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The 2023 Arlington Film Festival submission season is now approaching its close

https://www.aiffest.org | 857.209.1122 | arlingtonfilmfest@gmail.com 2023 AIFF Call for Submissions  FINAL DEADLINE APRIL 30TH! Special Call To: COLLEGE STUDENT FILMMAKERS  Program to Honor the Ukrainian Community College students are invited to submit their shorts, maximum10 minutes on current humanitarian topics that relate to Ukraine. https://filmfreeway.com/arlingtoninternationalfilmfestival  Waiver Code: AIFFUKRANIAN   Special Call To: High School Student Fi...

Cairo International Film Festival opens submissions for 45th edition and announces a New competition for documentaries

  Cairo International Film Festival has announced opening submission in all categories for creators who are wishing to participate in activities of its 45th edition, which will be held from 15 to 24 November 2023 at the Egyptian Opera House. The submission process shall officially be open to requests from all over the world starting from April 15 2023, until August 1 2023. Via the official website of festival.   In this occasion, Mr. Hussein Fahmy, President of  the fes...

The Victoria Film Festival Calling for Entries

  The Victoria Film Festival is pleased to announce that the Call for Entries to our 2024 Film Festival is now open! Since 1995, The Victoria Film Festival (VFF) has presented the best Canadian and international features, documentaries, and short films to Victoria and Vancouver Island in a ten-day celebration of cinema.  Eclectic and inspiring, the festival hosts a wide array of film directors, producers, distributors, and programmers as guests and participants. Wit...

Fantastic Pavilion and Latido Films are launching Fantastic Latido, a competition for fantastic and horror feature films

Fantastic Latido open call for fantastic genre projects until May 1     FANTASTIC LATIDO With the aim of stimulating the production of fantastic genre projects that contribute to build up the Ibero-American film industry, Fantastic Pavilion and Latido Films are launching Fantastic Latido, a competition for fantastic and horror feature films. USD$15,000 granted by Latido as acquisition of the rights of the film for its international sales. The call is o...

The 20th San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival Calls for Entries!!

  Since its inception in 2003, the San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival has successfully passed through 19 starry years, winning recognition from kids’ film creators and fans in Hollywood and around the world. As an annual kids’ film festival, the 2023 San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival will take place in Southern California in late August. Known for its sunny summers and long, beautiful Pacific coastline, San Diego is close to Hollywood, the heart...

Call For Entries- Best Shorts Competition - June 2023 Season Deadline June 13, 2023

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The Best Shorts Competition is unique in the industry.  Attracting both powerhouse companies as well as talented new filmmakers, The Best Shorts is an exceptional, truly international awards competition, not a traditional film festival – which allows filmmakers from around the world to enter their films in this prestigious competition. Established in 2011, Best Shorts is an avant-garde worldwide competition that strives to give talented directors, producers, actors, creative tea...

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Caminhos Film Festival is the main celebration of Portuguese cinema. Although focused on national cinematography, the festival provides competitive and non-competitive sections for international cinema. Productions from film schools compete in the Essays Selection, while in other parallel  sections international shorts and features are highlighted allowing the audience to meet their confluences with the festivals programme. Fiction, documentary or animation, all genres are welcome. ...

DOKUARTS 2023: Call for Entries!

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DOKUARTS 2023: CALL FOR ENTRIES! Deadline May 31, 2023 After three long years, we are delighted to finally announce our next festival edition: DOKUARTS will take place from October 4th to October 15th, 2023, thanks to the renewed support of Berlin’s Capital Cultural Fund. We will move our program to three new venues: Kino in der Kulturbrauerei, Kino in der Brotfabrik and Klick Kino. A fourth venue will be the Haus für Poesie.   DOKUARTS screens documentaries on the ar...

Film Festival Flips Paradigm Upside Down for Filmmakers with refundable submission fees

SYS’s Six-Figure Film Festival offers filmmakers risk-free submissions by refunding 100% of the entry fee to all the filmmakers who’s films are not screened at the festival.   With film festival entry fees on the rise and many festivals opting to screen films online, SellingYourScreenplay (SYS) is championing new initiatives to give filmmakers more value at festivals. SYS’s Six-Figure Film Festival and Screenplay Contest is an annual in-person event held in Los Angeles...

Call For Submissions - 6th MWFIFF Presented By Shri Anup Jalota

Anup Jalota Presents 6th MWFIFF 2023 EarlyBird Deadline Ends TODAY!!! Submit your films at Low Submission through FilmFreeway NOW!! filmfreeway.com/mwfiff Jaspinder Narula Suvashitraj Yogesh Lakhani Moonwhite Films International Film Fest State Bank of India Ajeenkya DY Patil University #filmfreeway #internationalfilmfestival #filmfestival #mwfiff2023 #6thmwfiff #callf

Submit your film to Newport Beach Film Fest SoCal’s largest cinema event!

SUBMIT YOUR FILM HERE Join us in celebrating our 24th Anniversary!   The Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) is now open for submissions in all categories. NBFF will celebrate its 24th anniversary with an action-packed line up of independent and studio films from around the globe. Scheduled to take place October 12 – October 19, 2023 throughout Newport Beach and Orange County, the Festival will screen an international slate of over 300 films, including feature-length narrative, do...

Golden Prague Festival 2023 is OPEN for entries for its 60th edition

Celebrate with us the 60th anniversary of the Golden Prague! It's one of the oldest and most prestigious festivals dedicated to the television industry, with a history dating back to 1964. Over the years, it has established as a platform for showcasing the best in TV production, attracting filmmakers, broadcasters, producers, and other industry professionals from around the world. This year jubilee edition takes place September 20-23, 2023 at the New Stage of the National Theatre...

Göteborg Film Fund 2023 opens new call for development grants for Ukrainian filmmakers working within Ukraine

  On March 15 Göteborg Film Fund is opening a call for submissions for development grants for filmmakers working within Ukraine. The support scheme is part of a bigger programme for Ukraine, which was initiated in June 2022 with residency filmmakers working in Sweden, continuing with supports for dissemination and promotion of Ukrainian films, and development grants during the autumn. The programme is supported by The Swedish Postcode Foundation, within the frame of their focus on art...

Only one week left to submit your projet to Frontières Platform (Marché du Film in Cannes)

Don't miss your opportunity to present your project to Genre film decision makers!   The Frontières Platform in Cannes is a dedicated section of industry programming & networking events for the genre film industry at the Marché du Film. The event is a co-presentation between the Fantasia International Film Festival and the Marché du Film – Festival de ...

Last week to submit to the 70th Sydney Film Festival in cinemas from 7—18 June 2023

Filmmakers from across Australia and around the world have just weeks to finalise their submissions to become eligible for a record prize pool worth over $150,000 at one of the longest-running and most prestigious Film Festivals in the world - Sydney Film Festival.   As the Festival celebrates its 70th birthday in cinemas from 7—18 June 2023, SFF is offering the largest-ever prize pool in its history, including doubling the prize for Best Australian Documentary from $10,000 to ...

Call for Entry 24th Ojai Film Festival

Both the Ojai Film Festival and their Screenplay Competitions opened to submissions February 1, a full month early. The call for entries window also closes sooner, on June 1, 2023. The extra thirty days will allow organizers to plan and promote an extraordinary event. “Submissions opened one month earlier than previous years to give us more time to thoroughly screen the more than 450 submissions we receive from around the world." Festival President Jon Lambert said. "We look...

Call For Entries- IndieFEST Film Awards - May 2023 Season Deadline April 15, 2023

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      Now is its 15the year, The IndieFEST Film Awards announces its Call for Entries for flimmakers, television producers and videographers.   Submit: Deadline April 15, 2023 https://theindiefest.com/submit-your-film/    https://filmfreeway.com/TheIndieFest The IndieFEST Film Awards are unique in the industry.  Attracting both powerhouse industry veterans as well as talented new filmmakers it is an exceptional, truly internati...

Call For Entries- The Impact DOCS Awards - July 2023 Season- Deadline July 8, 2023

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Impact DOCS Awards July 2023 Serving documentary filmmakers and spreading their messages around the globe. Our Mission is to Promote Filmmakers! Film - Television - New Media ***Call for Entries*** Deadline: July 8, 2023 Attention DOCUMENTARY Filmmakers! You’ve stood up because you’re ready to change the world. Now stand up and be recognized for it! Documentary filmmakers are a special breed. You like it straight. You thrive on impact. You’re not afraid to get real. An...

INTERFILM 39 calling : International Short Film Festival Berlin 14 - 19 November 2023

Open Call 2023: Enter films for INTERFILM 39 – International Short Film Festival Berlin 14 - 19 November 2023 KUKI 16 – Young Short Film Festival Berlin 12 - 19 November 2023 New year, new films, new chances! It's 2023 and once again we have collectively taken the calendrical turn of the year as an opportunity to take stock, weigh up the pros and cons and assure each other that everything will be better this year. Capitalism will become socially-oriented,...

Cittador International Film Festival 2023 - Earlybird Deadline Approaching

We are approaching the "Earlybird Deadline" of this year on February 1, 2023. Submit your film now on: https://filmfreeway.com/CittadorInternationalFilmFestival More details about the film festival with live event in front of the audience at the Studiokino, Lugner Kino in Vienna, Austria: https://iff.cittador.com/   ...

Anup Jalota Presents Moonwhite Films International Film Fest is back with its 6th Edition!!!

Anup Jalota Presents Moonwhite Films International Film Fest is back with its 6th Edition!!! Submissions Are Now Open for 2023!!! Earlybird Deadline Ends on 15th March 2023!!! Hurry Submit Your Creatives Now At Low Submission Fees!!!! Anup Jalota Arun Govil Jaspinder Narula Yogesh Lakhani Gufi Paintal #6thmwfiff #mwfiff2023 #DevashishSargam #anupjalota #ArunGov

Iris Prize - the ‘Oscars’ of the LGBTQ+ short film world opens for submissions

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  Cardiff to host the world’s best LGBTQ+ short films once again in 2023 14 awards, including new for 2023, Iris Prize Best British Performance Beyond the Binary, sponsored by Out    Organisers of the world’s largest LGBTQ+ short film festival have today (16 January 2023) announced that submissions are open for the 17th edition of the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival to be held in Cardiff, Tuesday 10 October to Sunday 15 October 2023. The Iris Prize LGBTQ+...

Final Deadline for the 7th Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival

The final deadline is approaching for the 7th celebration of the values of Southern California, celebrating the future of film from around the world and reflecting the diversity of our region. The Hollywood International Film Festival will screen independent films from around the world in the heart of Hollywood, with an emphasis on promoting female and culturally diverse voices. Top films and short films will be considered by Hollywood professionals at representation and production comp...

World Trailer Awards 2023 final entry deadline this week

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  ENTRY DEADLINE: 18 JANUARY 2023 Honouring the world's best creatives, marketing the world's best entertainment. Entries are open, the venue is booked and we are excited to be well into the preparations for 2023.   The World Trailer Awards has been launched to honour outstanding marketing excellence in Cinema, TV (Broadcast & Cable), Games, Podcast & Radio, Streaming Services. The World Trailer Awards honours and celebrat...

The Red Sea Lodge 4th Edition : Apply Now

THE RED SEA LABS OPENS SUBMISSION TO THE 4th EDITION OF THE LODGE After three successful editions, Red Sea Lodge returns as part of the Red Sea LABS in 2023. The Red Sea LABS is a platform for filmmakers, writers and industry professionals, offering various programs to help them realize their vision and projects from inception to production. The Lodge, an integral part of the Red Sea LABS, is a 10-months residency intensive creative and professional program in partnership with the TorinoFilm...

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