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2016 Milwaukee Film Festival Call for Entries Now Open

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2016 Milwaukee Film Festival Call for Entries Now Open Festival Offers to Pay for All Work Screened; Free Entry for All Films; $27,000 in Cash Prizes Promised MILWAUKEE – Tuesday, February 23, 2016 – Milwaukee Film is now accepting entries for the 8th annual Milwaukee Film Festival, Sept. 22 – Oct. 6, 2016. Works of all genres, forms, and lengths will be considered. The deadline for all entries is Wednesday, June 8. The festival is in its fifth year of offering free submissi...

The 2016 Moondance Film Festival wants YOU!

THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST IN THE 2016 MOONDANCE AND A WARM WELCOME! Lights, Camera, Action! The Moondance International Film Festival invites all talented US & International filmmakers, writers and music composers to submit their films, written works and film scores to its 17th annual season, planned to take place in September 2016, our fabulous & memorable festival event location venue to be announced shortly. Moondance is known as the “American Cannes” of film festiva...

Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival 2016 Call For Entries

Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival is calling all fantastic filmmakers to submit their feature films, shorts and music documentaries to the 12th edition of the festival which will take place from the 12th to the 16th of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia. Submission deadline is the 20th of May. Selected feature films will compete for Grossmann’s most prestigious award, the Vicious Cat. Selected short films will compete for the Slak's Vicious Cat award for Best Short Film and ...

Submissions Now Being Accepted for 2016 International Horror Film Festival. Deadline: June 1, 2016

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Submissions currently being accepted for the 2016 International Horror Film Festival in NYC. Deadline: June 1, 2016. Visit http://www.internationalhorrorfestival.com to submit a film.   The 2016 International Horror Film Festival is a world class event honoring the best in American and international horror filmmaking. The festival will be held October 21-27, 2016 at Cinema Village, located in NYC's Greenwich Village. The IHFF will bring the horror community together for a ser...

RISC 2016 : Appel à films / Call for films !

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International Science & Film Festival (RISC)'s goals are to screen contemporary films and to provoke encounters between directors, scientists and a large audience, including the young one.   All genres of film (documentary, fiction, experimental, video art, animation, etc.), of any duration, whose subject is related to scientific topics (fundamental sciences, life sciences, environment sciences, medicine, economics, architecture, urbanism, sociology, anthropology, etc.) c...

12th Zurich Film Festival: Submit your film now!

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Dear filmmakers, Zurich Film Festival is now open for film submissions! The 12th Zurich Film Festival will take place from September 22nd to October 2nd 2016 and is accepting film submissions until June 30th. Zurich Film Festival offers its over 85’000 visitors insight into the work of exciting, upcoming directors in the international documentary and feature film competitions. Emerging directors have the opportunity to present their films in Zurich to the wide attention of the entire G...

12th Annual NYTVF: Early IPC Deadline Approaching! Submit Now for Discounted Rate!

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Make the next great television comedy, short-form series, drama, or unscripted format. Win guaranteed TV development opportunities at the premier festival for independent creators! The Independent Pilot Competition (IPC) is the NYTVF’s flagship, annual initiative, accepting independently-produced, original television pilots and series, short films, and short-form web series from around the globe. If your project is episodic in nature and is meant to be consumed in multiple chapters over ...

FINAL CALL FOR ENTRY SHORT MOVIE COMPETITION - DEADLINE 1 MARCH

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5th Curacao International Film Festival Rotterdam (CIFFR) For the first 2 editions of the festival, the Short Movies Big Stories competition was open to students only. From the 3rd edition the competition was opened to professional filmmakers, but still only those residing on Curacao. From April 6 - April 10, 2016, CIFFR celebrates its 5th edition and as part of this celebration it decided to open the Short Movie competition to (aspiring) filmmakers from all islands of the former Dutch Anti...

Deadline Approaching - Feb 29th - We fund you to collaborate!

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Best Short Film Competition - EVER!   Writers judge filmmakers and filmmakers judge writers. It’s that simple! We fund you to collaborate. We let the community decide.   Up to $10,000 for the short script. Up to $25,000 for the filmmaker to shoot it.   Writers can't judge writers.  Filmmakers can't judge filmmakers. Everyone receives a massive amount of feedback.   The filmmaker owns 100% of the film. Writersandfilmmakers.com owns 0%.   Visi...

20th Jihlava IDFF - entry form for documentary films and experimental documentaries now open

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Submit your documentary films and experimental documentaries to the 20th Jihlava IDFF, a celebration of creative documentary cinema. We do not follow a traditional festival model nor do we adopt a routine, pragmatic approach to programme selection. Jihlava pays tribute to courage and risk-taking. The Jihlava IDFF is the largest event of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. 5 days, 7 competition sections, 60 world premieres, 250 films in the programme and 38,000 visitors attending.  ...

Corto e Fieno 2016 / Call for Entries - Rural Film Festival

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Corto e Fieno – Rural Film Festival is back! The 7th edition will be held in Ameno, Lake Orta (Italy), on 16th, 17th and 18th September. Corto e Fieno keeps looking for ways of telling and testifying the relationship between man, the rural world, the land and its fruits. The Festival looks for films that portray rurality as a resource, a perspective and a place for narrations. Here you can find the application form for the short films' section, “Frutteto” (Orchard) htt...

Call For Entries: 6th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival-16

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6th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival-16, India To mark the birth anniversary of father of Indian Cinema   India’s only independent and most reputed film festival announcing Call for Entries:   Feature Films | Shorts Films | Animation | Documentary | Music Videos | Ad Films   Submission deadlines:   Regular deadline: 15 March 2016 Late deadline: 25 March 2016   Festival date: 30 April 2016   Key Highlights: Film Screenings | Film Market | Scre...

Atlanta Film Series Open Call For Entries for 5 unique film festivals in Atlanta Georgia

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Atlanta, Georgia is home to a unique series of the best film festivals in the Southeast. 2016 is packed with events designed to spotlight every genre of film imaginable.    In May, Animation Attack! returns to Atlanta to present some of the best animated films in the world during Atlanta's Spring Film Series.   The scorching summer months of July and August bring the Atlanta's Summer Film Series, with award-winning short films showcased at...

Best short film Competition - Ever! We fund you to collaborate!

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Best Short Film Competition - EVER!   Writers judge filmmakers and filmmakers judge writers. It’s that simple! We fund you to collaborate. We let the community decide.   Up to $10K for the short script. Up to $25K for the filmmaker to shoot it.   Writers can't judge writers.  Filmmakers can't judge filmmakers. Everyone receives a massive amount of feedback.     The filmmaker owns 100% of the film. Writersandfilmmakers.com owns 0%.   Visi...

Call For Film Submissions

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The 3rd Women’s Voices Now Film Festival Announces Call for Entries Submissions period begins January 4, 2016, 9AM PST. Deadline is March 8, 2016, 11:59PM PST. $10,000 in cash prizes.   Submit your film: www.womensvoicesnow.org/film-festival Contact: kelsey@womensvoicesnow.org *EDIT: We are now accepting FEATURE length Narrative and Documentary films along with short film submissions. We are also awarding $10,000 in cash prizes. The 2016 Women&#...

Cinesonika 5 Video Festival

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CINESONIKA showcases international works of film and video with fascinating soundtracks, idiosyncratic sound design, eclectic scoring and innovative approaches to the sound-image relationship.   We are open to works in any format, including narrative, documentary, animation, experimental, and uncategorizable styles, with no minimum or maximum run time. Videos will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the deadline, so earlier submissions will result in earlier notifications. &...

Call for entries! Ars Independent 2016

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Katowice’s Ars Independent festival announced the beginning of their call for entries for the feature film, animation, video game and – for the first time – music video competitions! Potential competitors for the title of the Black Horse and a monetary prize of 500 euros can be submitted until May 31. The four international competitions are the core of Ars Independent. The Black Horse of Film is aimed at directors of full-length, feature debuts and secon...

Last call to submit to the Greenwich International Film Festival (GIFF)

Late Deadline: February 1 Greenwich International Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 2016 festival on Film Freeway and Withoutabox. OUR MISSION To provide filmmakers with an effective platform to showcase their work with the goals of finding financing, distribution and promotional opportunities. Why Submit We want YOU!  Don’t get lost in the shuffle of bigger festivals. Your film has a better chanc...

Submit to The International Film Festival for Women, Social Issues, and Zero Discrimination (March 6 – 17, 2016)

The Final deadline to submit is February 15, 2016 CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT The International Film Festival for Women, Social Issues, and Zero Discrimination (taking place March 6 – 17, 2016) was established as a means of supporting and promoting filmmakers all over the world. Our main mission is to raise local and international awareness towards issues relating to women and social issues in general, and to help the United Nation promote peace and its humanitarian goals. The Inter...

CineStory Foundation Retreat & Fellowship

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CineStory is a national non-profit dedicated to nurturing emerging screenwriters through mentorship programs. Winners of our competition have gone on to pen films such as IRON MAN, THE CHILDREN OF MEN, BALLAST, KING OF CALIFORNIA and 11:14. Our 2013 Fellow Patrick Tobin had his winning script premiere at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival. One of the main goals of the CineStory Screenwriting Awards is to select up-and-coming screenwriters for our mentorship programs. For this reason, the semifinali...

The 2016 Universe Multicultural Film Festival extend the deadline to Feb. 10, 2016

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The 2016 Universe Multicultural Film Festival extend it's final submission deadline to Feb. 10, 2016.  This year, we are newlly add in to the withoutbox platform. Our FOUR online submission platforms are fully open for film submissions. Do not hesitate and join us at the ‪#‎2016UMFF‬! Click the links for more details and you can choose either one of the submission platforms: - Withoutabox: https://www.withoutabox.com/…/03t_…/03t_fin_fest_01over....

The 2016 Universe Multicultural Film Festival extend the deadline to Feb. 10, 2016

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The 2016 Universe Multicultural Film Festival extend it's final submission deadline to Feb. 10, 2016.  This year, we are newlly add in to the withoutbox platform. Our FOUR online submission platforms are fully open for film submissions. Do not hesitate and join us at the ‪#‎2016UMFF‬! Click the links for more details and you can choose either one of the submission platforms: - Withoutabox: https://www.withoutabox.com/…/03t_…/03t_fin_fest_01over....

Our film festival is now open

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discover film focuses on finding the best short films which are the most entertaining according to our film making community and panel of judges. Selected films will be screened at a London cinema in April 2016 with a networking event with free drinks. We have a number of senior film making professionals already confirmed including major short film winners and producers. Awards include professional subscriptions, mentoring opportunities (production, marketing, distribution)  as well as fant...

Superhero Short Film Fest

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Calling for entries for the 1st Annual Superhero Short Film Fest! Superhero Short Film Fest features a Live Screening of the Top Five Superhero/Fantasy Films, followed by a Costume/Cosplay Contest! Open to filmmakers worldwide! Enter your film today! Earlybird Deadline is February 12, 2016! https://filmfreeway.com/festival/SuperheroShortFilmFest ...

Submit to Wiper Film Festival with an opportunity to be seen by millions of already signed up users

Wiper is a free messaging and calling app with fun new ways to enjoy music and video. And now, home to amazing independent films! Wiper is based in NYC. We love independent filmmakers and their films. The festival is one way we are building a better platform for your work to find an audience and the financial rewards that come with it. Wiper is a fast growing app with fun new ways to enjoy films and music. It has been the #1 app in 25 countries and has over 18 million users. Th...

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