Organisation

The organisation „Visos mūzos“ has established Kaunas International Film Festival (Kaunas IFF) in 2007 as a public act seeking to draw attention of audiences and decision makers towards homogenization of film culture in Lithuania and seeking to save the oldest cinema theater in Lithuania. The event during the years developed into a real celebration of film art.

Festival

Today, Kaunas IFF is one of Lithuania’s most appreciated film festivals and the main film event in Kaunas. It presents films which have been acclaimed worldwide and also looks for new discoveries. The main priority of Kaunas IFF is a combination of the artistic and social statements in film. The festival continues its strategy to present exclusively Lithuanian or Baltic premiers. 5th edition, September 27 - October 9, 2011 includes:
 feature films in the Wide Angle, Identity sections.
 Mainly documentaries in “Music Moves the world”, “All the Muses” sections, and selection of 
short films, animations and retrospectives in side-bars
. Kaunas IFF is the official festival and distribution partner of the innovative network „Eye on Films“, supported by MEDIA Mundus, a member of the CICAE network, and the Lithuanian representative organisation in the European Network of Young Cinema – Nisi Masa.

Distribution

In 2010 Kaunas IFF started theatrical distribution in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. While major distributors in the Baltic countries mainly present Hollywood studio productions and mainstream 3D films, Kaunas International Film Festival seeks to make space for art-house films in cinemas. The idea is to influence and change the theatrical distribution situation in the Baltic countries by increasing the number of art-house films in the regular cinema repertoire. Kaunas IFF believes in strengthening the film industry by art-house film promotion and distribution.

Objectives

The central objective for Kaunas IFF is to enhance film culture and film industry in Lithuania and to represent Lithuanian film industry for film professionals worldwide. Festival celebrates art-house filmmaking. An important part of the film culture revival in Lithuania is presenting retrospective programmes combined with panel discussions, master-classes, special lectures as part of film education.

Hitflics.com is an online resource for filmmakers and film enthusiasts to screen, distribute, and market their material. We provide the platform for filmmakers to reach audiences all over the world, while remaining cost-effective for both independent filmmakers and major studio productions. Through Hitflics.com, the movie, television, and digital media industries can access the vast and ever-growing population of online viewers. The video format offered at Hitflics.com also allows users to display and disseminate real world events, such as trailers for film, television, and digital media productions, private screenings, pre-screenings, red carpet openings, as well as a wide array of other real event promotions. Hitflics.com is the next evolution in content distribution providing a lasting and more inclusive platform for entertainment productions of all kinds. Hitflics.com allows viewers to vote for their favorite film, television, and digital media productions. Productions with the greatest number of votes will be highlighted on the website. This process will result in distribution and sales opportunities for participating producers of entertainment content.
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FANCINE – FESTIVAL DE CINE FANTÁSTICO Fantastic Film Festival of the UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA has as its goal the presentation of a selection of world film production both of feature films as well as short films in the genre of Fantastic films in all its variants (Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror). As a non profit organisation, the University of Málaga has the goal of offering to the audience the development of this film genre as well as backing better understanding between peoples and different cultures through film creation.

Since 2005, the South African HORRORFEST is the most prominent (if not the only) all-encompassing Halloween event on the African continent, including movies, literature, music and more.

International Children's Film Festival India (ICFFI) also popularly known as The Golden Elephant is a biennial festival that strives to bring the most delightful and imaginative national and international children's cinema to young audiences in India. Outstanding features, shorts, live action and animation films are screened over seven days of festive celebrations, attended by more than one hundred thousand children and hundreds of film professionals from across the world.

ICFFI is organized by Children's Film Society India (CFSI) - a national government body committed to nurturing a dynamic children's film culture in the country. Since its inception in 1955, CFSI has been producing, exhibiting and distributing exclusive, entertaining and enriching content for children.

Every two years, the festival begins on 14^th November, the birth date of Jawaharlal Nehru - India's first Prime Minister - also fondly referred to as Chacha Nehru (Uncle Nehru), because of his love for children. Nehru established CFSI soon after India's independence with the hope that indigenous and exclusive cinema for children would stimulate their creativity, compassion and critical thinking. It is this vision of Jawaharlal Nehru that guides ICFFI.

In a world that is cluttered with consumerist & often violent content for children, ICFFI is committed to promoting cinema that is humane and non-violent, and yet delightful and fun! Special care is taken to program films that cultivate an understanding of other cultures, lives and experiences and encourage children to reflect on the world around. Workshops and open forums at the festival aim towards stimulating critical appreciation and creative pursuit of cinematic arts amongst young people. The festival also supports the work of children's filmmakers by rewarding them for their dedication and talent.

ICFFI is one of the largest and most colourful children's film festivals in the world. A unique feature of the festival is its audience: more than a hundred thousand children travel from little villages and towns from across India to view high quality international children's cinema that they would never be exposed to otherwise. Here they rub shoulders with other kids, eminent guests and directors from different parts of the world. ICFFI is dedicated to these little delegates and to those imaginative film-makers who attempt to make films for the toughest audience of all - children!

The International Random Film Festival is the first film festival in the world which celebrates randomness in cinema. 25 films are selected each year to compete in the Official Selection. The festival is organized annually in a randomly selected location, on a random opening date. Awards are given out randomly.

The 3rd edition of IRFF will take place in the village of Anija, Estonia (population: 128). The festival will be opening on the 10th of March 2012. The location and date of the next edition of IRFF were selected at the end of the closing ceremony of our 2011 festival by using the "Random Article" Button on Wikipedia, and the "Random Number Generator" at random.org.

Premiere Asian movie festival in the UK, the Terracotta Far East Film Festival is back in London to present its third roundup of choice hand-picked films from the Far East.

Running from Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th May 2011, this year’s 14 films selected to represent the best in current Asian Cinema at the Prince Charles Cinema, London, UK

 

L'Aquila International Film Festival is open to feature and short movies. The Festival is held in L'Aquila, Italy, during the first week of November

ANNOUNCEMENT OF  COMPETITION

II edition  of

Filmfestival sul Paesaggio

Filmfestivl about Landscape

“We capture and relate the essence of a country. The landscape is a common good to be preserved. The human face as a landscape tells a tale of encounters”.

Since 22 to 29 May 2011

at Polizzi Generosa (Palermo)

 

        Aims of The Film festival about Landscape

Landscape is also a primary good that  the very Constitution safeguards; that’s why by cinematographic art, with the “Filmfestival sul Paesaggio / Filmfestival about Landscapes” the “G. A. Borgese Foundation” intends to exploit this resource and this function it plays, and at the same time to describe the human aspect as a landscape.

Under these circumstances, without forgiving that landscape is able to recall an atmosphere, a dream, a fantasia, the storyline of a tale and some romancing, by carrying out a “Filmfestival sul Paesaggio / Filmfestival about Landscapes” we want weave the perfect development to narrate the reality of the world with his human and cultural weight by enhancing his real dimension.

Beyond words and perhaps even more than words images communicate through an universal, immediate and direct language that perceive and catch the very strength of

landscape. Our eyes capture the images of the reality through objectivity, or thanks to  photography and cinematography we can catch them indirectly.

Through an image we can contemplate a panorama, and at the same time we are allowed to see and interpret a region, to observe and interpret the signs stuck that express the development of nature and the creative strength from our hand, to elevate more and more our spirit and enjoy the beauty spread through a wide range of landscapes.

The “Filmfestival sul Paesaggio / Filmfestival about Landscapes” wants to function as a situation that gathers several visions of a place and of life, to direct the different evocative facets that the mastery and the creative fantasy of participants want propose in the most independent way with the aim to propose this resource as a common good that everyone can enjoy and understand thanks to the heterogeneous and polychrome colors of his panorama, and that with the details of his peculiarity and identity belong permanently to the cultural horizons of everyone.

In this way by experiencing the gratuitousness with a conscious look and observation we achieve a best quality of life for everyone, including ourselves, that states a right for each of us to improve the quality of life when we get harmony and happiness.

CONTEST SECTIONS D

                            

I) “Landscape is a common good to be preserved”

The section is reserved to videos that pay attention to places and communities and that convey the universally spread right to beauty that should be peculiar to every human being and implied in every landscape.

Preserved landscapes that transmit  emotions, feelings, tales, myths and stories that mould the cultural identity of a  population and others one usurped and disfigured that affect human and cultural development attest that it is  common good to preserve and to hand down for the next generations.

Artists can develop subjects as: safeguard of landscape, biodiversity, the pastoral and

agrarian societies and the medieval castles and villages, water, the cementification of the region, landscape in connection with ceramic, sacred, writing, tales.

We accept fiction and animation footages,  documentaries and docufictions whose duration doesn’t exceed 15 minutes for the animations one and thirteen minutes

for the others one. We don’t accept any video but these ones sent on support DVD.

I

II)“The human face as a landscape tells a tale of encounters"

 “Our landscape is what we eat, produce, build, breathe and meet”

Every day we encounter faces: on the street, on train, on workplaces. Often we don’t pay attention to these familiar faces that diary become for us a geographic landscape, although they bear  personal and collective histories, as well as ideas, projects, whose cultural identity is strong. To widen our horizons and “to see the others” as point of

departure to elaborate a new ethical vision and a  paradigm for a new social and political conviviality. This other can be the foreigner whose rights aren’t very much or absolutely preserved because we see him as a danger for our identity and for our  well-being, or also someone we won’t ever meet because he died in a desperation trip, or he  returned just to these countries from which he tried to escape,

in violation of that right of asylum that should constitute one cornerstone of

the European juridical culture and that the Italian constitution (Art.10) safeguards as a fundamental human right.

To narrate the landscape of faces underlying when we meet them, to tell their histories, means to draw a panorama of a renewed human geography opened to  comprehension and sharing.

We accept fiction and animation footages, documentaries and docufictions whose duration doesn’t exceed 15 minutes.

We don’t accept any video but these ones sent on support DVD.

 

PARTICIPATION  RULESP

We don’t accept any video but these ones sent on support DVD. You can’t send more than a fiction footage for every DVD, and as concerned as fiction footages each of them can’t exceed 30 minutes; as concerned as documentaries and docufictions

presented in the first concourse section, as well as the animation ones presented in the same section and each of them presented in the other contest sections, they can’t exceed 15 minutes.

Total duration must include the titles.

Every artist can’t send more than a piece of work for contest section.  

Foreign footages must be subtitled.

We won’t take in consideration any industrial, publicity and advertising film, as well as these ones produced by national networks.

Send your DVD with your entry form and with your consent to the treatment of your personal datas (a confirmation that your  personal datas can be processed into our data system, as it prescribes the Italian law) by letter, parcel or express courier, within and not beyond the 20th of April 2011 to:

Fondazione “G. A. Borgese” - Via Garibaldi, 13 - 90028 Polizzi Generosa (PA).

You can download the documents in www.madonie.info

Furthermore, please send a copy by email to:fondazioneborgese@libero.it

Delivery costs will be in our charge.

Applications must be postmarked by this date, and any video sent after this deadline won’t be considered. No exceptions will be made. Please when you complete your participation report take the precaution to write in a readable way and to firm your authorization to process your personal details. Please have also the courtesy to send an high-definition image (300dpi) to this E-mail address: press@comunisolidali.org.

The subscription to the Festival is free. The artistic direction of the Festival will select, to his unquestionable judgment, the works selected to participate. At the end of the pre-selection winners will be informed by phone or by E-mail. Moreover works and artists selected will be published on the site www.madonie.info Given that artists by their application to participate to the contest and by the sending of their  work authorize  the “G.A. Borgese” Foundation to project their footages for promotional or study reasons that can take place in a different situation, without purpose of profit, any footage or work whether or not selected won’t be returned and will be in the archives and at a free disposal of “G.A. BORGESE” Foundation. Any footage delivered at the screening evening won’t be accepted.

The cash prizes will be paid as soon as possible in connection with the time of public

contributions.

INFO: www.madonie.info - e-mail: fondazioneborgese@libero.it

 

 

The Wild Rose Independent Film Festival will be held November 3-10, 2011 at the Fleur Cinema and Café in Des Moines. This artsy, hip and indie -friendly theatre/coffee house/bar/cafe has proven to be a fun and convenient venue also allowing attending filmmakers and audience close proximity to a wide variety of shops, restaurants, bars and music. Just 5 minutes from both the Des Moines International Airport and Downtown Des Moines, the Fleur has proven to be a very popular location!

KASHISH Mumbai International Queer FilmFestival 2011, thesecond edition of India’s only mainstream LGBT film fest, promises to be BIGGER, BOLDER & QUEERER. The second edition will be held from May 25-29, 2011 at two venues in Mumbai, one of whichwill be a multiplex theater.

This year, the festival willshowcase more than 130 films from over 25 countries.

The highlights this year:- More feature length films than last year with some verysensitive lesbian themed features.- Films from across the globe: from US to UK, Australiato Austria, India to Indonesiaand even Argentina and Peru.- This year, the ‘Country Focus’ will be on Israel withmore than 8 films from there.- ‘Spotlight on Filmmaker’ will shine on US filmmaker Q. AllanBrocka and UK filmmaker Rikki Blair Beadle with their funny, sexy and thoughtprovoking films.- Special package of films on Anti-Bullying and gay bashingin schools followed by a panel discussion.- A special evening with ‘Parents of Queers’ with a filmscreening and panel discussion.- Special package of sensitive, dramatic and touchingfeatures and shorts on HIV/AIDS is introduced under ‘Red Ribbon’ packagefollowed by a performance.- Continuing KASHISH’s mission of showcasing and promoting shortfilms and short filmmakers, this year too would see some exciting short filmpackages:-   Along with the ever popular ‘BoysShorts’ and ‘Girls Shorts’ short film packages this year will have two newadditions: a fabulous ‘Trans Shorts’ collection and a hilarious collection ofshort films under ‘Bi Shorts’-   A package of films that is acinematic tribute to LGBT people who made a difference way back whenhomosexuality was labeled a disease, a crime and a perversion. This includes afilm about a brilliant gay mathematician who helped crack the Nazi Engima Codeand turned the tide of Word War II for the Allies-   ‘Indian Masala Mix’ : a greatcollection of Indian shorts films- A competition section for Best Narrative Feature too,which would include both Indian and International films made in 2010 / 2011.This is in addition to the other competitive categories awarded last year: BestDocu Feature, Best Docu Short, Best International Narrative Short and BestIndian Narrative Short. - The Best Indian queer short film at Kashish gets to compete for the IrisPrize in UKand a cash prize of 25,000 pounds.   

- Also watch out for an eminent jurycomprising of award winning filmmakers, actors and media professionals.

- A range of fun filled cultural activities and events likemusic and dance performances, open mic and quizzes. KASHISH 2011 promises to be an eventto remember for both LGBT and mainstream audiences. It will be a time to watchloads and loads of LGBT films, engage in discussions, interact with celebritiesand filmmakers, participate in cultural activities and just simply have aFABULOUS time! For further updates and informationon the festival, please check:Website: http://www.mumbaiqueerfest.com/  | Blog: http://kashishmiqff.blogspot.com/ 

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Kashish.MIQFF | Twitter: http://twitter.com/Kashish2011

 

The Belarus’ largest and most prestigious public film festival Listapad annually takes place at the beginning of November. The main purpose of the festival is to offer a wide selection of highly acclaimed feature films, documentaries from all over the world as well as new productions from Belarus. It screens recent titles and retrospectives.

The Minsk International Film Festival program has three sections - feature, documentary and children and youth film festival Listapadzik. During a week cinema goers have a possibility to watch more than 100 movies in 5 venues. Also, special programs in focus, master-classes, seminars and other related events are presented annually. Filmmakers, actors and supporters have the opportunity to network at various events. Q&A sessions with directors and actors follow every screening giving moviegoers first-hand access to the filmmaking process.

Around 12 outstanding films for the last two years from Russia, the Central and Eastern Europe, Baltics and Central-Asian countries comprise in Main competition.

No less than 8 most notable first and second feature films for the last two years from all over the world comprise in Young Directors competition "Youth on the march".

Documentary competition includes the main competition and young directors documentary film competition. No less than 20 full-length and short critically acclaimed films for the last two years are in the main program. Over 15 prominent filmmakers’ current films inspired by the idea of freedom and tolerance comprise in young directors documentary film competition.

No less than 6 competing full-length feature films for Children and Youth for the last two years and non-competitive special programs including features, shorts and animation films from all over the world take part in the Children and Youth Film Festival Listapadzik.

The out-of-competition programs present more than 50 titles of genre and independent movies made by cult filmmakers from all over the world.

The last Festival edition was held on November, 5-12th in Belarus. The last year the Festival appeared in a completely updated format. For the first time the Festival competition program was as follows: 
- The Main competition, which was presented 12 feature films made in the former Soviet Union and the former socialist countries; 
- Young Directors’ competition (“Youth on the March”), which included 9 most notable feature debuts of emerging directors from all over the world; 
- Documentary films competition, which presented to the jury and the public 23 films created in the former Soviet Union and the former socialist countries; 
- Young Directors’ documentary films competition, which included the most notable debuts in documentary from all over the world. 

During the Festivalfour Juries worked:

- the InternationalJury of the Main competition (Grand Jury):

Head of Jury

Sharunas Bartas(Lithuania) - director, scriptwriter, director of photography, member ofEuropean Motion Picture Academy, international film festivals prize-winner

Jury

Janusz Kijowski(Poland) - director, scriptwriter 

Elena Koreneva(Russia) - actress, writer 

Tatiana Loginova(Belarus) - director of photography, laureate of State Prize of USSR,international film festivals prize-winner

Kirill Razlogov(Russia) - director of Russian Institute for Cultural Research, programdirector of Moscow International Film Festival

- the InternationalJury of Young Directors competition ("Youth on the March"):

Head of Jury

Ludmila Saenkova(Belarus) - film critic, candidate of philology science, head of literary andart criticism chair of Journalism Institute of Belarusian State University

Jury

Rodion Ismailov(Azerbaijan) - director 

Natalya Vorozhbit(Ukraine) - scriptwriter 

- the InternationalJury of Documentary films competition: 

Head of Jury

Victor Asliuk(Belarus) - director, scriptwriter, member of European Film Academy, nationaland international film festivals prize-winner 

Jury

Sergey Bukovsky(Ukraine) - director, People's Artist of Ukraine, laureate of National TarasShevchenko Award, international film festivals prize-winner 

Svetlana Bychenko(Russia) - director of documentary and animation films, scriptwriter,international film festivals prize-winner

Veslav Romanovski(Poland) - director, scriptwriter, literary, deputy director of PolishInstitute in Minsk

Anna Yerzinkyan (Armenia)- film critic, professor, pro-rector of Yerevan State Theatre and FilmInstitute

- the InternationalJury of Young Directors documentary films competition:

Head of Jury

Aleksandr Kuprin(Russia) - director, scriptwriter, international film festivals prize-winner

Jury

Sergey Rybakov(Belarus) - director, international film festivals prize-winner, "For SpiritualRenovation" Award owner, laureate of national award "Televershyna"

Toms Trеibergs (Latvia) - film critic, filmsubeditor of the newspaper "Cultural Forum"

Also festival audiencecould participate in the viewer's jury. Everyone had possibility to rate foreach feature. Festival preferences rating was generated according to theresults of viewer's votes

The Grand Jury awardedthe following nominations:

- Grand-Prix For TheBest Film

"My Joy",Ukraine-Germany-The Netherlands, director Sergey Loznitsa

- Special Jury Award

The Light Thief,Kyrgyzstan-France-Germany-The Netherlands, director Aktan Arym Kubat

 

The Jury of the Youthon the March competition awarded:

- Best Film Awardnamed after the people`s artist of USSR V. Turov

"October", Peru,directors Daniel Vega, Diego Vega 

- Prize "For the dancewith reality"

"You Are All TheCaptains", Spain, director Oliver Laxe 

- Prize "For therealization of the freedom's theme"

"Udaan", India,director Vikramaditya Motwane 

 

The Jury ofDocumentary films competition awarded:

- Grand-Prix for theBest Film

"The Woman With FiveElephants", Switzerland-Germany, director Vadim Jendreyko 

- Best Full-LengthFilm Award

"The Last Rope-WalkerOf Armenia", Armenia, directors Arman Eritsyan, Inna Saakyan 

- Best Short FilmAward

"The Backwoods 35х45", Russia, director Evgeny Solomin

 

The Jury of Youngdirectors documentary films competition awarded:

- Best Full-LengthFilm Award

"The Last Train Home",Canada-China, director Lixin Fan 

- Best Short FilmAward

"The World Champion",Estonia, director Moonika Siimets 

- Prize "For thecreative search and active political fences"

"Make Tea",Russia-Great Britain, director Olga Korotkaya 

- Prize "For theuniversality of director's profession"

"Kill the Day",Belarus-Poland, directors Andrei Kutilo, Aleksandr Nalivaiko 

- Prize "For thesearch of new cinematographic language"

"In Case Of LossPressure" (Belgium, director Sarah Moon Howe)

 

The festival alsoestablished the following prizes: 

- Audience ChoiceAward

"Brother", Venezuela,director Marcel Rasquin 

- Special Prize of thePresident of the Republic of Belarus "For Humanism and Spirituality incinematography"

"Brother", Venezuela,director Marcel Rasquin 

- Special Prize"Together" of The Standing Committee Of The Union State

"The Brest Fortress",Russia-Belarus, director Aleksandr Kott 

- Special Prize ofMinsk City Executive Committee for the Moral Ideals Embodyment

"Street Days",Georgia, director Levan Koguashvili

 

Prizes of the Guild ofscholars and critics of Belarusian cinematographers union 

- Best Fiction FilmAward

"Street Days",Georgia, director Levan Koguashvili 

- Best Non-Fictional Film Award

"Kill the Day",Belarus, directors Andrei Kutilo, Aleksandr Nalivaiko 

A unique event for filmmakers and film lovers to gather, mingle and watch pretty cool movies.

The South Dakota Film Festival is a premiere film festival showing regional, national and international films.  

The festival is held in September in the heart of the beautiful Great Plains, Aberdeen, SD.

Wimbledon SHORTS short Film Competition 2012 Deadline for Entries 31^st March, 2012  Wimbledon's alternative film club, the WFC, hosts the fifth Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival in July 2012. We've got a terrific judging panel, great people from across the film industry: 

• Lisa Rawlings: Development Editor, Film4
• Julia Blackman, co-founder and Executive Producer of Scion Films
• Allisa Ferrier, Acquisitions Executive, Artificial Eye
• Andrew Pulver: Film Editor, The Guardian
• Manu Luksch: artist and filmmaker
• Dominic Buttimore: director, Th1ng Animation
• Nick Brimble, actor
• Derek Malcolm: Film critic
• Josh Appignanesi: film director ("The Infidel")
• Avie Luthrie: BAFTA-nominated film director ("Mad, Bad and Sad")
• Nick Toon, Vice President, UK Public Policy, Time Warner

  Wimbledon Shorts is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative work in film and video from around the world. Whether your film is narrative driven, animated or experimental, we're looking for films that challenge or shift the boundaries of conventional filmmaking – just as long as it's under 15 minutes! Awardsv     WFC award for Best Wimbledon Shorts film v     Audience Award v     Best Animated Film v     Student Filmmaker Award sponsored by studentshouseonline (filmmakers under 25 in schools, colleges and universities) v     Marcus Beale Experimental Film Award Prizes£500 prize for WFC Award for Best Wimbledon Shorts Film'Meet with an Industry Expert' for Winner of the Best Student Filmmaker Award. Competition closes 31 March 2012SHORTS festival 21 July 2011 Submission details can be found at:

http://www.wimbledonshorts.com/

"Windows on South cinema" offers a wide panorama of film creation of country such as Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, etc., by planning fictions and documentaries.

"Fenêtres sur le cinéma du Sud" offre un large panorama de la création cinématographique de pays tels que l'Algérie, le Liban, le Maroc, la Tunisie, etc., en projetant des fictions et des documentaires.

Life Fest is the pro-life film festival dedicated to showcasing films that reinforce the intrinsic worth of innocent human life, and the profound significance of each life.

In 2011 the Life Fest venue will be in the heart of the entertainment industry! Come to the LA Convention Center in April! There are also producer and studio-based meetings for finalists scheduled during the same week-end! Don't miss this opportunity to see how the industry REALLY works!

Life Fest organizers offer programming and events for film enthusiasts of every interest and background. With the support of a passionate arts community, Life Fest has attracted world wide interest from some of the industry's best filmmakers. We feature opportunities for burgeoning filmmakers and will be entertaining distinguished industry guests and thousands of film enthusiasts from around the world.

  

Come join us as we celebrate films and filmmakers impacting Hollywood with Life-affirming content.

The SANTA CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL is a film festival that not only celebrates the art and entertainment of film in all of its forms, but also Santa Catalina Island in all of its rich history, glory, and beauty.

Through screenings and associated events, the festival aims to present a wide spectrum of filmmaking - feature films, documentaries, screenplays, animation, short films, experimental, student work, big budget, micro-budget, trailers and soon…

The SANTA CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL awards mainstream films in various categories, but the Isla Earth Award, for the Conservation Series, is presented by the Catalina Island Conservancy, our beneficiary, honoring filmmakers that have their similar mission in protecting, educating and promoting the power of nature.

The SANTA CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL brings film enthusiasts and filmmakers together to better enjoy the art and fun of filmmaking, but also to enjoy the beauty and hospitality of Santa Catalina Island.

The Film Festival offers our guests the opportunity to learn, grow and exhibit films within the unique and romantic setting of Los Angeles County’s Pacific treasure. The festival will also offer attendees quality films that will entertain, educate, and inspire their own interests. Film professionals, and the interested public, will have the opportunity to gain industry knowledge through festival activities,
education centers, and seminars with our guest speakers.

The SANTA CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL is about the filmmakers’ opportunity to entertain, educate and inspire their audience, just like the island itself.

Submissions are still open for the British Independent Film Festival 2011 so don't delay, submit today!After the success of the 2010 awards we are already gearing up to make the 2011 awards even better! This festival really is one your want to enter. Last year one of your winners went on to be nominated for an Oscar and this year one pre selected film is tipped for a Welsh Bafta.

The event will take place at The Lighthouse Theatre in Poole, Dorset and issmart dress only event which is sure to make everyone feel like a star. A number of top industry professionals have already confirmed their attendance!

The festival screenings will include a rich slate of Australian 2010 feature film releases, a package of Australian shorts, selected graduate films and a retrospective of renowned Australian director Bill Bennett. The highlight of the Australian Film Festival of India will include two round table discussions on investment and distribution and in collaboration with FICCI Frames 2011, a knowledge series headed by a delegation of Australian film industry professionals.For more information refer to our website www.aafilminitiative.org