Created in 2010, Curta 5 - student festival of shorts, was created with the aim of promoting and encouraging audiovisual production from the school space.
Organized by the IFBA Campus Vitória da Conquista, Curta 5 opens space for student productions of public and private schools.
The Scare-A-Con Film Festival supports independent cinema made outside of the direct Hollywood studio involvement, bringing them much needed exposure to major Independent studios around the world.
The Scare-A-Con Film Festival (formerly the B-Movie Film Festival) has been an exciting event in CNY since 1999! We have helped bring exposure to over 10,000 movies, shorts and documentaries from around the world. Many of the movies that have played at our festival have gone on to distribution success with companies like Maverick, Image, Barnholtz, and are available in place like Blockbuster, Best Buy, Netflix, Amazon.com and Walmart. Be a part of the one film festival and horror, sci-fi & fantasy convention that showcases the underdog movies!
The fest is now a part of the Scare-A-Con convention, which brings in hundreds of Hollywood stars like Linda Blair, Tony Todd, Ernie Hudson, Joe Bob Briggs, John Schneider, Doug Bradley, John Russo, C. Thomas Howell, cast members from "The Walking Dead", "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and more and over 6000 patrons per event! The festival and convention hosts events like Filmmaker mixers, dance parties, celebrity panels, costume parties and more. It's an amazing 3 day event, and a great opportunity for filmmakers to socialize and network with their peers.
Judges include:
-Ron Bonk - filmmaker and producer and head of SRS Cinema which has been distributing movies since 1992.
-James V. Johnson - editor of TAPS magazine and founder of Scare-A-Con.
-David J. Skal - an American cultural historian, critic, writer, and on-camera commentator known for his research and analysis of horror films and horror literature.
-Michael Merchant - prolific underground movie actor known for his roles in "She Kills" and "Night of Something Strange".
*** Submissions for the 2024 Short Film Slam, presented by The Madlab Post will be opening in the Spring. If you are interested in submitting your live action, animation, documentary or experimental film, Sign up for our waitlist to be the first to hear about the Call for Entries for our 2024 season - https://cinema.madlabpost.com ***
The Short Film Slam is a bimonthly competition presented by The Madlab Post that focuses on providing a platform for emerging and established filmmakers to showcase their work. Each round, a selection of up to twelve short films will be screened for local audiences who get to cast a vote for their favorite film. The highest rated film at live screenings will be declared "Movie of the Month" during the following month. The highest rated "in-competition" films from each live and online screening room will advance to the final round. All finalists get to compete for a total of $1,000 in prize money during the final round and festivities preceding the 2023 shnit Cinemas screening in Philadelphia.
Since 2012, The Madlab Post has promoted community outreach and engagement through film, screening dozens of exceptional short films from around the world to local audiences; including the Academy Award nominated short film A SINGLE LIFE, Clermond-Ferrand International Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner THE BATHTUB and Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Et ta prostate, ça va? (HOW'S YOUR PROSTATE). Main venues include the historic Bok building and Taller Puertorriqueño's state-of-the-art El Corazón Cultural Center.
One of the main motivations for launching the Festival is to turn its eyes towards a community and a territory that in the past was besieged by armed groups outside the law. San Bernardo is today a community that, besides being surrounded by beautiful natural landscapes, has enormous potential in agricultural, tourist, cultural and community issues.
We look for productions that approach through fiction, documentary or animation, themes that include popular knowledge, traditions, practices, customs, manifestations and rural problems of Colombia.
PCC SHORT - INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION
PALERMO, 1st edition, 6-7-8 September 2019
The S.O.F.A (Shout Out For Animals) Film Festival, Cyprus showcases online (and live throughout the year) local and international films relating to animals, animal welfare, conservation and the environment as part of the ELAFI Animal Welfare Awards annual events.
We also collaborate with producers and production companies to help promote films that deserve to be seen and, where possible, push their Kickstarter Fundraising initiative with the agreement that we are allowed to screen the film when it is finished.
This unique festival runs an online 2 day festival plus chooses films submitted for live screenings throughout the year. The live screenings are used for fundraisers for local rescue, animal welfare and environment projects and the recipient organisation is chosen depending on the subject of the film.
The Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival aims to showcase crime drama, true crime, horror, and related subgenres from around the world.
We provide independent filmmakers with a platform to connect with audiences, industry professionals, and fellow filmmakers who share their passion for crime and horror cinema.
With live screenings at a historic theater in Hollywood, the LA Crime and Horror Film Festival gives recognition to the independent films and filmmakers in crime and horror storytelling.
Winners considered by Hollywood production companies reps, and streaming platforms including:
ZERO GRAVITY
THE BLOOD LIST / BRILLSTEIN
THINK TANK MANAGEMENT
TXL FILMS
BINGE HORROR
... and more.
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.
The objective is to present a selection of the best short films in the fiction, animation, experimental and documentary genres in order to allow the dissemination, dialogue and evaluation of the development and importance of the short film within audiovisual production.
The Austral International Film Festival, based in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, is proposed as a space for reflection for sustainable, socially and economically conscious audiovisual production.
The purpose of the ZOOM FESTIVAL is to disseminate and promote audiovisual content regardless of format, distribution channel and audiences.
The Official Section of the 22nd edition is open to all producers, televisions, students, independent film makers from all over the world who present audiovisual content for all types of screens and that fit the bases of the Festival's official section.
Among the functions of the Festival is the welcoming meeting of the various professional sectors of the audiovisual industry, as well as that of students in the sector and be a platform for new talent.
In order to fulfill these objectives, the Zoom Festival will celebrate its 25th Edition in November 25th 2023 in Igualada- Barcelona.
IMPORTANT
Due to the COVID pandemic we will have to move the date of the Festival to March. We will carry out a hybrid edition with few functions in the city, as long as the health protocol allows it.
New final deadline: January 5, 2021
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The Oruro International Film Festival is headquartered in the city of Oruro (Plurinational State of Bolivia).
The city is known for its cultural and folkloric wealth, being the Oruro Carnival its greatest expression. This Carnival, which annually gathers thousands of national and international visitors, was declared in 2001 as "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO, thus recognizing the multicultural and religious value it expresses.
The Festival, whose ninth edition will be held from March 20 to 26, 2021, aims to recognize and disseminate national and international cinematographic works that show strong artistic, aesthetic and human values.
NIFF is a space for criticism, denunciation, impact and social growth through the dissemination and promotion of cinema.
NIFF aims to be a statement against non-involvement, disregard and lack of commitment, which is the real disease of this century, where we produce more than we can consume, and happiness is subject to the law of supply and demand.
NIFF was born with the intention of triggering, debating the issues that are hidden under appearances and confronting the public with the social realities that show each individual as a part of those that make us complex, unique and human.
The only festival in the world dedicated to Federico Fellini, made in the beautiful city of Fellini: Rimini.
SMArt Academy cultural association, in collaboration with SMArt Lab, and under the auspices of the Emilia Romagna Region, Rimini District and the Municipality of Rimini, announces the 13th Edition of Amarcort Film Festival, short movies contest in November 2020 in Rimini.
Amarcort is associated to AFIC (Associazione dei Festival Cinematografici Italiani) and
FEDIC (Federazione Italiana dei Cineclub).
FECIRA, has as main objective to spread the cinema in the O'Higgins Region. It also promotes the promotion of national and international audiovisual works, being an instance for the dissemination of these.
One of the main motivations for launching the Festival is to turn its eyes towards a community and a territory that in the past was besieged by armed groups outside the law. San Bernardo is today a community that, besides being surrounded by beautiful natural landscapes, has enormous potential in agricultural, tourist, cultural and community issues.
We look for productions that approach through fiction, documentary or animation, themes that include popular knowledge, traditions, practices, customs, manifestations and rural problems of Colombia.
#LOVEISLOVE Festival is a film festival, specializing in short films of LGBT + themes; supporting and promoting creative expressions of emerging and internationally consolidated filmmakers.
The first edition of the #LOVEISLOVE Festival will take place from August 22nd to 24th, 2019, based in the Ex Convent of Guadalupe of the Miguel Hidalgo Delegation, Mexico City.
There are two categories: short advertising and short fiction or documentary. Each team will be formed by a maximum of seven people, and the same team can participate in the two categories if you want. That yes the time for the accomplishment of the short film will be between the day August 26 at 10:00 in the morning and the day 30 at 22:00 at night.
The 25th edition of the "L'Isola del Cinema" Festival renews its appointment with the short film contest "MAMMA ROMA" with the will to give it a national importance that fits ideally into the institutional territory of the 14 Italian Metropolitan Cities1 and calls it MAMMA ROME and the Metropolitan Cities.
Arrived in 2019 at the 8th edition, the Competition is organized by L'Isola del Cinema, in collaboration with Maiora Film and is aimed at young filmmakers (under 35 years) and film schools who intend to participate with a short film that has as central theme a of the 14 metropolitan cities of Italy. A Cinema of Reality, from the Center to the Suburbs, to which young filmmakers and videomakers are invited to participate, who with their short film recount places, people and emotions, like so many digital pieces of a great and extraordinary mosaic of Italian cities.
Through the audiovisual works the authors will discover and narrate the territory interpreting and representing the urban scenarios made significant by the gaze of those who focus on them to return them to the attention of the general public.
The national contest MAMMA ROMA and the Metropolitan Cities will also aim to involve the authors in the project of the Web TV "METROPOLIS" 2 both with the inclusion of the finalist works in the programming of the Web TV, both with a direct involvement in the Editorial.
The competition is hosted within the Film Island, a film and cultural festival whose XXV edition will take place on the Tiber Island from June 13th to September 1st 2019.
Participation in the competition is free of charge.
Every year, the Festival presents documentaries, short films and films that are divided into Official Selection, Information Section, Premium Operas, among others. In addition, actors, directors and personalities that participate in different forums and activities of cultural and cinematographic interest are invited. Some of the artists and personalities that have visited us in the past years are: Paco León, Pablo Trapero, Martina Gusmán, Johnny Pacheco, Marlon Moreno, Manolo Cardona, Frank Perozo, Marianela Sinisterra, Jorge Alberti, Jacobo Morales, Denise Quiñones and Mirta Ibarra, among others.
The films that make up the Official Selection participate in several awards such as: Audience Award, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film and Best Director. To achieve a fair selection, 5 members of the Jury are chosen, composed of people related to the film industry and with a great willingness to evaluate each of these films in an objective and very professional manner.
The goal of each year is to surpass the previous year and continue offering an artistic space where variety and quality predominate in each piece that is exhibited.
