In the historic enchanted village of Campo di Giove, in the province of L'Aquila, the second edition of the "Giove International Film Festival" will take place during the summer program organized by the "Pro Loco Campo di Giove".
Short Films from all over the world will be screened live in an evening dedicated to the seventh art in a location surrounded by greenery and full of tourists who populate this diamond of the Majella National Park every year during the summer.
Cinema awards in which online media related to the seventh art choose the best of the year in independent Spanish cinema.
Film competition by Filmstube Hamburg e.V.
Can ChatGPT support the creative writing process for a screenplay? Can an Artificial Intelligence find a good film idea, improve a plot, write good dialogues, advise the author dramaturgically and help to write a really good screenplay?
Here's the task: Write together with ChatGPT a screenplay for a short film. Then put the screenplay into practice and submit the finished film to us by October 15th, 2023. A jury will then evaluate all submitted films and compile the best films for our festival "Filmstube goes Cinema". At the end of the year, we will then invite you to the screening and award ceremony.
The Cultural Británico cordially greets you and opens the call for entries to the “XI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN, CINI 2025”, to be held in Lima, Peru, from February 12 to 16, 2025.
This festival is held in the auditoriums of the Centro Cultural Británico, located in the districts of Surco, San Miguel, San Borja, Pueblo Libre, San Martín de Porres, Santa Anita, San Juan de Lurigancho, Camacho, and Miraflores.
All screenings to be held during the “XI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN, CINI 2025” will be free of charge for the general public.
FICDOS was created in 2006 with Jane Chaplin as the guest of honor. It is a contest created for the appreciation, production, production and criticism of world cinema in the Eje Cafetero ("Landscape and cultural heritage of humanity" - UNESCO). It has been declared by the Honorable Municipal Council of Dosquebradas as “… event of utmost importance in the cultural structure of the municipality…” (Municipal Agreement 014 September 2011) and by the Central Western Metropolitan Area as (Metropolitan Agreement, July 2013) .
We are a platform for the exchange of ideas between young filmmakers and seasoned members of the film industry. A source of energy to promote the exhibition, learning and development of the film industry in the southern region of Veracruz.
Explore our festival:
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Welcome to the fifth edition of the MiraBan UK Film Awards (MUFA), an annual London-based Independent,Film Festival driven by diversity and inclusivity. We are currently members of BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub London.
MUFA is the brainchild of MiraBan Ltd, a creative content company specialising in film festival management and distribution, brought to life by its dedicated fans, followers, and subscribers.
Our primary goal is to shine a global spotlight on emerging and seasoned independent filmmakers, celebrating artistic excellence while highlighting exceptional British and International films that champion diversity.
Inaugurated on December 7th, 2018, the first MUFA edition premiered at the iconic Electric Cinema, a historic venue that holds a legacy of pioneering filmmaking. With a heritage dating back to 1910, the Electric Cinema was one of Britain's first electrically powered motion picture exhibition locations—a hub for independent film pioneers.
MUFA is a festival of and for independent filmmakers, embracing diversity and inclusivity in auteur cinema. Behind MUFA's success stands a team of active film practitioners who share a passion for elevating independent cinema.
MUFA welcomes submissions across a range of categories, including International and UK Feature Films, Short Narratives (Comedy or Drama), Comedy, Drama, Documentary, Experimental, Animation, Editing, Screenplay, Film Score, Acting Performance, Film Script, and more.
Learn more about us on Youtube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook:
Visit our website: mirabanukfilmawards.co.uk
6th Ooty Short Film Festival (Ooty SFF)
December 27-29, 2024
The Nilgiris Film Club (NFC) is thrilled to announce the 6th edition of the Ooty Short Film Festival (Ooty SFF), scheduled to take place from December 27th to 29th, 2024. We cordially invite filmmakers from across the globe to join us in celebrating the art of independent short films in the picturesque mountains of the Western Ghats.
About the Festival
Since its inception, Ooty SFF has grown into a vibrant platform for showcasing exceptional short films. Our carefully curated sections feature some of the most remarkable experimental and artist-made short films, ensuring a diverse and inspiring cinematic journey for all attendees.
In 2024, we are excited to introduce a new initiative: the Green Elephant Award for the best short film focusing on environmental themes. This award celebrates the vital role filmmakers play in raising awareness about pressing global environmental challenges, including climate change, conservation, and sustainability.
Our Vision
At Ooty SFF, we strive to curate a program that embodies unique and original artistic visions. Our focus is on short films that boldly push the boundaries of both form and concept, opening up numerous avenues for interpretation and understanding.
We have a special interest in works by emerging filmmakers and artist-made shorts, believing that these voices bring fresh and innovative perspectives to the cinematic landscape.
Opportunities for Filmmakers
Ooty SFF is more than just a screening platform. We provide filmmakers with:
A platform to share their work with a discerning audience
Exposure to diverse filmmaking styles and narratives
Opportunities to be part of a growing community of independent filmmakers
Recognition through our Golden Elephant Awards for Indian filmmakers and digital awards (NFTs) for international filmmakers, ensuring both physical and modern digital forms of recognition
Submit Your Film
We welcome submissions from filmmakers of all backgrounds and experiences. If you have a short film that challenges conventions, explores new territories, or tells a compelling story in an innovative way, we want to see it!
Join us for the 6th Ooty Short Film Festival and be part of a celebration of cinematic creativity in the heart of the Nilgiris.
The Ooty Short Film Festival is produced by the Nilgiris Film Club (NFC), a pioneering film club nestled in the mountains of the Western Ghats.
Latitudes Cinema is a NYC-based itinerant microcinema committed to its communities, its artists, and their shared experiences. Our purpose is to be a space that promotes creative dialogues and human connections through the magic of cinematic storytelling.
We champion world and diasporic cinema while empowering artists from often overlooked backgrounds in the film industry allowing them to have a safe exhibition venue in NYC to present their work, to engage directly with their communities and to develop new audiences.
Latitudes Cinema currently presents a fully curated and community centered seasonal program with in-person and online activities. Through post-screening discussions, we provide and facilitate a direct interaction between artists and audiences.
Latitudes Cinema is a space of impactful exhibition and meaningful encounters. We are inspired by the diverse communities of NYC, its often-overlooked landmarks, and its unique film exhibition spaces. Recognizing the cooperative nature of films, we create partnerships with grassroots organizations to advance community engagement and to strengthen collective efforts on all fronts. Our aim is to serve as a bridge of connection and understanding through authentic storytelling with the purpose of developing a more harmonic society that embraces dialogue, the richness of cultural diversity and the broadness of humanity.
At Latitudes Cinema we have a community-centered approach to all what we do.
The Festival will take place in Alicante from December 10 to 14, 2024.
Short film productions may participate exclusively with Smartphones.
The festival has a free theme.
International Environmental Film Festival is a festival dedicated to short films (Ficton & Documentary) which treat the subject of the environmental such climate change, global warming, extinction of species...Peace Corps actions....Activism...
We are 100 % environmental film festival and our goal is to educate through entertaining and to raise awareness, using audiovisuals as a tool and language.
The IEFF is an annual film festival which takes place in Sidi Wassay-Massa village in the South of Morocco (60 km far from Agadir City).
International African Film Festival in Argentina 2024 / FICAA.
Call for entries is open until 30 February 2024.
We call on film directors and video artists to send material that would contribute to show new depictions on Africa. We are receiving: independent films from African countries or regarding Africa, its people and its diaspora.
The received material will be selected for a new edition of the International African Film Festival in Argentina, which will take place in August 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Starting in 2007, Observatorio Sur undertook the “Mirrors and Mirages” International Film Series on and from the African continent. In each edition we have selected films based on different subjects to show and debate on history and actuality in the African world.
This year we are organizing a mixed version: online and physical Location. Thus, we are also aiming to reach new audiences, beyond the participants from the city of Buenos Aires who usually come to the cinema.
ARACNEA FILM AND BOOK FESTIVAL is organized by the Cultural Association ARACNEA - APS CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC CENTER, will be held in Castellaneta (Ta), for the length of 3 days, on in the fourth week of January.
It is an independent festival, entirely dedicated to cinematographies and cultures from all over the world.
The organization of events subsequent to the date of the Festival is foreseen, involving schools and experts in the local sector, all linked by the common thread of audio-visual training for the youngest and by the concrete link with the territory.
CALL FOR ENTRIES:Juree Awards Asia Invite Creators To Share Original Short Films
The Juree Awards Asia is back for its second-year running to celebrate storytelling excellence and discover talents from the region. The Juree Asia Awards invites all creators from Asia to submit their original short films across all genres from 1 January 2021 onwards.
The Vertical Storytelling Award is also back and designed exclusively for creators under 35 years old. Vertical stories have become popular among young creators through its captivating narrative for digital audiences.
Audiences can also participate and cast votes for their favourite stories till 13 November 2023. For more information on Juree Awards Asia 2023, please visit https://jureeasia.viddsee.com
Submission Period: 21 August 2023 to 17 September 2023, entries close 2359 SGT
Announcement of Finalist: 30 October 2023
Audience Choice Voting Period: 30 October 2023 to 13 November 2023
Awards Announcement: 4 December 2023
Acid'Animé Fest is an Paris international short-film competition. Our mission is to bring international independent animated short films to the widest possible audience in Europe and beyond. We want to give this opportunity to young filmakers and animators.
Stories and storytellers surround us despite that, most stories go unheard and cannot reach their audience.
UGIFF is India's first underground film festival.
UGIFF is the festival, promising to bring stories that struggle to reach and garner independent cinema.
Festival of Global Artists, Storytellers, and Audiences.
Come, witness the disruption, be a part of the movement.
Celebrate Cinema| Promote Art | Support Artists'
Our goal is to give you an appreciation of a wide variety of genres, from horror, sci-fi, and fantasy to comedies, thrillers, and music-related films. Besides finding great films, we intend to showcase and promote talented local and international storytellers.
We intend to present a wide range of work exploring the various definitions and interpretations of the concept of 'Underground'.
Bringing innovative and challenging selections that challenge and appease the interests of all film lovers, we aim to support and contribute to the globally thriving arts community.
Archeocinema Tiriolo:
Opening up archaeological assets to the local area, making them more attractive by hosting cinematographic activities, cultural activities, events, music, theatre, virtual installations. All of this, of course, in full respect of the sites and monuments. Thinking of parks and archaeological sites not only as an area dedicated to the fruition of archeology, but as an attractive place to host initiatives, programs, festivals with a strong cultural and identity impact. This can be a new challenge for a region like Calabria, rich in ancient remains, which needs to work to promote its culture and image.
The event takes place annually, is open to all producers, directors and film and television authors, in the field of archaeological, historical, paleontological, anthropological research and in any case whose purpose is the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage, with particular attention to museums, superintendencies, and all bodies managing archaeological sites.
The festival is open to short films and documentaries, no longer than 30 minutes, in any language, provided they are presented with Italian subtitles. The participating works will be selected by a committee appointed jointly by the organizers of the event.
THE PROGRAM
Archaeological cinema days 7-8-9 September 2023
The idea is to put public awareness of the value of cultural heritage at the heart of the Festival. The choice of Tiriolo is due to its historical archaeological vocation, testified by the current excavations in the Giammartino area, whose inauguration has rekindled interest in the history of this ancient center of the Province of Catanzaro.
The "Festival Cortos para Tiempos largos" is a proposal for the training, creation and circulation of audiovisual content carried out by young Colombians since 2020 with a clear purpose, to connect people and stories. The festival is not looking for winners, it is conceived as a space for the dissemination and visibility of audiovisual products, carried out for academic and non-profit purposes, where all those who wish to be part of a great story can participate.
