AmDocs is one of the largest Docs only festivals in the United States. We are located in beautiful Palm Springs, not far from the media capital of Hollywood. We take pride in sharing the best viewing environment for both our audience and filmmakers.
AmDocs is very progressive in education outreach, market sharing and doing all we can to help our filmmakers realize their goals.
Short and outdoor terrace. This is what is proposed Korterraza, a festival of short films that celebrate its tenth edition of July 07 to 10, 2021 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, and throughout the summer, the seventh edition of Korterraza Araba.
The Sicilymovie - Festival del cinema di Agrigento is a festival of short films, documentaries, videoclip and animation shorts, created and organized by Southmovie Association, which was born with the intention of bringing an elite outdoor cinema in the heart of Sicily: the evocative Valley of the temples of Agrigento. The themes addressed in the works of directors from all over the world are manifold: rural development of the poorest countries, hospitality, people and places that seek to change the world, cultural and technological innovation.
The sixth edition of Sicilymovie is aimed at the production of short films capable of telling, with less obvious languages, exciting and engaging “stories of change”. The previous editions of the festival, known as Sicilyfarm Film Festival, took place between Farm Cultural Park and the Valley of the temples of Agrigento.
The Main Partner of the Festival is IFAD. The International Fund for agricultural development or IFAD is an international financial institution and a specialized agency of the United Nations based in Rome – the United Nations pole for food and agriculture.
IFAD-a financial institution like the World Bank and other regional development institutions - is the leading multilateral investor dedicated to improving the life of worldwide rural population in developing countries.
IFAD works closely with the governments of the beneficiary countries and local communities in the formulation, supervision and evaluation of National-led programmes and projects that support poor small farmers and rural producers.
For further information on IFAD: www.ifad.org
The Archaeological Park and landscape Valley of the temples is about 1300 hectares and here belong the remains of the ancient city of Akragas and the surrounding territory up to the sea. The Valley of the temples was declared in 1997 by Unesco “World Heritage". Today the Valley of the temples has more than one million visitors a year.
The goal is not only to raise awareness of the common opinion about those people and places that are rethinking our future, but also to promote proactive behaviors with respect to the transformation of our society.
PLACE, DATE AND DEADLINE
Sicilymovie - Agrigento Film Festival will take place from 28 to 31 July 2021 at the Valley of the temples of Agrigento
The deadline for the call will be 2021, May 31 at 23:59
Mad Kids Short Film Festival is an “ASD A.P.S. Mad Kids” project.
This is the 1st edition of this event.
Mad Kids is an Italian Swing Association committed to supporting and promoting initiatives related to the Swing Era.
We specialise in Swing Dance and we actively work to make known what Swing music meant to
people in those years, and how it can be a great opportunity to engage with now.
Mad Kids Short Film Festival is created with the intention to spread the spirit of the Swing Music in a pandemic-ridden world where it is no longer possible to experience Swing Dancing through traditional way.
The Asian Summer Film Festival wants to present the Asian culture through the popular cinematography produced in the countries of the continent.
The Festival has several categories such as a competitive section, retrospectives, screenings for children and theme nights. Last year, 40 titles from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Corea, Japan, India and Nepal were shown, some of them were World and International festival premieres, European festival premieres or Spanish festival premieres. The 18 films programmed in the official section competed for the Jury Prize, the Lucky Cat Award, given by the audience to the best film in-competition, and the Critics’ Choice Award.
Last year we showed movies like SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD (Winner), IP MAN 4, I'M LIVIN'IT, ENTER THE FAT DRAGON, FRIEND ZONE, SONCHIRIYA, CHANGFENG TOWN, THE CLOSET, PROMARE, THE ENCHANTING PHANTOM...
The Asian Summer Film Festival (Vic, Barcelona July 20th-25st) has awarded the Japanese actress ASAMI with the Honorary Award on its 17th edition.
Spanish Distributors of Asian Cinema come to our festival to see the movies and some of the are sold to our country: f.e. ENTER THE FAT DRAGON, IP MAN 4 and SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD
Nuovi Mondi Film Festival is the SMALLEST FILM FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD.
It takes place in a very small village in the Southern Italian alps: Valloriate (Cuneo). Only 80 persons lives here.
Our challenge is to create an important cultural event with international guests, great films, meetings, art exhibitions that convince people to come up here, in the mountains, and serve as a development engine for these beautiful but abandoned "high lands".
Only by giving life back to abandoned places it is possible to think of a new ability to design, to imagine and to explore new identities, NEW WORLDS.
THE NEW RENAISSANCE
This friendly and welcoming art-house festival based in London, was called “One of the UK’s top film festivals” alongside Raindance and Aesthetica (London METRO, O1.08.16) . We have premiered and screened films that went on to win an Oscar or received a major distribution deal.
Despite the festival's relatively small size, there are each year many gems to be found among the many short and feature films in the programme. Furthermore, many filmmakers and actors are traditionally present, and a lot of productive networking takes place.
ARTISTICALLY-DRIVEN FILMS, INSPIRING STORIES
Film is a unique medium, and NRFF’s mission is to support and champion inspiring, independent artists and storytellers. This includes experimental work, emotional drama, and emerging talent.
Our festival is built around ARTISTS and their STORIES. By doing so, we aim to establish an international COMMUNITY of inspiring storytellers. We are not interested in following current fashions or being political. We seek out stories that are genuinely imaginative, emotional and life-affirming. At the heart of what we do is our passion to tell great stories.
To get a feel for the festival, visit last year's programme: https://nrff.co.uk/
NRFF LONDON 2021
2021 will be our sixth year in London, a city known for its diversity and innovation in the creative arts. For 3 days in September, we will screen around 100 outstanding films in the heart of Covent Garden, in the newly refurbished John Lyon's Theatre at City Lit. The programme will include narrative shorts, features, documentaries, animations, dance and music videos, a NETWORKING party and AWARDS CEREMONY.
Apart from a high number of UK and International films, NRFF London has a category for EMERGING TALENT (debut and student filmmakers).
Running alongside the festival will be a SCREENWRITING COMPETITION, a series of MASTERCLASSES by film industry experts, a filmmaker's PANEL DISCUSSION, Filmmaker Q&A's, and other networking opportunities.
Key Dates:
Submissions for 2021 will begin early September 2020. Please read our guidelines (see below) and competition terms before doing so. The festival will take place in mid September 2021, and all contestants will be notified at least 6 weeks prior to the event.
SUPPORTING THE INDEPENDENT FILM COMMUNITY
It is our passion to not only provide a stage for our filmmakers but also to strengthen the INDEPENDENT film community, by building an engaged audience through social media. We actively encourage directors, screenwriters, producers and actors to network during the festival and after the event. By doing so, new artistic collaborations have occurred.
Born as the Amateur Film Festival of Vilagarcía in 1973, the Curtas Film Fest has been held uninterruptedly for 48 years in Vilagarcía de Arousa. It’s the film festival dean of Galicia and one of the contests with more tradition of Spain. Specialized in fantastic cinema, but maintains a section for other genres, including documentary.
Article 1. Objective.
- The main goals of CINHOMO include the dissemination and promotion of films that support sexual diversity and gender identity through works of artistic and social relevance. Our purpose is to provide a venue for showing these films, which have difficulty accessing conventional channels for film exhibitions. In many cases, they have received favourable reviews or have received awards at prestigious international film festivals.
- We also aim to feature the work of social or cultural groups from countries where there is no access or limited access to film distribution despite being of great interest.
- Our film festival intends to provide referents for people whose sexual orientation or gender identity is non-heteronormative, promoting greater visibility, normalisation and full integration in a society based on respect.
- Furthermore, through our documentary film section, we aim to create awareness about the situation of LGBTI people around the world, contributing to further progress of human rights.
14th Medium-Length International Film Festival LA CABINA, taking place in València (Spain) between 9th and 19th November 2021.
(Association for Independent Audiovisual Production and distribution registered in the National Register of Associations: 1/Sección Group: 1 / National Number 596006 and registered in the Register of Companies Audiovisual de Catalunya, under audiovisual production with the number 2409 , established in Rosellón Street, 120, 4 º 2 ª, 08036 Barcelona.
FEST - NDNFF #17
4 - 11 OCT 2021 | Espinho, Portugal
FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival is an all-encompassing celebration of the new tendencies of world cinema. The event focuses on a competitive and non-competitive showcase of the most promising new figures and works from around the globe.
The 17th edition of the festival will take place between the 4th and the 11th of October 2021, in the seaside town of Espinho (Portugal).
The selection is divided into several categories which include Feature Film and Short Film competitions in the Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Experimental Non-Narrative formats, as well as also content adequate for children and teenagers. The event also includes non-competitive sections that range from retrospectives, national and regional showcases, open-air beach screenings and the exhibition of Transmedia and Virtual Reality content, only to name a few.
The festival is currently accepting first and second feature films (regardless of the age of the director) as well as short films by directors up to the age of 35 at the end of the production.
Candidates must choose one of the available submission categories. Do not worry if your film fits different categories (Ie: Hybrid productions), as all submissions will be considered for the different competitions. If your film is also eligible for the NEXXT competition (focused on academic productions) but you wish the film to be considered for all other competitions please mention in the comment section of the submission the academic institution where the film was produced. If you have any doubts at all please do not hesitate to contact us at films@fest.pt
Throughout the years' FEST has selected for its feature film competitions films such as Jonathan Glazer’s "Birth"; Sean Baker’s “Tangerine”; Nora Fingschedt "System Crasher"; Carlos Marques-Mercet’s “10.000KM”; Tobias Nole’s “Aloys”; Anna Rose Holmer’s “the Fits”; and Rúnar Rúnarsson’s “Volcano”, among many others.
FEST’s Short Film sections are known for its wide variety of styles and filmic visions, having been throughout the years a platform for the launch of new artists such as Govinda Van Maele (Luxembourg), Christos Massalas (Greece), Mati Diop (France), Adriano Valerio (Italy), Patrick Vollrath (Germany), Ninja Thyberg (Sweden), Manuel Abramovich (Argentina), Daria Belova (Russia), Simon Mésa Soto (Colombia), Aga Woszczynska (Poland), Jela Hasler (Switzerland), as well as hundreds of other up-and-coming filmmakers.
FEST also includes a series of other activities that run parallel to the festival, in particular, FEST – Training Ground (one of Europe’s largest film forums) and FEST – Pitching Forum (film project competition), and others. For more information please visit our website at www.fest.pt
The Anim!Arte Festival is just for Animated Short Films !
The maximum duration of each film is 15 minutes.
Anim!Arte is an international festival of animated films made by children and youth, and made for children and youth.
In 2021 will be held the 16th edition of Anim!Arte, celebrating 20 years of the festival.
The 2021 Anim!arte will take place from May 24, to June 13 through online platform. Competitive films made by students and professionals will be shown to a large audience with online audience vote.
For International Students (students from around the world), there are two competitive categories (only for animated short films): Maxi (18 years or over) and Mini (under 18 years).
For International Professionals there are two categories: "Environmental films", and "World Cultures" .
There are also 2 exclusive categories (only for Animated short films) just for students who are enrolled in educational institutions in Brazil: Maxi (University Students) and Mini (High School Students, and Students of Elementary Education).
CineCapsule, which supports independent cinema, creates its own film festival. The event takes place at L'espace Voltaire in the 11th arrondissement of Paris and offers a series of performances in collaboration with the artists and designers of the Espace Voltaire. The objective is to highlight video productions that follow an imposed theme. We will find three themes, different each quarter:
- Eternal Circle: "Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed". (Lavoisier)
- I Don't Wanna Be Me Anymore: From Shadow to Light
- Same Love: "Loving is half the battle of believing." (Hugo)
The ACCIONS 3E Non-Profit Cultural Association is convening and organizing the 28th SUNCINE International Environmental Film Festival, to be held in Spain and Mexico on 3-11 November, 2021.
All films produced after January 1, 2020 that deal with different social and environmental situations and circumstances anywhere in the world will be able to participate in the 28th SUNCINE Festival.
SUNCINE, formerly known as FICMA, was first held in 1993 and is positioned as the oldest Environmental Film Festival in the world; it is a reference in its genre.
In this edition, like the previous one – marked by the pandemic – SUNCINE is asking participants for a new effort and continued understanding, and to not stop promoting, circulating and disseminating environmental audiovisuals before, during and after the Festival. This will make it possible to raise awareness about the state of the environment, biodiversity and the planet’s sustainability
The Festival is adapted to current social-health circumstances and in order to ensure the celebration of the event and access to all programming, there will be screenings for a live audience, others on the Festival’s geolocated platform and, in specific cases, on public television.
In the pre-selection, those productions that agree to be screened on the Festival’s platform will be given priority.
Look for all our Sections, look for our prizes and become a part of SUNCINE to spread the message to take care of our planet and to change our society in a positive way.
Cactus International Children’s and Youth Film Festival is a film festival that collects and screens high quality fiction and nonfiction feature films and short films, in every genre, dedicated to children and kids.
The CIFF 2021 edition only accepts Short Films whose running time is less than 15 minutes in length, opening and end credits included.
ITA - Il Cactus International Children’s and Youth Film Festival è un festival cinematografico che raccoglie e proietta lungometraggi e cortometraggi di alta qualità, fiction e non fiction, di qualunque genere, dedicati al pubblico dell’infanzia e della prima adolescenza.
L’edizione di CIFF 2021 accetta esclusivamente cortometraggi della durata massima di 15 minuti, titoli di testa e di coda compresi.
The Esoteric International Film Festival collects the best esoteric films from around the world, which were created both by professionals and by enthusiasts, and helps to get them across to the Russian audience.
We admit only the esoteric films, both modern and historical ones. As well as those films, where esoteric world is an important part of the synopsis.
Esoteric International Film Festival invite filmmakers who make films and documentaries about ghosts and spirits, brownies and witches, fairies and sorcerers, exorcism and parapsychology, telekinesis and transmission of thoughts at a distance, prophetic dreams and premonitions, alchemy, amulets, amulets, non-traditional religious cults, voodoo religion, animism, shamanism, theosophy and anthroposophy, the hidden edges of reality and other dimensions; self-discovery, the search for the meaning of life, the search for yourself in this world and your mission, life after death, human energy, chakras, aura, meditation, yoga, retreats, spiritual practices, spiritual teachers and ashrams, reincarnation and the recollection of past lives, the power of thoughts and the work of the subconscious; alternative medicine and non-standard methods of treatment, the universal mind, the energies of the new time, high vibrations, etc.
All films must be in English (orRussian). Alternatively, have the English or Russian subtitles (with the exception of all films without words), regardless of the country of production.
All best films that were selected for the vscreening, will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on February 16-20, 2022 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the "Best Esoteric film". As well as for the oteric in the standalone nominations.
SIETAR España FILM FESTIVAL SEFIVAL es una muestra cinematográfica online Bi-Anual celebrada en Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga y Pamplona (España).
Nace para favorecer la interculturalidad creando consciencia sobre los problemas sociales, económicos, culturales y de derechos humanos usando la herramienta del cine.
Pretende favorecer la difusión y promoción de la educación, formación e investigación intercultural, fomentando el cine intercultural. Ser un referente nacional e internacional en el ámbito de la promoción del cine enfocado a temas de culturas, interculturalidad, diversidad/Inclusión, derechos humanos y contribuir al desarrollo de SIETAR España.
