Welcome to the Minority Film Festival, a celebration of diversity and cinematic excellence, held in conjunction with Hispanic Heritage Month! This festival, organized by the Minority Arts & Media Foundation in partnership with Hudson County Community College, is dedicated to shining a spotlight on the incredible talents of minority filmmakers from around the globe.
About the Festival
The Minority Film Festival is more than just a film screening event; it’s a powerful movement to amplify minority voices in the film industry. Our mission is to provide a dynamic platform where filmmakers from underrepresented communities can showcase their work, share their unique stories, and connect with a broader audience. We believe that through the power of cinema, we can foster understanding, celebrate cultural richness, and drive social change.
Festival Highlights
Diverse Film Categories: We accept submissions across a range of genres, including short films, medium-length films, and documentaries. Each film must have a significant contribution from minority groups, whether in the cast, crew, or both.
Join Us
By participating in the Minority Film Festival, you are joining a community committed to celebrating diversity and promoting inclusivity in the arts. We invite filmmakers, industry professionals, and film enthusiasts to join us for an unforgettable experience that champions the creativity and resilience of minority voices.
Submit your film today and be part of a festival that not only entertains but also inspires and educates. Let’s make history together, one frame at a time!
It's the 9th Annual Int'l Wild Bunch Film Festival, founded in 2015 by festival directors Rock & Brenda Whitehead.
The Wild Bunch Film Festival (TWBFF) is a compelling contest. Over the past years it has managed to become a 'must attend' event by indie filmmakers and writers for the Western Genre, Western sub-genres and Western Lifestyle. It's considered the BIGGEST Film Festival of it's kind in the southwest and possibly in the USA. It has now expanded into a five day event that has gained international attention from all over the world.
Don't miss this one!! All details at www.thewildbunchfilmfestival.com
The Wild Bunch Film Festival is a public event that everyone can attend! Submissions are sent it from filmmakers, screenwriters, authors, designers, artists, photographers, musicians and others, to inspire and encourage them to continue bold artistic visions in the western genre, western sub-genre's. And now there are a few categories such as screenplays and manuscripts for "all genre" as well!
Western sub-genre's of film, screenplays and novel manuscripts can include Classical Westerns, Acid Westerns, Charro, Cabrito or Chili Westerns, Comedy Westerns, Contemporary or Modern Day Westerns, Electric Westerns, Euro-Westerns, Fantasy Westerns, Florida Westerns, Horror Westerns, Curry Westerns and Indo Westerns, Martial arts Westerns or Wuxia Westerns, Meat pie Westerns, Northwesterns, Ostern westerns, Revisionist Westerns, Science fiction Westerns, Space Westerns, Spaghetti Westerns, Weird Westerns, etc. More details on sub-genres at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_(genre)#Subgenres
Details and tickets sold on the official website as we get closer! Tickets also sold at the door, on the days of events if available. We anticipate a sellout!
For more details visit http://www.thewildbunchfilmfestival.com and sign up for our newsletter at http://eepurl.com/b-T03X to stay informed!
OZ ZINEMA ELKARTEA, in collaboration with the City Council of Errenteria, announces the 3rd DOCUMENTARY FILM AND HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL OF ERRENTERIA, in order to promote and develop the audiovisual arts through visualization and the defense of human rights.
Film Festival "Buddyfilmfestival" is a festival of festivals and a year-round cross-cultural platform/film laboratory, which will explore the themes of the uniqueness of man as the Creator of his reality in co-creation with his divine component.
"Buddyfilmfestival" – February – Proskurinovsky Film Festival, which the president of the film festival, Irina Honda, dedicates to her husband, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Viktor Alekseevich Proskurin.
AnimationBuddyfilmfestival is a summer international festival of animated and animated films.
Buddyfilmfestival – festival of festivals of a unique person.
The Golfo de Morrosquillo International Film Festival (FICGO) is a platform for showcasing, training, and promoting audiovisual experiences throughout the region. Through a diverse program of films, workshops, and activities, the festival travels to the municipalities of Coveñas, Santiago de Tolú, San Onofre, and the districts of Berrugas and Rincón del Mar in Sucre. FICGO serves as a cultural gathering that strengthens emerging local talent and celebrates the unique narratives of the Caribbean.
New York Arts & Entertainment Film Festival (formerly NYC Popup Film Festival) celebrates quality independent films. Our goal is to bring quality short films to an audience and offer independent filmmakers a place to showcase their work. We also work to create network opportunities for future work to be created.
Short films of all genres are considered for Festival Screening.
An annual art film festival founded in 2017 by Inna Bazhenova, publisher of The Art Newspaper international network. The Art Newspaper Russia is part of the world's most competent information network in the field of art, the only international publication in Russia dedicated to art.
The festival shows new feature and documentary films about art - winners and participants of the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Sundance, TriBeCa, Moscow International Film Festival and other important film screenings. TANR FF takes place in Moscow in October.
During the festival's week, 7 venues host daily film screenings, meetings with film directors and producers, and discussions of films by famous film and art critics.
Festival is attended by about 2500 people.
HELLÍN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL,
with this IV edition, it becomes a cultural consolidation in the Spanish cinematographic universe. A festival that brings together not only cinema, during November 16 and 22, Hellín will host personalities from the world of cinema, training courses, conferences, location routes, concerts, wine tastings, galas, and etc.
Welcome to FECHE.
Competitive festival of short films with a 2SLGTBIQ+ theme, produced in the 24 months prior to the event, held in the town of Sitges (Barcelona - Spain).
Patrofest is a film festival where you can participate to see your work on the big screen and spend a relaxing time talking about cinema. We want to give a push to young authors who are taking their first steps in this world.
The festival will be held in the emblematic modernist theater "El Patronat", located in the old town of Premià de Mar.
Discover Roma Film Corto, the international festival that celebrates innovation and creativity in the world of short films. Located in the heart of the Italian capital, the festival continues to be a point of reference for emerging and established directors, offering them a prestigious showcase in front of an international audience and industry professionals.
The festival offers international visibility thanks to the presence of a jury of experts and prominent guests, guaranteeing the selected short films a wide exposure. It represents an important networking opportunity, encouraging meetings between directors, producers and distributors to create opportunities for collaboration and professional growth.
The awards and recognitions range across different categories, enhancing every aspect of film production, from direction to screenplay, from editing to soundtrack.
Roma Film Corto is more than a festival, it is an immersive cultural experience. Participating means not only presenting your work to a qualified audience, but also experiencing an event that celebrates cinema and creativity in all its forms.
The Bola de Oro Neighborhood Association, in its annual agenda of cultural activities and in order to continue with the idea and intention of giving space and opportunity to different areas of artistic expression, invites all those who wish to participate in the Short Film Festival, "A Cinema Neighborhood".
After the success of the first, the second edition of the Viagrande Short Film fest starts. The festival aims to give light to emerging and non-emerging directors, with particular attention to independent and historical films.
The Quillota International Film Festival is a film festival that, in its fourth version, becomes a competitive event. A festival through cinema that carries out training, production and distribution activities in the city and province of Quillota during the year 2023 (June to December 2024). Its objective is to professionally mediate cinematographic quality content in various public spaces, movie theaters, cultural halls, and schools and colleges in the commune and province of Quillota.
The Trash Basté festival was born in 2021, thanks to our passion for the Trash and Gore genres. In its first edition we screened a sample of short films trash, gore, terror... and low budget. Due to the great reception of the public, we decided to make a second edition in 2022 transforming it into a festival, where we include a market with terrifying products and a final party concert with horror-punk and extreme metal bands, without forgetting a bar service at popular prices. In the third edition, apart from the usual exhibition, as a novelty we had a section with short films in competition that is here to stay.
Since our beginnings, we have been enemies of censorship and we like to project the most bizarre and bloody shorts we can find. So don't be shy, we're looking for you to send us those crappy shorts with blood made with your friends, without a budget and with grace, with a lot of blood and dismemberments... We like offensive shorts. It's all good for us if it's dark, bloody, terrifying, fantastic or trash.
SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
The Dystopia, film and environment festival of the Murcia region is a project that aims to disseminate, serve as a reference and raise awareness about environmental cinema, as well as support and disseminate both national and international productions on this subject.
Festival Description (Edition: 9)
Festival Start: May 30, 2025 Festival End: June 2, 2025
The F I C S J. (San Jorge International Film Festival) is an event that will take place from May 30 to June 2, 2025 in the cities of Pueblo Nuevo, Planeta Rica, Buenavista, La Apartada, Ayapel, Puerto Libertador, San José de Ure and Montelíbano, which make up the San Jorge subregion, located in the south of the department of Córdoba, Colombia. The main objective of this festival is to promote regional, national and international film production and to promote the region as an epicenter of the seventh art.
The festival seeks to promote the circular economy around audiovisual production, generating a greater supply of employment and economic development in the region. In addition, the F I C S J proposes new expressions of culture and folklore in the region, through the presentation of films that address issues related to the identity and cultural diversity of the region.
The event will have a varied program that will include the screening of national and international films, short films, documentaries, conferences, workshops, round tables and cultural activities in general. Competitions will also be held between filmmakers, with the aim of awarding the best audiovisual productions.
In short, the F I C S J is a film festival that seeks to promote audiovisual and cultural production in the region of Córdoba, Colombia, and contribute to its economic and social development.
In addition to promoting audiovisual and cultural production in the region of Córdoba, the F I C S J also has a social focus on different communities, through the strategy "The backpack of cinema." This strategy seeks to reach different sectors of society, including the rural student community, the religious community, the community of women heads of household, Afro-descendants, indigenous people, peasants, people displaced by violence and the disabled.
For these communities, audiovisual training workshops have been planned to allow them to learn new skills and develop their capacities in this area, as well as film screenings with motivating themes that relate to entrepreneurship to create a new socio-economic dynamic in the territory.
The purpose of the BAIFF (Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival) project is to showcase and celebrate the creative and innovative ways in which artificial intelligence is being used in the film industry. The festival features films that are created using AI, digital dramaturgy, or those that explore the topic of AI itself.
The festival aims to demonstrate how AI and digital scripting can enhance the creative process and lead to the creation of new and exciting forms of cinema. By using these technologies, filmmakers can access vast amounts of data and information, enabling them to develop more complex and immersive narratives that engage audiences in new ways. Moreover, the festival provides a platform for filmmakers to experiment with new techniques and approaches to filmmaking, leading to a new era of artistic expression and storytelling.
In addition to showcasing films that use AI and digital scripting, the festival also features films that explore the topic of AI itself. These films offer a unique perspective on the ethical and societal implications of AI, as well as the challenges and opportunities that AI presents to the film industry and society as a whole. The festival provides a forum for filmmakers, artists, and experts to engage in discussions and debates on these important topics, leading to a deeper understanding of the role of AI in our lives.
BAIFF also aims to promote the ethical use of AI in filmmaking and encourages filmmakers to consider the potential social and cultural impacts of their work. Through a series of workshops and discussions, the festival provides a forum for industry professionals, academics, and experts to discuss best practices and ethical considerations in the use of AI and digital scripting in filmmaking.
Overall, the BAIFF project seeks to promote the use of AI and digital scripting in filmmaking, to provide a platform for the development of new ideas and approaches to cinema, and to inspire a new generation of filmmakers to explore the potential of these technologies in their work. The festival is playing an important role in shaping the future of cinema, contributing to the advancement of technology and creativity, and promoting a deeper understanding of the role of AI in our lives.
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 International Festival of Intergenerational Short Films on the Elderly (FICMA) was born within the Federation of Associations of the Elderly of Salamanca (FAMASA) with the aim of providing a cultural offer that contributes to improving the quality of life of the elderly, even with dependence or disfunctions by bringing them closer to a full citizenship and offering the cultural heritage of which they are protagonists. It is celebrated every year between September and October since 2016 in the city of Salamanca, being a meeting of intergenerational culture
The Festival poses as a place of debate and discourse for questions such as: How has cinema treated old age? The reflection of the role of the elderly in the family, sentimental, emotional and social relationships. The positive or negative consequences of cinema into stereotypes and believings about the elder and even if it treats the same way both man and women.
The importance of dignifying the intergenerational relationships between youngsters and elderlies becames vital in order to find ways towards a better future.
OBJECTIVES
The goal of the FICMA is to achieve the people from Salamanca to be closer to the cinema from a third age perspective. This festival is a golden opportunity to offer a cinema party to the city and an active and positive vision from this part of the population.
The festival has as a goal to show the positive part of the elders and to reforce the intergenerationals relationships.
