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Martin Scorsese Masterclass in Cannes

 

 

 

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Know Thyself

Director: Réjane Ruby.
Arthur is a solitary man, unable to get away from the imaginary world he has created. As he discovers the deviations of his own self, he rebels and chooses to be free. But can anyone escape from their inner mind and seek freedom outside themselves?

Stunt Kitty Films' Latest Comedy Short "UFO Over NoHo" Now Available Online

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Stunt Kitty Films has made their latest comedy short film, "UFO Over NoHo", available for viewing online at http://stuntkittyfilms.com/video/ufo-over-noho.  The video features performances by both the North Hollywood-based studio's creative team of Rob Robinson and Debora Roventini as well as SKF regular contributer, William Bertrand. ...

Reggio Film Festival

Hundreds of short film from all the continents, famous guests, meeting to study in deep interesting matters related to the short film or to the theme of that edition, big audience.

These are the elements of the Reggio Film Festival, a winning formula that is renewed year after year, an important appointment for Reggio Emilia but well known even out of our region borders.

The main target of this festival is to inspire interest and appreciation for the operas of filmmakers that send their short film from every part of the world, and at the same time to create occasions for cultural investigations that develop the cinematographic learning and the theme of the year.

So starting from the 1rst edition the Reggio Film Festival is distinguished every year by the choice of a theme, a topic that is examined and developed using different languages, so not only by the point of view of the short films but also through music, plays, words and other artistic expressions.

Lifetime Network and NYTVF to award development funding for original unscripted TV show treatments

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NYTVF - Lifetime Unscripted Development Pipeline Lifetime Networks, home of cable’s number one competition series, "Project Runway," and TV hits "Designing Spaces,” and "Dance Moms", has teamed up with the NYTVF for an innovative initiative seeking concepts for original unscripted television programming from independent artists and production companies. Twenty-five semi-finalists will be considered by Lifetime with five finalists each receiving $2,500 to ...

FREENETWORLD FILM FESTIVAL

FreeNetWorld 2012- Call for participation
Fifth international film festival FreeNetWorld will be held from 4th till 6th of October 2012.
We would like to invite filmmakers from around the world to submit their films.
Participation deadline for sending all required information and films is the 5th of August 2012.

Ganre:

  • fiction - drama and comedy,
  • documentary,
  • animations,
  • experimental/ music video

Theme: Free Choice
To be eligible the films must be:

  • produced after the 1st of January 2011;
  • less than 30 minutes in length;
  • subtitled in the English language, unless the dialog is in English;

Awards:

  • Free NET World Open Movie Award
  • The best documentary film
  • The best animated film
  • The best fiction
  • The best music video/experimental film
  • Special audience ‘s choise award

Participation procedure:
The entry form with all required information and with copy of the film has to be sent to us until 15th of July 2012. There are no limits for number of films that one author can submit.
Video preview formats are: HDV, DV, mini DV, DVD, mp4, 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, asf, asx, avi, divx, mts, m2t, m2ts, m2v, m4v, mkv, mov, mp4, mpe, mpeg, mpg, ogg, wmv.
The screening copy of the film that must be made available for the festival must be in PAL standard  in the following formats: HDV, DVCAM, miniDV and DVD.
Selection and Notification:
As we expect to receive several hundred submissions we regret that we can only write to the selected filmmakers. If you do not recieve any feedback from festival ’s coordinator till August 15 2012, that means that you haven’t been successful this time. In that case, we hope that you will participate next year with your new art film.
Costs: The applicant is responsible for the costs of sending copy!
Annotation on the package: "NO COMMERCIAL VALUE; CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY".
Mail:
Put a link in our online entry form from your hosting service, official servers (rapidshare, sendspace, megaupload, hotfile etc.) or by post mail:
Vladimir Ilic,
FreeNetWorld International Film Festival,
Heroja Pop Mice 8,
18000 Nis, Serbia

A free S3D Campus training session during Dimension 3!

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    A free S3D Campus trainingsession during Dimension 3!   In 2012, S3D Campus offers “Produce and Sellan S3D Feature Film or Documentary”, a new training program on stereoscopic 3D.This training will be held during the first two days of the European forum onthe new dimensions of images, at The Docks de Paris of Saint-Denis (justoutside Paris).   Sèvres,February 2012, 20th– On June 13 and 14, 2012, S3D Campus isholding a training pr...

Cortoons Festival 2012

This year, it will be from 14 to 18 March 2012, in the usual venue at the Palladium Theater, in Rome. The competition categories are 7: Italian Short Films, International Short Films 1-4 minutes, 4-20 minutes Shorts International; Shorts Schools, Videoclips, VFX, Featured animation films. - The subject is free - There is no fee - The films must be made after1st January 2010 - All-animation techniques are eligible - The deadline is on 15 January 2012 - The Festival is free of charge Download the entry form from the website www.cortoons.it in the section: 'Registration and Regulation' Contact us at: info@cortoons.it produzione@cortoons.it

Festival international de films d'animation Croq'Anime

Croq’Anime organise sa 4ème édition du festival de films d’animation de Paris les 7,8 et 9 septembre 2012.

Évènement gratuit et ouvert à tous, le festival met en lumière les nouveaux talents de cet art.

Vous êtes autodidactes ou étudiants, professionnels ou amateurs, envoyez-nous vos courts-métrages, toutes techniques et sans thème imposé.

Date limite d'envoi de vos films le 30 juin 2012

 

Hello everyone!

 

Croq'Anime is organizing its 5th international short animated festival.

 

Open to students, amateurs, independent or professional directors, our goal is to show the public talents of animated short films from all over the world, based on scenario and image quality and originality.

 

All techniques of animation allowed (2D, 3D, puppets…)

 

Deadline submission on June 30th 2012

Inscription/submission : 

http://www.croqanime.org/festival.php

Call of entries

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The Fantastic Film Festival of the University of Málaga has opened the period for film registration for its XXI edition. We look fordward to hearing from your films soon. No entry fee is required.   Deadline: July 31st, 2011 for feature films.                    July 15th, 2011 for Shortfilms.                  June 15th, 2011 for On-line Shortfilms competition.     INSCRIPTION AND GENERAL INFORMATION...

Butterflies Award Winning YouTube Documentary Free To Watch Online

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To celebrate 10,000 views, we are giving the film out for free online. Enjoy :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOHx2or45Go   ...

NOW TAKING SUBMISSIONS: NO ENTRY FEE!

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We are now accepting submissions for our first annual event... HorrorQuest's goal is to become the largest FREE festival in the southeast. In the years to come we plan on having live music events, filmmaking classes and guest hosts from the "horror" community. HorrorQuest accepts all kinds of submission, not just "Horror". We are a Horror/Genre festival and you may submit any of the following types of films. Horror Fantesy  Sci-Fi ...

Nouveaux Cinémas International Digital Film Festival Paris

 

Since 2004, the Festival des Nouveaux Cinémas has made people discover the quality of digital creation and promote a demanding and innovating conception of this cinema opened to all.

All these new ways of capturing the world resulte in new types of movies so different from one another and yet united in this digital cinema revolution.

We bring you the diversity, the blooming and the energy of all the new cinemas.

The NOMAD Project CALL FOR PROJECTS! February 2011 Screening in New York, New York USA!

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CALLFOR PROJECTS NOMAD Films isexcited to announce our partnership with the “Big Screen Project” to screen acollection of films at the public plaza in February 2011. Through thispartnership, NOMAD Films will curate an exhibition of short films directedand/or produced by independent filmmakers utilizing innovative and explorativeways of filmmaking.  The films canbe narrative or documentary, and should evoke feelings of warmth for its shiveringFebruary audience.  Projects willb...

In LA? Two Great FREE Events for Indie Filmmakers This Week

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If you're in LA this week, there are two FREE events you should check out:   Tuesday, September 28 (Burbank, 7-9pm) Video Symphony's Pizza & Post: What's New w/Cinema 4D's Release 12? http://valleyfilmfest.blogspot.com/2010/09/pizza-post-whats-new-in-cinema-4d.html   Friday, October 1 (Hollywood, 7-10pm) Reefer Movie Madness book release + screening of Dark Side of the Rainbow http://valleyfilmfest.blogspot.com/2010/09/reefer-movie-madness...

Free Screening of Gasland this Friday!

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      See a FREE SCREENING of GASLAND this Friday! Presented by The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation. GASLAND Friday, September 3* 9:00pm American Tobacco Campus - Main Lawn 318 Blackwell Street Durham, NC, 27701 FREE! When filmmaker Josh Fox discovers that Natural Gas drilling is coming to his area-the Catskillls/Poconos region of Upstate New York and Pennsylvania, he sets off on a 24 state journey to uncover the dee...

The Clearwater Film Festival Promo Trailer Contest on Openfilm.com - FREE to submit until July 30

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The Clearwater Film Festival celebrates Triple-Threat Filmmakers who act, write and direct. Before Orson Welles gave us Citizen Kane and Shakespeare became Hamlet, the Greek poet Thespis got up on stage and shocked the audience by pretending to be somebody else, giving birth to the multi-hyphenate talent, which became the driving force in entertainment for the last 2,600 years.Your challenge is to cram that legacy into 30 seconds of brilliant filmmaking, and show us what you can do with what you...

Enter The Clearwater Film Festival Promo Trailer Contest on Openfilm.com

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Get Reeled In!The Clearwater Film Festival celebrates Triple-Threat Filmmakers who act, write and direct. Before Orson Welles gave us Citizen Kane and Shakespeare became Hamlet, the Greek poet Thespis got up on stage and shocked the audience by pretending to be somebody else, giving birth to the multi-hyphenate talent, which became the driving force in entertainment for the last 2,600 years.Your challenge is to cram that legacy into 30 seconds of brilliant filmmaking, and show us what you can do...

2010 Talking Pictures Festival - January 22 DEADLINE

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The 2010 TALKING PICTURES FESTIVAL invites independent filmmakers to submit their films and videos to its annual festival competition. Cash awards for winning entries. We seek films that are thought-provoking, intriguing, entertaining, vibrant, authentic, artful and informative. From dramatic films to hard-hitting documentaries, comedic shorts, experimental films, or music videos, we invite independent filmmakers to send us their work for consideration.   All genres, styles and lengths welco...

Little Ripper Film Festival

Calling all Film Makers!
The Little Ripper Film Festival is looking for shorts for their up and coming screening Friday Dec 4th, 2009 at the Classic Cinema, Elsternwick, VIC, AUSTRALIA.  As an introductory offer you can enter your shorts for free! Films can be up to 30mins in length and contestants are in the running for The Little Ripper Award.  Simply go to our website http://www.littleripperfilmfestival.com.au join the mailing list and submit your entries.  Submissions close by Friday November 20th so get to it – You little ripper!

Karl Spoerri (Zurich Fest Artistic Director) comments his festival and the Polanski hiatus

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I had the opportunity to interview Karl Spoerri Artistic Director of Zurich Film Festival a few days before the festival was over. Polanski's arrest  suddenly put the festival in the spotlight. It clearly was wrong unwanted publicity...but still publicity. This being said, my first question to Karl BC: What are you most proud of in the 2009 edition of Zurich festival? RS: A brilliant competition (30 films in 3 competitions) so beautiful, and the reaction in the audience wonde...

One Country One Film

The third edition of ONE Country ONE Film, Apchat International Film Festival will take place from the 27th to the 29th of july 2012 in the small village of Apchat in the heart of France. We are now accepting film submissions (open to shorts and features, fictions, documentaries, experimental and animations) until March 31st 2012. Entry is free. More information on our website : www.onecountryonefilm.com. The main goal of the festival is cultural exchange between countries. Diversity regarding the origin of films is the number one criteria for selection. No more than one film is selected per country represented. However each year a country is honored and a program made of several films originating from that country is screened.   Films must reach the festival office no later than March 31st 2012. Please visit “One Country One Film” website for more info about the festival and how to submit your film. http://www.onecountryonefilm.com / Email : onecountryonefilm@hotmail.fr

Call For Entries

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The Annual Pare Lorentz International Film Festival, is now accepting short films, 1o minutes or less, for submission in this years festival. All category of films are welcome, from anime, comedy, sci-fi, horror to documentary. NO FEE SUBMISSION ENTRY FORM The Festival runs from December 11th, 2011; (the birthday of Pare Lorenz, who was born in Clarksburg back in 1905), thru  December 20th, 2011. Films, will be shown together by category, so the judges and audience can choos...

Withoutabox Submissions

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Withoutabox Submissions Now Open: Visit www.gcfest.com For more info contact info@gcfest.com   Best! Global Cinema Festival ...

Budapest Bicycle Festival - free entry

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Free entry for BuBi 2009: All kinds of films about bicycles and cycling are welcome.Deadline: july 31.You can send your films to our adress: BuBiFeszt Anthropolis EgyesuletPF: 1222, 1381 BudapestHungary  or you can upload it directly to our film-server (available from july). Please write the following information in a doc or docx file and on the cover:  Author, length, file extension, technical data, genre, email, tel.  If you have any questions: film@bubifeszt.hu ...

Porto7 - Oporto International Short-Film Festival

 “Porto7” – Oporto’s International Short-Film Festival, is an event that will take place from 13th to 17th June 2012 in Portugal.

Porto7 is a Festival dedicated to Short-Films. Its target is to promote the production and exhibition of short-films and to act as an intermediary among cultures and nationalities that participate in the Festival.
It’s a cultural event open to producers, directors, students, enthusiastic and people that enjoy the 7th art.
This Festival it’s an exchanging place between artists, directors, audiovisual business companies and audience where different promotional activities will take place. (Films screening, Parties, Ceremonies, Parties, Music bands, Products presentations, etc.).

Call for entries

Entry free

Entry deadline: 15/03/2012

Festival E-mail: festival@porto7.com
Website: www.porto7.com

Oporto – Portugal

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