Now in it's 11th annual installment, the BoneBat "Comedy of Horrors" Film Fest is a full evening of giggles and gore, where we present the finest in independent Comedy/Horror features and shorts from around the world, amazing live music and prizes galore, all hosted by Steve and Gord of The BoneBat Show!
The BioBioCine International Festival is an intercultural gathering of knowledge and wisdom expressed through cinema. Its goal is to become a space for dialogue and reflection while promoting, supporting, and valuing national and international cinematography from a territorial and identity perspective, within the framework of its annual meeting.
The BioBioCine International Festival invites submissions from all countries and cultures for its eleventh edition. The festival's program includes competitive and non-competitive categories for feature films and short films, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on auteur cinema, emerging filmmakers, experimentation, intercultural dialogue, and first nations.
Festival Description Taking Place Milan Italy December 2019
One of the greatest festival in the world to help filmmakers find a market to support their aims with people attending that can give good solid advice to work with established film industry professionals if you wish, screening, meetings, networking, world famous international awards ceremony, we have created over the years a unique festival with our other festivals a real platform for filmmakers to meet, network, do business festival week.
We have built a small but exceptional professional network of industry professional that will look at all films and will give business and commercial advice, in some cases the distributors attending will make offers to the filmmakers for their work and to work together to put your movies in the market place, we have the people and skills in our professional team to make this happen, if the professional attending feel there is a market for your movie, they will as with many films over the years of our other festival make it happen.
We are unique in the amount of platforms and festival we offer filmmakers, we can create a ripple for your movie to be seen around the world, it all starts here by entering your movie.
Carl Tooney
Festival President
THE BUDDHA International Film Festival's main objective is to provide the opportunity for filmmakers from all over the world to excel, and to have the best work selected and showcased in a celebration of cinema, as well as to give filmmakers a platform to network amongst fellow professionals and cinematic artists.
Buddha Fest / TBIFF is looking forward to fostering these relationships and to helping extraordinary filmmakers get their projects seen by global audiences. TBIFF unites cinematic, cultural, educational more over Inspirational objectives by presenting its film discoveries.
The TBIFF is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative films while fostering the next generation of filmmakers. It is a strong advocate for social change, and encourages cultural diversity and understanding between nations. It strives to foster the movie art of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema and promoting meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.
The BUDDHA International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the spirit, passion, and skill of the best new filmmakers from around the world for audiences around the world.
We are also including and actively supporting not only the finest examples of classic moviemaking, but works that are experimental, breaking ground in new non-narrative forms and crossing over into the video arts. All films will be reviewed as they are submitted, and the best in each category will be chosen to screen at the festival. A jury of industry professionals will then view the finalists and choose the winning selections.
Filmmakers planning on attending should notify the film festival as soon as possible, so their names may be listed in the scheduled program at the venue where their film will be shown.
Al-Nahj International Film Festival, held by Karbala satellite TV, is delighted to invite the film makers to participate. The festival specialises in short films that could be fiction, documentaries or animation. A films theme must be in related to one of the following:
The Husseini principles: humanitarian and ethical issues that are manifested through the revolution of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him).
Human rights: issues related to human dignity as a fundamental axis in building societies.
Integrity: issues related to integrity that deal with the building of the human character first , then the building of a positive society.
Reforms: issues related to changing bad traits into good ones which help to build a good society on the basis of justice and equality.
The festival uses cinema as a tool to spread a humanitarian message whose mission is to create an environment where people live happily with mutual respect and love.
The Berlin Music Video Awards (BMVA) is an international event.
Filmmakers, producers, musicians and directors passionate about the art of music videos. Including full-length screenings, award ceremonies, live shows, workshops and after-parties, the five-day festival will be held at one of Berlin’s major event venues.
4 days of Filmmakers delight!
Take a look at the opening day of BMVA 2019 right here:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7at07v
Gathering Filmmakers from all over the world, the BMVA is a great opportunity for independent artists and filmmakers to get exposure and to showcase their creativity, while networking with both emerging and established industry professionals.
Not just another film festival.
Launched for the first time in 2013 by events planner Aviel Silook, the Berlin Music Video Awards is an annual independent festival whose influence among the video and music industries in Europe and abroad keeps rising.
The thrilling event provides a platform for talented filmmakers, backing both unknown and famous artists, regardless of the language, genre or origin of their work.
Non-elitist and broad-minded, the BMVA support the diversity and inventiveness of video creators, while promoting their collaboration through networking.
Luxor African Film Festival is organized by Independent Shabab Foundation, which is a civil and nonprofit organization cooperates with the culture developed fund & other entities . The festival is organized under the auspices of significant Egyptian Ministries and other organizations.
- The first festival for African Cinema in Egypt since the start of the film industry
- The first international film festival in Upper-Egypt
- The first festival featuring outdoor screenings in Upper-Egypt
- The first festival fully organized by an Egyptian civilian NGO
- The first festival featuring the participation of all African countries and hosting more than 100 guests from Africa, Europe and the Americas
The 12th Athens ANIMFEST - International Animation Festival opens to Animation fans again this year. With a program full of shorts and feature animations, we respond to animators from around the world willing either to compete or to screen their movies in the parallel special events of our festival.
Notice:
For submission are accepted only ANIMATED MOVIES (Short, Student, Experimental and Greek)
The People's Film Festival, a dynamic three-day event that celebrates the Voice of the People through the power of film, art and technology. Our festival takes place from May 29, 2025 to May 31, 2025 in Harlem, NY, and features films from around the globe.
Rooted in the belief of freedom of speech and media access for all, TPFF was founded in 2012 with the goal provide a platform for independent filmmakers, producers and creatives to showcase their works in venues that can elevate them to the next level. Over the last 13 years, TPFF has become known as “The Voice of The People,” an extraordinary platform where filmmakers can tell their stories their way and make a real impact on their audiences.
Our mission is to not only inspire future creatives and innovators but to also expose audiences of all ages to new tools and technologies for storytelling. TPFF has had some remarkable success stories, with many films screened at our festival ultimately being featured at other prestigious media outlets and venues such as HBO, Netflix, FOST, PBS – Public Broadcasting Service, Revolt TV, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library & Archives.
Our festival is held in Harlem, NY, a thriving and vibrant community with rich cultural history. It is an ultimate synergy of great music, literature, arts, and entertainment also collectively known as The Harlem Renaissance. Filmmakers and filmgoers come together each year to actively share information, break bread, and build relationships.
The People’s Film Festival is a great initiative of The People’s Media, Music & Arts Foundation (TPMMAF) - a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. We use our platform to promote awareness of independent film, technology, media, music, and art across the globe while encouraging those, particularly in the Harlem New York area, to develop a greater appreciation and understanding of cultural diversity in media.
This event is open to everyone.
FFFw: Food Film Festival world
Food is an integral part of human life. Just imagine: we are preparing a meal when we want to show love, we are having intimate and business talks at dinner, we like to get together for a family dinner. At dinners we show care for ourselves as well as for our loved ones. Here everything matters: what we eat, where and with whom we eat it. Food - is more than just hunger, it's culture, philosophy, and art. FFFw has collected the best of the international festivals. Its films touch social, cultural, gastronomic topics. The works are divided into categories: Food & People, Cook Book, Tastes like Animal, Food Porn, Food Ad.
FFFw have already been screened at such countries as: Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Turkey.
Entrants may submit as many films as they see fit, as long as they are produced between 2021 and 2023.
All films shorter than 20 minutes will be accepted, regardless of their original film or video shooting format.
Films which are not spoken in Spanish must be presented with subtitles in Spanish.
Films' theme is free.
Live action fiction, animation, experimental and documentary films can be submitted.
Submission deadline is Noviembre, 5th, 2023.
Dona i Cinema aims to generate a live space of artistic and social creation and investigation. A space led by women, which divulgates their works and productions, promoting equal opportunities in Performing Arts and fostering the end of discriminative practices towards women.
For this reason since 2011 we run the International Biennal Dona i Cinema – Mujer y Cine – Woman & Film, a week dedicated to cinema made by and for women, with the exhibition of a selection of features, shorts, documentaries, animation and video art. All made by women.
Ladies and gentlemen,
The President of the Organizing Committee, Alvine KOUAMBO is pleased to announce that edition 9 of the International Independent Film Festival of Bafoussam (Cameroon).
-This event, initiated by Ecran for the Renewal of African Culture, abbreviated as ERECA will bring together, as in the past, Cinema Technicians from all over the world.
-The theme of this sixth edition is:
"Promoting the Values of Bilingualism & Multiculturalism through Cinema and Audiovisual"
Entries for films that will be competing and out of competition at the Festival are already open.
- For this festival, a gigantic platform called VILLAGE DU FESTIVAL will be set up. This is where the main activities of the festival will be concentrated. Spaces will be available, but very selective.
-The FICIB is placed under the high patronage of the Ministry of Arts and Culture of Cameroon, the patronage of S.E. Mr. Pascal NGUIHE KANTE and headliner S.E. Mr. Roger MILLA.
We are honored to send you our warmest congratulations for all your efforts to promote culture. We would like, in our turn, to be able to fully count on your contribution to the events of the Bafoussam International Independent Film Festival (FICIB). This edition of the FICIB will feature the participation of the best professional film companies, dancers, craftsmen, cultural entrepreneurs, broadcasters, journalists, stage designers, observers from Africa, Europe, America and Asia.
As in previous editions, the FICIB will organize training workshops, conference-debates, caravans of indoor and outdoor screenings, exhibitions-sales of works of art, inter-school competition (musical interpretations, expressions on the theme of publishing, traditional dances and urban) with the end, the election Miss and Master Ficib.
These different activities will take place at the Village Festival.
The Opening and Closing Ceremonies will take place in the banquet hall of the HE Mr. Governor of Western Region "Bafoussam".
In order to enable us to achieve the objectives of FICIB which are to promote independent cinema, to encourage cultural and cinematographic diversity; to propagate cinematographic art by stimulating the development of quality cinema; promote opportunities for North-South co-production; discover and encourage new talent To encourage meetings between film professionals from all over the world, we respectfully request you to agree to participate in this event. You will find the general regulations here and we kindly ask you to download the Registration Form, fill it out, sign it and send it to the following addresses:
contact@ficib.info -BP: 1203 Bafoussam-Cameroon.
BUDAFEST is a Budapest film festival dedicated to the glocal culture. 2016 is the first edition. It will be the feast of the brotherwood of two people and of two movie worlds: the Italian and the Hungarian.
We will connect the world with Budapest and Budapest with the world: we have the Magyar section and the international one. We have also a special section dedicated to very fast movies, maximum 3 minutes. This section, called BUDAFAST is a contest, the "Easy Ticket" to the global market for young filmmakers, with no other limit of age and nationality but a fresh, immediate vision of the world & a new way to shoot it. Participation is easy, register is easy. A very short duration of minimum 30 "seconds and maximum 3 minutes in a Ground-level sequence with a mobile phones, a tablets, a digicamera... Upload & send it !
Festival accepts movies of interest for gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersexual and transexual people. To participate in the competitive section (prizes), these films should have not been programmed on TV, screened in comercial venues or another spanish festival excluding the organized by Fundacion Triangulo. In any case, copyleft or copyright should be later than 2022.
18th Ecozine Film Festival, International Film and Environment of Zaragoza. April 2025. Organized by Asociación Cultural Ecozine
Since 1997 this prestigious competition has showcased the works of the next generation of filmmakers. 12 to 25 short films will be selected by our panel of industry judges and shown in the Roger Ebert Conference Center at The American Pavilion to invited guests attending The Festival. It's a festival within a festival at the most important event on the international film calendar. Short Films, Short Documentaries, Student Documentaries, Student Films and LGBTQ films accepted from current undergraduate or graduate school students and emerging filmmakers up to three years post graduation. Films must be completed in 2017, 2018 or 2019.
We are both a LIVE NEW YORK CITY SCREENING and a WORLDWIDE ONLINE PREMIERE SITE FOR YOUR ORIGINAL FILM.
The live New York screenings will take place at the;
PRODUCERS CLUB
358 West 44th St.
New York, NY 10036
Online Red-Carpet Premiere winners are chosen throughout the year and BEST of each category also receives a LIVE RED-CARPET NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE SCREENING!
Simple and to the point, filmmakers have big dreams but few come true for the majority. The festivals and film market are being over flooded with Indies films, and now, from even children who are considered producers and filmmakers. If you have a good film and want a chance for it to be seen, promoted and maybe make a little profit along the way is what the RCCF is about.
The RCCF uses online Red Carpet Premieres to promote, market and screen your film for one to two weeks, just as if it was a live premiere screening but with the chance for a large, potentially huge, audience base. We use social media to promote, market and sell tickets for your online premiere. YOU retain ALL rights to your film. Films chosen to be screened at a Red Carpet Premiere are publicized for two weeks before the online premiere is launched. Filmmakers can earn 15 to 20% of the box office for a successful online screening.
Filmmakers whose films have been made OFFICIAL SELECTIONS have the option to decide WHEN they have their online premiere. BEST of each category will also receive a LIVE NEW YORK CITY SCREENING.
Films are accepted made from 2006 until now. You must own full rights to your film, music, screenplay, etc.. and accept full legal liability for owning those rights.
We accept full length features from 60 minutes or longer, any genre. (NO PORN)
Shorts are accepted up to 59 minutes. All genres, (NO PORN)
Features and Shorts are judged and awarded laurels IN NUMEROUS CATEGORIES,
ALL GENRES, ( horror, history, comedy, documentary, animation, family films, inspirational, experimental, music videos, dance videos, series pilot, etc.
First time or master filmmaker, Best Editing, Best Music Score, Best FX, Best Cinematography, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress. Best Woman Filmmaker, Best Foreign Film, Best Director, Best Ensemble Cast, etc.
The submission fee covers all this and more to give YOU the filmmaker a better chance for your film to be recognized and noticed by other festivals and distributors. People are more apt to buy an Indies Film if they see that they were award winners and recognized by various festivals. LAURELS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAT YOU MAY HAVE EVER IMAGINED. We give filmmakers the opportunity to win multiple award laurels for just ONE SUBMISSION FEE, plus CASH and a Red Carpet Online Premiere, AND a NEW YORK CITY LIVE PREMIERE SCREENING!
YOUR ONE SUBMISSION FEE GIVES YOUR THE CHANCE TO WIN IN THESE CATEGORIES AND MORE.......
SHORT
FEATURE
THRILLER
DRAMA
HORROR
ANIMATION
FX
COMEDY
INSPIRATIONAL
FOREIGN
T.V. PILOT
STUDENT
DANCE
MUSIC (Instrumental, band, orchestra)
VOCAL
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST CHILD PERFORMER
BEST DIRECTOR
CINEMATOGRAPHER
EDITOR
MUSIC SCORE
and more.......
SORRY, there are NO WAIVERS or Student discounts due to the unique nature and cost involved of creating this type of festival and the management and marketing aspect of the online Premiere Theater.
NOTE: Unlike your film being accepted to an online distributor and lost within dozens and dozens of films being sold, YOUR FILM is the exclusive film screened for your premiere for the two weeks BEST OF EACH CATEGORY FILM WINNERS RECEIVE THE LIVE NEW YORK CITY SCREENING AS WELL.
