Blog: Film festivals

Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival(UMFF) is the first international mountain film festival in South Korea, dedicated to presenting and promoting films & culture dealing with mountains, adventure, exploration, nature, and the environment. The festival also provides an opportunity for filmmakers and mountaineers to meet and exchange ideas through seminars, events, screenings, and social gatherings.

The 9th UMFF will be held in Ulsan & Ulju, South Korea in autumn, 2024.

We present the 2024 edition of the Arcicorto Film Festival.

The Festival was born from the need and the desire to shorten the distance between cinema and spectator, thus favoring low and medium cost self-productions, in order to make the public participate as much as possible.

El Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca en el marco de la Minga del Arte que se realizará en Popayán los días 19, 20 y 21 de noviembre convoca a realizadores originarios a participar de la Muestra de Cine y video de los Pueblos Originarios -CRIC
Esta Muestra tiene como objetivo fomentar y reconocer la producción audiovisual de las culturas originarias y el respeto hacia su cultura, promover el acceso al uso de medios audiovisuales y aportar a la difusión de los pueblos indígenas de América y del mundo.

La Minga del Arte es un proceso que trabaja en torno a la garantía del derecho a la comunicación indígena, en donde “el arte indígena es un catalizador de los elementos fundamentales de las formas propias de comunicación indígena. El arte indígena tiene que ver con: espiritualidad, ritualidad, comunicación con la naturaleza, espacios de pensamiento, palabra y organización comunitaria, dialogo intergeneracional y de las mujeres indígenas, formas de expresión del conocimiento y pensamiento indígena, representación simbólica, artística en todas sus manifestaciones, conocimiento tradicional, propiedad intelectual colectiva, valores de la solidaridad, autonomía y buen vivir”

The UK festival circuit is dominated by voices and teams well on their way to success as artists, and the threshold for entry to most festivals is correspondingly high. However, we believe there is a wealth of talent below that threshold that deserve the encouragement and affirmation of an audience.

Based at the charming Curzon Cinema in Clevedon, the remit of Homegrown Shorts is to find and encourage the young and developing cinematic voices of the South-West of the UK.

Cinema Camp Film Festival is a short film festival open to filmmakers from all over the world that has a double function: on one hand, serve as a platform for the dissemination of the short film in those places where it does not have much presence, and on the other hand, to function as an educational and formative tool, allowing the young spectators, who mostly make up their audience, to learn and draw inspiration from the visualization of the different cinematographic works.

The functioning of the festival, open to all types of audiences, is very simple: among all the short films received, a final selection will be made, which will be the one screened in the different sessions of the festival (which will take place in different Spanish cities at throughout the summer). Assistants to each of these projections will be the ones in charge of choosing their favoire short film. The short film that gets the most votes will win the Best Short Film Award of the festival.

Likewise, a specialized jury formed by professionals from the cinematographic sector will grant the different special mentions: Best Direction, Best Photography, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor/Actress.

The Festival de Cinema de Terror de Sabadell, celebrates the Sixth Edition of our Fiction Short Film Competition.

They have space for all the short films of Terror, Gore, Thriller, Fantastic, Science-Fiction, Dark Humor or Freak, in all their meanings and variants.

Festival start: October 30, 2022 Festival end: October 31, 2022
The 3TH edition of the HORROR PIFF Festival will take place in the city of Paraná, from October 30 to October 31, 2022.

The central headquarters of the Paraná Festival is located at the following address: B. Pedro Lemebel Civil Association, Santos Vega Street 1754, premises 9, 10 and 11, “El Sol” Commercial Gallery. Its official Fanpage: PIFF: Link: https://www.facebook.com/pifffestival/ Paraná (Facebook) offers detailed information and indicates how to contact the Festival and its different departments.

HORROR PIFF is in part the PARANA INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, which is made up in equal parts by Grupo Transmedia Argentina, and CICVE (Research Center in Film and Video Art Experimental), belonging to the Civil Association "Pedro Lemebel Library ". The organization of the Paraná Festival is headed by its director, Esteban Amatti.

The Paraná Festival is recognized by the “International Center for Experimental Cinema and Videoart”, within the category “competitive film festivals”.

The Paraná Festival aims to make a positive contribution to the development of culture and the film industry.

All the films presented in the 3TH edition of the HORROR PIFF will be chosen by its selection committee, headed by the Festival management and advised by a network of international delegates, made up of a series of professionals, specialists in the world of cinema and festivals. cinematographic. It will be called "International Film Classification Committee"

All films selected in the 3TH edition will receive a certificate of participation from the management of the Paraná Festival.

9rd Morce-GO Vermelho - GOIAS HORROR FILM FESTIVAL - is a film festival in the heart of Brazil, which will have contemporary audiovisual works and historical recovery linked to the themes of horror, suspense and horror. The Festival may have fiction productions, experimental and animation as well as workshops and debates.

The aim is to encourage and promote local productions, Brazil and all over the world for lovers of moviegoers horror movies, suspense and horror featuring some of the most creative in independent productions of short films in competitive shows and feature films in the programming.

Our main objective is the exhibition and stimulation of a constructive and objective debate on the interpretations that we can make individually about these two phenomena, such as the UFO phenomenon and the paranormal phenomenon.

Technology has played a leading role in revealing and clarifying myths and truths around these topics. That is why in this first edition we invite all those who want to deepen the analysis and also rescue the beauty of artistic expression that expresses what we do not know, but if we perceive.

The International Film Festival on the Island FECISLA, is a film event that has as its lines the identity and culture of African descent, childhood and youth and the environment, permeating and impacting from an educational and cultural process the majority of the native population of Fuerte Island and the diversity of visitors from different parts of the planet who come to our festival.

Tlanchana Fest, Festival of Cinema and Digital Art is carried out by Tlanchana Cultura Audiovisual AC, in order to create an exhibition space for emerging talents from Mexico and the world, by combining elements that promote cinematographic creation in conjunction with new media and digital art.

The Eighth Edition of Tlanchana Fest will be held from July 13 to 17, 2022 and will feature a series of screenings, conferences and workshops, as well as facilities and other activities that will be carried out virtually and in person and that will serve as an incentive for the work in cinematographic and digital art matters.

The Municipality of Ituzaingó with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation will hold the 6th Ituzaingó International Film Festival – directed by the filmmaker Raúl Perrone and organized by the Directorate of Culture of this Municipality. It will be held on November 26, 27 and 28 of this year, at the facilities of the La Torcaza Sports Center, located at Pringles 1279, in this city and party.

The FECI 6 will have a program made up of competitive and non-competitive sections in which medium and long-length productions can participate from 30 minutes of duration of any nationality as long as they are spoken or subtitled in Spanish.
It will have special activities such as conversations, special section of the municipal film workshop, recreational activities for children, among other things.

Registration and participation in all activities is free.

Cine Curtas Lapa is an independent, non-profit festival with free entry. The Festival aims to show films that were made or have as their theme the city of Rio de Janeiro in order to promote the Brazilian audiovisual industry, especially short films from Rio in the city's most traditional nightlife neighborhood. The idea is to bring a program of fiction, animation and documentary shorts to the public of Lapa, enriching the cultural life of the bohemian neighborhood.

This year, 2024, the Festival turns 13 years old. For more information visit our website. (https://cinecurtaslapa.wixsite.com/my-site)

There will be popular and professional jury voting for short films. The winner of each category will receive a certificate and the festival trophy.

Now in its thirteenth year, the Northeast Film Festival showcases top independent films from filmmakers, as well as new talent. The diverse array of films, selected by a committee, includes features and shorts from all genres, as well as documentaries and screenplays. The festival is hosted in Teaneck New Jersey at the historic Teaneck Cinemas; with planned parties to kick off the festival in style and spirit. In addition, we offer an atmosphere for the film enthusiast to interact with filmmakers as well as filmmakers being able to interact and network with each other and industry professionals.

The festival includes after parties, to offer opportunities for interacting and networking with other filmmakers, actors, and film festival goers. In past years, Harry Lennix, Lloyd Kaufman, Danny Roebuck, Matthew Modine, Vinnie Pastore, David Harris, Robert Clohessy, Brian O'Halloran, Fatima Ptacek, Gianni Russo, Duane Whitaker, Jefferson White, producers from NBC, among many others attended the festival's after parties (and festival).

The 10th Farinha Film Festival is back !!!! We return with the proposal to light the cultural flame of exchange and learning in film culture. It is during the festival that the backlands of Paraíba experience meetings of cultural manifestations, through exhibitions of regional and national audiovisual productions, with meeting spaces for discussion and learning, as well as film shows, panels, workshops, features and shows.

San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival is a US government approved 501(C) (3) tax-exempt non-profit organization.

Provide an international platform for all film lovers, professional filmmakers and film/media students who love film-making to stand out.

Discover and select potential talents with new technique & skills, who demonstrate the original concept and accelerate their development within the film industry.

Encourage new filmmakers especially young and first-time filmmakers for their new productions. Encourage and celebrate original and insightful screenwriting and new ideas in the film. Accept films in all categories and subject matter.

Make friends and enhance communication through films.

• 2024 The 11th Festival Schedule: 
October 30, 2024 to November 10, 2024

Created in partnership between A Gota Preta Filmes and the Centro Cultural Phábrika from experiences with the Municipal Schools Sculptor Leão Velloso (06.25.019), Journalist and Writer Daniel Piza (06.25.41), Érico Veríssimo (06.25.06) and Charles Anderson Weaver (06.25.05), the International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth has the mission to contribute to Education by providing a playful environment conducive to learning through the exhibition of educational films from around the world, betting on the aesthetics of cinema to develop critical sense, sharpen curiosity and stimulate interest in learning in an area with fragile school performance!

Our goal is to invest in this exchange by screening the selected films for 22 municipal units, impacting the lives of thousands of students by expanding the offer of Cultural Capital to the population served by the schools concentrated in micro-areas 6.5 and 6.7 of the 6th Regional Education Coordination of Rio de Janeiro, lacking equipments that provides this access.

Duemila30 is the biggest international gathering on social impact storytelling for emerging international filmmakers. Each year, over 100 young talents from all over the world meet for four days of screenings, workshops and meet-ups in Milan (Italy).

Duemila30 is much more than a film festival; conceived as a platform for the advancement of social impact storytelling, Duemila30 is permeated by a unique atmosphere, made of young filmmakers from all over the world, international movie industry professionals, social and environmental activists and the young and passionate staff.

In addition, by joining Duemila30 Festival in Milan from the 27th to the 30th of June 2024 you will forever become part of our community and have access to:

production grants (for your future projects)
distribution opportunities
our artistic residency programme in the Italian countryside.
Send us your social-impact short film and join us for free in Milan, we will take care of your accommodation and meals during Duemila30 Festival, you will only have to bring your passion and talent.

You don't have a social impact short film to submit? Don't worry, you can still join our festival programme and immerse yourself in the Duemila30's atmosphere. Visit our website for more information (https://www.duemila30.com/festival).

More details on the programme are coming out soon, in the meanwhile we can already tell you that:

you will live an extremely intense four days surrounded by young filmmakers from all over the world (50 different countries attended last year);
you will have the chance to personally interact and work with international professionals and experts of the movie industry;
all participant’s short films will be screened in dedicated feedback sessions;
you’ll exchange ideas with activists and learn from their experience how to better tell social impact stories.

Filmeraa Film Festival is one of it's kind festivals to promote independent films, web series across the globe. We are committed to release content across the globe via our screens exclusive to screen only independent films. Every year the festival acknowledges independent work with unique flavor in them and can bring about a change into the society and the thought process.

The Filmmakers/audience will gain the insights of the reel world & how to make your projects effective & efficient at the same time.
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Every film maker is invited to be a part of this exclusive premier league screening festival.
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The best films will get a chance to feature their film on our distribution portal www.filmeraa.com and on Indian Television.

Filmeraa Music Awards is one of it's kind online monthly music awards hosted by the OTT Platform Filmeraa to felicitate the best music videos and musicians of the world.

The entries can be in any language and should be more than 2 minutes length.

Music or Music Videos can be released or unreleased both.

The winners and selections both will be eligible to avail distribution service of Filmeraa at a nominal fee and distribute their music on the best platforms across the globe.

Winners will also be given funding opportunities for their next music video project provided the concept is approved by the team of the platform Filmeraa.