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The Seventeenth Annual Action On Film International Film Festival and Writer's Event/ MegaFest is truly the festival of the independent filmmaker and writer.

MegaFest is accepting submissions for feature Narrative and Documentary, short Narrative and Documentary, New Media, Music, Lyrics, Poetry, Prose, Unboxing Videos, Spoken Word, Photography and Poster Art. Shorts will play prior to a feature or in a shorts program unless other accommodations have been made. All genres are welcome. The festival programming staff will place your film in the appropriate category.We bridge the gap between the industry and the indie filmmaker with guests like Debra Kara Unger, Nick Mancuso, Harry Lennix, Eric Bana, Mark Ruffalo, John Savage and many others in attendance every season. We also feature top distributors and buyers from companieslike Nelson Maddison,Indie Rights, Multivisionnaire Distribution, Showcase Entertainment, Gorilla Picture,The China Film Group and more.

With a Sixteen year history of recognizing filmmakers at every level in some of the most gorgeous cinemas in the world, we create screenings and opportunities that no other festival offers.

Action On Film means; 'The Action a director takes to make his or her vision come true and then the re-action to that effort by the audiences who watch it. Sure, we love action films but we get just as inspired by Comedy, Drama, Animation, Documentary and Experimental Projects.

Filmmakers like Karlos Alastruey, Tracey Birdsall, Stan Harrington, Anabelle Munro and many others credit us with getting their starts. We have featured the work of hundreds of filmmakers and producers via our television programs; The AOF Channel from NBC and the currently running Del Weston's Action On Film which airs on Time Warner Cable, Champion Broadband, Peg Media and of course online.

Our event caps off with a sold out Writers' Award Show and Dinner and 4 star studded Black Tie Dinners and Award Shows which have been selling out for fifteen years straight. Got a great project? Come be a part of the show!

Please note: due to the high level of abuse and bad behavior by waived submitters in the past years, our festival will no longer offer fee waivers. Please do not ask.

Governmental Organisations, and the world’s first festival of films on international development by young directors.

Festival Aims
Encourage filmmakers/creatives to work together to raise awareness of the Three Pillars of Freedom through screening of films created around these themes.

Three Pillars of Freedom and the Environment
* Freedom from want: Through the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
* Freedom from fear: Through efforts to bring about collective security and peace.
* Freedom to live in dignity: Through the application of justice for all, from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Development: poverty, shelter, healthcare, education, gender, governance, finance

Human Security: conflict prevention, conflict resolution, peacekeeping, shelter, migration

Human Rights: gender, education, dignity, participation

Environment: ecological issues, preparation for and consequences of natural disaster, sustainability, new technologies

Short films: any of the above

Young Film Makers: under 25 years

All categories and genres are welcomed and accepted.
The Hollywood Dreams International Film Festival and Writers Competition is dedicated to the movement, the language and the power of Film, Video and the Written Word. Film is a powerful tool that crosses all boundaries and languages and connects people universally. It is through film that cultures can be united and HDIFF is at the forefront to helping this happen. HDIFF is run by filmmakers and writers for filmmakers and writers

HDIFF believes that diversity is what makes a festival complete. We embrace and honor filmmakers and writers of ALL genres , budgets, backgrounds, cultures, lifestyles and ages. In short, we want to celebrate it all. Drama, Documentary, Experimental, Comedy, Animation, Horror and Family films will all have a home at Hollywood Dreams International Film Festival and Writers Competition.

HDIFF is the sister festival and the partner festival to the long running Action on Film MegaFest Festival which has grown to be one of the largest and well respected festivals. This is our 4th Annual event which will be filled with special events, seminars, symposiums celebrities, parties and of course top-notch screenings and screenplays. It will be done with beauty, pageantry, and professionalism. And it is in Vegas Baby!!!!

Award winners receive their awards at our gala black tie Star Studded and Industry Rich Award Show and Dinner and at our Writers Award show and Dinner. Cash prizes, production packages, software and more will be given.

Every accepted submitting filmmaker in attendance receives an incredible Goodie Bag and Free Passes to all Film Events and Free Drink and Dinner Mixers, Symposiums, Interviews and lots more.

Hollywood Dreamz International Film Festival and Writers Event will be doing interviews of attending filmmakers and give them to you for free or post them on our site. These interviews are great promotional pieces for your website, film, video, short, script.

Did we mention that HDIFF has a film market with some of the most reputable distributors in the business . The market will be open to all accepted filmmakers.

The Hollywood Dreams International Film Festival and Writers Event is THE festival to submit to and grow with. Come join us to make your film making and writing dreams come true. See you in VEGAS BABY!!!!
Please note: due to the high level of abuse and bad behavior by waived submitters in the past years, our festival will no longer offer fee waivers. Please do not ask.

In its inaugural year, the Conquering Disabilities with Film International Film Festival seeks to recognize, serve and honor the mentally ill artist who is using art to heal themselves. CDWFIFF is part of the successful AOF Megafest. Now in its 16th year, MegaFest will host the Conquering Disabilities with Film International Film Festival.

Vegas, a tourist destination for so many reasons, now has one more event to draw you into its vibrant night life. All screenings and events will take place in the heart of Las Vegas, NV at various locations. Your work will screen in state of the art theaters NOT in hotel meeting rooms, bars, halls, libraries etc.

The directors at CDWFIFF along with the AOF MegaFest, have created a positive respectful environment to encourage dialogue and foster growth and understanding in an industry that is known for looking the other way. At CDWIFF you are understood, welcomed and loved. You are at home.

CDWFIFF seeks and accepts all genres of films, shorts, features, narratives, documentaries, written word, photography, art and music. The stipulation is that the work must deal with mental illness. Either the crew (director, DP, writer, talent) has a person who is struggling with or has overcome mental illness, depression, anxiety etc., or a crew member is a caregiver to a person with mental illness. We will also accept projects that are about mental issues. All submissions must include in their cover letter what requirement (s) the project fulfills.

CDWFIFF seeks screenplay submissions of all lengths/all genres that either cover the topic of mental illness or are the works of screenwriters dealing with mental illness themselves. We accept features, shorts, TV and Web Series Pilots, short shorts, and scenes, and poems. All submissions must include in their cover letter what requirement (s) the project fulfills.

CDWFIFF also wants musical scores and soundtracks, songs, lyrics, storyboards and poster art by individuals dealing with mental illness or content covering mental health topics.

CDWFIFF recognizes that Art has always been a means of healing and transformation. It is now time to recognize the artist.

The idea of the Festival, born like all good ideas, in a garage ...

One cold night of August 2019, inside the Nazario´s Garage, three friends were chatting about what they could contribute to make the Tera Valley area attractive, which suffered a great depopulation. Since then, his enthusiasm and effort have turned into reality the idea that arose that night in that mysterious garage ...

♥️ Please READ BEFORE to SUBMIT your FILM →

We are a nonprofit organization of general interest that centers around gay contemporary cinema in order to fight homophobia.

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What differentiates boyOHboy from commercial and community film festivals, is our concept of "Cinematographic Marathon" spread over the course of a full year, with a film festival at the end of the year (October 16-18, 2020).

Our initiative aims to educate youth, by going "on their ground", in high schools and colleges, to show them short films that challenge them on the importance of respecting each other, and accepting the fact that in society there are different ways of loving and approaching our sexual orientation.

The purpose of our October Film Festival, is to present to the audience, the films that have most touched the youth to whom we have shown them to during the year.

Unlike the already existing Paris LGBTQ Film festival, boyOHboy does not aspire to be a "discoverer of new films", meaning we do not care about the year of production, neither the fact that some films have already been invited to other LGBTQ festivals.

Niche events mainly attract an open-minded audience that is already won over to the cause. boyOHboy’s approach is different and complementary, since we do not address a community, and that all our revenues are distributed to the fight against gay bullying.

For three thousand years, the Jewish people have been scattered around the world. That is why Jewish cinema is created in many different countries, alongside with special festivals that select and showcase those films. The Jewish Film Festival® in Moscow became the first of its kind in Russia. It was founded in 2015 and has been held annually ever since.

What is the Jewish cinema, after all? It encompasses far more than films made by Jewish directors or films which star famous Jewish actors. The never-ending search for Jewish identity, assimilation of diasporas and philosophy of self-determination and separation of the Jewish people in a society, return to the past, glorification of national heroes and mourning of victims, challenges of today’s world and the problem of relevance and preservation of traditions - these and many other issues attract filmmakers of all countries and continents. By searching and selecting the best Jewish films during the course of the past year we have attempted to shape an answer to the question of what these rapidly changing ethnic-themed films really are. Moscow, a large metropolitan area, a place where many cultures and nationalities live side-by-side, is one of the world’s most fitting locations for a festival that represents a dialogue of national communities.

The MJFF holds screenings of the most important and resonant Jewish films of the latest years. At the centre of the Festival is the Feature Films Competition Program, which is complemented by screenings of documentary films, short films and documentary shorts (as part of either competition programs or special screenings), as well as by discussions with experts on different topics raised in films and critics who specialize in Jewish cinema.

****THIS IS A VIDEO ART FESTIVAL. SHORT MOVIES WON'T BE ACCEPTED****
It was born with the purpose of promoting video creation as a social cultural wealth and to give
visibility to artists who work in this medium. In this second edition we want to bring together an
ample array of video pieces and offer a sample of the most interesting proposals that are taking
place in the international creative scene which we understand offer a thematic, conceptual or poetic
discourse that reflects the complexity and peculiarity of our time. We want to accommodate all
kinds of technical and aesthetic proposals. We want to offer plurality and variety within the
standards of artistic quality.

We welcome you to Films with Pride of LGBT people - Celebration of quality independent filmmaking, awards, and industry events in front of a live audience of film critics, enthusiasts and producers. Join us for memorable night of screenings, networking and red-carpet treatment.

This festival is designed to showcase the short films,documentaries, best men themed short film,best women themed short films etc We seek out stories that are genuinely imaginative,emotional and positive. Our passion is to share great stories.

We aspire to promote, recognize and support independent filmmakers throughout the world by hosting a variety of awards in order to provide the best opportunities for filmmakers, helping them receive recognition. We welcome submissions from a range of genres including short films, documentaries, features, animations of LGBT people.

Our objective is to provide support for film-makers through reviewing, judging, marketing.With our live screenings,we aim to showcase and promote the work of filmmakers. We believe our film festival will give filmmakers a chance to showcase their work to a very wide range of audiences.

We are accepting submissions for a number of categories and are open to all languages, as long as films in a language other than English are subtitled in English.

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The festival intends to promote Independent Cinema, national and international.

Montelupo International Independent Film Festival is the brainchild of Lorenzo Ciani, an independent film director charmed by the magic of Cinema Mignon d’essai. Through the collaboration with the Art director Daniele Pertici, the project became a reality.

Magnetic Film Association is proud to announce the short film festival “N.I.F.F. Noto International Film Festival” 2024 VIII edition
Festival is dedicated to any short movies created in any format and opened to all Italians and foreigner authors.

N.I.F.F will award the prestigious “MARIO MONICELLI” award for the best direction.

The technical jury appointed by the organizers of MAGNETIC FILM PRODUCTION will be composed of artist and workers in the field of cinematography, music and journalism field, chaired by film critic Giuseppe Liotta.

The FIC Chihuahua aims to promote and boost the cinematographic talent of the north of the country by giving voice to local, national and international artists.

Our Festival celebrates creativity, effort, work and the value of filmmaking in the North of the Country. It plays a vital role in the promotion of emerging national and international talent.

Molins Film Festival was established in 1973 in Molins de Rei (Barcelona). In November 2024 we will hold the 43rd edition.

Known as TerrorMolins, the Festival consists of a competitive Feature Films Official Sections, Short Films Official Section, Retrospectives, Documentaries, Live shows, Workshops, Networking/Pitching, projections for high-schools, projections for children... and one of the oldest horror movies marathon in the world, our 12 Hours Horror Movies Marathon (1973) ...

MHFF - Molins Horror Film Festival is one of the oldest festivals dedicated solely to horror in Spain and in Europe. The Festival is a member of the Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF).

Prêt À Couture international Fashion Film Festival (PÀCIFFF) is looking to settle down as the first festival that associates filmmaking , fashion and design in Cordoba (Argentina) , to allow our cultural resources to be exposed and make them nurture by the exchange generated by the social and cultural events of this characteristics. PÀCIFFF aims to achieve a general access to the tools provided by the Fashion Film from the fusion of its areas ; POSITIONING projects, workers and entrepreneurs emerging from the film industry , fashion and design part of the local and international scene;TRANSFORMING patterns , stereotypes and conventional beauty concepts and SHAPING new professional links for particular goals and strategical commercial proposals

International Film Festival.

1. ABOUT THE FEMINIST CINEMA SHOW
The 6th Feminist Cinema Exhibition is organized by Coletiva Malva and will take place in the city of Belo Horizonte - MG - Brazil between the 18th and 26th of July 2020. The curatorship excels in diversity, importance of themes and representativeness. The show will show films directed or co-directed by women.
The Malva Collective believes that cinema translates as a mechanism for the production of meanings and social representation, with emphasis on the way it portrays / reinforces / sustains or questions the differences between gender, sexual and ethnic-racial relations. The audiovisual sector as a whole reflects and (re) produces phallocentric and misogynistic paradigms in different aspects: in the way historically women are portrayed within the cinematographic narrative and in the exclusion and non-acceptance of the occupation of women in positions and in the construction of thought Brazilian audiovisual. Thus, this Exhibition seeks to create spaces for the diffusion, integration and preservation of audiovisual production made by women at national and international levels.
It is from the incessant and ambitious production of the feminine gaze when returning her aesthetics, her dimension, her body, her feminist becoming to the community through audiovisual materials that we have developed, since 2015, the Feminist Cinema Exhibition. We are jointly in the struggle for visibility and strengthening of black, indigenous, urban and rural cultures, LGBTIQA +, and we assume that a woman is every human being who identifies herself as a woman

IMPORTANT
Due to the COVID pandemic we will have to move the date of the Festival to March. We will carry out a hybrid edition with few functions in the city, as long as the health protocol allows it.

New final deadline: January 5, 2021

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The Oruro International Film Festival is headquartered in the city of Oruro (Plurinational State of Bolivia).

The city is known for its cultural and folkloric wealth, being the Oruro Carnival its greatest expression. This Carnival, which annually gathers thousands of national and international visitors, was declared in 2001 as "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO, thus recognizing the multicultural and religious value it expresses.

The Festival, whose ninth edition will be held from March 20 to 26, 2021, aims to recognize and disseminate national and international cinematographic works that show strong artistic, aesthetic and human values.

FICIFE is the first Mexican festival dedicated to railroad cinema, putting special emphasis on science fiction and documentary.

Seeks to claim this way of making movies,
instilling their appreciation and encouraging the realization of independent projects.
We believe that railroad cinema can include true stories to move us, inspire us and at the same time offer us readings and interpretations of our own reality.

The FICIFE Festival also has the mission of being an exhibition window for new and diverse talents
bringing them closer to new audiences and opportunities

Cinema Camp Film Festival is a short film festival open to filmmakers from all over the world that has a double function: on one hand, serve as a platform for the dissemination of the short film in those places where it does not have much presence, and on the other hand, to function as an educational and formative tool, allowing the young spectators, who mostly make up their audience, to learn and draw inspiration from the visualization of the different cinematographic works.

The functioning of the festival, open to all types of audiences, is very simple: among all the short films received, a final selection will be made, which will be the one screened in the different sessions of the festival (which will take place in different Spanish cities at throughout the summer). Assistants to each of these projections will be the ones in charge of choosing their favoire short film. The short film that gets the most votes will win the Best Short Film Award of the festival.

Likewise, a specialized jury formed by professionals from the cinematographic sector will grant the different special mentions: Best Direction, Best Photography, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor/Actress.