The Happy Valley Animation Festival takes place in State College, PA (Happy Valley) and is an open international animation competition that seeks to showcase animated works in a range of categories. HVAF is screened and exhibited locally and throughout the Pennsylvania State University (University Park) as well as online. We encourage submissions by students, early career, and practicing professional artists, designers, and filmmakers in any of the three categories that include: Animated Short Films, Experimental Animation, and Animated Motion Graphics & Design.
HVAF is a collaboration between organizers and volunteers and is sponsored by the Digital Arts & Media Design (DART) Program and the School of Visual Arts at Penn State, and the Animation Club at Penn State.
Festival "Golden Snail" is a World Children Animated Film Festival which takes place in month September 2025. in Vranje, Serbia. "Golden Snail" gathers young filmmakers from all over the world. Any studio, club or school who works with children in a field of film animation are welcome to our festival. Films must be made BY CHILDREN not for children by professionals.
The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia and the City of Vranje.
Liberation Docfest Bangladesh is a festival dedicated to documentary cinema, seeking to highlight the struggle for Liberation and Human Rights of people in various parts of the world and its contemporary significance. It seeks to uphold new forms of viewing the human suffering and struggle for justice in global perspective.
Festival start: 10 January 2023 – Festival End: 15 January 2023
Welcome to IKSFF 2023. The International Kolkata Short Film Festival 2022 was a grand success. More than 190 short films and short documentaries from over 26 countries got submitted. It also received the support and association of many eminent personalities, celebrities, and popular brands. The gala award ceremony was a huge success in the presence of renowned celebrities. Now in its third year, IKSFF 2023 is again ready to attain greater heights.
A few key points:
>> It will be a hybrid event.
>> Selected short films will be screened both online and offline.
>> This year music videos are also welcome.
>> All films selected for screening will get laurel from us.
>> There will be 20 Award Categories
Like previous years, the International Kolkata Short Film Festival, IKSFF 2023 brings the opportunity for Independent filmmakers to showcase their films to the world, using Eventizer, an online platform for cine lovers, critics, actor-actress, and others.
Kolkata, a culturally rich city in India is the hub of many budding filmmakers, actor-actress, eminent personalities related to the film industry, and obviously huge cine-lovers since the past century. The objective of IKSFF is to empower short films across the globe and to nurture the development of newborn filmmakers.
The festival provides a platform for professionals as well as budding filmmakers to showcase their talent to the world. It also gives them interaction and advertising opportunities for their short film at the international level. Cine lovers can purchase tickets through Eventizer and can watch these remarkable works of art from different countries.
Along with Short Films and Short Documentaries, this year, Music Videos will also be eligible to submit their creations.
We thank all who have been associated with IKSFF for making it a success. We envision seeing IKSFF at a new height. Please be with us and help IKSFF achieve new milestones. Your support is highly anticipated.
Cusco WebFest is the digital content festival that gives voice to national and international creators.
We believe in new media as a democratic tool to empower the communities from our territories, focusing with special attention on the Andean community but also open to the rest of the world within a vision of connection between peoples. (Subminting to our festival you are giving a 5% of your fee to charity).
Three principal categories: national; to empower digital content with a social impact, latinamerican; to connect with South American creatives, international; to open Andean culture to the rest of the world.
Our festival is looking to screen all genres of series and to give support to digital works that make a difference.
We are democratising the film industry by giving independent filmmakers the tools they need to earn money directly and engage their network directly via our incredible festival.
We are thrilled to be launching our fourth Paus Premieres Festival, which will be taking place over the duration of autumn and winter this year. This is in light of the huge success of our first 3 festivals, which exceeded our expectations and reached attendance figures upwards of 70,000. We are proudly open to all kinds of submissions and will be introducing category winners ranging from best screenplay to best foreign-language film. As well as the select winners, all shortlisted films will be hosted on the official Paus streaming site and apps, giving you the chance to earn money for your work.
We have previously hosted films that have featured stars such as Sir Ian McKellen, David Tennant, Kate Heron, Sophia Di Martino, Russell Tovey, and Conleth Hill (to name a few); work from BAFTA award winners and Oscar-nominated directors as well as receiving press coverage from Screen Daily, Business Insider, IBC daily, and many more.
The CortoNero Noir short film competition was established in 2008 in collaboration with “400ml” cultural association and “Il Pozzo e il Pendolo” theatre company.
Thanks to the collaboration between Ciro Sabatino, artistic director at Il Pozzo e il Pendolo and Gennaro Maria Cedrangolo, film enthusiast and videomaker, their passion for noir and mystery gave birth to the creation of this film competition. The goal is to find new ways of investigating and experimenting ideas for noir and mystery. The competition takes place in Naples, a city with esoteric and superstitious roots: the ideal scene for a crime!
The CortoNero competition has substantialy grown over the past 10 years. This competition is internationally recognized thanks to the number of artists participating from all around the world. As a consequence, this competition produces high quality films while generating extraordinary talent and creativity.
CortoNero collaborates with all major film agencies in the region of Campania and its founding members of the CFCC (Coordinamento Festival Cinematografici Campania).
Video Arts Convergences Award 4rd edition - Open to all - All genres (animation, fiction, documentary, report ...)
Theme: "You have to live with a mental illness!" "
Make all audiences aware of the reality of people suffering from mental illness, better understand these illnesses, promote quality cinematographic works… These are the objectives of the Arts Convergences Award.
Explore themes such as: social relationships - self-esteem - view of others - coping skills - talking about your illness - organization of daily life - autonomy - difficulty in managing time and projecting yourself - money - family circle - love life - manage emotions - perception and distortion of other people's emotions or signals - merge with others - self-forgetfulness….
FESTIVAL ESCOLAR Y UNIVERSITARIO DE LAS ARTES AUDIOVISUALES
El proyecto eMove Festival tiene un objetivo educativo al incorporar de un modo activo, mediante la producción de obras audiovisuales, la educación en valores en el proyecto curricular de cada centro formativo.
Participar en el proyecto favorece en los alumnos la afición por las artes audiovisuales como fórmula positiva de utilización de su tiempo libre, desarrollando además sus posibilidades como fuente de información y de enriquecimiento cultural.
En última instancia, el festival pretende ser una herramienta para motivar a los alumnos y premiar la creatividad de los que pueden ser los futuros profesionales de la industria audiovisual mundial.
The PAF festival supports and promotes the training of emerging artists and opens this space considering three main pillars that collaborate in the consolidation of the value chain of the national and international animation industry: educate, connect and multiply, focusing on Central America and the Caribbean region. Education, through its free and specialized workshops held to support emerging and amateur talent, also educates the public by providing national and international works of quality and variety in their proposals; connects national and international talent and collaboration possibilities to develop projects; multiplies growth and development possibilities through networking, contact with recognized personalities in the middle of the animation and the possibility of exhibiting the selected works and / or winners in other platforms allied to the festival. As a result, collaborative work among filmmakers, producers, distributors, and exhibitors is fostered, with which it is desired to exalt the language and creativity of Central American and Caribbean talent.
MosFestFilm is an international film competition with an annual awards event in Moscow.
MosFestFilm is an organization devoted to showcasing the best and brightest films from around the globe, advancing the careers of filmmakers through screenings, networking events, and various panel and forums. Categories include Narrative, Animation, Documentary, Music Video, Experimental and Student Shorts.
MosFestFilm is an avid supporter of local and international filmmakers representing cinematic productions that embody the true spirit of the art. From classic or original scripts to new cinematography and film techniques, each and every piece is the result of true emotion and expression.
We're glad you're here! We can't wait to discover the amazing films you create and the global community that you build.
All best films that were selected for the screening, will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on September 16 - 21, 2025 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the "Best film". As well as for the prizes in the standalone nominations.
Join us for the first Azure Lorica Horror Comedy Film Festival! The celebration of this hybrid genre is a testament to brilliant filmmaking and witty scriptwriting. We wish to honor this community of filmmakers with a ceremony worth of their talent.
Hosted on Zoom, we will be screening films, showcasing Q&A panels, and hosting the award ceremony online.
Beautiful festival that takes place in Modica and Gela - ITALY.. Modica is the birthplace of Salvatore Quasimodo and the festival is dedicated to him, the Nobel Prize for poetry. The festival has reached its 16th edition and welcomes poets, videographers, directors, writers and any artist who deals with the theme of the Festival: Cinema and Poetry. The cinema section is for short films of videopoetry, short films of fiction, videoclips and feature films.
CONOFEST - International (Short) Film Festival is a millennial, feminist and multidisciplinary festival of short films written and/or directed by women covering Balearic, national and international content and held in Palma, Madrid and Barcelona in December 2022.
CONOFEST - International (Short) Film Festival was created with the aim of exhibiting, supporting and disseminating the work of women film professionals and short films by women and short films at national and international level.
One of the main goals of CONOFEST - International (Short) Film Festival is the respect for the professionalization of the art and the care of the artist. All the films that make up the festival are paid a non-competitive fee to encourage filmmaking and the respect for the short film industry.
The FIRE!! Mostra is the first LGBT film festival in Spain: established in 1995 by Casal Lambda, in Barcelona, it addresses affective diversity in its broadest sense through a careful selection of feature films, documentaries and short films. A selection of art-house cinema and an educational approach are its main characteristics.
Throughout two weeks at the beginning of June - mainly at the French Institute but also at other different indoor or open-air venues in the city -, a wide range of public is invited to enjoy this Barcelona cultural landmark, with stories and testimonials of free people, creators who break barriers and fighters for human rights, all of whom help with love to build a fairer and freer world.
The festival's name is a tribute to the late 20s New York magazine of the same name, FIRE!!, led by the black gay writer Richard Bruce Nugent, portrayed in one of the most iconic films of the festival, Brother to Brother, which we screened a few years ago.
Guajarati cinema is one of the major regional and vernacular film industries of the cinema of India has produced more than thousands of films since its inception and still many films including motivational films releases every year.
Ahmedabad – A world heritage city also carries its legacy of Gujarat film industries. The city has cultivated many great filmmakers and artists.
I acquired an idea to start this festival with an assistance of very recognized members of cinema industry.
AIFF is the pioneer in Gujarat to provide platform for filmmakers, musician, animation maker, editor, ad film maker, DOP, script writer, art director etc. to promote their work in the group of experts.
We are expecting great participation with enthusiasm from filmmakers and other industry professionals from India and abroad. The main agenda of AIFF is to provide platform for talent irrespective of newbie or experienced filmmakers.
The 1st AIFF-22 will provide you an environment to flourish your skills in cinema and is definitely will be contributed hugely to your progress as a filmmaker.
AIFF is one of the feather from the bouquet of an idea of omguru and one of his determined dream. He wanted to make a platform for young and amateur filmmakers, musician, animation maker, editor, ad film maker, DOP, script writer, art director etc .
AIFF is the 1st organization in Gujarat who is willing to provide platform for the creativity of an emerging artists.
Original Version in Catalan
VOC Festival Òmnium de Curtmetratges és un projecte impulsat per Òmnium Cultural amb la finalitat d’estimular la producció de curtmetratges de qualitat en català, contribuir a la seva difusió i ampliar-ne el públic.
El VOC és un festival únic perquè arriba a més de 90 sales d’arreu dels Països Catalans simultàniament durant els mesos de febrer i març. És un punt de trobada entre creadors, públic i referents del sector, una oportunitat per compartir l’experiència del cinema en llengua catalana.
