The Innsbruck Nature Film Festival is an international nature film competition, offering motivated filmmakers a platform for presenting their latest work. Four film festival days with film presentations and a high-quality side program are the framework for a subject-matter, ecological and artistic discourse.

The Innsbruck Nature Film Festival is presented by the Tiroler Umweltanwaltschaft [Environmental Ombuds Office Tirol]. Since 2001 Landesumweltanwalt Johannes Kostenzer [Environmental Ombudsman] has organized the Innsbruck Nature Film Days – a cinema event lasting several days, which has become established as one of the fixed points in the event calendar of the City of Innsbruck. One of the central tasks and integral part of modern nature conservation work is to make people aware of special attractions and phenomena in nature, of its beauty and diversity.

 

The International Festival of Film Schools was established in 1981. It is now one of the most important festivals for young filmmakers in the world. More than 3,500 films have been presented at the festival since its inception. More than 3,200 foreign students and professors have had opportunities to meet, enter into discussions and share their experiences with each other. 

Dear Film and Nature Friend!

Do you love Tarantino's arty works or are you a fan of David Attenborough's documentaries? Do you want to show with breathtaking pictures or with creative animation how much loss we suffer with the degradation of our biodiversity or the over consumption of fossil fuels?

Do you want to participate in a new international environmental movement that builds the basic of a green film festival?

If you say YES, then this is your place! Spread your environmental message and your talent, and even win with it! Participate in the II. International Green-Go Short Film Festival, be a part of the message to show people how much we should preserve our natural heritage that are key for our lives, how much we should turn to alternative energy sources to halt climate change and how much we should respect our cultural heritage built on our environment.

Check the categories, find more information and fill the application form at the contest's website: www.greengofest.eu. Do not forget to join our facebook communitny at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Go-International-Short-Film-Contest/201482366648085

Choose your weapon and SHOOT! It is your time now to spread the word around the world!

The Spirit Quest Film Festival has opened their call for entries for their 2012 season and is currently seeking inspirational, thought provoking and intriguing films and screenplays from around the world.

Created and maintained by film festival veterans with deep ties within the industry, Spirit Quest hopes to provide submitting filmmakers and screenwriters with the exposure and attention they deserve for all of their hard work.

We're looking for anything that will move us, make us laugh, cry and learn something about ourselves and the world we inhabit in the process.

We hope to inspire, enlighten and challenge our audiences by showcasing films and awarding screenplays that explore the best (and sometimes the worst) of the human experience.

Films and stories of faith, courage and success, that celebrate and explore our diversity, our planet and our politics. From introspective meditations on relationships, to mind boggling journeys to far away places and anything in between – share your vision with us.

If you have a film or screenplay that fits any of these descriptions, we want to see it!

All genres accepted - dramas, documentaries, comedies, animation, music videos and any film dealing with the above themes.  There is even a special category for young filmmakers under the age of 18 this season.

 

Awards will be presented to the Best Films and Screenplays.

 

For 23 years, the Associació de Naturalistes de Girona has attempted to show the best images of our natural environment through the photography. Static images that show us the strength and the fragility of our planet of the hand of the best photographers, professional as well as enthusiastic. Now, conscious of the creative capacities of the participants, we turn on a new stage. From the ANG we want to invite you to a new adventure, an adventure that has to show us the problems, the victories, the dangers and the hopes of our environment in short audiovisual format.

When we talk about environment, we mean everything that happens in this thin layer where the human being is related to their environment and other species, in short, where life reaches its maximum. With the aim of showing the whole range of problems and wonders, has born the Girona Festival Shorts environmental SOMCURTS. A festival that should allow us to travel to the soul of the earth.

Awards given to entries in the following categories: 

• Best bat short
• Best bat student film
• Best bat Internet-only film (YouTube, etc.)
• Best bat scientific film
• Best bat animated film/short
• Best bat documentary
• Best bat in captivity film (zoo, USFWA, wildlife rehabilitator)
• Best bat love story

Also

• Best bat-themed feature film
• Best bat-themed TV program

Le festival Rencontres Cinéma-Nature propose un autre regard sur la nature et l’environnement à travers une sélection de courts métrages créatifs, atypiques et éclectiques. Sans cesse à la recherche de nouveaux talents le festival encourage tout particulièrement la jeune création de documentaires, fictions et animations.  Les réalisateurs sélectionnés à la compétition sont invités à rencontrer le public après la projection de leur film, favorisant la convivialité qui fait la réputation de la manifestation.