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Deadline
26 Oct 2018


Published: 14 Sep 2018
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films

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Short Film Showcase Vila de Noia

Noia, Spain


The City Council of Noia convenes the "24th Short Film Showcase Vila de Noia 2023", to be held in the last quarter of this year.


GOYA!

International Festival

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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of CINHOMO - International LGBT Film Festival

Deadline
22 Dec 2018


Published: 14 Sep 2018
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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CINHOMO - International LGBT Film Festival

Valladolid, Spain


Article 1. Objective.

- The main goals of CINHOMO include the dissemination and promotion of films that support sexual diversity and gender identity through works of artistic and social relevance. Our purpose is to provide a venue for showing these films, which have difficulty accessing conventional channels for film exhibitions. In many cases, they have received favourable reviews or have received awards at prestigious international film festivals.

- We also aim to feature the work of social or cultural groups from countries where there is no access or limited access to film distribution despite being of great interest.

- Our film festival intends to provide referents for people whose sexual orientation or gender identity is non-heteronormative, promoting greater visibility, normalisation and full integration in a society based on respect.

- Furthermore, through our documentary film section, we aim to create awareness about the situation of LGBTI people around the world, contributing to further progress of human rights


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of The International Horror Hotel

Deadline
01 Mar 2019


Published: 14 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
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The International Horror Hotel

Bedford Hts., United States


The 14th Year will include new additions and competitions! The International Horror Hotel Film Festival and Convention is held every June in Northeast Ohio. We have open competitions for films and scripts in the following genres: experimental (film only), fantasy, horror, horror-comedy, slasher, sci-fi and suspense-thriller. We also accept trailers, music videos, TV pilots (film or script), and web episodes (film or script) for projects in the listed genres.

Competition is also open for our horror film scoring competition (submissions through our website). At the event, we have live scream king/scream queen and FX makeup competitions as well.

This year we will also be holding the second annual Room 237 Film Competition where film makers will compete to create a film in 30 days making use of a murder weapon assigned during a zoom kick off meeting. Further information about the Room 237 Film Competition will be available on the Horror Hotel Film Festival Web Site by January 2024. Start building your team and get ready to compete!

The event features four days of film screenings, two days of panel discussions and lectures, a convention starting on Friday afternoon, special guests, networking Karaoke parties, live competitions and more.


***PLEASE READ ALL RULES/TERMS BEFORE SUBMITTING***


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 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
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Deadline
14 Oct 2018


Published: 13 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
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Cortos en Grande

Santiago, Chile


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival

Deadline
30 Oct 2018


Published: 12 Sep 2018
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival

SASSARI, Italy


The "Fiorenzo Serra" Visual Anthropology Laboratory, managed by the Department of History, Human Sciences and Education of the University of Sassari (from now on, called "Department") and the Società Umanitaria - Cineteca Sarda (from now on, called “Film Archive“), as part of a project aimed at enhancing public awareness of the director, filmmaker and ethnologist Fiorenzo Serra, announce for the year 2023 the Competition for ethnographic film productions titled “Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival”. The definition “film production" (from now on, “film”) means any audiovisual product, a documentary film, produced using analogue or digital technologies. The competition aims to promote the production of films that can contribute to the awareness of ethnographic cultural realities through the audiovisual medium and pursues the objective of protecting and implementing, in a scientific and systematic manner, national and foreign audiovisual productions concerning the ethnographic, archaeological, historical, cultural-linguistic and environmental heritages. The competition also has the function of better defining, within the framework of the theoretical-methodological debate of the demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines, not only the important role of visual anthropology, but also the objective of supporting the realization of audiovisual documentation concerning the identity and the cultural specificities of Sardinia, as well as the different national and international social realities.


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 Documentary  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of ReelLife International Film Festival

Deadline
30 Nov 2018


Published: 12 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
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ReelLife International Film Festival

Kolkata, India


Showcase your work with the 2nd ReelLife International Film Festival 2018. This is an opportunity for independent individuals, as well as Professional filmmakers to expose their talent to the world. Compete with your finest contemporaries not only from within the country but also internationally. In the most innovative way we bring to you a competent platform that promises to enhance your dreams.

We provide to you a stage that is inexpensive and trustworthy. Not only do we screen your submitted film on a particular day at a particular location with great pomp and show, we also make them available on our website. We have a wide circulation network through which the films submitted and selected in our festivals are exposed to the world and the filmmakers have a promising chance of coming into limelight.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Experimental



 
Logo of CINECIOK Festival

Deadline
30 Sep 2018


Published: 12 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
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CINECIOK Festival

Modica, Italy


Cineciok is the festival of Cinema and Chocolate. Cineciok takes place in Modica the city of Chocolate. Festival is all the year. At modica we work the chocolate with ancient methods.
So every year we make the Chocolate Festival and cinema is an integral part of this festival. We reward the most beautiful films with chocolate as their theme or that chocolate is minimally present. If there is only one word "chocolate" in your film, you can participate!!!
We love Chocolate!!
We have three dead line.


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Logo of 13th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival-24

Deadline
15 Oct 2018


Published: 12 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
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13th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival-24

Greater Noida, India


Promoting short films and documentaries culture in a country where commercial cinema has always ruled the roost is not an easy task. Delhi Shorts International Film Festival is one such successful effort started in year 2012 by Miniboxoffice with successful 2012 to 2022 editions. The festival brings thoughtful, highly creative & engaging short films from around the world to fulfill the cinegoers' appetite of the capital city of India. The festival aim is to establish a short film industry which runs parallel to commercial cinema.

13th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival-2024 is meant to grow many folds. The inaugural year 2012 was a big success followed by super successful 2012 to 2023 editions & enjoys the credibility of one of the most trusted short film festival of India. The festival was not only embraced by the short filmmaker’s but regarded by the media & industry members also.

The festival objective is to boost-up the short film market & providing exhibition platform to short filmmakers. The festival gives the professional networking opportunities & at the same time introduces the latest trends in cinema to the filmmakers. 13th DSIFF-24 is a unique platform here you can share, learn, showcase, observe & do many more thing to polish your creative & technical skills. We hope that this festival will turn a milestone in your filmmaking career.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Bengals International

Deadline
04 Oct 2018


Published: 11 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Bengals International

Howrah, India


Welcome to Bengals International.[ Film Festival with Live Screenings ] We are glad to welcome you to our Short Film Festival that invites films from all over the world. Our mission is to spread the creativity of film makers to as many viewers as possible. Your only Job is to submit your film, rest will be ours!! We are ready to screen your project/Shorts. Are you ready to participate !!!


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of The Black Sea Film Festival

Deadline
05 Jun 2019


Published: 11 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
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Feature films


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The Black Sea Film Festival

Vama Veche / Corbu, Romania


What could ever be more relaxing and delightful than spending a night on the beach… barefoot, wet hair,sun-kissed skin, summer wind, friends and lovers, drinks and a sky full of stars? We know. All these in the company of a series of great films! We offer you the wonderful experience of mixing the best of summer with cinema, aiming to make you FEEL. Literally.

The Black Sea Film Festival is an annual event which awards new inspiring, motivating talent. Designed to acknowledge the creative contributions of both young and elder artists, beginners or with a long way paved behind, the festival benefits the community socially, educationally and economically – wise.

The Festival will showcase innovative independent cinema from around the world, taking place along the Romanian Black Sea coast. The fourth edition will be held in Vama Veche, a charismatic place known for its young, vibrating and artistic spirit.

On our current edition we are accepting a variety of short films: narrative, animation, experimental, student, documentary, music video, human rights, and also feature films: narrative, documentary. The film production can be made within the last ten years.

Wonderful seaside movie nights are expecting you to enjoy the summer breeze and watch films under millions of stars!

It’s all about the feels. It’s all about the cineFEELS!


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Scrittura e Immagine Short Film Festival

Deadline
22 Oct 2018


Published: 11 Sep 2018
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Scrittura e Immagine Short Film Festival

Pescara, Italy



1. ORGANIZATION
The Festival is promoted by Associazione culturale Ennio Flaiano, under the patronage of Fondazione Edoardo Tiboni and collaboration of Mediamuseum-Museum of Cinema.
The Festival will take place in Pescara (Italy), from 3 to 6 December 2019.


2. SECTIONS
Multimedia works may be admitted (shorts, documentaries, digital storytelling, video works...) in competitive section. The jury is presided by Franco Mariotti, journalist and expert of cinema.
The competitive sections are:

1 - “SCRITTURA E IMMAGINE”:
Works (fiction, documentaries) inspired by literature, drama and chronicle.
Prize: 1500 euros.

2 – “CORTOSCUOLA” (ONLY FOR ITALY)
Shorts produced by schools.
Prize: 500 euros.

3 - “ANIMACORTO”:
Animated short film section.
Prize: 500 euros.

4 – (ONLY FOR ITALY) “SPAZIO ABRUZZO: ENVIRONMENT AND ENOLOGY”
Shorts produced in Abruzzo - a region of Italy – and shorts focused on the world of wine and agriculture.
Prize: 500 euros.

5 – “CORTOAMBIENTE: your city and environment”
Shorts focused on society, environment and environmental sustainability.
Prize: 500 euros.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental



 
Logo of Ennesimo Film Festival

Deadline
12 Jan 2019


Published: 11 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Ennesimo Film Festival

Fiorano Modenese, Italy



The festival’s mission is to spread the knowledge of film art, especially in the form of short films, in order to show the public all the different aspects of contemporary international cinema.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Toronto Shorts International Film Festival

Deadline
25 Jan 2019


Published: 10 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
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Toronto Shorts International Film Festival

Toronto, Canada


Celebrating 12 years the Toronto Shorts International Film Festival is the largest short film festival in Canada.

Toronto Shorts is a non-profit organization that provides a showcase for the best short films and its creators from around the world, annually in the heart of Toronto.

We feel that short-form cinema and its creators should have their own premier film festival in Toronto deserving similar recognition given to the feature film and its creators.

Toronto Shorts is where films from all genres intersect. The heart of the festival is the quality and scope of extraordinary film programming which consists of a wide spectrum of categories from high to low budget films under 45 minutes.

The festival has become a career stepping stone, establishing a tradition of discovering and promoting filmmakers who have gone on to be Academy Awards Nominees, including :

2021 Oscar Nominee 'The Present' by Farah Nabulsi
2019 Oscar Nominee ‘Weekends’ by Trevor Jimenez
2018 Oscar Nominees 'Watu Wote - All of Us' (Germany) and 'The Eleven O'Clock' (Australia)

Toronto stands as the largest media market in Canada, it boasts the world-renowned Royal Ontario Museum, the massive Art Gallery of Ontario, the Soulpepper Theatre Company, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and now includes a premier international short film festival.

We showcase the best short films and its filmmakers from around the world.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of The Hazel Eye Film Festival

Deadline
26 Mar 2019


Published: 09 Sep 2018
 Does NOT have submission fees
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The Hazel Eye Film Festival

Nashville, United States


The Hazel Eye Film Festival (HEFF) is interested in experimental live action films, as well as experimental animations. We are looking for any work that pushes the boundaries of the audiovisual art form. Short film submissions should be no longer than 25 minutes, and feature film submissions should be no shorter than 40 minutes.

Submit your work through FestHome before March 26th, 2019; selections will be made by the following week, on April 2nd, 2019.

HEFF will take place over the course of one week, from April 9th, 2019 until April 16th, 2019; Official Selections will screen online, via HEFF's website, on designated days throughout the festival week.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Under Our Skin - Human Rights International Film Festival

Deadline
31 Oct 2018


Published: 08 Sep 2018
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films

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Under Our Skin - Human Rights International Film Festival

Ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia


Bajo Nuestra Piel International Film Festival on Human Rights is a project that aims to generate a debate and reflective space on Human Rights topics through the artistic representation in documental, fiction and animation format, of critical, socially compromised and quality cinema.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Kinoki International Film Festival

Deadline
28 Jan 2019


Published: 08 Sep 2018
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Kinoki International Film Festival

Ciudad de México, Mexico


Since 2004, Kinoki International Student Film Festival has been run completely by students at the Universidad Iberoamericana in México City. Our purpose is to create a friendly environment where film students from all around the world can share their work and compete as part of our official selection.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental



 
Logo of Fantastic Film Festival

Deadline
27 Jun 2019


Published: 08 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
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Feature films


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Fantastic Film Festival

Barcelona, Spain


4th edition of Fantástic Film Festival is mainly intended for short films and feature films of fantastic genre


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 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of SorsiCorti Short Film Festival

Deadline
21 Dec 2018


Published: 08 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
Short films


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SorsiCorti Short Film Festival

Palermo, Italy


SorsiCorti is a Short Film Festival that combines conviviality and interest in the art of the short film.

SorsiCorti was born from passion for cinema and desire to explore innovative and experimental trails of short films

Careful and accurative selection carried out by an evaluation committee made up of experts cinephiles, allows that only high quality short films access the program projection.

SorsiCorti has developed a strong collaboration with the young cultural reality of the Piccolo Teatro Patafisico in Palermo, who also became the official location of the live screenings. However, various events are realized around in town.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of High Coast International Film Festival

Deadline
30 Jun 2019


Published: 08 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
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High Coast International Film Festival

Nordingrå, Sweden


HIGH COAST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – True Independent Films in the Swedish High Coast.

We work to promote True Independent Films – for film makers to reach out with and for people to see. Participating at the High Coast Film Festival should be a valuable and memorable experience.

The Festival is a two day event - Friday and Saturday- held at Lunde Folkets Hus (house of the people). Used as a Cinema in the 70's it has now received a revival!

We show films that are self produced and haven't been at the major Swedish Film Festivals. We also have a limit for how much external cash that the production has been granted. This is to ensure that the Festival remains a platform for True Independent Films and film makers. For more details about eligibility please read "Rules & Terms" below.

The foundational idea with the festival and the program we put together is the personal voice and expression through the medium of film. There are no sections for contemporary films or attention to any specific topics or methods – film as a means to artisticly express and portray is what puts the program together.

As a result we show films with all sorts of thematics and methods. Strict fiction with a clear cut storyline, wild experimental film poetry, quiet anthropological documentaries. Comedies, dramas and everything there between. Some are entertaining, some are not. Some are easy to digest, some not at all.

We pay for accommodation for all selected film makers thursday to sunday so all guests can get both the festival event and a few days extra. This is something we do to help and support visiting the festival and part of our ambition to make it a valuable experience for participating film makers.

During our first four editions we are happy to have succeeded establishing the festival as a quality event for international independent films in the High Coast. Lots of press coverage by regional news paper, Swedish National TV and Swedish National wide radio have spread the word about what we do and it's had an impact. Full house festival and attendence from both press, audience, film organizations and film makers have shown what we knew all along – the quality of real independent films is high, the gems are unknown and once people are exposed to them they put great value to the films and the cinematic experience.

2018 we founded a Streamingsite for True Independent Films – Illambra. All participants are invited to join, not only with the film at the festival but with others too that fit the site. We want to offer audience a wider opportunity to take part of the festival program – all year around from anywhere in the world, and to offer film makers a home for their works where they are presented in a qualitative environment and platform. The idea of Illambra is to over time build a solid videostore online presenting authors rather than titles for audience to follow and watch works of.

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Featured Films on Website
Apart from the Festival event we have also begun building a section of featured films on our website. We're looking for Experimental and Unconventional Genre, Auteur and Art house films of all sorts.

If you have a Short film available for free online or a Feature film for free or purchase, and you wish to have it featured and promoted, please follow the instructions in this link: http://bit.ly/featuredfilm

We want to host a curated section of films that is wide but still of quality and that makes sense for film makers who submits a film, as more films can be featured on our website than we can invite to the festival event.

The curating is based on our artistic judgement and we won't feature every film - but we will host many and we will never charge for this service.

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Feedback, Review & Festival Consideration
It's frustrating to be declined and not get to know why. However, it can also be frustrating submitting to a festival and be forced to pay a higher fee because it includes feedback you're not interested in.

We work diligently, with care and dedication when putting the program together and when it comes to feedback for the submissions we do the same thing. This is why we divide our categories so that feedback is separate from the submissions and is an in-depth review rather than a small note.

Feedback is given by our head programmer Andrija Jovanovic and is an extensive analysis and review of the film and it's different components. Film language, dramaturgical storyline, pacing, technical aspects of grading, composoting and editing, acting etc. It's direct, honest and constructive.

If you wish to submit a film and also get feedback, please choose the matching category.

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We have no hard rules for the content of the film, but the following tend not to be a good fit for us:

- Films that seek to educate and teach the viewers
- TV-format films and headshot interview based documentaries
- Music videos and films solely driven by soundtrack

We spend months carefully watching and programming our festival selection. Presenting the best possible program we can is what our festival is built upon. Submitting to the festival is to pay to have the film considered and is not a guarantee to have it selected. We receive hundreds of submissions each edition and only around 5% are selected. Please make sure that you wish to submit before doing so.


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Logo of Muestra de Cinema El Tumbao

Deadline
06 Nov 2018


Published: 07 Sep 2018
 Has submission fees
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Muestra de Cinema El Tumbao

Alicante, Spain


La Asociación Cultural el Tumbao organiza su tercera muestra de cinema en sus instalaciones. Dicha muestra constará de dos días de proyección: el jueves 12 de diciembre y el viernes 13 de diciembre de 2019. Esta tercera muestra tiene un carácter generalista, en formato cortometraje y de géneros variados como la ficción, el documental y la no-ficción, la animación, el vídeo experimental, etc.

The Asociación Cultural El Tumbao organizes its III Muestra de Cinema El Tumbao in its facilities. This show will consist of two days of screening: Thursday December 12 and Friday December 13, 2019. This third edition has a generalist character, in short film format and varied genres such as fiction, documentary and non-fiction, animation, experimental video, etc.


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