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American Documentary And Animation Film Festival (Amdocs)

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AmDocs is one of the largest Documentary and Animation only festivals in the United States. We are located in beautiful Palm Springs, not far from the media capital of Hollywood. We take pride in sharing the best viewing environment for both our audience and filmmakers.

AmDocs is very progressive in education outreach, market sharing and doing all we can to help our filmmakers realize their goals.



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Published: 02 Nov 2024
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Villanueva Showing FIlm Awards

Deadline: 07 Mar 2025

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International Festival

Short film festival

«The Oscars of the university cinema»

Villanueva Showing Festival is an International Short Film Festival for young people between 15 and 25 years old, organized by Universidad Villanueva. This initiative aims to encourage young people to reflect on universal human values ​​through audiovisual language. For this reason, each edition challenges the young cinematographic promises to create their own piece on a specific theme based on a universal value.

This festival, in which more than $ 22,000 in prizes are awarded every year, offers great visibility to young cinematographic talents before an international jury of experts, producers, directors, scriptwriters, actors and other professionals from the sector who attend the ceremony annually of awards ceremony, held in an iconic [...]

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Madrid, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 02 Nov 2024
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Chennai World Cinema Festival -2025

Deadline: 01 Aug 2025

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Welcome to the CHENNAI WORLD CINEMA FESTIVAL-2025!

Chennai World Cinema Festival successfully held its inaugural event on September 19th-25th, 2025.

700 seater Sri Devi Karumari Theater.
A widescreen is like an IMAX theatre.
The theatre has a 4K projection and Dolby Atmos sound system.

Three days,
18 screenings,
27 Short Films & Feature Films,
All visitors were admitted free of charge.

The 1st Chennai World Cinema Festival was held from October 4 to 10, 2024.

200 seater Prasad Preview Theater.

The theatre has a 4K projection and Dolby Atmos sound system.

3300 submissions from 114 countries.

6000 visitors.

Seven-day screening.

Eight venues.

38 Short Films and Movies.

Ambassador of Venezuela's two-day participation.

Direct participation of 42 foreign and domestic [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Chennai, India



 
 
 

 
Logo of International Documentary Film Festival · Pampa DocFest · Colonia Santa Teresa
Published: 02 Nov 2024
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IV Festival Internacional De Cine Documental · Pampa Docfest

Deadline: 31 Jan 2025

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Produced by the Municipality of Colonia Santa Teresa and the narrative journalism platform Angular; declared of Legislative Interest and declared of Cultural Interest by the government of the Province of La Pampa, the IV International Documentary Film Festival "PampaDocFest", will be held in person in the town, from April 10 to 12, 2025. This festival aims to stimulate and facilitate meetings between members of national and international cinematography and to present non-fiction films.

In addition, it seeks to promote the meeting between filmmakers, technicians and those interested in this genre, creating a space for exchange and dialogue. It is proposed to promote a training space to contribute to the development of culture and the dissemination of documentary film, [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Colonia Santa Teresa, Argentina



 
 
 
 
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Published: 01 Nov 2024
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Festival Internacional De Cine De Terror De Valdivia

Deadline: 31 Jan 2025

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Section that has been several years and invites you to participate in a contest where you must terrorize the audience in just 2 minutes, has prizes in money to the first, second and third place, plus a recognition to the most popular audience, elected through popular vote among those who attend the night function. Jury made up of local and national filmmakers and festival personalities and the audiovisual media.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Valdivia, Chile



 
 
 

 
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Published: 25 Oct 2024
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Festival de Animación Comfama

Deadline: 06 Dec 2024

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The Second Comfama Animation Festival is a Cultural event of the Family Compensation Fund of Antioquia, Comfama, which seeks to contribute to the formation of audiences with programming of audiovisual animation productions and conversations that generate reflections around different realities and help strengthen the animation sector through the ELPAUER Animation Market.

In 2025, the Comfama Animation Festival will once again be a space where attendees can enjoy international feature films, Ibero-American short films, Colombian series and university productions, becoming a space to enjoy content made mostly in animation technique. aimed at family and youth audiences.

Comfama welcomes you to a new edition and invites Ibero-American animation directors and producers [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



El Retiro, Colombia



 
 
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Published: 22 Oct 2024
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Cinhomo - Muestra Internacional de Cine y Diversidad Sexual de Castilla y León

Deadline: 10 Jan 2025

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Feature film festival

The International Film and Sexual Diversity Festival CINHOMO accepts LGBTIQ-themed films of all nationalities, which will be eligible in the various sections of the festival: Fiction Feature Films, Fiction Short Films, Documentary Feature Films and Documentary Short Films.

The works must not have been exhibited in commercial theaters, broadcast on TV or be available to the public on the Internet or any other platform in Spanish territory prior to the celebration of the festival and must be copyrighted after 01/01/2023. Feature films must be unpublished in the Community of Castilla y León; in the case of short films it will not be exclusive but it will be positively valued. The organization reserves the right to include in the out-of-competition program films that do not meet [...]

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Valladolid, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 18 Oct 2024
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Iv Tsudocu Xixón

Deadline: 31 Dec 2024

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Feature film festival

The theme of the work to be presented is free, as long as the theme falls within the musical genre.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



GIJÓN, Spain



 
 
 
 
Logo of Arcu Atlánticu Xixón
Published: 18 Oct 2024
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Arcu Atlánticu Xixón

Deadline: 31 May 2025

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Film Festival framed within the Atlantic Arch of Xixón.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Gijón , Spain



 
 
 

 
Logo of International Horror Film Festival Aurora
Published: 18 Oct 2024
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Festival Internacional De Cine De Horror Aurora

Deadline: 24 Dec 2024

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International Festival

Short film festival

International horror film festival based in the city of Guanajuato, Mexico. All festival activities are nonprofit.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Guanajuato, Mexico



 
 
 
 
Logo of Muestra De Cine Documental Musical De Gijón
Published: 18 Oct 2024
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Muestra De Cine Documental Musical De Gijón

Deadline: 31 May 2025

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THE GIJÓN 2025 FESTIVAL

4 GIJÓN MUSIC DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
August 2025

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Gijón, Spain