The year 2015 by can be easily termed as the ‘year of intolerance ‘in Indian socio-political and cultural milieu. This was coming all the way from the time the right wing party was voted to rule the country. It began with re-writing Indian history and text books for schools, colleges and academic institutions, running down Gandhiji, the architect of free India as also the free thinkers, eliminating rationalist, outspoken intellectuals and scholars, isolating artists and film makers, taking control of Central Board of Film Certification by forcing the eminent men and women constituted that body to resign en-mass. The right wing people have taken charge of all public art and cultural organizations.
People from the minority communities have been lynched and killed for suspecting to have eaten beef. Cow slaughter has been banned in states like Maharashtra taking away food from the tables of minority communities as well as daliths and increasing the burden on the farmers already bending backward with debt and are committing suicide. Those who protested the beef ban have been beaten up in Kashmir, in Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi. When the public very clearly understood that the general response of the government to these problems were dismissive as something that is done by antisocial elements people began to take action. The prominent scholars, writers, poets, actors, film makers and theatre personalities started returning the awards they received from the government. There were protests across the country, from politicians and eminent citizens.
Another aspect of this intolerance is manifested in witch hunting NGOs like Green Peace for very prominently taking up environmental issues and challenging the implementation of economic projects without proper environmental impact assessment. Those NGOs on the hit list of the government is harassed in every possible ways including cancelling their FCRA numbers and freezing their accounts. Fortunately so far the justice system was very fair in their judgments which has given much relief to the NGOs under the government scanner. Generally NGOs these days are seen by the politicians as people ‘against development’.
These very arrogant postures of the government was downsized by the people of India through democratic resurgence. First they lost a very high pitched assembly election in Delhi to Aam Admi Party and later in another high pitched assembly election in Bihar the right wing lost to an alliance of democratic forces represented by Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar the local leaders. In all these instances the media was very pro-establishment. Were they too scared to investigate issues and inform the public?! While we hope that the people will elect democratic and secular parties in the Assembly elections happening now in April/May 2016,we need to nurture grass root level democratic practices which is one of the major objective of the festival. Whatever work we are engaged in now is from a very diminished public sphere. We do not know what the future holds for us but for now we belong to the breed of marginal citizens of this country.
As for our experience in this specific field is concerned, Bangalore Film Society was the South India coordinator of Tri-continental Film Festival "Human Rights in Frames from 2007 to 2009 organised by an NGO called Breakthrough. An average 5000 to 6000 people used to attend this festival in Bangalore in three days and the event had become very popular. Apart from this, we used to take these films to academic institutions as well as film societies in all South Indian States. However, the tricontinental film festival closed after 2009 and at present to the best of my knowledge we don't have a human rights film festival of that magnitude.
In the present Indian context, Bangalore Film Society wish to start an International Human Rights Traveling film festival from December 7th to 10th or from 9th to the 12th 2016 (depending on the availability of the auditorium) and organise a conference on freedom of speech and the right to dissent. The films selected will address major international human rights concerns such as refugees, lgbt sexuality, boarders, women, socio-political conflict, communal conflicts, child labour/abuse and so on The emphasis on the impact it should create. Once the festival is over these films will be circulated for screenings in educational, media institutions and film societies across India.
ORGANIZADORES
A Associação Cultural Time & Memory organiza a décima quarta edição do Festival de Curtas-Metragens chamado “SHORT TO SOUTH”, a ser realizado em Polla (SA) ITÁLIA de 20 a 21 de junho de 2026 no Auditório “Holy Nicolicchio”.
Em 2007, Joaquín Ortega (diretor, ator, dublê e coordenador de dublês) criou sob sua marca registrada NOIDENTITY sua equipe internacional de dublês. Em 2010, ele fundou a produtora independente NOIDENTITY Films e já produziu dois filmes de forma privada e um programa de TV. Em 2013, ele continua promovendo sua intenção de gerar indústria cinematográfica e faz o primeiro festival de filmes de ação na Espanha.
Assim nasceu o NIAFFS (NOIDENTITY - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Ação - Espanha), com a intenção de gerar indústria cinematográfica e promover filmes de ação internacionais.
After five years of a successful run as the New York City International Film Festival and after many of our films got distribution, we decided to create NYCIFF-St. Lucia edition. We want to open another door for filmmakers from around the world, and establish St. Lucia as a center for the film industry, while highlighting unknown talents from the Caribbean.
O 10° Festival Cinema com Farinha voltou!!!! Retornamos com a proposta de acender a chama cultural de troca e aprendizado da cultura cinematográfica. É durante o festival que o sertão paraibano vivencia encontros de manifestações culturais, através de exibições das produções audiovisuais regionais e nacionais, com espaços de encontro para discussão e aprendizagem, além de mostra de filmes, painéis, oficina, exposições e shows. Como nas outras nove edições anteriores, as noites do evento estará repleta de pessoas 'famintas' por cinema (com farinha).
This festival only admits submissions from SPANISH NATIONALS. No film-makers from any other nationalitiy will be allowed to submit their films to this festival.
Her Point of View has entered into a partnership agreement with the Community Education Department of Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in Nashville TN. The Nashville festival will be held at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in September 2015. Specific dates are being finalized and will be released soon. Stay tuned! New programming developments occurring every day.
Empowering current and future generations of artists currently underrepresented in front of and behind the camera, Her Point of View, a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization, launches this year and will present arts and entertainment created from a woman’s point of view in Nashville, TN with screenings in Atlanta GA. New cities are added everyday.
In each city, Her Point of View will conduct a four (4) day international film festival complete with workshops, panels, independent and studio films, fine art gallery, live music events, industry parties and plenty of networking mixers. Filmmakers, film, TV, music, art and entertainment executives and celebrities are invited to participate in the event developed to highlight women artists from around the world.
NOFI is a multi stage International Festival of New and Original Films. It was founded by the Center of American New Cinema and Arts (CANCA). The preliminary stages take place in Russia, Sweden and Armenia while the final stage is taking place in USA (Los Angeles). Each year an estimated 1000 independent and student films participate in the NOFI festivals from 60 countries. We have representatives in 10 countries including USA, Russia, Sweden, Armenia, Belarus, UK,Belgium, Holland, Arab Emirates and Philippines.
The goal of the NOFI festivals is to find and invite talented film directors to NOFI film studying and producing programs for shooting their films with the help of our sponsors and grants. We then represent, promote and will try to sell the best films from NOFI in the American Film Market, Cannes film market, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and other markets. Winning films can also participate in NOFI sister’s film festivals in Korea, Poland, Germany, Estonia, Russia and Armenia. The winners from each category and diplomas of honor can have the opportunity to show their films (edited versions) at our NOFI film festival on YouTube channel. The best actors from the best films can join our “Accent” International Talent Management. Also the trailers of the awarded films will be in our web site for years, providing more exposure. Our festival helps expose new and emerging directors and actors. NOFI festivals give them an opportunity to present their names in motion pictures studios and be discovered in the film industry worldwide. NOFI is designed to showcase innovative work by new filmmakers who may (or may not) have been overlooked by other festivals. We organize forums and round tables with filmmakers during the NOFI festivals to understand their needs, help solve common problems with film production and discuss their future projects. Our slogan is- “Indie filmmakers without borders.” Many celebrities and representatives from film studios have attended screenings and award ceremonies of NOFI festivals.
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA SEMBRANDO CINE
XII EDIÇÃO: Reconhecendo nossa sombra
Nossa sombra pode ser um problema real.
É esse lado da nossa humanidade que preferimos manter escondido e que nos faz agir de forma questionável.
Essa sombra, em parte, é o que nos levou a causar um impacto terrível no meio ambiente.
Desmatamento, derramamentos de óleo, poluição de solos e mares, aniquilação de espécies, violação dos direitos indígenas e assassinatos de defensores ambientais.
Essa sombra, individual e coletiva, é projetada das grandes cidades sobre nossos ecossistemas e sob a proteção da legalidade estatal e dos investimentos privados em favor do “progresso e industrialização”.
Em tempos em que o desequilíbrio que causamos no meio ambiente volta para nós como desastres climáticos e desfalques da natureza, cabe a nós ousar olhar para trás, para essa sombra.
Temos a responsabilidade de entender seu impacto, apontar aqueles que o projetam e exigir regulamentações para defender aqueles que ele afeta.
Eles dizem que o primeiro passo para resolver um problema é identificá-lo e hoje, por meio do cinema, buscamos reconhecer nossas ações, impedir o avanço de suas consequências em nosso ambiente natural único.
FESTIVAL DE CINEMA AMBIENTAL SEMBRANDO CINE — XII EDIÇÃO
RECONHECENDO NOSSA SOMBRA
Bašta Fest é um festival internacional de curta-metragem realizado em Bajina Bašta, oeste da Sérvia. É um evento anual que está ocorrendo durante o primeiro fim de semana de julho e dura quatro dias. Devido à profissão dos fundadores (atores Jovan Jelisavčić e Maja Šuša), o principal ponto de interesse do festival é uma colaboração entre diretores e atores. Acreditamos que focar na qualidade desse esforço artístico conjunto terá um impacto positivo no posicionamento do Bašta Fest entre os festivais de curtas-metragens. Bašta Fest é de grande importância para a descentralização da cultura, uma vez que trouxe diversos filmes, músicas e programas para esta bela região. Uma das prioridades do festival é promover a incrível beleza natural para um grande número de visitantes. No entanto, nosso principal objetivo é converter este festival em um oásis cultural emocionante, que apoia jovens artistas locais e internacionais, colocando ênfase em curtas-metragens de ficção com autenticidade. A seleção principal é um programa de curtas-metragens de competição, enquanto dois filmes são exibidos como parte do programa especial não competitivo todos os anos - um durante a abertura e outro durante a cerimônia de encerramento. O último a ser exibido é um longa-metragem sérvio, escolhido pela equipe de festas Bašta como o mais bem sucedido no ano anterior. A entrada para todas as exibições em Bašta é gratuita, enquanto elas estão sempre sendo mantidas sob os céus noturnos abertos. Atualmente, existem dois locais oficiais do festival: o parque Borići e o lago Perućac.
Dear Creator,
The Viewster Online Film Fest (#VOFF) is an international online event that attracts, displays and rewards features, short films, series, web-series and documentaries that are not always as famous as they should be. It’s a community moderated contest where the public audience will create a shortlist out of all qualified entries.
Essentially the Viewster community and your fans will watch, share, discuss and vote for their favorite entries. They will help to curate the entries with at least the top ten moving onto the finals. After that our Jury of Experts - Ted Hope, Nora Tschirner and Timo Vuorensola - will select the winners to be announced December 8, 2014 on http://festival.viewster.com.
The theme for the fourth #VOFF is "Share It Forward." and asks for the issues that are most important to you today.
Shake up our cushy lives, open our eyes, make us laugh, cry or even outraged. For #VOFF 4, show the world the issues that are most important to you today—big or small. You might be passionate about the environment, human rights, public health, politics, social justice or something entirely different that deserves attention. Whether you get your message across through fiction, non-fiction, with humour, in a direct or an abstract way, let's see your passion to influence and make a difference. #VOFF 4 is your chance to bring your message in front of millions of viewers, who will discuss, support and share your cause. We want to take it one step further this time. In addition to the juried awards, we will contribute to an organisation making a positive impact by the choice of one of the projects.
Why Participate?
• Chance to win a piece of the cake with a cool first prize of $50,000
• Chance to donate $20,000 to an organization of your choice
• Gain publicity and awareness for your content
• Chance to connect with other creators online content
O Asian Summer Film Festival quer apresentar a cultura asiática através da cinematografia popular produzida nos países do continente.
O Festival tem várias categorias, como uma seção competitiva, retrospectivas, exibições para crianças e noites temáticas. No ano passado, 40 títulos da China, Hong Kong, Tailândia, Coreia do Sul, Japão e Índia foram exibidos, alguns deles foram estreia de festivais mundiais e internacionais, estreias de festivais europeus ou estreias de festivais espanhóis. Os 18 filmes programados na seção oficial competiram pelo Prêmio do Júri, o Lucky Cat Award, dado pelo público ao melhor filme em competição, e o Prêmio Critics' Choice.
L’associazione culturale La Guarimba ha come obiettivo quello di riportare il cinema alla gente e la gente al cinema. Questa motivazione ci ha portato a riparare un vecchio cinema all’aperto di 938 posti in Calabria; ad organizzare un festival del cortometraggio internazionale con ingresso libero; a creare La Scuola Delle Scimmie in Puglia, un processo di formazione di cinema e di illustrazione indipendente per 45 ragazzi; ci ha fatto creare La Guarimba On Tour dove ogni anno portiamo la nostra selezione di cortometraggi in giro per il mondo; e infine, ad agosto 2015, abbiamo organizzato la prima conferenza europea di Vimeo, il più grande distributore di cinema online diretto.
Até o dia 19 de maio de 2014, trabalhos em videodança do estado do Rio Grande do Sul poderão participar da 1a edição do Festival no_land, que acontecerá de 5 a 7 de junho de 2014 no Teatro Moinho da Estação - Núcleo Audiovisual TME – Rua Coronel Flores, 810 sl 103 Bairro São Pelegrino, Caxias do Sul/RS.
