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ShortsTV Distribution Deal - Short Film Winner!

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We are excited to announce that we have a new prize for the 10th Annual NYC Indie Film festival! A distribution deal with ShortsTv will be offered to the winner of the “Best Short Film” Award!    Important to note: winner does not have to accept offer and in the result of a tie the distribution deal will be given to two winners.    Interested in submitting your short? Please visit: https://www.nycindieff.com/submissions/submit ...

12th Amakula International Film Festival - Call for submissions

The Amakula International Film Festival is Uganda’s oldest independent Film festival that aims to contribute to a vibrant local film industry, by broadening access to and developing audiences for quality African Film production; inspiring local Filmmakers to produce quality Films based on own stories; facilitating, presenting and promoting local Film productions and offering a professional networking platform for Filmmaking community within East Africa and beyond. With the festival havi...

Check our Festivals in Focus calling november 15

    Read this online                  FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS:                     Dear filmmakers friends do not miss these Festivals in Focus.   FILMFESTIVALS.COM PARTNER FESTIVALS CALLING ANIMATION FESTS CALLING DOC FESTS CALLING HORROR FESTS CALLING ...

Visegrad Animation Forum Is Rebranding into CEE Animation and Opens Call for Pitch of Animated Projects

VAF is now CEE Animation Posted on November 12, 2018 by admin Visegrad Animation Forum Is Rebranding into CEE Animation and Opens Call for Pitch of Animated Projects                   Visegrad Animation Forum (VAF) has been the largest platform for the animation industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the course of its six-year existence, it has managed to build a strong base of film profes...

7th Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival-2018

7th Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival-2018   Entries Open: Shorts films, Animation, Documentaries & Music Videos.   Submission deadline: 16 Nov 2018   To submit entry visit: http://miniboxoffice.com/mumbaishortsinternationalfilmfestival   For Participation Email: info.mumbai@miniboxoffice.com ...

ITFS 2019 is now open fur submissions

The 26th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film is going to take place from April 30 to May 05, 2019. It is one of the most outstanding events for animated film worldwide. Animated films produced after October 1, 2017 can be now submitted to the following competition categories:    •    International Competition (International short film competition) •    Young Animation (International student film competition) •  &n...

Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Calling

  CLICK TO SUBMIT   December 31, 2018 Earlybird Deadline   February 25, 2019 Regular Deadline   March 25, 2019 Late Deadline April 22, 2019 Extended Deadline Melbourne Documentary Film Festival's blog I  Website I Facebook I Twitter I SUBMIT I Email Three times now, The Melbourne Doc Fest has been rated as a Top 100 Film Festival on FilmFreeway and has consistently been ranked in the top 2%...

AMAA 2019 Submissions Open

The Africa Movie Academy Awards is the leading, most glamorous awards event that recognizes and rewards excellence in creativity on the continent of Africa. For many years, under the direction of its founder, astute filmmaker and veteran, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, the AMA Awards that seeks to acknowledge the efforts of filmmakers, actors, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and everyone else involved in the process of filmmaking all over the continent of Africa has gone from an idea to the ...

Frontieres Finance and Packaging Forum 2019 calling for projects

Call for Projects Now Open Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum  February 14-16 2019 Helsinki, Finland Submission Deadline:November 30, 5pm EST Ouverture de l’appel à projets Forum de financement et développement Frontières  14 au 16 février 2019 Helsinki, Finlande Date limite de soumission: le 30 novembre, 17h HNE   ...

Calling for vertical videos

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Entries are now open for the 3rd Vertical Film Festival, to be held in Katoomba in Australia’s Blue Mountains on Saturday 8 December 2018. The formula is the same as when we launched the world’s first competition for vertical film & video in 2014: entries in HD video up to 3 minutes long, created and delivered vertically (9:16) for tall-screen projection in front of an audience, on any theme, in any genre, pushing the creative possibilities of vertical filmmaking...

Submissions now open for the NEWLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Submission is now open for the Newlyn International Film Festival  via Film Freeway. The festval wil take place in Penzance which is adjaceent to the stunning scenery of St Michael's Mount. The venue will be  the Acorn Theatre Penzance. Aprl 5 -7th 2019. We have seven categories  Fiction Animation Documentary Poetry  Student Scripwriting Cornish films and Directors. We will have films screened over three days on two screen venues along with talks, workshops, soc...

Earlybird Deadline January 31st!

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Submit to the second annual NYC 2 Paris International Film Festival by January 31, 2019 to meet our Earlybird Deadline!    For more info visit: https://filmfreeway.com/NewYork2ParisInternationalFilmFestival ...

The HCF Screenplay Competition Calling for your script

Screenplay Competition Overview The HCF Screenplay Competition was specifically designed to bridge the gap between the large number of quality scripts that are produced annually,  and the small number of scripts that get green-lit for production.  By providing a wide array of cash prizes and critical production resources such as equipment and shooting locations to filmmakers, our competition stands apart from traditional competitions who don't provide logistical resou...

CEE Animation Workshop Opens a CALL for Filmmakers from Low Production Capacity Countries

  WHO CAN PARTICIPATE:   -    Producers and their creative team members (film director or scriptwriter) with an animated project of any form and lengt...

Register your documentaries by 9 November for FIPA DOC in Biarritz

        FILM SUBMISSIONS CLOSING SOON... Register your documentaries by 9 November  ...

Submit your feature length, short and interactive projects to the East Doc Platform 2019!

​​​​​​​ The East Doc Platform is the largest co-production, funding and distribution platform tailor-made for Central and East European documentaries. Every year, we connect 120 East European filmmakers to more than 100 key decision makers - producers, broadcasters, distributors and festival programmers from around the world. Projects presented at East Doc Platform are also eligible for several awards by the Institut...

OPEN CALL - SUBMIT - LOST WORLD FILM FESTIVAL

OPEN CALL for SHORT FILM submissions to: PALEOCHORA LOST WORLD SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Submit via Film Freeway Click this link to submit: https://filmfreeway.com/PaleochoraLostWorldShortFilmFestival   ...

Call for Entries Now Open - deadline December 1, 2018

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  Set in the heart of Oregon wine country, the McMinnville Short Film Festival (MSFF) is a “filmmaker’s” festival. MSFF organizers cater to filmmakers from the moment a film is submitted to the moment the festival wraps up, experience why Portland, Oregon filmmaker Zach Putnam says “…the festival organizers curated a sophisticated collection of high caliber films from both local and international directors. They create a welcoming environment for all at...

Hollywood Casting and Film launches a new screenplay competition and talent Summit

We, at filmfestivals.com, are happy to see our long time friend Jon Fitzgerald return with a festival project, Bruno Chatelin and Jon worked on a couple of occasions on th efestival circuit ! The HCF Screenplay Competition not only provides screenwriters with over $50,000 in cash and prize value, we are one of the only competitions that provides critical resources (locations, camera equipment) in helping screenwriters produce their scripts. The HCF Screenplay Competition was specifically d...

NYC 2 Paris - Paris Photos!

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Didn't make it to the Paris portion of our festival? Curious what went down?  Check out our gorgeous photos taken by photographer India Lange! You can view them on our Facebook or website. There's so many awesome shots of our brilliant filmmakers as well as our audience members having a great time!   To submit to the second annual festival visit: FilmFreeway ...

Festival CinemaZERO: hyper-independent film contest

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CinemaZERO rejects, and in its own way reverses, the industrial cinema formulas both in the means of production and in the aesthetic and narrative models followed: it looks for an artisanal and experimental approach to the video work, demonstrating an individual and autonomous research on one’s own idea of cinema and on language, on themes, on structure, on direction and/or on the realization of one’s own work. All those productions realized in imitation of abused industrial and...

Accepting Submissions: 2nd Annual NYC 2 Paris International Film Festival!

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We are now accepting submissions for the 2nd Annual NYC 2 Paris International Film Festival!  Join us in this new exciting tradition! All happening October 11 - 20, 2019! What could be better than fall in NYC and Paris, watching your film along with other new and exciting films while meeting fans and filmmakers from around the world! CERTIFICATES FOR THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES, THE CERTIFICATES WILL BE GIVEN OUT AT THE AWARDS CEREMONY IN PARIS THIS YEAR. Best Narrative Feature...

Call for Entries 2019 | African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival (Milan-Italy)

CALL FOR ENTRIES 2019 29th African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival Milan – Italy, 23rd-31st March 2019   Submissions for the 29th African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival are now open! It’s now possible to submit films to take part in the next edition of African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival, which will take place in Milan (Italy) from 23rd to 31st March 2019. Applying is simple, it only takes two steps: fill in the entry form, after re...

7th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival-2018

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7th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival-2018, India   Entries Open: Shorts films, Animation, Documentaries & Music Videos.   Submission deadline: 06 Oct 2018   To submit entry visit: http://miniboxoffice.com/delhishortsinternationalfilmfestival ...

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