CREATIVE WORLD AWARDS SCREENWRITING COMPETITION: CWA is a leading international screenwriting contest known for having the writer's interest at heart when it comes to development and industry promotion. The CWA vision is to help writers garner the exposure, development, and recognition they need to propel their projects and careers forward.
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Huntington Beach Film Festival: The Huntington Beach Film Festival brings the best of independent cinema to our community. We promote diversity, tolerance and understanding. HBFF: More Voices. More Stories.
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21 Islands International Short Film Festival: Pregones Theater/PRTT in NYC presents 21 Islands International Short Film Festival a film fest that features short films from ISLAND nations, ISLAND territories and ISLAND states all around the world. We showcase short films that depict stories that express cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic preoccupations shared by island artists and audience.
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Changing Face International Film Festival: Changing Face International Film Festival is an online festival aiming to encourage diverse content from diverse creators. CFIFF runs short film and screenplay competitions monthly featuring a variety of categories. The winners of our monthly competitions will automatically be entered into our annual competition where overall winners will be eligible for prizes and special awards!
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Norwich Film Festival: The Norwich Film Festival are a UK short film festival which delivers inspiring events that are both bold and imaginative. We champion new methods of storytelling and hope to encourage new filmmakers. Through our open submissions process we support local filmmakers as well as those from all across the globe, providing a platform for new and existing talents to showcase their amazing work in Norwich.
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Raptor Filmz Short Scotish Film Festival: The Scottish Short Film Festival (formerly the Raptor Filmz Short Scottish Film Festival) is to promote and encourage film making in and about Scotland, give credit where it's due and to encourage young and upcoming talent in the field. Each entry must be 20 minutes or less and have some relation to Scotland - be it Scottish actors, Scottish story, Scottish director, Scottish music etc.
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Queen City Film Festival: The Queen City Film Festival (QCFF), Western Maryland's premiere film festival, is held each year in early Fall in Cumberland, Maryland. QCFF offers a four-day program of screenings and educational panels, and welcomes filmmakers from around the world. Located in Allegany County, Cumberland offers a delightful blend of hospitality and history; mingled with charming shops, delicious dining, arts and entertainment and lots of events and activities.
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World of Women Film Fair Middle East: The World of Women's Cinema _ WOW Film Fair Middle East is the first women's short film fair that promotes and awards the talents of women directors, producers, writers, editors and cinematographers in the film industry internationally. It is an event that offers emerging and established filmmakers the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of women. Aiming to be a festival of discovery, celebration, debate, networking and an inspiration for new work _ the event is a non-profit project presented by Straight Street Media, a Dubai based company committed to improving the status of women, both on and off the screen, by supporting and advancing women working in the film, television and related screen industries.
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Oniros Film Awards: The Oniros Film Awards is a monthly and annual IMDb qualifying competition based in Aosta, Italy, which celebrates films from all around the world with awards in different categories and genres. The OFA allows filmmakers to submit their projects to get it judged by industry professionals and compete with other talented filmmakers. Our mission is to discover high quality and ambitious films, to promote filmmakers' works and to help them realize their dreams. The Oniros Film Awards is all about Dreams, ours and yours. The Oniros Film Awards is conceived by Dreamers to Dreamers. Dream Big, always!
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SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival: SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival. The festival features documentaries, short films and animated films focusing on the environment and human rights. The 10th edition will take place in San Vito Lo Capo (Sicily, Italy) on July 10-15, 2018. Pre-festival events July 6-8.
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Kids Video Connection Children's Film Festival: The purpose of this film is to promote positive, educational, and entertaining children and family-oriented programs. Please see the attached information and logo you requested about the festival.
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FREAK SHOW Horror Film Festival: Do you LOVE Horror Movies? If you answered YES, then you’ve come to the right place! The FREAK SHOW Horror Film Festival is the largest and longest running horror film festival in the State of Florida. We feature and showcase some of the BEST independent horror films from the US, Florida, and around the World. We are home to the coveted FREAKY Award and our mascot FREAKO the CLOWN!
Everybody Digital Film Festival: Come be a part of history as we hold our 1st annual short film festival! The Everybody Digital Film Festival is dedicated to shining the spotlight on high quality short films and the creativity, passion, and hard work that goes into each and every project but is so often overlooked and under appreciated. We are excited to hold screenings for our first festival at the beautiful Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn, New York and it is our mission to provide an atmosphere that gives filmmakers all of the recognition they deserve as well as opportunities to learn, grow and connect with others in the film community. Background: The Everybody Digital Film Festival is an extension of the Everybody Digital app created by actor/writer/director Allen Maldonado ("The Last O.G.", "Black-ish", "Survivor's Remorse"). The app was created to help promote short form films and series and to give filmmakers another organized platform to showcase all of the hard work they put into writing, shooting and completing their short films. The Everybody Digital Film Festival was created to further promote and celebrate filmmakers and to provide them with a big screen and a live event for friends, family and fellow filmmakers and film enthusiasts to enjoy and appreciate their work. Our Mission: The Everybody Digital Film Festival aims to shine a light on short filmmakers who are so often overlooked and under appreciated. We understand how much time, energy, money and passion goes into a short film and we want to recognize all of it and help share your work with as many people as possible. Our goal is to provide a platform not only for your film to shine but also for you as the filmmaker to shine just as bright. Through our events, we want to help not only promote you and your film but also provide an atmosphere where you can connect and celebrate with friends, family and other filmmakers.
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global revolution film festival: The GRFF is a festival by filmmakers, for film lovers, all genres of film are accepted! What we care about is that your film has a good story, and that the production is done with quality. We truly encourage minority and female artists whose work is often overlooked to enter our festival.
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Show Low Film festival: Festival in the beautiful White Mountains of Arizona - not desert , but cool mountains and pine trees. All accepted films are shown on one of 4 big screens in an actual state of the art theatre. Industry workshops are included as well as VIP parties. In addition an music for film competition and script pitch opportunity is given. The Arizona Film Commission will be attending . the festival will have awards as well as some cash prizes.
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Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival: CINEMA DIVERSE: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival, is dedicated to advancing and further strengthening our diverse gay community through the establishment of a world-class forum that presents lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cinema from around the world. We bring together film artists, film lovers and industry professionals in a celebration of motion pictures that reflect, inform, enrich and often transform lives. Visit our website at http//www.cinemadiverse.org. Cinema Diverse is a program of the Palm Springs Cultural Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to advancing education, to nurturing community-wide participation in the cultural arts, and to sponsoring scholarship awards for deserving individuals. For more information, please visit http://www.palmspringsculturalcenter.org.
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Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes: The festival aims to promote independent filmmakers and innovative work. To taking risks and moving the frontiers from the boring and most of the times empty conventional to the artistic initiating strong emotions , and out of the box exceptional and give the opportunity to independent filmmakers show case their work free of commercial constrains.
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C.R.I.S.F.F. The Cutting Room International Short Film Festival: C.R.I.S.F.F. A New York International Short Film Festival at the prestigious Cutting Room in the heart of New York City. We will select local as well as International Filmmakers to show their inspirational shorts, and documentaries. We are pleased to partner with IPITCH to help filmmakers showcase their films. IPITCH.TV are scouting for Feature Film and Television projects for all the major networks, studios and platforms. These Executive Members include: Discovery Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment Television, New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers, Echo Lake Entertainment, Relativity Television, CBS, WEtv, Authentic Entertainment, Forman Productions, Infinity Media Inc., Little Studio Films, Leftfield Pictures, Brian Graden Media
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Anti-Violence Int'l Film Festival: Through the medium of film we aim to promote new interest and rekindle historic passion for the plight of minorities, women, children, the voiceless victims of wars, terrorism, political maneuvering, sex trafficking, child labor, domestic violence, animal cruelty, and environmental abuse.
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Shorts That Are Not Pants: We began as a quarterly screening series in 2012, showing the best little films from Canada and around the world. In 2018, we've morphed into a series of monthly screenings leading to our inaugural festival weekend to be held November 16-17 in Toronto. We want to see your shorts, so we can show them to our engaged and savvy Toronto audience.
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Inclús, Barcelona International Disability Film Festival: Inclús, Barcelona International Disability Film Festival promotes audiovisual works about functional diversity, with the aim of raising awareness of the reality of people with disabilities from a different point of view. The centerpiece of the festival is an international audiovisual contest where short and feature films, both fiction and documentaries can be selected. Inclús focuses on audiovisual productions, but also has other activities and disciplines in order to give visibility to this sector: professional workshops, talks, shows, educational workshops...
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CANIMAF FESTIVAL: CANIMAF is the African animation film festival in Yaoundé. It is a cultural action project that aims to contribute to the development of the animation industry in Africa through training, exchange and promotion of young talent.
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Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer: Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer has stemmed from the project of the same name which screens independent non-fiction. DOKer is aimed at analyzing and screening in Russia various genres and forms of the world's documentaries as a separate line of cinema in all its esthetic and socio-cultural diversity. DOKer seeks theatrical style documentaries and tends towards new films that have received minimal exposure in Russia.
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Twin Tiers International Film Festival: The Twin Tiers International Film Festival takes a different approach to feature narratives. Instead of creating just one category for feature narratives across all genres, we have created a separate category for each genre in a quest to eliminate bias among genres. Dedicated to finding, encouraging and fostering filmmakers from all parts of the globe, TTIFF welcomes all filmmakers of any experience to hone their craft by attending our film making workshops, casual networking opportunities and Q & A's.
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Waterford Film Festival: The Waterford Film Festival was established in 2007 by local filmmaker Stephen Byrne. His objective was to bring something new to Waterford's arts and cultural scene, promoting local, national filmmakers and writers, but in particular independent film. Since the foundation of the festival, we have screened 500+ films from filmmakers around the world as well promoting writers with the short screenplay competition. Filmmakers from across Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Holland and as far as Canada and USA have attended the festival. The festival has awarded prizes worth in excess of €35,000 with our partners at FilmLab, since 2007. The festival is now is celebrating its 12th Annual Event this year and Central Arts will be hosting the event from Friday 30 Nov to Sunday 2nd December.
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Maryland International Film Festival: Welcome, filmmakers, to the Maryland International Film Festival-Hagerstown. We are excited about our 8th year coming up on March 29-31, 2019. We are Movie Magazine's top 50 festival worth their entry fee. For 8 years, we've been bringing in the finest films from around the world. The film festival became a 501(c)3 and launched in 2009 and now screens more than 100 films each year! Hollywood Director Joe Carnahan is our creative director, and has been a powerful partner with our festival! He has brought us such films as "The Grey" and "The A-Team" with Liam Neeson and just finished filming Boss Level with Mel Gibson. He now has his own production company with Frank Grillo. Most of our previous winners of 'Best Feature' have obtained distribution. We look forward to seeing you in 2018!
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Something Wicked Film Festival: Something Wicked Film Festival (SWFF) is a three day weekend event (August 3-5) that showcases some of the best animation, fantasy, horror, experimental, non-fiction and science fiction shorts and features from all over the world. In addition to the huge number of shorts and features we also hold panel discussions with industry professionals and allow many networking opportunities for filmmakers. One of our partners is Creative Studios of Atlanta where we hold a Special Screening of shorts made by our Young Filmmakers and we have plenty of World and Georgia Premieres of films never before screened! There will be something for everyone at SWFF!
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Carmarthen Bay Film Festival: Highly respected BAFTA Cymru Qualifying Film Festival, UK and International Submissions
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Global Short Film Awards (GSF Awards): Global Short Film Awards recognize excellence in highly creative and imaginative short films. These films will be suitable to meet the increasing content demand for intelligent phones, digital and hand held devices as well as the internet, commercial, art, science and educational applications. Global Short Film Awards Festival (GSF Awards) is the world's largest event exclusively dedicated to short films, in both 2D and 3D formats.
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Augusta Indi Film Festival: Victory Productions Network and 1 Accord Media are proud to bring Augusta the best new way to experience film. Filmmakers from around the world can enjoy everything the festival has to offer, including networking opportunities, food, music, live performances, and more. We will showcase 5 of the best and brightest short films, documentaries, and series produced in 20 mins or less from around the globe. Held at Augusta's #1 stop for popcorn. Enjoy amazing films while experiencing more than 50 flavors of gourmet popcorn unlike any you have ever had before! From red velvet to strawberry cheesecake, there is something for everyone.
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North Dakota Human Rights Film and Arts Festival: The mission of the North Dakota Human Rights Film & Arts Festival is to educate, engage and facilitate discussion around local and word-wide human rights topics through the work of filmmakers and artists.
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Cordillera International Film Festival: Although we are located in Reno-Tahoe, at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range, found within the American Cordillera, it’s not the only reason we selected our name. The founders of CIFF believe that film festivals should act like a Cordillera for filmmakers by connecting them to one another and working hard to provide all the elements that are necessary for them to have a memorable experience with us. In addition to providing lodging for all of our official selections, we pride ourselves on our sold-out screenings, informative workshops and great networking events. Along with an atmosphere aimed at attracting filmmakers, screenwriters, distributors and content producers alike, CIFF wants to be known for being a place where long-term professional and personal relationships are fostered.
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Web Television & Film Festival: The Web Television & Film Festival [WTF-F], is founded by independent film professionals, and focuses on independent artists from all over the world. WTF-F will showcase some of the finest short films and pilots in the web, television and film genres. We want to celebrate the amount of work put into each film. Therefore, the festival rules ensure that each movie is reviewed ethically and with all due care, respect and attention. Networking and collaboration are the cornerstones of the independent artist's creative process, and their work will meet a fun, engaged and tuned-in audience. The WTF Festival is interested in building a passionate community of interest around independent content creators and the folks that love and appreciate that work. Hosted at the historic Teaneck Cinemas, the festival will run screenings, followed by artists Q&A, pre-screening networking, a red carpet event, and a really fun after party.
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animation day in cannes: Celebrating animation and animators in Cannes, with screening in the Palais, awards ceremony and promotion and networking opportunities in front of th eindustry gathered in the N°1 film event in the world.
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Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival: A film festival in the heart of Hollywood, California dedicated to showcasing and celebrating independent crime and horror films and screenplays. Jury includes established producers and managers in LA.
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SOCHI FILM FESTIVAL: Sochi Film Festival is an annual cultural event dedicated to strengthening the improvement of communication between people of different cultures through the art of cinema and moving images. We hold free festivals for citizens of Sochi, providing access to world-class cinema. We are striving to enrich the Russian cultural environment by presenting the film in a context that stimulates discussions and discussions. We are increasing the cultural assets of the city of Sochi and its guests, showing a film from around the world. We also strive to promote a deeper understanding of diverse cultures from around the world, thereby contributing to the identity and orientation of Sochi as an international city. This year's theme for our film festival "New Cinematographers" and should solve new beginnings: as new directors, new MBA students, new scenarios. We are looking for creative quality of art and short films that meet our requirements
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Tiburon International Film Festival: Tiburon International Film Festival is an annual event showcasing independent feature and short films from around the world. The festival was launched in 2001 and is open to all genres.
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Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco: Iranian Film Festival (IFF), the first independent Iranian film festival outside of Iran, launched in 2008, is an annual event showcasing independent feature and short films made by or about Iranians from around the world.
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Rivne International Film Festival: Rivne International Film Festival Dream City. The works of various genres chosen to the festival will reveal the essence of visible and hidden aspects of life. Starting from a large megapolis to a small town they will embody the originality of Dream City.The plots will be related to any city, both real and fantastic, whose inhabitants make all the efforts to develop, improve and transform their favorite place into the centre of peace and harmony. The program of Rivne international film festival will consist of the national and international competitive programs in nominations: full-length fiction films, short-length fiction films, full-length and short-length documentary films, music video and students' films.
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Bayside Film Festival: The Bayside Film Festival is an annual event held in the City of Bayside that screens local, regional and international films made by upcoming and established filmmakers. Our goal is to help filmmakers further their passion and career, by providing a platform for them to display their hard work to local and abroad audiences.
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GALACTICAT FANTASTIC & TERROR FILM FESTIVAL IN TARREGA: GALACTICAT - Fantastic & Terror Film Festival, a CATALUNYA FILM FESTIVALS member, brings you the most genuine fantasy, terror and science fiction cinema. You can revive the classics once again in the movies and discover the best premieres form the genre. Galacticat is a Fantastic & Terror Film Fest dedicated to all cinema lovers and especially to Sci-Fi freaks, with the epicenter of the screenings at the historical Cinema Majestic in Terrega City, in west Catalonia, Spain. In 2018 we celebrate our Vth edition increasing all our numbers, activities and screenings but, as we love to say, THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
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Transitions Film Festival: The Transitions Film Festival is a visionary program dedicated to spotlighting the complex challenges, cutting-edge ideas, creative innovations and mega-trends that are redefining what it means to be human. We present positive, solutions-focused films and showcase cutting-edge ideas from around the world, along with the creative, academic, governmental, community and business leaders who are creating change locally.
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Feel The Reel International Film Festival: Feel The Reel is a monthly international film festival founded in Glasgow, United Kingdom, being officially recognized by IMDb. FTR is not only an online film festival, but also a festival with live screenings, our friends from Bucharest ShortCut Cinefest making this possible. Therefore, screenings will take place once a month and our winner will have the chance to be screened in the very heart of the dynamic and evergrowing Bucharest, in Romania.
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Shepperton Screenwriting Festival: Founded in 2017, The Shepperton Screenwriting Festival is aimed at new and emerging talent from across the globe. Shepperton is known for being one of the UK's leading hubs of film production with major motion pictures being filmed in Shepperton Studios on a daily basis. This festival is aimed at those who want to get their talent seen and help encourage future screenwriters and filmmakers to get their work shown to leading industry experts.
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Fashion Film Fest Istanbul: Istanbul Fashion Film Festival is one of the leading fashion film festivals in the world. Since 2015, the festival has an international competition for fashion films, documentaries and music videos.
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Okotoks Film Festival: We are a three-day international film festival in Alberta, Canada! We love working with filmmakers around the world and strive to create the very best opportunities for our festival filmmakers. We provide peer judged awards, workshops, filmmaker lunch, and a Instagram Takeover to help our filmmakers network and grow, weather they are able to attend or not. Our understanding is that at film festival artists come first!
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FestForums: FestForums is a conference for ALL FESTIVAL industry leaders. Addressing cutting-edge technology, talent, ticketing, sponsorships, scheduling, merchandising, operations, sustainability, charitable work, innovation and safety, FestForums brings together festivals and events of all sizes for collaboration and professional development.
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PageCraft Writing Retreat in Italy: For ten years now we've been working with writers to elevate their skills and their scripts. In addition to workshops and one-on-one coaching in LA and online, every year we invite a select group of writers to join us in Italy for a two-week writing retreat. We mix mini-lectures, coaching, writing exercises, targeted feedback, and the luxury of writing time with the culinary delights and sight-seeing of the most beautiful place in the world. Our alumni have gone on to find representation, win contests, sell scripts, and get staffed. Join us!
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Cump Film Festival: Cump Film Festival is the first independent student's film festival in Kenya, that is currently envisioning to set up a film incubation hub for all budding African film makers. The festival will be involved in assisting new film makers both practicing and new filmmakers to be in an environment where they interact, share and learn new technical where the film makers can hone their technical skills. Cump Film Festival as well seeks to set up bi-annual boot camps that will be focusing on adding value to film makers. Adding value in the sense that the film makers not only leave with skills at hand but as well learn how to grow in the business of film, how to compete on a global scale and equip them on how to personal development in the business.We aspire to be a powerhouse film festival that churns out authentic storytellers made in Africa for the world.
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