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O FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CURTAS-METRAGENS DE MACAU (“FESTIVAL”) é um festival audiovisual anual mundial que visa motivar produções de curtas-metragens e vídeos musicais estrangeiros e de Macau a competirem neste FESTIVAL.

O Festival compromete duas competições separadas:

- Competição Internacional de Curtas-Metragens SHORTS

- Concurso Internacional de Videoclipes VOLUME

“SHORTS” premia os melhores curtas-metragens nas três categorias de ficção, documentário e animação. E “VOLUME” premia o melhor videoclipe vencedor que incorpora música original de Macau. Uma lista de músicas originais de Macau está disponível no SITE do Festival para download propositadamente para VOLUME.

O SHORTS está aberto para inscrição de 16 de março a 31 de maio de 2025, e o VOLUME está aberto para inscrição de 16 de março a 20 de julho de 2025.

O Festival era anteriormente conhecido como “Sound & Image Challenge” e foi lançado pela primeira vez em 2010 com foco apenas em uma competição audiovisual para talentos locais. Esta iniciativa foi cofundada com profissionais das áreas de cinema, música, som e imagem, com duas prioridades: promover as Indústrias Criativas no setor audiovisual e destacar os talentos locais na produção de design de som e imagem em movimento. Com o passar dos anos, ele se expandiu pelos 5 continentes, cresceu e ganhou reconhecimento e, finalmente, tornou-se um festival de curtas-metragens em 2015.

O Festival será realizado de 2 a 10 de dezembro de 2025. Uma série de programas culturais serão programados em locais de Macau durante a semana do Festival, como exibições públicas da seleção oficial de “SHORTS” e da seleção oficial de videoclipes “VOLUME”, masterclasses de produção e desenvolvimento de filmes, curadoria e organização do Festival Internacional de Cinema; votação do público para “Escolha do Público”; bem como cerimônia de premiação de gala.

O 16º Festival Internacional de curtas-metragens da Cuenca del Salado será realizado em Rauch (Argentina) de 6 a 12 de outubro de 2025.

O Festival é organizado pela Associação Civil “Cineclub El Gabinete” de Rauch, com o apoio da Diretoria de Cultura do Município de Rauch e do Instituto Cultural de Buenos Aires e o endosso da Faculdade de Arte da UNICEN (Universidade Nacional do Centro da Província de Buenos Aires).

Since 2009 the Knoxville Horror Film Festival is committed in bringing the best (and worst) of genre cinema to Tennessee through our annual film festival and feature screenings throughout the year. The only horror festival in Tennessee, KHFF holds its 3 day fest near Halloween every year.

On top of accepting submissions of short films from around the world, we hold a film making competition called the Grindhouse Grind-Out in which we give teams 6 days and 66 minutes to make a 3 minute Grindhouse trailer.

We're currently planning our 6th annual fest, KHFF 666 and we're looking for the best short films the genre has to offer.

CINETEKTON é um projeto cultural cujo principal objetivo é a exibição e promoção do cinema contemporâneo de autor produzido local, nacional e internacionalmente.

O CINETEKTON será realizado de 18 a 27 de setembro de 2025 na cidade de Puebla e em espaços alternativos de exibição em alguns estados da República Mexicana e convida cineastas a registrar seus trabalhos documentais

Interesses temáticos:

Documentário: Cidade. Planejamento Urbano, Patrimônio, Arquitetura, Resiliência, Gentrificação, Mobilidade, Identidade, Meio Ambiente, Direitos Humanos, Movimentos Sociais, Design, Arte Urbana, Cidade e acessibilidade.

Presentism is a philosophy of time that states nothing in the past or future exists. The only reality is the present moment, which is redefined. A moment is no longer like the blade of a knife, gone the instant it is felt. Rather, it is an extended duration of conscious experience. Reality is also redefined. The world is no longer characterized as a set of historic and anticipated facts, as in “once and for all.” The presentist defines reality as a world that relies on constant survey. And when events happen in multiple places simultaneously, they are part of the same reality.

We seek short films and video works (no more than 10 minutes) from filmmakers and artists that explore these ideas. How do we experience the present? What events today constitute a sense of the present? What activities constitute a constant survey of facts and ideas? How is the concept of presentism expanded globally in the era of live data? How does the moving image define a duration of extended consciousness? In what ways might the human condition change if removed from the past and the future? All genres will be accepted including documentary, narrative, animation and experimental.

FOLLOWING REVIEW AND SELECTION, FILMMAKERS WILL BE NOTIFIED VIA EMAIL IF THEIR FILM HAS BEEN ACCEPTED.

ACCEPTED FILMS ARE DUE AT THE GALLERY NO LATER THAN AUGUST 1ST.

Film Front moves frontiers: open call for motion graphics exhibition

Film Front, international short film festival, due to be held from 25th to 28th October in the cultural centre of Novi Sad, has decided to include motion graphics exhibition in this year’s festival’s program. Artists can submit their animations, presentations, animated GIFs, animated elements and other pieces that belong to the category of motion graphics.

Even though motion graphics are rather a fine arts category, they are tightly connected to the moving images art. That is why Film Fronts wants to honour these artworks that more than often do not find their way to the film festivals, but whose aesthetic value overcomes their usually determined functional purpose.

ENTRETODOS 18 - É um Festival de entrada gratuita dedicado à exibição e premiação de curtas-metragens com até 25 minutos, de todos os gêneros e formatos, que abordem temas relacionados aos Direitos Humanos.

O Festival acontece em São Paulo. Ele é produzido pela Prefeitura de São Paulo, Spcine e ESTATE Produções.

Organização do Festival ENTRETODOS.

O Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival, que chega em sua 9 edição,e ja se tornou rapidamente o principal festival dedicado a promoção do cinema brasileiro independente em Hollywood, California. É o único festival na capital mundial do cinema que faz o intercâmbio entre o melhor da produção nacional independente e a indústria de Hollywood.

Em 2017 o Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival apresentará, em 3 dias intensos, os filmes Brasileiros mais importantes do ano, com a participação de premiados atores, roteiristas e diretores, em longas e curtas-metragens.
Além da exibição de filmes, o Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival também promove workshops, palestras e debates.

Este ano o festival ocorre no Ricardo Montalban Theatre, em Hollywood, Califórnia, e entregará prêmios nas seguintes categorias: melhor curta-metragem, Prêmio Horizon e HBRFEST Honor.

O Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival é produzido por Talize Sayegh, que ja cooperou com grandes festivais como o Los Angeles Latino Internacional Film Festival (Laliff) e o Festival do Rio.

A data limite para as inscrições é dia 1 de Outubro de 2017.

Only Argentine citizens or foreigners residing in the Argentine Republic may participate in the competition who comply with the terms and conditions of these regulations.

Da CINESPACIO queremos focar esta edição do festival nas obras que se concentraram nas condições migratórias e sua relação com formas audiovisuais de produção. Num mundo em que as fronteiras são constantemente construídas e linhas imaginárias são desenhadas para violar identidades - bem como criá-las -, é necessário que o sector audiovisual pense sobre o seu papel nos modos de implementação e nos temas representados.

Propomos interpretar a fronteira como um espaço onde as identidades transnacionais nascem e entram em conflito; um espaço onde novas redes e comunidades emocionais são geradas e estão em movimento perpétuo; um espaço onde enfrentam os desafios do reconhecimento individual e da pertença à comunidade. Se a fronteira é o que delimita quem somos, atravessar fronteiras implica, então, o desafio de ser outra pessoa e saber ser outra pessoa através da aproximação e do toque, tendo em conta que o conteúdo nas fronteiras, sendo tocado pelo externo, não será novamente o mesmo.

O Festival Internacional de Cinema da Universidade Autônoma de Baja Califórnia promove a troca de experiências no campo da produção audiovisual, bem como a construção do conhecimento em torno do fenômeno cinematográfico.

FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA SEMBRANDO CINE
XII EDIÇÃO: Reconhecendo nossa sombra

Nossa sombra pode ser um problema real.

É esse lado da nossa humanidade que preferimos manter escondido e que nos faz agir de forma questionável.

Essa sombra, em parte, é o que nos levou a causar um impacto terrível no meio ambiente.

Desmatamento, derramamentos de óleo, poluição de solos e mares, aniquilação de espécies, violação dos direitos indígenas e assassinatos de defensores ambientais.

Essa sombra, individual e coletiva, é projetada das grandes cidades sobre nossos ecossistemas e sob a proteção da legalidade estatal e dos investimentos privados em favor do “progresso e industrialização”.

Em tempos em que o desequilíbrio que causamos no meio ambiente volta para nós como desastres climáticos e desfalques da natureza, cabe a nós ousar olhar para trás, para essa sombra.

Temos a responsabilidade de entender seu impacto, apontar aqueles que o projetam e exigir regulamentações para defender aqueles que ele afeta.

Eles dizem que o primeiro passo para resolver um problema é identificá-lo e hoje, por meio do cinema, buscamos reconhecer nossas ações, impedir o avanço de suas consequências em nosso ambiente natural único.

FESTIVAL DE CINEMA AMBIENTAL SEMBRANDO CINE — XII EDIÇÃO
RECONHECENDO NOSSA SOMBRA

O Festival Internacional de Documentários de Bogotá (MIDBO), organizado pela Associação de Documentários da Colômbia ALADOS, é um evento especializado em cinema de não ficção que nos últimos 26 anos se consolidou na Colômbia e na América Latina como um espaço fundamental de exibição, diálogo e reflexão sobre o audiovisual não ficcional.

Em relação ao 27 MIDBO, gostaríamos de convidar cineastas e produtores locais e ibero-americanos a inscreverem seus trabalhos audiovisuais para nossa chamada de filmes de 2025 e a participarem dos diversos espaços formativos e de debate que acontecerão virtualmente e presencialmente durante todo o festival.


27 MIDBOX

Este ano, a 27ª edição do MIDBO acontecerá de 29 de outubro a 7 de novembro em Bogotá, Colômbia. Durante o ano, o MIDBO exibirá vários filmes em diferentes regiões do país e manterá o slot MIDBO-ALADOS Tuesday em diferentes cinemas aliados.

Após 26 edições, o MIDBO continua trabalhando para sediar um evento que promova a crença e a confiança na reflexão sobre a produção de documentários e as diversas abordagens para retratar a realidade. Nosso principal interesse está em explorar as inúmeras maneiras de capturar o mundo. Comprometidos em desvendar as complexidades de uma realidade que nos supera, nos esforçamos todos os anos para criar um espaço ideal para o engajamento coletivo com a produção de documentários.

Em 2025, continuamos dedicados a promover a criatividade e reconhecer os esforços dos cineastas. Assim, apresentaremos duas seções competitivas: uma nacional e outra ibero-americana. Nessas seções, apresentaremos prêmios para o Melhor Documentário Nacional, abrangendo curtas-metragens e longas-metragens, e o Melhor Documentário Ibero-Americano, com foco em filmes com mais de 60 minutos de duração produzidos na Ibero-América. O júri de cada competição será anunciado um mês antes do evento e será composto por três (3) artistas, cineastas, escritores, críticos ou gestores culturais da Colômbia e de todo o mundo.

HEMOGLOZINE é um evento cultural reforçado a nível nacional e internacional. Um Festival de Cinema que se concentra nos gêneros com maior influência e seguidores em todo o mundo, horror, ficção científica e gênero de fantasia.

Em suma, HEMOGLOZINE consiste em:
-Uma competição internacional onde apresentam novas obras de horror e fantasia.
-Um grande número de atividades paralelas com o gênero.

A Femme International Film Festival is a premier festival that focuses on platforming women filmmakers “by women, for everyone”. Our Festival was created in 2005, when it became apparent that there was a need to enhance women behind the camera as Directors, Producers, and Writers. We were the first in Los Angeles to host such an event and film festival empowering women. All those that followed are just duplicates of the movement we started over a decade ago.

Through our Partners and Sponsors we have provided one-one-one meetings with our filmmakers or helped secure financing. CBS Entertainment Diversity Department and Sony Entertainment met with a selected group of our filmmakers with the goal to offer potential employment and/or placement as a director or writer under their diversity department. It is through our direct efforts that these opportunities are being secured for our LA Femme Int. Film Festival Filmmakers.

As LA Femme moves into the next few years, it plans to expand its platform so that more women in the industry and from around the world can have the benefit of taking their film to the next level through increased distribution outlets, more key positions in the entertainment industry and more recognition as artistic creators emerging as leaders in the industry.

Our goal is to create more such opportunities through exemplary programming, networking, and panel events. A classic professional atmosphere will create a sense of ‘opportunity’ for participants. LA Femme International Film Festival is “By Women for Everyone.”

Objectives:
To continually showcase and celebrate commercially viable films Written, Directed, or Produced by women.

To opening a pathway for women entering the industry by encouraging mentor-ship and artistic sharing between those women established in the field and those just beginning.

To Platform new emerging talent and support established women in cross-over roles.

To assist in distributing the feature films that are platformed in our festival with domestic theatrical releases and home video distribution.

Mission:
La Femme International Film Festival will support and nurture the artistic entertainment productions of women for the benefit of distribution to an international and domestic audience.

Emphasis:
»Our emphasis is on providing a complete specialized festival based on showcasing and celebrating commercially successful films written, directed, or produced by women and creating a system of access for those new to the industry directly to established women industry professionals.
»To assist in distribution of these films
»To mentor other women into positions of power in the independent and big budget, studio entertainment community.

Summary:
LA Femme Film Festival is more than a festival it is an emergence of artistic, professional women who make a difference in the entertainment community by creating productions that speak to a world wide audience. We were the first festival of its kind in Beverly Hills to not only platform existing films and artists but also distribute and mentor such films and the woman artists who created them.

Thank you for considering our festival for your film!

We are looking for the best features, shorts, docs and animation we can find to present in San Francisco. For 26 years SF IndieFest has developed a great reputation for eclectic, adventurous programming, getting great press for our films and filling theaters with enthusiastic film fans. Dozens of festivals and distributors have requested and received industry accreditation to view SF IndieFest titles at our festivals over the years.

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“I’m certainly happy that IndieFest exists, because it is a celebration of films that don’t necessarily get distributed widely,” HITS director David Cross says, “I’m happy to be a part of it with my film, which is very much in the category of a low-budget, little indie movie. I’m glad there’s a place for it.” – SF Chronicle

“Sundance may have sold out, but SF IndieFest keeps it real” – Annie Lo, Flavorpill

“While the Bay Area is flush with festivals, this one remains an under-the-radar standout.” – Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News

“The San Francisco Independent Film Festival, the Bay Area’s version of Slamdance, provides a showcase for edgy cinematic work — and a great excuse to do some serious partying.” – David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle

"The movie business is in a perennial state of constant tension between ambition and collaboration, joyful inventiveness and jaw-dropping paydays. This roiling undercurrent, usually invisible to the public, gushes to the surface in the run-up to the Academy Awards ceremony. There is an antidote, however, to Hollywood’s annual backslapathon: SF IndieFest. The San Francisco Independent Film Festival is a beacon to anybody excited by the basic impulse of making movies. In its heart of hearts, IndieFest is a celebration of the minor miracle of finishing a film and getting it up on a screen in front of a live audience." - Michael Fox, KQED

“For many independent filmmakers, festivals such as SF Indiefest—aka the San Francisco Independent Film Festival–are the only way to bring their works before an audience. For filmgoers, SF Indiefest is the place to see original cinematic works created by directors who want to tell edgy stories which come from their hearts and souls. While some have bemoaned the death of cinema, the curators and filmmakers at SF Indiefest are keeping the craft of film alive.” – David Elijah Nahmod, SF SOUNDS

“SF IndieFest is the one festival of the year where you should throw a dart at the program and take a chance. Not because you’re guaranteed a masterpiece, but because it’s the best fest to see something that would never, ever breach your filter otherwise.” -Michael Fox, KQED


PRESS COVERAGE
Press Coverage for past year's festivals: https://sfindie.com/press-coverage

FILMMAKER COMMENTS ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

"Hey Jeff: Just want to shoot you a quick note of thanks on hosting us at IndieFest and giving us our World Premiere. We had a great time and really enjoyed our time at the fest and in SF; it's a great vibe and the diversity of features and shorts in the program made for a really exciting and energized atmosphere. "- Max Gardner, Go/Don't Go

"Festivals bring unexpected benefits. Festivals are essential for brand creation. Premiering at Tribeca was enough to convince people to at least listen to me, but surprisingly it was the San Francisco Indie Fest that was just as crucial for our theatrical release. Our press from this festival helped convince the Red Vic to book us in April (I thank the amazing S.F. publicist Karen Larsen for convincing me of this in advance). We also incorporated festivals into our broader theatrical release, and while we did not claim them as cities in our 17-city count, they helped give us something to crow about."

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"I've got to tell you that Indiefest was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I tell all filmmakers - and festival organizer friends of mine - how you run your fest and how you run each film twice. Every single time people look at me with shocked disbelief. Truly, Bonnie and I loved being a part of the event.
Thanks again for including us. SF Indiefest really made me feel that making YEAR was worth the whole effort.
Best-MIKE CARROLL"

"We LOVED San Francisco, meeting other filmmakers, seeing their films, participating in your screenplay panel and of course our awesome sold-out screening. You have one of the most engaged, passionate cinephile audiences I’ve ever seen at a film fest — they were incredible." - Warren Sonoda, THINGS I DO FOR MONEY, IndieFest 2020

"You have a great and engaging festival and one that draws on extremely passionate indie film audiences you are rabid for amazing content for which you definitely provide in bunches! You support of us and our film is greatly appreciated and we hope we are privileged To be welcomed back again in the future!" - Avi F.

"Thanks for these amazing photos (kudos on composition, lighting, and hyping up the crowd - what a great gift to filmmakers!). A million thanks to you both for pulling off an amazing event. We love the ethos of SF IndieFest and we're so honored to have participated. Thanks for your dedication to uplifting local filmmakers and for putting our all-female team (and our unexpected and important story) in the spotlight. Looking forward to seeing and working with you both again in the future!!" - Leslie Tai, How To Have An American Baby

"Thank you for a wonderful experience. The festival was a blast, the people so kind, the films inspiring, and great vibes all around. I'll be back to catch more films in the coming days." - Kerry Muir, Madame

"Thank you so much for having us and all that you and SF IndieFest do to champion independent film." - Anna Moot-Levin, Matter of Mind

"Thank you all for such a fun festival! You all really did a wonderful job all around and we were honored and grateful to be a part of it!" - Liz McBee, Finding Lucinda

SF IndieFest is a founding member of the FILM FESTIVAL ALLIANCE

Promoting independent filmmakers of cinematic gems and unique voices to a worldwide audience.

IndieFEST, currently in its 7th year, discovers and honors the achievements of filmmakers who produce high quality films and new media. Attracting both powerhouse industry veterans as well as talented new filmmakers, the IndieFEST is an exceptional, truly international awards competition, not a traditional film festival. The goal of traditional film festivals is to bring entertainment to local audiences making the filmmaker of secondary importance. IndieFEST is about helping independent filmmakers gain the credibility and publicity they justly deserve. Our talented IndieFEST award winners have gone on to win Emmy, Telly and other awards.

Serving filmmakers is IndieFEST’s primary goal:

IndieFEST strives to give talented directors, producers, actors, creative teams and new media creators the positive exposure and credibility they deserve. The IndieFEST promotes award winners through press releases to over 40,000 filmmakers and industry contacts as well as five additional global media/distribution outlets. We are currently developing a filmmaker representative program to assist with the distribution of award winning films and a joint venture with The GRID, a worldwide network for mobile devices – both coming in 2015.

Where our filmmakers are from:

The IndieFEST Film Awards is truly international in scope and has received projects from filmmakers in over 64 countries, they include Australia, Bahrain, Bali, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Malaysia, Malta, Martinique, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, the USA and more.

What kind of media:

The IndieFEST is an excellent venue for film, new and experimental media, television programs, animation, educational programs, remixes & mashups, movie trailers, music videos, webisodes, tube length works and more.