536 Sunset Ave., 90291, Venice, California, United States
Festival description
Short film festival 55'<
Feature film festival >56'
Festival requirements
Film festival
Fiction
Documentary
Animation
Fantastic
Terror
Experimental
Music Video
Other
Any Genre
Any Theme
Has submission fees
International Festival
Physical Location
January 2016
Production countries: Any
Shooting countries: Any
Director nationalities: Any
Debut Films
School projects
Short Films 55'<
Feature Films >56'
Languages
Afrikaans
Albanes
German
Amharico
Arab
Armenian
Bengali
Belorussian
Burmese
Bulgarian
Catalan
Czech
Chinese
Korean
Croatian
Danish
Dari
Dzongkha
Scottish
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Esperanto
Estonian
Faroese
Farsi
Finnish
French
Gaelic
Welsh
Galician
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Dutch
Hungarian
English
Indonesian
Inuktitut (Inuit)
Icelandic
Italian
Japanese
Kurdish
Lao
Lapp
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malaysian
Maltese
Nepali
Norwegian
Pashto
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Somali
Kiswahili
Swedish
Tagalog-Filipino
Tajik
Tamil
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrinia
Tongans
Turkish
Turkmens
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Basque
Vietnamese
Bosnian
Khmer (Cambodian)
Georgian
Akan
Mongolian
Latin
Azerbaijani
Sinhala
Malayalam
Zulu
Guarani
Georgian
Dholuo
Creole
Telugu
Luxembourgish
Chechen
Kannada
Festival start: 11 May 2018
Festival end: 11 May 2018
The Fine Arts Film Festival (FAFF) is dedicated to showing the finest films in the world about art, photography, collectors and artists of all mediums in and out of their studios, galleries, museums, public art, and alternative art spaces. This includes video art, curated as a film medium.
The 5th Annual Fine Arts Film Festival will be held on May 10-12, 2018. We're opening up with the VR Section of the Festival at Creative Technology Center on May 10, then moving to the historic Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Theatre on May 11-12, which is celebrating it's 50th Anniversary in 2018.
The 4th Annual 2017 Fine Arts Film festival was held on May 12-13th with celebrities and luminaries from both the art and entertainment worlds hosted by the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art at the Creative Technology Center at The Brewery Art Lofts, Art Share LA, and at the historic Beyond Baroque Theatre in Venice, California.
We screened 48 films from around the world, with over 170 submissions.
The 5th Annual Fine Arts Film Festival is the premiere showcase for independent films about artists and the art world held annually in Venice and Downtown Los Angeles, California.
Featuring exceptionally creative and important films about art, artists, and the art world - many premiering for the first time in the United States - from countries such as the Netherlands, Iran, France, Estonia, Japan, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Portugal, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Armenia, Greece, Antarctica, Luxembourg...
Information about the Festival, including previous Official Selections and Award Winners:
www.thefineartsfilmfestival.com
Tickets:
Will be available on Eventbrite and at the Box Office starting February, 2018.
Best Narrative Feature Film
Best Narrative Short Film
Best Documentary Short Film
Best Documentary Feature Film
Best Animated Film
Best Narrative Feature Film
Best Narrative Short Film
Best Documentary Short Film
Best Documentary Feature Film
Best Animated Film
Best Director
Best Student Film
Dan Wood Audience Award
Best Experimental Film
Best Score or Original Music
Best Cinemtography
Best Virtual Reality Film
Other VR Categories to be Announced
Film subject matter must be related to the art world in some way, whether it be art and artists in or outside their studios, collectors, galleries, museums, public art, and alternative art spaces or other art related subject. It can also be a video art piece itself, which may be accept to be curated with others for a film debut.
Films must have been completed after January 2, 2016.
We must be informed if the film has premiered, been shown on the internet publicly, or broadcast previously. That will not disqualify a film, but we must be informed.
Films must be submitted via private link. We may ask for a DVD to be submitted as well.
Films must be submitted with proper documentation, including director/producer bios, contact information with email addresses and social media accounts, distributor information (if applicable) publicity materials such as poster/one sheet, 1-3 images from each film (please at least 150dpi for our catalog).
Short films are considered all films under 55 minutes.
Feature films are considered films 55 minutes and above.
5 Reviews
Films must be submitted via private link. We may ask for a DVD to be submitted as well.
Films must be submitted with proper documentation, including director/producer bios, contact information with email addresses and social media accounts, distributor information (if applicable) publicity materials such as poster/one sheet, 1-3 images from each film (please at least 150dpi for our catalog).
Short films are considered all films under 55 minutes.
Feature films are considered films 55 minutes and above.
Short Narrative
Short Films 55'<
Fee-8%
Early35$32.2$
31 Oct 17
Standard45$41.4$
13 Jan 18
Late50$46$
28 Feb 18
Extended65$59.8$
07 Apr 18
Submissions deadline
07 Apr 18
Save up
3.6$
Submit
Feature Narrative
Short and Feature Films >56'
Fee-8%
Early35$32.2$
31 Oct 17
Standard45$41.4$
13 Jan 18
Late50$46$
28 Feb 18
Extended65$59.8$
07 Apr 18
Submissions deadline
07 Apr 18
Save up
3.6$
Submit
Feature Documentary
Short and Feature Films >56'
Fee-8%
Early35$32.2$
31 Oct 17
Standard45$41.4$
13 Jan 18
Late50$46$
28 Feb 18
Extended65$59.8$
07 Apr 18
Submissions deadline
07 Apr 18
Save up
3.6$
Submit
Short Documentary
Short Films 55'<
Fee-8%
Early35$32.2$
31 Oct 17
Standard45$41.4$
13 Jan 18
Late50$46$
28 Feb 18
Extended65$59.8$
07 Apr 18
Submissions deadline
07 Apr 18
Save up
3.6$
Submit
Animated Film
Short and Feature Films
Fee-8%
Early35$32.2$
31 Oct 17
Standard40$36.8$
13 Jan 18
Late50$46$
28 Feb 18
Extended60$55.2$
07 Apr 18
Submissions deadline
07 Apr 18
Save up
3.2$
Submit
This category accepts all length animations.
Student Film
Short and Feature Films
Fee-8%
Early35$32.2$
31 Oct 17
Standard40$36.8$
13 Jan 18
Late50$46$
28 Feb 18
Extended60$55.2$
07 Apr 18
Submissions deadline
07 Apr 18
Save up
3.2$
Submit
Please specify the school you are attending and your intended graduation date.
Experimental Film
Short and Feature Films
Fee-8%
Early35$32.2$
31 Oct 17
Standard40$36.8$
13 Jan 18
Late50$46$
28 Feb 18
Extended60$55.2$
07 Apr 18
Submissions deadline
07 Apr 18
Save up
3.2$
Submit
Any film that does not fit the other categories
Music Video/Performance
Short and Feature Films
Fee-8%
Early35$32.2$
31 Oct 17
Standard40$36.8$
13 Jan 18
Late50$46$
28 Feb 18
Extended60$55.2$
07 Apr 18
Submissions deadline
07 Apr 18
Save up
3.2$
Submit
This category is for music videos, art-related performances, and other performance-based works involving the visual and sound arts, including dance.
virtual reality films
Short and Feature Films
Fee-8%
Early35$32.2$
31 Oct 17
Standard40$36.8$
13 Jan 18
Late50$46$
28 Feb 18
Extended60$55.2$
07 Apr 18
Submissions deadline
07 Apr 18
Save up
3.2$
Submit
An genre created as a VR film - to be screened at the Creative Technology Center at the Brewery Art Lofts, Los Angeles, a center of VR activity on Los Angeles.
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