ADVERTISING FESTIVAL FOR A SPECIALISED AND GENERAL PUBLIC
THOSE FABULOUS SPOTS THAT ENTERTAIN MORE THAN JUST AN AFTER-DINNER MOVIE.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE BRAVEST ADVERTISERS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE.
THOSE IDEAS WE LIKE AND WE DON'T SEE ON TV.
Advertisements made for people, which produce rejection of people. This is the most common scenario today. Zapping became fashionable in the 90's and its only purpose is to jump from program to program avoiding ads and any ad break.
Has anyone ever wondered that if ads were of great quality, with a great creative weight, innovative, fun, exciting, close to home.... people would see them as any other program or movie?
Santiago Horror is a festival that promotes fantastic cinema in Latin America, a stage where fantasy, science fiction, and horror take center stage and transcend borders.
More than just a festival, we are a vibrant platform that promotes the creation, dissemination, and exhibition of genre films, connecting talent with a global audience.
Our mission is to strengthen the production and distribution of fantastic cinema in Chile and the region, taking these bold stories to new horizons.
In each edition, we challenge convention, celebrate imagination, and consolidate Santiago Horror as an essential reference for the industry and film lovers worldwide.
Organized by: Fantastic Chile Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Extension and Heritage Archives of the University of Santiago de Chile
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Hybrid festival format (in-person and online)
Organized by: Fundación Chile Fantástico - Archivo Patrimonial USACH
More about the festival:
• The prestigious North American media outlet DREAD CENTRAL named us in its 2022 list of "The Best Horror Festivals in the World," as one of the best South American and Chilean festivals, alongside major global and Latin American festivals.
Link: http://surl.li/fuwug
ISFFC is an international short film festival organized by the 1895 Film Society in Guangzhou. The festival showcases top films from renowned filmmakers worldwide while also providing a platform for emerging talent from across the globe.
As always, we take pride in welcoming submissions from both China and abroad. In our inaugural international short film competition in 2019, we meticulously screened over 1000 submissions to curate a selection of 50+ films. This lineup included works from prestigious festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, as well as contributions from Oscar® Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Emmy®, and Grammy® award-winning artists from various corners of the globe.
Wallachia International Film Festival is a highly professional, industry connected film festival, an exclusive independent grassroots film festival taking place in an exquisite location in Downtown Bucharest, only hundreds of meters away from Dracula’s former court in the grand Old Town!
We won multiple cinema prizes including important awards at major film festivals, like Cannes, Locarno, Montreal, London, Milan, Miami and Atlanta. Also, our advertising work received accolades at Clio, Effie, In-Awe, Lion Awards, ANDY Awards and Ad’Or, while working for companies like Coca-Cola, UNICEF, McDonalds, Renault, Yahoo! and Nestlé-Purina.
But there’s nothing we love more than indulging ourselves with cinematic candies from all over the world, under the autumn night sky of Wallachia. We will be arguing for a long time about which ones we feel are the best, and about the most promising unproduced screenplays.
Welcome to Wallachia, the Legendary Land of Voivode Vlad III Dracula, universally known as Vlad the Impaler. Born in 1431, Vlad was an authoritarian Principe, he revolutionized the affairs of Wallachia and refused to pay tribute to the sultan Mehmed II, resulting in a bloody war with the Ottomans. Multiple works containing stories about Vlad's cruelty were published soon after his assassination in 1475. In 1897, Bram Stoker downgrades Prince Vlad to Count Dracula, a blood-sucking vampire inspired by Wallachian ancient folklore. Loosely based on the book, Dracula (1931) casts immortal Bela Lugosi as the doomed romantic Count.
Just think cinétopia! Feel hundreds of years of mythic Wallachian history under the night sky! It’s a 100% natural film affair!
We watch all movies, we read all screenplays and we select exclusively based on artistic merits.
Dili International Film Festival (DIFF), is back in 2020 for its second edition.
From 1 October - 11 October, the Festival will follow up on the success of the inaugural event - in a new form, and with more access to film for local filmmakers, communities and movie fanatics in Timor-Leste.
This year’s theme for the competition is
'2020 – Adapting to Change'
DIFF invites film makers from across the world and within Timor-Leste to submit their films and share their messages about change, in all its forms, in this new era.
DIFF 2020 will be modified to host mainly open-air screenings, at our popular Beachside Cinema for the international films and with mobile screening unit “Cinema Lorosa’e” for local communities at different locations in Dili and the surrounding areas, screening films adapted to Tetun and important messages in form of PSAs.
Country representations, embassies, NGOs and private sector partners will be invited to join in and host their DIFF screenings, with all content curated by the DIFF team and the international partners.
Our workshops, panel discussions and training sessions for local filmmakers and will be catering to a selected audience, partly using interactive online tools.
Festival Director Lena Lenzen states:
“Looking at our world at this time, we have amended this year’s theme for the competition to '2020 – Adapting to Change'.
We are looking forward to seeing the visions of international creatives. The world is facing unprecedented challenges and in order to strive and to create balance, we need to adapt ourselves, our techniques, how to share our knowledge and how to stay close to each other even when physically apart."
Festival Patron Jose Ramos-Horta invites film makers from across the world and within Timor-Leste to submit their films to be shown in his beloved country, as Timor-Leste commemorates the 20th anniversary of the referendum for self-rule, a time to look back, and to the future, within and outwards.
DIFF is a Timorese registered association, with a board of local and international film and cultural folks who turned their shared passion for cinema and storytelling and their love for the country of Timor-Leste to running an annual film festival focussing the spotlight on Dili.
The Festival is founded by Michael Smith, entrepreneur, adventurer, founder of Screens Without Borders and Timor-Leste’s Cinema Loro sa’e, together with Festival Director Lena Lenzen of award-winning Dili based Pixelasia Productions.
The board includes a broad range of skills, with Lena Lenzen as Festival Director, Michael Smith as President and Chair, renowned musician Melly Fernandes, lead of the band Galaxy as Cultural Officer, LGBTI activist Natalino Guterres as Inclusivity Adviser, international TV journalists Ann Turner and Wayne Lovell as judges, Angelo Alves as cinema officer, Matt Wilkinson delivering Social Engagement and Goncalo Mereilles as secretary of the association.
9rd Morce-GO Vermelho - GOIAS HORROR FILM FESTIVAL - is a film festival in the heart of Brazil, which will have contemporary audiovisual works and historical recovery linked to the themes of horror, suspense and horror. The Festival may have fiction productions, experimental and animation as well as workshops and debates.
The aim is to encourage and promote local productions, Brazil and all over the world for lovers of moviegoers horror movies, suspense and horror featuring some of the most creative in independent productions of short films in competitive shows and feature films in the programming.
The South African HorrorFest is the first (and close on only) event of its kind on the continent, bringing an exciting array of feature films and short films from around the world to the audience, who wouldn't get to see these indie productions in the territory otherwise. 2025 is our 21st edition!
The in-person festival may look at including an on-line virtual element again for 2025, so check our social media for updates.
Access all our links at https://linktr.ee/SAhorrorfest
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All movie mediums and styles are accepted, as long as it contains elements of Horror / Chiller / Terror / Monsters etc.
For instance, an animated Sci-Fi comedy with monsters will be accepted.
Due to the indie nature of the event, unfortunately screening fees cannot be offered.
Main Program (International competition), which will regularly feature films from all over the world from among a director’s first and second feature films. The idea is to promote new filmmakers who are making a debut or are only just starting their careers.
This program’s goal is to identify and promote relatively unknown filmmakers’ new film stories, giving them a chance at the beginning of their film careers.
The idea for this film festival emanated from the dire need for a wider space to present debut films by many new filmmakers from the region and all over the world.
The International Film Festival KineNova Skopje, therefore, includes activities such as promotion, support, incentives, exchange of experiences, and film awards. It is a venue for new filmmakers to showcase new stories and offer a fresh perspective of humanity and the world we live in.
The festival and the city of Skopje have the honor to be the meeting point for new filmmakers and a springboard for their respective career paths.
Contest is open to everyone !
Topic of the contest is "The Dream life".
You can submit your any type of film up to 15 minutes max.
Festival Atmospheres uses all kinds of art forms in order to arouse afterthought and commitment to an accessible and constructive sustainable development.
Antakya Film Festival, is an International, competitive festival. (AFF) is a major destination on the Festival circuit and recognized by the sinema Academy as a Qualifying Festival in all film categories. Antakya Film Festival, It is the first meeting point of this region for the international film and media industries.
Mission is to provide a public forum in Antakya in order to advance public interest in films and the independent production of films. To draw worldwide attention to Antakya as a center for cinema. To encourage the rights of all Antakya residents to access and experience the power of independent filmmaking, and to promote artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure.
In 2023, the Festival presented 800 films, representing work that was shot and produced in 45 countries. The event offers well rounded, and for many, career-establishing experiences. Submit your work before the final deadline!
The festival is for and by independent filmmakers. The organizers of Antakya Film Festival bring 10 years of festival experience to this annual event. Antakya Film Festival accepts submissions in six categories: Narrative Features, Documentary Features, Short Narrative, Short Documentary, Experimental, Short Student, and Animation.
Submissions are open from October to September of the year, the final selection of 150 + films is announced in September, and the film festival takes place in October. Selected films in each category are eligible for several awards. In addition to our lineup of films, the festival also hosts multiple filmmaker parties and networking events at venues around Antakya and Hatay.
Dallas Videofest is the major event presented by the Video Association of Dallas, which is dedicated to promoting an understanding of video as a creative medium and cultural force in our society, and to supporting and advancing the work of Texas artists working in video and the electronic arts. Through its programs and information services, the Video Association intends to educate and inform artists, students, educators, critics, video and film producers and an interested public so they may better understand, appreciate and evaluate the creative possibilities of the video medium. It will also provide a forum for the work of regional video artists, in order to stimulate excellence in their work and provide the opportunity for dialogue and critical discussion.
International queer film festival Merlinka is organized every year from 2009 in Belgrade Serbia.
For five days we screen short, documentary and featured LGBT-themed films.
Only gay, lesbian, bisexual, trangender, transsexual-themed films.
La misión del MiamisFF es construir puentes de dialogo e intercambio cultural entre los realizadores cinematográficos y la audiencia a través de experiencias cinematográficas en corto que promuevan una visión enfocada en las buenas causas haciendo uso de formas estéticamente innovadoras. Estamos comprometidos con la búsqueda de nuevos talentos que puedas hacer una diferencia con su arte.
Podemos ofrecerles un espacio dedicado para presentar su talento a una nueva audiencia, representantes de la industria cinematográfica y distintas organizaciones.
Estamos ubicados en la ciudad de Miami, Florida y el festival proyecta cortometrajes de 30 minutos o menos y apoya el creciente movimiento para exhibir y expandir el arte cinematográfico en formato corto proporcionando un espacio para construir una comunidad comprometida con las artes, ya que nuestra filosofía consiste en concebir al cortometraje como verdaderas obras de arte que me merecen su propio espacio de exhibición.
Argentina CINEfoot 2024 · Football Film Festival, along with CINEfoot Brazil the first Latin American festival is conceptual and curatoring football. The festival aims at promoting, disseminating, and enhancing reflexionando film and audiovisual production related to soccer.
O OUFF en Curto busca estimular o formato da curtametraxe no ámbito da Comunidade Autónoma galega como expresión básica da creación audiovisual. É a sección de curtametraxes do Festival de Cine Internacional de Ourense.
Film Maudit 2.0 (www.filmmaudit.org) is a showcase and celebration of new outré, unusual and startling films. Now approaching its 5th edition, the fest is inspired by legendary artist Jean Cocteau’s festival, Le Film Maudit, which celebrated a group of films that were criminally overlooked and neglected at the time.
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The term film maudit literally means “cursed films,” and this showcase of counter-cinema blends together narrative, documentary and experimental films that in their style and/or subject matter, are deliberately bold, extreme, confrontational, troubling, shocking and/or unusual.
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We are looking for adventuresome works that eschew conventional genre & format expectations and deal with socio-political issues, taboo subjects, and challenge artistic assumptions and sexual mores. These works can be in the form of feature films, short films, pilots, VR, and works that cross disciplines.
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The festival is co-presented by and takes place in part at Southern California's boldest center for new performance and media arts, Highways Performance Space & Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. In its 34th year, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages radical artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative new works. Described by the Los Angeles Times as “a hub of experimental theater, dance, solo drama and other multimedia performance,” Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms.
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR THE FOLLOWING SESSIONS OF THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM:
01 - Short, Medium and Feature Film
02 - Short, Medium and Feature Television Work
03 - Series TV Show - Pilot Episode or First Episode
04 - Internet Work - Short, Medium and Feature Film
05 - Internet Work - Pilot Episode or First Episode
The Green Mountain Christian Film Festival is run by the NonProfit Faith and Family Films. Admission to the two day festival is free and open to all. Submissions must be in by Sept 1st of each year to be considered for the Oct Festival. Donations the days of the festival are happily accepted.
MosFestFilm is an international film competition with an annual awards event in Moscow.
MosFestFilm is an organization devoted to showcasing the best and brightest films from around the globe, advancing the careers of filmmakers through screenings, networking events, and various panel and forums. Categories include Narrative, Animation, Documentary, Music Video, Experimental and Student Shorts.
MosFestFilm is an avid supporter of local and international filmmakers representing cinematic productions that embody the true spirit of the art. From classic or original scripts to new cinematography and film techniques, each and every piece is the result of true emotion and expression.
We're glad you're here! We can't wait to discover the amazing films you create and the global community that you build.
All best films that were selected for the screening, will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on September 16 - 21, 2025 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the "Best film". As well as for the prizes in the standalone nominations.
