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LAZOS es un festival de cine surgido en la zona de Montes Torozos como una iniciativa para promover y divulgar el cine de provincias, alejándose del modelo industrial centralizado en las grandes ciudades.

Mirror Mountain Film Festival brings the best in independent, alternative and underground cinema to Canada’s capital. We are a diverse and inclusive festival that welcomes all types of films and all types of people to share in the collective cinema experience. Our mission is to promote unique and original creative voices from around the world. Mirror Mountain showcases innovative, groundbreaking and unconventional films in a wide variety of genres, including drama, documentary, animation, experimental, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, dance and music videos. In addition to film screenings, the festival features engaging, community-oriented activities such as live performances, hybrid media presentations, interactive exhibits, parties, panel discussions, Q&A sessions and more. Our events aim to connect filmmakers both with audiences and with one another, and to support artists through educational and professional development opportunities.

Why should I submit?

1. Free festival pass for all filmmakers who submit
Everyone who submits a film to Mirror Mountain, regardless of whether or not it is selected, gets a free pass to attend the entire festival.

2. Free to submit for local filmmakers
Films of any length can be submitted for free if they were shot and / or edited within a 125 km radius of Ottawa. This area includes Gatineau, Maniwaki, Mont Tremblant, Montebello, Hawkesbury, Cornwall, Potsdam, Brockville, Smiths Falls, Perth, Renfrew, Arnprior and more.

3. Free submissions for alumni
If you directed a film that was officially selected to screen in a previous edition of Mirror Mountain, you can submit again at no cost.

4. Your money back
If your film is officially selected to screen in the festival, we’ll reimburse your original submission fee.

5. Fewer restrictions
We have no premiere or completion date requirements. Your film is still eligible even if it has screened in the Ottawa region before, has distribution, has been broadcast on television, or is available to view online.

6. We pay artist fees
If your film is officially selected to screen in the festival, you will also receive an artist fee to thank you for letting us screen your work.

7. Stay in the loop
After you submit your film, you’ll get a notification from the festival to confirm we’ve received your application. Later, you’ll receive a notification informing you of the results, regardless of whether or not your film was selected. 

8. Awards for winning filmmakers
Awards are given out in several categories after the completion of the festival. Award winners receive a certificate and a selection of prizes donated by our sponsors.

9. Canadian Screen Award-qualifying
Mirror Mountain is an official qualifying festival for the Canadian Screen Awards as selected by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.

10. Friendly and alternative atmosphere
As a community of filmmakers and artists, we strive to cultivate a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere where creators and audience members from diverse artistic and cultural backgrounds can come together and grow through shared work and conversation.

SITGES FANPITCH 2026

For the twelfth consecutive year, the Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is organizing Sitges FanPitch, its feature film and series production project pitch competition.

Sitges FanPitch is our international pitch competition event focusing on feature films and series productions currently under development with horror, science fiction, and/or fantastic genre themes.

This initiative continues on its mission to discover the very best genre projects and facilitating connections with leading industry companies. The event will be take place using a hybrid format on October 12 and 13, 2026, at the Sitges Film Festival.

Altogether, a maximum of five series and seven feature films from all around the world will be selected. These will be joined by the projects selected by the Festival at the collaborating Sitges FanPitch film markets and the project selected at Sitges FanPitch Catalunya Imaginària.

The people responsible for each of the selected projects will have the opportunity to make a sales pitch and meet with each of the participating companies.

In addition, the five winning feature film projects will be eligible for travel grants for their international circulation and will be able to take part, without travel expenses included, in the upcoming Feratum Residency and FantasoLab Residency.

Once again this year, we will be supporting local talent with the Catalunya Imaginària label, guaranteeing a place in the final selection for a project made in the Catalan language.

In the series category, one winning project will be selected, which will be awarded a cash prize for its ongoing development.

For the sixth consecutive year, this edition will be complemented by the Showrunners LAB, an introductory and mentoring seminar on the role of the showrunner. The selected series projects will be able to benefit from individual mentoring sessions with the showrunners participating in this year's edition.

What's New for This Year's Edition
This year, Sitges FanPitch is introducing several notable new features with the aim of expanding networking and collaboration opportunities for the selected projects.

First of all, we are changing the date:
Sitges FanPitch will be held on Monday the 12th, thereby becoming part of a new configuration for the Festival's Industry calendar.

In addition, the duration of the event has been extended with the addition of a session of meetings on the morning of October 13th. This new slot will allow companies and professionals who are not direct collaborators in the program to request meetings with selected projects.

Meetings can be requested through the Festival's Industry Department, via a link that will be provided once the selected projects are announced in September.

Through this initiative, Sitges FanPitch opens doors for new industry professionals, expands the radius of influence for projects, and encourages the creation of new collaborations and professional opportunities.

Finally, this year, the call for entries has been expanded to include, for the first time, documentaries specializing in fantastic and genre cinema. With this opening, we reaffirm our commitment to diversity of views and languages, acknowledging documentary filmmaking as an essential form of exploration, reflection, and expansion of the fantastic imaginary.

This expansion enriches the call for entries and encompasses new forms of expression that engage with genre through research, memory, and creation.

The Golden Horn Short Film Festival, organized by the Haliç University Cinema Society, will be held on May 13–14 at Haliç University.

Our festival is open-themed. Fiction short films with a duration of 5 to 20 minutes are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: April 14

We aim to bring together young and independent filmmakers, make their work more visible, and create a strong space for sharing around cinema.

Screens to Stage — An immersive production blending music and film, celebrating artists.

Transhumant Festival is an engaged cinema event to do the social transformation.

It aims to reach audiences far away from culture, both geographically and by social circumstances to make them participants and show topics that concern society and that are not sufficiently disseminated in movie theatres, media or usual audiovisual distribution channels.

It will showcase national and international cinematographic works and photojournalism reportages that focus on:

- Social, political, environmental, mountain, journalistic or historical research.

- Showing some form of activism in favour of human rights and respect for the environment.

- Valuing positive human relations and diversity of cultures.

- Valuing the equity between women and men.

IV WomanInFan – Sitges Fanlab Residence Call for Entries

The Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia presents the IV call for entries for the WomanInFan – Sitges FanLab training grants, as part of the WomanInFan program.


This Sitges Film Festival initiative for the visibility and incorporation of female creators in fantastic genre filmmaking proposes a new platform for female fantastic genre filmmakers. It consists of a training proposal using the residency format, which will take place during the 59th edition of the Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.


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TALENT ACCELERATOR BY WOMANINFAN
Program developed with the support of:


ICEC – Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises)


Eurimages


DAMA

1. Purpose of the Call for Entries
Talent Accelerator by WomanInFan is an international competitive call for entries designed to provide professional training for female creators in the field of fantastic genre filmmaking. Its aim is to strengthen creative, strategic, and professional skills, providing tools for the autonomous development of audiovisual projects based on principles of cultural and social sustainability, as well as promoting diversity, inclusion, and equality in the film industry.
Thirty projects will be selected from among all those submitted to participate in the Talent Accelerator by WomanInFan.

The One Shot Terrassa City of Film is a film festival that takes back the old Sequence Shot Contest organised in Terrassa between 2004 and 2012. It came last year again, and we're following the success. So this is the 16th Edition of the festival.

The particularity of this festival is that ONLY ACCEPTS ONE SHOT FILMS. What does it mean? As is well known, is about telling a story - at least 3 minutes long - in just a single shot, that is: no cutting or image editing.

In 2017, Terrassa was selected as a "Creative City of UNESCO in Film", a recognition that only 17 cities in the world have. This leads to recover a past that it is what brought us this present.

The festival will take place during the week from November 26th to 28rd 2026.

To have some historical background, it all started in 1967 when Societat Cultural Joventut Terrassenca - known in Terrassa as "Coro vell" - organized the "Rotllo" film competition with this same idea. Now, Societat Coro Vell, with the support of the Terrassa Audio-visual Board and within the activities of the Terrassa City of Film UNESCO, as well as with the participation of those companies and people who collaborate on this event, wants to recover this current year the tenth edition of the "Concurs del Pla Seqüència", from now called "One Shot - Terrassa City of Film".

For any doubt or concern contact us at oneshot@oneshot.cat.

INTRODUCTION

Valdivia International Film Festival showcases Chilean and international cinema in five competitive categories: Feature Competition, Youth Feature Competition, Latin American and Caribbean Short Film Competition, Latin American and Caribbean Children’s Short Film Competition and Chilean Short Film Competition for Film Students. Its non-competitive program includes historical retrospectives, contemporary filmmakers’ retrospectives, social cinema, avant-garde cinema, genre, and a children-family oriented cinema slot.


1.- OBJECTIVES

The festival aims to offer Chilean and foreign filmmakers a place to screen and to compete, and by doing so, promoting national and international film works of artistic quality.


2. DATES

The festival will be held from October 12th to 18th, 2026, in Valdivia, Chile.

Sitges FanPitch és una plataforma internacional de referència per a la promoció i desenvolupament de projectes de llargmetratge i producció seriada de gènere fantàstic, ciència-ficció i terror.

Amb l’objectiu de reforçar i donar més visibilitat al talent creatiu en llengua catalana, va néixer el segell Catalunya Imaginària, una iniciativa destinada exclusivament a projectes en llengua catalana que vulguin formar part d’aquest esdeveniment.

El projecte seleccionat dins de la categoria Catalunya Imaginària participarà directament a la selecció final del Sitges FanPitch. Mitjançant Catalunya Imaginària, el Sitges FanPitch vol potenciar la creació audiovisual en català dins del gènere fantàstic, facilitant als projectes seleccionats l’accés a productors, distribuïdors i altres professionals de la indústria cinematogràfica internacional.

Això permet oferir més oportunitats de finançament, coproducció i circulació a les propostes que sorgeixen del nostre territori.

Aquesta iniciativa també busca enfortir la presència del fantàstic en català en l’àmbit internacional. Sitges FanPitch Catalunya Imaginària és l’espai de referència per als projectes de fantàstic en llengua catalana, oferint-los l’oportunitat d’accedir a un mercat global sense perdre la seva identitat i essència pròpia.

Important: la participació a la competició de Catalunya Imaginària és compatible amb la resta de competicions com són Sitges FanPitch (llargmetratges i producció seriada), WomanInFan Curt-Teaser i Residència Fantàstica WomanInFan. Així doncs el mateix projecte pot competir en paral·lel en totes les concurrències que desitgi, sempre que es compleixin tots els requisits de la convocatòria específica.

The Val Ceno Film Festival is a short film festival that takes place in Varano De Melegari (PR), a medieval village dominated by the Pallavicino castle, located in the Ceno valley.

FICFUSA is a film festival and community-based cultural process with thirteen (13) years of experience. Through its Women and Territory approach, the festival understands cinema as a space for gathering, creation, reflection, and social transformation.

Based in Fusagasugá, in the Sumapaz region of Colombia, FICFUSA works to promote cultural decentralization, access to cinema as a cultural right, and the strengthening of social bonds through audiovisual storytelling.

For its 2026 edition, FICFUSA invites filmmakers to submit their works to the following festival categories:

1. Stories of Women – International Feature Films

2. Made by Colombian Women – Short Films directed by women (Colombia)

3. A Short Made Here – Short Films from Cundinamarca (Colombia)

4. A Story Made in the Regions – Short Films from Colombian regions (Colombia)

The main festival event will take place in Fusagasugá from November 11th to 16th, 2026.

Cassette from the Parent Shelf is an international youth film festival born from a free and generational spirit.

It offers young creators a platform to present honest, bold, and sometimes unconventional works.

Blending nostalgic aesthetics with new voices, it explores identity, memory, and the present moment.

More than a competition, it is a meeting space where young cinema finds its audience and community.

The First Annual Horror in the Underground: Halloween Film Festival will take place in Kuopio, Finland October 31, 2026 at the Sawohouse Underground.

We are looking for horror movie submissions from up and coming or aspiring film makers who wish to showcase their work at what we are hoping to be the first of many more festivals to come!

This one day film festival will include films by indie film makers with the headlining film being the classic 80's vampire film The Lost Boys.

To help us celebrate the film,the Helsinki Vampires and Finnish goth band, The 69 Eyes will perform after the film to celebrate their 20th anniversary of their hit song, Lost Boys, based on the classic horror film.

Contests and activities are planned throughout the day and over 1200 euro worth of prizes are to be given out.

If you have a horror film you would like to submit for consideration send it our way!

And best of luck to you all!

Indies on the Island is where music and film collide on the Texas coast. Over four unforgettable days each February, Galveston Island transforms into a creative playground celebrating the next wave of independent filmmakers and musicians. Experience live performances, short film screenings, industry panels, workshops, and awards beneath the island sun and coastal breeze. Whether you’re here to create, connect, or simply be inspired—Indies on the Island is your stage, your screen, your story.

The coast is calling—will you answer?

Movie Life Festival announces the short film competition in the following categories:

1: Short Mobile, filmed with mobile phone (including Reels, Stories, TikTok videos, YouTube Shorts).

2: Short Filmmaker, filmed with a video or movie camera.

3: AI Short, created exclusively with artificial intelligence. The festival awards the best short film chosen by the online popular jury for each of the three sections, while the technical jury will select the best director, best lead actor and actress, best screenplay, best soundtrack, and best cinematography. The theme of the competition is open.

At the Theater of Osvaldo Chebello in Cairo Montenotte the third edition of the "Magical Cairo Montenotte International Film Festival" will be happen at the 12th and 13th September 2026
2 days of screening, networking, entertainment and many more.

Our film festival also gives the youth and students the chance to gain experience.

“Social World Film Festival” is the most emotional festival in the world with events, movies, previews, innovative activities, jury of young people and professionals, workshops, competitions, presentations and thousands of visitors.

The sixteenth edition of the International Social Cinema Festival “Social World Film Festival” will take place from 21 to 28 June 2026 in Vico Equense (Sorrento Coast - Italy) between activities in presence and innovative streaming modes aimed as always to ensure the interaction, direct and in connection, of the authors with the audience of the event.

The winners of the competitive selections are awarded during the Gala Night scheduled for the sixteenth edition in Vico Equense (Sorrento Coast - Italy).

Participating to the International Festival of Social Cinema “Social World Film Festival” offers some specially selected works the exclusive possibility to be presented in events organized worldwide thats in the last ten years, we have involved 28 cities in 40 events on five continents including Los Angeles, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Wien, Washington DC, Seoul, Busan, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Paris, Istanbul, San Francisco, Tokyo, Sydney, Marseilles, Palma, Tunis, Hong Kong, Jakarta.

Behind Miranda de Ebro Film Fest is the company
Proyecfilm.com. It has over 50 years of experience promoting independent cinema, supporting creators, distributors, and festivals every step of the way. With over 1,200 satisfied clients, 5,000 screenings, and 10,000 licenses managed, they are a benchmark in audiovisual management in Spain.

Miranda de Ebro Film Fest is not just a festival; it's a real platform for emerging and established talent. Registering for the festival guarantees you professional support and a unique opportunity to showcase your work in a space committed to quality, diversity, and cultural impact.

Why Miranda de Ebro is the ideal place
Miranda de Ebro combines history, culture, and modernity in an accessible and welcoming environment. Its strategic location in northern Spain, between major cities such as Bilbao, Burgos, and Logroño, makes it an ideal meeting point for film professionals and lovers. Furthermore, its commitment to culture and the growth of artistic events positions it as a vibrant city, perfect for showcasing film talent.

Are you a local creator, an emerging filmmaker, a young enthusiast, or a cinephile audience? Save those dates: we want your short, your ideas, your voice. We'll have national and local screenings, children's sessions, a youth jury, audience awards, and panel discussions with filmmakers.