Blog: Film festivals

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We host events that leverage the power of film and animation to educate, inspire and connect people.

• Professional short films: fiction short films or documentaries of any kind are selected on the subject "Dependencies", Italian and foreign, even unpublished. Maximum duration: 20 minutes.

• Amateur short films: fiction short films or documentaries of any kind are selected on the subject "Dependencies", Italian and foreign, even unpublished. Maximum duration: 8 minutes. Shot with any support (iPhone, Tablet etc ..), using a very small budget and without equipment and professional teams.

• Animation: Italian and foreign animated short films on the theme "Dependencies", also unpublished. Maximum duration: 20 minutes

MANIATIC- FANTASTIC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF MANISES it´s a festival of fantastic genre to bring the world of the short film to the new generations of spectators who otherwise would not have access to the latest creations of the future directors of cinema.

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.

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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.

Chulpicine began its work in 2002 with the first ever Itinerant Children & Youth Film Festival in Quito. The warm welcome that the project received allowed the festival to become an annual event during the months of July to September, bringing an educational and entertaining event at no cost, to sectors with few cultural activities.

Thanks to the positive reaction, Chulpicine became a cultural and educational non-profit foundation in June 2004. After more than 10 years of experience, Chulpicine have reach a stable proposal and working methodology that has spread at national level. The Festival has promoted the creation of coaching staff; cultural managers working in different communities; and a large group of followers.

Chulpicine has designed a set of activities and workshops for institutions, community organizations or outreach workers to educate and train in different areas related to cinema, audiovisual, communication and Internet used as social intervention tools. These activities and workshops have been the beginning of a formation of learning communities by harnessing the capabilities of young people, as well as the setting up of an active and engaged network of social facilitators through the film and audiovisual work.

The Foundation carries out the following program lines: training; intervention; appropriation of public spaces; diffusion and production. This line of work is an alternative to foster community networks to develop communication skills, analysis and reflection in the various stakeholders of the community, thereby strengthening its organizational and self-development skills.

The foundation has a multidisciplinary team currently working on the projects. These people are responsible for different areas: there is a psychologist, a producer, a programmer, a communicator and an accountant.

In addition, every year about 12 people are hired to assist in the implementation of activities. This group is made up of people who have worked in the past in the festival and some new young people that wish to join the group. Also, each year we have the support of volunteers from different organizations.

Founded in 2010, China International New Media Short Film Festival (hereinafter referred to as “CSFF”) is the only nationally-recognized international short film festival in China, which is hosted by National Radio and Television Administration and Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government, supported by China TV Artists Association, Radio and Television administration of Guangdong Province, organized by Culture, Radio, Film, Tourism & Sports Administration of Shenzhen Municipality, Guangming District People’s Government of Shenzhen Municipality and Shenzhen Media Group, and executed by Shenzhen Shenguang Media Co., Ltd.

The CSFF aims to encourage the creation of outstanding new media short films across the globe, to seek and support young film and television talents, to incubate high-quality film and television creative projects, to facilitate the integration and development of film & television industry and new media industry, and to promote cultural communication, exchanges and cooperation internationally. 

The 12th CSFF will be held from 5 December to 12 December 2021 in Shenzhen.

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.

Eneagrama es un Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental que propone una muestra con talleres y conversatorios en la ciudad de Córdoba capital.
Nos interesa pensar el arte experimental como un espacio de crítica en relación a la realidad circundante, como una creatividad en constante movimiento que genera nuevas formas de expresión.
Queremos acercar una propuesta no convencional, un espacio de exposición de cine experimental donde lxs receptores tengan una participación activa, proponiendo un juego en el espacio a través de experiencias sinestésicas e inmersivas.

The XI edition of the Guayaquil International Film Festival will be celebrated in from july 30th – august 6th, 2025 from the city of Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador. With screenings in theatres and workshops, forums, and master classes. The biggest filmmaking experience in town.

9th EUREKA UNIVERSITY FILM FESTIVAL 2023

The conditions described below correspond to the requirements proposed by EUREKA University Film Festival and its programming team. The registration and selection of audiovisual pieces sent by those students and filmmakers who would like to be part of the official programming depend on these requirements, bases and conditions.

EUREKA University Film Festival is an event initially organized by students from the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano of Bogota and students from different universities in Colombia. The festival will take place from September 01 to 08, 2023 in the city of Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

The call for entries will be open from March 11st until June 01rd, 2023. The only platform we will enable to receive the audiovisual material will be :

https://festhome.com/festival/eureka-festival-universitario-de-cine

We will not receive short films through other channels unless the platform may present an inconvenience around your application, in this case you can send us the materials of your short film to the following email:

programación.eureka@gmail.com

The materials to be sent in those cases are:
-Two (2) copies of the short film
One (1) in códec ProRes 422, contained as .MOV o .MP4 with a minimum resolution of Full HD 1920x1080px.
One (1) in códec H264, contained as .MOV o .MP4 with a minimum resolution of full HD 1920x1080px.
-Subtitles in Spanish and English in a .srt file
-Synopsis
-PDF file with the Technical Sheet
-Trailer (if available)
-Official Poster
-3 Stills
-Director and Producer’s picture
-PDF file with Profiles for both Director and Producer
-Instagram account of Director, Producer or Short Film Distributor

You can attach these materials through the platform of your preference, for example: WeTransfer, MyAirBridge, Filemail, etc.

Additionally, the programming team may request short films that they consider should be part of the call by means of the official mail and the festival reserves the power to make direct invitations to outstanding works.

Student Short Films in Fiction, Animation, Documentary & Screenplay.

The Mix Brasil Festival is an annual cultural event with a focus on films related to sexuality in its various forms of expression.

In 2020, an estimated audience of 176k people attended the screenings, theatre and music performances, conferences, and debates promoted in the festival's 28th annual edition.

Mix Brasil is held in November at prestigious movie theaters across São Paulo and takes full advantage of the diversity of the city to host a variety of innovative events. After São Paulo, Mix Brasil tours abridged programs to other Brazilian cities.

The event is carried out by the Associação Cultural Mix Brasil, a non-profit organization that seeks to promote the freedom of expression of sexual diversity by looking at new and different ways that this is achieved.

** IMPORTANT – COVID-19 ALERT **

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Festival Mix Brasil 2021’s edition will take place online, on a secure platform, with a limited number of attendees in each screening. If the guidelines of the local public agencies allow this the Festival may also take place in movie theaters.
It is thus concluded that your submission at Festival Mix Brasil / Festhome means that you agree that, if selected, the film will also be shown online.

Newcastle International Short Film Festival or NiSFF is an IMDb registered short film festival open to submissions of short films in multiple genres and categories from international, Australian and regional New South Wales (NSW) film-makers. Finalists for the best film in their regional category will be screened at the Royal Exchange Hybrid Performance Space/Cinema in Newcastle Australia in mid November each year. The overall Best Short Film winner will be selected from all the various category winners regardless of its length.

No screening fees are paid to selected films and no DCP is required. If your film is understandable for a mainly English speaking audience without subtitles then English subtitles are not required.

The Pichikeche Children's Film Festival in 2015 in the Lanco commune with the purpose of contributing to the generation of spaces to spread the audiovisual language in children of the region of Ríos, Chile. During the consolidation process of this Festival, there has been expanding into other networks and territories interested in participating in this initiative.

Because we know that online has come to stay and due to national and international contingency we have decided to keep the online version and the same time reactivate our itinerant spirit. In this edition we are going to visit the 12 municipalities in our region and their most isolated locations, maintaining all the sanitary measures established by our other authorities taking the film from where it has never been before.

The #MoreofPLUS Film Festival is an initiative of PLUS Positive a nonprofit organization for plus size men women and teens. The primary focus of the festival is to showcase more plus size talent on screen. At the core of this festival is the requirement that each entry must utilize plus size men (size 2x and up) and/or women (size 12 and up) as leading characters in their films. The selected finalists will be showcased during PLUS PosiCon Sept 21-23 in Atlanta

Cineciok is the festival of Cinema and Chocolate. Cineciok takes place in Modica the city of Chocolate. Festival is all the year. At modica we work the chocolate with ancient methods.
So every year we make the Chocolate Festival and cinema is an integral part of this festival. We reward the most beautiful films with chocolate as their theme or that chocolate is minimally present. If there is only one word "chocolate" in your film, you can participate!!!
We love Chocolate!!
We have three dead line.

ECAFF 2018 5th edìtìon director Fab Seb Caleffi EuropeanComedyAwards for FictionFestival Dedìcated to Eddìe Cantor, the Eddìes Awards are ìnspìred to the B'way Tony award for theatre. The 2018 edìtìon (5th edìtìon) wìll take place ìn Mìlano and Padua, ltaly, accordìng wìth the medìa partners NTV and Padùa Press. We have 4 categorìes for thìs edìtìon: A) short comedy B) feature fìlm C) web serìal pìlot D) comedy teaser

Rincofest is an International Short Film Festival (horror, fantasy and SCIFI) which takes place in La Rinconada (Seville) (Spain)

In today’s film climate it is hard to showcase short films. Many festivals focus on features and it seems like this art of shorts is dwindling to silly videos about kittens on the internet. Even though we love kittens (who doesn’t?) here at the Short. Sweet. Film Fest., we love short films more.

With eight festivals under our belt, our goal for our ninth annual film festival is to showcase films under 30 minutes to the growing art scene in the greater Cleveland area and highlight the works of student to veteran filmmakers across the country.

Students should submit to the short student film category to receive a significant discount off of the submission fee.

We are looking for the best short films locally, nationally, and internationally. So send them our way!

Our festival will take place in the Alex Theater at the Metropolitan at the 9 hotel in the heart of downtown Cleveland. Filmmakers and patrons can stay at the hotel at a discounted rate and enjoy food and beverages throughout the festival.