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Fifth annual IFFAM to take place with theme of “A Celebration Of Life & The Big Screen”, online submissions open on June 15

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL & AWARDS ∙ MACAO (IFFAM) SETS 2020 DATES AS DEC 3-8   Fast-rising film festival International Film Festival & Awards. Macao (IFFAM) today announced that the dates for its fifth annual event have been set as Dec 3-8 in the city of Macao, China. Online submissions will open for film makers starting June 15 at iffamacao.com/submissions.   The festival will present a full programme of features and shorts and, in a year which has seen the ...

International Thai Film Festival 2020

International Thai Film Festival 2020 (ITFF2020) is open for submissions! (short film, feature film, animation and music video) Submit your production via FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/thaifilmfest or via FestHome: https://festhome.com/en/festival/international-thai-film-festival Website: https://www.thaifilmfestival.com/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thaifilmfest  

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Submitting films to RIFF 2020 From February 2020 to June 2020 RIFF’s call for entries will be open for submissions. Find more information about the call and its conditions on www.filmfreeway.com.   ...

L'Atelier de la Cinéfondation will organize its online meetings from June 23 to 25.

L'Atelier de la Cinéfondation welcomes filmmakers and their producers to help them gain access to international financing and speed up the co-production process of their ongoing project. Due to the sanitary context, the Cinefondation decided to organize its online meetings from June 23 to 25. You can find our Livre des Projets and our platform here: https://register.latelier.festicine.fr/en If you’ve already participated in the Atelier in recent years, you just ne...

Tokyo CINEMASTERS Film Festival Calls for Entries

Welcome to Tokyo CINEMASTERS International Film Festival.  We are hosting our 1st Annual Festival in OCT 1st 2020 at Tokyo Cine Center. Through discovering films and directing talent from across the globe, our film festival was founded with the mission of developing the next generation of cinema.  Japan loves all cinema, regardless of country, language, or race.  The culture of watching films with subtitles is well established here, with releases from a multitude of natio...

Final Deadline for IFP Week Project Forum Submissions EXTENDED until May 23rd!

Saturday, May 23rd is now the final deadline for submissions for the 42nd annual IFP Week's Project Forum (September 20-25, 2020), the only international co-production market for narrative fiction and non-fiction features and series in the U.S. The program supports both emerging and established artists by providing creative and business opportunities to groundbreaking storytellers working in a wide variety of formats. A primary outcome for all artists participat...

Call For Entries For MWFIFF - EXTENDED Regular Deadline ENDS ON - 15th JUNE 2020!!!

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Call For Entries For MWFIFF - EXTENDED Regular Deadline ENDS ON - 15th JUNE 2020

Anup Jalota Presents 3rd - MOONWHITE FILMS INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST - MWFIFF 2020 Film Submissions - International Film Festival EXTENDED Regular Deadline ENDS ON - 15th JUNE 2020!!! Event Date 7th & 8th of November 2020 Submit your Films & Music Videos NOW Submissions Link : www.mwfiff.com www.filmfreeway.com/MWFIFF www.festhome.com/f/4015  

Submissions Open for the 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival

    The COVID pandemic has forced people around the world into one of the most stressful, challenging periods in history. The film industry is no exception: production has been mostly halted, movie theaters have been closed, new film releases continue to be postponed, many film festivals have been postponed or canceled, and the oppressive uncertainty of the situation is disheartening. We at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) have grappled with the decision to begin acc...

The deadline to register Virtual Reality projects for submission to the Venice Virtual Reality extended till end may

La Biennale di Venezia / 77th Venice International Film Festival   The deadline for submissions to the Virtual Reality 2020 section is extended to May 31st     The deadline to register Virtual Reality projects for submission to the Venice Virtual Reality section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival 2020 (Lido di Venezia, 2 – 12 September) has been extended to May 31st 2020, from the initial date of May 15th.   The Virtual Reality section will ...

The San Sebastian Festival opens the call for submissions for the second edition of the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge

The competition is open to entrepreneurs and startups proposing new business projects based on introducing new technologies to the audiovisual field The deadline for submissions is June 1 Today the San Sebastian Festival opens its second call for submissions for the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, a competition for technology projects in the audiovisual field. The initiative will run in th...

Films for the XVI Documentary Co-Production forum Lau Haizetara can now be submitted

  The deadline for the registration of projects is 10 July The XVI Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-production Forum will take place on 22, 23 and 24 September 2020 within the framework of the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival. This forum is organised by IBAIA (Association of Independent Audiovisual Producers of the Basque Country) and the San Sebastian Film Festival. From among the total number of registered projects, fourteen will be selected to be presented bef...

Call For Entries Festival Film Dokumenter 2020 - Yogyakarta Documentary Film Festival

Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) is an annual event held by Forum Film Dokumenter, a non-profit organization based in Yogyakarta, focusing on documentary film research and archiving, as well as film appreciation for educational purposes. In 2020, Festival Film Dokumenter’s Call For Entries opens for Competition Program. There are four categories open for the Competition Program. First, Feature-Length Documentary, which opens for Indonesian and foreign filmmak...

aS iT'S: Call for exhibitors and attendees

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Hey :) We're working to debut a makeshift space/store and membership-based digital platform to allow creatives to present work the way they want. One month from our launch, on September (if the current situation gets better, that is), the company will be hosting full day touring events related to film, music and fashion for the public, our members, and industry members.  We're building up our own roster alongside a list of exhibitors and attendees for the event. We license work o...

Bridge Fest 2020 online monthly competitions open for entries

www.bridge-fest.com In its 15th edition Bridge Fest has moved online! Monthly competitions in all categories and genres Monthly winners in all categories and genres Annual winners in all categories and genres. All films and scripts will be accepted and everyone will receive official participation certificate PDF file. No restrictions on the completion date/year, no restrictions on the country of origin or genre, no restrictions if the film and/or script were screened/ submitted elsewhere/...

SOFA - School of Film Advancement calling for Proposals – SOFA 2020/21

Cultural Entrepreneurs Watch Out!   For its 8th edition, SOFA – School of Film Advancement is looking for up to eight film initiators, cultural managers, entrepreneurs, facilitators and catalysts with unique project ideas in the audiovisual world. Selected participants will be trained in various creative ways to reach local and international cinema-goers and they will be given the opportunity to make connections beyond borders. With the help of experienced lecturers, SOFA p...

ÉCU 2021 is now open for submissions!

Submissions for the 16th edition of ÉCU- The European Independent Film Festival, are now open! The festival will take place on the 9th, 10th, and 11th April 2021. Every year we screen thought-provoking, unique, and exciting independent films, and your film could be part of our 2021 programme. ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival is dedicated to the discovery and advancement of the very best independent filmmakers from around the world. The festival pro...

European Film Awards 2020 opens to submissions

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  Due to the Coronavirus crisis, the eligibility rules for the European Film Awards 2020 are extended to include films that would have premiered until 31 May 2020 – be it at a festival or at a regular cinema – but could not due to the pandemic. This is linked to the condition that these films will premiere theatrically or online before the end of November 2020 and the rights-holders agree to provide them for the EFA VOD Platform. FEATURE FILMS participating in the ...

Lost World celebrates success of inaugural edition and extends the call for entry of its second edition to august 20

Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival   October 3 - 8, 2020 August 20th, 2020 Extended Deadline The 2nd Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival returns in October 2020  in association with the Municipality of Kandanos-Selinou. The 'Lost World' of Paleochora nestles between the Mountains and Sea in South West Crete and is the perfect location for Filmmakers to convene to show their work, network with colleagues and enjoy our fabulous C...

Venice Film Festival­_Biennale College Cinema 9th edition_Call Opens Friday May 8th

La Biennale di Venezia / Biennale College – Cinema International for the production of micro-budget feature films / The Call for the 9th edition is open  on the website www.labiennale.org   The feature-length film The Fits (2015) by Anna Rose Holmer (3rd edition) to be shown on the Criterion Channel / Since 2012 Biennale College Cinema has produced 26 feature-length films The new Call of the Biennale College – Cinema International for the production of micro-...

Eurimages launches today a new call for proposals for the presentation of its Co-Production Development Awards.

Festivals and co-production markets interested in hosting an award are invited to submit a proposal covering a three-year period from 1 January 2021. The call for proposals is available on the Eurimages website as of today - potential applicants should read the terms and conditions carefully before submitting a proposal.  Proposals should be sent to the Eurimages team at eurimages.tender@coe.int by 15 June 2020 at the latest. Since it was set up in 1988, EURIMAGES has supported 2 063...

Partner Festivals Calling May 2020

Dear filmmakers friends do not miss these Festivals in Focus.     Bruno Chatelin and the Filmfestivals.com Team wish you much success on the festival circuit  Read this online         FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS:             &nbs...

35th Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival : FLIFF calling

June 1, 2020 Earlybird Deadline / July 1, 2020 Regular Deadline / August 1, 2020 Late Deadline SUBMIT I Website I Profile on filmfestivals.com I  Email contact   Celebrating its 35th annual festival in 2020, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) presents American indies and studio films, international films, student films, special tributes, seminars and introduces filmmakers to South Florida audiences. The festival runs Nov...

The 23rd UNAFF is calling for entries

Early Deadline – May 2, 2020* Regular Deadline – May 12, 2020* Late deadline – May 20, 2020 CONTACTS: Email I 650 724-5544 I CAW/UNAFF Stanford Arts Littlefield Center, room 241 365 Lasuen Street Stanford, CA 94305-2250 United States I Website I Facebook I Twitter I filmfestivals.com I SUBMIT We are delighted to announce the 23rd UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival),...

The Kenya Film Commission (KFC) opens the call for cycle 1 funding applications

The Kenya Film Commission (KFC) would like to commend the industry for the good quality of productions that they have continued to produce and invite applicants to submit for Production and Development as well as Marketing and Distribution. Individuals, companies and organizations may submit funding applications to the KFC for any of the above funding categories. Specific conditions are applicable for each funding category, and it is important for applicants to take careful note of these...

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