Blog: Festival dei film

Digital Griffix film awards changed a bit over the years and is now an IMDB listed international online awards competition taking place each three months.

Each three months our jury determines the best films in each category. Note that we do NOT screen films online or onsite. The films are screened privately by the jury. Our goal is to help filmmakers take the next step in their career. Our jury is composed of award winning filmmakers who perfectly understand the hard work put in independent filmmaking !

The Vaughan International Film Festival is a unique event, with a style all its own.

Now in its 6th edition, this exciting five day event proudly showcases both local and international talent – on all levels. Our Founders: Antonio Ienco and Mark Pagliaroli, present their audiences with multi-genre short films -offering an ideal platform for independent film creators to put forth their work.

This Non-for-profit organization brings you public film screenings of Canadian and International cinema, vibrant social events and a lavish awards show- complete with a prestigious Golden Reel Award. We also support and further arts education with various scholarships and bursaries; granted to young filmmakers, art students and educational institutions in our city. Throughout the past several years, the VFF has remained focused and true to its objective: To satisfy the cultural appetite of this growing community while offering an arts forum befitting our world-class city. We look forward to delighting our audiences for years to come.

Il Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest vuole essere un punto di incontro tra appassionati del linguaggio filmico, proporre Opere di qualità.

Un premio speciale andrà ad un Cortometraggio inerente il MEDITERRANEO.

Amiamo il Cinema e come Voi vogliamo diffonderlo.

The Independent Film Festival - Indie Film Festival (#IFF) is an international online event that gathers film submissions for screening and awards. We aim to feature short films, feature films, shows, documentaries and web series that are not always feature in mainstream festivals. We will grant a audience awards and official festival awards.

The IFDb community will get to watch, share, discuss and vote for their favorite videos. IFDb é a database that focuses on independent films and aims to encourage conversations about independent films - and also promote visibility for them. The selected videos will be announced on january 2nd, 2016. http://www.ifdb.tv/Festival

Abbracciando il mezzo del cortometraggio, Tally Shorts Film Festival è entusiasta di portare un'esperienza cinematografica davvero unica e indipendente nel nord della Florida con l'obiettivo di aumentare la consapevolezza della comunità e il sostegno al cinema come patrimonio culturale ed economico. Oltre a mostrare il cinema di tutto il mondo, Tally Shorts è dedicato a preservare, nutrire e coltivare registi locali fornendo un viale per mettere in rete, mostrare e discutere tutti gli aspetti del cinema.

Citato in pubblicazioni come Vox, Medium o Backstage, TMFF è stato nominato da ShortFilm Connection «probabilmente il festival cinematografico più famoso attualmente sul web». Con quasi 3500 FILM SELEZIONATI fino ad ora e decine di migliaia di visite al sito web ogni mese, speriamo che attraverso TMFF ti distinguerai con il tuo progetto e otterrai la portata di cui hai bisogno e meriti! Inoltre, oltre ad essere un evento qualificante all'IMDB, ogni selezione ufficiale verrà automaticamente inserita nella nostra vasta COLLEZIONE FILM: https://tmff.net/collection/

Mese per mese, i nostri giudici (che lavorano tutti nell'industria cinematografica) decideranno chi sono i candidati e i vincitori del TMFF. Finora abbiamo ricevuto oltre 13.000 progetti, abbiamo tenuto oltre 80 edizioni mensili e premiato oltre 800 film provenienti da tutto il mondo!

❗ E TIENI PRESENTE: non inseriremo la versione completa del tuo film sul nostro sito web se non vuoi. UN TRAILER LO FARÀ.

❓ Domande frequenti: https://tmff.net/faq/

Stiamo cercando film che siano stati censurati, vietati o che abbiano trovato barriere da esporre per motivi politici, sociali, aziendali, religiosi, tra gli altri, in qualsiasi parte del mondo e negli ultimi due anni.

Censurados Film Festival è un festival cinematografico che diffonde e rende visibile «il cinema che non vogliono che tu veda». Con sede in Perù, il festival si impegna per la libertà di espressione, i diritti umani e la diversità attraverso la proiezione di film e l'organizzazione di attività artistiche ed educative. Durante l'evento cinematografico, viene creato anche uno spazio di dialogo sulla censura in cui la diversità di voci, espressioni artistiche e idee può trovare un posto dove coesistere ed esprimersi liberamente.

Città e date dell'undicesima edizione del Festival: Arequipa, dal 18 al 24 gennaio 2025.

Scadenza: 1 novembre 2024.

CATEGORIE DI FILM

1. Concorso di censura. Film di finzione, documentari, di animazione e/o sperimentazione cinematografica provenienti da qualsiasi parte del mondo che sono stati censurati a causa di pressioni o interessi politici, religiosi, aziendali, autoritari o sociali, tra gli altri, o che sono stati vittime di minacce e/o violenze, sia durante le indagini, la produzione o la realizzazione, sia durante la loro esposizione e/o distribuzione. È un requisito essenziale fornire informazioni dimostrabili sulla censura, la minaccia, la pressione o la violenza che il film ha subito. Verranno premiate due forbici, una per ciascuna delle seguenti categorie:

Forbici per il miglior lungometraggio censurato (durata: +30 minuti).

Forbici per il miglior cortometraggio censurato (Durata: -30 minuti).

2. Concorso internazionale. Film di finzione, documentari, animazione e/o sperimentazione cinematografica provenienti da qualsiasi parte del mondo, tranne il Perù, che affrontano esteticamente e discorsivamente questioni di censura e/o libertà ed espressione artistica. Nessun limite di durata.

3. Concorso peruviano. Film peruviani di finzione, documentari, animazione e sperimentazione cinematografica senza limiti di durata che affrontano in modo formale e discorsivo questioni politiche, sociali e culturali con libertà creativa. Per il film vincitore verrà offerto un premio di 1.500 Soles.

***SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN TO ALL NATIONALITIES *** 2nd Annual!!
The Las Vegas Latino International Film Festival focuses on finding the very best Latino content. Our Call for Entries is our official we are excited to screen your work. Our mission is to o showcase & support existing and emerging creative Latino & International filmmakers across the world. This multicultural event welcomes all.

Categories include: Documentary, Features, Shorts (all genres) Submissions are open to filmmakers of all nationalities and cultures. We have industry representatives such as network executives, distributors, etc., on industry panels, workshops, and plenty more. We look forward to a diverse event. Submissions will be selected by an experienced panel of judges.

Past festival guests have included renowned individuals as Kate del Castillo, Jose Yenque, Lou Pizarro, Pepe Serna, Stephanie Gerard, David Hernandez, Patty Orozco, Legendary Don Pedro Rivera, ect.

The Kaleidoscope Dreams Foundation invites national and international filmmakers to participate with their short films (animation, documentary, fiction stories, audiovisual in mixed media, music videos, audiovisual stories or poems) in the 9th International Film Festival of Arts for children .

Stories that benefit to children, to talk about children and their life experiences, their families and their relationship with the environment, animals and plants are sought. Everything from peace prospects who call the healthy development of each member of our human community and a harmonious and sustainable relationship for the future. Audiovisual that respond to questions where their dreams are shared and bring happiness to the hearts of our viewers: children and youth between 4 and 17 years, their friends and families.

We are a platform that’s seeking to internationally promote the research, production and distribution of experimental video.

“5° PROCESO DE ERROR”, Experimental International Video Festival is waiting with expectation your Works, will be a privilege for us to disseminate the power and creativity that for sure you will show us.

Direct Short and Documentary Film Festival hosts monthly 'Online International Short and Documentary Film Festivals'. We, at Direct Short and Documentary Film Festival , aim at bringing out the best short films, Documentary, Music video and web series from around the globe and to present it all on one single platform which is our website.

FEMCINE è stata creata per scoprire e sostenere il lavoro svolto dalle registe donne e per condividere film con argomenti di genere con un pubblico più ampio. FEMCINE invita le registe cilene e del resto del mondo a partecipare a una delle sue tre categorie competitive: Concorso internazionale di lungometraggi, concorso internazionale di cortometraggi e concorso per cortometraggi della Chilean Film School.

Festival di cortometraggi di fantasia, fantascienza e horror.

DMOFF is an International, Independent online event for all Short, Documentary, Feature, Music Video and Web Series. Goal of DMOFF is to Provide homes to group of young and vibrant film enthusiasts who are committed in creating spaces for independent cinema and devoted to spreading of the knowledge of the modern visual art form to all interested.

El Páramo, Cultural Forum is a space created for the dissemination, preservation and support of the arts and culture in the Purhepecha region. Within the same, we include several disciplines like painting, sculpture, music, photography and cinematography in addition to literature and dance. Our goal is to bring culture to the region and bring the region to the world. Have inside a film club activities, which aim to show the work of directors from around the world to an audience that is anxious to see the world through the eyes of the artist.

OUR GOAL
Our goal is to discover and showcase creative filmmakers and their films to the global culturally diversified community.

WORLDFEST NOW ACCEPTS ONLINE FESTHOME SCREENERS! WE HAVE LG & SHARP 110" DIGITAL BIG SCREENS FOR JURIES! WE DO ALSO ACCEPT DVD, BLURAY OR USB FLASH/PEN/JUMP DRIVE FOR JUDGING AND FOR THEATER SCREENING! Region Zero! (If you win a Remi, you may be screened on big Cinemark Theatre screens to 600+ theater audience!! So we need a BluRay, DCP or Jump Drive for the DCP screening! Large juries view your entry on a big digital screen, not a little laptop! We will personally confirm your entry's arrival.

WorldFest is the only film festival in the world that gives your entry a grade, a score! Your score can earn you a Remi Award! We do not believe that there can just be three winners in a category, a Gold, Silver and Bronze - so we assign your entry a score from the jury! An A+ wins a Special Jury Award and is considered for the Grand Remi! An A score wins a Platinum Remi, an A- wins a Gold, a B+ wins a Silver and a B wins a Bronze Remi. No Awards are made below a B level score. With more than 4,750 category entries, only about 10-15% actually win a Remi Award, but we feel it is the best possible way to run a festival awards system!

55th WORLDFEST-HOUSTON SETS FEST DATES, CALLS FOR ENTRIES!

“FORGET SUNDANCE! …WorldFest is one of the best conceived festival productions on the planet!” ~ Craig Outhier, film critic, Phoenix press; Tempe Times.

The 55th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival continues its totally dedicated Independent Film screening format for the upcoming April 20-24, 2022 unspooling. WorldFest will screen just 60-80 feature film premieres and over 130 Shorts with a total and absolute emphasis on the American and International Independent feature film and a continuing annual spotlight on award-winning short films and documentary films. Entries Officially Open Aug. 15, 2021. The EarlyBird Entry Deadline is Nov. 15th 2021 – A Mail-By/Enter By/Ship-By Deadline! Entries do not have to arrive by this deadline. The Main Entry Deadline is December 15, 2021. The Late Entry Deadline is Jan 15th 2022!

WorldFest Artistic and Program Director, Kathleen Haney, stated, “We are fiercely dedicated to the Indie Feature and Short Film and look for a quality selection of individual films to maintain a smaller, yet effective program rather than an overly large and unwieldy slate of 150-300 films. Haney continued, “For the 2020 WorldFest we continue to use ‘A good story, well told’ as our time-tested approach to film selection”. WorldFest-Houston now accepts Online, Thumb-Drive & DVD/BR format entries.

This year WorldFest presents its 8th Annual Panorama Asia, the largest survey of new films from all of Asia & China in the whole, wide world! More than 200 directors and filmmakers will attend from Beijing, Shanghai, Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia, VietNam, Cambodia, the Philippines & Japan. China is now the largest box-office and production revenue country in the world, surpassing the USA. There is a special Panorama Asia theater and a dedicated section of the program book.
WorldFest Grand Remi Award Winner, Ridley Scott commented “WorldFest is in the business of validating excellence!” We are delighted to agree! The mission of WorldFest is to recognize and validate creative excellence in film & video production in every facet and category of filmmaking. Many filmmakers report that a Remi Award from WorldFest opens doors to advance their careers.

WorldFest will continue with its annual Short Film Showcase, a special review of 130+ new short and student films...from the festival that gave first top honors to Spielberg, Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Randal Kleiser, The Coen Brothers, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, Spike Lee, Gavin Hood, John Lee Hancock, John Frankenheimer, Michael Cimino, Leslie Linka Glatter, Oliver Stone, Ang Lee, Atom Egoyan and David Lynch, among many others! Few other festivals have such a “Discovery” track record. WorldFest has emerged as the oldest continuous film festival management in the world with the same executive director, serving with a special vision for 53 consecutive years. A few other festivals are older, but they have had as many as ten different directors. It is the oldest film festival in The South, and the 3rd oldest International Film/Video Festival in North America, after San Francisco & NYC.

The 55th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival highlights include a Red Carpet Opening Night Gala, the Remi Awards Banquet with top honors presented to more than 1,000 up-and-coming attending filmmakers from over 75 countries from round the globe, there are 9 Master Classes in Film & Video Production, a nightly Festival Club at the HQ Westin-Memorial City Hotel, Indie Panels, a VIP tour of NASA with a special police escort and an exciting Houston Yacht Club Sailing Regatta & Texas BBQ. All offer superb networking opportunities!

WorldFest began in August 1961, as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society. It began screening Independent, foreign & art films. It became an officially competitive International Film Festival seven years later, in April 1968, and has been in continuous operation since. It is one of the original three film festivals in North America, with San Francisco and New York as the first two events. Following WorldFest was Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, and Seattle. Then Sundance and SXSW, Toronto and Tribeca. Now there are more than 3,500 USA film festivals of various types, levels and quality, most being simply non-competitive screening events! WorldFest is international, competitive and invites filmmakers worldwide.

The 55th Annual WorldFest offers International Competition in; Features, Shorts, TV production, TV commercials, unproduced Screenplays & Teleplays, Experimental, Student, Documentary, Business & Industry, New Media, and Music Videos. You may enter the Feature, Short, Student, Experimental, Student, Music Video, and New Media-Websites via FestHome. You must go to our main website (worldfest.org) to enter the TV Production (100 series), TV Commercials (400 series), Film & Video Production (200 Series) and the Screenplay Competition (700 Series). WorldFest is the largest film & video competition in the world, in sheer number of actual category entries, with more than 4,750 category entries received in 2020. There are almost 200 sub-categories for competition, allowing each film to compete in its own individual genre.

WorldFest-Houston is sponsored by Memorial City Mall, Cinemark Theatres, Boxer Properties, the State of Texas, the City of Houston, HBU Fitness Center, Kodak, NASA, Lopez Negrete Communications, the Houston Yacht Club, Maggiano's Ristorante, Avis/Budget, The HQ Hotels Westin & Zaza, The Houston Chronicle, Regent University Film School, the Houston Yacht Club, and the Houston Film Society

The 55th WorldFest-Houston – 9898 Bissonnet, Suite 650, Houston, Texas 77036, 713-965-9955, Fax is 713-965-9960 – Email is – info@worldfest.org – The website is https://worldfest.org

Cinémonde is a smart, elegant private film series with screenings of thought-provoking films throughout the year, including discussions and gourmet receptions for our participants and guest filmmakers.

The international film festival for children and adolescents MI PRIMER FESTIVAL, is exited to announce its call for entries for its second edition on 28th of November of 2015 that will take place at MALI Museum of Art of Lima, Peru.

MI PRIMER FESTIVAL its non-competitive festival that aims to bring a vibrant and youthful vibe to the city, boosting and creating exhibition spaces for films and audio-visual content target to children and adolescent public. The festival provides Peruvian children an opportunity to understand different cultures from all over the world, and helps international children’s film professionals exchange experiences and ideas.

This year the festival will feature the following categories: • Full length animation and / or fiction (designed for children). • Full length animation films, fiction or documentary (directed at teenagers). • Short animation and / or fiction (designed for children). • Short animation, fiction or documentary (directed at teenagers). • Films made by children and adolescents (Peru).

Beginning Film Festival is held annually in the centre of St.Petersburg, Russia.

Founded by St.Petersburg Filmmaker’s Union, festival is held within St.Petersburg International Film Forum.

This year our festival for the first time focuses on debuts and film school productions, which means that our traditional student film program will be accompanied by two competitions - feature debut films and short fiction, documentary and animation debut films.

We will be happy to offer not only the expanded competition program, but several non-competition, presentation programs, thematic screenings, master-classes and workshops, round tables and exhibitions.