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Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films & New Images
Festival Description - Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films and New Images is the most popular Italian Film Festival dedicated to new formats and new trends of independent cinema. Special attention is paid to European production, witnessing its quakes and registering its changes, inquiring on the creative and productive diversities, as well as drawing the most updated map of new trends and of independent, marginal and experimental activities.
The Festival program includes 5 competitions, retrospectives, homages and special events.
Festival Description - ArtWallah is an annual festival of South Asian arts. Held in early summer of each year, the four-day Los Angeles based event presents artists from around the world, showcasing their expressions of the South Asian diasporic experience.
Festival Description - Held in NYC the Asian American International Film Festival is the nation's oldest and longest running festival dedicated to encouraging the development of Asian American media arts. Founded in 1978, AAIFF reaches an audience of more than 10,000 during its nine-day run, plus thousands more during a post-festival tour of American cities. The Festival inlcudes screenings, workshops, panels, networking receptions, one-on-one discussions, classes, after parties and much more.
Festival Description - FREE to enter your work, FREE to attend. The festival is an Annual Outdoor Film and Video Festival to celebrate the artistic and creative endeavors of individuals with different visions and levels of experience.
Festival Description - The Atlanta Film Festival features premiere screenings of independent film and video, informative seminars, panel discussions and guest appearances by filmmakers, video artists, and media professionals from around the world. Festival jury members award over $100,000 in cash and in-kind prizes. Academy Award® qualifying narrative shorts competition.
Festival Description - Celebrates high-calibre French and American independent film with new films, retrospectives, round-tables on pertinent issues with industry experts, interviews with filmmakers, receptions and prizes for emerging filmmakers.
Festival Description - The Festival's mission is to be accessible, informative and embracing of all the various bike subcultures. The annual Bicycle Film Festival is held during May to coincide with New York City’s Bike Week. The BFF features over 35 short and feature-length films from around the world, including: Australia, Bangladesh, Hungary and of course, New York City.
Festival Description - Each year the BIFF has Brisbane come alive with colour, spectacle and the latest cutting edge film from around the world. It's a film festival with you in mind, featuring films that arouse the imagination and embrace the vibrant art of filmmaking. The diverse programme of this non-competitive festival includes features, documentaries and shorts, experimental work, animation and some video. The festival prides itself on showcasing the latest Asia Pacific cinema.
Festival Description - 13th annual fest.. Categories: feature, doc, experimental, short, animation. Awards: $50,000 in film services & cash. Winners in each category are awarded the "Chameleon" statuette.
- All screening formats accepted. Preview on DVD. Submission Deadlines: MARCH 17 (final)
Festival Description - The Annual California Independent Film accepts film submissions as well as screenplays held in Northern California, in the Livermore Valley Wine County. We screen over 75 films each year competing in a "Slate Award" in 14 categories. Each year a Guest of Honor is awarded the "Lifetime Achievement" Award. Past recieptants were Academy Award Winners, Ms. Cloris Leachman, Mr. Martin Landau, Tony Curtis and Rita Moreno. Please visit the festival website at www.CaIndieFest.com
"The True Venue for the Independent Filmmaker!"
Festival Description - Now in its 12th year, the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival is the premier venue for the exhibition and promotion of short film in North America. Taking place from June 13th to 18th, 2006 the WSFF will present over 250 films from more than 30 countries. Offering one of the largest prize packages for short film in the world, top WSFF winners are eligible for both Academy Award® and Genie Award consideration. The WSFF Short Films, BIG IDEAS Symposium offers renowned professional development, while the Universal Studios Business Centre is home to the largest short film marketplace in North America. For more information on tickets and programs please visit: www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com .
Tickets and event passes are available at the website, at the Manulife Centre box office (55 Bloor Street West) or by phone (416.967.1528).
Festival Description - The CineVegas International Film Festival returns with an incredible selection of independent films, morning conferences with celebrated screenwriters, premieres of summer blockbusters and much more.
Festival Description - The Crocow Film Festival is one of Europe's oldest events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. It has been organised year after year since 1961. To the international and national competition we accept films no longer than 60 min., produced after 1st January 2003.
Festival Description - The Cut and Paste Skateboarding Art and Film Festival first emerged in February of 2002. The festival screened over 20 short films and videos in its debut.
Festival Description - Since 1986 The Dallas Video Festival has specialized in fiercely independent, imaginative, unusual, provocative and sometimes description-defying electronic media. In our fifteen year history, we've screened or hosted over 3,500 different programs ranging from imaginative 30-second television commercials to mesmerizing video art, compelling documentaries, surrealistic animation, innovative digital features, intelligent, kid-friendly fare, thought-provoking panels and narrative shorts that surprise, inspire and entertain.
Festival Description - The only film festival in the US solely geared to the true independents mandating that all competition films have no 'known' actors, directors or producers.
Festival Description - Annual deadCENTER Film Festival. Oklahoma's Premier Film Festival on the campus of the University of Central Okla. Screening over 120 Independent Films from across the United States and Foreign Countries.
Festival Description - The 9th Annual Empire Film Festival will bring the art of independent filmmakers and videographers from around the world to upstate New York. Join us with your compelling narratives, documentaries, animations and experimentals!
Festival Description - The European Cinema Festival of Lecce proposes in its programme a critical reflection on the values which are going to explode. The Festival which has seen a remarkable increase in public attendance since its inception only 4 years ago.
Festival Description - FILMSTOCK is one of the fastest growing film festivals in the UK. It is about cinema in its entirety and aims to fuse the joy of moviegoing with the art of filmmaking.
Screening at Filmstock is a personal experience, just check the comment book on our site and you will get a feel of the fest.
The Independent section screens 100+ shorts and a long weekend of new features and docs. Plus there is our Montage season which welcomes a guest curator every year.
On top of that, the 2005 festival will be carbon neutral and a supporter and partner with fair trade and ethical companies. We look forward to your entries and attendance. Peace. N&J
Festival Description - A deliciously diverse and not-so-common selection of indie films.
French cinema continues to flourish and thrive in New York and abroad, paving the way for French Filmmakers who work in a range of styles. With this in mind this festival celebrates their eclectic talents and creativity. Divided into two categories Animation and Narrative Film audiences will experience a rare and varied menu of the rich and vibrant world of Independent Film.
Festival Description - A total of more than 3400 films from around 90 countries were submitted for the Hamburg International ShortFilmFestival 2006. A selection of these are shown in different competitions and special programmes. However, the festival is about more than watching a load of films: it`s a place where international contacts are made and built upon, where up-and-coming and established filmmakers are given the forum and the support they need, and where you can pick up on the cultural and aesthetic latest.
Festival Description - The Heard Museum Film Festival is a celebration of films by indigenous artists including screenwriters, directors, producers and actors. The festival includes more than 50 films ranging from student films and shorts to documentaries, from films narrated by actors including Robert Redford, James Earl Jones and Peter Coyote to feature films by acclaimed directors like Sherman Alexie (Smoke Signals) and Sam Pillsbury (Free Willy 3, Morgan's Ferry).
Festival Description - Since 1967, the oldest continuous student-run film festival in the World, featuring 16mm films and Digital Video, under 45 minutes in length. Now, in our 37th year, we continue to promote the art of cinema, not only as a means of entertainment, but as a tool for inspiring dialogue and facilitating change.
Festival Description - The Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival brings experimental and traditional non-fiction films and videos from around the world to Iowa City for free public screenings.
Festival Description - Founded in 1998, LAIFA's goal is to build a creative bridges connecting the Los Angeles and the Italian Filmmaking community, expanding Hollywood horizons by bringing Italy's finest new films and introducing the most promising talents.
Festival Description - Lucid Underground was created to promote and celebrate truly independent film and video on the cutting edge of artistic expression. LUMAF strives to showcase artists who's work presents a grassroots, experimental, and/or punk tenacity to the art of filmmaking.
Festival Description - The Malibu Film Festival is a showcase for independent films from around the world. The Film Festival programming staff views more than 1,000 submissions each year to select approximately 30 feature-length documentary and dramatic films and 20 shorts for presentation to an audience of more than 20,000. Agents and Distributors are admitted free of charge to all screenings. Each year several films and filmmakers are picked up for distribution and representation after screening at the Malibu Film Festival.
Festival Description - The Melbourne Queer Film Festival is the 2nd largest queer film festival in Australia and exhibits over 100 features, docos, shorts, and experimental works from Australia and around the world over 10 days. Many titles screened at the festival are picked up for local distribution.
Festival Description - The 11-day Milwaukee International Film Festival is a celebration of high-quality World Cinema and American Independent Filmmaking. Films are screened at four local theatres, including MIFF’s host venue, Landmark’s 1927 movie palace, The Oriental Theatre. The Mid-by-Midwest Competition offers Midwestern filmmakers the opportunity to meet other regional filmmakers, make connections, and discuss independent filmmaking. MIFF takes care of all attending filmmakers by offering hefty filmmaker giftbags, accommodations for most filmmakers, and lively entertainment and atmosphere. The Midwest Competition features a jury-awarded prize including film stock, editing, and other filmmaker needs. Introduced in 2004, ReelFlix is a partnership with the Milwaukee Art Museum that brings independent film to local high school classes.
Festival Description - The annual Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival is the largest of its kind in the upper midwest. A perennial delight for film-goers, the MSPIFF attracts over 150 films from more than 50 countries, screened to an ever increasing audience.
Festival Description - On the occasion of its 28th edition, the Montpellier Festival is still giving a lot of importance to previews, competitions and panoramas of feature films, short films, documentaries and experimental works. The films selected (more than a hundred in all) will be announced in September.
Festival Description - To promote cultural exchange and mutual understanding among nations and to develop further cooperation among filmmakers of the world, the International Film Festival ( MIFF) is held in Moscow during June.
Festival Description - Greetings from Telluride, Colorado--the small-town headquarters of America's premier festival of mountain, adventure, cultural and environmental film and video, now in its 29th year. Mountainfilm is dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining.
Festival Description - The Ohio Independent Film Festival (established in 1993) is the leading organization in Ohio dedicated to freedom of expression through the art of independent media.
Festival Description - The International Filmfestival Oldenburg premiered in 1994. Over the years the festival has established itself as one of the finest places for American independent cinema in Europe. Being a "non competitive film festival" the festival has a tradition of covering the international movie scene in all of its aspects. This open minded approach leads to an interesting and inspiring mix of great premieres, surprising discoveries and original independent productions. An eclectic and attractive programme has been the result for the past years.
Festival Description - The country's largest festival of short films presents more than 350 shorts from over 40 countries, with over 2,700 short films featured in our adjacent Film Market Place. Seminars, master classes and panel discussions round out the schedule, while a full complement of parties and special events provide the social focus for the more than 500 filmmakers and industry who attend this marathon celebration of the short film art form.
An AMPAS recognized Festival, 65 Palm Springs ShortFest participants have gone on to win OSCAR* nominations in the Festival's 14-year run. Over $100,000 in cash, film stock and production services are awarded in the event's 20 prize categories. Consistently acclaimed as one of the most film-maker friendly and best organized short film fests in the world, this spectacular event boasts a savvy audience of 20,000 film lovers, and a gorgeous desert setting. Reduced entry fees for students.
Fee - $40.00 - $60.00
Entry Deadline: April 24, 2009
Festival Description - This year will see the Third Annual Red Bank International Film Festival. This festival is dedicated to educating the public through the presentation of alternative films and video featuring local, national and international talent.
Festival Description - The mission of Q Cinema, Fort Worth's Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival is to provide a voice for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and trangendered persons by presenting films, videos and live programs that not only represent the diversity of our community but educate, enlighten and entertain us all.
Festival Description - The International Wildlife Film Festival is one of the most prestigious and now oldest film festivals of its kind in the world, celebrating its 30th anniversary IWFF in 2007.
An annual festival, it is attended by nearly 10,000 individuals - including filmmakers, broadcasters, tech companies and the general public as well as educators and students from area schools.
The IWFF is also known as the Filmmakers' Festival for its emphasis on filmmakers and their films. The key criteria for entry is that wildlife must be the central focus.
We have approximately 18 categories in which a film may be entered and we welcome amateurs as well as professionals. The festival is held each spring in beautiful Missoula, Montana with panels, seminars, workshops, field workshops and exciting evening events that range from a western barn dance to an elegant awards ceremony. For the second year in a row, the Tarkio Retreat is a key component of the film festival, exploring ways in which we can build partnerships between media and conservation. The one day retreat is included in a festival delegate registration.
We welcome new sponors and offer some scholarship assistance to new or student filmmakers. There is a simple application process.
For more information please contact Janet Rose, executive director/festival director at jr1@wildlifefilms.org or by telephone 406.728.9380
Festival Description - Founded in 1966 The New York Expo is the nation's longest running festival of independent shorts. Screening film and video, docs, animation, experimental and fiction under 60 min.
Festival Description - Held annually in May in Rochester, NY's George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. We are the longest running short film festival in the country, showcasing dramas, comedies, animations & documentaries from all over the world. 48th Year
All entries are prescreened by MOAS Committee.
A personal critique letter is sent to each entrant.
Festival Description - Sacramento's Premier film festival. The festival began 6 years ago since then the festival has become a centerpiece for the arts of Sacramento and a celebration of both visual and musical works from around the world. In the past 5 years the festival showcased over 180 short and feature films and 24 musical performances.
Festival Description - The Seattle International Film Festival features more than 220 feature films and 80 short films from over 50 countries including numerous World, North American and U.S. Premieres annually.
Festival Description - The Antelope Valley Independent Film Festival (AVIFF) has developed a reputation as a small, regional filmmaker-friendly festival that showcases the best in domestic and international narrative and documentary cinema in all lengths and formats. The festival eagerly seeks films of uncompromising originality and welcomes debut screenings. Although the festival focuses on short films, feature film and documentary submissions will be entertained. In the interest of creating a community of filmmakers during the festival weekend, AVIFF regularly provides travel and accommodation assistance to participating filmmakers.
Festival Description - The SIDEWALK MOVING PICTURE FESTIVAL was created to bring new films to a new audience. Since its debut in 1999, filmmakers from across the country and around the world have come to Birmingham to screen their work at Sidewalk and been thrilled to discover fresh, enthusiastic crowds eager to devour new independent cinema. Sidewalk 2003 attracted record crowds of near 12,000 throughout the festival weekend, with over 700 people attending one Saturday afternoon shorts program at the historic Alabama Theatre. "Birmingham, Alabama is probably not the first place that springs to mind when you think independent film, but once you attend this festival, you will change your mind... Not to be missed," said Chris Gore of FilmThreat.com in Film Festival Today magazine, naming Sidewalk one of the Top 10 Film Festival Getaways.
Festival Description - The North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is the most extensive festival of its kind in the State. The NCGLFF offers a one-time chance to see gay and lesbian films that are being screened for the first-and often only time in North Carolina.
Festival Description - For the 29th edition we are again looking for a broad spectrum of short films, videos, full length features and documen-taries, performances and live music. About 75% of the films are between 1 and 40 minutes, but there is no restriction in length, genre, amateur, student or professional production. The 2004 festival greeted more than 11000 guests, amongst them 82 filmmakers.
Festival Description - Presenting the very best in original rock n' shock underground dementia and classic lo-budget, B-movie cinematic subversiveness,
Zombiedance is back with an all new lineup of mind-blowing psychotronic
splatterfest freak-out mania.
Festival Description - The Hertfordshire International Film Festival is an annual showcase for independent cinema, giving equal regard to works originated on film and video, prizing creativity above all.
Festival Description - The BSFF is a short film and video festival designed to promote new work by young and emerging filmmakers.
Visit www.rabbitinaturtleshell.com for more info and to submit
Festival Description - National Film festival for Youth ages 6-21. No entry fees, no genre restrictions! This annual festival is now in its fifth year and takes place in Philadelphia, PA. Entries are judged by a Youth Jury and Cash Prizes will be awarded! Short films are encouraged. All entries must be recieved on VHS tapes.
Festival Description - Orlando — 2nd Annual Pixie Flix Fest gay & lesbian film festival to be held on JUNE 5th & 6th 2004 in Lake Buena Vista,
Florida across the street from Downtown Disney® during Gayday Orlando.
Gayday Orlando is attended by more than 130,000 gays & lesbians from around the world. Organized by Technophiliax
electronics, Pixie Flix is recognized as the alternative to the expensive "circuit parties" which dominate the Gayday Event the
first weekend in June at Disneyworld. PixieFlix expects a large crowd of gay & lesbian film lovers as it is working closely
with www.gaydayevents.com and www.gayday.com.
Pixie Flix Fest is now accepting entries for competition at www.technophiliax.com/pixie.html as well as feature film
premieres. Advanced VIP tickets are also available on this site.
Festival Description - Ithaca Film Festival (IFEST) is in its third year bringing an expanded program of both shorts and features, showing narratives, documentaries, experimentals, and animation. We are met year after year with sold-out crowds.
Festival Description - NO SPONSORS, NO GIFT BAGS, NO 4-STAR HOTELS: The Westcliffe (Colorado) Digital Film Festival Showcases the New Wave of Defiantly Independent Filmmakers' Self-Financed DV Feature Films & Shorts
This is a guerilla film festival THAT GIVES 100% OF ITS PROFITS BACK TO THE FILMMAKERS IN THE FORM OF GRANTS TOWARD THEIR NEXT FILM. This all digital
(DV) festival is most interested in the new wave of cinema artists who film their vision, self-finance their projects, and possess the true, independent spirit of filmmaking (unlike Sundance and other Hollywood-Lite fests).
Festival Description - Kid Filmmakers is seeking features, shorts, documentaries and animation for its FLYING POPCORN! traveling children’s film festival. Entry deadline is December 1, 2004. Adult entries--$45; youth entries (under 18 years)--free. For submission guidelines and application form, see http://www.kidfilmmakers.com.
