The Woodstock Film Festival has established itself as one of the best independent film events in the country by premiering exceptional films by established and developing filmmakers. The fest also present A-list concerts, parties, panels, and creates innovative and stimulating programming including Focus on Music, Exposure and Youth Initiative. 

The festival has drawn rave reviews nationwide from filmmakers, industry members, film lovers and the media alike. WFF was named by indieWIRE magazine as one of the top 50 film festivals in the world in 2010. 

Cash, prizes and/or services are given out in each category including: Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short (Narrative, Student, Animation and Documentary), Best Cinematography and Best Editing. Recent sponsors have included Toyota, Lowel-Light, Markertek, Ketel One, Hudson Whiskey, Hendricks Gin, Blue Sky Studios, Gigantic Pictures, BCDF Pictures, Panavision, TIME magazine, BMI and others. 

Industry participants have included Keanu Reeves, Adrian Griener, Jonathan Demme, Mark Ruffalo, Vera Farmiga, Nat Wolff, Timothy Hutton, Michael Imperioli, Ellen Barkin, Ang Lee, Kevin Smith, Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden, Ethan Hawke, Matt Dillon, Rosie Perez, Lucy Liu, Uma Thurman, Steve Buscemi, Bruce Beresford, Jonathan Sehring (IFC), Bob Berney, Robin Bronk, Eamonn Bowles (Magnolia Pictures), Bingham Ray, James Schamus (Focus Features), Fisher Stevens (Greenstreet Productions), John Sloss (Cinetic Media), Ron Mann (Films We Like), Christine Vachon (Killer Films), Mira Nair, Todd Haynes, Woody Harrelson, Lili Taylor, Albert Maysles, Barbara Kopple, Leon Gast, Tim Blake Nelson, Richard Linklater, Robert Downey, Zachary Sklar, Kevin Bacon and many others.

Accepting unique and bizarre short films and plays.

Oct 22-24, 29-31, NYC

The GrayMarkit Distribution HOLLARWEEN Horror Fest Thur OCT 18 - 25, 2012 From 6PM to 12AM MANHATTAN New York City. We are more just a festival we are an east-coast horror/sci-fi film distributor. We are looking for well made horror movies, shorts, trailers, and music videos with reasonable $10, $20, and $30 submissions fees and presenting film makers with a chance to make money. If your movie is rejected, we send a letter with specific reasons why we passed on your film, as evidence we watched it. As opposed to just taking your money and sending a vague templated rejection letter. Accepting submissions between now through 9/30/12. email: graymarkit@hotmail.com http://graymarkitfest.webs.com

MISSION:  The mission is simple: Promote filmmakers and screen writers.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:  Lots of films are rejected at 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. The Sunset Film Festival is different.

Giving filmmakers and screenwriters the opportunity to be noticed is our priority. Distributors love films screened at 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 Crowe), “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 auditorium for screenings. Submit your film with Sunset Film Festival. 

This is the key to go further with your passion.

MISSION & OBJECTIVE
The West Virginia Filmmaker Festival is a dedicated to the promotion of WV Filmmakers and Video Artists by the exhibition of films which exemplify the West Virginia spirit of independence. We strive to give forum to the Mountain State's best and most inventive new video artists while promoting the state to filmmakers outside of West Virginia.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The West Virginia FIlmmakers Festival is the original Film Festival dedicated to films by and for West Virginia. Held every fall in beautiful Sutton, West Virginia, the festival has showcased the best and brightest filmmakers from the Mountain State, and beyond. The First Festival was held in the spring of 2001 showcasing some of West Virginia's best filmmakers at the Landmark Studio for the Arts in Historic Sutton, West Virgina. In 2010 The West Virginia Filmmaker's Guild took over production of the festival.

The WVFF focuses on creating a communal atmosphere between the makers, students, and audiences of their films. We make our filmmakers our top priority by encouraging feedback, networking and workshops among the filmmakers. Filmmakers should leave our weekend with a myriad of new friends and collaborators

Cash prizes are given in the categories of: Best Student Film, Best Narrative Short, Best Experimental/Music Video/Animation, Best Documentary Short, Best Documentary Feature, Best Narrative Feature, and Best Film. Additionally, the festival annually awards the WV Filmmaker of the Year award to the individual whose work has had the biggest impact on WV filmmaking during that calendar year.

The Wicked West Film Fest 2011 is being held in conjuction with the Zombie Precinct Haunted Attraction taking place in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada in October, 2011 within the new Fremont ("Screamont") East Entertainment District. There will celebrity appearances, awards, and other related activities. It will be the first horror film fest to take place in downtown, which is pretty scary in itself.   There will be a monstrous amount of press. Only horror and scifi genre films will be accepted. No gratuitous or overly explicit sex scenes. 

One of the most important cultural events in Bulgaria and the world - International Animation Film Festival “Golden Kuker” - took its first steps in the National Palace of Culture in October 2010 in Sofia, Bulgaria. It had a tremensous success and was vividly reflected in the media. More than 200 films from 29 countries entered the competition in 2010 and more than 340 films from 51 countries in 2011 (among which were authors of three films nominated for an “Oscar” and films of artists awarded at international festivals category "A"). IAFF “Golden Kuker” is the first festival of animation in Bulgaria since the beginning of the new century. It welcomes international participation and already ranks in the list of the major festivals in the world of animation. It is organized by BAICAA (Bulgarian Association of Independent Cartoon Animation Artists - "Proyko Proykov” - a non-profit organization), chaired by Mrs. Nadezhda Slavova (cartoon artist, filmmaker and author of numerous animation films). The next edition of the festival of animation will take place from 28 May to 3 June 2012.

Hollywood's biggest little indie fest coming to Raliegh Studios Hollywood on April 8,9,10 2011.

Official Selections will be announced soon!

We look forward to seeing you at Hollywood's coolest indie film fest.

 

 

The Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival invites you to enjoy screenings of what we believe to be the best new feature films, documentaries, shorts and videos by filmmakers who posses an independent vision and operate to create innovative work outside the studio system. We honor these filmmakers with awards of merit and screenings at our Film Festival each December in Hollywood, CA. The Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival celebrates independent and international filmmaking from students to seasoned professionals and of any size budget under 5 million USD and as long as the film has been made in the last three years and has no significant American distribution.

We are looking for the truely independent filmmaker/screenwriter who make their projects 'by any means necessary'.  From Student to seasoned veteran, you are welcome at Bare Bones.  We treat you the way you want to be treated with no politics, just the celebration of independent film from script-2-screen.  www.barebonesfilmfestivals.org

SILVER SHARK Festival is held in Ukraine annually, since 2001, with a view to popularising underwater art and recreation and involving wide public in solving enrironmental problems and investigating the World Ocean.

SILVER SHARK International Underwater Art Festival is organised by Kiev Group of Companies "Silver Shark" with support of Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine and Honourable President of the World's Festival of Underwater Image in the city of Marseile Daniel Mercier (France).

Awards given to entries in the following categories: 

• Best bat short
• Best bat student film
• Best bat Internet-only film (YouTube, etc.)
• Best bat scientific film
• Best bat animated film/short
• Best bat documentary
• Best bat in captivity film (zoo, USFWA, wildlife rehabilitator)
• Best bat love story

Also

• Best bat-themed feature film
• Best bat-themed TV program

Love Your Shorts Film Festival will debut Feb. 11-13, 2011, in Sanford, Florida, a community that embraces the arts – and is now ready to add a movie festival to its art scene.

The festival is open to novice and veteran filmmakers, both amateur and professional in all categories. The event will showcase films of up to 30 minutes.

Over the course of three days, participants and audience members will be able to see numerous short films divided by category and attend discussion sessions with filmmakers and professionals.  Meanwhile, filmmakers will showcase their creations and compete for cash prizes.

The inaugural Love Your Shorts Film Festival will be held in a former USO headquarters in Sanford’s historic downtown, which sits along the St. Johns River in the heart of Florida.

Sanford – right outside of emerging film hub, Orlando, FL – features a downtown cultural corridor, numerous art galleries, a city-sponsored jazz concert, movies in the park, an active community-theater troupe, and other art activities and events.

 

 

This film festival takes place in the following locations:

Austin, TX - March 2011

Urbana, IL - April 2011

Los Angeles, CA - April 2011

Portland, OR - May 2011

website: www.LoveAndDiversity.org

standard deadline: 12/31/2010

late deadline: 1/31/2011

contact: Festival Organizers

theme: The Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition is dedicated to international outreach in order to promote love through Film, Visual Arts, Music, Writing and Screenplay Writing. Ticket fees to the events are always low with no one turned away for lack of funds making our event accessible to everyone. This festival offers an extremely large variety of certificates and awards for films, screenplays and much more as well as exposure at venues in several large cities during some of the country's largest media events. All submissions dealing with any aspect of love are welcome. Anybody who submits a copy of their film will have their film included in our annual film program even if it is not officially selected and shown in the festival.  Many awards will be given to filmmakers and screenplay writers.  Love Unlimited. A Legend Born: The Re-birth of the Artist that you were always destined to be."

 

 

Preview formats: .MPG (MPEG or MPEG2), .WMV (Windows Media), .FLV (Flash Video), .AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved), .CD-ROM, .MOV (QuickTime)

Exhibition formats: DVD (Region 0 or 1) or Blu-Ray

fee: $15-$20

theme: all

category: all

 

Showcasing the best horror cinema from around the world
Presented by
Trash City Entertainment
January 22nd & 23rd, 2011 - Noon till Midnight
The Nightmare After Christmas.
featuring Special Celebrity Guests!!
Merchandise Vendors! Panel Discussions! Q&A!
MadCap Theatres
730 South Mill Avenue
Tempe AZ 85281


Features and Shorts
 [And in case you're wondering, short films are 30 minutes or less. Features run at least 75 minutes. If you're in the middle...sorry. Maybe next year, we'll add a "long shorts" section to the festival!]

All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of hardened horror freaks - we'll get back to you, by December 23, 2010 at the latest, and let you know whether you've been accepted. If you want, we can also review the film in detail on TrashCity.org; that is entirely optional, but if you're looking to get buzz started, that would be a good way, since the site gets 1,000+ visitors per day. Let us know with your entry if you'd rather we didn't do that though, and we'll happily keep quiet.

What's in it for me, you say? Well, the winner of both the Best Short and Best Feature will receive a domestic and International distribution deal from Brain Damage Films and Maxim Media International. Other film distribution companies and studios are invited to attend and may be interested in your film. We are working with sponsors to offer a cash prize and we will post prizes when they are available.
There is no better way to get your film seen by horror fans. Other entries may also be offered contracts, if they're deemed worthy, but the winners get that as a guarantee. There'll also be an 'Audience Choice' award for the best single film, be it short or feature. We haven't quite worked out what the prize is for that yet though!

Any questions, please feel free to email us, at director@phxfearfilmfestival.com or you can call 602-399-9500, and we'll happily answer your queries.

The Real to Reel Film Festival 2013 Call for Entries is open. Filmmakers are invited to submit their new works to the 14th annual festival, which is nestled between Charlotte and Asheville, NC. Submissions can be entered directly to us or via the Withoutabox.com Web site: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/4767. Complete submission rules and regulations are available there. The next deadline is March 8, 2013, the Withoutabox extended deadline is May 24th, 2013. Real to Reel considers these categories of filmmaking, Narrative, Documentary, Short and Feature. The festival will announce its complete film lineup in June 2013.

MISSION AND OBJECTIVE: The mission of the Real to Reel International Film Festival is to offer a forum for independent - film, video and multimedia artists to showcase their talents and expose the works of these artists to our region.

SUBMIT HERE: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/4767

Real to Reel Film Festival
704-484-2787
www.realtoreelfest.com

 

The FilmShift Festival presents films from across the nation, that are produced independently and on the local level. We have some extremely valuable prizes for both filmmakers and screenwriters and a portion of the festival's ticket sales are being donated to charity.

Our Early Deadline for submissions is February 8, 2010...so Submit Now And Save! For more information, check us out on WAB or at:

http://www.filmshift.org

Both professional and Student filmmakers are encouraged to submit their work to compete for a variety of prizes and awards. We welcome films of all genres and styles that tell strong and original stories. We also accept feature-length and short film scripts for our FilmShift Screenplay Competition.

Twenty percent of our gross ticket sales will be donated evenly to 2 local non-profit groups: Christopher's Haven (a juvenile cancer support foundation,) and MetroWest Family Theater (a community theater group.)

Our prize sponsors are, quite simply, the giants of the independent production world. FINAL DRAFT, Harmonix's BEATLES ROCK BAND, SCRIPT MAGAZINE, INKTIP, JUNGLE SOFTWARE budgeting, SCRIPT P.I.M.P, ATOMIC, BUNCH/CASSEDAY, and WOODEN NICKEL LIGHTING, have donated products or discounts to Filmshift as prizes for our filmmakers.

The FilmShift Festival is dedicated to creating positive social change in local communities by supporting the art of film, filmmakers themselves, and small businesses of all kinds.

Thanks and we look forward to viewing all your hard work!