Your recognition should be SOLELY based on how good your work is, but to be honest, it's not. There's so much politics and agendas, and personal ties in this industry.
The people who get accepted into the big festivals are so rarely the little guy/girl, and it's basically a circle jerk of only those who have a big name or star attached getting in.
You hate that, and I hate that. That's why this this is built by filmmakers, in fact, we just completed our first feature which premiered at TIFF Lightbox last year.
We don't discriminate in genre, in length, in anything asides from "How good is your god damned film?"
You already have a lot debt and a lot of disappointments as an indie. Maybe you get accepted at a festival that shows your work some where in some guy's basement, but does that really matter in the end?
What about getting screened at the "BIG SCREEN", having your name on the Marquee?
When will making your short actually translate to MAKING IT in the business?
We're filmmakers too here at indiefilmTO which is why we've designed this from the ground up for filmmakers who are ready to take that next step.
indiefilmTO Festival was founded in 2015, and screened at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) Bell Lightbox, since we know how important the VENUE is to filmmakers.
Be we don't stop there. We invite industry producers and Executive producers to come to the screening, to mingle, so you get a chance to get your film in front of the eyes of those who matter.
This year, we will again be screened at TIFF (350 King St. W, Toronto ON) in Nov / Dec 2017.
If you want your name on that marquee, and want to stop going more and more into debt, waking up and wondering when will this Groundhog Day circle of making-films-and-going-nowhere to end, then submit to indiefilmTO Festival.
*indiefilmTO is a non-profit based in Toronto founded by filmmakers, which seeks to help grow the indie film scene in Toronto.
The Atlanta Comedy Film Festival is a unique forum for comedy filmmakers and television producers from all over the world to showcase their creative works in Atlanta, Georgia. The Atlanta Comedy Film Festival showcases short comedy films, web series, funny music videos, commercials (Under 30 minutes) from all over the world, in HD. Accepted films will be screened in a back-to-back, fast-paced format for a comedy film loving audience. The awards ceremony will take place at the end of the program that will recognize filmmakers for their creative work. Currently, this festival is not accepting feature length films.
The Vibora Club of Valencia together CortocircuitoValencia.com summon all the short filmmakers interested in participating in the first edition of this festival.
En medio de la indiferencia y apatía de un mundo hipercomunicado, el Colectivo Fílmico G/A propone por segundo año consecutivo, la plataforma de proyección cinematográfica Cámara Lúcida, enfocada en la muestra y difusión de cine de autor, experimental, no ficción, periférico y contracultural.
El objetivo de este encuentro cinematográfico plantea crear un espacio de empatía, donde como autores y espectadores podamos escucharnos y saber del otro, de sus investigaciones y preocupaciones. Esperamos que la sala de cine florezca como lugar creador de complicidades de un andar, de una forma de ver o entender el mundo, un lugar en que la vinculación entre el autor y el espectador nos permita soñar juntos.
Fieles a nuestra decisión inicial decidimos fundar este espacio de proyección mostrando aquellas obras fílmicas que plasman la realidad que nos enmaraña; la confrontan y la ayudan a transformarse.
Cámara Lúcida decide apoyar a los autores que reconocen y proponen nuevas narrativas desde sí mismos y en medio de su cohabitar con la realidad, a las películas que reinterpretan y plastifican la realidad, el cine que resignifica al cine día a día.
Esperamos ser un espacio que supere las censuras y prejuicios en el quehacer cinematográfico y sus temas. Apoyamos a los autores que no le temen a los nuevos formatos y su movimiento, a sus temas y su tratamiento, cine en constante mutación e irresistible transformación, es decir, cine libre.
Sean todos y todas bienvenidos.
Semillero Green Film Fest 2020 es la 10º edición del Concurso Nacional de Cortometrajes de Temática Ambiental. Su objetivo principal es fomentar la creatividad y apoyar la realización nacional independiente de obras audiovisuales cuyo contenido esté referido a la temática ambiental.
El concurso posee dos categorías de participación:
SEMILLERO
Incluye a todas aquellas personas residentes en la Argentina, con domicilio acreditable en el país, o de nacionalidad argentina y que residan en el exterior, mayores de 18 años, a través de la presentación de una o más obras.
SEMILLERITO
Incluye a todos los niños y niñas de nacionalidad argentina de entre 5 y 13 años, que estudien en las escuelas de educación primaria de todo el país, a través de la presentación de una o más obras. Se podrán presentar también las escuelas primarias de todo el país, tanto de gestión pública como privada.
SHORTS in TRANSILVANIA
We know how hard it may be, for filmmakers, to produce and distribute their works, especially if those are short films and independent productions. TRANSILVANIA SHORTS [International Short Film Festival] is the useful tool for every filmmaker, in order to further showcase their films, and get their deserved public feedback and recognition. The films selected in the festival competition are further on promoted, screened at the festival, and evaluated by a team of experts in the industry. Transilvania Shorts supports filmmakers in gaining the recognition of the public passionate about cinema, and that of mass-media, and, also, in being rewarded for their work.
Come celebrate and share your passion for cinema! Held in both beautiful and medieval cities, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Braṣov and Târgu Mureș, Transilvania Shorts brings short films, from all over the world, to beautiful Transilvania. In the future, the festival will be extended, in order to be present in all major cities of Transilvania. This year’s Festival Program will showcase a wide variety of international short films, in the categories of: Narrative, Animation, Student, Commercial Video, Documentary, Experimental, Fashion, Music Video, Narrative, Student.
The festival is organized by the Cultural Association "Charlie Quispe & Co" (www.charliequispe.org) in Cusco, Peru.
VIDEOBABEL: CALL FOR ENTRIES 2019
I. OUR AIMS
Promotion of animation, video art and experimental audiovisual production in Peru and other countries.
Opening of new spaces for the sharing of experiences between Latin American animators and video artists and
their colleagues from other parts of the world. Publicizing of Peruvian and Latin American animation, video art and experimental video production throughout the world, showing recent examples of international animation and experimental video in Peru.
Raising awareness of new art media and languages among the Peruvian public.
Contact:
Vera Tyuleneva
Coordinator of the VideoBabel Festival
President of the “Charlie Quispe & Co” Cultural Association
Phone:+51 984604731
E-mail: festivalvideobabel@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FestivalVideoBabel
By You, For You, About You”
Mission
Welcome to the 11th Annual World Music and Independent Film Festival (WMIFF) 2019. WMIFF was established to celebrate and provide a platform of achievements for international cinema artists. Dedicated to building a global film community and supporting emerging filmmakers, WMIFF offers all selected artists exceptional exposure with an inclusive vibe that has won over alumni, attendees, and industry members alike. WMIFF festivities are open to all, featuring some of the most talented artists in both film and music.
The 18th edition of CORTOCOMENIUS intends to show the best valencian productions , with the intention of promoting, broadcast and support to the development of the digital cinema.
IBIZASHORTFILMS FESTIVAL & MARKET is an online monthly festival with scrennings for the annual winners of each category in the Can Ventosa Auditorium in Ibiza, suitable for 400 people and perfectly equipped for high quality screnning.
These projections are made on January 27, 2018 within the events of the Ibizacinefest 2018 which is the festival of cinema of reference of the Island with 5 days of duration.
The monthly winners access the ON-LINE catalog of IBIZASHORTFILMS MARKET that will be shown at the Ibizacinefest during the Festival and will be shown annually to the main distributors of national and international short films.
The on-line catalog is permanent for the consultation of any distributor or festival interested in the work.IBIZASHORTFILMS MARKET does not interfere with the contacts that the work obtains from the inclusion in our catalog.
The Boca International Jewish Film Festival is presenting a broad array of exceptional films from the United States, Israel and around the world including feature films, documentaries, comedies and short films that explore the Jewish experience, culture, history, identity and topics relevant to Jewish life.
The municipality of Gravina di Catania and the cultural associations “Gravina Arte” and “No_Name”, organize the event “Via dei Corti” – 10th edition of the Independent Short Film Festival.
The Festival’s goal is to dive the audience into the Seventh art, for this reason it supports and spread the local and national films, screening the artwork in an intimate atmosphere, with the purpose of motivating the artists to produce films, involving them in the art and culture that makes Mexico and outstading country.
Original Version in Catalan
VOC Festival Òmnium de Curtmetratges és un projecte impulsat per Òmnium Cultural amb la finalitat d’estimular la producció de curtmetratges de qualitat en català, contribuir a la seva difusió i ampliar-ne el públic.
El VOC és un festival únic perquè arriba a més de 90 sales d’arreu dels Països Catalans simultàniament durant els mesos de febrer i març. És un punt de trobada entre creadors, públic i referents del sector, una oportunitat per compartir l’experiència del cinema en llengua catalana.
The Agricultural Exhibition of Organic Film're coming!
Will take place in Santa Rita - Sierra District Talhada (PE) - a Show of Cinema with a fully designed program for farmers.
In addition to the display of movies at night, during the day will take place the two MACO of workshops for the selected subscribers: "Sowing one Cineclube, practice and effect" and "New Agricultural Practices".
Do not forget! On 28, 29 and July 30 in Santa Rita, District of Serra Talhada, free and outdoors, have I show Agricultural Organic Cinema!
We have the presence of all!
The International Short Film Festival of Cali, with the opening of its call, is to be a space for the exhibition of professional and university short films from the city of Cali and the world to serve as a meeting point between the new filmmakers and the professionals of the short film.
The XV International Short Film Festival of Cali will take place from September 12 to 16 of 2023, in the city of Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
The call for the competitive categories of the festival will be open from May 8th of 2023 and we will close the registration period at midnight of July 8th of 2023 Colombian local time (UTC-5).
Films sent to the following categories: National Official Selection, National Official University Selection, International Official Selection and International Official University Selection must have been completed after January 15, 2021.
The results of the call for the competitive categories will be announced on the festival’s official website www.cortoscali.com by August 8th, 2023.
POST-ALMOST-APOCALYPSE
Mórbido turns 15 years and it’s time to celebrate the survival of the modern apocalypse.
In those terms, Mórbido 2022 will have a hybrid identity. The festival will take place in theaters, on the LATAM Pay TV channel Mórbido TV, online and in a drive-in Cinema.
SHORT FILM SELECTION / Pay TV + Online
25th Oct through 31st Oct
The 2022 short film selection will be broadcasted through Mórbido TV. (Basic Pay TV, Latin America, not Brazil).
FEATURE FILM SELECTION / Cinemas + Drive In + Online
25th October through 31st October
The 2022 feature film selection will be shown:
- Cinépolis Diana, Cinemanía Loreto, Autocinema Coyote.
- Cinépolis Klic (November 1st-6th).
ART&TUR INDIE is a competition within the world-renowned International Tourism Film Festival - ART&TUR. Founded in 2008 and celebrating 10 editions, the organization decided to start a new competition dedicated to Students and Independent Filmmakers.
ART&TUR INDIE is a Film Competition with Live Screenings and our mission is to inspire and encourage Independent filmmakers and Students through a competitive showcase, allowing them to meet, experience and share with award-winning professionals from around the world, who join in a pleasant and enriching Atmosphere during the ART&TUR Festival.
COMPETITION:
Independent Filmmakers and Students are welcome to submit their films.
The competition is open to the following type of Productions:
• Promotional Film (Up to 2 min.)
• Micro-documentary (Up to 5 Min.)
There are two categories in the film contest:
• Sustainable & Responsible Tourism
• Arts, Music & Culture
