Welcome to the 4th edition of the Meraki Film Festival. For this edition we will be in both Berlin (Germany) and Madrid (Spain)! Two cities, double the chance to be selected or even to be selected twice!
Our festival is inspired by the meaning of the word “Meraki“ and its relation to the process of creating films and screenplays.
The term “Meraki“ is reserved for projects that are a labour of love that have been borne out of absolute devotion during the creation process. If you have put your heart and soul into creating a film or screenplay than this is the Festival for you to celebrate your success and hard work.
It is a perfect event to show your work to a film-passionate and “connoisseur” audience. Our festival's philosophy is about promoting new opportunities for people to enjoy cinema where cinema is created. To show films that entertain and enlighten audiences, that transmit the passion their creators have put into their work through a big screen.
The fourth edition of "Chaniartoon - International Comic & Animation Festival", will be held in Chania, from 11 to 20 September of 2020.
The Festival, is designed to showcase animation short films from all around the world, made both by students and professional. There will be a special section for greek animation movies.
During the festival there will be a comic exhibition with a great artist alley, workshops and some special events !
The Ontario International Film Festival is an annual event that takes place every October in Toronto. It's a festival that gives independent filmmakers from different cultures and backgrounds, the opportunity to get known, learn and get acquainted with the industry to better integrate easily.
Any filmmaker from any culture in Canada or around the world, who is struggling to have an opportunity to work in the film industry, ONIFF will help them to create their own films, and engage them within the global film industry.
El Festival Internacional de Cine Austral, con base en la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina, se propone como espacio de reflexión para la producción audiovisual sustentable, social y económicamente consciente.
El cine habla de la sociedad, la crítica, la representa.
El cine, es parte de la sociedad y es por esto que creemos en el cine.
The Esoteric International Film Festival collects the best esoteric films from around the world, which were created both by professionals and by enthusiasts, and helps to get them across to the Russian audience.
We admit only the esoteric films, both modern and historical ones. As well as those films, where esoteric world is an important part of the synopsis.
Esoteric International Film Festival invite filmmakers who make films and documentaries about ghosts and spirits, brownies and witches, fairies and sorcerers, exorcism and parapsychology, telekinesis and transmission of thoughts at a distance, prophetic dreams and premonitions, alchemy, amulets, amulets, non-traditional religious cults, voodoo religion, animism, shamanism, theosophy and anthroposophy, the hidden edges of reality and other dimensions; self-discovery, the search for the meaning of life, the search for yourself in this world and your mission, life after death, human energy, chakras, aura, meditation, yoga, retreats, spiritual practices, spiritual teachers and ashrams, reincarnation and the recollection of past lives, the power of thoughts and the work of the subconscious; alternative medicine and non-standard methods of treatment, the universal mind, the energies of the new time, high vibrations, etc.
All films must be in English (orRussian). Alternatively, have the English or Russian subtitles (with the exception of all films without words), regardless of the country of production.
All best films that were selected for the vscreening, will be shown on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on July 02-05, 2020 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the "Best Esoteric film". As well as for the oteric in the standalone nominations.
TRAVEL FILM International Film Festival collects the best travel, outdoor, nature and adventure films from around the world, which were created both by professionals and by enthusiasts, and helps to get them across to the Russian speaking audience. In the world there are 162 million people whose native language - Russian. Another 110 million are fluent in Russian. They live not only in Russia and the former republics of the Soviet Union, but also worldwide.
We admit only the films about travels, outdoor, extreme sports, adventures, countries, wildlife & nature.
All best films that were selected during the online festival, will be shown during online screenings March 19 - 26, 2021 and offline on the big screen during the solemn final ceremony on June 27 - 28, 2021 in Moscow, Russia and will be able to struggle for the main prize and the title of the "Best travel film in Russian". As well as for the prizes in the standalone nominations.
The Esseoesse Cultural Association announces the competition "CortoDino - International Film Festival Dino De Laurentiis -X Edition". The Metropolitan city of Naples, the Giorgio De Chirico Secondary School of Art and Communication, the other secondary schools of Torre Annunziata and the Vesuvian area, the main cultural associations and the of the Vesuvian and Campanian area will collaborate in the event.
The competition came about from the desire to remember and celebrate, in his hometown and in terms not only commemorative, but proactive, the figure and the work of Dino De Laurentiis. The main objective of the initiative is therefore to create an opportunity for meeting, debate and awareness of young filmmakers who enter the cinema landscape, in which the influence left by the illustrious Torrese has certainly been significant, while at the same time promoting cinematographic culture through the inclusion of disadvantaged people and the research and promotion of works by talents from Campania, and also national and international.
The presence of the world of associations and that of the school is the clearest sign of the purpose of connecting in particular with the world of young people.
---------ENGLISH..................
The organization will nominate a Selection Committee that will have the task of choosing the works to be submitted to the judgment of the Public Jury, formed by the spectators at the screenings, and of the Artistic Jury. The latter, made up of experts in the sector, having evaluated the voting indications of the Public Jury, will proclaim, at its sole discretion, the winners among the works selected in the various categories.
The prizes, consisting of hand decorated lava stone, will be awarded to the winners of the following categories:
- Best Italian Short Film;
- Best International Short Film;
- Best Short Film “Over”;
- Best Short Film “Talento Campano”;
- Best Short Film School;
- Best Documentary;
- Best Animated Short Film
The "Talento Campano" prize is reserved to the author, born in Campania, of the best classified film.
Prizes will be awarded only with the presence of at least 3 works in competition.
The Artistic Jury reserves the right to report, in addition to the awarded, works and artists deemed to merit "Special Mention".
Festival Management will award prizes during the event:
- Manolo Bolognini to the most distinguished producer in the last year;
- Giuria del pubblico;
- Cortodino alla Carriera to established artists of cinema and entertainment;
- Buon Vento to young emerging artists;
and can award the prizes:
- Matrix to the results of the new frontiers in audio-visuals(virtual reality, video art, video mapping, web series, etc.).
- Wewé to the authors of videos, also made on smartphones and published on social media, that reflect real life in Campania.
- The works in foreign languages, under penalty of exclusion, must have Italian subtitles.
CortodinoFF launched in 2018 a national awareness campaign in favour of the deaf so that people with this disability can take advantage of the cinema show thanks to the subtitling in Italian of the films.
With the same merit, the Selection Committee will consider the works containing subtitles in Italian as the preferred choice.
Reports and related links must be sent to concorso@cortodino.it.
The Organization reserves the right to make improvements and/or additions to the categories and nature of the prizes.
The selected works will be published on the site indicated (http://www.cortodino.it)
The winners will be notified in advance to ensure their presence at the awards ceremony. For the awarding of prizes, it is necessary for the author or a delegated attend the event.
The awards will be presented by well-known personalities from the world of film, directly to the winners or their delegates. For winners coming from outside the Campania region facilities can be provided for their stay in the city, to be agreed with the organization.
The non-participation of the author, or delegate, at the final awards evening, does not oblige the organization to send the prize to the residence of the winner.
The Organization, in case the obligations of social distancing persist due to the pandemic from Covid19:
- Reserves the right to allow the public to watch the films in competition with the help of streaming platforms;
- will virtually deliver the prizes through a live streaming published on the Cortodino page and website; the presence of guests and winners will be allowed via the web by conferencing services.
Toronto Shorts International Film Festival is the largest short film festival in Canada. Toronto Shorts provides a showcase for the best short-form cinema and its creators in the world, held annually in the heart of Toronto.
We feel that short-form cinema and its creators should have their own premier film festival in Toronto deserving similar recognition given to the feature film and its creators.
Toronto Shorts is where films from all genres intersect. The heart of the festival is the quality and scope of extraordinary film programming which consists of a wide spectrum of categories from high to low budget films under 45 minutes.
Over the past eight years, the festival has become a career stepping stone, establishing a tradition of discovering and promoting filmmakers who have gone on to be Academy Awards Nominees, including 2018 Oscar Nominees "Watu Wote - All of Us" (Germany) and "The Eleven O'Clock" (Australia).
The 2019 Oscar nominee ‘Weekends’ directed by Trevor Jimenez was awarded Best Animation at the 2018 Toronto Shorts International Film Festival.
Past participants also include films from Alan Ritchson, Olympia Dukakis. Billy Bob Thornton, John Stamos, Salma Hayek, Tyrese Gibson, and Tom DeLonge.
Toronto stands as the largest media market in Canada, it boasts the world-renowned Royal Ontario Museum, the massive Art Gallery of Ontario, the Soulpepper Theatre Company, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and now a premier international short film festival.
In order to showcase the best short films and its filmmakers from around the world, we created the Toronto Shorts International Film Festival.
YeCheon International Smart-phone
Film Festival 2020 (hereunder “YISFF2020”)
Provides open opportunity of smart-phone film production and showing to anyone local or foreigners to energize the film industry and artistic creation.
We will try the best to make excellent festival by accompanying local and foreign movie persons and providing chances to pre-movie persons.
The AutoMoto Film and Arts Festival is an event that embraces all the incredible aspects of our emotional attachment to all things motoring, telling it’s rich history through the visual, auditory and written art.
The work presented should be a story from the automotive or motorcycling world that is told in a wonderful cinematic way and embodies the passions of our audience.
It could be possible the participation of all those movie directors, producers or
distributors who possess the legal control of the performances that they present to
compete.
The person or entity (or its representative) that signs the short film’s application form
will be considered by the organization as the only valid interlocutor for any notification
that the Festival makes and the only person responsible in the presence of other people
or companies that have participated in the production.
The Chungju International Martial Arts and Action Film Festival is hosted by the Chungbuk Cultural Foundation and organized by the Chungju International Martial Arts and Action Film Festival Steering Committee.
The Chungbuk International Martial Arts Action Film Festival, which will be held under the slogan "The Spirit of Martial Arts, Blossom into a Movie," is the only film festival in Korea to be held in North Chungcheong Province under the theme of a movie in the martial arts action genre.
The Chungju International Martial Arts and Action Film Festival aims to promote Korean martial arts and actions to the world and to create a venue for promoting the world's martial arts and actions to Korea.
It aims to introduce masterpieces and to inform many people of the films that show great martial arts and action.
The world's most well-known martial arts and action film festival is the goal of the Chungju International Martial Arts and Action Film Festival.
Film festival schedule: entry period 01.07 to 01.08.
20.10.22~20.10.26 the period of Film Festival
* This year's festival could be an online screening in the aftermath of the Corona, but it is currently being promoted around offline.
*If it is screened online, the company will use safe streaming services that will not infringe copyrights.
FesticineKids 22 is an international festival of children and youth cinema in Cartagena de Indias; it is a film competition that guides its efforts towards strengthening the making and distribution of Colombian, Latin American and world cinema for children and young people. In 2020, FesticineKids reaches its 22nd edition and with the aim of highlighting and celebrating cinema for girls, boys and young people, they have chosen the phrase La Paz esta en ti as a slogan that invites us to tell stories through cinema generators of change in our environment. Stories that create a state of peace in places that are told. The subjects of that place that brings us a space for reflection and meeting with feelings of peace and harmony.
In the construction of the FesticineKids 22 profile, the screen is problematized as a point of confluence for girls, boys and adolescents. By postulating cinema as that scenario in which feelings, emotions and beliefs are expressed, it is intended that girls, boys and adolescents, understanding what cinema evokes, what they extract from it and its meanings, wonder about the place that the cinema has in their lives, in their environment, parallel to the place they want and dream.
It is also an opportunity for adults, parents, teachers, cultural and film authorities to think about the need to strengthen their capacities to be trainers in tension and interaction with the audiovisual media, especially cinema.
Buenos Aires International Film Festival is the largest festival in Argentina. An IMDB eligible festival soon.
We believe that cinema is a magic tool that speaks a universal language, which allows the ability to unite people from all over the world in an instant. More than 120 countries participating in the BUEIFF competitions!
Our goal is to encourage independent and professional filmmakers of all nationalities to share their passion worldwide through our Festival.
"Art, in all its forms, crosses any border, culture, society, ethnicity, or religion. Art is what most identifies us as human beings and what gives us humanity."
The members of our jury belong to a network of professionals, with years of experience in the industry.
The quality standard of this competition is very high and only awards the best films, so winners of this competition can be very proud of their achievement.
IFF ZOOM - ZBLIZENIA (Jelenia Góra) is one of the largest and most important independent cinema festivals in Poland. Its aim is to present the author's cinema, ambitious, high artistic value, moving independent and original subject matter, as well as promotion of independent film art.
