The Solidando Film Festival will be held from 7th to 9th December 2018 in the city of Cagliari in Italy.
It is a NO-PROFIT international competitive festival of social short films for the following genres: documentary, fiction or animation exclusively on social themes.
What do we mean by social theme:
we mean stories: real, inspired to reality or fictions that deal with human rights, solidarity, cooperation, education, social projects, third-world issues, environmental sustainability, diversity, etc. etc..
MegaCities-ShortDocs is an association of public interest founded in Paris, whose objective is to inspire through short documentary films, other people, associations, businesses and governments to set in motion new initiatives that contribute to a society more respectful of the environment and offering greater solidarity among citizens.
The association is organizing the 4th edition of the International Festival of Citizen "short documentary films" on the theme of megacities. This annual festival is open to anyone and must highlight solutions, or potential initiatives, that meet urban challenges and improve our lives.
Short videos must be submitted no later than July 31, 2018, and the winners will be presented at the Awards Ceremony, mid-October, in Paris.
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A propos de MegaCities-ShortDocs
MegaCities-ShortDocs est une association d’intérêt général fondée à Paris, dont l’objectif est d’inspirer via des documentaires courts, des habitants, des associations, des entreprises, des élus, à mettre en mouvement de nouvelles initiatives, au coeur des plus grandes villes du monde, concourant à une société plus respectueuse de l'environnement et plus solidaire.
L’association organise la 4ème édition du Festival International de “courts-métrages documentaires” Citoyen sur la thématique des mégapoles. Ce festival annuel est ouvert à tous et doit mettre en avant des solutions, ou pistes de solutions, qui répondent aux défis urbains et améliorent la vie des habitants.
Les documentaires courts doivent être remis au plus tard au 31 Juillet 2018, et les lauréats seront présentés lors de la Cérémonie des Récompenses à la mi-Octobre.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Rock Horror Film Festival is more than a film festival, it’s an event that unites the best of the horror, thriller, and fantasy films with rock & roll in a big party for moviegoers who love music, and cinema. Prepare your heart for scaring and exciting nights filled with the best of the national and international thrillers, and a lot of rock & roll.
ROCK HORROR LABS
The festival will also have a team of international professionals in pannels, workshops and round tables about cinema in different areas such as: production, photography, directing, acting, makeup, soundtrack, among others.
ROUND TABLES
The festival organize round tables with the participation od the directors, actors and professionals.
“A path is always between two points, but the in-between has taken on all the consistency
and enjoys both an autonomy and a direction of its own” G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, 1987
Based at the legendary DETOUR Arthouse Cinema, in the heart of Rome since 1997, ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL is devoted to contemporary independent cinema - fiction, documentary and experimental - presenting travelogues, urban and waste-land wanderings, real or imaginary topographies, unexpected detours, psycho-geographical drifts, migration and nomadism.
We look for films that develop, through linguistic and narrative skills, a critical and inventive approach to the subject guidelines of the Festival: a traveling mood with digressions from fixed paths, where the route is what matters, not the destination.
The Festival hosts screenings, master classes, meetings, art exhibitions, live performances and music, both at DETOUR Cinema and at a variety of cinema venues, film clubs, schools, public libraries and other unusual locations in Rome and and in its surrounding area.
OTRFF competition consists of two sections: THE ROAD (Features and Mid-length films =>30') and SHORT>CUTS (short films <30')
Features and Short Films in competition will be screened in late 2021 or in early 2022 at Detour Cinema in Rome, depending on the progress of the covid pandemic.
In respect of impediments resulting from the persistence of the pandemic emergency, the main festival events, the award ceremony and the screenings of the winning films will take place live online in "virtual cinema" mode.
INTRODUCTION
Valdivia International Film Festival showcases Chilean and international cinema in four competitive categories: Feature Competition, Youth Feature Competition, Latin American and Caribbean Short Film Competition, Latin American and Caribbean Children’s Short Film Competition and the new Chilean Short Film Competition for Film Students. Its non-competitive program includes historical retrospectives, contemporary filmmakers’ retrospectives, political 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 14th to 20th, 2024, in Valdivia, Chile.
The Cadaqués Shortfilm Festival is born from the collaboration between the City Council of Cadaqués and Cadaqués Shortfilm Festival.
The CSF 2021 is recognized and is part of the official calendars of the ICCA (Ministry of culture of Spain) and Catalan Films
The initial spirit of the CSF is a competitive short film festival with special projections related to Cadaqués and Surrealism, in this sense, nothing better than the Festival inaugurated with the projection of the iconic film of this movement, "Un Chien andalou" by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
The CSF includes the Experimental and Surrealist Film Festival as Official Sections, a differentiated feature of this festival, with a clear international vocation.
Cadaqués, known worldwide for its most illustrious habitant, Salvador Dalí, is the ideal place for a film festival of these characteristics.
It's in Festivals of this format in the short film about and educates the viewer in this film typology, hoping that soon, the CSF will be a referential Festival in the rich cultural activity of Cadaqués.
The Festival
The Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF) is a beloved short film festival in China. During ten festival days, hundreds of filmmakers and artists present their work to a large audience. The festival is a hub where our visionary team organises and stimulates film-related activities to accompany a quality program—robust, eclectic, adventurous—and where emerging talent meets prestigious guests. This is what makes BISFF unique: every year it attracts distinct personalities from the field, who rediscover the magic of cinema at the heart of one of the world’s most dynamic cities.
For more information about BISFF, please visit www.bisff.co.
The Portland Unknown returns!
Our goal is to curate a gallery of film for the underground, under-known, rough and raw filmmaker. Low Budget, analog format, top priority. The Portland Unknown Film Festival is here to showcase films of highest quality and deepest heart!
Your goal is to bring us into worlds we've never seen before. Take us on a lucid dream through your mind. Teach us something new. Show us the light. Make us go, "Huh?"
On October 19th and 20th, 2018 at Disjecta , the Portland Unknown Film Festival will be featuring the brightest and best hidden gems from around the Milky Way. The festival will consist of multiple segments including a rowdy 2-minute festival where the audience is the judge.
Submit today! Unveil your experiments and alternate realities to us!
The ArtCity Short Film Festival (Est. in 2014) celebrates the art of film making by setting the stage for independent filmmakers from Cameroon and the Rest of the World, to showcase their film talent and be discovered. This will be the 3rd edition of an annual event. For this 3rd edition, we are anticipating over 800+ short films submissions from around the globe. ArtCity Short Film Festival aims to rapidly become a well-known venue for writers, producers, and actors to screen a variety of independent short films, while also providing workshops with industry professionals for budding filmmakers and film enthusiasts alike.
Just like the first and the second, the 3rd edition will take place in Buea (Cameroon). This represents a moment of huge cultural importance for the projection of short films. Local and international film-making setups are invited to meet on common ground, using one language… The one we all love and know best – Film!
Caostica is an International Shortfilm an Videoclip Festival that takes place in Bilbao (Basque Country) with these sections: Videozinema (Fiction Shortfilms), Animation and Videoclip (Music Video).
All prizes are given by a professional jury except of Bizarre Prize. The Caostica Association will award the Bizarre Prize to the participant whom best represents the fresh, innovative, quirky, irreverent, Martian, jokester, weird, risky, brave and daring spirit that characterizes this festival, regardless of the section in which he or she is registered.In addition to this the Festival will award a prize to the best film in basque language, independently of the section in which its signed up.
12° FESTIVERD – Venezuela: UNIVERSIDADES VERDES
Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Verde de Venezuela abre su convocatoria para la 12° edición a realizarse del 2 al 6 de diciembre de 2024. Podrán presentarse cortometrajes estudiantiles de cualquier latitud, en una única categoría, siempre y cuando versen sobre la temática AMBIENTAL.
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Our vision: to become a green film and video festival that, from Venezuela to the world, serves as an example in the creation of loving-parental bonds among all the inhabitants of planet Earth.
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Our mission: to offer an alternative to environmental and ecological experiences that aim to rescue parental ties between all biotic and abiotic beings. The exhibition on green audiovisual narratives is interrelated with other streaming, media, transmedia and social network experiences, generating a network of virtual ties that we want to turn into parental ties.
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Our Philosophy: We distance ourselves from anthropocentric views and excessive mandates about caring for the environment that end up being anthropocentric traps without an understanding of the biology of love. The use of new technologies, academic and artistic production are the main vehicles for dissemination.
The Concepción Independent Film Awards arrives at its fourth edition, with the mission of showing good cinema for a week to the BíoBío region, to Chile and to the whole world. The festival tries to provide a social view of film production, however, it is not limited to this theme, but offers a range of themes and genres for the enjoyment of lovers of the seventh art.
Young European cinema of the highest standard is one of the trademarks
of Braunschweig International Film Festival.
“Music & Film” is Braunschweig's second focal point, drawing attention to the sound of the moving images.
International premières, cinéma d'auteurs, film concerts, retrospectives, tributes and four awards round off the filmfest's profile, giving the audience and the press ample scope for new discoveries.
IMPORTANT - -> DOCUMENTARIES NOT BEEN PRODUCED OR CO-PRODUCED IN MEXICO DURING 2017/2018 WILL NOT BE ADMITTED AT THE FESTIVAL,
FICMA MX (International Environmental Film Festival of Mexico) it’s been runing now for 9 years in Mexico, and is co organized with ACCIONS 3E UN Environment of Mexico and the CANACINTRA Foundation.
The Festival has among its main objectives: the environmental AWARENESS and EDUCATION to arrive to ALL CITIZENSHIP, with films and audiovisual as a tool and to PROMOTE and HELP the PRODUCTION of Mexican Films
Having a successful ITINERANCE FOR MORE THAN 40 CITIES in the country-reaching more than 30 thousand spectators in its last edition FICMA MX will program documentaries and films of the latest Barcelona FICMA Edition (25 years old Festival and the oldest one in the world in terms of the environment) and also it will include documentaries produced or co-produced with Mexico, which are the ones that are convened in this contest.
The IMCINE (Mexican Institute of Cinematography) and other government entities and civilians, provide us an strategic and permanent collaboration, allowing us to be the environmental Festival of reference in the country.
This year 2018, FICMA MX launches the contest with the highest Environmental Film Awards for a documentary of the country (60.000 MX$) to all those productions made in Mexico between the years 2017/2018 telling us different environmental situations in Mexico: Climate change , Water, New Energies, Biodiversity, Human rights, Animal rights, Oceans, Waste, Forests, Sotenibility, Pollution, Health, Food, among others.
FICMA MX "gives voice" at the Mexican cinema, its filmmakers and producers who produce and are committed through the cinema and talk to us about such important and rigorous issues and current affairs.
On June 5 (World Environment Day), with important monetary prizes, the winning documentary will be awarded access to the pre-selection of the 25th International Environmental Film Festival (FICMA) in Barcelona, from November 1 to 9, 2018.
The most important premieres of environmental cinema have a FESTIVAL recognized by great personalities from the Cinema and Environment world: Jane Goodall, Daryl Hannah, Yan Arthus Bertrand, Martin Sheen, Daphne Zuniga, among many others. This Festival is FICMA.
Since its creation in 2007, Île Courts–International Short Film Festival in Mauritius acts as a tool-kit for the development of cinema in Mauritius. Non-competitive, Île Courts Festival is meant to be a showcase for cinema in Mauritius, taking us to a surprizing journey into world cinema, with a focus given on short films from the Indian Ocean area, at a crossroad between Africa and Asia. In 2018, Île Courts invites french-speaking and creole-speaking Filmmakers from the Caribbean and Pacific Islands to submit their films to the festival, therefore 36 territories are concerned by our call for films. The 11th edition of Île Courts-International Short Film Festival in Mauritius will be held by Association Porteurs d'Images from 9th to 13th October 2018, in various cities and villages throughout the island.
Fusagasugá International Film Festival (FICFUSA) aims to bring the residents of Fusagasugá and the Sumapaz region new screens, points of view and cinematographic work of high quality to promote a critical thinking around the problems and issues experienced by women. In the short term, we aim to become an international platform for gender and women thematic films, attracting producers, directors, and distributors interested in these subjects.
Star Film Fest is dedicated to films made by young authors all around the world. Clear, simple, lovely but also serious! For 8 consecutive years, we have been giving opportunities to young, and talented filmmakers to showcase their works on the projection screen. Through the categories like documentary, feature, experimental, animated, and student film, Star Film Fest provides affirmation to students of the Academy of dramatic arts and the Academy of fine arts, but also to any young person that wants to engage in film outside academic frame.
In addition to film screenings and competition programs, Star Film Fest is held at several ambient locations in Sisak, and with accompanying content such as exhibitions, film workshops, concerts, and discussions on current topics, the festival proudly spreads film art propaganda which for centuries brings growth and cultural development to Croatia and the world while also calling for critical thinking and openness.
As a festival organizator, Kino Klub Sisak is also the only gathering place for filmmakers in Sisak-moslavina county. The development of Star Film Fest showcases the necessity of decentralization of film culture and art in Croatia. Therefore, by promoting the culture of filmmaking, creativity and critical thinking along with creating and maintaining a much needed platform for self-realization of young filmmakers, Star Film Fest gets the mark of a festival that is oriented on the prosperity of new, fresh creators, and audiences.
