The Second edition of Imphal International Short Film Festival (IISFF) will be held from March 24-28th, 2013 in Manipur, India. More than 100 short films will be screened during the five day event. Imphal International Short Film Festival is the biggest event in North East India & promoted by "Legend Studio Manipur and Action for Social Advancement (ASA) Manipur" with the support of Film Forum Manipur.

1. Every short film produced between the period (April 2012 till January 2013) and up to 30 minutes long can register in the Second Imphal International Short Film Festival 2013.
2. No work or artist will be either discriminated or favored by their country of origin, language, age, race, education, ideology, or by their economic resources. Every content, every form, every technique will be admitted with no censorship of any kind.
3. For equality of opportunities, whichever the original format (film, analogical video, digital video, animation), all the films will be evaluated in the same standard digital format.
4. All non-English foreign films / regional Indian films must have English sub-titles.
5. Hindi films should be dubbed in English language for the purpose of screening to general public.
6. Film must be submitted on DVD in the AVI/MPEG FORMAT ONLY (Festival Management will not be responsible if film is not screened due to problem with the DVD).
7. Along with the film, three stills of the film and a 60 second promo of the film should be sent for promotional activities.
8. Late deadline for registration is 31st January, 2013.
9. All films which are selected / nominated for the Festival, will be informed by emails & listed on our Web site www.imphalfilmfestival.org.
10. Filmmakers whose film got selected for screening at Second IISFF 2013 will be provided free fooding and lodging. No Travelling Allowances or Compensation provided.

Africa in the Picture (AITP) is an independent film festival and platform for African and African Diaspora Cinema. Every year AITP organizes a film festival showcasing a unique selection of films from all over the world. AITP wants to contribute to the development of African and African Diaspora Cinema by promoting and spreading films (in the Netherlands, in the rest of Europe and at the African continent) and by offering an international platform for cinematographic professionals. By showing a modern Africa from the perspective of African filmmakers, AITP strives to inspire people in the Netherlands in developing a more complete and realistic world view.

Africa in the Picture (AITP) est un festival de film indépendant ét une plateforme pour le Cinéma de l'Afrique et de la Diaspora africaine. Chaque année AITP organise un festival de film présentant une unique sélection de films de partout dans le monde. AITP veut contribuer au développement du Cinéma de l'Afrique et de la Diaspora africaine par la promotion et la diffusion des films (aux Pays-Bas, dans le reste de l'Europe et sur le continent africain) et en offrant une plate-forme internationale pour les professionnels cinématographiques. En montrant une Afrique moderne du point de vue des cinéastes africains, AITP s'efforce d'inspirer les gens aux Pays-Bas dans l'élaboration d'une vision du monde plus équilibrée et plus réaliste.

The Phenom Film Fest is being held in the Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana area. No stranger to filmmaking, the region has experienced a major boom in recent years, with numerous studios calling the region home. Since Louisiana offers one of the top tax incentive programs for filmmaking nationwide, it's no wonder it's been referred to as "Hollywood South."

While major film studios have used the locale to serve as the backdrop for numerous cities and countries worldwide, the Phenom Film Fest serves to draw interest, support and attention to independent filmmaking locally and internationally. The festival will show roughly 40-60 features and shorts while showcasing fun, interactive and innovative talk panels.

Cine Migratorio is a migration-themed film festival that will take place May 10-13, 2012 in Santander, Spain. The Festival aims to present a program of artistically accomplished, thematically challenging and stimulating films about migration to students, migrants, Santander residents, and anyone who wishes to join us for this weekend-long event. We hope these films will incite reflection and discussion about migration, but also about the power of film to capture mobility in a modern age. We welcome all film genres (feature, short, documentary, experimental, animation) and do not endorse any one political stance on migration issues. Cine Migratorio endeavors to screen films that explore a wide range of migration-related themes and issues, from the way in which economic and social forces that drive migration cross as many borders as migrants themselves, to personal migration stories, to films less directly concerned with migration but still resonant with its effects and contexts. In addition to screenings, Cine Migratorio will feature lectures, workshops, live music, and other events. Leading up to the festival, Cine Migratorio will host an array of programs in local high schools and local centers. Cine Migratorio will take place May 10-13th in Santander, Spain, in the Paraninfo at the Las Llamas campus of the Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo (UIMP).

On August 3rd and 4th, 2012, the Ballston Spa Business and Professional Association (BSBPA) will present the FIFTH Annual Ballston Spa Film Festival in Wiswall Park. The festival will showcase short films from around the country as well as those by local student filmmakers. Hollywood film professionals will judge the entrants to determine award winners in several categories including two exclusively for young filmmakers.

This program is funded in part by Saratoga Program for Arts Funding (SPAF) part of the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by Saratoga Arts.    

For the first time in Bangladesh, International Academy of Film and Media is going to organize and launch a big film event to take place at the  longest sea beach in the world, Cox’s Bazar Sea Beach.

It will be a non-competitive festival.  

Launching 2012 

The Arnold Sports Film Festival – hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the world’s leading showcase for sports-themed cinema – is seeking submissions of short films in all categories exploring individual athletic effort. The Film Festival takes place at the same time and adjacent to the main venue of the Arnold Sports Festival – with 18,000 athletes and 200,000 attendees – the largest athletic gathering in the world. For further information, check out www.ArnoldSportsFilmFestival.com and apply now!

 

Presented by and named for Arnold Schwarzenegger, the ASFF is a part of the Arnold Sports Fest, the largest multi-sport event in the world; the event features 18,000 athletes competing in 45 sports and events and attracts more than 200,000 attendees to Columbus, Ohio each year.

 

Filmmakers from around the world are encouraged to submit films running 15 minutes or less that explore the lives, efforts, inspirations, and hopes of people striving for achievement in individual athletic pursuits. From body building to boxing, gymnastics to judo, table tennis to track, and then skiing, skating, cycling, weightlifting – and many , many more – the ASFF seeks to discover and present films that study the journey, perseverance, and triumphs of individuals who participate in athletic expression and competition.

 

The Festival encourages both traditional and alternative storytelling and accepts films in a variety of categories including narrative, documentary, animated and experimental films and also features a section showcasing broadcast projects and packages. Winning films are selected by a jury comprised of renowned entertainment and sports industry figures, including Arnold Schwarzenegger. This season’s top films will be awarded significant prize packages and receive exposure during and after the Arnold Sports Festival. What’s more, the Grand Prize winner will be invited to spend the day on a movie set with Arnold Schwarzenegger and will meet with studio executives.

 

The Festival of Native American Film (www.nafestival.com) offers a high profile, prestigious and non-competitive environment perfect for celebrating the best in independent Indigenous films. We accept short and feature length films and videos in the following categories: narrative, documentary, experimental, animation, children’s films and youth produced.

Calling filmmakers around the world ... submit your SHORT film NOW ... for an opportunity to pitch it to industry professionals and screened in LA before a live audience ... The Pitch-It consortium is looking for the next generation of filmmakers. We are looking for filmmakers who want to pitch their film to a live audience and panel of industry professionals. Submission Judges will select 5 semi-finalist and 15 awardees for live judging and presentation awards (winners need not be present at screening to win winners notified and can submit a DVD Acceptance or Pitch It Dialogue) SUBMIT YOUR FILM NOW Web Address: http://www.jbuproductions.com or http://www.pitch-it.net Deadline Midnight February 29, 2012 Submission: http://v3.indee.tv/index?festival=pitchit For More Info: jbu_productions@yahoo.com

JAMAICA REGGAE FILM FESTIVAL, 17th-21st May 2012 The Jamaica Film Academy announces the Call for Entries in the 2012 Jamaica Reggae Film Festival, to be held 17th-21st May 2012 in Kingston, Jamaica.(Venue to be confirmed) In keeping with the format initiated at the inaugural event in February 2008, the Festival will showcase films in which aspects of Jamaica's Reggae music culture are displayed, documented and memorialized in feature, documentary and short films, animation and music videos. In the five years since its inception, the Reggae Film Festival has included films made by Jamaicans, as well as global reggae researchers and fans from the Caribbean, UK, USA, Canada, Spain, Germany, Serbia, Italy, Japan, Iran, France and Ethiopia. The focus of many documentaries on the history of Jamaican music and music makers, ensures an archive of historical material on the genre that preserves the oral memories of a culture that has spread to and been honored by the world. In 2012, in recognition of the 50th year of Jamaica's independence, the Jamaica Reggae Film Festival will be presented internationally in cities of the Jamaican Diaspora, with selected screenings of The Best of the Reggae Film Festival in Toronto, London, Birmingham and New York. In keeping with the objective of the Jamaica Film Academy to increase and improve the output of Jamaican film making, the annual Make A Film In 24 Hours competition has inspired and produced new Jamaican film making talent, while the Festival has discovered a surprising wealth of Jamaican talent in digital animation. The acknowledged expertise and innovation of Jamaican music video makers exposing the talents of Jamaica's powerful musical artists, provides another area highlighted by the Reggae Film Festival. Annual Awards are presented in several categories and and the international interest in the unique music and culture of Jamaica. has given prize-winning films further international awards and distribution. The Festival's identification of the genre of 'reggae films' creates a digital archive of films available for research into a variety of aspects of the Jamaican culture that emerged from the Rastafari movement and spread with the music of reggae legend Bob Marley.

In the charge of the Malatya Governor, Mr. Ulvi Saran, 2^nd Malatya International Film Festival will open its curtains for the cinegoers and residents in Malatya on 18.11.2011 by the organization of Malatya Governorate and Malatya Apricot Research, Development and Promotion Foundation. Besides providing an opportunity for the audiences to meet with the qualified productions from all over the world, the festival will provide an enjoyable week full of activities. This exhausting but pleasant festival marathon will end after the Award Ceremony which will take place on the 24^th November, Thursday.

During the Festival, approximately 150 films - 65 feature films, together with the documentary and short films - will meet with the cinegoers. The Festival programme which is composed of the current films, as well as the last productions of the qualified film-makers and the first movies of the newly discovered young film-makers, will meet with the audiences in Malatya.

The Human Rights International Film Festival’s aim is to present the best movies dealing with every social issue related to the human rights’ and environment’s defense from several and original points of view, promoting in this way a critic cinema that contributes to social change. www.imd.org.ar/festival

Africa in Motion is already in its sixth year! The profile of the festival has grown steadily since the inaugural season in 2006 and this year, 2011, Africa in Motion focuses its attention on films and events that open doors to children and youth in Africa.

Our programme of films and events deals with many aspects relating to youth, such as education, entertainment, stories and myths, the future, and social issues affecting children and young people in Africa.

This year we made a special effort to invite schools and children to the cinema and we are screening a number of films especially for primary and secondary schools in and around Edinburgh, in collaboration with National Schools Film Week.

Alongside the film screenings, the festival has endeavoured to create fun and challenging workshops and events for Scottish children to really engage with the lives and experiences of their African counterparts and get to learn the stories best known to them.

The rest of the festival will be dedicated to our well-known quality films: epic features, contemporary gems, incisive documentaries, acclaimed shorts and animation films, with a continuing focus on children and youth in Africa.

The MIX Short Film Awards (for produced shorts and scripts) - Outside of rewarding current projects, The MIX pairs up emerging short film writers and filmmakers for the purpose of producing future high quality shorts in both traditional and non-traditional formats.  This contest helps facilitate the production of short films by pairing up our top winning  screenwriters & filmmakers and offering them cash prizes or production opportunities. Outside of our main categories where we accept all genres and niches, three awards will be given to the most inspiring writer or filmmaker who best utilizes film as a medium to create awareness, social change, or bring a unique perspective to any one topic. The screening events will be held at the historic Byrd Theatre, Feb 17-19, 2012.

The 11th Hungarian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Opens at Laemmle's Sunset 5

November 9, 2011

MISSION:  Mission is simple: Promote filmmakers and screen writers.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:  Lots of films are rejected on film festivals. One of the reasons is that there are too many submissions. Producing a film is one thing. The next step is submitting your film to film festivals. Then you realize that nothing is really happening. Sunset Film Festival is different. How? If your film doesn’t include five- million-dollar-cinematography quality, still can win because your make-up department did a good job. Your actors play well but not like those who were nominated in the Oscar’s last year. So what? Someone edited footage like a pro - let’s highlight this. I can guarantee you there is something special about your film that will be worth an Award. Giving filmmakers and screenwriters the opportunity to be noticed is our priority. Distributors love films screened on Festivals. They love them even better when they are awarded.

FOUNDER:  The festival is brought to you by Mark Mos, Kodak Entertainment Imaging Awarded filmmaker and Film Premieres organizer. Mark has organized pre-premiere film presentations such as: “Gladiator” (Russell Crow), “Mission Impossible 2” (Tom Cruise), “Gone in 60 seconds” (Nicholas Cage, Angelina Jolie), “How the Grinch stole Christmas” (Jim Carrey), and much more. He was in charge of the 5th Youth and Children Film Festival. Mark Mos is also a filmmaker; he has master’s degree in TV and Film Production. His films were shown on film festivals in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago or Salt Lake City and also European countries: Hungary, Poland and Romania.

IMPORTANT:  100% of submission fees go directly to promote festival and rent theaters for screenings. Submit your film with Sunset Film Festival. This is the key to go further with your passion.

A yearly showcase of independent filmmakers from Colroado and beyond since 1997.