The FILMMATIC Filmmaker Awards-Competiton is open to short and feature-length works. 

*14 Winners and up to 140 "Best of Category" Nominees will be announced Aug. 31, 2016.

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NORTH HOLLYWOOD - APRIL 28 - MAY 1, 2016 at the NoHo Arts Center in the NoHo Arts District of North Hollywood, CA.

IFFNoHo is designed to be a launch platform for new films, a nexus for discussion, and an expertly programmed showcase in all genres. The best films share a wonderful combination of substantive story-telling and creative use of the moving image and we invite all of you who are passionate about this collective form of expression to apply.

Little Big Shots is Australia's largest and only annual touring film festival curated especially for kids. Featuring a selection of short and feature films, the festival lands in all major Australian capital cities. A kids jury awards the best international, local, and child-made films each year and the films play to an audience of over 20,000 across the country.

A diverse array of the latest music films that deal with music regardless of genre are introduced in ‘World Music Film Today’. The jury, which consists of 5 members from Korea and abroad, will select 2 films from those in competition to award the Grand Prize and the Jury Special Prize. The Grand Prize winner receives 10 million Korean won and the Jury Special Prize winner receives 5 million won.

World Music Film Today
The official competition at JIMFF for the feature-length film (More than 60mins) 
Music themed films (drama, documentary, animation and experimental films) 

The International Jury is obliged to award the following prizes at ‘World Music Film Today’ 
- Grand Prize : KRW 10,000,000 (appx. 8,800 USD) 
- Special Jury Prize : KRW 5,000,000 (appx. 4,400 USD)

Ars Independent Festival brings to Katowice (Poland) young, brave and provocative cinema, which seeks for its own language, breaks functioning conventions and film styles, strives for themes unnoticed by the others. We present the most diverse achievements of independent authors. By the contests for debuts and second films we are looking for Black Horses of the cinema. Ars Independent is the space devoted to dialogue between filmmakers and the audience, created with belief that cinema as a medium can influence reality. We are crossing geographical, social and political borders in order to disclose unknown cinema and discover both The Other and ourselves.

Read more: arsindependent.pl

MOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival promotes the best of horror from around the globe and encourages the production of Portuguese horror films. One of the cultural highlights of the year in Lisbon, the festival has also carved out a prominent position in the international circuit of genre film festivals since its inception in 2007. In 2016, MOTELX reached an audience of about 20.000 people across the 6 days of the festival and the 2 Warm-Up days that kick off every edition with open air screenings, concerts and parties. Past guests include names such as George A. Romero, Stuart Gordon, John Landis, Coffin Joe, Eli Roth, Brian Yuzna, Dario Argento, Hideo Nakata and Tobe Hooper, among others. MOTELX is the only Portuguese festival to have received an accreditation by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), and is also a member of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation (EFFFF) and Europe For Festivals, Festivals For Europe (EFFE). For further information, please visit www.motelx.org. 

at Just For LaughsThe Just For Laughs Film Festival / Le Festival du Film de Juste pour rire showcases the world’s largest selection of comedy shorts, Studio and Indie film premieres, and star-studded special events as part of the Montreal International Just For Laughs Comedy Festival which attracts over 2 million visitors and over 1,000 industry members.

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