VI INTERNATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL EXHIBITION
CRAFTSMANSHIP.
The 6th International Craft Audiovisual Exhibition promoted by the Catalan Government through the Consortium of Commerce, Crafts and Fashion (CCAM) is a meeting point for two fields: crafting and audiovisual.
It is created to generate synergies to promote the creation of quality audiovisuals, based on artisanal creative processes and where the focus is the artisans and their crafts.
The exhibition is the only one of its kind to be held in Catalonia and throughout Spain.
This year it reaches its sixth edition with the aim of showing the diversity and creative richness of the crafting world, through unique and contemporary stories from the artisanal crafts around the world.
In past editions we have seen projects showing the commitment to sustainability
and feminism, documenting the fusion between technological innovation and crafts or audiovisuals explaining the roots of crafting in the territory.
In a world where borders seem to multiply and human connections are often diluted, crafting is a space that unites people from different places and communities, showing that creativity and ability can transcend geographical limits and cultures.
In this 6th Exhibition we want to show crafting as a place without borders. No matter if it comes from a little town on the mountains or from a big city, artisanal craft will find its way to remind us of the importance of creativity,
community, and authenticity from every corner of the globe.
The pieces must be original and unpublished, and they will be presented at the SHow that will take place at the Disseny Hub Barcelona on the 23rd of November.
The films will then be available on the FILMIN cinema platform and the CCAM website.
This year the coordination and management will be taken care by BBIntervencions.
They will guide you and help you with any questions you might have during the process.
Welcome to the 6th International Craft Audiovisual Exhibition, welcome to the joy of crafting!
BIO FILM FESTIVAL ENG
Agricultural biodiversity must be preserved and protected for its environmental, cultural, socio-economic and gastronomic value. We have the responsibility to protect the huge heritage of crops and plant varieties that people have used and selected over hundreds of years.
The objective of the Bio Film Festival is to share and promote agricultural biodiversity and build awareness around this topic. It is a festival that aims to present the works of Italian and international talents, who through their films will talk about rural biodiversity and all its aspects. This cultural initiative is designed to welcome short movies, short video stories, as well as documentaries and animation movies. The event will take place in the province of Belluno, in the Dolomites, UNESCO World Natural Heritage site. The festival will be held in September to celebrate this year's harvest. The selected films will be projected during the festival and the following categories will be awarded with the golden spike: best short film, best documentary, best fiction film and best film director. The logo of the festival represents a child, symbol of purity, whose footsteps restore biodiversity in a grey world.
Ave Negra Film Fest represents a link between the viewer and the most avant-garde fantasy film makers.
Ave Negra Film Fest Projects and awards the Best of Ibero-American Fantastic Cinema.
Ave Negra Film Fest proudly based in Nuevo León Mexico whose Volume.2 will take place from October 31 to November 2, 2024 in person in movie theaters and other venues and virtually by streaming through our official YouTube channel.
having as its framework the State of Nuevo León Mexico.
This edition focuses on bringing together a program focused on screening the best of independent cinema on the Fantastic genre in Mexico + Latin America.
#NarrarelFuturo: XI Film & New Media Festival is a meeting point for exhibition, training and industry where local, national and regional industry professionals interested in filmmaking and audiovisual in its most recent and interesting narrative and technical trends within the digital environment meet; transmedia, web and interactive documentaries, virtual reality (VR/AR/XR), webseries, artificial intelligence, futurisms, narratives and crowdsourcing/funding, vertical video and other film and new media concepts are some of the Festival's thematic axes.
Similarly, during the event, development and creation scenarios are carried out such as the #NewMediaLab, Ibero-American laboratory for the development of new media projects and the #HackathonVR360, which this year reaches its eighth edition.
We also open the doors to the Colombian and international creative industry to create meeting and conversation points around ongoing projects: 10 tips to #NarrarElFuturo, speed networking sessions and the launch of the Hispanic American Projects Database and the new media industry manual are some of the activities in which attendees from the industry area will be able to participate in this new version.
During the 11th version -which takes place from September 10 to 15 in person at various venues in Bogota (Colombia)- attendees will enjoy more than 65 hours of film and digital content, 100 hours of training scenarios, 40 international and national guests and a broad and diverse spectrum of topics, processes and projects under construction and development.
"The fantastic emerges from reality like the moon over a misty swamp".
The idea of the Festival comes from our passion for Pallars Sobirà, a faraway region in the Pyrenees, for its stories and legends, and for cinema. Our concern for preserving the most mysterious legacy of this territory has grown to finally become the Tabaca Film Fest.
It is indeed a land full of myths and legends, but every corner of the world has its own Yeti, its own mermaid, its own werewolf, its own mountain guardian, in short, its own mythological imaginary.
With the Tabaca Film Fest, we want to recover all these stories from the Pallars, the Pyrenees and elsewhere, through the art we know best, cinema.
We believe that this Festival can bring together several values in which we believe: quality cinema and preservation of the historical-mythological memory, in an incomparable natural setting.
The Tabaca Film Fest - the mythological film Festival of the Pyrenees - is a Festival in which fiction, animation and documentary genres participate in a short-film format, and which consists of an international competition section and complementary activities.
The first edition of the Tabaca Film Fest will be held in Vall de Cardós from the 27th to the 29th of September 2024 in person.
It will consist of an opening ceremony, screenings of the finalist films, and a closing gala with the award ceremony. In parallel, there will also be talks on local mythology, a guided tour of the most mysterious places in the Vall de Cardós, cultural activities and a concert.
Since its inception, this festival has promoted the city as a setting in which each filmmaker tells about their reality, their ways of working and life experiences, in such a way that anyone who is a fan of or dedicated to filmmaking can learn through observation and viewing. of all kinds of works and their technical details such as camera movement, times a scene lasts, camera position or perception of silences ...
The International Horror Film Festival in Banfield was born with the central idea of disseminating and promoting independent horror genre cinema and at the same time with the intention of creating a space for cultural exchange between lovers of this genre.
Horror in Banfield is a space for the screening of films, short films and video clips as well as a meeting point to enjoy a comprehensive experience that includes directors, actors, producers, students and lovers of horror culture.
The selected films will be part of the official competition in the following categories.
. Best International Feature Film.
. Best Argentinean feature film
. Best Latin American Feature Film .
. Best International Short Film.
. Best Argentinian Short Film.
. Best horror video clip.
. Best director.
. Best actor/actress .
. Best Production .
. Best Cinematography .
. Best FX.
. Best Trailer.
. Best graphic/poster
. Best soundtrack .
. Best post production .
. Honourable Mention .
. Best feature film (audience choise).
GENTIUM FILM FEST
Mediterranean Film Festival. A journey through the cultures of the Mediterranean
A festival that celebrates the diversity and beauty of Mediterranean cultures through cinema and focuses on the different cultures of the Mediterranean, screening films that explore people's traditions, stories and life experiences.
“Gentium” is a Latin term that refers to “gentiums” or “peoples”. In the context of Roman law, “lus Gentium” was the set of rules based on natural reason (naturalis ratio) that were observed in the same way by all peoples. These rules were considered universal and applicable to all cultures and societies. Therefore, in the context of the film festival, “Gentium” could symbolize the unity and common humanity of all Mediterranean cultures.
Objective: to promote the cultural and cinematic diversity of the Mediterranean, facilitate cultural and artistic exchange between countries in the region and provide a platform for emerging and established filmmakers.
La asociación cultural “Festhome con la cultura” con sede en Madrid, España, organiza la Edición Lanzamiento de Cinergias Festival de Cine Iberoamericano, que tiene como objetivo la promoción, difusión y reconocimiento de cineastas iberoamericanos para dar impulso a los jóvenes talentos con la divulgación de sus obras en formato corto, o de sus óperas primas de largometraje.
En esta primera edición de 2024 el festival busca generar una programación a partir de la reflexión, la multiplicidad de voces y discursos, y la diversidad de miradas.
El festival quiere constituirse en un espacio trascendente para un cine que sea relevantemente contemporáneo y que no tenga miedo de mirar al pasado ni al futuro.
Se trata de un festival no competitivo en su sección oficial de cortometrajes y largometrajes que pone el foco en una cuidada programación representativa de Iberoamérica y, en lugar de un premio único para uno de los participantes en la sección oficial, propone el pago por selección de 200 € a cada una de las películas seleccionadas.
El nombre de Cinergias surge de la combinación de las palabras cine y energía en su sentido de eficacia y virtud para obrar. Y a la vez alude al término sinergia, como la unión de varios elementos para obtener un resultado mayor al de esas partes por sí solas.
The Center for Common Memory for Democracy and Peace, a national association that campaigns for universal human values and defends human rights, including the right to "a dignified life to the end", cannot remain insensitive to the current debate on the environment and the search by international community for practical solutions to curb its worrying deterioration.
While the right to life is an irreversible achievement, the emergence of the fourth generation of rights associates human well-being with "a healthy life in a healthy environment". So any degradation of the environment means a degradation of the quality of life.
The theme of "The Memory of the sky and the ground", chosen as the unifying theme of the 13th edition of the International Festival of Cinema and Shared Memory, to be held in Nador from 5 to 11 october 2024, is part of efforts to raise awareness, through art in general and cinema in particular, of a devastating scourge that threatens humanity.
The festival organizing committee is therefore calling for:
1- Documentary films that tackle issues such as:
- The ravages of global warming
- The destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems
- The depletion of natural resources
- The consequences of deforestation
- Water and air pollution
- Disasters caused by industrial activities
- The damaging effects of excessive industrialization
- Over-exploitation of natural resources
2- Short and feature films which, without being subject to the unifying theme of the edition:
- Tackle memory or human rights;
- Deal with human causes using new approaches;
- Propose new themes with a modern vision.
Internationally, the Festival will award the Best Film, among the first three feature films of a director who has not yet made the fourth, with the Pre-Columbian Circle in its Gold, Silver and Bronze categories and the Pre-Columbian Gold Circle for Best Director, Best Social Documentary, Art and the Environment., Among the first three films. At the national level, the Pre-Columbian Gold Circle will be awarded for Best Colombian Film short and feature films.
Sidebars: International Short Films, Animation, Sacred Films, Films for Children and Blinds.
LUSCA Film Fest (former Puerto Rico Horror Film Fest.) is one of Latin America’s premier fantastic film festival. LUSCA is open to the public. Accredited national and international press, as well as TV and film buyers and distributors also participate.
In addition to showcasing the best genre films that indie moviemaking has to offer, this exotic fest also features a number of special events, including an exposition of Bizarre Artwork exhibition, Cosplay Contests, Cinema Arcade and Musical Events.
Videomedeja is International New Media Art Festival founded in Novi Sad, Serbia in 1996, produced by Video Art Association VIDEOMEDEJA.
International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja is a unique event that brings together international and regional artists, with tradition and quality that is highly recognized internationally.
This is an annual non-profit event lasting for three days. The basic idea is to promote independent video art production, affirmation of video creation and innovative art forms, avant-garde art and new media.
The program focuses on art projects that use new media for artistic expression and communication, and have a wide range of genres and forms that combine images and sound, advanced communication, objects, in a symbiotic or avant-garde style in following categories:
- SCREENINGS: video art, short films, digital animations
- MEDIA PROJECTS: media installations, interventions in the exhibition space, advanced technologies in artistic practice, interactive visual art, XR (eXtended Reality), AR (augmented reality), VR (virtual reality), MR (mixed reality), robotic objects, net and social media projects, Metaverse, audiovisual performances and experiments, AI art.
We have free online Video Art Library platform and archive that contains over 10.000 video works.
On the festival arrive volunteers from all over the world, it is always very lively and partying after the festival program is mandatory.
The Roca Film Festival is a cultural project nonprofit organized in the village of Roca (Guitiriz), which is projected films, documentaries and short films themed music, outdoors, and in order to energize the cultural life of our village and its surroundings.
Memorimage, International Film Festival of Reus is a Festival targeting films that use archival moving images.
The 19th edition of Memorimage will be celebrated from the 6th to the 9th of November 2024.
Girls just wanna have FAN
Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia presents its third call for the creation of a short teaser within the WomanInFan program (Sitges FanLab). This initiative aims to promote the visibility and inclusion of women creators in fantastic cinematography by proposing the creation of a piece for circulation in the audiovisual market, serving as a sample of an idea for a fantastic genre feature film.
WomanInFan expands its scope to film production to support the work of female filmmakers within the fantastic genre industry.
The Evaluation Committee will select 10 projects from all submissions, of which there will be one winner. The 9 finalists and the winning project will have the right to participate in the industry sessions of the 57th edition of the Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia with an Industry accreditation (excluding private events).
SITGES FANPITCH 2024
The Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia organizes Sitges FanPitch (Sitges FanLab), its pitch competition for feature film and serialized production projects, for the tenth consecutive year.
Sitges FanPitch is an international pitching competition focused on feature films and serialized production in development with themes of horror, science fiction, and/or fantasy. The event will take place in a hybrid format on October 6 and 7, 2024, as part of the Sitges Festival.
A maximum of five series and a maximum of seven feature films from around the world will be selected. Additionally, projects selected by the Festival at collaborating film markets of Sitges FanPitch will also be included.
The creators of the selected projects will have the opportunity to pitch their projects and meet with participating companies. Moreover, the five winning feature film projects will have the chance to receive travel grants for international circulation.
This year, the Feratum Film Festival, located in Mexico, joins the Sitges FanPitch market circuit and will select one project to be part of the next Feratum Residencyand, at the same time, we create an extra section dedicated to projects in Catalan entitled Catalunya Imaginaria.
In the series category, one winning project will be selected and awarded a cash prize for its development.
For the fourth consecutive year, this edition will be complemented by the Showrunners LAB, a seminar providing introduction and advice on the figure of the showrunner. Selected series projects will have the opportunity for individual mentoring sessions with participating showrunners.
The Hope & Bridges Association is delighted to announce the call for entries for the second edition of the Kreyol International Film Festival (KIFF), which will take place from September 26 to 30, 2024, in Paris. This unique and generalist festival celebrates and highlights the cultures, histories, philosophies, and environments of the Creole worlds, offering an international stage for cinematic works of exceptional richness and diversity.
Who can participate?
The Kreyol International Film Festival is open to all filmmakers, regardless of origin or nationality, whether they are Creole speakers or not. Your film is welcome if it explores, directly or metaphorically, themes related to the Creole Worlds and reflects the authenticity and depth of these cultures. Our festival provides an international stage to showcase diverse talents and unique perspectives. Whether you are an established or emerging director, we invite you to share your vision and voice through your art.
Locations and perspectives
We warmly welcome films shot in any region of the world, but particular attention will be given to works produced and filmed in Creole-speaking regions. Whether your films are rooted in traditional narratives or explore contemporary or dystopian perspectives, your contribution is vital to enrich the dialogue and understanding of Creole cultures.
Diversity of characters
We also encourage the participation of films where the main and secondary characters are of Creole origin, thus highlighting the diversity of the communities.
A stage for Creole voices and beyond
The Kreyol International Film Festival celebrates the global reach of Creole cultures and its 127 Creole languages of various lexical bases (French, English, Portuguese, Dutch, etc.). Particular attention will be given to films in original Creole language – with subtitles – but this is not an exclusive condition. All languages are welcome.
Why participate?
The Kreyol International Film Festival is an exceptional platform to showcase your work, network with film professionals from around the world, and be part of an event that celebrates cultural diversity and richness. It's a unique opportunity to make your creation shine and contribute to a better understanding and appreciation of Creole cultures.
We are looking for works that challenge, educate, and inspire, while celebrating the universality of Creole expression. We eagerly anticipate discovering your works and sharing them with a passionate and diverse audience at this second edition of KIFF.
Submit your films and become an integral part of this unique cinematic adventure. Leave your mark in the history of the Kreyol International Film Festival!
The Belalcázar International Film Festival celebrates its second edition between August 7 and 10, 2024. Belalcázar is located in the north of the province of Córdoba (Spain), in the Pedroches Valley, a bordering enclave between the communities from Andalusia, Extremadura and Castilla La Mancha.
In this second edition, a call is made to filmmakers from all over the world, with works of less than 20 minutes that address any topic. There will be an official section, a comedy section and a children's/youth section. The filmmakers can present animated, documentary and fiction short films.
