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ÉCU is now open for submissions!

Did you know that ÉCU is now open for submissions? What are you waiting for? It's time to send in your films! be part of the coolest indie event of all year!!//Saviez-vous que ÉCU est maintenant ouvert pour les soumissions? Qu'est-ce que tu attends? Il est temps d'envoyer vos films et faire partie de la plus cool indie événement de l'année!

ÉCU 2013 Opening Up Submissions in Cannes

To all filmmakers, of every language and origin: The European Independent Film Festival 2013 is open for submission! A tous les réalisateurs, de toutes langues et origines: le Festival Européen des Films Indépendants 2013 est ouvert aux soumissions!

IIDFF gives stage to ALL filmmakers this Summer in Lefkas Island-Greece

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IIDFF unlikely with other festivals,  gives stage to ALL filmmakers of the world to screen their films to the audience.   ALL FILMS SUBMITTED WILL BE SCREENED ! Submit your film now and save your date for the summer in Lefkas Island. one of the  most crowded summer holiday place in Greece. You can find more info about film submissions, in festival's official website >> www.iidff.gr Lefkada - English Version from My Lefkada on Vimeo. ...

I Will Tell International Film Festival 2012 CALL FOR ENTRY

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  The I Will Tell 2012 Call For Entry is open. Send in your entries ASAP. Deadline is 30 March 2012 for a chance to win up to GBP3,500.  http://www.iwilltell.com/festival11/callforentry.html   I Will Tell is an exciting and innovative film festival that is welcoming to filmmakers from around the world, with a limited amount of funding to cover travel and accomodation costs for visiting filmmakers.  Previous winners include BURMA VJ, PRAY THE DEVIL BACK T...

ENCOUNTERS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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ENCOUNTERS SHORT FILM AND ANIMATION FESTIVAL (18 – 23 SEPTEMBER) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2012     Calling all filmmakers and animators from across the world, submissions are now open for the Encounters 18th Short Film and Animation Festival in Bristol UK. Submit your short film or animation by Wednesday 6th June, for a chance to win a prestigious award and an opportunity to showcase your talent on an international stage.  ‘The cinematic Trojan horse…smugg...

The 2012 Flyway Film Festival is now accepting entries

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The 2012 Flyway Film Festival is accepting entries now!  http://flywayfilmfestival.org/2012-flyway-film-festival-submission/ Entries are free until June 30, 2012. Entries postmarked after June 30, 2012 must include a $20.00 Entry Fee. Quote from Producer Ted Hope- "The Flyway Film Festival hosts a blossoming Truly Free Film Community. Completely impressed with the conversation, commitment and spirit! Great folks!" Join us for the 5th Annual Flyway Film Festi...

2012 Mile High Horror Film Festival Now Open for Submissions!

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Attention Filmmakers: The 2012 Mile High Horror Film Festival is now open for submissions!   The festival will be held October 5-7 at the Denver  FilmCenter/Colfax.   If you or someone you know is a horror filmmaker, we want to see your work!      2012 submission categories include Feature Films, Short Films, Animations, and Local Colorado Films.   We are an IMDb qualifying Festival, which means that all films in considerat...

HORROR AND SCI-FI FILMS WANTED.

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HorrorQuest film festival is seeking submission for 2012... To submit please go to www.thehorrorquest.com Also, be sure to check out our Kickstarter campaign.   http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heyjoe/horrorquest-film-festival-2012 HorrorQuest, is has no submission fee and is free to the public and we need help if we are to keep it that way. So please, help us as much as you can. You can also, check out our bi-weekly podcast on I tunes.  http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/...

BendFilm 2012 OPENS SUBMISSIONS!

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Hi everyone, hope you’ll submit for 2012.  Please spread the word!!  Thank you We had a record breaking 2011 and are super-psyched for this coming year!!   Now in its 9th year, BENDFILM FESTIVAL celebrates independent cinema's brave voices by bringing thought-provoking, inspiring, and engaging films from all over the world to Central Oregon's scenic mountainous town of Bend. Unmistakably filmmaker-friendly, BendFilm has been deemed one of "25 Festivals W...

Philadelphia's SCREENPLAY FEST Winners Announced!

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www.ScreenplayFest.com     2011 SCREENPLAYFEST GRAND PRIZE CONTEST RESULTS: Congratulations to our winners of Philadelphia's 2011 ScreenplayFest! To contact the writers and read their Screenplays, please visit: Click Here, or email us at: phillyscriptfest@screenplayfest.com. Winners will be receiving emails from our sponsors in the next few weeks to come, so please be patient.  GRAND PRIZE WINNER COMEDY Lookout Lou (The Big...

Call for Entry: Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2012

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Edinburgh Short Film Festival June 2012     Following a highly successful inaugural year, the Edinburgh Short Film Festival will again showcase the best Scottish, UK & International short films in cinemas and film venues across the stunning city of Edinburgh in June 2012 and we are now open for submissions to this year's festival.   There will be free talks and seminars on films and film-making hosted by the Ragged University as well as continuing to host...

DEADLINE APPROACHING!

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Submit your film for the 3rd edition of the International Random Film Festival 2012 in Estonia. Go to randomfilmfest.com/submit and submit your film now. The DEADLINE is in 4 days, so if you want to submit in time, do it as soon as you read this message: filling out the submission-form is easy, it will not take you longer than 5 minutes. The Venue is selected randomly each year, worldwide.  ...

Submissions Ended, A big Thank You

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The Green Bay Film Festival would like to thank all the filmmakers who submitted to our upcoming film festival, March 23-25, 2012.  We had many wonderful films submitted this year and are looking forward to creating an awesome program for our viewers. We have many exciting things coming for our fest this year, including opportunities for young filmmakers in Wisconsin to submitt to our future filmmakers contest.  We are also offering free seminars on filmmaking, screenwriting, and ...

CALL FOR ENTRIES!

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HorrorQuest Film Festival is now seeking films for 2012... Our first year was a Huge success, and we can only hope this year will be even greater! We are a horror/genre and looking for features and shorts in the following categories.  Horror Thriller Sci-Fi Fantasy Dark Comedy Dark Drama Documentaries (If they deal with horror or dark subject matter.) And Animation.  If you would like to submit your film please go to www.thehorrorquest.com and click on, "Submit You...

I asked Facebook a Question!

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I posted the following questions to various sites, pages and agroups:What are the three most important things a festival should do/offerThe answers were all over the map, but the common and consistant items were: Free entry for shorts.Opportunities to meet your peers and those in the industry who are working more than you. Networking is what the gathering is about for most independent filmmakers.Q and A after every film/block - give the filmmaker time to speak about his films, developing more o...

Feature film submissions at Be there! Corfu Animation Festival

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Feature films will be added in the competitive section of the Be there! Corfu Animation Festival, giving Be There! Festival's audience the opportunity to enjoy award nominated films of great European and international festivals.   The audience will  have the chance to vote for the best feature film , along with the corresponding best feature award from the juries. Visit http://www.betherefest.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=160&Itemid...

2012 Submissions Cal...

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Have you recently completed a feature film or short? Want to see your film on the big screen? Well this is your big chance… The Edinburgh International Film Festival is proud to announce that Submissions are now open for the 2012 Festival. There are three easy ways to submit your film: through the EIFF website, using Withoutabox.com, or by downloading and completing the EIFF Submission Form. Just pick the one that suits you best.This year we have three deadlines with three different fee brac...

Call For Entries: The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2012

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Cambridge Cinema Shorts, in partnership with Strawberry Fair, are delighted to announce that we will be holding The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival on the evening of Friday 1st June. The Film Festival has the honour of acting as the opening event for Strawberry Fair 2012, which takes place on Saturday 2nd June. Film submissions are invited for the 12th Strawberry Shorts Film Festival and those short-listed will be entered into our competitive programme vying for a chance to win La Fraise...

Kadi Lokk's "Old-Spice" style Call for Submissions to ÉCU 2012

Our esteemed festival manager, Kadi Lokk, wants YOU to submit to ÉCU 2012! Once your done laughing, make sure you don't miss the EARLYBIRD dealine on November 20th!

November is the month of firsts here at ÉCU!

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On to the first of firsts…the launch of ÉCU’s new category, ‘ÉCU Firsts’. This exciting new edition offers first-time filmmakers the opportunity to screen their films at the ÉCU Film Festival in our special “ÉCU Firsts” screening area in Paris, for free, from March 30th to April 1st 2012. Check our website’s Homepage for details on submission criteria. For the first time ever, Kadi is off to Sofia, Bulgaria to judge the 7th edition of the International S...

Banned Films

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On this planet, there are voices that are silenced. Films that are banned. Filmmakers who are ucensored...or worse. We want to hear about them and we want to see their work. For the rest of you, if your work is challenging, we want to see it.  Contact us! Katha Cato ...

ReelHeART Virtual Award Ceremony 2011 – Film and Screenplay Winners

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Since our inception 8 seasons ago, ReelHeART International Film Festival has always made a point of communicating with the filmmaking community far and wide. If you didn't make it to ReelHeART, you didn't have to worry you'd be left out because since our first year we included you right up until the awards. We specifically created a "Virtual Award Ceremony", so that filmmakers could all tune in at the same time to see if their film or documentary won an award.  You c...

Watch Over 30 Trailers From ReelHeART!

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WITH SO MANY FILMS GRACING OUR SCREENS WE TRY TO GIVE AUDIENCES A WAY TO HELP SELECT THEIR FILM CHOICES. YOU CAN VIEW 30+ TRAILERS FROM ReelHeART RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW! ...

Queens World Film Festival 2012 submissions are open.

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We are open for submissions and you can visit us on Facebook, Twitter, Withoutabox and our webiste (www.queensworldfilmfestival.com). Our first year was great, 120 films, 4 screens 2 locations, 4 days, 2 panels and everynight lots of gatherings. We are always looking for challenging films from around the world and around the corner. The edgier the better. Challenge us, Please!!!! We look forward to hearing from you! ...

SUBMIT YOUR SHORT FILMS! Love Your Shorts Film Festival - Florida, USA

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CALLING FOR ENTRIES! Visit www.LoveYourShorts.com to enter. The 2012 Love Your Shorts Film Festival (LYSFF) will be held February 10-12 at the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in downtown Sanford, Florida. The LYSFF screens only short films under 30 minutes in length. Films are divided into different blocks for screening. Audience members at each block vote for their favorite film and winners are announced on the spot. The winning films from each block advance to a fin...

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