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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.

O Festival Mix Brasil é um evento cultural anual com foco em filmes relacionados com a sexualidade em suas diversas formas de expressão.

Em 2020, nosso público estimado (em salas e online) foi de 176 mil pessoas que participaram das exibições, teatro, música, conferencia e debates promovidos na 28 ª edição anual do festival.

Mix Brasil é realizado em novembro em vários cinemas de prestígio em toda São Paulo e tira o máximo partido da diversidade da cidade para hospedar uma variedade de eventos inovadores. Depois de São Paulo, o Festival Mix Brasil faz itinerância para outras cidades brasileiras.

O evento é realizado pela Associação Cultural Mix Brasil, uma organização sem fins lucrativos que visa promover a liberdade de expressão da diversidade sexual em diferentes formatos.

**IMPORTANTE - CORONAVIRUS ALERTA**

Devido a pandemia do Coronavirus, a 29ª edição do Festival Mix Brasil acontecerá online, em plataforma segura, e número limitado de expectadores em cada exibição. O Festival poderá também acontecer em salas de cinema, se as orientações dos órgãos públicos locais assim permitirem no período do evento.
Fica dessa maneira celebrado que a sua inscrição no Festival MixBrasil/Festhome significa desde já que você concorda que, se selecionado, o filme também terá sua exibição online.

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.

Após nove edições de muito sucesso, o FESTIVAL DE CINEMA CURTA CABO FRIO alcança a maturidade, cresce e expande suas fronteiras, transformando-se num festival regional. Tudo isso sem perder o charme que sempre o acompanhou.

Atento às grandes transformações que sempre ocorrem nesta área o Curta Cabo Frio inova mais uma vez, e apresenta a Mostra Competitiva de Longas-Metragens realizados em formato digital, trazendo para cá os grandes questionamentos do mercado acerca do futuro do cinema.

Serão diversos locais de exibição e expectativa total de público de 10.000 pessoas, nos 7 dias de festival. Números que fazem do Curta Cabo Frio, o maior evento de audiovisual do interior do estado.

Com o objetivo de expandir o meio cinematográfico e audiovisual na região o festival realizará mostras itinerantes em bairros e escolas municipais da cidade, exibindo filmes para todos e proporcionando com isso a descentralização da cultura.

Visando facilitar a participação da população local na produção de vídeos temos a mostra competitiva para curtas produzidos em câmera de celular e câmera fotográfica, novas mídias que tornam possível que o realizador amador faça o seu próprio cinema.

As oficinas de audiovisual também acontecem permitindo ao festival gerar oportunidades para a população produzir material que retratem a sua realidade, alem de ajudar na criação de mão de obra qualificada.

Com valores inovadores, o Curta Cabo Frio coloca-se como uma alternativa para a exibição de novas experiências e descobertas de talentos, principalmente no estado fluminense, tornando-se uma opção para os amantes de audiovisual no circuito brasileiro de cinema.

O Festival Internacional de Cinema é um dos festivais de curta-metragem mais importantes da Argentina. Um evento de cinema Tapiales de importante impacto social e cultural sem fins lucrativos, organizado pela JC OFCT Films, realizada na aldeia de Tapiales, uma cidade pertencente ao La Matanza, localizado na província de Buenos Aires. É também um evento competitivo onde filmes selecionados são projetados para receber o prêmio mais tarde aborígene sob o veredicto dos membros honrados do júri. O evento é realizado sob a premissa de realçar o caráter popular, livre e ao ar livre. Tapiales também propõe atividades paralelas, como espaços de treinamento, palestras e exposições especiais fora da competição.

FanCine de Lemos, Festival de Cinema Fantástico.

The Beeston Film Festival attracts the latest global short films to the East Midlands AND NOW to filmmakers too! In a unique offering your Beeston Film Festival entry fee is your admission to watch the whole On-line Festival! You will be able to watch the competition in your category and enjoy the talent in all the others.

The On-Line Festival presents films accepted into ALL categories – Drama, Comedy, Horror, Documentary, Animation and the local Three Counties competition. The On-Line Festival will be available for 3 weeks after the festival in Beeston.

The Beeston Oscar, or B’Oscar, is awarded to the best film in the following categories - Drama, Horror, Comedy, Documentary and Animation.

This year a new local competition has been created called Three Counties category, that is split into two sections: Long (up to 15 minutes); and Short (up to 5 minutes). Filmmakers from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire ONLY with films in any genre can submit. The prize pool is amazing because we have teamed up with Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund (MMBF), a UK based international charity that supports filmmakers and actors, so as well as a B’Oscar there is
Three Counties Long - a MMBF Rising Star Award (£150 prize, mentoring plus physical award and other perks)
Three Counties Short - a MMBF Best Short Award (£50 prize and physical award).

Further prizes will be awarded for Best Director, Best Script, Best Cinematography, Best Acting Performance, Best Soundtrack & Sound Design and an Audience award, too. And, of course, there is a wonderful Best in Festival B’Oscar, too, designed by the renowned ceramic artist, Anna Collette Hunt.

WhatTheFestival is a boutique experience of art, 8 stages of electronic and live music located 90 miles east of Portland, OR June 16 - 19 2017.

XXVII Mostra Internacional de Curtas-Metragens da Baía de Pasaia, IKUSKA 2025.

O festival tem uma competição internacional de curtas-metragens em 5 exibições e outras sessões paralelas não competitivas relacionadas ao desenvolvimento da coexistência basca e linguística (projeção MINTZAGUN em colaboração com Oarsoaldea euskaltegis), igualdade de gênero (prêmio BEKOZ BEKO em colaboração com a Associação contra a violência de gênero Bekoz Beko), promoção da cultura em Pasaia e arredores, etc.

Lorne Film 2014 will build on the success of the inaugural 2013 festival – where over 1000 admissions viewed 29 films across 5 screens, and film professionals from across Australia descended on Lorne to create, and interact in a true festival community.

Featuring a range of intimate venues against the backdrop of Lorne’s unique coastal beauty, Lorne Film 2014 is a four-day celebration of international film for the people who make, watch and love film, held from November 13 – 16, 2014.

Lorne Film 2014 will continue to nurture and promote Lorne and the surrounding Otway region as a centre for film culture and commerce, a port of call for industry leaders and world-class talent for the duration of the festival and beyond. In creating a ‘film market’ Lorne Film will capitalise on Lorne’s history as a meeting place where in people will come from across the planet to buy, sell, talk, and think film.

BIFF came out of a desire to expand Dutchess County’s offering of independent films, make independent films more accessible to people who might not otherwise see them and to help make Beacon a place that celebrates and fosters filmmaking.

The registration of a film in the competition selection process of the festival indicates the full acceptance of these bases. The organization of the Festival will resolve in an unappealable manner with respect to any matter included in this regulation or its interpretation. The sender of the film authorizes FEDOCHI to select some sequences not exceeding three minutes that can be broadcast by TV, within the framework of programs and spots that disseminate the festival.

The 14th version of the Documentary Film Festival of Chiloe will take place between November 5 and 10, 2018.

A empresa estatal de Mogilev “Kinovideoprokat” dá as boas-vindas a você e informa que, em setembro de 2025, na cidade de Mogilev, República da Bielorrússia, será realizado o XXVII Festival Internacional de Filmes de Animação “Animaevka-2025".

Com o passar dos anos, o festival se tornou uma celebração da animação para crianças e adultos. Os eventos são realizados em todos os centros regionais da Bielorrússia.

Para visualização, são organizadas exibições de filmes de programas competitivos e não competitivos, reuniões criativas com criadores de filmes de animação, master classes, exposições de artes plásticas, decorativas e aplicadas infantis.

Como parte do tratamento:

- competição de filmes de animação;
- competição de criatividade em animação infantil
- competição de artes plásticas, decorativas e aplicadas para crianças.

Cinefilia Tanguera é um Festival Itinerante & Internacional de Curtas-Metragem ligado ao TANGO, não competitivo.

Nosso objetivo principal é promover o tango e o cinema, a partir de uma perspectiva original sem divulgação e promoção em qualquer lugar do mundo, assim como as obras de curtas-metragens e documentários sobre a identidade do tango em todos os sentidos.

Desde 2009 foi apresentado em alguns dos mais prestigiados eventos culturais do mundo, atuando em Cagliari (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016), Barcelona (2009, 2016, 2017), Moscou, Londres (2009, 2013, 2016), Madrid (2009, 2016), Ámsterdã (2009, 2018), Bruxelas (2010, 2018), Liège, Catânia, Hamburgo, Jordânia, Buenos Aires Aires (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), Atenas, Valladolid, Zurique, Bergen (Noruega), Milán, Eindhoven, Sassari (2012, 2016), Berlim, Paris, Creta (2016, 2017, 2019), Budapeste, Tenerife, Formentera (2016, 2018), Ibiza, Praga, Zagreb, Timisoara, Novi Sad, Novi Istambul, Tóquio, Singapura, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Bali, Bilbau, Montecarlo, Arles, Georgetown (Guiana), Oslo, Toronto e Cairo.

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