Blog: Film festivals

PLAY is the first Portuguese film festival, exclusively dedicated to children and teenagers, determined to promote the access to culture for a younger audience through Cinema and screening films for audiences aged between 1 and 16 years old.

Make It Short is a two-day short film festival covering a range of topics from all over the world. Through short films we can experience a huge range of subjects and styles, and our festival includes social commentary, humour and animation. Although we are presenting work on certain themes each short film also stands alone.

This is our first Make It Short. As well as adult submissions it will include shorts created by local schoolchildren and students, and by Brazilian children as part of our cultural exchange programme.

Algeciras Fantástika is a multidisciplinary cultural event specialized in matters of fantastic nature, suspense, terror and science fiction, organized by Algeciras City Council and the University of Cadiz.

Dear Friends,

I am extremely happy to welcome you at the 4th Kolkata International Wildlife & Environment Film Festival – 2018 scheduled from 14th December to 16th December 2018 in the most culturally rich city of India, Kolkata.
We received overwhelming response from independent film maker fraternity from across the globe last year. We received more than 2300 entries from 116 countries on the five categories of the festival.
We will get a unique opportunity to present your films to a large section of people, mainly students & youths across India & the world to various towns, cities, educational institutions & different responsible forums. Our main aim to create mass awareness for nature & wildlife conservation to common people mainly students & youths. We are the only festival who arrange special shows for underprivileged children & spent a portion of the budget for their upliftment process in the form of education materials, medicines, clothes etc. This is the unique social face of the festival.
Kolkata International Wildlife & Environment Film Festival is chosen as most popular people’s choice festival. Our facebook page followers cross one lac seventy five thousand already & moving on everyday.
We have introduced “TRAVELLING FESTIVAL” from last year. We already performed at NAGPUR, State – MAHARASHTRA in the month of January 2017 & at AGARTALA, State – TRIPURA in the month of February 2017. We received tremendous response in both the places & nearly 20,000 students from 40 schools participated in the travelling festival.
We have to provide arrangements to show films at different school auditoriums even, to accommodate more students as the capacity of official Venue was full.
We have introduced unique concept of “GREEN-BRIGADE” from 2016. We invite Write-up, drawings, poems or any creative regarding nature/wildlife/environment from students. We provide “GREEN-BRIGADE” Complimentary membership & ten plants to our green brigade members. We received tremendous response from thousands of students.
The Judging of films made by eminent personalities from different section of life. We acknowledge your creativity keeping high standards.

We look forward to receive your films & hope you would be the winner of Prestigious “DESHAM GOLDEN TIGER” award.
WE ONCE AGAIN WELCOME YOU AT OUR FESTIVAL AT KOLKATA, INDIA FROM 14TH TO 16TH DECEMBER 2018.
I am sure you will enjoy the festival in fullest & return with many sweet experience & memories.
Thank you very much & see you soon.
ADITYA MUKHERJEE
Festival Director
4th Kolkata International Wildlife & Environment Film Festival-2018

"MAIPÚ SHORTS" IS A COMEDY / HUMOR FILM FESTIVAL.

ONLY FOR BRASILIAN FILMMAKERS // SOLO PARA CINEASTAS BRASILEÑOS

Cinefest Gato Preto ("Black Cat") is a short-film festival for Brazilians film makers.

We will have a specific focus, trying to give attencion to all areas in cinema: art direction, sound design, editing, scrict, direction, acting, photography and production.

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FRICINE aims to display, publicize and reward audiovisual works, ideas and actions that by their artistic form and the relevance of its content contribute to promote the overcoming of problems that disturb the Peace of Humanity and threaten Life on Earth.

Opting to go against primarily commercial interests, FRICINE's biggest prize is to give the public access to the debate on the main problems that the human being and it ecosystem face today.

FRICINE 2019 will highlight HUMOR,in its most diverse forms, for its extraordinary ability to stimulate us to disarm our fears and prejudices in search of a world more loving, healthy and just for all.

The competition consists of two general categories:
Documentaries and Advertising films/scenarios: The documentaries with nonfictional scenarios that hold a different viewpoint about tourism, and the creative advertising films/scenarios fictionalized for promotional purposes will be evaluated in this two-stage competition. The films determined through a preliminary consideration will be evaluated by a jury, and the top three films in both categories will be rewarded. Documentary category will include road films, tourism destinations, cultural heritage and archaeology documentaries, nature and environment documentaries, sports-themed films, and travel programs. Advertising films/scenarios should be related to territorial/regional companies or tourism products. The competing works should include one of the following themes:

Documentary Films:

Tourism destinations,
Cultural heritage and archaeology films,
Types of tourism,
Tourism and environment,
Travel films,
Road movie,
Nature and environment-related documentary films,
Sports-themed films.

RIZOMA is a unique international festival that combines film, art, music, conferences and community engagement to build each edition around a central concept.

Like the rhizome itself, RIZOMA is interconnected, interdependent and non-hierarchical. RIZOMA values that the different branches of culture feed and inspire each other. We believe in the horizontality of a rhizome so it is important to bring together emerging and established artists so that some feed off each other and of course the public as a part of the festival.

Known for having brought to Madrid for the first time creators of the stature of David Lynch, John Waters and Debbie Harry. RIZOMA also stands out for its efforts to bring to light the work of new Spanish artists. To this end, it has created the RIZOMA CINEMA Award, for the distribution of the winning film.

Authorial film festival held by one of the most important distributors of movie Brazil. The awards will result distribution contracts of winning films in Brazil.

The purpose of the festival refers to awareness of both the external filters on the screen, including censorship (commercial, ideological, aesthetic), and the internal filters of screen perception and projection, including self-censorship. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is an exploration of aestheticization and commodification in art. The next aim of the festival is to expose the complexity, manysidedness, and variety of filmmaking.

NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is a film festival that is held by the Short Movie Club, the platform for cinematic projects. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO is ADAMI Media Prize qualified festival. The International Film Studies Conference is held at the same time as the film festival. In this way, film theory and practice are integrated together at the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO.

Originally the festival was held in Belarus, but because of political repression and publicly stated anti-war stance, screenings and events can be held in different countries. First of all in Lithuania (Vilnius). For example, the 10th Nefiltravanae Kino took place in Berlin, Vilnius and Helsinki last year. There were selected 63 films for 12 film programmes. https://shortmovie.club/programmes/10-2024/

The concept of the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (Unfiltered Cinema):

ALIENATION PROBLEM

We live in a world of malls and cinema multiplexes. We see that indie cinema and non-commodity art go to the periphery of public attention. Primitive attractions replace the cinematography. The escape audience is alienated behind the big screen. So modern mainstream cinema is part of a manipulating tool that leads to the society of alienation. Thus the tendency is that indie cinema becomes more unreadable for the wide audience. We should understand the context of the filmmaker to understand the independent cinema. That is why the NEFILTRAVANAE KINO concept implies the physical presence of filmmakers.

FILM SELECTION PROBLEM
Filmmakers shoot millions of movies. And thousands of short film festivals organize screenings all over the world every year. On average, several thousand films are submitted to a film festival. So various good films can be neglected for whatever reason. Often selecting probability is like winning a lottery. As a result, filmmakers are left with no feedback. It is a paradox that no one can hear you in the age of the Internet! The mainstream culture prefers attractions and casual viewing.

Also, this idea is based on the film selection problem. Perhaps it’s no surprise one person, i.e. programme director at best, or even students of film schools make a preliminary decision to select a movie. Сoncordance of judges or previewers is more seldom thing than the difference of background, tastes. So selection or judging can be one-sided or perfunctory. It is not bad as the programme director has a good taste and aesthetic sensitivity, of course. But we’ve discovered another conception of “unfiltered cinema”. We matched it against “the best of the best” way. This way aids to perceive cinematic idiom without the dictate of art-curators.

CELEBRATION OF INDIE CINEMA
So the Unfiltered Cinema Film Festival tries to avoid “the best of the best” way but it does not ignore it completely, sure. The festival selects fiction, animation, documentary, experimental and virtual reality sections. A jury awards the best film in every section. The festival holds the screenings at cinema theatres, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, and art-spaces.

Our aim is to gather people in art, to have a dialogue to be happy with smart communication. Cinema is art but not sport. The key point of our project is to establish communication between the filmmaker and the audience.

Please, read about the festival history through the link to the festival's website. http://shortmovie.club/history/

The Short Movie Club provides constructing of CinemaVan ( see https://www.behance.net/gallery/33392769/Cinema-van-Mobile-library-Amphibia ).

FICAMS, Antarctica’s International Film Festival about Environment and Sustainability is a competitive festival that gives and teaches community members, through films, diverse views related to our habitat and culture. General themes of the audio-visual pieces are base on the environment, nature, sustainability, climate change, recycling, and renewable energy sources.

Audio-visual production are exhibited and discussion panels are held during the festival, hence promoting debate around socio - environmental realities from different places of the world, allowing us to learn about problems but also strategic solutions in tight relation to our local reality.

FICAMS as an eye opener experience enriches us with a southern hemisphere perspective, redefining the means by which we should contemplate our planet, reminding us that a sphere has multiple viewpoints, where geographical cardinality loses all meaning. Alliances with other curators/proponents/cultivators are seek in order to present audio-visual pieces related to environmental education and biodiversity in an associatively manner.

Highly Respected BAFTA CYMRU QUALIFYING Film Festival Judged by Industry Professionals. UK & International Submissions.

Please note that we are also an IMDB Qualifying festival which means that, if your film is selected and screened you can add it to IMDB.
IMDB Events/Film Festival
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PLEASE READ RULES BEFORE CONSIDERING SUBMITTING YOUR FILM


Carmarthen Bay Film Festival has gone from strength to strength over the years. From our first festival in 2012, we have gone from 35 submissions to well over 750 from 60 different countries for our 2019 festival. Not only have the submissions increased over the years but the number of filmmakers and festival patrons attending has as well.

We have had filmmakers flying in from the US, Australia, Holland, Italy, France and many parts of the UK. The number of festival partners has also grown with Stradey Park Hotel, BAFTA Cymru, RTS Wales, University of Wales Trinity St. David, Felin Foel Brewery, Carmarthen Cameras and many more. The festival is now a BAFTA Cymru/Wales qualifying which means that any film screened during the festival and made here in Wales is eligible to apply to be considered for a BAFTA Cymru award.

Our 8th festival has seen some significant changes, for the last seven years, the festival has been held at the Stradey Park Hotel here in Llanelli. The hotel has been very supportive, and without their help, the festival would have been unable to get off the ground. So with the full backing of the Stradey Park, we felt it was time to move on and try something new. So for 2019 CBFF was held at one of Wales’ premier theatres in the centre of Llanelli, which brought a new and exciting dynamic and feel to the festival.

It's all about fairness, our motto.
‘This festival is honest’ and will always be, a champion of independent film.

Films Judge by Industry Jury,
Widely promoted Festival,
Committed to Transparency,
BAFTA Cymru Qualifying Festival

We are also very proud to have the name of John Hefin associated with the festival.
With the John Hefin Award for lifetime achievement in film, television or theatre. And we are delighted that John Morgan of JM Creative accepted this award during our 2019 awards gala.

Please read the brief bio about John below.

John Hefin first became involved in television work in 1960, when he responded to a newspaper advertisement for apprentice production assistants. During the 1960s, he worked as a producer and director for BBC Wales. In 1974, he helped create the Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm, the longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC. He also co-wrote and directed the 1978 TV rugby comedy film Grand Slam, and directed the 1981 drama series The Life and Times of David Lloyd George. This nine-part series, a biopic based on the Welsh PM, drew on conversations with Lady Olwen, his eldest daughter, and AJ Sylvester, his secretary. In 1984, John was the director for the narration for an animated version of Prince Charles's children's story The Old Man of Lochnagar.

Following his post as Head of Drama with BBC Wales, he worked in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University. In 1988, he became the artistic director of Film Cymru (which was later renamed the Wales Film Council), entrusted with the responsibility of commissioning films from independent Welsh producers using S4C funds. He was also Chairman of the Film Commission Wales, and Chair of Cyfrwng, a Welsh media journal, and network. He retired from the BBC in 1993. In 2004, he directed and filmed part of a documentary featuring the artist Sir Kyffin Williams, Reflections in a Gondola
John was awarded the MBE in 2009, for "services to Welsh film and drama". In 2012, he was awarded the BAFTA Cymru Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television Drama.

DOKer was created 9 years ago to bring wonderful independent documentary films from all over the world to the Russian audience and provide a discussion platform for authors, experts and spectators.

The principles of DOKer are:
- When we say 'documentary film' we put the emphasis on ‘film'.
- There are countless ways to make a documentary but we believe it has to be dramatic and interesting.
- Image and sound are as important for docs as they are for fiction films. The film language is universal, and we use it to tell our stories.

Puerto Madero IFF is an online annual competition based of the technical execution of films.

All submission are evaluated on each technical category: Script, Cinematography, Sound, Acting and Direction.

At the end of each year we announced the official selection films based on their creativity and technical execution.

Our festival is ONLINE only at the moment, we are working hard to make an annual event with public screening.

All the Official Selections and Winner are posted in our Social Network with a growing audience of more than 4600 followers and also on our web site.

All Official Selection will receive laurels.

The winner film will receive a technical reviews and laurels.

The Bull City International Film Festival is open internationally to all filmmakers and screenwriters who understand that film is much more than expensive equipment and sets with impractical budgets.

We are seeking films and scripts with character driven plots. Insightful stories relying on human expression more than special effects.

Films from all over the globe!
Shared in Durham, NC!
See you there!

Enginuity is a festival created by filmmakers to celebrate the engine and ingenuity that powers independent film. We want to celebrate all the departments that come together to create independent film.

This is our first year, we intend on growing every year.

Enginuity is a festival that runs year round but awards quarterly semi-finalists. In May, we will host a live screening of all the Best Quarterly Winners in Best Picture and Best Short Film Categories, followed by an evening award program that will announce the annual winners in each category.