Blog: Film festivals

1. ORGANIZATION
The Festival is promoted by Associazione culturale Ennio Flaiano, under the patronage of Fondazione Edoardo Tiboni and collaboration of Mediamuseum-Museum of Cinema.
The Festival will take place in Pescara (Italy), from 3 to 6 December 2019.


2. SECTIONS
Multimedia works may be admitted (shorts, documentaries, digital storytelling, video works...) in competitive section. The jury is presided by Franco Mariotti, journalist and expert of cinema.
The competitive sections are:

1 - “SCRITTURA E IMMAGINE”:
Works (fiction, documentaries) inspired by literature, drama and chronicle.
Prize: 1500 euros.

2 – “CORTOSCUOLA” (ONLY FOR ITALY)
Shorts produced by schools.
Prize: 500 euros.

3 - “ANIMACORTO”:
Animated short film section.
Prize: 500 euros.

4 – (ONLY FOR ITALY) “SPAZIO ABRUZZO: ENVIRONMENT AND ENOLOGY”
Shorts produced in Abruzzo - a region of Italy – and shorts focused on the world of wine and agriculture.
Prize: 500 euros.

5 – “CORTOAMBIENTE: your city and environment”
Shorts focused on society, environment and environmental sustainability.
Prize: 500 euros.

The 1st NYIFF will be held from November 21-24, 2017. The 4-day event will include a film competition, forum, and the film screening. Its purpose is to promote international collaborations among film producers and the people within the film industry. An estimate of 500 films will compete in the 1st NYWFF, but only 20 nominated films will be released for screening in the main hall, with a side screening of 10 invited movies in the adjoining screening halls. NYWFF encourages artists to convey different ideologies through movies to achieve a better cultural understanding and to elevate the standard of movie productions by promoting collaborations.

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Since its inception, the "Festival of cinema unusual de Buenos Aires" has proposed to investigate the least explored aspects of the current film production in order to meet the expectations of those who yearn for a different filmic vision. A target to meet is to facilitate the knowledge of many new authors who, fleeing the current stereotype, offer an eclectic perspective from the thematic and visual.

From 19 to 29 October 2017, we carry out the Thirteenth Edition in important offices of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires. Of a competitive nature, it has a duration of 11 days and us sponsored by important institutional bodies. Also, carry out promotional, permanent monthly activities of the Festival: lights/signs and participations in film markets.

With an 13 years history, the Talca International Film Festival, stands as one of the major short film and debut film festivals in Chile. Our festival aims to offer a selection of the best independent, innovative and experimental short films and first feature films from around the world. On the other hand, to contribute in the exchange of local and international stories in this globalised world where ideas and culture break the borders in the benefit of all of us.

On the occasion of the Obesity Day 2017, the Bariatric Center of Excellence - Sapienza University of Rome, in partnership with the City of Latina and « Amici Obesi » Onlus, organizes the second edition of Filmdipeso Short Film Festival.
The Festival aims to increase public awareness of the issues that living with obesity and eating disorders raises, through the screening of short films, which may also include patients’ testimonials of their treatment courses.
The mission of Filmdipeso Short Film Festival is to disclose the social, psychological and interpersonal impact of obesity and eating disorders on teenagers and adults.
The formal acknowledgement and recognition of obesity and eating disorders as diseases permits not only to approach new treatment opportunities, but also to dismantle prejudices and misconceptions.

April 7th until 29th, 2018: Exhibitions, workshops, International Trophy "Torretes", projections,... Lots of activities on photography and films. Check it out!

Madeira Fantastic FilmFest project is the diffusion and dissemination of film culture of horror and fantastic genre in Madeira in order to transmit, visually, through different types of art, culture and nature of the region.

Festival Terres Catalunya. International Eco & Tourism Film Festival.

Its second edition will be held from 25th to 28th of April in 2018 in Tortosa, Spain (Tortosa is a town located 2 hours from Barcelona).

terres Catalunya has three competitions with their own subsections:

- Tourism Communication: 
1. advertisements (up to 1' long) 
2. Promotional Films (up to 10' long).

Categories: 
. Tourism Destinations 
. Cultural Landscapes 
. Routes and expeditions 
. Hotels, resorts and spas. 
. Events 
. Healthy and welfare tourism 
. Rural Tourism 
. Nature tourism 
. Gastronomic, wine tourism and oleo tourism experiences 
. Location promotions 
. Animation 
. Product and Landscape 
. Audiovisual Experiencies 
. Tourist Companies 

- Documentaries: 
1. Short Films (up to 30') 
2. Medium-length films (up to 45') 
3. Feature films (up to 120') 
4. Webdocs

Categories: 
. Adventures, expeditions and routes 
. Biographies 
. History and Heritage 
. Sustainable tourism and Ecology 
. Ethnography and Society

- Corporative Communication 
1. Up to 10' long

Categories: 
. Sustainable and responsible Tourism 
. Preservation of the planet 
. Maintenance Biodiversity 
. Sustainable Mobility


Awards & Prizes
Awards 
Jury - Commercial 
Jury - Promotional film 
Jury - Short documentary film (up to30’ length) 
Jury - Documentary film (up to 90’ length). 
Jury - WebDoc 
Jury - Corporative Communication audiovisual production
Technical Awards: 
- Cinematography 
- Film Editing 
- Soundtrack
Special Awards: 
- Best Catalonia's advertisement 
- Best Catalonia's tourism film 
- Best Spain's touristic film 
- Terres de l'Ebre Award. The Film which shows better the concept of sostenibility 
- Best World Heritage UNESCO film 
- Best Tourist competition film

At the moment, there is not expected any metallic prize.

Since 2004, Kinoki International Student Film Festival has been run completely by students at the Universidad Iberoamericana in México City. Our purpose is to create a friendly environment where film students from all around the world can share their work and compete as part of our official selection.

Welcome to the Radical Frame Film - 2025 Short Film Series - Berlin

We at the Radical Frame Film Festival are proud to announce edition number eleven of Short Film
Series.

The idea for the Radical Frame Film Festival started years ago when a group of Denver activists,
artists, and friends decided to bring the messages of video activist cinema into the public eye.

We feel that due to the current social and political climate, both locally and globally, our mission
-- to provide a forum for thought provoking films and debates -- is more critical than ever.

We are committed to presenting progressive, leftist, radical, anti-racist, experimental, and
visionary films that address issues including, but not limited to, the environment, human rights,
social injustice, antiglobalization, etc...

The Radical Frame Film Festival showcases every genre of independent film from across the world during this incredible bi-continental celebration of independent artists.

The Radical Frame Film Festival is a forum where filmmakers can thrive outside the mainstream arena.

The Short Film Series turns the spotlight on truly independent short films, created by new and
established filmmakers. The purpose is to allow anyone regardless of country, to step to their dreams and start taking the steps to live life with passion and purpose.

Fresh Film Festival is for YOUNG FILMMAKERS aged 7 - 18 years old.

Organized by “NO_NAME”, "CineMigrare – Rassegna Internazionale di Cinema Senza Frontiere" is a festival totally dedicated to movies, short movies and documentaries speaking about immigration and cultural integration.
The 8th edition in 2024 of CineMigrare Festival will take from 9th to 23th July in Pedara (CT).

Several SPECIAL GUEST are invited to this second edition and they will be awarded with the CineMigrare Award 2024.

Foreing authors are invited to send their short movies with italian subtitles. Info: info@cinemigrare.it // www.cinemigrare.it

BUSHMAN FILM FESTIVAL (BFF) is the first African short film festival with Smartphones in Côte d'Ivoire.

BUSHMAN FILM FESTIVAL is the whole ECOWAS, its youth, its local realities and the discovery of new talents of the 7th West African art

BUSHMAN FILM FESTIVAL is the organic continuity of the African esthetic renaissance initiated by the site BUSHMAN CAFE, meeting place in Abidjan.

BUSHMAN FILM FESTIVAL it is free screenings of films of sessions young audience, of ciné-concerts, by the programming of cinema sessions for other festivals during 4 days.

The Festivalico is a videoart and short film non competitive showcase.

The main objective of the Festival is to open dialogues around contingency issues through cinema as a platform for mediation and engagement, in the Province of Colchagua, also assuming the role of exhibitor of national and Latin American cinema and independent works from different parts of the world.

Our motivation for this 2021 version lies in the social transformations focused on human rights and the conservation of the ecosystem, as well as the dissemination and enhancement of heritage, in order to consolidate the Colchagua International Film Festival as a space for intellectual, political and cultural turmoil.

Fantasy & horror film festival “FANTFEST” , has been organized for the first time in October 2013 under the name of HRIZANTEMA. The festival takes the place among the small, independent festivals of explicit genres. The horror and fantasy film genre has survived the countless transformations from the very beginnings of cinema. Artists, film - makers, professionals and enthusiast, through the time, have positioned the genres of horror and fantasy and sealed its status among the other genres. Since 2021. festival changed the name to FANTFEST.

Entries are open to the ninth edition of the Short Film Short Film Festival of Fiumicino, the film festival organized by the Association Acis. The Short Film Contest is open to all artists, associations, directors, filmmakers, who have produced movies of up to 10 minutes, with the following themes: Legality, Solidarity, Sea, City-Villages-Traditions, Comedy.

La Muestra de cortometrajes “Proyecta Jerez” es el punto de encuentro de tod@s l@s amantes del cine, donde compartimos unos días de cortos, futuros proyectos, exposiciones, charlas coloquios y el anticipo del nuevo Festival de Cortometrajes.

Más Información en: www.jerez.es/juventud
PARTICIPANTES: Creadores de cualquier nacionaalidad, mayores de 18 años.

OBRAS: El tema de la obra será libre. La obra debe ser original y realizada en castellano (o en su defecto subtitulada al castellano).

Cada participante presentará tantas obras como desee, según el número de obras recibidas, los organizadores seleccionarán las que se van a proyectar. La duración del cortometraje, incluido créditos, no superará los 15 minutos. Las obras no podrán tener
contenidos racistas, xenófobos, violentos ni pornográficos.

Se admitirán cortos express que no deben superar los 3 minutos.

Al presentar las obras, habrá que rellenar una ficha con los datos del autor/a más el DNI escaneado.

El plazo de admisión será hasta el 18 de octubre de 2019.

El autor/a de la obra autoriza su reproducción, sin contraprestación económica, pudiendo ser proyectada por la organización con el fin de promocionar la Muestra y el
Festival, reservándose el derecho de su exhibición pública.

The Festival Premiers plans d'Angers has been a film festival since 1989.

Dedicated to the first European cinematographic works, it puts in competition more than one hundred first European films.

Parallel to the competition, it allows to rediscover great works of the cinematographic heritage through tributes, retrospectives, meetings, ...

Attendance 2016: 76,500 entries