The VER CINE 2024 Festival is a production by Benguela Produções e Eventos Culturais, which aims to:
a] Promote Brazilian cinematography, considering the different genres and formats;
b] Enable exchange for production in all states;
c] Enable democratic access for the Baixada Fluminense public to recent audiovisual production;
d] Disseminate cinema due to its importance in affirming a cultural identity.
In this second edition, FINCI becomes Hybrid. This 2025, the International Festival of New Independent Cinema (FINCI) calls on the international audiovisual industry to register their audiovisual projects, which will be held online from September 20 to October 18, 2025, and in person during June and November in Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Mexico, and Spain.
MDM Film Distribution invites new independent filmmakers to submit their projects with the aim of having a new exhibition window for their projects and thus fostering the creative, negotiation, and distribution space. MDM gives new projects, new independent filmmakers the opportunity to be seen and for new audiovisual proposals to circulate within the audiovisual industry.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
The call opens on January 30, 2025 and closes on April 20 at 11:59 p.m. (Argentina).
A total of 80 projects will be selected.
The projects can be seen through the festival's website, only during the festival period for those who access the FINCI online. Those who are in Mexico, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and Spain can enjoy the Finci in person.
On May 1st, the selected Mexican, Spanish, Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata projects can be seen on the Web and you can start buying tickets and access them in person. From May 2nd to July 18th, all the selected projects will be available online and you will be able to buy the content with a 20% Off. Those who access the Pre Finci will be sent the content starting on August 12th. Starting on August 20th, general FINCI ONLINE sales begin.
CATEGORIES:
FINCI#2 will have the following 8 categories:
- Feature films (up to 90 minutes - fiction)
- Short films (Fiction/Documentary up to 20 minutes)
- FINCI DOC (Feature films up to 90 minutes)
- FINCI pilot chapter (Fiction up to 50 minutes)
- FINCI female (Short films up to 20 minutes)
- FINCI LGBTQ+ (short films up to 25 minutes)
- FINCI fantasy (Short films up to 20 minutes) - science fiction-horror genre
- FINCI COAST (short films of 20 minutes feature films up to 90 minutes) - Mar del Plata
JURY:
The FINCI 2025 Jury is made up of those directors who won with their projects at FINCI 2024 with the The goal is for each of them to have more visibility and for their projects to have a greater reach to the public and for a community to be achieved in the audiovisual field.
Also, for there to be possibilities of connection. The objective of FINCI is to be able to understand that if there is a connection, between the juries, the selected ones, the spectators and myself, we can all grow together since it is a festival that is made by everyone.
Feature Film Category:
Alejandro Gerber Bicecci
Graduate in Cinematography from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. He has written, directed and produced three fiction feature films: Vaho (2009), Viento aparte (2014) and Arillo de hombre muerto (2024).
She has been part of the writing teams of numerous series: The Cassez-Vallarta Case: A Crime Novel (Netflix), Stories of a Crime: Colosio Case (Netflix/Dynamo), María Félix, la doña (Televisa) Deep Drainage, The Lieutenant (TV Azteca), Cesar, the Story of an Idol (Disney / BTF Media); and the television series: The Eighth Commandment, Fortune, Camelia the Texan and The Traps of Desire (Argos TV), among others.
Vaho (2009) won the Jury Prize at the 10th Marrakech International Film Festival and Special Mention of the Jury at the 7th Morelia International Film Festival. Viento aparte (2014), premiered at the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival; and screened at the festivals of Warsaw, Calcutta, Havana and Edinburgh. Won the Audience Award at the 18th Austin Film Festival Cine Las Américas.
Short Film Category:
Raul A Rodriguez
Born in Mexico City in 1996. He studied a degree in Communication with a specialization in Film at the Universidad Iberoamericana. His first short film, “Albatros” premiered at the 50th Huesca International Film Festival. His next short film, “Todavía te transformaré”, will premiere at the New York Latino Film Festival in 2024. He has been part of various independent projects, including short and feature films in Mexico. He participated in the inaugural residency of Bendfilm Basecamp 2024, where he was mentored by director Bing Liu, producers Christine Vachon and Effie Brown. He is currently in pre-production on his next short film: “Una fábula en el fin de los tiempos”. He is also developing a feature film script with his production company Antitrama.
Documentary Category:
Rod Ugalde De Haene
Rod is a director and writer interested in portraying the mystery that exists between the mind, nature and our bodies. He graduated from the Visual Communication degree at the Tec de Monterrey Campus Ciudad de Mexico, his first feature film, the documentary "La voz arcana del corazón", premiered at the DocsMX 2023 festival and won the award for best documentary at the International Festival of New Independent Cinema (FINCI) 2024. His documentary piece "Para el Recuerdo" won the FILmamos competition within the framework of FILm, the European film festival of the FIL, Guadalajara 2023. He has premiered numerous short films at various festivals, highlighting "Ansiedad y Deseo" at the Morelia International Film Festival in 2021, and "Camellos en la Arena", at the Shorts Mexico and Fotogenia 2020 festivals. Some of the projects he has directed for television are "La vengancia de las juanas" for Netflix, "La Bandida" for Amazon prime, and "Verne: La isla misterious" for Disney +. He is currently working on the documentary "El destino a lo inexplicable", a film selected in "Habitar el campo", a program by Ambulante for the development of projects led by Christiane Butchart. He also developed the horror project “Peligro de muerte”, which was part of the “Feratum” residency for the development of fantastic scripts 2023. His poem “No es bastante tarde” was published by Casa País magazine and his story “El gato, la araña y la cosa” by the publishing house La sombra del Maderito. He is currently the founder of “Espíritu”, a publishing house for independent voices specialized in poetry, short stories and illustration. Since 2023 he has been practicing Butoh, a discipline he learned from the teachers Natsu Nakajima and Raquel Salgado. He is a teacher at the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Pilot Chapter Category:
Sergio Sosa (Flixxo)
Sergio Sosa is a graduate of the Image and Sound Design degree (UBA). Since 2018 he has been part of the video platform and audiovisual production company Flixxo. She currently works as General Coordinator, managing the acquisition and production of content and Flixxo's participation in festivals and markets.
Female Cinema Category:
Sady Barrios
Producer certified by the National Institute of Paraguayan Audiovisual (INAP). Master of Distribution and Business in the Audiovisual Industry from the School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid - ECAM, Diploma in Cinematographic Production from the Ibero-American Center for Photo and Film Studies - CIBEF, Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Autonomous University of Asunción. She was a Professor of the Higher Technical Degree in Cinematography at the Institute of Arts and Communication Sciences (IPAC).
She has been working in the Film, Art and Culture, Media and Advertising industry since 2006, supporting the development, production and dissemination of audiovisual projects. For several years she has participated in International Film Festivals and Markets such as Oberá en Cortos, Ventana Sur, MAFIZ Málaga, Berlinale EFM, Series Manía, Cannes MDF, among others.
She is the producer and director of the short film Hijas de Púa (2024), Producer of the short films Historias de Sudamérica (Oberhausen Selection, 2024), Otra Mano (Babel Film Festival Award, 2021), Production Coordinator of the TV Series Pequeñas Esperanzas II (2021), Production Assistant in Ejercicios de Memoria (2016), Art Producer at Mangoré, for the love of art (2014), AD of the feature film Libertad, la lucha por la Independencia (2011), Producer of the documentary Jesareko, for the international co-production series Parcerias entre Fronteras (2010). He was part of the staff of the International Film, Art & Culture Festival of Paraguay (2012, 2013, 2018) and the National Audiovisual Congress of Paraguay Tesape (2013), and of the programming department of Public TV Paraguay (2012).
LGBTQ+ Category
Nicolás Alvarez. He graduated as a film director at the University of Cinema (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He directed “Violeta” (Best short film at BAFICI 2001 and Venice Film Festival). He premiered his first feature film as director “Lo Nuestro no funciona” (Bangkok Film Festival) at the Mar del Plata Festival in 2004.
Joaquín Ostrovsky. National actor graduated from IUNA (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He debuted with “Goce Artificial” (Buenos Aires, 1999). He acted in “Cerca” by Eduardo Pavlovsky (Madrid, 2002). In Spain, she wrote and directed “Beautiful People” (2001), “Proyecto Aldo Pastur” (2003). She also directed “Kafka Kabaret” by Alfonso Pindado (Scena Contemporánea Festival, Madrid, 2002) and acted in “Silencio Banana y otros caprichos del Japón” (Scena Contemporánea Festival, Madrid, 2003).
In 2004 they met and began working together in film and theater. In October 2024 they premiered “Yo nunca quise ser famosos” (I never wanted to be famous) a feature-length documentary at the Asterisco Festival, Buenos Aires (also selected in the ABC BAFICI Postproduction laboratory). They are currently developing a fiction film with which they have participated in the Queer Cine Lab in Malaga, PROMERCAT in Valencia and Residencia in Extremadura, Spain)
Category Fantastic Cinema
Macarena Dandrea Mohr
She studied film direction at the Universidad del Cine and graduated in 2013. She did her first job in film as a production assistant on the film Fermín, glorias del tango by Hernán Findling and Oliver Kolker. After the feature film, she was hired as a production assistant by her production company Función y Kuenta.
That same year, she took a film direction course at the New York Film Academy. In 2015, she created alliances with the production company Magenta Films, which gave her the opportunity to work on her second feature film “Corazon Negro” by Juan Ribelli, covering the production area, and the series “Sofía” by Nicolás Tete. She also studies production and audiovisual TV scriptwriting with Pablo Culell and Jorge Maestro.
In 2016, she began working at the Lahaye production company, Gabriel Lahaye's post, developing content for Ibermedia. She worked as a production assistant for the Rebecca Films production company, placing audiovisual material at film festivals, and created MDM films distribution, a production company that works nationally and
internationally, providing production services by placing audiovisual material at film festivals and seeking financing, film and TV markets, laboratories and pitch competitions for projects that are in the development, production and post-production phase. MDM aims to create different alliances and work networks that allow it to have access to participation in different projects.
In 2022, MDM created its academy section, giving group sessions and personalized advice at a national and international level, where it teaches the tools needed to be able to present projects at film festivals, financing funds, markets and pitch competitions and shows how the industry works from different sectors so that projects can be developed, enhanced and sold.
In 2023, he participated in the 24th edition of BAFICI, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival in the industry section, within the framework of Professional Meetings, giving a talk on the Development of Audiovisual Pitch Projects. In October, he traveled to the city of Montevideo, Montevideo to give his 6-week course on the presentation of audiovisual projects in person and gave a talk on Project Development and Pitch for university students at Dodeca.
In 2024, he continued to offer courses and created his first film festival FINCI, an international festival of new independent cinema, and the industry section FIINCI CINE CLUB, giving visibility to new filmmakers so that they can exhibit their projects by creating new meeting modalities and work possibilities. The first edition of the Cine Club took place on April 6. FINCI had its online version from July 30 to August 18. Now FINCI is going to be in-person, having its first edition in Buenos Aires from August 30 to September 15. FINCI is projected to travel throughout Latin America to give presence to the directors and projects of each country.
FINCI Coastal Category
Natalia Lódolo Cuenca
Argentinean audio-visual communicator and actress. She trained through seminars on acting in front of the camera, casting and self-casting, and specialized in the area of audiovisual production with professionals from both sides of the industry. She worked in the press in international relations for the Mar del Plata Film Festival (2022 and 2023). She also works in the production of music videos, both independent and for large productions, in documentaries and advertising.
Short Out is a film festival that has the ambition to represent a reflection's place on the issues crossing the suburbs.
The enhancement of peripheral spaces is a central topic to explore expanding territories and with the purpose of understand an urban context that invests in centralization.
In the margins lives an unexpressed or not yet explored artistic lymph and the desire is to bring it to light, starting from Lainate, on the edge of the metropolitan city of Milan.
The fourth edition of Short Out Festival will take place from Tuesday 1st to Sunday 6th July, inside the natural spaces and courtyards of Villa Litta, emblem of the artistic, historical and cultural heritage of the city of Lainate.
We desire to create a widespread Festival that does not end with the screening of short films.
That's the reason we thought of a Short Off with a rich program of meetings during all three days of Short Out Festival.
FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES
The Festival is an international film competition with both live and online screenings and a final red carpet awards event to celebrate the best works of the year and will take place from 5 to 21 December 2024.
The event will be preceded by a press conference on 4 December.
From 5 to 12 December the 900 works will be screened online 24 hours a day on the two festival channels: Coliffe TV and Coliffe TV International, and the public will be involved with the online voting which will award 12 festival prizes.
From 17 to 20 December the large Cinema Seraphicum Auditorium in Rome, which is equipped with 540 numbered seats, a projection system with 10,000 lumens on a 6 m screen. x 5 m. Dolby Surround will host all the screenings of the Festival. All 120 finalist works will be screened, i.e. the top 5 classified for each of the 12 categories after online audience voting and 5 chosen by the Festival Jury.
In parallel with the film programme, the Festival organises:
• a film MARKET
• a cinematographic FORUM
• the presentation and screening of a FIRST national cinematographic VIEWING.
One day of the Festival will be dedicated to the film MARKET, offering a space dedicated to the presentation of unreleased projects and works in progress, to encourage their development and realization, and the industry, media and accredited directors the opportunity to watch, learn and collaborate.
The opportunities include all subjects: young authors, new talents, professionals from the world of cinema, producers, distributors, agencies, training institutes, film festivals and Film Commissions.
News and insights on the market, production and distribution with a multimedia focus on new media.
Scripts, cinematographic works, projects, start-ups can take advantage of networking opportunities to develop and realize their expectations.
There will be the opportunity for one-to-one meetings between publishers and producers interested in the film adaptation of their catalogue.
Furthermore, 20 scripts will be selected, among all those received, which will be offered to professionals in the cinematographic field and to accredited production companies, for post-production and to promote access to the market.
Two days will be dedicated to the COLIFFE FORUM, consisting of:
• a round table with students,
• an interactive event,
• a focus on Ibero-American cinema,
with industry professionals lending their knowledge and skills to these unique encounters.
On 21 December 2024 a work (feature film) will be screened as a national premiere and the 66 winning works will receive the "The Last Winner" award, which is the last award of the year 2024 worldwide. During the evening, 2 lifetime achievement awards and 2 awards will be given to people of the year in the world of cinema.
The awards will be given by members of the COLIFFE Honorary Committee and personalities from the entertainment, cinema and fashion world.
All activities will take place at the Seraphicum Roma located in via del Serafico, 1.
COLIFFE - COLiseum International Film FEstival
THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WHICH CELEBRATES WORKS FROM ALL THE WORLD.
IT HAS A PROFOUND INTERNATIONAL SCOPE AND WAS BORN WITH THE OBJECTIVE AND NEED TO ENHANCE INDEPENDENT CINEMA AND FIRST WORKS.
The Pianeta Empatia Association which is organizing the IV Edition of the "Coliseum International Film Festival - COLIFFE", an event dedicated to promoting independent cinema and emerging directors, and to creating a moment of cultural and social aggregation, an experience of cooperation and integration between peoples.
COLISEUM, as a symbol of the Capital and of the territory to be enhanced by creating cultural specificities that act as an attraction;
INTERNATIONAL, like works from all over the world;
FILM, as a means of international communication, comparison as well as a container for criticism, development and promotion;
FESTIVAL, as a competition and showcase of titles and personalities.
The objective of the festival is to promote international competitiveness through attractiveness, a theme that concerns territories not only for what they are but also for how they can be developed and communicated. A territory is social value, exchange value and experience value, but also cultural value and economic value.
The Coliseum International Film Festival is a fundamental resource for the film industry as it not only contributes significantly to the cultural, economic and social development of the territory in which it is held, but also constitutes an essential link in the ecosystem of the film industry.
The Coliseum International Film Festival is multi-mission, in fact:
• promotes the knowledge and diffusion of international cinema in all its forms of art, entertainment and industry, in a spirit of freedom, equality and equal opportunities;
• offers directors wider recognition for their work, spreading word of mouth among critics, cinephiles and audiences;
• discovers new talent and helps structure emerging production areas;
• creates business opportunities for films that have not yet obtained agreements for commercial exploitation or for certain territories.
The fourth edition of the Festival is defined as "social", that is, with the aim of enhancing the aggregation of all the protagonists of independent cinema and first works and the social values of cinema.
The fourth edition, like the third, can be defined as a GREEN FESTIVAL from all the following points of view, from Sustainable Mobility (the locations are always identified near subway and/or train stops, means that are suggested to guests, together with electric ones and the car sharing solution) to Sustainable Energy Consumption (in in-person locations the aim is to reduce energy consumption, reducing lighting to the bare minimum by setting the heating system to the minimum level of well-being), from the Printing of Materials (the digital format is favored for communication, information and promotion of the event or paper materials printed on recycled paper by FSC/PEFC certified suppliers and the prizes are made with organic materials extracted from corn grain or with natural and degradable glass fibres) to the Installations (they are made only with biodegradable materials , without specific references to the edition, to be able to reuse them in the future).
From Waste Management (separate collection of the same numerous collection points and easily recognizable and visible containers) to Guest Management (only digital train and subway tickets and Travelife or Green Globe certified hotels are offered), from Food Sustainability (DOCG wines at 0 km, water and drinks on tap, no food waste, seasonal products at 0 km, washable crockery and certified tissue paper napkins) to Environmental Culture and Social Sustainability (sponsors who share and support the sustainability values of the festival and suppliers equipped with a certified Environmental Management System, chosen locations free of architectural barriers and accessible to people with disabilities and specific needs, promotion of gender equality and full participation of all individuals and valorisation of the territory) to end with Training and Communication (staff adequately trained on environmental sustainability and on the conduct policies adopted by the management and communication of the environmental and eco-sustainable policies adopted by the festival).
The festival invites all participants, in every form and role, to pay particular attention to adopting behaviors in this green direction.
Mansfield Town Film Festival 2024
#MansfieldLovesFilm #MTFF #MTFF24
Celebrate the silver screen as Mansfield Town Film Festival returns in 2024.
Bringing together a stunning mix of filmmakers with a strong focus on diverse, working-class talent from across the country, and internationally, enjoy three electric days of incredible short films shown in the beautiful Mansfield Palace Theatre - perfect for those with a love of film.
Featuring an array of short films, music videos, documentaries, and animation as well as international shorts, our film festival offers three days of unique programming, entertainment, and fresh perspectives.
Complete with an opening ceremony, live screenings, an in-person awards evening, masterclasses, Q+As, and more! There’s plenty to enjoy or simply soak up the atmosphere in the thriving heart of our town.
During our inaugural year, MTFF welcomed hundreds of filmmakers from all over the world to the Mansfield Palace Theatre for three days of incredible films. Our festival was opened by Palme D'Or winning filmmaker Ken Loach who will be attending MTFF24.
Humor and comedy short films.
8 categories
- Best comedy short film
- Best short film according to audience
- Best very short film
- Best Actress
- Best Actor
- Best Cinematography
- Best Screenplay
- Best Original Soundtrack
The competition is addressed to filmmakers from all over the world who produce short films and documentaries.
Its purpose is to appraise short films and documentary-films whose goal is expressiveness and cultural disclosure starting a cinematographic event throughout Val d’Intelvi.
We are an international short film festival, for express the spiritual cinema with a universal language, dealing with internal affairs of the human being, a cinema of the invisible that captures the essence of the deep and transcendent, in introspective and reflective stories; with questions and answers about life. Each story is fruit harvested from the inside out and symbolize 9 spiritual values that are fundamental for us: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Gentleness, Kindness, Fidelity, Humility and Self Control.
Festival Description (Edition: 9)
Festival Start: May 30, 2025 Festival End: June 2, 2025
The F I C S J. (San Jorge International Film Festival) is an event that will take place from May 30 to June 2, 2025 in the cities of Pueblo Nuevo, Planeta Rica, Buenavista, La Apartada, Ayapel, Puerto Libertador, San José de Ure and Montelíbano, which make up the San Jorge subregion, located in the south of the department of Córdoba, Colombia. The main objective of this festival is to promote regional, national and international film production and to promote the region as an epicenter of the seventh art.
The festival seeks to promote the circular economy around audiovisual production, generating a greater supply of employment and economic development in the region. In addition, the F I C S J proposes new expressions of culture and folklore in the region, through the presentation of films that address issues related to the identity and cultural diversity of the region.
The event will have a varied program that will include the screening of national and international films, short films, documentaries, conferences, workshops, round tables and cultural activities in general. Competitions will also be held between filmmakers, with the aim of awarding the best audiovisual productions.
In short, the F I C S J is a film festival that seeks to promote audiovisual and cultural production in the region of Córdoba, Colombia, and contribute to its economic and social development.
In addition to promoting audiovisual and cultural production in the region of Córdoba, the F I C S J also has a social focus on different communities, through the strategy "The backpack of cinema." This strategy seeks to reach different sectors of society, including the rural student community, the religious community, the community of women heads of household, Afro-descendants, indigenous people, peasants, people displaced by violence and the disabled.
For these communities, audiovisual training workshops have been planned to allow them to learn new skills and develop their capacities in this area, as well as film screenings with motivating themes that relate to entrepreneurship to create a new socio-economic dynamic in the territory.
"Georges Méliès rocket reached the moon, Felix the cat hit the road, and the great journey continues." Anthony Haden-Guest
(PROJECT SUBMISSION IS FREE. We have ROLLING DEADLINES for project submission.) Please see our Rules & Terms.
EVENT DATES
Aug - Jul | Animation Nights New York curated monthly screening events
May | ANNY Cannes Program
Nov | ANNY Best of Fest (Season Festival/Conference)
Ongoing | Additional Opportunities
Ongoing | ANNY Exchange (https://annyexchange.com)
(Please note: Animation Nights New York (ANNY) has ROLLING DEADLINES. If you have not received a notification it means your film is still in the running to be screened at one of our monthly events!)
Animation Nights New York is a competitive films festival. We host monthly screening events of our in-competition films in venues around NYC. Admission is Free.
The ANNY Cannes Program is an additional opportunity for our filmmakers. Working with the Cannes Marché du Film and Short Film Corner we shortlist qualifying films & filmmakers and then select 20 films to be showcased in our ANNY Cannes Program. Filmmakers receive limited festival accreditation and participate in both a market screening and industry events as part of ANNY Exchange.
ANNY Best of Fest is a conference held annually in NYC (late Sept / early Oct). The two day festival features animation screenings, virtual reality animation experiences, art installations, professional panels, and industry events.
ANNY Exchange connects animation talent to AR/VR/Traditional projects.
HISTORY
Animation Nights New York was founded by Yvonne Grzenkowicz. On September 9, 2015, Little Water Radio invited us to use their old space at 207a Front St in the back of Fulton Stall Market for our premiere “NY Independents” screening. The program was curated by Yvonne Grzenkowicz (Animation Nights New York) and Robert Lyons (ASIFA East). We had about 45 attendees. We soon outgrew the space! (Thank you, Little Water Radio and Fulton Stall Market!)
Jan-April 2016 we were in residency with the Third Annual Out to See Festival at 192 Front St (Jan-Apr) in the South Street Seaport. We were the premiere event for this winter festival hosted by Little Water Radio and sponsored by the Howard Hughes Corporation. Animation Nights New York continued to grow.
In May 2016, Animation Nights New York relocated to the beautiful 180 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10038 with support from Anderson Contemporary, MHP, Clarion Partners, and Maiden Lane Hospitality. We could finally accommodate our growing regular attendance!
Animation Nights New York now holds screening events around NYC. Besides 180 Maiden Lane, we’ve held screening events at the One World Trade Observatory, the Arts Brookfield Terrace at Brookfield Place, and The Gutter Spare Room in Williamsburg Brooklyn. We’ve held workshops and VR pop-up events at The Capitale and The Hideaway Seaport.
We’ve had over 11000 films submitted from all around the world. The work is beautiful and inspiring and the events have fostered a sense of community and exchange.
We’ve had tremendous support from ASIFA, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH, NYWIFT, Women in Animation, and the animation community at large. Animation Nights New York programs have included work by award winning animators such as Bill Plympton, George Griffin, Joanna Quinn, John Dilworth, Signe Baumane, Michael Sullivan, Dustin Grella, AthanassiosVakalis and Tiny Inventions among others.
Animation Nights New York had our First Annual ANNY Best of Fest on September 29-30, 2016. Our panel judges selected 20 films from the 200 screened Sept 2015-July 2016. The ANNY Best of Fest featured Animation Screenings, VR Animation Experiences, Art Installations, Industry Events, Artist Booths, and Professional Panels at 180 Maiden Lane and venues around the Seaport District of NYC.
Our goal is to strengthen the animation community and ensure filmmakers are rewarded for their efforts. We are looking to partner with companies who are naturally aligned with our mission to promote the arts. A huge thanks to everyone who helped us get this started.
Keep supporting independent animation. We hope to see you at our next event!
A horror film contest. Prizes include promotion on the Hollywood Investigator website, award plaques, screening at fan conventions (previous screenings at World Horror Con, Loscon, Tuscon.)
Tabloid Witch founder Thomas M. Sipos is the author of Horror Film Festivals and Awards (McFarland 2012) and Horror Film Aesthetics (McFarland 2010), available on Amazon.com.
Film Making is an art and it needs more patience and determination to recreate your ideas to a motion picture. Films Festivals although are typically annual events, they acknowledge various genre of films, mostly from across the globe and encourage people engaged in cinema. They also provide an opportunity for unknown filmmakers to get their movies in front of a real live audience and to have their films reviewed by professional critics. Filmmakers whose movies get accepted into a festival also get valuable press attention and exposure to prospective agents and buyers, not to mention a sometimes sizeable cash award if they win.
From time immemorial, films have played a very important part in bringing people of varying backgrounds together and entertaining them. But, most of the times, the hard work behind making these fields go unnoticed and therefore film festivals started all over the world.
Venice Film Festival is the oldest one in the world, there are two other prestigious Film Festivals of Cannes and Berlin. Although the main crux came from international countries, India also has its very own set of Film Festivals in accordance to different states. Stating a few would be, Bangalore Film Festival 1996, Kolkata Film Festival 1995, Mumbai Film Festival 1990 and many more.
Siliguri is situated at the base of the Himalayan Mountains in the plains of Darjeeling District beside river Mahananda. It is the 2nd largest city in West Bengal and is also known as the Gateway to the North-East. The strategic location of the place makes sure that travelers to North-East India have to pass through this city.
Siliguri is not a very old city, but it ranks in the 19th number amongst 35 places to visit in West Bengal. Being a cosmopolitan city, it shelters a wide number of people with varying cultures and languages, along with a few tribal populations. Although the common language spoken in Siliguri is Bengali; Hindi, English, Nepali, Marwari, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Assamese, Rajbangshi, Tibetian and many more varieties of linguistic people reside together.
Not only these, but the entire region of Siliguri is also famous for 3 T‘s namely: Tea, Timber, and Tourism. There are 45 tea gardens to spread over the blocks of the sub-division. Two important adjacent areas – Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, Baikunthapur contribute a lot to the microclimate of the region. It also has the best communication network along with the nearest railway station being NJP (New Jalpaiguri). Bagdogra Airport is the only airport in the distance of 12km which caters to the needs of Sikkim.
Talking about films, the quintessential Barfi, directed by Anurag Basu, starring Priyanka Chopra, Ranbir Kapoor, Ileana D’Cruz, Ashish Vidyarthi, Saurabh Shukla, Jishu Sengupta, Rupa Ganguly had been shot in Darjeeling, also known as The Queen of Hills which also falls under the North-East region. There are also plenty of regional films that are shot in or nearby this place, thus making it a hub for every type of genre!
Hello! We are International Auto film festa.
■ Held an automobile film festival that originated in Japan.
The International Auto Film Festa is an open competition for short films (up to 15 minutes) centered around automobiles.
Originating from Japan, it uniquely blends film and automotive culture in an international film festival format.
We hope to foster collaboration and deepen exchanges with those interested in the automotive industry and cinematic arts, creating more opportunities to discover new works and talent worldwide.
■ The Jury (as of November 19, 2024)
Tetsuya Kato (CAR GRAPHIC / Japan)
Shinichiro Ehara (Auto Bild Japan / Japan)
Satoshi Ubukata (8speed.net / Japan)
Mário Bock (2024 Grand Prix Winner / Portugal)
Ukyo Katayama (Former F1 Racer / Japan)
Jaclyn Trop (Automotive Reporter / USA)
Mike Rutherford (Automotive Journalist / UK)
Masato Uchida (Designer / Japan)
Masahiro Terada (Director / Japan)
Peter Lyon (Journalist & Author / Australia)
Yoshiyuki Shimizu (IAFF Founder / Japan)
Bayelsa International Film Festival - BIFF is established with aim to engage filmmakers, artists, performers, academics and members of the creative community to unravel the delicacies of diversities and locate common grounds across cultures and societies.. To provide an exciting, educative, and information oriented Film Festival.
Bayelsa International Film Festival - BIFF is established with aim to engage filmmakers, artists, performers, academics and members of the creative community to unravel the delicacies of diversities and locate common grounds across cultures and societies.. To provide an exciting, educative, and information oriented Film Festival.
Bayelsa International Film Festival - BIFF is established with aim to engage filmmakers, artists, performers, academics and members of the creative community to unravel the delicacies of diversities and locate common grounds across cultures and societies.. To provide an exciting, educative, and information oriented Film Festival.
BIFF is designed to be an intimate and eloquent filmmaker festival where film enthusiasts can get first hand insights from directors, writers, actors and producers from the premiering films. With commitment, BIFF will be presenting an annual film festival and art exhibition to provide both professional and amateur filmmakers with a space for display and dissemination of their works. At the same time, a strong focus on the BIFF as a place for the world to discover recent talents in African films and filmmakers. The event also offers master classes, panel discussion and workshop to augment this diverse programming.
One of the longest running film festivals of its kind worldwide. It is a short film festival open to non-professional productions, film school students as well as commercial productions. It is held annually during the last week of November.
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Welcome to Sinistro Fest, the festival that celebrates fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and experimental cinema.
For six days, Fortaleza will be the stage for a selection of films, ranging from features to short films, some with world, international, Latin American, and Brazilian premieres.
SINISTRO will also be a meeting point for filmmakers, producers, actors, technicians, and distributors, creating a space for the exchange of ideas and experiences.
With its unique energy, Fortaleza is the perfect place to foster dialogue and collaboration between cinema professionals and film enthusiasts.
Welcome to the Inaugural Taita Taveta Film Festival! The Festival was founded out of a strong desire to promote Taita Taveta filmmakers while simultaneously showing off Taita region, its people, talent, and culture through quality cinema. The Taita Taveta Film Festival will be an annual two-day celebration of film and creativity featuring industry panels, peer-to-peer interviews, evening afterparties, live screenings, Q&A’s and overall fun times.
Every year, the Festival will invite artists from all over the region to give their own interpretation of the world of today and tomorrow. Our vision is to achieve longevity while still remaining faithful to our founding purpose: to draw attention to and raise the profile of films, with the aim of contributing towards the development of cinema, boosting the film industry worldwide and celebrating cinema at an international level. We will always painstakingly curate our offering to ensure we showcase hidden gems alongside more mainstream films.
We also recognise that we are in a world of constantly changing images; as such, we must continue to reinvent ourselves from the inside. We endeavour to do so by constantly asking ourselves questions about the various aspects of the event that we can best prepare for the future with conviction and commitment, while staying attuned to the issues of our time.
Edinburgh Short Film Festival Now Open! International Tours & Cash Awards
The 15th edition of the ESFF with International Film Festival showcases, more short film screenings, trophies, cash prizes and awards!
Max Length 25 minutes, international films welcomed, all genres eligible.
Open for entries online and via Festhome!
http://www.edinburghshortfilmfestival.com/
Looking forward to seeing your films!
The Río Negro International Social Film Festival is an audiovisual festival that aims to promote cinema within the country and abroad. The festival will be held in March with a competition of feature films and short films, both fiction, animation and documentary. There will also be talks and workshops.
