Free to enter.

Under 4 minutes in length

Made after January 1st 2012

Family viewing

Deadline 31st May 2013

 

AVANCA 2013 – Submissions are now open

 

AVANCA 2013 – International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia

 

Submissions to the International Competition are now open

Deadlines

International Competition - April 29, 2013

World Premiere Competition - June 10, 2013

- Fiction and animation short-films;
- Fiction and animation feature films;
- Documentaries;
- Experimental videos;

Only films made after 1st of January 2011 are eligible to enter the competition.

More than a decade bringing together in the summer of Avanca some of the most significant films and authors of the audiovisuals and international cinema production.

(rules and entry form in attachment)

 

AVANCA 2013

International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia

Cine-Clube de Avanca

3860-078 Avanca

Portugal

Tel/fax +351.  234.880658

 

Info – avancafilmfestival@gmail.com

 

 

 

Entries are now open for the 5th edition of the ArtDeco Film Festival. This year, It will celebrate the "Pan-Brazilianness", the union of north and south of a country, almost continental.

The event will be held on May 13-21 - 2013. There is no registration fee, and the subimissions deadline is MAR.30/2013.

All film formats are accepted. The process is online, easy, fast, and through the website of Exotique Filmes. Further information may be obtained at the website and blog, as follow:

Info: http://www.exotiquefilmes.com/ #! Festival-artdeco-de-cinema/cdjb
Blog Festival: http://festivalartdeco.blogspot.com

There’s a reason to celebrate in 2013: The Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart (ITFS) will take place for the 20th time! And in its anniversary edition, too, the festival will offer a platform to directors and production companies to present their films as well as a chance to fans of animated film to watch animated short and feature films, to meet well-known filmmakers and young talents, and participate in numerous workshops, informational events and presentations for six days.

Since its foundation in 1982, the festival has developed into an essential event within the field of animated film in Germany and is regarded as one of the biggest and most important festivals for animated film around the world. Around 80,000 viewers and approximately 2,500 accredited people attended the festival last year. Both professionals and friends of animated film appreciate the quality and up-to-date programmes as well as the unique atmosphere at Stuttgart’s Schlossplatz. They come to Stuttgart to gain information, to educate themselves and to establish contacts. The high-profile conference FMX will take place in parallel to ITFS. With the Animation Production Day (APD) – held in cooperation with FMX and organised by Michael Schmetz Mediaconsult – the festival offers an additional marketing platform for the animation sector.

Artistic animation films and the support of young talent represent the core of the festival. The various competition programmes are endowed with prize money of more than 65,000 euros in total.

You are kindly invited to submit films produced after October 1, 2011 to one of the Festival’s following competition categories! 

• International Competition (Short film competition) 
• AniMovie (Feature-length film competition)  
• Young Animation (Student film competition)   
• Tricks for Kids - shorts and series (Competition for short films and TV series for children)   
• Cartoons for Teens (Competition for short films, series, animes, machinimas and cut scenes from computer games)

DEADLINE: December 01, 2012

More competitions:
There are special entry forms fort he competition for applied animation Animated Com Award (from October 15, 2012) and the live animation award Crazy Horse Session - 48 h Animation Jam (from November 01, 2012).

The "Busan Universiade for Digital contents" (BUDI) festival is an event in which future student directors and producers can challenge their creativity and imagination by showing their true spirit and love for the business of film.

The BUDI festival will show the ambitions of the young directors as they cultivate for world movies, animation, documentaries.

In addition the BUDI festival will be a world of Digital components, where all college students and young directors in training can enjoy the passion of film together.

* Festival Dates and Venue

BUDi2012 will be composed of offline screening held from Oct 31. to Nov. 3, 2012 in Busan, Korea (Kyungsung University and Pukyong University)

* Competition

The BUDi2012 presents Competitive sections.

(1) Competition section - Digital contents by undergraduate or graduate students will be selected through the preliminary contest.  

- Fiction

- Documentary

- Animation

- 3D Contents .

* Details of the prize

(1) Grand prize 5,000,000(KRW) = approximately 4,300 USD

(2) First prize -Cash prizes up to 1,000,000(KRW) are awarded in the following categories

 

* Entry Requirements and Submission Guides

  (1) Eligibility

  - Must be university students and graduate students (including graduated in Feb, 2012)

  - Films completed after on January 1st 2011

(2) The contents of the entry

 - Any types of digital contents can be accepted but the final format must be one of the HD, HDV, Beta(NTSC), Mini-DV

 - The digital contents decided to be the Final Screenings must have English subtitles if the original language is not English.

  - The digital contents must not be exceeded 60 minutes.

 

(3) Submission guides

  1) Application: submitting through E-mail (programbudi@gmail.com) & post (Preview DVD for applying)

 

DVD must be sent 

Busan Universiade for Digital Contents

#309, Hansung Bldg, Kyungsung University 314-79 Daeyeon Dong, Nam-gu Busan, Korea

(608-736) / Tel: +82 51 663 5072 / Fax: +82 51 663 5073

E-Mail: programbudi@gmail.com / Web- site : www.budi.or.kr

 

Accepting unique and bizarre short films and plays.

Oct 22-24, 29-31, NYC

The first annual “Jiayuguan International Short Film Festival” will be co-hosted by the State Administration of Radio Film and Television and Gansu Provincial People’s Government; co-underwritten by the Publicity Department of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the CPC, Chinese Television Artists Association, Gansu Provincial Bureau of Radio, Film and Television, Jiayuguan Municipal People’s Government, and Gansu Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles; co-organized by CCTV-10, Chinese Television Documentary Academic Committee, Cartoon Art Committee of Chinese Television Artists Association, and solely sponsored by Beijing Bojing Culture & Media Co., Ltd.
 
 

The Festival focuses on films in the documentary, science and education, and animation genres, aiming to create a professional platform for promotion, exchange, trade, and exhibition of films and television projects catering to China and the world.
 

This cultural project takes place in Godella (Valencia, Spain) since 2000. Catacumba is an International Film Festival, involving short and feature films, open to filmmakers of any nationality. Theme is focus on horror, fantasy, science fiction, gore, psychological, experimental, bizarre, animation…  GENERAL RULES FOR PARTICIPATING: www.catacumba.org/participa_en.html

The International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro is dedicated to films about any nuclear issue: uranium mining, nuclear power plants, nuclear accidents, atomic bombs, nuclear waste, radioactive risks. During three Weeks in June & July the 2nd edition of the festival screened 54 documentaries, movies and animated films from all continents in the Cinemateca of Rio de Janeiro’s famous Modern Art Museum MAM. After Rio de Janeiro the Uranium Film Festival is travelling. The next stop 2012 is planned in Berlin at the beginning of October! The 2nd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2012 awarded films from USA, Sweden and Germany with the Festival’s "Yellow Oscar". Bill Keisling's "Not for Public Release: a Nuclear Incident in Lock Haven", USA, received the Best Feature Award, and Swedish Filmmaker Marko Kattilakoski received the Short film Award for his movie Coffee Break (Fikapaus). "Leonids Story" by German film director Rainer Ludwigs and Ukrainian producer Tetyana Chernyavska received the Best Animated Film Award. Peter Greenaway’s outstanding experimental documentary "Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth", that shows the insanity of over 2200 atomic bombs dropped on the planet Earth between 1945 and 1989, was honoured with the special achievement award “Hors Concours”. “Peter Greenaway, a multi-artist with more that 70 films produced is in a category in his own”, said Uranium Film Festival Judge João Luiz Leocádio, Nuclear Engineer and Professor for Cinema at Niteroi’s Univercity UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense). Further special achievement awards of the 2nd International Uranium Film Festival go to "Chernobyl, the Invisible Thief", by Christoph Boekel (Germany), "Buried in Earthskin", by Helena Kingwill (South Africa), "Australian Atomic Confessions", by Katherine Aigner (Australia), "Radioactive Wolves", by Klaus Feichtenberger (Austria), "The Secret and the Sacred: Two Worlds at Los Alamos" by Claus Biegert, (Germany) and "Rokkasho Rhapsody" by Hitomi Kamanaka (Japan).

Come join the hottest shorts film fest in the SouthWest. Taos Shortz Film Festival is rapidly becoming an internationally known film festival. We are dedicated to featuring quality, juried short films from around the globe and we invite you to bring your adventure of creativity to our film fest.  Take the opportunity to strut your stuff amidst the mountains and mesas of Taos, NM.  Do you have a tale to tell?

 

A secret to reveal?

A truth that screams to be heard?

We are a forum that unites short films and filmmakers with the community, with the belief that films have the ability to change peoples lives.

The Taos Shortz Film Fest continues to bring world class cinema to our community and beyond and to provide filmmakers with a venue to showcase their work, participate in workshops, panels, and network with fellow filmmakers, media companies, producers and distributors.        

The Taos Shortz Film fest will be held March 7th to 10th 2013 at the Taos Center for the Arts.

We will screen global short films, focus on New Mexico filmmakers and a local Taos filmmaker night on Thursday, March 7th.  Free panel discussions and networking possibilities are being planned plus a few more creative events to make our 2013 festival better than ever!

Our 2012 festival was an enormous success and put Taos back on the map as a cinematic destination. We screened over 70 global and regional short films, offered free panel discussions in experimental film, chalkboard animation and Web Episodes. Taos was hopping as we hosted 200 International filmmakers and partied every night till the wee networking hours…

If you think you have what it takes for this year....

SUBMIT YOUR FILM!

www.taosshortz.com

 

This year IV Kiev International Film Festival will be dedicated to the family cinema and will consist of two competitions: family and animated features and three non-competitive programs: "Music in Focus" (movies about musicians, cinema-koncerts etc.), "The Best Comedies of 2011-2012" and "Sport in Action". Now we are selecting the best movies of the last two years (2011-2012) to these programs. So we'll be glad to get your creations till 15-th of August to our post address: 03057, Kiev, Prospekt Peremogy, 44, Dovzhenko's Motion Film Studio, office 4 or write to us by e-mail: program@kievfilmfest.com or lilia@kievfilmfest.com (Program Department).

90to5’s call for entries goes out to all movie and tv editors, film students and enthusiasts worldwide. The challenge: cut a full length feature down to 5 minutes. The catch: keep true to the original story... or create a new one. Public voting will determine the winners of awesome material and cash prizes. Go to www.challenge.90to5.org for movie download links, infos, tutorials and to upload your edit. Entry is free! Submission deadline is August 15th 2012. Vote and win at www.90to5.org.90to5 Awards