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Deadline
07 Oct 2017


Published: 09 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films
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FIDOCS International Documentary Film festival

Santiago, Chile


The Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS) is the main broadcasting, diffusion, and competition event for documentary cinema in Chile and Latin America.
Focused on the promotion of dialogue and reflection, as well as in training audiences towards the appreciation of documentary film in a context of permanent transformation, FIDOCS seeks to explore the multiple paths available in documentary making as well as in the drifts proper to nonfiction works. In its program, FIDOCS incorporates the works of both experienced and emerging directors in order to address the question of “THE REAL”, and in doing so, it considers the various dimensions, disciplinary frontiers, and tensions that the question “what is real?”, as well as the documentary genre itself, has to offer us.

Throughout its history, FIDOCS has positioned itself as one of the most distinguished documentary film festivals in Latin America, standing as a privileged platform to screen contemporary cinema and to promote critical thinking. Year by year, under its selective curatorial approach, FIDOCS not only calls for important exponents of national and international audiovisual sectors to exhibit their work in Santiago, but also, in using this city as a film hub, it calls on such exponents to question, interpret, and re-write the status of contemporary documentary film practice today.

For the promotion, positioning, and exhibition of Chilean and International films, FIDOCS displays three main competitions. These sections include: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION; CHILEAN COMPETITION, and EMERGENT SHORT COMPETITION FOR NATIONAL FILMS.

In addition, FIDOCS has the main industry activity, DOCS IN PROGRESS, for Latin-American works in progress where the jury (editors, directors, sound designers, producers, programmers), in addition to choosing a winner, feeds the filmmakers to carry out the post-production of their films and encourage their diffusion and transmission. This section is jointly run together with WIP section of CHILEDOC CONECTA.

The festival also has important training and extension activities in its FIDOCS SCHOOL, where students from film schools and communications from all over Chile so that its most outstanding students are in an intergenerational and interdisciplinary space with international and national festival guests; attending Master Classes, workshops, dialogues, among others.

In addition, in keeping with its interdisciplinary vocation, FIDOCS intends to accompany its screenings of other artistic interventions such as installations, exhibitions, performances, that from their own expressive means dialogue with the documentary concept. This is how FIDOCS EXPANDED section arises, where various artists, video-artists and filmmakers, all of them linked to the fields of sound or visuals, exhibit their work.
Finally, the chosen films will be screened after the completion of the festival, in different regions of Chile and abroad, at BEST OF FIDOCS section. The purpose is the cultural extension of the festival at a territorial level, putting emphasis on the circulation of the films at the regional level, being able to program replicas in the national territory as well as abroad.

*FIDOCS will be held with theatrical screenings.


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Logo of Pilas in Short Film Festival

Deadline
12 Nov 2017


Published: 09 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Pilas in Short Film Festival

Pilas, Spain


Entrants may submit as many films as they see fit, as long as they are produced between 2021 and 2023.

All films shorter than 20 minutes will be accepted, regardless of their original film or video shooting format.

Films which are not spoken in Spanish must be presented with subtitles in Spanish.

Films' theme is free.

Live action fiction, animation, experimental and documentary films can be submitted.

Submission deadline is Noviembre, 5th, 2023.


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Logo of Mexico City Independent Film Fest

Deadline
29 May 2018


Published: 08 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films
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Mexico City Independent Film Fest

Ciudad de México, Mexico


Mexico City Independent Film Fest seeks to become a place where public, filmmakers, producers, critics and other professionals of the film industry can exchange different views, and activate alternative exhibition venues in the country's capital. Its mission is to disseminate contemporary proposals whose production is not related to major film studios, promote the film culture and program films with a difficult theatrical exhibition.


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Deadline
16 Sep 2017


Published: 08 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Harte of the Gulf Film Competition

Corpus Christi, United States


Our mission is to engage the Gulf of Mexico Community through education and film and to showcase the work of local filmmakers. If you have a short film addressing an ocean or coastal issue concerning the Gulf of Mexico, from your own backyard to the deep sea, please think about entering it into our Harte of the Gulf Film Competition.

Films should be no longer than 15 minutes and address an ocean or coastal topic concerning the Gulf of Mexico region. Films can be fiction or nonfiction.

In an effort to include filmmakers from around the entire Gulf of Mexico region, films will be accepted in languages other than English, but must have English subtitles. You can submit your film into one of two categories: High School or General Public.


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Logo of «LAMP» International film festival of socially oriented short films, videos and social advertising

Deadline
20 Oct 2017


Published: 08 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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«LAMP» International film festival of socially oriented short films, videos and social advertising

Perm, Russia


Every year entries reveal stories about people, volunteers, who contribute to changing people’s lives within their communities and around the world.

In 2017, the theme of the festival is «Human. Action. Choice».

Festival is popular among both amateurs and professional filmmakers, concerned with solving socially significant problems worldwide. NGOs, volunteers, groups of activists and young people, interested in developing of creative potential and making our world a better place submit entries annually to the Jury of the Festival.

In June 2017, the cinematic platform was presented in the framework of the International conference EDUCATION#INFOCUS at the United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland). It was highly estimated by international experts, who highlighted the importance of promoting volunteer values through the language of cinematography.


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Logo of THE RAIL FESTIVAL RAILWAY FILMS AND PHOTOS

Deadline
05 Dec 2017


Published: 07 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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THE RAIL FESTIVAL RAILWAY FILMS AND PHOTOS

Tehran, Iran


Railway and history-journey-tourism-safety-comfort-environment-family-holy defense-trade -commerce all about Railway


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Logo of Dulcísimo Ovario

Deadline
30 Sep 2017


Published: 07 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Dulcísimo Ovario

Pachuca, Mexico


Dulcísimo Ovario is a Festival of Female Video and Cinema that showcases and recognizes the work of Mexican women filmmakers and video artists.

We believe in the need to approach new narratives that display a diversity of realities, thoughts, and ways of relating.

Our goal is to organize cycles of presentations, conferences, and screenings of cinema and video, in their different formats and genres, directed by Mexican woman filmmakers and video artists.

For Dulcísimo Ovario, questioning and deconstructing gender representations in audiovisual media has been a starting point since 2017 and in each edition.


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Logo of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival

Deadline
04 Dec 2017


Published: 07 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films
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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival

Berlin, Germany


Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that’s directed, written, or produced by women*. We are holding the sixth edition of FGBFF from February 3-6 2022 in Berlin. We are looking for horror films (as well as films with horror elements or films that pay homage to horror), of all lengths. We are also extra excited if female filmmakers wish to visit the festival in order to participate in panels, or give talks or workshops on a particular aspect of horror cinema. We are committed to creating space for female voices and visions, whether monstrous, heroic, or some messy combination of the two, in the horror genre.


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Logo of Rural FilmFest

Deadline
31 Mar 2018


Published: 07 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films
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Rural FilmFest

Camp d'Elx, Spain


Rural FilmFest, member of Green Film Network (GFN), is an international itinerant film festival, which offers a current overview of international documentary film, fiction and animation in a short, medium and long format related to the rural world, ecology, sustainability and natural and cultural resources. Rural FilmFest is not a common film festival, it is a unique and unrepeatable event. It is a summer camp, with excursions, multi-adventure, geocaching awards ceremony (Yes, you read that right. As a filmmaker you will have to find your trophy at the closing gala via GPS coordinates), international coexistence, dance, party and lifelong friendships. It is the experience of your life and if you attend, you will not want it goes over and you will want to return next year... Just read the reviews to discover the opinions of other filmmakers who have attended the Rural FilmFest. If you have a fiction film, animation or documentary whether it is a short film or a feature film, do not hesitate to submit.


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Logo of Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival – Isla Calavera

Deadline
18 Oct 2017


Published: 06 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival – Isla Calavera

San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain


The Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival - Isla Calavera opens the call for entries for feature and short films, fiction and documentary in real image and animation.


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Deadline
05 Oct 2017


Published: 06 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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ANTIC HORROR WEEKEND

Barcelona, Spain


Fantastic Horror Short Film Festival.


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Logo of Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival – Isla Calavera

Deadline
24 Oct 2017


Published: 05 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival – Isla Calavera

San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain


The Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival - Isla Calavera opens the call for entries for feature and short films, fiction and documentary in real image and animation.


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 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror



 
Logo of Palma de Mallorca International Films Infest Festival

Deadline
01 Dec 2017


Published: 05 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films
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Palma de Mallorca International Films Infest Festival

Sa Pobla, Spain


The Fims Infest Festival loves indie films and, for this reason, we accept films recorded in every format and with any kind of budget, but be sure that your film fits into our festival.

Official Event in IMDB:

https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0005660/2018/1/


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Logo of Directors Awards

Deadline
02 Nov 2017


Published: 05 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
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Directors Awards

Jakarta, Indonesia


This festival is dedicated to all directors in particular, regardless their age and background, and to all filmmakers in general.

The purpose of Directors Awards film festival is to promote the craftsmanship of directing to the position and attention it deserves. The assessment of all the performance in the judging process will also be from the director's point of view.


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Logo of Angoulême International Short Film Festival

Deadline
31 Dec 2017


Published: 05 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Angoulême International Short Film Festival

Angoulême, France


The festival is composed by :
- the official short films competition.
- many special screenings.


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Logo of MitreoFilmFestival

Deadline
15 Sep 2017


Published: 05 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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MitreoFilmFestival

Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy


Mitreo Film Festival Association in collaboration with
FILM COMMISSION REGIONE CAMPANIA
CAMPANI CINEMATOGRAPHIC FESTIVAL COORDINATION MUNICIPALITY OF SANTA MARIA CAPUA VETERE
Presents
MITREOFILMFESTIVAL 2019 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR SHORT FILMS “COURAGE"
BEST SHORT FILM PRIZE 2019
duration: 10 minutes
age limit author: 25 years
N.B. short films with languages other than Italian and English will not be taken into consideration if they do not have English or Italian subtitles/dialogues!
25 NOVEMBER - 1 DECEMBER 2019
(provisional dates)

"Whoever dreams can move mountains." (Fitzcarraldo, W. Herzog)

The cultural association Mitreo Film Festival, for the 19th edition of the festival of the same name, announces a selection call for international short films with a maximum duration of 10 minutes, made by filmmakers under 25 years of age, developed on the central theme of “Courage”.
Courage should be not only the main plat, but it must also connotate the language and feeling, the setting and the atmosphere by which the story unfolds, whatsoever kind of genre the author narrates his story (comedy drama etc). Moreover courage should also inspire the author in such a way to make him choose a courageous form of performance, in a few words we are also looking for courageous, and daring film makers, who are able to work in a different way and from an original perspective.
It’s basically important that the theme of courage is clearly expressed in the synopsis of the work
and in the author’s notes which each candidate must produce together with the application form, under penalty of exclusion.


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Logo of Hollywood Art & Movie Awards

Deadline
26 Dec 2017


Published: 02 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Hollywood Art & Movie Awards

Beverly Hills, United States


A Los Angeles Film Festival with a French Touch: the Hollywood Art and Movie Awards is the new generation festival in the City of Angels.
Our priority are the QnA.

2019 edition took place in Hollywood.
2018 edition took place in Burbank, Long Beach and Pasadena.

Our Line up included:
- JANSEN PANETTIERE (Hayden Panettiere's brother -Nashville, Heroes-) as a Judge and exhibiting artist. Jansen attended the festival and was on stage to present several awards.
- RICHARD BLAKE, multi-awarded director, who was a panelist to the festival a week after his feature film THE ROCKET got available worldwide.
- WENDY ALANE WRIGHT, the famous talent manager, who gave powerful tips and insights during the Long Beach talk
- MOLLY KASH, producer and board member of ISA (International Script Association) was a Judge
- AUREGAN, singer-songwriter-performer, who recorded with Billy Ray Cyrus and Iggy Pop, was a Judge and presented several awards during the closing night.
- Almost 20 awards were presented
- the festival offered many networking, live music and shows, stand up comedy, plenty of screenings and of course a QnA after EACH and EVERY screening.

We are recognized for our quality time QnAs, and connection with industry professionals and for the support we give to filmmakers.

We are listed on Animation Festivals.com :
http://www.animation-festivals.com/festivals/hollywood-art-and-movie-awards/

With thousands of festivals on many platforms, today as a filmmaker you are looking to the festival that will really bring you something that others don't : international connection, and a boost to your film run into festivals.

We offer very low submission fees because we know the struggle to make the films and push them in front of an audience.
We focus on networking, because showing your film is great, but giving business cards is what we need to go to the next step and the next film.

WINNERS WILL GET :
- awards both physical and digital
- tips to get your film distributed
- strategic feedback regarding your film for commercial use
- creation of your film profile on Imdb
- many discounts will be granted to other rewarding festivals, each one taylor-made for the category you submit to.
+ networking
+ snacks/cocktail
+ screenings
+ QnA

HISTORY
Back in 2015 was created the Paris Art and Movie Awards, aka "PAMA", founded by Matt Beurois, mutli-awarded director and producer, whose directorial debut got a distribution deal by Gravitas Ventures.
The Paris Art and Movie Awards today is the leading independent film festival in Paris. Its twin brother in Hollywood, the "HAMA" benefits from an incredible and international network aiming to support the independent filmmakers.

Submitting to the "HAMA" or the "PAMA", you'll enter in a network that allows filmmakers to create, to get recognition, confidence, and envy to keep making films.


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Logo of Cardiff Animation Festival

Deadline
12 Jan 2018


Published: 02 Sep 2017
 Has submission fees
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Cardiff Animation Festival

Cardiff, United Kingdom


A second celebration of animation is coming to Cardiff in April 2O2O.

Over four days, from the 2nd-5th April 2O2O, Cardiff Animation Festival (CAF) will showcase some of the best animation from all over the world, with a broad selection of animated short films, features, masterclasses, workshops, filmmaker Q+As, retrospectives, an education program, behind the scenes screenings, industry events, panels, networking events and parties.

Held at Chapter, the Welsh capital’s vibrant arts hub, CAF is a focal point for Cardiff’s thriving animation community, and a meeting place for industry, independent animators and enthusiasts from the wider animation world. CAF provides a platform in Wales for the best of British and international animation, and will continue to welcome independent filmmakers, exciting new talent and established industry greats to Europe’s youngest capital city.

Cardiff Animation Festival is a non-profit community organisation run by a team of animation lovers and creators living in Cardiff. The Cardiff Animation Festival team have been running animation events in Wales since 2014.


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Logo of SIgnals INternational Film FEstival

Deadline
15 Nov 2017


Published: 02 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
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SIgnals INternational Film FEstival

Ripon, United States


Signals highlights a selection of the best international short films that can engage local communities into cinema. 10 features films will also be showcased exploring the frontiers of today's cinema.


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Logo of European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux

Deadline
11 Feb 2018


Published: 02 Sep 2017
 Does NOT have submission fees
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European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux

Talence, France


DATE AND LOCATION

The 28th edition of the European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux will take place from March 27th to 28th 2024. The projection nights will take place at the UGC Ciné-Cité cinema in Bordeaux.

GOALS

The European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux aims to promote the short film format to the Région Aquitaine's audience. It facilitates the access to cinema for a large public, from all ages. It also supports the discovery of talented directors coming from all over Europe.,It’s a way for the filmmakers to be appreciated by a jury, no matter if they are mere enthusiasts or professionals.


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