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The 4nd Annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival
Call for Submissions
The West Virginia University School of Art and design is pleased to announce a call for entries to the 4th annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival. We seek independent, unique and compelling work in film, video and animation. All interested artists, filmmakers, multimedia enthusiasts are encouraged to submit work for consideration. Student submissions are also encouraged.
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Maverick Movie Awards, Year 5 submit now.
We’re Moviemakers Honoring Moviemakers with...
42 Maverick Awards and Up to 14 Nominations in 21 Categories
CATEGORIES
Feature-length Movies (70-180 minutes)
Short-length Movies (1-69 minutes)
Student-made Movies (Features and Shorts)
FEATU...
5 Annual September 14, 2013 to September 15, 2013
MISSION STATEMENT |
The Maverick Movie Awards was founded by moviemakers who have been through the glorious highs and crushing lows of the international film festival circuit; from these shared experiences came the calling to create a real alternative to the nepotism, politics, and commercialism that defines far too many festivals and competitions.
Our goal is to help talented moviemakers achieve the recognition they deserve by awarding movies with unique style, exceptional craft, and the power to communicate.
By championing great movies – regardless of origin, genre, or budget – our hope is to re-ignite the spirit of the major film festivals and distribution pioneers by celebrating great cinema above glitz and glamour. |
MAVERICK MOVIE AWARDS SUMMARY |
The Maverick Movie Awards exists to honor all facets of moviemaking form, function, style, and craft. A level playing-field where a movie’s lack or excess of a budget is immaterial, its absence or abundance of star power is inconsequential, and its humble or lofty origins are irrelevant, any and all independent, underground, student, and studio films are eligible to receive a Maverick Award.
Celebrating narratives, documentaries, experimental films, and the vast diversity of moving pictures expression, the MMA has recognized everything from big-budget pictures to low-budget indies, global issue documentaries, screwball comedies, computer-animated movies, action-horror flicks, video art, microcinema, music videos, webisodes, and everything in-between. Each movie’s successful execution of intent as a whole, on its own terms, is considered first and then the quality of its parts. So in addition to standard award categories like Best Picture and Best Director, the MMA prides itself on saluting oft overlooked disciplines, including stunts, special effects makeup, original music, and more.
Except for advertising and industrial work, all motion picture creators are encouraged to submit. As a cooperative of moviemakers honoring moviemakers with no theater or online screening events, the MMA will not jeopardize premiere status for any other competition or festival submission. |
MORE ABOUT US |
The Maverick Movie Awards’ founders and judges are all entertainment industry insiders and outsiders (not mere academics, critics, fans, or dabblers) with backgrounds as varied as our work. In fact, everyone involved in the MMA’s judging process has been a collaborator on a theatrically-released movie, a television or video release, or a top-ten film fest official selection.
But we’re not telling you who we are. No siree! We must maintain our secret identities in order to preserve the integrity of our judging process. The self-interest we will cop to is the need to protect the careers we’ve built in the ‘small, small world’ known as the entertainment industry and a desire to avoid retaliation on the World Wide Web from those whose work we “fail” to recognize.
And if those aren’t good enough reasons for you then please consider that, unlike far too many film festivals and competitions, we are NOT doing this for our greater glory. We do what we do at the Maverick Movie Awards for our fellow moviemakers; these talented folks are the ones with the names to know. |
The Maverick Movie Awards
Calling all Filmmakers!
The sixth annual Boomtown Film and Music Festival will be held February 22-23, 2013 in Beaumont, Texas, USA.
Films are now being accepted for consideration. We are accepting submissions in the categories of feature length, shorts, documentaries, experimental, music video, or student. We encourage both national and international filmmakers to submit their films to us via an online service such as wetransfer.com or you can send us DVD/BLU-Ray copies by mail. W...
NYCIFF 2013 Submissions Now Open
June 13 to 20, 2013
www.NYCIFF.com
Feature Films: Narrative and Documentaries
Shorts: Narrative and Documentaries Animated: Short & Feature
TV Shows and Pilots
All Films are in Competition -
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Cambridge Cinema Shorts, in partnership with Strawberry Fair, are delighted to announce that we will be holding The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival on the evening of Friday 31st May. The Film Festival has the honour of acting as the opening event for Strawberry Fair 2013, which takes place on Saturday 1st June.
Film submissions are invited for the 13th Strawberry Shorts Film Festival and those short-listed will be entered into our competitive programme vying for a chance to win ...
NEW! Every submission we receive for our 2013 festival will receive constructive, respectful, and honest
feedback. Screener feedback will be provided after official selections have been announced.
The Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford, Florida, is accepting short films in all genres and films with Florida connections. Entries cannot exceed 30 minutes, including credits.
There are two ways to submit your film. We highly recommend and prefer you submit through Withoutabox....
Whether an established or aspiring filmmakers, here’s your chance to shine—and win a full scholarship or production equipment that will jump-start your career.
The Balkan film portal altcine.com is holding the first online short film festival for the Balkans.
Submissions are open until September 7th and don’t delay: here’s the twist. altcineAction! will screen a maximum of 360 minutes—and films are accepted on a first-come, first served basis.
But there’s another ...
Submit now to be considered for this year’s festival.
The Jaxon Film Fest’s formal deadline for film submissions is quickly approaching. July 31, 2012 is the final day to submit your film for consideration to this year’s festival. After that the submission is possible only through Withoutabox as an extended deadline. But a savings can still be realized if you are registered with Withoutabox.com as a filmmaker.
Mission Statement
The Jaxon Film Fest supports an...
MANHATTAN SHORT today announced The Feature Film Project, a new program that will discover and launch one feature film each year, with the help of over one hundred cinemas and the interactive opinions of movie goers across the United States.
On March 21 2013 the winning feature film selected from a global call for entries will screen in over one hundred cinemas across the USA. Audiences at each venue will receive a voting card at each cinema and be asked, ‘Should this film retur...
Final Deadline: June 18th 2012
The 7th edition of Cyprus International Film festival is going to take place from 6 to 22 of October 2012 in Nicosia and is encouraging directors to submit their films until June 18th 2012.
CYIFF is an independent film initiative dedicated to stimulate and strengthen film innovation and culture, through the promotion of talented, upcoming directors. CYIFF receives great publicity in Greece and Cyprus, as well as in the surround territory.
Pl...
The 2012 Ruby Mountain Film Festival will take place in Elko, Nevada on September 27-30th.
RMFF presents approximately 60 films, several panels, an Opening Night Gala, Awards Ceremony and many other special events over the course of the 4 day festival. Set right in the heart of Cowboy Country and against the majestic backdrop of the Ruby Mountains, Elko plays host to filmmakers, distributors, and film enthusias...
New York No Limits Film Series is seeking short films for its last Short Film program of 2012. The regular deadline is 5/30/12 at The Wild Project on August 15th, 2012. Selected films will also appear in competition at the NYNL Film Series 2012 Summit in November. NYNL launched in November 2010 as a platform for independent filmmakers in NYC. NYNL also has partnered with Indiepix for distribution and online festival promotion as an optional benefit. The submission fee is $25, no furthe...
New York International Film Festival (NYIFF)
NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES FOR LOS ANGELES, september 10-17, 2012. Don't Miss the Late Deadline: August 6th, 2012.
Dubbed by The Wall Street Journal as "THE INDEPENDENT ALTERNATIVE TO THE GRAND NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL," the NYIFF has been a major showcase for independent features, shorts, documentaries, music videos and animation in New York and Los Angeles s...
The 2012 Ruby Mountain Film Festival will take place in Elko, Nevada on September 27-30th.
RMFF presents approximately 60 films, several panels, an Opening Night Gala, Awards Ceremony and many other special events over the course of the 4 day festival. Set right in the heart of Cowboy Country and against the majestic backdrop of the Ruby Mountains, Elko plays host to filmmakers, distributors, and film enthusiasts from around the world. Festival guests come ...
Tropfest began twenty years ago when Director John Polson (Hide & Seek, Tenderness) showed a six-minute film he made for under $100 at his local café in Sydney, Australia, for 200 guests. Today the annual free festival in Sydney receives thousands of submissions, is attended by more than 150,000 people and watched live via satellite by hundreds of thousands more. This summer Tropfest arrives in the U.S. beginning with a weekend of activities at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, June 1-3, cel...
You prob. heard about expression short but sweet! According to many
aspects of new technology, it has never been easier than it is now
to produce a low-budget short feature film. Short features are far cheaper then
a feature film, plus such film has a great possibility to become a masterpiece
and to make a great breakthrough for any filmmaker today. The media talks all
the time about great success stories of little films that made out pretty well,
and about opportunities for film direc...
FANCINE – Fantastic Film Festival of the University of Málaga opens call for entries
for its 22nd edition, which will be celebrated between 22nd
and 29th of November 2012. The sections in competition are: feature
films, fiction short film, animation short films and online shorts.
The
deadline for submission is 16th of July for feature films and 5th
of July for short films and online shorts. The movies submitted must have been
produced after 1st of January 2011 and not have been...
You can now submit your short film for the 11th Cornwall Film Festival in the following categories: Decent exposure which is a categorie of short films from anywhere in UK, Eye Toons competition where you can submit you animation film, Films Without Borders which is an international competition, Made in Kernow for filmmakers residents in Cornwall, Reel Women which is categorie celebrating women filmmakers, and The Edge: art and non narrative short films from anywhere in the world.
The ...
Great Short Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers!
YoungCuts Film Festival (September 28 - 29, 2012) is an event showcasing the best independent films by undiscovered talents. The Festival features short films produced by emerging filmmakers and serves as a launch pad for filmmaker careers, providing exposure and recognition for some of the most exciting new talent from around the globe - student film makers and non- student film makers alike. »
How to Submit to the 2012 ...
Medium length films, set between 30 and 60 minutes, are the privileged format for emerging voices in cinema and a means of expression chosen by many important filmmakers.Though the short film has known a rebirth within the last twenty years, in part due to the creation of festivals devoted to the format, one can observe a newfound interest for shorts with a running length exceeding 30 minutes. This can be explained by the short film world’s maturity, and by the mutual desire of dir...
God View | UK | Billy Lumby | 7 min
Best Short Film EEFF2011
The jury for the 11th East End Film Festival is almost complete and we have already have lined-up a 9 member committee of guest programmers dedicated exclusively to our shorts submissions. Film professionals Rebecca Davies (Film4), Eftihia Stefanidi (Future Shorts), Matt Strachan (Filmmaker), Rebecca Brand (WFTV), Laura Kloss (Curzon), Kieran Lavery (PRS for Music), Jenna Blencowe (Curator) will be joined by...
All eco-filmmakers are invited to submit their nature documentaries to G-FEST, the 1st Slovenian International Nature Film and Sustainable Development Awareness Festival, taking place from the 24th to the 26th of May 2012 at the breath-taking scenery of Slovenia’s largest baroque castle in Grad in Goričko Natural Park. Submission deadline is the 30th of April. The selected films will be screened at the festival. The best films will be awarded. More information on film submission can be foun...
ENCOUNTERS SHORT FILM AND ANIMATION FESTIVAL (18 – 23 SEPTEMBER)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2012
Calling all filmmakers and animators from across the world, submissions are now open for the Encounters 18th Short Film and Animation Festival in Bristol UK. Submit your short film or animation by Wednesday 6th June, for a chance to win a prestigious award and an opportunity to showcase your talent on an international stage.
‘The cinematic Trojan horse…smugg...
NEW! Every submission we receive
for our 2013 festival will receive constructive, respectful, and honest feedback. Screener feedback will be provided after official selections
have been announced.
The Love Your Shorts Film Festival in Sanford, Florida, is accepting
short films in all genres and films with Florida connections. Entries
cannot exceed 30 minutes, including credits.
There are two ways to submit your film. We highly recommend and prefer you submit through Withou...
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