Blog: Film festivals

MOSCA – Cambuquira Short Film Festival takes place at an old street cinema that remained closed for about 20 years and was brought to life in 2001 as a cultural centre. Cambuquira is a small town located in the Water Circuit of Minas Gerais.

The programme is composed by brazilian and international short films, special programs, debates, workshops, photo exhibitions, children's activities, MOSCA’s Coffee and the itinerant festival at schools.

13th MOSCA will happen between July 8th and 12th 2020 at Antigo Cinema | Espaço Cultural Sinhá Prado, at Cambuquira/MG - Brazil.

MOSCA's International Sh
owcase is a non competitive film festival (only for Popular Jury) and a non profit project.

ONLY FOR CHILEAN FILMMAKERS OR COPRODUCTION / SOLO PARA CINEASTAS CHILENOS O COPRODUCCIONES

With twenty-two years of existence, (the first edition was in 1997) AVANCA Film Festival was awarded first place in 2011 contest of the support film festivals sponsored by ICA / Ministry of Culture.

An additional thematic programming has happened over all these years, giving space to screening of significant works of contemporary cinema appropriately framed in concerns and / or well-defined objectives.

The AVANCA is known as a space for workshops led by personalities of world cinema, and being more than a "master class", has allowed a unique cinema practice. Every year we have always 6 or 7 workshops, bringing together participants from all over Europe. The media have written that this is the largest European area of professional workshops in the field of cinema.

AVANCA is the only festival that congregates a Cinema International Competition, works from the television area, video and new supports of multimedia, with a special concern of exhibit the best world productions done in each category.
Since the first edition, the festival only accepts unprecedented films in Portugal.

The World Premiere competition is unique in our country and was only possible because Avanca became a passage point of unpublished authors and movies with great quality. Films that have their world premiere in the festival, independently of the submitted category, are also participating in the World Premiere Competition.
AVANCA is the Portuguese festival with the highest percentage of worldwide unpublished movies that find here their first showing.

In 2020 Edition, Avanca will bring for the first time the VR Competition, where films in virtual reality 360°, narrative or experimental (but with no interactivity) are allowed.

Since 2010, we have organized the international film conference AVANCA | CINEMA, becoming the most important conference in the field of cinema in the Iberian Peninsula. This conference brings together speakers and participants from around the world.
Thematic exhibitions, editions of books, bibliographic presentations and various projects have marked these last 10 years of AVANCA with the quality that compels the festival and the participants obviously require.

MFF2017 is an International Mobile Film Festival based in San Diego. Our film festival is exclusive to films shot with mobile phones. No other cameras qualify.

Our 6th International Mobil Film Festival™ in San Diego takes place April 29 & April 30, 2017. See you there! TAG is #MFF2017SanDiego

It is very important that you only submit ONE film per filmmaker or company and it MUST BE SHOT WITH A MOBILE PHONE. One (1) Entry per Filmmaker Only.

****NEW COMPETITION beginning with MFF2017 is the MOBILE FEATURE COMPETITION. SEE CATEGORY: ***Feature Mobile Films Competition (NEW!) Deadline 11/19/17 and visit our website. www.internationalmobilefilmfestival.com for details. *You cannot submit a film without requesting a password.

****SEPARATE SHORT FILM COMPETITION: All films must be shot with mobile phones to qualify for this film festival and must be between 1 & 5 minutes in length. ****

Submissions are completely free for our SHORT FILM COMPETITION!

Everyone MUST fill out the REGISTRATION FORM to be eligible AND YOU WILL RECEIVE IT IN AN EMAIL. Email us to request the form: entries@mobilfilmfestival.com

***READ RULES (on our website) BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR FILM:

ONE FILM PER FILMMAKER & LENGTH BETWEEN 1 to 5 MINUTES (20-60 minutes for feature film competition)

No exceptions. All films must be shot with mobile phones only.
http://www.internationalmobilefilmfestival.com/mff/rules
Rules & Details in URL above. READ THE RULES BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR FILM.

See RULES PAGE on our website for deadlines. Link is above.

The Tenerife International Film Festival of World Cinema MILAN is an international film event to celebrate the movie making whilst bringing together film makers and the business of film making, from the smallest independent film maker to the most popular English and foreign language films and is open to all film genres.


The Tenerife International film festival is like no other International film Festival, we put you the filmmaker in front of potential investors in any new production you may be considering, we put your movie in front of potential distribution and sales to look at the possibility of offering you real deals and real help for you the filmmaker, look at our program read the short bios of the professional attending, join us and put your movie in a market place. Unproduced scripts also form part of festival week, were we bring together script writers with film directors.

Generally, we take nothing into account other than the art of film and the pre-eminence of artistic talent, and to facilitate transmission, so that tomorrow's Festival can continue the adventure with the combined strengths of experience and modernity, for those that enter the Filmmaker Award will truly be the future filmmakers of the film industry.

IOFF 2015is an online international film festival at its first edition. The festival’s main purpose is to create a context where films can compete with each other and receive the vote of the people, with no need of live screening.

Make a film and Video Festival to foster the creation and production of National filmmakers, foreigners and school students in Chile. And allow provide a space for dissemination and discussion of the geographies postponed for hegemony
media, along with promoting the audiovisual and cultural production of each people.

Held Just a few days before the Cannes International film festival in May, our festival is
One of the greatest festival in the world to help filmmakers find a market to support their aims with people attending that can give good solid advice to work with established film industry professionals if you wish, screening, meetings, networking, world famous international awards ceremony, at the same time as Cannes International film festival, in 2018, what we have created over the years is a unique festival with our other festivals a real platform for filmmakers to meet, network, do business festival week.
This year 2018 in Nice at the festival we gave three deals to filmmakers to make there future productions of 100,000 dollars each, we will be allocating up to 5 a year in 2019/20 enter to get a chance at this budget

We have built a small but exceptional professional network of industry professional that will look at all films entered and will give business and commercial advice, in some cases the distributors attending will make offers to the filmmakers for their work and to work together to put your movies in the market place, we have the people and skills in our professional team to make this happen, if the professional attending feel there is a market for your movie, they will as with many films over the years of our other festival make it happen.

We are unique in the amount of platforms and festival we offer filmmakers, we can create a ripple for your movie to be seen around the world, it all starts here by entering your movie.

Carl Tooney
Festival President

Originally born as a local showcase for young Neapolitan filmmakers, conceived by Mediateca Santa Sofia, ’O Curt Short Film Festival has become, along fourteen editions, a moment for gathering and sharing multiple and various cinematic experiences worldwide.
XV edition is entrusted to Tycho Cultural Association, under the coordination of Mediateca Santa Sofia, by the Councillorship for Youth of the Municipality of Naples. This edition also benefits from the support of AC/E (Acción Cultural Española).

’O Curt Short Film Festival – XV edition will take place from 18 to 21 November 2015 at the Institut français Napoli, at the Instituto Cervantes in Naples and at the PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli.

Berlin 2018

One of the greatest festival in the world to help filmmakers find a market to support their aims with people attending that can give good solid advice to work with established film industry professionals if you wish, screening, meetings, networking, world famous international awards ceremony.
A unique festival with our other festivals a real platform for filmmakers to meet, network, do business festival week.

We have built a small but exceptional professional network of industry professional that will look at all films entered and will give business and commercial advice, in some cases the distributors attending will make offers to the filmmakers for their work and to work together to put your movies in the market place, we have the people and skills in our professional team to make this happen, if the professional attending feel there is a market for your movie, they will as with many films over the years of our other festival make it happen.
We are unique in the amount of platforms and festival we offer filmmakers, we can create a ripple for your movie to be seen around the world, it all starts here by entering your movie.

Carl Tooney
Festival President

XIII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF DOSQUEBRADAS -FIGS-

The XIII International Festival of Cinema of DosQuebradas -FICDOS- seeks to carry out an audiovisual production competition focused on short-term Documentary realization open worldwide under the theme "Sensitization in post-conflict and reconciliation", there will be chosen the best work to own the Charlot Prize, commemorative plaque to its winner and work team.

The screening of the official selection will take place in the municipality of DosQuebradas, Risaralda, Eje Cafetero, Colombia.

Twister Alley International is a unique film festival run by filmmakers...for filmmakers. After screening at hundreds of film festivals, seeing the good and the bad, Twister Alley Festival Directors Josh Hope & TJ Treece are proud to bring their favorite indie films from across the globe back home to NW Oklahoma by designing a film festival that provides the perfect setting for both filmmakers and movie fans alike. With complimentary food, airport shuttle & lodging expenses for screening filmmakers, a jury loaded with working filmmakers and actors and all film screenings on the big screen at the beautiful and historic Woodward Theater, Twister Alley sets itself apart from the mass of tired film festivals by putting the filmmaker first.

"We were taken care of from the second we got off the plane until the second we got back on. It made the experience all that better because we didn't have to worry about anything other than representing our films and having an awesome time." Chris Holder...Actor...The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man

"I've been to several festivals myself, and I can tell you, this was by far the best film festival I have ever attended. PERIOD." David Bryant Perkins...screenplay finalist

"Twister Alley was hands down the best festival I've been to (not exaggerating!) I've never been treated so well for merely having a little short film showing in a sea of films." Anthony Stratton...Actor...Nesting Grounds

"Going to Woodward was one of the best film fest experiences I've ever had. The town was very cordial and it's only going to get bigger and better from here." Tom Radovich...Producer...Nobody

"It was awesome and perfect. " Elyse Cantor...Actor...The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man

The Madrid International Film Festival is an English speaking film festival held in the capital of Spain, as the festival grows we will continue the film experience and work with filmmakers from around the world. We are unique group of International film festival and offer filmmakers the possibility of a wider experience as we have had great success for filmmakers for many years.

Part of one of the greatest festival in the world to help filmmakers find a market to support their aims with people attending that can give good solid advice to work with established film industry professionals if you wish, screening, meetings, networking, world famous international awards ceremony,

We have built a small but exceptional professional network of industry professional that will look at all films entered and will give business and commercial advice, in some cases the distributors attending will make offers to the filmmakers for their work and to work together to put your movies in the market place, we have the people and skills in our professional team to make this happen, if the professional attending feel there is a market for your movie, they will as with many films over the years of our other festival make it happen.

We are unique in the amount of platforms and festival we offer filmmakers, we can create a ripple for your movie to be seen around the world, it all starts here by entering your movie.

Carl Tooney
Festival President

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.

London International Filmmaker Film Festival of World Cinema is a unique event in its 11th year that is celebrating the best and most popular independent and studio films from the global film industry, and has wonderful opportunities for the business of film,

We have built a small but exceptional professional network of industry professional that will look at all nominated films entered and will give business and commercial advice, in some cases the distributors attending will make offers to the filmmakers for their work and to work together to put your movies and unproduced script in the market place, we have the people and skills in our professional team to make this happen, if the professional attending feel there is a market for your movie or unproduced script, they will as with many films over the years of our other festival make things happen.

We are unique in the amount of platforms and festival we offer filmmakers, we can create a ripple for your movie to be seen around the world, it all starts here by entering your movie.

The Festival is very keen to discover new talent and act as a springboard for creation. The development of the producers network gives filmmakers an opportunity to pitch there future production.

The London International Filmmaker Film Festival will culminate in a glamorous red carpet awards ceremony recognising unrivalled ideas, productions and film concepts. The Prestige’s Filmmaker Award is presented to the finest films entered, named as a highly prized industry award that recognises those willing to make those final steps to reach the peak of their profession. The International Filmmaker Film Festival of World Cinema is a global forum for you to network, discover future trends and achieve commercial success on a worldwide level.

Over the week this unique one-stop media community gives you the chance to network and do business with other like-minded creative filmmakers and their representatives from around the globe, including some of the filmmakers in competition for the prestigious Filmmaker Award. Book your accreditation to talk movies with the filmmaker planning or in production on films to be released for the global market.

The London International filmmaker festival is like no other International film Festival, we put you the filmmaker in front of potential investors in any new production you may be considering, we put your movie in front of potential distribution and sales to look at the possibility of offering you real deals and real help for you the filmmaker, look at our program read the short bios of the professional attending, join us and put your movie in a market place.


Carl Tooney (Festival President
See website www.filmmakerfestival.com

Film Festival of persons with disabilities to be held for the sixth time in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, aims to raise awareness about people with disabilities as equal members of society.

The Fish&Chips Film Festival – International Erotic Film Festival wants to open, in Turin and in Italy, a window on film genre and create an opportunity to approach sexuality in a creative, free, innovative, lay, irreverent and intelligent way. The Festival aims to be a moment of liberation and expressive creation and it will take place in January 2020 in Turin, Italy.

We believe in eroticism as a basic need of human beings and we want to show sex from different points of view, be they psychological, physical or social, but in any case liberating and non-discriminatory.

We want to research and propose a quality cultural production, able to go beyond the simplistic and abused canonical approaches. We are going to select works with cinematographic significance, able to convey a unique vision upon a broad and varied world, ranging from love to eroticism and pornography.

The festival is meant to be a moment of reflection and enjoyment, which includes debates, exhibitions and shows. For our third edition, we welcome any experimentation, smashed peas, proposals and other pleasantries. We believe expression, sexual and thought freedom to be a key feature for the creation of a more challenging horizon.

Sex has always driven many of our decisions and that’s where we have decided to start from!

International short film festival

Many filmmakers have been under-appreciated, both critically and economically.

At Friday Night Experimental we welcome the abstract, the riveting, the beautiful, the rugged, the emotional, the bold, the raw. We welcome films that tear through tradition and break boundaries with finesse. Most of all, we welcome your idea of experimental.

We celebrate risk-taking, daringness and originality! Submit if you create films with such attitude and spirit.

Be wrong, be raw and let's celebrate in style!

Fundación Todo por el Cine, AC, organizer of the International Film in the Field Festival, invites national and international filmmakers to participate in the contest that will be held in the 13th edition of the International Film in the Field Festival (FICC) a celebrate in the months of October and November, presenting itself in 50 rural communities of the Mexican Republic.

The INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FILM IN THE FIELD (FICC) promotes dialogue between rural communities in Mexico and film production in short film, with the intention of generating new circuits, projecting outdoor cinema.

We support the cinematographic production of short films that explore the cultural and natural conditions in which human beings live, cultural diversity and its link with nature. Likewise, we seek agents of change and original initiatives that encourage a positive change in the care of the environment.

THEME: "Sowing awareness"

We are interested in all kinds of environmental issues and traditions. We seek to disseminate messages that usually do not receive the necessary coverage, much less in rural communities where cultural and artistic exhibitions are sadly absent.