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The 26th annual Screamfest® Horror Film Festival will take place at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood.

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Screamfest® Horror Film Festival is the largest and longest running horror film festival in the United States. Paranormal Activity was discovered and premiered at the festival in 2007.

The festival showcases new genre [...]



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Published: 17 Jun 2020
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International Children“s and Youth Film Festival, Calibélula

Deadline: 02 Jul 2020

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10th CALIBÉLULA International Children’s and Youth Film Festival 2026

We joyfully celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Calibélula International Children’s and Youth Film Festival, an experience built together with filmmakers, institutions, and especially with children and teenagers who have found in cinema a means of expression, participation, and transformation.

Throughout this decade, the Festival has grown without losing its essence: wonder, creativity, and a sensitive way of looking at the world. In this commemorative edition, we reaffirm our commitment to new generations by incorporating new forms of audiovisual creation and opening space for narrative and technological innovation.

Since 2017, Calibélula has established itself as a space for:

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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Experimental



Cali, Colombia



 
 
 
 
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Published: 16 Jun 2020
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We Cam Fest

Deadline: 10 Oct 2020

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WE CAM FEST is the first inclusive film festival in Colombia. It brings together the cinematographic content related to disability in the world. An innovative proposal that, in addition to showing other perspectives of life through cinema, seeks to be a platform for the creation of content made by and with people with disabilities, in order to recognize their contribution and talent for the environment and society.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Bogotá, Colombia



 
 

 
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Published: 11 Jun 2020
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National Rural Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Jul 2020

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8° NATIONAL RURAL FILM FESTIVAL OF AYACUCHO

The Rural Film Festival was created in 2016 as an initiative presented by Lic. Emilio Quiroga to the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Ayacucho, with the goal of promoting audiovisual production in our city.

Every year, we launch an open call at the national and international level for short films of fiction and non-fiction that address the concept of "RURAL" through their form and/or content. Our intention is to explore the perspective of this concept and enrich ourselves with productions from other places in our country and the world.

The Festival offers training programs and support with theoretical and practical audiovisual production tools to those who join this initiative locally. This includes teachers and [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Ayacucho, Argentina



 
 
 
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Published: 06 Jun 2020
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Bioethics Prize For Audiovisual Projects

Deadline: 30 Jun 2020

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The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation awards this prize to an audiovisual project, with the winning entry receiving 5000 euros to support the production of the finished work.

The prize aims to promote education, discussion and analysis of bioethical issues with a social impact, through work aimed at a general audience.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Barcelona, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 05 Jun 2020
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International Film Festival Ponferrada

Deadline: 31 Jul 2020

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The Ponferrada International Film Festival is an event specialized in the dissemination and promotion of short films from all over the world, regardless of their production format, distribution, exhibition, category, genre, or theme.

Short films, in addition to being a learning resource for new professionals in the film industry and a promotional tool for making the leap to feature films, can also be a highly creative and free form of expression, storytelling, and experimentation, independent of the market.

We are also committed to highlighting films that, regardless of their length, reflect the cultural, social, and linguistic diversity of any region of the world as part of the memory of peoples and the most unknown universal audiovisual heritag

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Ponferrada, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 04 Jun 2020
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State aKorti

Deadline: 30 Jun 2020

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An important milestone for the International Humorous Short Film Festival State aKorti, between laughter and the other, we arrived at the 19th Edition

The show, as always, is open to film makers and directors of all nationalities. Participation is free.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Viagrande, Italy



 
 

 
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Published: 02 Jun 2020
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EDITA Social Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Sep 2020

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EDITA is a festival of short-films with the aim of social transformation through audiovisual creation, encouraging critical thinking, engaging citizens in the promotion of rights and making the viewers feel seen and motivated pursue a social change.

Through this festival, ASAD aims to discover and share new social imaginaries, change the point of view and get closer to non-hegemonetic proposals evoking social justice, human rights, gender equity and environmental sustainability

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Granada, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 30 May 2020
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Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival & A World of Dark Comedy.

Deadline: 23 Oct 2020

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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Hamilton Hill, Australia



 
 
 

 
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Published: 26 May 2020
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Semana de Cine Corto de Sonseca

Deadline: 31 Jul 2020

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Short Film Week held in Sonseca with parallel activities alongside the screenings.

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Sonseca, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 26 May 2020
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Festival Infantil Y Juvenil Chulpicine

Deadline: 24 Oct 2020

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Chulpicine began its work in 2002 with the first ever Itinerant Children & Youth Film Festival in Quito. The warm welcome that the project received allowed the festival to become an annual event during the months of July to September, bringing an educational and entertaining event at no cost, to sectors with few cultural activities.

Thanks to the positive reaction, Chulpicine became a cultural and educational non-profit foundation in June 2004. After more than 10 years of experience, Chulpicine have reach a stable proposal and working methodology that has spread at national level. The Festival has promoted the creation of coaching staff; cultural managers working in different communities; and a large group of followers.

Chulpicine has designed a set of activities and [...]

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Quito, Ecuador