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2014 Taiwan International Children's Film Festival
Call for Entries
(Submission Deadline: Oct. 31 2013)
Festival Overview
Held once every two years, the festival brings young children and adults too, to enjoy the works in this international exhibition, which will take place in April 2014. PTS, the organizers of this event, are now signing up entries for this tremendous series of showings, attracting some of the finest film makers from around the ...
Czech director Ester Brym is ready to showcase her 2nd feature film called Autumn of Route 66.
The World Premiere with take place Monday, August 19th, 2013 at 8PM at Action on Film International Film Festival in Monrovia, California.
Ester's first film have received multiple awards and have been broadcasted all over the world via UK based distributor Journeyman Pictures.
This time around, the filmmaker takes us on a journey of a lifetime:
Visually stunning experience that will leave you ...
The North Hollywood CineFest will take place from April 10-13 of 2014 and will last 4 exciting days of independent film showcasing at the beautiful Laemmle NoHo 7 digital theaters located in the heart of the NoHo Arts District in North Hollywood, CA.
Submit today to the North Hollywood CineFest! The festival will take place in April of 2014 and will last 4 exciting days of independent film showcasing at the beautiful Laemmle NoHo 7 digital theaters located in the heart of the NoHo Arts District in North Hollywood, CA. The festival will showcase films from all over the world while reaching out to the Hollywood community to provide an all-round exciting, fun, and productive festival experience with a red carpet atmosphere.
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ENTER YOUR FILM: The Van d'Or Independent Film Awards (Powered by Ford)
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR EUROPE:
We’ve kept it simple…
There are 3 categories for entries:
SHORT
All short film genres except music-based should be submitted in this category (ie. short fiction, animation, short documentary, motion design). Films should be under 20 mins in length.
MUSIC-BASED
Music promos & innovative / experimental...
ENTER YOUR FILM: The Van d'Or Independent Film Awards (Powered by Ford)
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR EUROPE:
We’ve kept it simple…
There are 3 categories for entries:
SHORT
All short film genres except music-based should be submitted in this category (ie. short fiction, animation, short documentary, motion design). Films should be under 20 mins in length.
MUSIC-BASED
Music promos & innovative / experimental...
ENTER YOUR FILM: The Van d'Or Independent Film Awards (Powered by Ford)
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR EUROPE:
We’ve kept it simple…
There are 3 categories for entries:
SHORT
All short film genres except music-based should be submitted in this category (ie. short fiction, animation, short documentary, motion design). Films should be under 20 mins in length.
MUSIC-BASED
Music promos & innovative / experimental...
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...
Dennis/Dee
By Mike Takeuchi
Photos by Mike Simpson for BEFORE YOU KNOW IT
(In addition to directing TRINIDAD and his most recent film BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, filmmaker PJ Raval was the cinematographer for the 2008 Academy Award nominated documentary TROUBLE THE WATER. Raval took some time out of a hectic film festival-filled week to speak with Filmfestivals.com.)
On a June night in 2009 while celebrating the world premiere of his and co-director Ja...
The Independent Pilot Competition (IPC) is the New York Television Festival's flagship, annual competition, accepting independently-produced, original television pilots and web series in all genres from around the globe. Official Selections in the IPC will screen in competition during the annual New York Television Festival in October. IPC Official Selections are eligible for the competition's category and individual achievement awards as well as guaranteed development deals from Fest...
The Creative Arts Film Festival is an annual international online short film festival that is designed to showcase and promote filmmakers. CAFF runs every December online and we offer worldwide exposure, free promotional listings, prizes, and we are the home of the prestigious Perfect Spirit Film Awards. CAFF is committed to bringing YOUR film to YOUR audience. Submit your project today!
“We believe that it is through a legion of fans that filmmakers can build a solid career in entertainment. That’s why we hold our event online. The potential then exists for every person on the planet to attend the festival and discover these greatly talented filmmakers, and then follow them as the filmmakers craft their careers with longevity in mind.”
~ Fel Angel, Festival Director, Creative Arts Film Festival
CAFF considers short length films that are 30 minutes maximum (including credits), and we offer filmmakers premiere exposure to entertainment industry professionals and fans worldwide via our website. We are completely driven by love of the craft and our festival is committed to the filmmakers who bring great short films to the world.
CAFF is like no other film festival, because it is designed to promote YOU, the filmmaker. Our innovations are all designed to further YOUR career. Such as: The Perfect Spirit Awards – to bring recognition and accreditation to your work; Submitted Film Listings – Our massive additional promotional vehicle for our creative artists JUST FOR SUBMITTING A PROJECT; and, Video interviews of our filmmakers. These are all unique marketing ideas that no other film festival in the world had ever explored before CAFF.
CAFF offers all of these initiatives because it brings more attention to YOU, the creative artist. They were pioneered to better serve the filmmaker. And, mixed with our marketing efforts, CAFF does all it can do to get you and your project in front of every single person around the world.
Are YOU the next GREAT FILMMAKER? Submit Your Project and find out!
Terror Film Festival is a bad-azz, blood chilling, alien probing international horror, fantasy, sci-fi film festival, founded for the purpose of offering filmmakers, screenwriters and fans more. TFF is like no other film festival in the world because it's designed to help promote YOU, the creative artist. The festival runs every October in Philadelphia and we offer prizes, exposure, a world-class Screenwriting Competition, and the coveted Claw Awards. And it's all presented by the genre diva fashionista herself, Princess Horror!
Terror Film Festival is all about horror, fantasy, sci-fi, thriller, dark drama and screenplay. Our call for entries for this worldwide film festival is focused on getting as many filmmakers and screenwriters involved with the festival as possible to help promote them and their careers. And as one of the top film festivals celebrating independent film, TFF is a Halloween event that brings the best films to an eager audience.
Terror Film Festival has been called “an incredible theatrical event”, “an honorable company”, and “one of the most professional film festivals around”. And it’s true, because we work very hard on making those things happen.
Terror Film Festival is dedicated to the art of genre, the filmmakers and screenwriters who make great genre movies, and the fans who love them. For our FILMMAKERS, we offer awards, prizes, special free listings to promote your project, and we strive to get you recognized as a filmmaker, and for your film to be celebrated and distributed. And it doesn’t matter if your film’s already been screened somewhere else or what year it was made. We believe year of completion is not as important as content. For our SCREENWRITERS, we offer awards and prizes for the sake of great writing, to help support your writing talent and career. And for the FANS, we have only one mission…to thrill the living daylights out of you!!
UMFF 2013 Call for Entries Now Open! The Urban Mediamakers Film Festival (UMFF) promotes and supports a diverse independent media arts community in the Southeast and worldwide by showcasing independent projects from around the world in English and Spanish. UMFF 2013 brings a creative atmosphere that encompasses metro-Atlanta's signature of being culturally diverse. "Changing the World, One Story at a Time" is the festival's theme, with exceptional films -- animations, shorts, f...
Ars Independent Festival brings to Katowice (Poland) young, brave and provocative cinema, which seeks for its own language, breaks functioning conventions and film styles, strives for themes unnoticed by the others. We present the most diverse achievements of independent authors. By the contests for debuts and second films we are looking for Black Horses of the cinema. Ars Independent is the space devoted to dialogue between filmmakers and the audience, created with belief that cinema as a medium can influence reality. We are crossing geographical, social and political borders in order to disclose unknown cinema and discover both The Other and ourselves.
Read more: arsindependent.pl
By Mike "Tak" Takeuchi
(Photo Courtesy of Ballplayer: Pelotero Movie)
*Note-The Kickstarter link to the sequel of "Ballplayer: Pelotero", named "The Miguel Sano Story" is here-
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/guagua/the-miguel-sano-story?ref=live
In 2009, when filmmakers Jonathan Paley Ross Finkel and Trevor Martin began filming Miguel Sano and Jean Carlos Batista, a pair of reportedly 16-year-old infield prospects from the Dominican Re...
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With film presentations taking place in the heart of Hollywood, the Festival presents a valuable screening platform for independent filmmakers, while providing for access to the studios and industry at large. The 2013 event will take this concept to the next level, presenting a unique networking program with “**HOLLYWOOD NETWORK® INITIATIVE.” Once again the Hollywood Film Festival will take place at the state of the art ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood. Keep onSCROLLING DOWN to submit film.
NEW ONLINE OPTION
With filmmakers always looking for broad exposure, this year the “HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL” is pleased to be offering a select number of short films to Internet audiences, providing streaming opportunities to industry professionals and the online community.
HOLLYWOOD GIVES BACK®
In addition, the HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL, through the “Hollywood Gives Back® Project” will showcase the other side of Hollywood, celebrating the Industry’s creative artists who have supported causes around the world. These efforts will be integrated into the CineCause Spotlight section of the Festival.
AWARDS GALA
The winners of the HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL – Features, Documentaries, Shorts – will be recognized on stage at the prestigious HOLLYWOOD FILM AWARDS GALA ceremony, and will receive 4 complimentary VIP GALA tickets. The Hollywood Film Awards Gala launches the awards season.
We are very proud that our finalists and winners have secured agents and distribution deals (HBO, Miramax, IFC, Indican, 7th Art Releasing, and Starz Entertainment among other distributors) due to their exposure during ourHollywood Film Festival.
Our latest success story is our HFF winner, CRAIG BREWER, for the sale of his movie “Hustle and Flow” to Paramount Studios for $9 million. Craig Brewer was discovered at the 2000 Hollywood Film Festival when we showcased the world premiere of his first film “Poor and Hungry.”
Another HFF winner, director Robert DeFranco, sold his film “Telling You” to Miramax. Our winner Zoe Clarke-Williams got a directing job for an MGM film after we honored her. In addition, our winning documentarian Janine Hoskins sold her documentary “My Khmer Heart” to HBO.
“For up-and-coming filmmakers looking for a break the festival is the ultimate networking opportunity”, said “Daily Variety.”
** Subject to executives availability and to change without prior notice.
NOTE-IMPORTANT: All of the above subject to change without prior notice.
Macabre Faire Film Festival Mission:
To provide a respectful, competitive, celebratory and affordable film fest event that is judged by a panel for independent filmmakers to enter their Strange-ifical, Weird-ifical, Horror-ifical, Sci-fi-tastical, Fantastical and Macabre-licious films to be viewed by the fans with the opportunity to win awards, increase film visibility via press and possibly obtain distribution. All this while maintaining manageable entry fees.
What's it all about?
TwitchTwitch Productions presents Long Island's only Macabre Faire Film Festival 2x a year with its main focus always being the "Official Selections" and its filmmakers/crew.
For starters the word "Macabre" is pronounced: Ma-Cob. The "re" is hardly ever heard. What does it mean?
Although it is an adjective meaning: disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury, we usually approach the Macabre Faire Film Festival with a lighter touch in the sense that, not all of the films screened have been a gore fest. Of course, there isn't anything wrong with adding some gore to a macabre film fest but, when we hear the word "Macabre" we remember those hauntingly fascinating films that starred legendary greats such as: Vincent Price & Peter Cushing. Or those fantastic Gothic horrors like those from "Hammer" films. These names in themselves represent what "macabre" means to us. What we are saying is that the word "Macabre" doesn't have to be about the hardcore gore, violence or scare but instead it could be about what you don't see or hear but, somehow manages to reach your fear's core. Let's also not forget those fantasy films or comedies with their horror twists. Truth be told that those exist too and yes, we welcome them. How can we not? Would you have turned down something like "The Evil Dead's: Army of Darkness" which is both a fantasy, a comedy and a horror wrapped into a tight burrito? Yeah, we wouldn't either. So folks, this is what many of the films selected for the Macabre Faire Film Festival have to offer. About the only thing we may have to say "No Thanks" to would be a romantic comedy/drama... unless, there's a monster or weird dark force that takes over then we may reconsider.
We have had judges and guests such as director Stevan Mena "Bereavement", Eileen Dietz "The Exorcist", Doug Jones "Hell Boy", Cleve Hall "Monster Man", Michael Gingold "Fangoria", Nick Nicholson "CNN Film Critic", Evan Ginzburg "The Wrestler" and others.
Trophies & Award Certificates will be presented.
Also note: Elsie Ginsberg is currently the Acquisitions Manager for the popular interactive live streaming: www.MonsterChannel.Tv With this said, all films submitted to the Macabre Faire Film Festival become eligible to be part of the channel's programming. All films will undergo review by the Monster Channel's additional management team for consideration. If a film is not chosen as an Official Selection for the Macabre Faire Film Festival this does not mean that the film may not be considered for programming on the Monster Channel. Forms from Fourth Castle that grants permission to showcase your film to Monster Channel's captured audience can be found with the Film Fest forms at: www.MacabreFaireFilmFest.com
Keep in mind, the Monster Channel is a bonus feature to submitting your film to the Macabre Faire Film Festival and completely optional. Programming shall begin streaming on the Monster Channel of the selected original films by the later part of 2013.
The Macabre Faire Film Festival currently takes place at the Best Western Mill River Manor Hotel in Rockville Centre, NY offering 3 screening rooms. This allows us to screen between 25-50 films per event (totals vary according to amount of days allocated for the event). It is presented by our umbrella company "TwitchTwitch Productions" which is family owned and operated. The brand "Macabre Faire" may be recognized by many because of it's affiliation with the "Macabre Faire" convention-like party events that take place through out the year occasionally for a weekend long gathering.
Our Macabre Faire events and Film Festival have a reputation for being a very friendly environment with a wonderful celebratory ambiance within an intimately sized space. Here's what Fox 5 News had to say about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oVRMl4BQwQ&feature=share
The 2013 Fifth Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival will begin on Wednesday October 16, 2013 and come to a rest on Sunday October 21, 2013, holding five (5) days of independent film, interactive social events, and numerous instructive and expository workshops.
Santa Fe IFF 2013 Entries will be accepted starting January 11, 2013 with Early Entry Fees @ $45.00 for Feature Films and $35.00 for Shorts. The 2013 Regular Entry Deadline is May 1, 2013 with Entry ...
The 2013 Fifth Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival will begin on Wednesday October 16, 2013 and come to a rest on Sunday October 21, 2013, holding five (5) days of independent film, interactive social events, and numerous instructive and expository workshops.
Santa Fe IFF 2013 Entries will be accepted starting January 11, 2013 with Early Entry Fees @ $45.00 for Feature Films and $35.00 for Shorts. The 2013 Regular Entry Deadline is May 1, 2013 with Entry Fe...
Don't forget to take advantage of the early rate!!
After five consecutive years of pushing the envelope in underground
film. 2013 marks the sixth annual Minneapolis Underground Film
Festival and already cutting edge submissions are coming in from
around the world. What started as a protest film festival giving voice
to underdog filmmakers and never before seen film artists has now
become one of the Midwest's premiere showcases of independent film
making. Held at the St.Anthony Main movie theaters in August, this
year'...
After five consecutive years of pushing the envelope in underground
film. 2013 marks the sixth annual Minneapolis Underground Film
Festival and already cutting edge submissions are coming in from
around the world. What started as a protest film festival giving voice
to underdog filmmakers and never before seen film artists has now
become one of the Midwest's premiere showcases of independent film
making. Held at the St.Anthony Main movie theaters in August, this
year'...
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