Blog: Film festivals

KloosterKino is the place to be for animated shorts in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Three times a year we show the best animated shorts from all over the world in a friendly setting. The screenings take place in a historic cloister, which dates back to 1909, and are not subject to admission.

KloosterKino shows work by young filmmakers, but also pays attention to classic animated film. Throughout the year we also work with other festivals and cultural organizations to arrange screenings of animated shorts.

But why animated shorts? Well, first of all, because we love them! But also because too few animated shorts are shown theatrically in the Netherlands. KloosterKino wants to show animation in all its diversity: from stop-motion to CGI, from narrative to abstract, homegrown and from far away. In doing so, we hope to aid in the diffusion of the artistic animated short.

We intend to be an alternative to the larger animation festivals by offering screenings which are both accessible and challenging. We stand for high quality animated film in welcoming surroundings. Our target audience is not just the animation aficionado, but also those who normally don’t watch animation, but are open to a surprising and stimulating program of films.

KloosterKino is a nonprofit foundation, that depends on volunteers and gifts.

Cryptshow Festival is an initiative that promotes the fantasy genreand terror. Every July fill Badalona de Zombies, aliens, vampires and serial killiers most infamous. And to much horror ... the horror!

Launched in 1980, our festival, the first of its category in South Korea, has grown and evolved from the Korean Short Film Festival, to become the Busan Asian Short Film Festival in 2000 and eventually the Busan International Short Film Festival in 2010 (www.bisff.org).

Taking place late April at the Busan Cinema Center, BISFF delivers a dozen awards in three competitive sections (International Competition, Korean Competition and Operation Kino) while also presenting several curated, non-competitive sections including: Guest Country, Korean Shorts, Asian Shorts, Prism, 3D Cinema, etc.

BISFF is a member of the Short Film Conference (http://shortfilmconference.com/) and of the NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema https://netpacasia.org). In 2018, it became South Korea’s first Oscar®-qualifying festival.

Dear friends!

Hello to everyone

Animacam Online Animation Film Festival 6th Edition 2017 is back after two years off and we sure that, with your participation, as always, this is going to be a great edition. Once again we have the purpose of giving all animation fans the opportunity to take part and watch wonderful animated short films produced in 2016.

With all the affection and effort we feel for Animation World, in this 6th Edition we’ve introduced the next novelties:

BIGGER PRIZES

Best International Animated Short Film

3,000 euros

Granted and sponsored by Contemporary Art Museum of A Coruña (MAC-Gas Natural Fenosa)

Animacam Audience Award

2,000 euros

Granted by Animacam International Audience with their online and offline votes. Sponsored by Spanish and Portuguese dental clinics of Arranz Dental

Read our rules

BETTER DISPLAYING QUALITY

In order to display your film with the best quality, we’ll use the Vimeo professional services

GREATER EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CONTEST

Every finalist film will be displayed and exhibited in Animacam, at the same time, and with equal conditions, for the exhibition and online voting phase, from 10th January to 23rd January 2017.

CAREER TRIBUTE

6th Animacam Edition introduces a new sectionwith the tribute to the animated filmography of an international recognized author, which will be announced through our social networks.

OPENING OF SUBMISSION OF FILMS

6th Edition Animacam 2017 has opened today the submission of films. All the Animation creators and directors which are interested are abale to submit their films filling the entry form here. The movie must be uploaded on our Animacam group in private mode. Once it’s been watched by the organization and checked all the rules are completed, the movie will enter the process to select the finalists of 6th edition Animacam, which will end next 30th December 2016. According to dates, finalists will be announced on 10th January 2017

OUR HISTORY

This Festival (www.animacam.tv), funded in 2008, is still the First Online Animated Short Film Festival and, along the past five Editions, has been followed by more than ten million fans from 175 countries. The most prestigious and diverse Animated Short Films have taken part of Animacam since 2008, an event which has brought together recognized authors, novice creators and also students from different Animation Schools. Thanks to all of them, the Festival has received more than 2,000 movies from the five continents and granted $90,000 in prizes.

Animacam gathers different topics (childhood, sports, culture, society, topicality…) and a big compendium of animated techniques (stop motion, 2D, 3D…).

We wish to continue animating the way together.

Cheers and Animation!

Welcome!

Do you have a shoot'em up western? An epic war flick? A martial arts masterpiece? An explosive cops & robbers picture?

If it's action packed and under 30 minutes, this is the online film festival for you!

We also take action packed scripts 30 pages or less!

AGRinCORTO is the first short film festival to be held in Cinisello Balsamo and it organized with the support of the City Municipality. It aims to encourage and promote cultural exchange through the form of expression of video, with no restrictions of categories or genres.

Themes of the festival will be those that best represent identity and history of Cooperativa Agricola, the organization that manages the festival: environment, agriculture, work, ecology, economics solidarity.

Underneath the Floorboards is based in London's buzzing artistic area of Hackney.

For our 10th Edition we will be continue our online event, which will be screened for a two weeks by our online platform: https://www.visualcontainer.tv/ which screens worldwide and got over ten thousand views last time around, and this time we're aiming for more.

Our showcase is open to artists and filmmakers from all around the world whose work has an experimental, non-linear narrative form. We want to see variety, whether it be experimental film, video art, visual art, digital art, experimental documentary or animation.

No bias, no prejudice, we don't care if you didn't study in the most prestigious art schools. We want to see unique work of an artistic nature, which creates its own language.

A short drive from Los Angeles.

May 27-28: Come spend your weekend at California Children Film Festival on 14 gorgeous, scenic acres in Joshua Tree and celebrate art and filmmaking (a quick hop for filmmakers based in Los Angeles, California). Bring, showcase, and sell your art by day, watch films under the stars by night! We welcome Worldwide submissions!

Partake in live performances, listen to acoustic music, eat fresh organic food, kiss stress goodbye with free yoga and meditation classes, and have fun meeting other vibrant artists at California Children Film Festival!

Leave the desert feeling fresh, recharged, and creatively renewed!

Participate with the potential of your film winning the Grand Juror Prize and showcasing to top agencies and managers in Los Angeles.

Give back to the planet and PLANT SOME TREES to offset our Los Angeles, California Carbon dioxide footprint! We are partnered with plantabillion.org! California Children Los Angeles Film Festival takes pride in giving back to the earth. We cherish our home and want to continue watching it grow.

See you all in the desert!
-CALIFORNIA CHILDREN, LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL Team

Los Angeles deserves a festival reflecting our free spirit. Come celebrate with us.

All rights reserve, California Children Los Angeles 2016

Established independent film directors of the city of joy Kolkata felt that the need for having a festival just by the directors. For the directors.
That is why the birth of DFK. It is a collaborative effort of independent filmmakers to facilitate world-class cinema here at the heart of City of Joy.

The Equinale®
The Equinale® is an international film festival for horse films and films, which horses play an important roll.

The Equinale® is an event which takes place over four days.

Entertainment films (films for adults and children), documentaries, advertisements, music and educational films are going to be shown.

There will also be lectures about horses which will definitely catch the interest of the young and old horse fans.

The highlight of this event is the giving of awards to the films in the various categories.

The films are going to be awarded by a mixed jury. The jury is composed of horse thrilled people out of the riding scene.

The children and youth films are going to be rated from a separate jury.

Furthermore two public awards are going to be awarded.

The big film party on Saturday, on which the films are going to be awarded, is a social event.

To round off this event, a small exclusive horsefair and horseart exhibition invites you to go for a stroll. Fashion, art, interior, culinary delicacies including horse products and presentations are expected to reduce the waiting time between the films.

The FINDECOIN - Independent International Short Film Festival "The day is short" Search diffusion and promotion of Venezuelan, Latin American and World cinematography; And of all its cultural field. It tries to show cinematographic works that entertain, but above all, that they exert an educative influence in the children, young people and population in general.

Digital Box Office (Digital Box Office, LLC) presents an opportunity for you to be honored and have your film screened at the 2nd Annual Digital Box Office Awards in Los Angeles, an event specifically created for the independent filmmaker.

Developed by Hollywood Insiders and taking place May 10th in Los Angeles, Digital Box Office is a groundbreaking film festival and global film platform that supports and caters to filmmakers as its #1 priority.

Located at the beautiful Monica Film Center in Santa Monica, the Digital Box Office Awards will screen the brightest and best independent films of the year followed by a star studded reception and awards ceremony.
Winning Filmmakers will experience:

May 10th, 2018:
6:00pm: Red Carpet Arrival and Reception at Monica Film Center in Santa Monica, CA
Q+A with Digital Box Office Organizers
7:00pm: Winning Student Film Screened + Q&A with Filmmakers
7:30pm: Winning Short Film Screened + Q&A with Filmmakers
8:00pm: Winning Feature Film Screened + Q&A with Filmmakers
9:30pm: VIP Reception and Awards Ceremony

We take the pleasure and great honour to warm invitation to the galaxy of filmmaker to the 8th edition of Haryana International Film Festival 2024 starting from 14 February to 18th February 2024 in Haryana, India. We are hoping for all your blessings and active participation.

HIFF - Haryana International Film Festival is Successful Step towards the International recognition of Haryanvi Culture & Haryanvi Peoples. HIFF will make endeavors towards imparting a novel identity to the world cinema, through conducting film festivals in the cities of Haryana every year. HIFF will try to work on all the technical and academic aspects of cinema. The organization will make attempts to connect the world cinema with the common public and making it a social concern, through conducting various seminars, debates and discussions.

6th Haryana International Film Festival ( HIFF-24 ) , will be one of the biggest Academic and Glamour Film Festival in the World. This Five days Festival will showcase a diverse, language independent, selection of the best feature films, documentaries and short films from around the world, on themes of Hindi and English and other Haryanvii cultures and identities.

In addition, the festival also features concerts, gala events, film parties, seminars, workshops, Film Bazaar and networking opportunities with government representatives, business leaders, local organizations that support film development, film stars, producers, directors, members of the media and more.

HIFF 2024

Vision and Mission :

HIFF will provide an opportunity to heighten awareness of Hindi and English and Haryanvi culture and identities to audiences of all cultural backgrounds.

HIFF will present films in their original languages with subtitles in an effort to build cross-cultural bridges.

HIFF 2024 To Create Global platform for Independent Filmmakers & Youth Worldwide Towards Uniting The World & supporting Global Harmony & Peace.

To encourage Film locations exchange, Film Culture & enhance Film Tourism Art , culture & technological exchange between film-makers
The Festival also aims to provide a platform to young Haryanvis to showcase their creativity.

The Vision and Mission of HIFF is guided by an advisory board composed of respected political, business, arts, community and media leaders.

Madrid SOS RACISM 2018 edition announces the contest Short Equal Rights and Against Racism.

Any person can participate in this contest regardless of nationality, sex, origin, legal status, etc.

The theme of the short should be linked to the promotion of multiculturalism, immigration, and the fight against racism and xenophobia.

Of all the short films received, the SOS Racism Madrid jury will select works that will be screened publicly between 19th-25th March 2018.

The deadline for receipt of entries is until January 10, 2018, inclusive. Competition rules In the section you will find all the information necessary for participation. You can also contact us for any query writing jornadas@sosracismomadrid.es

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 looking for works by audiovisual with authentic, inventive and poetic inclinations which put to the limit all languages, take ownership of old and new technologies (who believe them) and which generate sublime artistic experiences.

We screen the best documentaries from around the world at the Roxie Cinema, the oldest art house theater west of the Mississippi. Many of our titles end up with calendared runs at the Roxie later in the year. We get great press coverage in San Francisco, the second largest film market in the country, plus industry reviews.

San Francisco is a very receptive town for documentaries and our fest has built a passionate following over the past 24 years.

LAST YEAR'S PRESS COVERAGE: https://sfindie.com/press-coverage

SF DocFest is an annual festival devoted to documentary cinema. Since 2001, this event has brought the most weird and wonderful aspects of real life to the big screen.

"What makes the scrappy San Francisco Documentary Film Festival a treasure to SF Bay Area filmgoers is its willingness to take that extra step to show films a little more out there than bog standard documentaries." - Peter Wong, Broke Ass Stuart

“Docfest offers a zippy blend of politics, music, social issues and youth-oriented subcultures. The good news is that DocFest promotes documentaries as a vibrant, irreverent form of entertainment to a younger demographic, blasting the notion of educational films to smithereens. There’s no room for anything approximating — watch it, I’m about to blaspheme – the obsessively measured and utterly somnambulant musings of Ken Burns.” – Michael Fox, KQED

“Since its inception, DocFest (May 31-June 15 at the Roxie and the Vogue, with opening night at Alamo Drafthouse) has compiled a colorful scrapbook of genuine characters in contrast to the current events survey, educational seminar or social-issue forum that defines many documentary series… There are one or two people in Off the Charts you won’t soon forget, which could be said about nearly every film in DocFest. That’s one of the pleasures of scrapbooks.” – also Michael Fox, KQED

Michael Fox just loves DocFest, here's another:

"Welcome to SF DocFest, the beloved annual compendium of odd, unusual nonfiction films from every nook and corner of our bizarro country and beyond. Waving off the pedigreed, high-profile docs that premiere at Sundance, get theatrical releases (or these days, national virtual releases) and chart a course for the Academy Awards, SF DocFest’s programmers opt for poignant, intimate works that miss the mainstream by dint of their iconoclasm and/or lack of a marketing hook." -KQED

"This week brings the kickoff to the 20th edition of SF Docfest, the rapidly-becoming-venerable nonfiction showcase that nonetheless continues to put the fun in documentary cinema appreciation. While other such showcases tend to be soberly issue-themed, focusing on the environment, activism, or some such, Docfest pursues—though not exclusively—colorful human interest stories, musician profiles, and other subjects on which there will not be a class quiz afterward." - Dennis Harvey, 48Hills

The 2019 Culver City Film Festival will be December 3rd - 8th and will be held at Cinemark 18 & XD at the Howard Hughes Promenade. Additional venues to be announced soon. All submissions are only $30.00 ($25.00 for Gold Members). Submissions are Open for shorts and feature narratives and documentaries, as well as music videos and even experimental films. Have your film screened in the heart of screen-land Culver City, CA and home of Sony Pictures and many film companies and distributors.

Submitting your film does not guarantee festival acceptance or screening. Acceptance into the festival does not guarantee award or prize. Submission fees are nonrefundable. Culver City Film Festival reserves the right to change our programming and event parties without notice.

The annual film festival TFF is held in Minsk, Republic of Belarus.

The festival’s aim is watching interesting movies, discussing them, giving and getting the prizes and having a nice autumn evening.

Film and Cultural Association of nonprofit "LABORATORIO DEI SOGNI", organizes in 2019, the 9th edition of the competition "KALAT NISSA FILM FESTIVAL" in CALTANISSETTA [Sicily].

The festival is aimed at directors and to Italian and foreign Filmmakers, to schools, associations and companies that have produced short films.

In order to enhance, promote and spread the short film as a particularly good form of expression and the current social and cultural level; to develop the potential of the artistic languages of the new media; to respond to the cultural growth of the young emerging filmmakers, the festival follows the logic of giving the greatest possible visibility to short films that will come.

A jury will select them for various events and screenings. Photographic exhibitions, meetings with personalities from the world of cinema and various events will host the event.

For the sixth consecutive year, thanks to the collaboration between KALAT NISSA FILM FESTIVAL and the CESMA - THEMATIC GROUP FOR SONORA CINEMATOGRAPHY, the prestigious one was established:

BEST SOUND PRIZE 2019 CESMA - Lambda

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