The International Freethought Film Festival is hosted by the Freethought Film Festival Foundation, which is a 501(c)(3), non-profit, educational organization promoting reason, critical thinking and freedom of inquiry through the medium of film. The biggest project to carry out that mission is the production of the International Freethought Film Festival; an annual event that features independent films submitted by filmmakers. The film festival is a celebration of having the basic human right to express freethought concepts, and to educate the public on the importance of using reason, critical thinking and science (void of superstitions) to explain the natural world and improve upon the human condition. The Call for Submissions for the first season is open, and entries can be narrative, documentary and animations for features and short films alike.
FLICKERS discovers and empowers
filmmakers. Held in Providence, Newport and locations throughout the state of
Rhode Island, RIIFF is one of only a handful of festivals worldwide that is a
qualifying event for the Academy Awards (i.e. “Oscars”). RIIFF incorporates
gala celebrations, premiere screenings, VIP guests, industry seminars,
educational programs, and award ceremonies into a weeklong extravaganza. Cited
as one of the "Best International and Short Film Festivals in the United
States," RIIFF is New England’s largest film festival, screening a record
175 films. Its innovative programming, cultivated industry ties, and loyal
audiences have made the Festival a strategic and desirable platform for film
premieres, drawing hundreds of independent filmmakers from around the globe.
Contact 401-861-4445 or check out the schedule at www.RIFilmFest.org.
The world’s first 3D Film Festival (3DFF) is back for its third season with a newly redesigned program and a new home in Hollywood.After traversing the globe on a world tour of more than 50 cities, the pioneering 3D technology festival has announced its new annual residency at The Los Angeles Film School (LAFS) located in the heart of the stunningly redesigned Sunset and Vine district of Hollywood.
With support from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and City Council Member Eric Garcetti’s Office, "The 3D Film Festival celebrates the latest in film technology, ensuring Los Angeles remains on the cutting edge, and by working with the LA Film School, this festival will help to keep the film industry where it belongs -- in Hollywood -- for years to come," stated Mr. Garcetti.
The 3D Film Festival will help promote the city’s re-development efforts in the area including the new Hollywood Subway Station, which transports passengers directly to and from the front steps of the new W Hollywood Hotel, the official hotel of 3DFF and a short walk to the main screening room at Los Angeles Film School.
The 3D Film Festival, presented by RealD and The Los Angeles Film School is produced by 3D live event pioneer The Dream Factory, will feature four days of events spread out over five city blocks with screenings and red carpet premieres being held at the Los Angeles Film School’s new RealD 3D-enabled screening room. In support of the screenings taking place at LAFS, Sony Electronics will provide its 4K digital cinema projector, with RealD being the exclusive 3D technology provider for the festival screenings.
The LAFS theater will also function as a classroom for 3DFF’s 3D Academy educational programs offering intensive training classes for 3D stereoscopic filmmakers and technicians. Beginning in 2011, LAFS will offer a 3D course of study for its students. The highlight of the 3D Academy program will be the “72 Hour 3DFF Short Film Festival” in which LAFS students will be given 72 hours to create a 3D short film that will be presented during the 3DFF Closing Night Event and Award Show.“Our goal at the Los Angeles Film School is to be on the forefront of film education; hosting the 3DFF is the perfect opportunity to embrace this exciting technology of tomorrow,” stated Diane Cerycz-Kessler, Co-Chairman of the Los Angeles Film School.
3DFF will announce its full line up of nightly screenings this August to include the 3ology Short Film Program and a nightly 3D Horror Film Showcase at Midnight. The Festival will open on Thursday September 30th.
The 3D Academy Sessions will be daily from 8am to 3pm at Los Angeles Film School. The 3D Lounge will be open daily September 30th to October 3rd from 10am to 5pm at the Los Angeles Film School.For more detailed information about the event schedule, tickets, or press junkets please visit www.3DFF.org or contact The Dream Factory at (415) 871-1707.
The contest for the Delphic Art Movie Award shows short documentaries about the fascination of arts and culture.
DELPHIC ART MOVIE AWARD
Berlin / Germany: March 9th to 13th, 2011
Contest for documentary short filmsaboutartistic achievements (max. duration: 10 min)
The films should be intended to document, to inform, to inspire and to encourage the enthusiasm and understanding of art. Every artisticfieldis included, from thecontemporaryavant-garde to the preservation of traditions and the cultural heritage. Also welcome are short versions of older full length documentaries!
We're looking fordocumentaries ofart and artists,which mayincludeartisticelements. Currently weare not looking forfilmsinthe senseofvideoartorself-expressionby artists.
Register now - No Entry Fee
Submission Deadline: DVD’s can be sent in until February 20th, 2011, to the IDC Head Office Berlin
For further information, the contest announcement and the registration form see:
Cultural diversity is one of the most valuable results of human existence. It is an inexhaustible source of innovation and development. Intercultural dialogue largely contributes to the preservation and advancement of cultural diversity and the peaceful coexistence of peoples. Art, the most impressive manifestation of culture, has always furthered mutual understanding and respect across borders. For this reason the International Delphic Council has initiated the international contest for documentary short films called DELPHIC ART MOVIE AWARD.
Show the Power of Art – Develop the Intercultural Dialogue!
What makes art fascinating?
Which artistic achievements have coined the culture of a country in the last 10 years?
What do national identity and tradition mean to contemporary art?
How can enthusiasm for art be conveyed to an uninvolved audience?
Answers to these questions are expected from the contest contributions of the DELPHIC ART MOVIE AWARD 2011.
The nominated films will be shown to the public at the ITB. The award ceremony will take place at the “Palais am Funkturm” during the final show of the ITB Berlin 2011 on March 13th.
Love Your Shorts Film Festival will debut Feb. 11-13, 2011, in
Sanford, Florida, a community that embraces the arts – and is now ready
to add a movie festival to its art scene.
The festival is open to novice and veteran filmmakers, both amateur
and professional in all categories. The event will showcase films of up
to 30 minutes.
Over the course of three days, participants and audience members will
be able to see numerous short films divided by category and attend
discussion sessions with filmmakers and professionals. Meanwhile,
filmmakers will showcase their creations and compete for cash prizes.
The inaugural Love Your Shorts Film Festival will be held in a former
USO headquarters in Sanford’s historic downtown, which sits along the
St. Johns River in the heart of Florida.
Sanford – right outside of emerging film hub, Orlando, FL – features a
downtown cultural corridor, numerous art galleries, a city-sponsored
jazz concert, movies in the park, an active community-theater troupe,
and other art activities and events.
The Observatory Archives are intentional in
nature and organized around specific themes, bringing together material
that supports a critique of contemporary culture through different
approaches such as video art, independent documentary and mass media
archeology.
Although the archives include many different kinds of works, they all
share a commitment to free expression, and reflect upon our individual
and collective fears and pleasures. Together, they create a multifaceted
vision, thousands of small eyes probing and exploring our world and
proclaiming other possible worlds. A discourse that values
heterogeneity, plurality, contradiction and subjectivity; an antidote to
the cloning and repetition of corporate mass media. In the 16 years of
OVNI's existence, the Observatory Archives have grown to include more
than 2000 projects.
Audience
festival showing 160 long/short films to 23.000 spectators.
Offers three competitions:
- THE HEINRICH award for European debut & second features (10.000 Euro)
- THE LEO for the best combination of sound/music and image in a short film (2.000 Euro)
- the French-German youth award KINEMA for the best debut film
Main award of the festival is THE EUROPA for outstanding performances of a European actress or actor and her or his contribution to European film culture (10.000 Euro). Hanna Schygulla, Bruno Ganz and John Hurt received the EUROPA in recent years.
The festival's second focus is "Music & Film" with film concerts, a portray of a composer and a music master class. Reknown composers like Michael Nyman, Carl Davis, Craig Armstrong and Zbigniew Preisner have been guests of this programme.
Other programmes are "New International Cinema", "New German Film" and an extensive short fiml programme.
The
Noemart film festival first edition will be hosted both in
Collevecchio town and San Polo Sabino (Ri) and will run from the 17
to the 19 of September all the way through for three days. It will occur three
modules.
OVERLOOKING
THE WORLD: Competitive session designed for those who are presenting
documentaries treating any topics.
NOEMART:
Competitive session reserved to documentaries on ART only.
PANORAMICA
DOC: Non competitive session where a wide range of works will be
considered such as monographic documentaries on film directors both
national and international
-DEBATES
Specific
debates based on laboratory works, expositions, events of any sort
will be set to come in to terms with the progressive growth of
cultural needs.
-WORKSHOPS
A big
effort will also be made to encourage the cultural exchange through
various kind of artistic languages addressing mainly younger who will
be asked to play an active role within the event.
-STAGE
A
stage will be set to involve the younger working to the realization
of a documentary by the SAN POLO PRODUZIONI company settled in San
Polo Sabino.
-OTHERS
Workshops,
exposition, events, of any sort will provide the perfect scenario for
the documentaries shown during the festival.
This year's edition of the festival was planned as seventh days event
with two film competitions: students' etudes from art and film schools
all over the world-ETIUDA COMPETITION and short animation, equally
professional, student and independent one-ANIMA COMPETITION.
Festival's
competitions programme will be enriched by many accompanying events -
one of them are Animators' self-portraits (during which, while the
artists are present, the audience will get to know works of: Piotr
Dumała, Paul Bush and Joanna Quinn). Also festival programme will show
the artists of artistic animation who after a long time making only
short films started to make long feature films: T. Burton, W. Borowczyk,
Brothers Quay, J. Svankmajer and others. At the beginning of the
festival there are going to be announced results of plebiscite being
prepared since March – 50 Animated Films for 50th Jubilee of ASIFA
(Association Internationale du Film du d’Animation).
Finally, at the
festival, there will appear long expected point of program: comics and
animation. They are two separated disciplines of art which however have
a few common essential features. At present there is boom for them and
more and more people of different age are interested in them.
Within
seven days, for the fourth time, there will take place animation,
screenplay, directing, camera and editing workshops. It is very
important point of program of the festival which has good number of
participants. It is directed especially to young people (pupils and
students) but it doesn't exclude any of age group. For the workshops'
leaders we try to invite the best lecturers and artists working in film
and art schools abroad but especially in Poland.
International Teen Shorts Film Festival welcomes approximately 60 young cinephiles from all over the world. Organized by KSGD, its’FilmFestival is supported by European Union Youth and Education Fonds.
Within the scope of the festival which is realized this year for the first time, young people at the ages of 13-19 from divers countries will meet in Istanbul. Simoultanously with the presentations of the competion movies in Istanbul Beyoğlu Sineması between September 24-31; certain critics, directors and musicians such as Ceylan Özçelik, Selim Demirdelen, Ümit Ünal, Selim Evci, Alexander Brondsted, Antonio Tublen, Krister Linder will have the opportunity to transfer their knowledge to participants throgh workshops. As it seems, primary goal of the festival is not only to be a regular film festival but also move forward Istanbul’s young moviemakers to a further international platform.
Films will be competing under three categories, Go Slow (video Art), The Smallest Girl Ate The Biggest Apple (Komedi) and Well Done (Drama). Whilst all the category winner will be awarded with a “Red Apple”, the most successful film will also receive a reward of € 1.000.
In addition to this, certain NGO’s will reward the movies with green, purple and white apples that they found to be sensitive about social issues such as environment, discrimination and disabled people. Out of competition part will include certain directors’ short films that they shot in their youth. Workshops will be open to the participation of everyone. Movies who are not accepted in the competition will be displayed in this section.
KSGD which was founded by 110 people 1 year ago defines itself as a project engine which associated for the purpose of providing suport to the creative intelligence and assisting it for its self-actualisation. Consisting of volunteers and professionals, KSGD involves advertisement, public relations and organization experts in it.
This unique festival is an interface between theatre,
music and media. It will be held every two years, each time with a
different focus. In 2010 the focus will be on music. Following the Motto
"Music on Screen" filmmakers, media representatives, musicians,
theatre people and directors as well as students and interested
non-professionals will consider this complex subject in all its
diversity in workshops, podium and panel discussions.
Internationsal Artists like Wim Wenders, Irmin Schmidt or the
Catalonian performance group La Fura dels Baus will be our guests at this years Festival.
Stage on
Screen/Screen on Stage - International Festival of Performing Arts &
Media Ludwigsburg, as this three-day event is officially called, has
been initiated by the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg,
the Academy for Performing Arts
Baden-Wuerttemberg ADK, the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele
and the Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH.
The trinidad+tobago film festival seeks to highlight excellence in filmmaking through the exhibition of films made in the Caribbean region (including Latin American countries in the Caribbean Basin), by Caribbean people of the Diaspora, and by international filmmakers whose films are relevant to a Caribbean audience. The ttff is a cutting-edge film festival that continues to evolve and expand in celebrating expression and empowerment through film. Along with our film programme, the ttff, through a series of workshops and events, is emerging as the premier film festival of the Caribbean.
The Angeleno Short Film Festival is now accepting short films. August 29th, 2010, at CINESPACE in Hollywood, CA, the winning films will be announced at an award ceremony! Visit http://www.angelenofest.com for all details!
The 20th International Animated Film Festival « Les Nuits Magiques » will takes place in Bègles (France) from 2010, december 3th to 12th. It presents an international animated short and feature film competitions with prizes decerned by audience, a carte blanche to Michel Ocelot (director of "Kirikou", "Azur and Asmar"...) and Serges Ellisaldes (director of "U" and others short films), a concert and cinema seance, a profesionnal day about the futur of animation in view of 3d cinema development...
All animated short and feature film are eligible if they are directed after 2007 december the 31th. We only can accept 35mm (optical sound) or DVD film.
We only can accept 35mm film if the print is allready in France or in Europe during the festival period. Otherwise, the film will be screen on DVD.
Foreign films are iligible only if they are subtitled in french, with french dialogues or without dialogues.
No registration fee is required.
>>> You can enter your short or feature animated film using the entry form enclosed or using the entry form online available on our website www.lesnuitsmagiques.fr
Berriozar Films Kultural “Lantzeluze” calls for entries to the III International Festival of Social Themed Short Films Berriozar 2010, which will take place at Berriozar (Navarra – Spain) from October 16 to October 23, 2010.
he deadline for submitting short films begins on May 17 and ends on August 6, 2010.
Single category: Social Themes
All works submitted must address social themes, as the interest of the Festival focuses on representing and spreading social problems and uncertainties.
4th Annual Phoenix FearCON Film Festival and Convention
Showcasing the best horror cinema from around the world
Presented by
Trash City Entertainment
January 22nd & 23rd, 2011 - Noon till Midnight
The Nightmare After Christmas.
featuring Special Celebrity Guests!!
Merchandise Vendors! Panel Discussions! Q&A!
MadCap Theatres
730 South Mill Avenue
Tempe AZ 85281
Features and Shorts
[And in case you're wondering, short films are 30 minutes or less. Features run at least 75 minutes. If you're in the middle...sorry. Maybe next year, we'll add a "long shorts" section to the festival!]
All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of hardened horror freaks - we'll get back to you, by December 23, 2010 at the latest, and let you know whether you've been accepted. If you want, we can also review the film in detail on TrashCity.org; that is entirely optional, but if you're looking to get buzz started, that would be a good way, since the site gets 1,000+ visitors per day. Let us know with your entry if you'd rather we didn't do that though, and we'll happily keep quiet.
What's in it for me, you say? Well, the winner of both the Best Short and Best Feature will receive a domestic and International distribution deal from Brain Damage Films and Maxim Media International. Other film distribution companies and studios are invited to attend and may be interested in your film. We are working with sponsors to offer a cash prize and we will post prizes when they are available.
There is no better way to get your film seen by horror fans. Other entries may also be offered contracts, if they're deemed worthy, but the winners get that as a guarantee. There'll also be an 'Audience Choice' award for the best single film, be it short or feature. We haven't quite worked out what the prize is for that yet though!
Any questions, please feel free to email us, at director@phxfearfilmfestival.com or you can call 602-399-9500, and we'll happily answer your queries.
The 1st Bio:Fiction Science, Art & Filmfestival aims at attracting public awareness to synthetic biology and its ramifications for our daily life in the future.
Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological systems not found in nature. Synthetic biology aims at creating new forms of life for practical purposes. By applying engineering principles to biology scientists will be able to design life forms much different from breeding or traditional genetic engineering.
We want to encourage filmmakers to share their cinematic visions of a present or future society shaped by synthetic biology. What is your view on a world living with synthetic life forms? Your approach is up to you - the filmmaker, scientists or artist - the entries can be on science, fiction, or science fiction. We welcome regular short film, animation or documentary film. The main criteria is that synthetic biology has to be reflected somehow in the work, but how you do it is up to you.
Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:
Bio:Fiction Award – Short Fiction
Bio:Fiction Award – Documentary Film
Bio:Fiction Award - Animation
Online-Audience Award
Special Award of the Jury
(the prize money in each category will be announced soon)
On http://www.bio-fiction.com you will find more useful and inspiring information on synthetic biology, the entry form and the regulations of the filmfestival.
The nominated films will be presented in public at the festival event in Vienna, Austria, in May 2011. Finally, a Bio:Fiction Award ceremony will build the highlight of the festival.
The deadline for film entries is the 15th of July 2010
The BRCFF is presented by SF IndieFest and BUFF, the organizations responsible for the annual SF Independent Film Fest, SF Documentary Film Fest, Another Hole in the Head and the Boston Underground Film Festival. Between them, the organizers have produced over 40 film festivals.
Our open air theater will show the best short films from around the world to an international audience of art and film lovers who descend on Burning Man every year for fun, art and experience in the northern Nevada desert. Films do not need to be about Burning Man, we seek to present a showcase of the best short films from around the world about any subject.
The 2010 BRCFF will kick off with a Red Carpet Opening Night Gala before the first program on Tuesday night and conclude with a Wrap Party after the last films on Friday night. Plus every other night we will be hosting cocktail hour before and between screenings at our Casting Couch Bar and Popcorn Stand.
Black Rock City has a population of 50,000 for one week in August when it hosts Burning Man. The festival will screen films Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night at the festival. Festival Filmmakers are welcome and encouraged to attend and camp with us! You need your own ticket and camping/survival gear for the event. For more info on Burning Man go to www.burningman.com.
Screening your film at BRCFF is an excellent way to be a part of the best party/arts event on the planet!
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Black Rock City Film Festival
Black Rock City, NV
August 31-September 3, 2010
presenting inspiring and challenging films exploring Tibet and Tibetan culture, aiming to stimulate broader discussions on human rights, freedom & cultural identity
