CINEMA CLUB CONTEST
"An event created by filmmakers for filmmakers”
The Collective and In The Mirror Films are working together to create a short film contest where every month different directors will compete to win the session.
The winner of each session will be elected by the audience !
For every session, you receive feedback from an industry professional to help develop your art.
The wining shorts will go directly to the grand final that will happen the first week of June and the BIG PRIZE is the production of your next Short Film.!
A jury composed by teachers from The Collective school and a special guest from the movie industry will elect the winner of the big prize on the day of the Final.
Movies and Party!
After the presentation of the short films, the analysis if our specialised guests and the election of the wining short, each event will be followed by DJ set to make us feel like sharing more around a beer offered by our sponsor La Cervesera Artesana and get the opportunity to network ! Don't forget your business cards !
Cortoons Gandia is the International Animated Film Festival of Gandia, organized by Cortoons Festival, the city of Gandia, la Generalitat Valenciana, through the Institut Valenciá de Cultura (Culturarts), and the participation of Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Campus de Gandia.
In the 2016, after 12 years of great success in Rome, Cortoons international festival of animated films, he moved to Spain in the beautiful town of Gandia in the province of Valencia.
The 21th Cortoons Festival Gandia edition will be a great festival of animated films for professionals, animation film funs and all the general public.
The competition categories are:
International animated short film from 1 to 4 minutes
International animated short film from 4 to 20 minutes
Spanish animated short film
Spanish animated short films produced in the
Valencian Community
Graduation animated film
Works may take place after January 1st, 2023.
The deadline is September 01, 2025
There is no entry fee
Contact us:
info@cortoons.es
www.cortoons.es
Lucca Film Festival is an annual event that celebrates and promotes cinematographic culture. Through screenings, exhibitions, conferences and performances, the Festival has been able to captivate an ever-increasing audience with a program that ranges from experimental to mainstream films. Through the years, Lucca Film Festival has carved out a niche for itself, standing apart from the many other festivals thanks to its bold yet carefully studied programming. Over the years, great names of international filmmakers and well-known celebrities have attended Lucca Film Festival as invited guests; David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Jeremy Irons, Willem Dafoe, George Romero, Terry Gilliam, William Friedkin, Alfonso Cuarón, John Boorman, Rutger Hauer, Joe Dante, Aleksandr Sokurov, Susan Sarandon, Gabriele Salvatores, Ethan Hawke, Paul Schrader and Peter Greenaway, just to name a few. At the same time, the Festival has offered retrospectives of “old” glories while unearthing new talents. To top it all off, breathtaking Lucca serve as a stunning backdrop to an event that has now firmly established itself, becoming a highly anticipated and not-to-be-missed appointment in Italy and in Europe: the Lucca Film Festival.
Since its creation, the festival has always been committed to promoting contemporary films. Therefore, directors from all over the world can submit their films to the competitive section of the festival through the dedicated call for entries. The 2026 edition of Lucca Film Festival will be held September 26th-October 4th.
Lucca Film Festival has 3 competitions: The International Feature Film Competition, The International Short Film Competition and The "Lucca Film Festival for Future" Short Film Competition.
The 2026 will be the 22nd edition of the Lucca Film Festival International Feature Film Competition. In the previous editions important personalities of cinema like Cristi Puiu, Rutger Hauer, Philip Groening, Claudio Giovannesi, Daniele Ciprì, Massimo Gaudioso, Massimo Cantini Parrini, Lina Nerli Taviani had been part of the international jury.
The films shown during this competition are Italian premieres and last edition was won by "The cage is looking for a bird" by Malika Musaeva.
There are four awards: Best feature film prize (3000€), awarded by a jury of renowned guests from both the cinematographic and academic worlds; and Best feature film – university jury prize (awarded by an university jury), Best feature film - Popular jury and the Marcello Petrozziello Award.
For those who are interested in this competition, the last day for submissions is July 15, 2026, until midnight.
There are no limitations to the genre or topic of the films. The only requirements are the following: the films must be at least 60 minutes long and must not have been screened before January 1st, 2026. Moreover, they must be Italian premieres, so they cannot have been presented in any other Italian festival, shown on any online open platform or distributed in any other way in Italy.
For the 20th year in a row, it will take place the historic short films competition, whose winner will receive a 1000€ prize. Every year, the selection committee of this competition receives more than 500 films to evaluate. Among the directors who took part in earlier editions, there are celebrities like Adan Jodorowsky, son of the famous Chilean filmmaker.
The films have no limitations in genre and topic. The only requirement is that they cannot last more than 29 minutes. For the short films competition, the last day for submissions is July 15, 2026, until midnight.
Second edition of the new short film competition,:"Lucca Film Festival for Future", which was born thanks to the collaboration with the Sofidel Group, 2nd producer in Europe and 7th in the world for production capacity in the sector of paper for hygienic and domestic use (known in particular for the Regina brand), which has made sustainability a strategic lever of development and responsible growth to reduce its impact on natural capital and favour the transition towards a low carbon impact economy.
List of the selected films will be published on the festival’s website within September 10, 2026. During the festival the movies will be shown in the cinemas taking part in the event and on demand online.
The Lucca Film Festival, coordinated by Nicola Borrelli, is one of the key events organized and sponsored by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca.
The event's main sponsors are Banca Generali Private Wealth Management (Paolo Tacchi) e Banca Pictet. The organization of the Lucca Film Festival has also been possible thanks to Ministero della cultura – Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Miur, Regione Toscana, Fondazione Sistema Toscana, Manifatture Digitali Cinema, Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Sofidel, Fondazione Giacomo Puccini e Puccini Museum – Casa Natale, Audi Center Terigi Tenuta del Buonamico, Naturanda, Martinelli Luce, Futuro3D, Tecno Servizi, Ristorante Giglio, Palazzo Pfanner, Teatro del Giglio, ConfCommercio Lucca e Massa Carrara, Grand Universe Lucca, Grand Universe – La residenza, Over The Real, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, Fondazione Giacomo Puccini e Puccini Museum – Casa Natale, Casa d’arte San Lorenzo, Accademia Cinema Toscana; Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Istituto Luigi Boccherini e Liceo Artistico Musicale e Coreutico Augusto Passaglia, Liceo Classico N. Machiavelli, ISIS Pertini.
Thanks also to Rai Toscana, Rai Radio 3, Movieplayer.it, Film4 Life, Festival Scope, A.C.S.I. Associazione Centri Sportivi Italiani, Federazione Italiana Teatro Amatori (FITA), Trenitalia, Fic, Uicc, Cinit, Ucca, Arci, Fedic, Corte Tripoli, Circolo del Cinema di Lucca, Cineforum Ezechiele 25:17, Cinema Centrale, Astra e Moderno, Cinema Arsenale, Octocom, Università di Pisa, Università degli Studi Firenze, Fondazione Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Pisa al Cinema, Cinema Arsenale, Cineteca Bologna, Cineteca Nazionale, Istituto Musicale Luigi Boccherini, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Italia, Associazione Donne all’Ultimo Grido, , SPAM! Rete per le arti contemporanee, Lucca Comics & Games, Photolux Festival, Lucca Classica Music Festival.
Come to the Lucca Film Festival and experience a full 360° immersion in both the cinema and the heart of Tuscany.
Segunda edición del Festival de Cine en Corto Ciudad de Vera.
La SECCIÓN OFICIAL del II Festival de Cine en Corto Ciudad de Vera está dirigida a los cortometrajes de ficción. Puede participar cualquier director/a nacional e internacional. Uno de los requisitos es que la duración no exceda de 20 minutos y que, si el idioma original del cortometraje no es el español, este sea subtitulado al mismo.
El concurso CORTO EN 48 HORAS BAYRA, que se realizará entre el 29 y 31 de marzo de 2019, será una de la actividades que envolverá a la ciudad en esa sensación de vivir un rodaje de cine. El día 29 de marzo se hará público el tema del concurso y el día 31 de marzo será el límite para entregar los cortometrajes realizados.
We are the West Coast’s premier festival dedicated to showcasing fresh and innovative filmmaking, screening everything from festival favorites like Damsel (starring Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska), to world premieres like Netflix favorite Abducted in Plain Sight.
We are committed to discovering and supporting emerging filmmakers. There’s a reason MovieMaker magazine has named Mammoth Lakes Film Festival as one of the “Top 50 Film Festival’s Worth Your Entry Fee” for the last nine years in a row: We put our filmmakers first! And now we are one of the "Top 25 Coolest Festivals in the World" named by MovieMaker Magazine — a true testament to the experience you will have with us.
We always secure top-level press to attend the festival in order to get exposure for our filmmakers. Attending press and industry professionals have included Variety, The Wrap, Indiewire, MovieMaker Magazine, Hollywood Reporter and more.
The 11th annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival takes place on the five days leading up to Memorial Day, May 20-24, 2026.
MLFF captures the imagination of audiences and contributes to the vitality of film culture by providing emerging filmmakers with an opportunity to show their latest work in a vibrant and nurturing atmosphere. Visitors are drawn to the area to experience exciting new films by both new and established independent artists, and for the opportunity to mingle with them at fun and friendly daily events. The festival is also a forum for filmmakers to have their work seen by industry professionals who have the potential to provide mentorship and propel their careers.
We are committed to promoting film as an art form by focusing on personal, innovative, imaginative films by writers and directors with a unique style and point of view. We present these films in the beautiful natural setting of Mammoth Lakes — a perfect backdrop for an independent film festival and a premier tourist destination in its own right. Because we are a destination resort, just a 4 to 5-hour drive or a quick flight from Los Angeles, we have strong allies within the entertainment industry. Our jury members are acclaimed artists and professionals from the world of independent film. We give out multiple awards in the categories of Narrative Features, Documentary Features, and Short Films.
We award cash and prizes valued at more than $40,000.00. We provide housing and festival passes for our filmmakers. Our juries have included Tim Moore (Producer of AMERICAN SNIPER, INVICTUS), Allison Amon (Producer of THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES), Rachel Winter (Academy Award winning producer of DALLAS BUYERS CLUB), and John Fiedler (Producer of SERIAL MOM and PECKER).
The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival is a DBA of the Eastern Sierra Arts Alliance and is a 501(c)3.
MAMMOTH LAKES FILM FESTIVAL SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival Screenplay Competition is dedicated to discovering and supporting emerging, innovative screenwriters. We welcome screenplays in every genre, on any topic, from anywhere in the world. We are looking for stories from writers that have a unique voice and a specific point of view. Every submission will receive 3-5 lines of feedback. You can request detailed feedback of 4-5 pages of feedback for an additional fee. MLFF will present the Grand Prize for the best screenplay at the 2026 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, May 24th, 2026.
We look forward to reading your work!
The top 10 screenplays will be offered housing and passes to attend the festival and network with attending press, industry, distributors and filmmakers. Along with a Writers Round Table at the festival with an industry professional that offers one on one advice.
We accept only films about the right to health and subtitled in Italian or English
The Premio Fausto Rossano Association announces the eleventh edition of the "Premio Fausto Rossano," which will be held in Naples, Italy, at the beginning of November 2025. The award commemorates the life and work of Fausto Rossano, a Jungian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who passed away in 2012.
The event aims to challenge the stigma and prejudices surrounding mental suffering and to highlight the importance of recognizing each individual's personal experience. Through cinema and dialogue with authors, professionals, and experts, the Festival seeks to promote social awareness on these critical issues.
The Festival is sponsored by the Premio Fausto Rossano Association
The VER CINE 2024 Festival is a production by Benguela Produções e Eventos Culturais, which aims to:
a] Promote Brazilian cinematography, considering the different genres and formats;
b] Enable exchange for production in all states;
c] Enable democratic access for the Baixada Fluminense public to recent audiovisual production;
d] Disseminate cinema due to its importance in affirming a cultural identity.
Our aim is to screen films that might be overlooked by the international film festival circuit.
Lisbon Film Rendezvous places a great deal of stock in having its selected work screened live.
As the health situation worsens in Lisbon (and all across Europe) we are faced
with the difficult situation of not having the legal conditions to show the films publicly in November, as we intended.
Lisbon Film Redenzvous wants to live up to your screening expectations. So we have decided to postpone our event date to June 2021 and extend it's program to accommodate all the best films we have received.
All the approved films have their place booked in the next edition’s program.
Toronto Int'l Spring of Horror and Fantasy (TISH) was created to give people of Toronto access to quality genre films throughout the year.
As we enter our 5th year, we are growing to a 5-day event that allows us to screen more films and have more fun!
In addition to the screenings, we also offer other activities such as nightly socials for networking and our annual Scream Queen / King Competition. With the extra days, we are also able to plan for a new party mid-festival! (More details will be unveiled in the fall.)
Films are always the core of the festival and our aim is to showcase the best genre films from around the World from new filmmakers and seasoned veterans. Our focus is on new voices and we prefer creativity over big budgets. In addition to having short films in front of features, we also aim to start all screenings with a genre appropriate music video to set the mood.
Our screenings are held at the Carlton Cinema in downtown Toronto - April 1-5, 2020.
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Toronto Int'l Spring of Horror & Fantasy Film Festival
"Because good genre films should be available all year long!"
Aqua Film Festival – International Film Festival organized by UNIVERSI ACQUA , Association with environmental, social, and territory enhancement purposes – selects short films, of any category and nationality, focused on the theme of WATER, and able to use the language of cinema to illustrate and interpret the social, ecological, cultural, naturalistic, and artistic aspects of this extraordinary and vital element.
The Eighth edition of Aqua Film Festival will take place from June 6th to 9th, 2024.
The films will be screened on Mymovies; The award ceremony will take place in Rome, on June 8th, in live streaming.
The INVITATION to participate to the selections of the Eighth edition of AquaFilmFestival is open from September 15th, 2023; deadline to send works is April 11th, 2024.
The Addis International Film Festival (AIFF) is an annual film festival created by Initiative Africa in 2007 and held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The festival is the largest independent documentary cinema festival in Africa and it was established as a unique initiative seeking to use the power of documentary films to support innovative ways of creating awareness on social issues.
The festival is a celebratory and educational event showcasing a carefully curated selection of films from both seasoned and emerging filmmakers addressing a wide range of themes such as peace building, inequality, women empowerment, children's rights, and much more.
The 18th Edition of the Addis International Film Festival (AIFF). As Ethiopia's established social activist, Initiative Africa will be hosting a five-day documentary film festival starting May 15th to May 19th, 2024, bringing more than 30 local and international movies, under the themes of Action for Peace, Security, and Reconciliation, Gender Equality and Inclusivity, Food and Environmental Security, and Health Care which will be taking place at the Alliance Ethio-Française, Hager Fikir Theater, Goethe-Institut Äthiopien and Italian Cultural institute in Addis Ababa.
The audience of the festival are mostly the youth and educated community who have the courage to change their society. We screen the films for free with no payment required for entrance.
DEA OPEN AIR International Film Festival is a product of MultiMedia Studio "Nositi".
The Festival will take place in the Capital city of Tirana.
About the Festival
The Africa World Documentary Film Festival (AWDFF) is sponsored by the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, San Diego, California. USA.
The AWDFF has as its objective the promotion of knowledge and culture of the people of Africa, in a Pan-African context.
In promotion of the Pan African context, public viewings of submission accepted by AWDFF shall also occur in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean.
Though the AWDFF is non-competitive, prizes of $1,000 and $500 shall be awarded to two documentaries in Full-length and Short categories, respectively judged by the AWDFF committee as furthering understanding and contributing significantly to knowledge of the African World.
From the time of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood’s founding in 1896, social justice has been a cornerstone of our congregational life. In keeping with this tradition, the films shown at the North Jersey Human Rights Film Festival will be grounded in the principle that all people have inherent power, dignity and rights.
Entries may focus on any theme that fosters social justice and works toward a world free from oppression, including (but not limited to):
Economic Justice
Education Justice
Environmental Justice
Immigration Justice
LGBTQI Rights
Racial Justice
Reproductive Justice
and Voting Rights
The Second Annual North Jersey Human Rights Film Festival
A juried film festival held at The Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, NJ.
Festival Dates/Three showings:
Friday, May 10 at 7pm
Saturday May 11 at 1pm and 7pm
Entry Deadline:
Midnight April 1, 2019
REV is an online film festival whose primary objective is to celebrate the work of filmmakers through internet. The goal is to use this amazing tool to offer short films an exceptional showcase.
REV therefore proposes to rethink the concept of a festival by using the web to create a film event that is unique in the world and easily accessible to the general public.
The RKDS FILM FEST was created to bring awareness to the Film Industry in South Georgia. RKDS Entertainment & Media, LLC owners and Filmmakers, Roy Kirkland and Doug Sebastian, have been working diligently to build the film industry in Valdosta, GA. This will be the 2nd annual RKDS Film Festival! Chosen films will be featured and shown on a huge screen in a 1200 cushioned seat historic auditorium. Filmmakers will also have the opportunity to speak, have Q & A with the media and audience during the event in the huge 5,000 s/f multipurpose room. A concession area will be provided along with entertainment from area musicians. RKDS Film Fest will be a Red Carpet event with backdrop banners available for photography. The 1st Annual 2018 RKDS FILM FESTIVAL WAS AN ABSOLUTE SUCCESS FEATURING HOLLYWOOD LEGEND, BURT REYNOLDS AND OTHER CELEBRITIES, SONNY SHROYER, SIMONE GRIFFETH and RICKY SHRODER. The 2nd Annual RKDS FILM FEST will be even bigger. Celebrity guest to be announced soon.
International film festival for films of young filmmakers up to 26 years old!
“MAY NUFF SPREAD ITS WINGS AND FLY!"
«A truly wonderfully and unique experience. Incredible! I have traveled the world extensively making films and attending festivals and have never experienced such a loving, poignant and profound time as this one. Your dedication to media activism and global media literacy is astounding. May NUFF spreads it wings and fly!» (Paolo Davanzo, experimental filmmaker, USA)
Nordic Young Film Festival - NUFF is an annual short film festival for young filmmakers up to 26 years old from the Nordic countries & the world with short films (max 20 min) made in the last 2 years.
NUFF has been an important international platform for youth film and a meeting place for many young filmmakers since 2003.
Based at the youth culture house Tvibit in Tromsø, Northern Norway, NUFF has already a long success-story. Started by the wish to support young local filmmakers and to get an idea how our neighbours are making films and telling stories, NUFF discovered the world of Youth Cinema and all of the exciting potential that came with it.
The quality of submitted films has steadily been increasing and so too has the incredible atmosphere of the workshops and the growing network of filmmakers, partners and projects. All of this is making NUFF a unique summer event above the polar circle and under the overwhelming midnight sun.
NUFF OFFERS
Nordic film competition
International film competition
International film workshop
International film network
International film seminars, discussions and a lot of fun!
«NUFF has been one of my life’s best weeks» (Stian Skjelstad, Norway)
THE FILM COMPETITIONS
NUFF has two film competitions for short films made in the last two years (with a max length of 20 minutes) by filmmakers under the age limit of 26 years old. All genres are accepted!
For the Nordic film competition the films have to be produced in a Nordic country or the filmmaker comes from or lives in a Nordic Country. Nordic Countries are defined as Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Island, Denmark, Sweden, Norway & Finland.
For the International film competition the films have to be produced outside the Nordic countries or the filmmaker comes from or lives outside the Nordic countries.
The submission deadline for both competitions is June 1st!
Kinorum is a student film festival located in Monterrey Mexico. It includes master classes and workshops taught by specialists and there is also the screening of the short films in competition.
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General regulations
International Festival Screen Culture “Thelovetcheskoje Kino” (hereinafter - Festival) is held among collectives (groups) of youth production in different forms of art, connecting with cinema, television, photography and different digital technologies.
Festival events are directed to formation and evaluating new global culture of production and reproduction age-diverse communicative samples of generations interplay and provides conditions of establishing new information community (environs), new culture of information society, where social-noetic (immaterial) factors of evaluating are information and knowledge. Festival holding promotes establishing of screen culture as a part of general information culture of present society.
General guiding of Festival methodology and organization is brought into action of Educational Complex “Nasha Shkola” (Russia, Novosibirsk).
Time, conditions, place and procedure of organization and holding of regular Festival are annually established of special document – Standing Order of Holding.
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Instructions for film submission
Each year, we select 10 Feature Films, 30 Short Films to play in each of our Festival programs. However, you may not submit your film directly to any one specific program.
The film’s subject matter, the production itself or the film’s director should have a strong connection to ecological topic, environmental, environmentally friendly technologies, urbanistics, road movie, nature and minority people, protection of nature.
