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Austin International SHORT Film Festival
CALL FOR ENTRIES
DEADLINE: Friday, June 20, 2014
Austin stands as one of the great cities for filmmakers and independent movie making in the U.S.. Adding to this reputation, Austin can now boast a premiere international short film festival.
The Austin International Short Film Festival, will showcase the best short films and its filmmakers from around the world September 10 - 11, 2014 at the The Moviehouse and Eatery complex in ...
The Festival du nouveau cinéma is looking for films, interactive works and performances for its 43rd edition which will run from October 8 to 19, 2014 in Montréal !
Send us your works before June 15 to maybe be part of the Festival this year! Early bird rate before April 30, 2014 !
TO SUBMIT A FILM (FEATURE AND SHORT FILM)
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The Grenada AfterGlow Film Festival wants YOU to submit films.
Low $10 entry fee!
We're looking for short films - around 30 minutes and under. Documentaries, Narratives, Experimental, Music Video, Public Service Announcements...send them in!
This festival is family friendly, just something to keep in mind when submitting. Thanks!
Our spotlight category is "Feel Good" films.
This can be any type film: documentary, feature, music video, experime...
On October 3rd, 2015, The Grenada Afterglow Film Fest brings FILMS, MUSIC, ART, WORKSHOPS, FOOD and FUN to beautiful historic downtown Grenada, Mississippi.
Independent filmmakers from around the state and around the world can submit their entries. Our spotlight categories are “Feel Good” films and films that "Inspire Positive Change".
We want viewers to be moved to feel the “Afterglow” of the festival and of the small town atmosphere in Grenada.
Please come join us on October 3rd, 2015. Let’s light up Grenada with the Grenada AfterGlow Film Fest and enjoy this family friendly event together.
FFFilm Project (Family Fiction Film Project) is a cycle of video and film, which explores several possibilities around the topic of family/familiar: documentary or fiction movies about the intimate, the personal or private, family footage, home movies, self-portraits / about identities, family as a landscape, alternative families, etc. In the era of the democratization of the use of image the objects produced are increasingly on the intimacy and in the precariousness of the production resources. There is a new way to make films and to tell stories. Public and private or global and local, stand in a constant transformation in their inter-connection at the same they have a tremendous impact on the way of producing, creating and living. We believe that at this moment, this kind of cycle is full of sense; it will be a moment for sharing ways of doing and perspectives which concerns are to do with fragility, intimacy and precarity. This cycle is open both to amateur and professional videos.
Considered among the top 100 most popular film festivals in the world, the Annual Great Lakes International Film Festival has officially opened its Call for Entries for the 2014 Festival, which will be showcasing the best works of emerging and veteran filmmakers.
For our 2014 season, we are accepting submissions internationally of feature length and short length films in the genres of Documentary, Experimental, Religious/Spiritual, Animation, Comedy, Horror, with Horror sub-genres that include ...
Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good.
The Bad Film Fest aims to be the baddest film festival it can be.
Want to shoot something stupid or ridiculous? Go for it. Don't fear what the audience will think.
Create for the sake of creating.
*There Will Be Technical Difficulties*
Director: Maikel Popic.
Billy is a shy young Barista with a peculiar affinity for dinosaurs. When a beautiful girl, Genny, enters the coffee shop he works at, Billy becomes infatuated. Upon seeing that Genny is possibly already involved with a man, Billy sits down for a domino match in the metaphorical game of life. Battling against various characters and his own shyness, Billy will try to win Genny's heart in both a metaphoric and real world game in which every tile played holds a crucial consequence in the path to victory.
Talent
Bianca Barrat
Claire Austin
Charlie Cussons
Christopher Laishley
Daniel Ahmadi
Kes Gill-Martin
Will Parrot
The Food Film Festival is a three-day festival on everything related to food: eating in the broadest sense of the word. There is so much to say about food and at the same time how and what we eat says so much about us. Food is culture; food is identity. During three days the Food Film Festival attempts to cover all aspects of everything related to food. Aside from documentaries, feature films, animation, short and experimental films the festival boasts a variety of debate, lectures, live shows and workshops. This broad approach leads to the multifaceted program the subject deserves. The Food Film Festival believes that good stories have the power to transform the world. By creating a stage for food stories the Food Film Festival hopes to convey the love for food and at the same time it denounces the many problems related to our current day food system.
Archived festival (terminated)
Director: Stephen Dijoseph.
A SynapTic Adventure: Tourettes and Beyond' depicts not only the filmmakers experience of living with Tourettes and its variable characterisTics,
but what he believes to be more universal themes of discovery, adaptation, determination and collaboration.
The Chicago Underground Film Festival exists to showcase the defiantly independent filmmaker. Our mission is to promote films and videos that dissent radically in form, technique, or content from the “indie” mainstream and to present adventurous works that challenge and transcend commercial and audience expectations…if you suspect your film is “underground,” it probably is.
DEADLINES
Early Deadline: October 1, 2013 – Entry Fee: Features $35 (Students $20); Shorts $30 (Students $15)
Regular Deadline: November 15, 2013 – Entry Fee: Features $45 (Students $20); Shorts $35 (Student $15)
Late Deadline: December 15, 2013 – Entry Fee: Features $55 (Students $25); Shorts $40 (Student $20)
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
A completed entry form and an entry fee must accompany each film or video submitted.
Preview copies must be NTSC DVD or Blu-Ray or a secure online screener (withoutabox, Vimeo etc). Foreign language work must be dubbed or subtitled in English. Please, do not send elaborate presentation materials, press kits, binders, etc. with your entry. All that is necessary to send is a clearly identified DVD and, if you like, a synopsis or contextual statement about your work. These are the only items that the programmers will see when they evaluate your submission. We don’t want you to pay for unnecessary materials, and they generate lots of waste. If your film is selected for the festival we will contact you about images and press kits. or better yet: put these materials online and type the URL into your entry form.
ENTRY FEES
Entry fees must be in U.S. funds only. Pay through Withoutabox or with this form through Paypal, check or money order. Checks and money orders should be made out to IFP Chicago (DO NOT make checks out to Chicago Underground Film Festival ).
ENTRY FEE EXCEPTIONS
Entry Fees are not required from filmmakers who have screened at CUFF in the past. If you are working in a part of the world where an entry fee would prohibit you from submitting your film, contact us at info@cuff.org to request a fee waiver. Please understand that we rely on entry fees for the operation of the festival and only request waivers when necessary.
SHIPPING
Cost of shipping exhibition prints to the festival is the responsibility of the entrant. Exhibition copies must be sent to the festival prepaid. All film reels, cans, videotapes and cases must be labeled with the title of the entry. The festival will cover return shipping via FedEx or US Mail. The entrant or the recipient must pay additional charges for express shipping or transshipments to foreign film festivals. The festival cannot accept responsibility for damage or loss of materials while in transit. Please use only plastic or bubble pack envelopes when shipping entries.
-PLEASE DO NOT USE FIBER ENVELOPES. FIBER CAN DAMAGE TAPES AND EQUIPMENT!
MAIL ENTRIES TO:
Chicago Underground Film Festival
2044 W. Chicago Ave
PMB # 155
Chicago, IL 60622
NOTIFICATION
The festival selection committee makes all programming decisions. If accepted we will notify filmmakers by email and phone. Films not selected will receive notification by email. If accepted, the print of your film or presentation video will need to be in our office by March 1, 2014. Be sure to indicate aspect ratio of your film/video as well as any other special screening/presentation information we might need to know. CUFF prefers high quality digital files for exhibition of video work.
CATEGORIES
Please select only ONE category for your entry when completing your entry form. For our purposes ‘feature’ refers to films 60 minutes and over. ‘Experimental’ refers exclusively for non-narrative, non-documentary works. We reserve the right to re-categorize submissions as we deem appropriate.
AWARDS
Although the art of filmmaking is not competitive, The Chicago Underground Film Festival does give awards. The festival jury will present several awards to films and videos selected as best or most interesting in whatever categories they see fit. Additionally “Made in Chicago” and Audience Choice awards will also be presented.
RETURN OF SUBMISSIONS/SCREENERS
Due to the large number of entries received submission materials and videos will not be returned.
The XPOSED International Queer Film Festival is Berlin's only Queer Film Festival which kicks off the Berlin Pride Month. The Festival focuses each year on a specific land or region dedicated to screening independent, artistic, experimental and smart short and feature films. XPOSED also screens a Queer German Shorts program as well as the widely popular International Queer Shorts Program. All films screening in competition are up for the coveted LOLLY AWARDS!
The Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, hosted and sponsored by the Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul at St. Anthony Main Theater on October 3-6, 2013.
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The Northern Wave Internatnional Film Festival is now open for entry! The deadline is the 15th of August 2013. The festival takes place in a picturesque fishing village in the West of Iceland on the weekend of the 15th-17th of November.
The Northern Wave weekend consist of a numerous screenings of a variety of international short films. The program also includes a lecture from a professional from the film industry, a fish soup competition at the local fish market and numerous concerts and...
The Toronto International Short Film Festival provides a showcase for the best short-form cinema and its creators in the world.
We feel that short form cinema and its creators should have their own premier film festival in Toronto deserving similar recognition given to the feature film and its creators. The heart of the festival will be our quality and scope of extraordinary film programming.
Media and video artists from all over the world are invited to submit their works for the second danubeVIDEOARTfestival that will be held in October 2013 in Stadtkino Grein (upper Austria).
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There is no theme, but the work(s) must be defined as videoart by the artist.
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There will be a first price of € 1.000,-
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The duration of video works are max. 10 minutes and have to be completed after 1 January 2011
more informations on Festival Websit: http://danubevideoartfestival.wordpress.com
Cornwall Film Festival is now calling for entries for the following categories:
DECENT EXPOSURE UK Newcomers Short Film Competition
Entries of any genre from anywhere in the UK made by new filmmakers.
Qualifiers for newcomers Films:
Maximum length: 20 minutes (approx.)
Filmmakers must be either a student or an up-and-coming filmmaker
Films must have been completed since January 2012.
Award: Jury Award - Decent Exposure Newcomers Award
DIGITAL PIONEERS *New for 2013
This catego...
Director: Margarida Sardinha.
London Memory multi+city - synopsis written by Margarida Sardinha London Memory multi+city is a 25 minutes optical illusion experimental film relating the Bergsonian idea of memory with that of duality in a contrapunctum of movement, colour, text and sound. Memory thus appears as a mirror of the mind being the reminiscence of time and space reflected. The holistic transcendental synthesis of a pure past over ten years lived in London by Margarida Sardinha renders itself in a stream of consciousness through the works of those Londoners who influenced her, such as Howard Hodgkin, Virginia Woolf, John Latham, Anish Kapoor, Sri Aurobindo, William Blake (to name a few) as a geometric-sonic abstract continuum. London personifies the ideal description of a long lived, loved or imagined city used by Bergson to convey the impossibility of the analysis or creation of concepts through recursive points of view – reductionism – for it will always fail to give the true feeling of walking in the street of the city itself and the zeitgeist of its collective unconscious at a given time; the city being such a fluid phenomenological cluster can only be perceived by intuition’s capability of grasping the absolute and has always tested the limits of its concepts much sought by religions and several thinkers alike such as Italo Calvino through the words of Marco Polo in Invisible Cities: "Journeys to relive your past?" Kublai Khan was asking, which could also be formulated as: "Journeys to recover your future?" and Marco's answer was: "Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognises the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have." The city thus becomes the archetype of Nemesis where the foreigner traveller constantly faces duality whose structural process embodies dogma, organisation, simulation, derivation, fragmentation, pluralisation, deconstruction, assimilation… suggesting the ratio of multiplicity being to duality as duality is to illusion, further doubled within ubiquity being to illusion inasmuch as symmetry is to the mirror - the concept of duality as being a twofold impression (Maya) of the same substance and opposites as ideological correlates. Hence, dichotomy emerges as a fractal symmetrical and illusionary phenomenon through which human consciousness commences to understand oneness besides its derivative ever evolving multiplicity. Thus, by converging into the union of mind effected opposites such as original & copy, objective & subjective, time & space, male & female, cause & effect, light & dark, heart & mind, harmony & chaos, spirit & matter, random & determinate, individual & collective, motion & inertia etc. the whole surfaces as far greater than the sum of its two parts and polarity as a simple differentiation within which we are able to define and categorise its pluralism. Consequently in the film this gestaltic reenactment of coincidentia oppositorum is implicitly analogous to the holism of Bergson's duration through a myriad of overlapping afterimages that create an illusionary sequence merging single immutable geometric solids and random impressions. The optical illusion performed by the angular velocity of a static symbol renders the multiplicity of a codimension as interlaced mirror-images of the same icon, which are then integrated with yet another background illusion of concave and convex duplications - two internally consistent worlds that when juxtaposed make a completely inconsistent composite world. Dynamic symmetry and poetical-sonic repetition act as a metaphorical bridge to this union and thus the inversion of polarities becomes possible symbolising a sacred marriage between the several dual manifolds. This hieros gamos, remembrance of a sacred love, is the foundation and the culmination of duality, akin to the words of Tagore: "In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not a variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it fin." Concluding further and beyond the inevitable logico-mathematical paradoxes implied in self-referential meta-dualism, Shakespeare discloses this oxymoron of schism in Phoenix and Turtle as being equally within love that the illusion of doubleness can be overcome: "So they loved as love in twain, Had the essence but in one, Two distincts, division none: Number there in love was slain. Hearts remote, yet not asunder; Distance and no space was seen Twixt this turtle and his queen; But in them it were a wonder. So between them love did shine, That the Turtle saw his right Flaming in the Phoenix's sight; Either was the other's mine. Property was thus appalled That the self was not the same; Single natures, double name, Neither two nor one was called. Reason in itself confounded Saw division grow together; To themselves yet either neither, Simple were so well compounded, That I cried, "How true a twain!" Seemeth this concordant one: Love hath reason, Reason none, If If what parts can so remain."(25-28)
You can now submit your films to Euroshorts 2013 - European Film Festival.
Deadline for entries: September 30th, 2013
Festival dates: November 25-December 1, 2013, Gdansk and Warsaw, Poland
http://euroshorts.pl/formularz_2013.htm
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Pianoworks 13 is a short movie, which combines live action and motion design. On a original soundtrack played by Polerik Rouviere, four dancers perform different styles (break dance, new style, popping). The film illustrates the link between body, instrument and instrumentalist. The moves give birth to a sort of calligraphic language which is a representation of the moves themselves.
XVI GUANAJUATO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2013
CALL FOR ENTRIES
1.-The primary objective of the GUANAJUATO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is to provide more opportunities for the exhibition and appreciation of films, rewarding their quality so as to allow the artists to continue producing film. At the same time, we hope to bring together newcomers alongside the industry's most seasoned professionals, combining forces in a very open, accessible and competitive environment.
2.- THE X...
All information will be posted soon!
purgatory / noun / an intermediate place or state of temporary suffering for expiatory purification
Within the word “purgatory”, it is easy to envision condemned souls, torment and darkness. However, purgatory may also reflect the cyclic state in which we often rediscover or recreate ourselves anew from within our personal inflictions. Sometimes it is the necessary stage to exorcise ourselves from the haunting ghosts of the past. Perhaps it is the serene place of self reflection and realization.
From within this, DAMNED proudly presents an exhibition of powerful cinema called Purgatory. Held on March 8th & 9th 2013 at Hastings Ballroom/Tangent Gallery in Detroit, Purgatory will present various short films of deeply introspective, beautifully disturbing and darkly enlightening subject matters from filmmakers local and worldwide. This is not an industry-focused horror film festival, but a tributary showcase of the often redemptive films from the filmmaker’s personal damnations.
For further information: http://thatdamnedshow.com/purgatory
FILMMAKERS! We are still accepting submissions until February 10 2013! Click here for further info and to submit.
Also, fan us on the Purgatory Facebook Fan Page!
We are now accepting submissions for the 6th annual Minneapolis Underground Film Festival.
The Minneapolis Underground Film Festival- MUFF gives voice to hidden filmmakers and their buried gems. Our mission is to highlight artists, entertain our audiences and inspire filmmakers to create original work.
About the Festival
Sponsored and Hosted by the Film Society of Minneapolis, St. Paul at St. Anthony Main Theater, to showcase independent cinema’s most provocative and or...
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