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> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT   

Gijon International Film Festival Jury

 

The 51st edition Gijon International Film Festival introduces the Jury for its Official Section. Led by famous French director Patrice Leconte, the jury includes also of Spanish actress Aida Folch, director and writer Ray Loriga, Iván Trujillo, director of Guadalajara International Film Festival and Argentinian director Pablo Giorgelli. FICX will be held between November 15 and 23 and will count of these five talented film people to decide the winner between the fifteen movies compe...

 

 

TIFFCOM Open for Business in Tokyo

 

By Liza Foreman TOKYO – Three markets have been rolled into one to create Japan’s biggest content confab, which opens here tomorrow. The newly expanded market arm of the Tokyo International Film Festival combines the 10th Tokyo International Music Market (TIMM); TIFFCOM2013, the marketplace for film and television content in Asia; and the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2013 Fall (TIAF). The markets will be held simultaneously from October 22 - 24 at the...

 

57th BFI London Film Festival closed tonight with the World Premiere of SAVING MR. BANKS

The 57th BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express®, closed tonight with the World Premiere of SAVING MR. BANKS. Clare Stewart, in her second year as Festival Director has offered audiences a diverse range of international films in what has been widely regarded as one of the strongest programmes in recent years. 2013 has seen the Festival consolidate last year’s successful growth, with an audience of 151,000. The Festival screened a total of 235 fiction and docum...

 

> THE PARTNER FESTIVALS

CINEMAD Independent and Cult Film Festival 2013 22 - 30 November, 2013

Since 1994, Cinemad schedules the most recent and risky films, anticipating the blockbusters trends, discovering new talents and creating trends. At the same time that rescues of the past authentic masterpieces, that because of the lack of promotion went unnoticed by commercial cinemas in our country.

During all these editions, Cinemad has premiered films from directors such as Martin Scorsese, Kim Ki-Duk and Jim Jarmusch, reaching one of its main goals: Become a space where novice filmmakers ,from different countries, can display and spread new proposals, next to other filmmakers more consecrated.

In 2000, the festival became International with it's Shortfilm contest. Now we move on step forward with our first “Work in Progress Contest (WIPP)” for Feature Films, where we carry on searching for risky and newfangled audiovisual proposals, from all over the world.

WIPP is a initiative that's looks for novice directors whose first director's film is currently in postproduction phase, with the aim to discover new cinematographic talents. A jury composed by personalities of the audiovisual and culture field, will grant to the winner an award composed by different postproduction services valued in 500.000€, with the objective of finding the required financing in other for them to finish their project, facilitating the access to a distribution that will allow them to reach the widest audience. Click here to submit

12th Annual Garden State Film Festival calling for entries : Film, Screenplay and Movie Music competitions

The Garden State Film Festival was founded to promote the art of filmmaking on all levels by showcasing a wide variety of film, video and animated works as well as provide educational programs in the creative arts to the public by industry leaders. We have started accepting film entries for our next festival. FINAL Deadline is December 1st, 2013

Announcing the GSFF Movie Music Competition.This is the first competition of this kind in Film Festival History. Submit any original movie music from an independent film and it will be judged by music professionals with awards in multiple categories. Click here to submit

2014 Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival (TICFF) video calling for entries

A biennial film festival, TICFF brings young children and adults to enjoy the works in this international exhibition, which will take place in April 2014. Public Television Service (PTS), the festival organizer of this event, is now signing up entries to attract some of the finest filmmakers around the world with the lure of USD 28,000 in prize money. Except for showing outstanding dramas, documentaries, animations, and television programs, the festival also includes a new feature: a special Taiwan prize which will be awarded to the best work which represents Taiwan and exemplified the highest standards in the industry... Submit

YOUPIX.ORG - Not Another Screenplay Competition!

Years ago, PROJECT GREEN LIGHT offered new talents a platform to compete but it was short lived for obvious reasons, the business model didn’t work. The movies lost money. Unlike all of these different platforms that had good intentions in helping discover new talent, at YOUPIX.ORG, we have eliminated many mistakes to dramatically increase the odds of success for this new indie platform. 
The Internet is full of articles/posts/blogs written by Industry Professionals with endorsement for the top ten or top five screenplay competitions – and it doesn’t take long before you start seeing the same Contests repeated again and again…  That makes you feel good about those certain competitions, right?  So, you submit your screenplay to some (or all) of those competitions with your fingers crossed…  And you mig... Submit Now

Make YOUR Movie Contest on youpix.org!

Project Greenlight Reincarnated!  Our winners make a MOVIE. "In Hollywood a script has a One in a Million chance at being produced. That sucks! At YouPix.org your script has a REAL chance at being made into a MOVIE! That does NOT suck!" Dear Screenwriters and Filmmakers, Let's face it.  We all just want to make movies.  Ever since we could remember.  We were kids with movie cameras making goofy projects wi... Submit Now

Open call for submissions The European Philip K Dick Film Festival at Lille, France

The Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival to Come to France : call for submissions This fall, French Sci-fi fans are in for a treat: three days of events in honor of Philip K Dick are planned in Lille, France from October 25-27, 2013 at the famous L'Hybride Cinema venue. Festival organizers are issuing a call for submissions in science fiction and horror features and shorts. Writers and panelists will be invited to participate. www.philipkdickfilmfestival-europe.com ... Submit Now

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Houston Worldfest April 4-13, 2014 calling all filmmakers

The MAIN ENTRY DEADLINE is December 15th, 2013   THE FINAL "BRICK-WALL" DEADLINE is: JANUARY 31st, 2013 - ENTRIES MUST REACH US BY THEN! We now accept PayPal for even greater payment security. The secure PayPal payment address is - entry@worldfest.org    The 47th Annual WorldFest-Houston - April 4-13, 2014 Ten Great Days in April! Download the entry form “Before there was Sundance or SXSW, Before there was Toronto or Tribeca, there was WorldFest...Submit now

Submit your projects to the 3D Stereo Media Market, free registration

3D Film Mart (3DFM) 3-6 December 2013., now in its 3rd edition, is the first European co-production market for stereoscopic-3D (S-3D) movies.

The 3D Film Mart was developed by 3D Stereo MEDIA in association with TWIST and peacefulfish. 3DFM is partially funded by the MEDIA Program of the European Commission (EC), and is thus an official project of the EC. This gives it a wide visibility and a significant notoriety in Europe and beyond.
Producers of 3D contents (for cinema, TV, ...) who have projects for S-3D contents (feature, documentary, animation, alternative content, ...) at an early stage of development, and are looking for financing, are invited to submit their projects to the market.... Submit Now

International Television & Film Awards calling

New York Festival's World's Best Television & Films competition honors programming in all lengths and forms from over 50 countries. Dedicated to both the Television and Film industries, categories mirror today's global trends and encourage the next generation of story-tellers and talent: Animation, Comedy, Corporate, Drama, Documentary, Feature Films, Music Videos, News, Promos, Reality Shows, Sports, Telenovelas, Webisodes, Best Performance by an Actor/Actress, Special Event, Innovation, and Technical Production Team...Submit Now

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LALIFF 2013 annnounes its winners at closing night

LALIFF's five-day event concludes with Closing Night Screening of NOSOTROS LOS NOBLES and award ceremony in Downtown, Los Angeles, CA      "ESTHER EN ALGUNA PARTE" FROM GERARDO CHIJONA RECEIVES THE RITA AWARD FOR BEST FILM   "PONCHAO" WINS THE LALIFF 2013 AUDIENCE AWARD   "ESTHER EN ALGUNA PARTE&qu...

Manel Fuentes to host the Goyas 2014

The showman Manel Fuentes will be hosting the Goya Awards on February 9, at the Palacio de Congresos Principe Felipe in Madrid. Just like the Americans who chose Ellen DeGeneres, a showoman and TV presenter to lead the Oscars, the Spanish Academy of Cinema has announced today that TV presenter Manel Fuentes will be the man in charge at the 28th Goya Awards. He w...

LET’S CEE winners 2013

The winning films of the LET’S CEE Film Festival’s three competitions were announced during the Award Ceremony in the Wiener Urania. The winning entries included the feature film Domestic by Romanian director Adrian Sitaru, the Bulgarian documentary The Last Black Sea Pirates by Svetoslav Stoyanov and the Estonian short film Distance by Janno Jürgens. The feature film competition of the LET’S CEE Film Festival, which specialises on Central and Eastern European productio...

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