from every single film ever made. If I like things I mix them together. And if people don't like it, then don't go see it.... I steal from everything.... Great artists steal not make homages" Quentin Tarantino

- " No matter where the world goes, even if I can't speak a foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of the earth as my home. "Akira Kurosawa

- " An essential element of all art is risk..." Francis Ford Coppola

- " Cinema is a mode of expression that allows one to express all the nuances of a thing and its opposites..." Catherine Breillat

- " Unlike all other art forms, cinema is able to capture and render the passage of time, to stop it almost to possess it in infinity. I would say that film is the sculpture of time. "Andrei Tarkovsky

- " I am just a storyteller and film seems to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in motion, enhances it ... it is my way of telling a story. "Federico Fellini

- " The art of film can only really exist through a highly organized betrayal of reality" François Truffaut

- " I work with my dreams or nightmares" David Cronenberg

- " If I can't get the characters to talk, then I give up " Quantin Tarantino

- " The poet stretches out his hand to lead us beyond the last horizon, beyond the top of the pyramid, to that land that extends beyond the true and the false, beyond life and death, beyond space and time, beyond reason and fantasy, beyond spirit and matter." Alejandro Jodorowsky

- " Cinema is the 'only art form in which the works move and the viewer remains motionless " Ennio Flaiano

- " Cinema is a cultural industry. Making films also means assuming a social and moral responsibility. Therefore, we should not produce what we can sell, but sell what we want to produce " Franco Cristaldi

- " I think that scandalizing is a right.... " Pier Paolo Pasolini

- " To act is to listen... " Pupi Avati

- " I think the past affects the ability to tell stories" Joel Coen

- " Cinema is beautiful if it can read reality " Ettore Scola

- " Cinema consists of two things: a screen and chairs. The secret lies in filling them both " Roberto Benigni

DocAction Film Festival is an annual event focusing on international documentaries, video arts, ecperimental movies and mobile-made-films. Its purpose is to show outstanding films and arts from all over the world, recognize and support new filmmakers and writers and to enhance awareness and understanding of cinematography as art among diverse audiences.

New 2025 Season OPEN.

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The Wild Indie Sci-fi & Fantasy Film Festival continues to celebrate our favourite genres of film. Enter once, your film is assessed for all the categories (see note below). It's a shorts specific festival and there are prizes for some categories. We are trying to get more all the time. We'll confirm prizes for the new season between the hyphens below.

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The last season of WISFFF brought us to a new home in Genesis Cinema - London. And this season, we are staying. There is a lovely welcoming "film-o-phile" vibe going on at the cinema, which resulted in lots of fun, and a surprising amount of networking. WISFFF continues to grow with more entries and awards and prizes than ever before We also had an awesome and ever growing selection of films at the screening. There are some photos of the various events on here.

Awards wise, there are a number of challenges, awards and prizes for Micro (2min), Mini (10min), and Short (25min) film categories within the genre.

The 2022 Early Bird Teaser can be viewed at:
https://youtu.be/8at62y06D_0

The 2021 trailer can be viewed here:
https://youtu.be/pQezUJrQroY

News for the 2024-5 season will come to you via the the social media channels, particularly the Facebook Page, mainly because the text isn’t limited in characters like other channels.

To answer a question asked all the time. Yes HORROR is included and has it's own sub-genera award.

The festival is open to all (UK, Worldwide, The Up/Down/LSide/RSide Dimensions, even the Outer Spiral Arm (of the Galaxy). English is the festivals first language ; other languages are welcome but should be closed captioned to English. Awards are listed in full below.

If we've had the good fortune to see an advert for your film and sent you a discount/waiver it's because we really want you to enter. We make films and enter festivals ourselves so we know just how many offers you'll get on a marketing cycle. If you've got an offer from us, it's because we think your film fits? If you we didn't see your ad'... ask us... filmmaking is about networking.

This event is completely independent of Wild Indie's production (but again ask us if you want to find out about any of those projects).

Zed Fest Film Festival & Screenplay Competition was founded to encourage and support independent low and big budget, filmmakers, who work in the horror, suspense, science fiction, drama, action, adventure, and art house genres.

After participating in Zed Fest Film Festival, many of our filmmakers have been able to advance their careers develop their next projects. We take pride in the fact that we are able to maintain relationships with participants, encourage and help them develop and promote their future endeavors.

" WE HOPE TO DISCOVER THE CULT MOVIES OF THE FUTURE."

****ZED FEST FILM FESTIVAL is an IMDB award Listing Qualifier****

Please visit our website for more information
www.zedfest.org/faq.html
www.zedfest.org


For News & Updates please follow us on Social Media:
www.facebook.com/zedfestfilmfestival
twitter.com/Zedfestfilmfest
www.instagram.com/zedfestfilmfestival

FYI:
WE CONSIDER YOUR PAYMENT DATE AS YOUR ENTRY DATE

For information about us please visit us
www.zedfest.org or our new FAQ Submissions Info page http://www.zedfest.org/faq.html
to learn more about our special Awards:
http://www.zedfest.org/zedfestspecialawards.html

The Top Zed Fest Film Festival 2024
Prizes: Over $5000 in Cash & Prizes will be Divided among winners

-ZED FEST FILM FESTIVAL CERTIFICATE
-Bonus Top Prize winners Movie Magic Screenwriter software
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$500 1st Place Screenplay
$300 2nd Place Screenplay


Top Zed Fest Film Festival Filmmaker and Screenplay Awards:

Zed Fest Film Festival Independent Spirit Award is bestowed each year to a filmmaker that Pursues their filmmaking vision from concept to film.


This award has been inspired by Independent Filmmaking Pioneers Robot Monster (1953) Director Phil Tucker, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Elaine May, John Cassavetes, and Penelope Spheeris,Wes Anderson.



These filmmakers followed their passion for filmmaking. They embraced the love of filmmaking as an art form. They used their creativity and ingenuity in their filmmaking and did not let their budget stand in the way of their film projects. That is very inspirational to us and we hope to today's emerging filmmakers.



Feature Film Golden Marquee Award -
The Feature Film Golden Marquee is for the highest achievement award in recognition of the Feature Film that displays exemplary technical proficiencies in filmmaking and storytelling.

Short Film Golden Marquee Award -
The Short Film Golden Marquee is for the highest achievement award in recognition to the Short Film that displays exemplary technical proficiencies in filmmaking and storytelling.

The Pickford Award -
THE PICKFORD AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE FILM ARTS
This Award is to Highlight Women in The Film Arts. We call it the "The Pickford Award" In honor of the Great Mary Pickford Silent Film Pioneer.



ZED FEST FILM FESTIVAL 2024 ENTRY DEADLINES
Early Bird Deadline Feb 28, 2024
Spring Deadline April 28, 2024
Regular Deadline July 30, 2024
Deadline July 30, 2024
Final Film Deadline September 30, 2024
Notification Date October 30, 2024

ZED FEST FILM FESTIVAL GENRES:
Horror
Suspense
Supernatural
Arthouse
Action/Adventure
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Documentary
Music Videos
Super 8


Enter your music Video any music genre, we play top winners at the Zed Fest Film Festival 2024 Event in November to be held in Regal Noho West, North Hollywood, California on Nov 6-12, 2024.

ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO BE PLAYED AT THE ZED FEST FILM FESTIVAL EVENT 2024!!!

IMAGINARIA is the first and only international animated film festival of Apulia region.

In its history Imaginaria has grown enormously, earning an important artistic and social position in the international festival sector.

Festival of “people and places”, Imaginaria manages to create a family atmosphere among the public and professionals who come in open air cinemas of Conversano. Imaginaria, which is characterized by the importance of “numbers” and the excellent quality of thousands of works of international standing, is a project to promote, disseminate, film training, which aims to promote the independent authors of animated films. Imaginaria intends to trigger, in a long-term perspective, all possible synergies in the community helping to create socio-economic opportunities in the area and at the same time promote the culture of animation. The festival, therefore, is a project which aims to spread the use and knowledge of animated films not only during the event, held every year in Conversano, but also in places and times of the year using different networks, made up of other festivals and exhibitions (national and international) to which Imaginaria participates or which it is the promoter.

Immagina, Associazione Culturale, organizes the 22nd edition of the MonFilmFest.

The MISSION: the search for new stories and new talents in cinema through "a game" that defines and determines "a way of producing".

The CHARACTERIZATION: the MONFILMFEST has maintained its root "games of cinema without borders" in the Monferrato region. Without any obligation on regulations, we give guidelines consistent with our past, and WE START FROM THE IDEA OF TELLING from the Monferrato, THE PLANET, in its multiple physical, anthropic, political, and economic aspects with its evident environmental criticalities and its resistant beauties.

The CINEMA GAMES are the tool to fulfill our mission:

1. SEVEN DAYS FOR A FILM
It is a game that tests the ability to produce a film in Seven Days by designing the story and the production plan up to its first screening to the public.

2. SHOWCASE
Showcase presents a program of films to be screened during the festival week after A RESEARCH, A REDISCOVERY of ignored or forgotten films, produced after January 1, 2022.

The works have no constraints on genre, type, or duration. Showcase is beyond genres for a total vision of the international cinematic panorama. The FESTHOME platform will host the works and allow worldwide enjoyment of the films after the author's registration on the dedicated page of the MonFilmFest.

3. CHAT SI GIRA! is the new game of the MonFilmFest dedicated to the pre-production of a film written four-handed with Artificial Intelligence. The project involves screenwriters and AI developers working together to create an original screenplay.

The first step will be to write in Italian, using the suggestions offered by Artificial Intelligence, the synopsis, the subject, and the treatment or the screenplay of a short film, all in Seven Days.

All authors who can propose their work in Italian can participate.

TRIFI Film Festival's goals are to:

- To promote and encourage future artists and artisans in the arts, media, and technology of film making.

- To further public awareness and appreciation of motion pictures as an art form, and

- To support the education of the general public in these areas by hosting annual film exhibitions, lectures, seminars, workshops, and other activities.

TRIFI's motto is “To spotlight independent films with limited budgets using unlimited imagination!”

Films may also be selected to screen with no extra fee at Radcon SF&F Convention in Pasco WA February 15-17, 2019 - Seattle Crypticon May 3-5, 2019 (2 hour block - Horror Shorts only)

TRIFI (TCIF3) is a Washington state non-profit organization. A Registered 501c3 Tax-Exempt Organization

Ortometraggi Film Festival is a short film festival (including documentaries, animation, fiction and art video) whose aim is to raise awareness on issues related to environment, food, sustainability and the present relationship between mankind and nature.

This year, the fourth edition of Ortometraggi Film Festival will be held in Turin, one of the most important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.

Ortometraggi Film Festival 2021 is designed to be enjoyed both in-person and online. Together with the live show, the selected short films will be released for a limited period on a dedicated online platform. The directors will also be given the chance to take part in online interviews, in order to create an interactive event where audience and directors can talk about cinema, nature and sustainability.

This edition’s categories are distinguished by three main themes, in order to explore the subject of the relationship between man and nature from different points of view and facets.

Based on the following categories, directors are invited to submit their short films:

1. Technology and Agricolture

2. Earth and Digital

3. City and Food

Further informations about the event will soon be available on the web site.

Welcome to Filmstrip International Film Festival. We’re an online and independent film festival with live screenings, that takes place in the heart of Moldavia region, in Iasi, Romania, one of the leading centers of Romanian social, cultural, academic and artistic life.

Known as The Cultural Capital of Romania, Iași is a symbol in Romanian history, and it is still referred to as The Moldavian Capital, being the main economic and business center of the Moldavian region of Romania.

Filmstrip International Film Festival is involved in promoting young filmmakers, maintaining a high standard, that of a festival eminently dedicated to spiritual and cultural values.

The best films of each category will be screened at a vibrating venue, "La Baza”, home of many cultural events in the city throughout the year.

The festival runs once a year, the whole process of selection and awarding takes place online, with live screenings being held at the end of each edition.

There will be a total of 10 films screened at our location - the AWARD WINNERS (Best Film, Silver, Bronze, Special Mention) and the CATEGORIES AWARD WINNERS (Animation, Documentary, etc).

Near Nazareth Festival ( NNF ) invites all film lovers to partake in our celebration.

Near Nazareth Festival hospitably opens its doors to filmmakers. Festival participants from around the world will show their works.

We believe that the best place for them to present their work - is Near Nazareth Festival.

More than 3500 participants from 70 countries of 5 continents presented their films and works at the Festival in Israel since 2015.

The works are evaluated by an international jury. Many participants became prize-winners and winners in their nominations.

A festival diploma increases the prestige of the piece.

We invite you to take part in it. We will be glad to review your work.

Our motto is: Everyone has a chance to be evaluated and win! We wish you creative success.
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An important addition.

We continue our work.

We believe that film and art is very important during this time.

We still accept submissions and will hold online screenings as scheduled.

We look forward to your new works.

Art is life.

Stay safe and healthy!
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Our festival - NNF - is the first of its kind.

Our festival will serve to strengthen mutual understanding and friendship between the peoples of the world. Through cooperation with movie lovers from around the world, we will make history.

Today filmmakers from 70 countries are participating in the festival, and presented his works.

Near Nazareth Festival Online Film Market - Free of charge for all participants of the NNFestival.

We post your film info on Near Nazareth Festival Facebook page - post + image.
We'll set up info about your film on Near Nazareth Festival website.

Page is opened and distributed among national and international distributors.

We are inviting of you to join
We do not limit the categories of participants. All films are presented in their original language. There is no need for subtitles in a foreign language different from the original.

Every submitting will be reviewed by a qualified jury and the audience.

Event venue - The Poznak Community Centers, Givat Ha-More

Ananse Cinema International Film Festival comes at a time when it is most important to take the storytelling experience to a new level of reckoning and celebration. But above all it presents a prime opportunity for the voice of the large community of content consumers in Africa to be heard.

Ananse Cinema International Film Festival is an event founded by filmmakers for filmmakers.

We aim to create a festival where independent short films and feature films of all genres and countries of origin get the recognition they deserve, where filmmakers can come together and celebrate each other's work, at a fully sold-out cinema, filled with cinephiles.

The winners will be announced at the festival, after the screening, and online the next day. The evening will be closed with a networking party.

FEATURE FILMS

The Official Section. All feature films whose content might be considered as belonging to such the horror or fantastic genre can take part in the competition.

SHORT FILMS

Participation in the competition is on an international level.

Only one work per director will be accepted. Short films must not exceed 20 minutes in length (including credits).

All Short films must have been produced after January 1st 2024.

All films must be presented in their original language, with spanish subtitles. By "original language" is meant the language in which a film is or will be exhibited in its country of origin.

The Louisiana LGBT Film Festival seeks to hear voices from all members of the LGBT Community and allies. We want to hear YOUR voice, see things through YOUR lens.

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Seeing the world through the lens of awareness, acceptance, love, and empowerment...

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Thank you for being with us in our third year! We have had some amazing live and virtual events and looking forward to keeping the party going in 2021.

We began on June 28th 2019 - Fifty years after the first Stonewall riots, to give a voice to filmmakers who felt they didn't belong in the mainstream. We honour filmmaker and trans activist Chloe- Deloach Davis who took her own life after relentless abuse.

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Every year we bring honour to those who live with love in their hearts.

Thank you for being here - you are not alone.

FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF THE FIRST EDITION, GABES CINEMA FEN FESTIVAL IS HOLDING A 4th EDITION FROM 6 TO 12 MAY IN GABES.

The festival, which considers Arab cinema as a priority by highlighting the new dynamics that it knows with openness on other cinemas and visual arts, returns with a new edition that it hopes will be up to the expectations of its public and actors of the cinema sector.

We extend an open invitation for Arab directors to register their long, short, documentary, feature or experimental films on the website www.gabescinemafen.com.

The municipality of Gravina di Catania and the cultural associations “Gravina Arte” and “No_Name”, organize the event “Via dei Corti” – 10th edition of the Independent Short Film Festival.

TNFF is all about celebrating, educating, empowering, promoting, and proliferating amazing quality independent Cinema in Chennai (Formerly known as Madras) the capital city of the State of Tamil Nadu. TNFF aims to give opportunities to independent filmmakers to showcase their creativity. Introducing our audience to Independent content is our mission.

The 3rd Tamil Nadu Film Festival will be a Film Festival with live screenings at multiple locations.

The Tamil Nadu Film Festival (TNFF) offers 10 days of celebration, with live screenings of Local & International amazing quality independent Cinema. Film categories include Narrative Features, Animated Features, Documentary Features, Short Documentaries, Short Films, Short Animation Film, Music Videos, Short-short films and Student Productions from film schools.

Your film will be categorized in one of these following sections;

1. International Mix (for international cinema)
2. Indian Mix (for new discoveries and promising talents from the Indian film world)
3. Tamil Mix (for challenging new trend Tamil Cinema)
4. Generation Next – Grade Schooler: 5-12 yrs. (films for young audiences)
5. Generation Next – Teen: 13-18 yrs. (films for adolescent audiences)
6. Campus Student Mix (Student films from all over the world)

Keeping the event truly international TNFF will have the following programs; press opportunities, networking occasions, industry attendance, Discussion Forum & high-quality Workshops.

The important guests who adorned our 2nd TNFF Award Ceremony and made the event memorable are; our Chief Guest Mr. Thambi Ramaiah, a director, lyricist, and a National Award-Winning Indian actor. Mr. Ravindhar, Cinematographer AND OUR JURY MEMBER has an impressive legacy spanning over four decades IN THE FILM INDUSTRY & Mr. Sab John Edathattil, Screenwriter AND OUR JURY MEMBER, with 34 years of screenwriting career & has had about 32 screenplays filmed. He is one of the leading screenwriting and storytelling voices in South India, especially in the Malayalam and Tamil film industry.

The VIP's who graced the online 1st Tamil Nadu Film Festival (TNFF 2020) are Rev. Fr. A.J. Thamburaj, S.J., Rector, Loyola College, for the academic year 1983-84. He is the pioneer who introduced the VISCOM course at Loyola College, for the first time in city of Chennai, the state Tamil Nadu and the country India; Mr. DSR Subash, PRESIDENT, Tamil Nadu Union of Journalist; Mr. Bh. S. S. PRAKASH REDDY, Regional Secretary, Federation of Film Societies of India; Dr. M. Davamani Christober, Principal & Secretary, The American College, Madurai; S. S. Stanly (Film Director); Mr. S. Theodore Baskaran, film historian, Researcher, author, writer, actor, and speaker; Mr. Aranthai Manian, A Script writer, Director in films and TV serials; A Radio Broadcaster and an Orator; Mrs. Uma Vangal, filmmaker, film professor, Fulbright scholar, columnist, public speaker and media analyst; Mr. Mohan V. Raman, Indian actor, writer, Voice artist and orator. In 2017 and 2019, he was a Jury member for the National Film Award for Best Writing on Cinema; Mr. Hariharan Krishnan, He is a Professor, Arts and Director Media Lab at KREA University; Mr. Ajayan Bala, author, publisher, script writer, Film critic of Tamil cinema (Kollywood) He has authored some 30 books on various topics and nine among them are on cinema alone; Girish Wankhede (Trade Analyst); Mr. Vivek Mohan, winner of the President’s National Film Award in 1999; Mr. Kichas (KRISHNASAMY GOPALSAMY) (DOP), multiple award winner; Mr. Ranjith Shankaran, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Mahindra University, Hyderabad; Ms. Sharada Ramanathan (Film Director), winner of three National Film Awards for her directional debut in the 2007 Tamil film “Sringaram”; and Mr. Balaji Mohan (Film Director, Actor and Producer).

WE REQUEST ALL SUBMITTERS TO DOUBLE CHECK IF YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION YOU HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOUR PROJECT IS CORRECT. WE ALSO REQUEST YOU TO CHECK ALL FOLDERS IN YOUR EMAIL INBOX INCLUDING YOUR SPAM FOLDER REGULARLY.

We request all entries submitted from India to email or call us if you have payment related issues.

All Indians who require a GST INVOICE kindly email us with your complete GST BILLING INFORMATION. We can provide you with it when the funds are released from this platform.

We request all to submit your entry via one of submission partners. We are a ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY FIM FESTIVAL and so do not accept DVDs or CDs.

Tomorrow Unlocked Film Festival (TUFF) is the first international film festival with an aim to tell engaging stories about how technology influences our lives now, and in the future , and engage with a broad audience of innovators, artists, technologists, thinkers, scientists, hackers and entrepreneurs.

We want you to make a short film, no longer than 15 minutes, with a strong storyline. We’re looking for quality above quantity, so keep in mind that it’s not about the length of the film. Films should be impactful and human, while keeping technology as the hero. Filmmakers will therefore need to transform complex technical information into easy to understand stories. Important topics for TUFF are the future of “Health”, “Work” and “Communities” and the role of technology within these three distinct areas.

More about the Tomorrow Unlocked Film Festival
The Tomorrow Unlocked Film Festival (TUFF) is an international event organized by online magazine Tomorrow Unlocked, providing up-and-coming filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their creativity and tell engaging stories about how technology influences our lives now, and in the future. The film program will be fused with related talks and other opportunities to connect with an engaged community of innovators, artists, technologists, filmmakers, thinkers, scientists, hackers and entrepreneurs.

Ipiales Cine Sin Fronteras as an audiovisual scenario promotes the development of projects or independent production and supports the production of audiovisual arts, as well as highlighting their role in the formation of audiences.
www.facebook.com/Ipiales.Cine.Sin.Fronteras.Festival
www.instagram.com/icsinfronteras/

The Tacoma Film Festival is a celebration of independent film mirroring the diverse and eclectic sensibilities of Western Washington’s second largest city. Including selections from the Pacific Northwest and all over the world, TFF prides itself on showcasing the connectedness of local, national, and international film. It’s a great festival to connect with audiences, filmmakers, critics, and professionals because of the friendly, and collegial atmosphere throughout. The whole community gets behind the festival and makes it a really one-of-a-kind experience.

50 Film Festivals worth the Entry Fee, 2014–2019 — MovieMaker Magazine

“…Rising stars would be remiss not to add it to their annual itinerary." — MovieMaker Magazine

"The ultimate indie film festival." — Seattle's CityArts Magazine

"One of the premier festivals in the Northwest." — PostDefiance.com

“It was one of the most diverse and current selection of films, shorts and new media that I have ever experienced in a film festival. I met people there that I will continue to be connected to for a long time.” — Juan Carlos Zaldivar, filmmaker

“The programming at TFF had such a progressive vision of cinema. The festival had a definite voice and created a warm atmosphere for filmmakers…” — Masami Kawai, filmmaker

“Very friendly, great emphasis on the films and filmmakers and creating an intimate community for film-going. Beautiful festival.” — Derek Knowles, filmmaker

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2019

– 200+ films including world, US, and Washington premieres. Our programming presented films that featured innovative storytelling, creative non-fiction, and wonderful works of animation.

– It was the 4th year of our wildly successful filmmaker housing program where we hand-select wonderful residents to host filmmakers.

– The fourth edition of our Music Video program (Track 04), screened at the historic Blue Mouse Theater.

– The Veldt VR Studio. Our fifth year presenting a diverse selection of virtual reality works, exhibited in a beloved community space, and without time limits.

– Panels and workshops geared towards independent filmmakers

– Fun parties and after parties

History:
Established in 2006, the Tacoma Film Festival was created and developed by the passionate individuals behind Tacoma's only non-profit art-house movie theater, The Grand Cinema. The Grand (TFF's primary venue) is one of the Puget Sound region's strongest outlets for both international and local independent filmmakers, and works hand-in-hand with the festival to connect our city to the art of film.