The 9th Annual Back in the Box Competition (BIB), offers some of the lowest submission fees with some of the highest acceptance rates on the festival circuit.
Because BIB is a competition and a film festival, we are able to review many more submissions to give more artists a greater chance to showcase their work.
BIB provides an exciting platform for ambitious filmmakers and screenwriters to showcase their skills in direct competition with other creative artists.
Featuring a diverse array of competitive categories (including Best Feature Screenplay, Best Short Screenplay, Best Feature Film, Best Short Film, and Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and many others), BIB works to shatter the boundaries placed not only between genres but also between undiscovered talents and eager audiences. We are looking for the Best of the Best in the field of entertainment. And we are hoping you are prepared the meet the competition head on.
A slew of prizes are available through participation in BIB. Several of prior year's winning screenplays have already moved into production, and some films had secured distribution. There's no telling what sort of remarkable stories or careers this year's competition will unleash.
This is a film and screenplay competition. All preliminary judging is done by a panel of industry professionals and is open to the public to participate, but the film finalists will be screened in beautiful Santa Monica California and final judging will be made with voting by the attending audience.
SCREENING LOCATION – December 22, 2017 – 1PM to 5PM
The finalists in the Film competition will be screened in the Ocean Screening Room in beautiful Santa Monica, California the premier digital cinema in Santa Monica. What better way to start your Christmas vacation than to see a film on the coast of sunny California. Here, you will experience a breathtaking vista of the Pacific Ocean from the theater entrance. Chosen by Universal, Disney, Paramount and Sony as the Santa Monica Academy Awards screening venue, Ocean Screening also screens for Grammy Awards as well as Sundance.
The Ocean Screening Room is located at 1401 Ocean Ave, 1st floor (cross street Santa Monica Blvd.). Ocean Screening shares the same building as Sushi Roku and Water Grill. The screening room is located on the lobby level. Directions can be found here:
http://www.oceanscreening.com/directions.html
This is an exclusive event for participants who are serious about moving forward with projects and will be an informal mix between actors, producers and directors. The people who hold the exclusive “Screening” tickets will be the final set of judges for the films that have progressed to the final round. They will decide which lucky filmmakers will take home the prizes in each category.
Discussion topics include how actors can make contact to directors and producers of indie films when they’re available and ready to work. Directors attending will include filmmakers who have active projects they want to move forward with. Producers attending will include representatives who are actively searching for key projects to invest in. Representatives from Fernleif Productions will also be in attendance looking for projects to expand their portfolio including films and talent for not only short films investment, but for additional talent for creating content for electronic games and applications. If your film is one films being screened, here is a great opportunity to show off your work to a captive audience and make great contacts for future projects
Stonefair International Film Festival is an online and live film festival, headquartered in Piatra-Neamt, Romania. Stonefair IFF is committed to supporting access to film in all of Piatra-Neamt community as well as supporting young film makers in their education.
The festival runs in 3 quarters, selections and screenings being made every 4 months, the third edition is due to take place on the 8th of May, 2017.
There will be 16 categories and Best Film will receive the Stonefair IFF Trophy, the winning films will be screened at the "G. T. Kirileanu" Public Library.
The "G. T. Kirileanu" Public Library has an important role in community with 85.000 inhabitants. The "G.T. Kirileanu" Neamt County Public Library co-ordinates the activity of the public libraries of our county and furthers the Piatra-Neamt Municipality and Neamt county inhabitants interests in reading, study, information, film, education and recreation.
Cinema Grand Prix (CGP) is a festival and award event. Its goal is to promote works of excellence for the growth of film and music industry and popularizing film and art as the prime media of communication. CGP is looking for excellent works of art to be distributed in the Asian market.
We accept feature and short films and documentaries, screenplays, photos, and music videos. Juries, consist of professionals in the film and music industry, will judge the quality of each submission carefully. Films made with passion, excellent composition quality, heart-moving music, striking and outstanding images, and heart-tickling stories are qualities we are looking for and will stand out among others.
Students and newcomers are encouraged to participate in the festival to boost the reputation.
Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival oferece vistas frescas e coloridas do mundo inovador da moda e do cinema. A fusão do trabalho de profissionais criativos na indústria da moda, cinema e publicidade é reconhecida em todo o mundo.
O foco está na simbiose entre moda e cinema, na qual mostrará uma seleção diversificada de filmes de moda, filmes publicitários, vídeos musicais e documentários curtos.
Atraindo talentos nacionais e de classe mundial, festival de moda é um paraíso para muitos profissionais da indústria cinematográfica, fotógrafos de moda, designers, estilistas, modelos,
artistas e muitos outros. Esta é uma oportunidade única para os entusiastas da moda fazer amigos, ele vai morrer e se conectar e expandir seus horizontes e oportunidades tanto na Bósnia-Herzegovina quanto em todo o mundo.
Todos os participantes terão a oportunidade de participar de uma série de eventos emocionantes em que os principais profissionais para compartilhar suas experiências e conhecimentos. No painel serão realizadas palestras interessantes e discussões que enriquecem e desenvolvem a forma de arte.
Aberto a todos os interessados SFFF é um dos eventos de moda mais quentes da região.
Corti a Ponte é um ótimo pequeno festival na área de Veneza.
Os filmes são exibidos em italiano ou no idioma original com legendas em italiano ou inglês para um público de 3 a 99 anos.
O Videofestival Imperia, organizado pela Officine Digitali está aberto a amadores e profissionais. O registro é gratuito. O Festival está agora em sua 14ª edição e acontecerá em Imperia de 05 de maio a 09 de maio de 2020. O prazo para trabalhos estrangeiros é 02 de dezembro de 2019. 21118 autores de 100 nações participaram da edição 2019. Foram exibidos 88 filmes.
CATEGORIA INTERNACIONAL:
Reservado a autores estrangeiros. As seções são: curtas-metragens, documentários, filmes de animação e gráficos com tempo de execução ilimitado. As obras devem ser legendadas em um dos seguintes idiomas: italiano, francês, inglês. Para o primeiro trabalho selecionado de cada seção será premiado com um prêmio. O sujeito é livre.
CATEGORIA EXPLORER:
Aberto a autores nacionais e internacionais. As seções são: Documentário de Viagem (tempo de execução máximo. 30 min.) e Documentário de Natureza (tempo de execução ilimitado). Apenas um trabalho escolhido pelo júri será premiado.
Por favor, visite o nosso site www.videofestivalimperia.org para mais detalhes.
O Skepto International Film Festival tem um caráter competitivo e está aberto a curtas-metragens sem limites quanto ao assunto, estilo ou orçamento de produção. Está aberto a curtas-metragens de todos os tipos, incluindo documentários, videoclipes musicais, videoarte, curtas-metragens experimentais, spots, trailers falsos, novos formatos de mídia, vídeos móveis, etc.
O festival terá lugar em Cagliari em abril de 2022, com exibições colaterais nas mesmas datas ou nos meses seguintes (antes do final de 2022 — planejamos organizar pelo menos dois eventos em outros locais da Sardenha e dois em outras cidades italianas ou internacionais). As datas exatas serão publicadas no site oficial do Festival www.skepto.net
Mumbai, a cidade dos sonhos de celulóide desde o século passado, é o destino de milhares de cineastas iniciantes e profissionais na Índia e no mundo. A cidade nutriu muitos grandes cineastas, técnicos e entreteve milhões em todo o mundo por meio do cinema. As pessoas também o chamavam carinhosamente de Bollywood. Na era altamente competitiva do cinema, o “Festival Internacional de Cinema de Curtas de Mumbai” é a plataforma para os curtas-metragens apresentarem seus trabalhos na liga profissional.
MSIFF, um movimento cinematográfico progressivo, começou no ano de 2012 com a consulta de membros seniores da indústria para destacar o curta-metragem. O ano inaugural de 2012, seguido pelas edições de 2013 a 2025, testemunha a grande participação e entusiasmo de cineastas e profissionais da indústria da Índia e do exterior. O objetivo do festival é contribuir para o desenvolvimento de futuros cineastas e criar a cultura de curtas-metragens na Índia.
O objetivo do festival é apresentar grandes cinemas de cineastas mundiais em grande estilo e, ao mesmo tempo, fornecer networking profissional e apresentar as tendências atuais do cinema aos participantes. O festival também defende fortemente a necessidade da indústria comercial de curtas-metragens na Índia e levantará questões relacionadas a curtas-metragens em frente a vários órgãos governamentais do cinema.
O 15º MSIFF-26 será mais um passo para alcançar a excelência e aprimorar suas habilidades no cinema e, com certeza, contribuirá imensamente para seu crescimento como cineasta.
O GardenCity International Film Festival orgulhosamente traz o mundo do cinema para a cidade de TI da Índia, Bangalore. Temos o prazer de apresentar ao público local uma variedade de filmes mais recentes, cinematograficamente ousados e poderosos de todo o mundo. Queremos ser um festival que toque e ensine o público, um festival que leve os criadores a produzir filmes significativos, um festival que atraia públicos de todas as esferas da vida e faça do fim de semana uma experiência profunda que se torne uma tradição duradoura.
Da comédia ao terror, do drama à ficção científica, da animação aos documentos e tudo mais, a GardenCity aceita inscrições de todos os gêneros e busca contar histórias criativas acima de qualquer outra coisa.
The Student Film Prize Serge Daney is a competition for short films by students of any films studies organism (public or private). The competitors have to speak French to be able to take advantage of the main Prize.
There is no theme, but the spirit of the Serge Daney Film Prize can be told through a Serge Daney quote : "a film must convey a point of view, a vision of the world, that give it it's sense, it's logic" (Serge Daney, "Perseverance").
The Vieques International Film Festival 2017 is designed to provide exposure to filmmakers of Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Latino heritage. As a privately held public event created by the Brittany Dance, Film & Theatre Foundation (a Federal 501(c)3 non-profit bringing Arts education in dance, film, and theatre to the people of Vieques), all proceeds aside from the costs of running the Festival will go directly towards the operation of the Brittany and to continuing to bring more and more classes in the Arts to the local population. It is the hope that The Vieques International Film Festival will become an annual event and that it will help bring light to the possibility of the Arts world to those on the Island whom have not yet had the opportunity to experience it, furthering the goals of providing learning and personal growth through the Arts to all on the Island who wish to have access to it.
Euregion Shorts Film Festival offers you a three-days festival experience with the best films from all over the world (maximum duration: 20 minutes, every genre), an award show, workshops, seminars and more.
For the traveling program, every two months an event will be organized in a different city in the Euregion in which the best and most remarkable films from the Meuse-Rhine Euregion will be screened. Each event, an experienced professional will be invited to share his or her knowledge.
Every January, a closing festival program will be presented. This program contains selections of films from all over the world, workshops, seminars, meeting corners, an award show and more. If your film is selected, you are automatically in the running for several prizes during the festival.
Euregion Shorts aims to connect professionals, filmmakers and the public in an international context in the unique Crossborder region of the Netherlands: the part of Limburg.
The 11th edition of the One World Romania International Human Rights & Documentary Festival will take place between March 16 and March 25, 2018 in Bucharest. One World Romania is the first documentary film festival established in Bucharest as well as the only Romanian festival dedicated to human rights.
We invite you to submit your latest documentaries on any topic related to human rights. Short, medium, feature length as well as interactive documentaries, with any target audience, including children and adolescents, are accepted.
Tradicionalmente, o Queens World inclui um festival de cinema anual de vários dias, oportunidades de exibição durante todo o ano para ex-alunos do QWFF, eventos especiais para reunir a comunidade cinematográfica Indie e uma iniciativa educacional para jovens e idosos. Tal como todos os outros, estamos a mantê-lo fluído e a responder às necessidades da comunidade Indie Film.
O 10º Festival Anual foi agendado para 19 a 29 de março de 2020 no Museu da Imagem em Movimento e no Teatro Zukor nos estúdios Kaufman-Astoria. Quando fechamos em 16 de março, mudamos o curso e abrimos a tempo - online - com 191 filmes de 32 nações que receberam mais de 30.000 visualizações.
Após o festival Queens World poduced quarta-feira Nights @9, 19 transmissões semanais ao vivo que identificaram indivíduos e organizações como nosso 'Herói da Semana '. Em sua homenagem, fizemos curadoria de um bloco de filmes de cineastas que trabalhavam em temas semelhantes, que iam de domingo a domingo no Vimeo. Nas noites de quarta-feira reunimos os Heróis e os cineastas da Semana para discutir seu trabalho. Nós corremos por 19 semanas e reunimos mais de 19.000 visualizações.
Em preparação para o 11º trimestre, estamos trabalhando com nossos locais e parceiros para maximizar todos os recursos disponíveis para o festival. Usaremos nossa programação temática exclusiva, agrupando filmes para criar experiências cinematográficas específicas e cada evento de exibição será acompanhado pelo Filmmaker Q&As. Nossos planos para junho de 2021 incluem tanto um evento virtual quanto um evento ao vivo com alguns elementos globais muito emocionantes que compartilharemos com você em uma data posterior.
Embora este seja um momento difícil em nosso planeta, agora não é o momento de parar de se comunicar, de parar de procurar o que vai nos curar, ou de parar de se reunir. Queens World continua focado em idéias, histórias com coração, filmes com um ponto de vista e artistas que desafiam..
Este ano estamos nos concentrando na ESPERANÇA como tema.
H - Cura
O - Oportunidades
P - Promover
E — Capital próprio
Estamos interessados em filmes que examinam, exploram, desafiam, contradizem e apoiam o nosso tema. O próprio ato de fazer e completar um filme é esperançoso.
Mostre-nos no que acredita.
Traga seu ofício e vamos ver o que você tem.
Traga isso.
Kan-Kan Media is pleased to announce the second edition of “A LONG WEEK OF SHORT FILMS FESTIVAL” Shanghai.
“A LONG WEEK OF SHORT FILMS FESTIVAL” is a unique film event that aims to bring together Chinese film and art institutions, film professionals, students and audience in Shanghai and create a platform to exchange and promote the diversity of the world cinema. During 10 days the festival will present more than 200 short films selected from more than 60 countries around the world.
“A LONG WEEK OF SHORT FILMS” Festival is the result of the collaboration between Kan-Kan Media and Chinese art and film institutions like Minsheng Museum of Contemporary Arts in Shanghai (official host of the Festival) and Shanghai Film Art Academy. It arises from the need to create a platform for a dialogue and exchange between film professionals, students, film communities and audiences taking as a reference point Shanghai/China.
The previous edition of LWSF was a huge success with more than 2000 submissions, 200 films selected and 10 days of film screenings, workshops, talks, music concerts and dance performances attended by 1000+ film-lovers, among them film professionals, students, film communities and artists of other disciplines.
This year the focus will be on the discovery of emerging talents both internationally and in China in order to bring them into the public spotlight and offer them the opportunities for networking and a platform where ideas and work can be exchanged among a new generation of film creators worldwide.
The festival has two main categories: International Section and Chinese Section, accompanied by showcases of outstanding festivals from various countries, as well as workshops, master-classes and other special events.
All the films meeting the submission criteria will be considered for the International Short Film Competition Award for Best Short Film, Best Director, Audience and Outstanding Story Award.
We are looking forward to your participation
LWSF Organizers
Silk Road International Film Festival (SRFF) is held annually during the month of March in Dublin, Ireland.
The Silk Road Film Festival celebrates cinema, culture and art, presenting films from regions, which were once part of the historical network of the Silk Road ancient trade routes and focuses in particular on Asian, Arab, Persian, African, Mediterranean and European cinema. The festival is held in Ireland to promote cinema of the Silk Road internationally and to facilitate international contacts between filmmakers thus narrowing distances between people and cultures, breaking boundaries and fostering cross-cultural collaboration and social change. World renowned filmmakers attend each year to give master classes and seminars, such as Bela Tarr, Mahmoud Kalari, Tony Kearns, Alex Oh and Vittorio Storaro.
The 7th Silk Road International Film Festival will have film screenings, premieres, exhibitions, panels, chats with industry guests, free courses and workshops.
*All films screened at the Silk Road International Film Festival have an opportunity to win a video on demand distribution agreement with Silk Road ON DEMAND (www.silkroadondemand.com)
O Zinegoak é organizado pela Associação Zinegoak e acontecerá na cidade de Bilbao, Espanha, em junho de 2026.
Todos os filmes que abordam a diversidade sexual e de gênero e famílias LGTBQ+, que foram produzidos após 1º de janeiro de 2024 e nunca foram transmitidos ou lançados comercialmente no País Basco.
Screen Your Film in India
Short Films, Music Videos, Documentaries, Animation Films and Experimental Films.
Short films from all over world are accepted. The movies must have english sub-titles.
Entry fee is Rs500 for indian movies and 20us dollar for foreign categories
The Green Me GmbH is a Berlin based company and the organizer of the annual environmental film festival called the Green Me Global Festival for Sustainability. This festival was initiated in 2008 by Nicolai Niemann, and has over the years transformed from a lounge to a full blown film festival with three major sections: Film – the festival offers a platform for the green films, green publicity and green economy. Movies with environmentally related topics from all over the world are evaluated and screened; Congress – on this platform, professional minds engage in panel discussions on diverse environmental topics; Marketplace– where companies and NGOs represent themselves and exhibit their products and services; Gala Night- where awards are given out to the award winning films. Finalising each festival is the award night, during which the best films from different categories receive awards. Since 2016, the Green Me Global Festival has been hosted in four continents and five cities, including Berlin, Germany; Lagos, Nigeria; Tehran, Iran; Cannes, France; Los Angeles, USA.
