The Cinema e Arte Association, in
collaboration with the Municipality of Sestriere, organizes the first edition of "SPORT AWARDS - International Film Festival Sestriere", international competition on sports cinema.
It will be a cinema event in which directors,
independent directors, film companies and private productions will have the chance to participate by sending works such as fictions, commercials, short and feature films, documentaries, animated films and television programs, through an international competition call. The event’s theme will be the world of sports, expressed in all of its disciplines and events, great achievements, sports culture, the lives and stories of the characters who more than others have excited the public with their great achievements.
The Festival will take place in Sestriere at
the Fraiteve cinema, from July 22 to 25, 2025.
The chosen movies will be screened according to the exclusive methods and program of the Festival Direction.
The motto of the festival is: "By humanism to peace and friendship". It is held every two years. Bulgarian Red Cross is the main organiser of the forum.
It has a growing importance as a powerful tool for the dissemination of humanitarian and cultural values through cinema. The Festival is traditionally attended by the most senior leaders of the international Red Cross organisations. The International Committee of the Red Cross, the League (now Federation) of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the World Health Organisation, UNESCO, SIDALC, the Association of Film Producers, Association of Film Distributors, the International Organisation of Film Critics, National cinematographies and film production houses.
In this second edition, FINCI becomes Hybrid.
This 2025, the International Festival of New Independent Cinema (FINCI) calls on the international audiovisual industry to register their audiovisual projects, which will be held online from September 20 to October 18, 2025, and in person during June and November in Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Mexico, and Spain.
MDM Film Distribution invites new independent filmmakers to submit their projects with the aim of having a new exhibition window for their projects and thus fostering the creative, negotiation, and distribution space. MDM gives new projects, new independent filmmakers the opportunity to be seen and for new audiovisual proposals to circulate within the audiovisual industry.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
The call opens on January 30, 2025 and closes on April 20 at 11:59 p.m. (Argentina).
A total of 80 projects will be selected.
The projects can be seen through the festival's website, only during the festival period for those who access the FINCI online. Those who are in Mexico, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and Spain can enjoy the Finci in person.
On May 1st, the selected Mexican, Spanish, Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata projects can be seen on the Web and you can start buying tickets and access them in person. From May 2nd to July 18th, all the selected projects will be available online and you will be able to buy the content with a 20% Off. Those who access the Pre Finci will be sent the content starting on August 12th. Starting on August 20th, general FINCI ONLINE sales begin.
CATEGORIES:
FINCI#2 will have the following 8 categories:
- Feature films (up to 90 minutes - fiction)
- Short films (Fiction/Documentary up to 20 minutes)
- FINCI DOC (Feature films up to 90 minutes)
- FINCI pilot chapter (Fiction up to 50 minutes)
- FINCI female (Short films up to 20 minutes)
- FINCI LGBTQ+ (short films up to 25 minutes)
- FINCI fantastic (Short films up to 20 minutes) - science fiction-horror genre
- FINCI COAST (short films of 20 minutes feature films up to 90 minutes) - Mar del Plata
JURY:
The FINCI 2025 Jury is made up of those directors who won with their projects at FINCI 2024 with the aim of giving each of them more visibility and their projects more reach to the public and a community can be achieved in the audiovisual field. Also, that there are possibilities of connection. The objective of FINCI is to be able to understand that if there is a connection, between the juries, the selected ones, the spectators and me, we can all grow together since it is a festival that is made by everyone.
Feature Film Category:
Alejandro Gerber Bicecci
Graduate in Cinematography from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. He has written, directed and produced three fiction feature films: Vaho (2009), Viento aparte (2014) and Arillo de hombre muerto (2024).
She has been part of the writing teams of numerous series: The Cassez-Vallarta Case: A Crime Novel (Netflix), Stories of a Crime: Colosio Case (Netflix/Dynamo), María Félix, la doña (Televisa) Deep Drainage, The Lieutenant (TV Azteca), Cesar, the Story of an Idol (Disney / BTF Media); and the television series: The Eighth Commandment, Fortune, Camelia the Texan and The Traps of Desire (Argos TV), among others.
Vaho (2009) won the Jury Prize at the 10th Marrakech International Film Festival and Special Mention of the Jury at the 7th Morelia International Film Festival. Viento aparte (2014), premiered at the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival; and screened at the festivals of Warsaw, Calcutta, Havana and Edinburgh. Won the Audience Award at the 18th Austin Film Festival Cine Las Américas.
Short Film Category:
Raul A Rodriguez
Born in Mexico City in 1996. He studied a degree in Communication with a specialization in Film at the Universidad Iberoamericana. His first short film, “Albatros” premiered at the 50th Huesca International Film Festival. His next short film, “Todavía te transformaré”, will premiere at the New York Latino Film Festival in 2024. He has been part of various independent projects, including short and feature films in Mexico. He participated in the inaugural residency of Bendfilm Basecamp 2024, where he was mentored by director Bing Liu, producers Christine Vachon and Effie Brown. He is currently in pre-production on his next short film: “Una fábula en el fin de los tiempos”. He is also developing a feature film script with his production company Antitrama.
Documentary Category:
Rod Ugalde De Haene
Rod is a director and writer interested in portraying the mystery that exists between the mind, nature and our bodies. He graduated from the Visual Communication degree at the Tec de Monterrey Campus Mexico City, his first opera, the documentary feature film "La voz arcana del corazón", premiered at the DocsMX 2023 festival and won the award for best documentary at the International Festival of New Independent Cinema (FINCI) 2024. His documentary piece "Para el Recuerdo" won the FILmamos contest within the framework of FILm, the European film festival of the FIL, Guadalajara 2023. He has premiered numerous short films at various festivals, highlighting "Ansiedad y Deseo" at the Morelia International Film Festival in 2021, and "Camellos en la Arena", at the Shorts Mexico and Fotogenia 2020 festivals. Some of the projects he has directed for television are "La vengancia de las juanas" for Netflix, "La Bandida" for Amazon prime, and "Verne: La isla misterio" for Disney +. He is currently working on the documentary "El descent a lo inexplicable”, a film selected for “Habitar el campo”, an Ambulante program for the development of projects led by Christiane Butchart. He is also developing the horror project “Peligro de muerte”, which was part of the “Feratum” residency for the development of fantastic scripts 2023. His poem “No es bastante tarde” was published by Casa País magazine and his short story “El gato, la araña y la cosa” by La sombra del Maderito publishing house. He is currently the founder of “Espíritu”, a publishing house for independent voices specialized in poetry, short stories and illustration. Since 2023 he has been practicing Butoh, a discipline he learned from the teachers Natsu Nakajima and Raquel Salgado. He teaches at the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
TV Pilot Chapter:
Sergio Sosa (Flixxo)
Sergio Sosa is a graduate of the Image and Sound Design degree (UBA). Since 2018 he has been part of the video platform and audiovisual production company Flixxo. He currently works as General Coordinator, managing the acquisition and production of content and Flixxo's participation in festivals and markets.
Category Female Cinema:
Sady Barrios
Producer certified by the National Institute of Paraguayan Audiovisual (INAP). Master of Distribution and Business in the Audiovisual Industry from the School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid - ECAM, Diploma in Cinematographic Production from the Ibero-American Center for Photo and Film Studies - CIBEF, Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Autonomous University of Asunción. She was a Professor of the Higher Technical Degree in Cinematography at the Institute of Arts and Sciences of Communication (IPAC).
She has been working in the film, art and culture, media and advertising industry since 2006, supporting the development, production and dissemination of audiovisual projects. For several years she has participated in international film festivals and markets such as Oberá en Cortos, Ventana Sur, MAFIZ Málaga, Berlinale EFM, Series Manía, Cannes MDF, among others. She is the producer and director of the short film Hijas de Púa (2024), Producer of the short films Historias de Sudamérica (Oberhausen Selection, 2024), Otra Mano (Babel Film Festival Award, 2021), Production Coordinator of the TV Series Pequeñas Esperanzas II (2021), Production Assistant in Ejercicios de Memoria (2016), Art Producer at Mangoré, for the love of art (2014), AD of the feature film Libertad, la lucha por la Independencia (2011), Producer of the documentary Jesareko, for the international co-production series Parcerias entre Fronteras (2010). She was part of the Staff of the International Film, Art & Culture Festival of Paraguay, (2012, 2013, 2018) and the National Audiovisual Congress of Paraguay Tesape (2013), and of the programming department of Public TV Paraguay (2012).
LGBTQ+ Category
Nicolás Alvarez.
He graduated as a film director from the Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He directed “Violeta” (Best short film at BAFICI 2001 and Venice Film Festival). He premiered his first feature film as director “Lo Nuestro no funciona” (Bangkok Film Festival) at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in 2004.
Joaquín Ostrovsky. National actor graduated from IUNA (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He debuted with “Goce Artificial” (Buenos Aires, 1999). He acted in “Cerca” by Eduardo Pavlovsky (Madrid, 2002). In Spain he wrote and directed “Beautiful People” (2001), “Proyecto Aldo Pastur” (2003). She also directed “Kafka Kabaret” by Alfonso Pindado (Scena Contemporánea Festival, Madrid, 2002) and acted in “Silencio Banana y otros caprichos del Japón” (Scena Contemporánea Festival, Madrid, 2003).
In 2004 they met and began working together in film and theatre. In October 2024 they premiered “Yo nunca quise ser famosos” (I never wanted to be famous) a feature-length documentary at the Asterisco Festival, Buenos Aires (also selected in the ABC BAFICI Postproduction laboratory). They are currently developing a fiction film with which they have participated in the Queer Cine Lab in Malaga, PROMERCAT in Valencia and Residencia in Extremadura, Spain)
Category Fantastic Film
Macarena Dandrea Mohr
She studied film direction at the University of Cinema and graduated in 2013. She did her first job in film as a production assistant on the film Fermín, glorias del tango by Hernán Findling and Oliver Kolker. After the feature film, she was hired as a production assistant for her production company Función y Kuenta.
During that same year, she took a film direction course at the New York Film Academy film school. In 2015, she created alliances with the production company Magenta Films, which gave her the opportunity to work on her second feature film “Corazon Negro” by Juan Ribelli, covering the production area, and the series “Sofía” by Nicolás Tete. She also studies audiovisual TV production and scriptwriting with Pablo Culell and Jorge Maestro.
In 2016, she began working at the Lahaye post production company of Gabriel Lahaye developing content for Ibermedia. She worked as a production assistant for the Rebecca Films production company, placing audiovisual material at film festivals and created MDM films distribution, a production company that works nationally and internationally providing production services by placing audiovisual material at film festivals and seeking financing, film and TV markets, laboratories and pitch competitions for projects that are in the development, production and post-production phase. MDM aims to create different alliances and work networks that allow it to have access to participation in different projects.
In 2022, MDM created its academy section, giving group and personalized advice at a national and international level where it teaches the tools needed to be able to present projects at film festivals, financing funds, markets and pitch competitions and shows how the industry works from different sectors so that projects can be developed, enhanced and sold.
In 2023, he participated in the 24th edition of BAFICI, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival in the industry section, within the framework of Professional Meetings, giving a talk on the Development of Audiovisual Pitch Projects. In October, he traveled to the city of Montevideo, Montevideo to give his 6-week course on the presentation of audiovisual projects in person and gave a talk on Project Development and Pitch for university students at Dodeca.
In 2024, he continued to offer courses and created his first film festival FINCI, an international festival of new independent cinema, and the industry section FIINCI CINE CLUB, giving visibility to new filmmakers so that they can exhibit their projects by creating new meeting modalities and work possibilities. The first edition of the Cine Club took place on April 6. FINCI had its online version from July 30 to August 18. Now FINCI is going to be in-person, having its first edition in Buenos Aires from August 30 to September 15. FINCI plans to travel throughout Latin America to present the directors and projects of each country.
Coastal Cinema Category
Natalia Lódolo Cuenca
Argentinean audio-visual communicator and actress. She trained through seminars on acting in front of the camera, casting and self-casting, and specialized in the area of audiovisual production with professionals from both sides of the industry. She worked in the press in international relations for the Mar del Plata Film Festival (2022 and 2023). She also works in the production of music videos, both independent and for large productions, in documentaries and advertising.
COSTA BRAVA Film Festival 2025.
Presentations of the films and short films in the cinema room of the La Devesa de Tor club. IN-PERSON AWARDS CEREMONY on Saturday 12 July in l'ESCALA (Costa Brava). Promotion in S'AGARÓ, PLATJA D'ARO and L'ESCALA
MAIFF showcase a diverse array of films from various countries, highlighting emerging talent and unique storytelling styles.The festival not only promotes cultural exchange but also provides filmmakers with opportunities for showcasing their work. Each year, audiences can expect to see a mix of innovative narratives, genre-bending projects, and reflective cinema that push artistic boundaries.
Projects may be submitted to the posted category that best suits each project. "Best Of" Awards will be voted on by the judges amongst the submissions in each category and awarded to the winning films. The MAIFF judges will choose two projects from the pool of submissions throughout all categories to receive The Jury Gold Award and The Jury Silver Award. The winners of those two awards, along with the New England Filmmaker Award and Best Student Film will be showcased at a live screening at the Capital Theatre just outside of Boston, MA. The "Best Of" awarded projects will be screened in our Virtual Screening on the MAIFF website for audiences during the week of the festival.
The Festival screenings are a chance for creators to display their work in front of a live audience and a networking event for filmmakers alike. Industry professionals in attendance will give a round table discussion during the event, and a Q & A will be held with filmmakers post screening to discuss their work.
NOX FILM FEST
The First Outdoor Fantastic Film Festival from Uruguay is celebrating it's 11th Edition
And we are preparing a big party to celebrate it.
Enjoy with us!
The NOX FILM FEST is a fun cinematic experience that takes place in the South American summer.
The festival accepts genre films like: Horror-Fantasy-Sci-Fi and subgenres.
It's an open-air festival with free admission that every year receives thousands of young people and families whom enjoy their events.
The 11th Edition will take place from 10 to 17 January 2026
The NOX FILM FEST will offer fun and attractive activities like:
Marathon of films
Live performances
Master classes
Workshops
NOX for kids
Book's presentations
Special guests
'Not we are alone' sessions.
Developing lab and more atractions
The NOX FILM FEST has an International Competition of feature films, medium-length films and short films.
It accepts submisions films from all over the world and awards prizes and special mentions in the following categories:
Best International Feature Film
Best Ibero-American Feature Film
Best Medium-length Film
Best Short Film (different sections)
Films made by women (FILM MADE BY WOMEN)
Special awards for direction, acting and screenplay.
The Asian Film Festival, Los Angeles Hollywood is a non-profit organization of the film industry in the United States, headquartered in Los Angeles, through various projects and activities, screening filmmakers around the world, filmmakers of outstanding works, help them to increase exposure, in the industry, docking resources.
The Asian Film Festival founded by Asian Film Festival Committee and American International Chamber of Commerce, we are international non-profit organization with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Beijing and other cities. Commissioners, writers & directors work with Asian Films because we know how to support creative people & deliver visionary films & television drammas.
The American International Chamber of Commerce has been a dedicated partner of Asian countries on diversified economic and cultural development and exchanges from the since the establishment in 1990.
In keeping with our long-term commitment, we encouragement and recognition that support from Asian entrepreneurs and investors, filmmakers ’s creativity and production and build strong, each institutions, production companies and studios will lead to greater economic opportunities in film industry for all Asian countries.
The AFF, Asian Film Festival is dedicated to strengthening Asian and Hollywood film and culture exchange and collaboration, promoting innovative development in film industry and fostering creativity in filmmaking in the world.
We believe film also in the future of Asian same as Hollywood as well. The American International Chamber of Commerce and Asian Film Festival reiterates its unwavering commitment to working with all Asian countries in film industry as they build a A brilliant, rich and successful future. We send our warmest wishes for continued prosperity and success of Asian Film Festival in the years ahead.
San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival is a US government approved 501(C) (3) tax-exempt non-profit organization.
Provide an international platform for all film lovers, professional filmmakers and film/media students who love film-making to stand out.
Discover and select potential talents with new technique & skills, who demonstrate the original concept and accelerate their development within the film industry.
Encourage new filmmakers especially young and first-time filmmakers for their new productions. Encourage and celebrate original and insightful screenwriting and new ideas in the film. Accept films in all categories and subject matter.
Make friends and enhance communication through films.
• 2025 The 12th Festival Schedule:
November 1, 2025------November 9, 2025
In an ever-evolving film industry, MICA 3 is at the forefront of a new wave of exposure-focused film exhibits. We believe that films should be seen, celebrated, and shared—not locked away in traditional festival circuits.
By joining MICA 3, your work has the chance to shine on a screening event and to reach a global audience through our extensive online exhibit, amplified by three months of paid advertising.
At MICA, we believe that the future of cinema is yet to be found, and we are proud to support the seventh art through this transition. Thank you for joining our film exhibit as a platform for your work.
The Brain Damage Association for Adults and Minors calls for the Third Edition of the International Film Festival for Diversity “ADACAM” in order to continue making the invisible visible and be able to move towards a more inclusive society, focusing on young people but also on filmmakers. professionals, students and people with social concerns.
LA International Film Festival is dedicated to discovering emerging storytellers.
Competitive sections for feature-length fiction films; a diverse selection of documentary films; selected to showcase break-out global talent in Los Angeles.
Our mission is to discover and showcase new filmmakers with fresh stories in independent cinema.
The festival includes special screenings co-presented in cooperation with the following Oscar® qualifying film festivals: Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland), Gijon International Film Festival (Spain) and Cartagena International Film Festival, FICCI (Colombia).
Celebrating 12 years the Toronto Shorts International Film Festival is the largest short film festival in Canada.
Toronto Shorts is a non-profit organization that provides a showcase for the best short films and its creators from around the world, 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.
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 :
2021 Oscar Nominee 'The Present' by Farah Nabulsi
2019 Oscar Nominee ‘Weekends’ by Trevor Jimenez
2018 Oscar Nominees 'Watu Wote - All of Us' (Germany) and 'The Eleven O'Clock' (Australia)
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 includes a premier international short film festival.
We showcase the best short films and its filmmakers from around the world.
The International Gay, Lesbian Trans Film Festival of Lima - the OutfestPerú - opens its call for the XXI edition and films of all nationalities whose theme is LGBTIQ, and which are eligible for the various sections of the festival can participate in it: Feature films ( Official Section and International Panorama), Short Films Section either Documentary or Fiction and Video Art (Official and Panorama). The works must not have been exhibited in commercial theaters, broadcast on TV or be available to the public on the Internet or other windows in Peruvian territory prior to the celebration of the festival and must have copyright after 2023. Feature films and short films must preferably be unpublished in Peru, although this is not exclusive but will be valued very positively. OutfestPerú reserves the right to include films that do not meet these conditions in the programming, but out of competition.
The CalellaFilmFestival is a festival dedicated to all those Low Budget films of national or international production, with the aim of rewarding and promoting films made with few media but with high artistic value.
The CalellaFilmFestival has two sections:
"Low Budget" section
The selected feature films will compete as best productions of the year in the national or international scope, with an investment of less than 500,000 euros.
Section "Creative Rosebud Awards"
All those productions that throughout the year have stood out for their creativity and originality, both in the field of national and international production, with an investment exceeding 500.00 euros will compete.
Read the bases to register your movie.
The festival will be held from october 31 to november 8 to 4, 2025 in Calella de Mar (Barcelona) in the Sala Mozart and other rooms attached to the festival. For schedules, passes and more information go to the festival website.
www.calellafilmfestival.com
Art Scene West is organizing its first ever film festival to celebrate the motion-picture arts. With local partners and an attractive location, this festival has the potential to be the occasion for an unforgettable weekend in San Diego, CA. There are 2 distinct categories available for filmmakers to get their projects exposure to broader audiences. We are inviting teams of all sizes to have an opportunity to be a part of this first-ever film festival in one of San Diego's most cherished tourist destinations.
The Experimental Audiovisual Center (NAVE, in Portuguese) is an independent collective established in 2021 that focuses on experimental audiovisual studies.
NAVE Exhibition (Mostra NAVE) was created within the collective aiming to study, share and promote experimental films, video arts and other forms of audiovisual expression and in 2025 it presents its 4th edition, gaining national and international visibility.
The NAVE Exhibition consists of screenings of films previously selected by the center's curatorial team.
The exhibition is in its fourth edition and this year, 2025, it will be shown in a virtual format, on February 14th, 15th and 16th, 2025, starting at 8 p.m. (Brasília time, GMT - 3), exclusively via NAVE Exhibition's YouTube channel
New York Shorts International Film Festival features over 340 short films, special events, talks, retrospectives films, and tributes with honored guests, establishing New York Shorts as one of the finest exhibitions of short films in North America.
Now in our 13th year, New York Shorts International Film Festival is the largest short film festival on the East Coast. A non-profit organization that provides a showcase for emerging filmmakers from around the world.
New York Shorts is a qualifying film festival for the Canadian Screen Awards, presented by The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. We are the only short film festival in New York on the Canadian Screen Awards eligible festival list.
The festival has become a career stepping stone, establishing a tradition of discovering and promoting filmmakers who have gone on to become Academy Award® Nominees.
Previous film selections include:
2023 Student Academy Award® Duet by Lyuwei Chen - Winner New York Shorts Best Documentary
2023 OSCAR® NOMINEE Live-Action Short Film, The Red Suitcase by Cyrus Neshvad winner New York Shorts 'Best International Film'
2022 OSCAR® WINNER Documentary, Short The Queen of Basketball by Ben Proudfoot
2020 OSCAR® WINNER Live-Action Short Film, "The Neighbors" Window" by Marshall Curry winner New York Shorts 'Best of Fest'
2020 OSCAR® NOMINEE Documentary Short Subject The New York Times Op-Docs "Walk Run Cha-Cha" by Laura Nix and Colette Sandstedt
2019 OSCAR® NOMINEE Animated Short "Animal Behaviour" by Alison Snowden and David Fine
2015 OSCAR® NOMINEE "The Dam Keeper" by Robert Kondo, Daisuke Tsutsumi
2013 Student Academy Award® "A World for Raúl" by Mauro Mueller wins New York Shorts Best Drama
2012 OSCAR® NOMINEE & BAFTA Best Short Animation "A Morning Stroll" by Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe
2012 World premiere "Derek" by Ricky Gervais wins New York Shorts Best Comedy and became a popular British television show picked up by Netflix.
New York Shorts International Film Festival is one of the largest showcases of short films in North America and an ideal platform for filmmakers to screen their films and gain recognition in New York City.
New York Shorts events include receptions, as well as workshops with industry experts and top filmmaking professionals sharing their practical advice to attending filmmakers.
2023 Industry Events
Industry Master Spotlight w/ BAFTA Nominated Director Jon Amiel
Industry Master Spotlight w/ Academy Award® Winning Producer Andrew Carlberg
Industry Short Film Spotlight w/ Academy Award® Winning Director Chris Overton
2022 Industry Events
Tribute to legendary film director Bob Giraldi
Spotlight Screening from George R.R. Martin's (Game of Thrones creator)
Beyond The Screen with Ben Proudfoot (Oscar® winning documentary director)
Film Retrospective Kim Magnusson (producer/director of seven Academy Awards® nominations and two Oscar wins)
Film Tribute to cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
New York Shorts believes short-form cinema and its filmmakers should have their own premier film festival in New York deserving similar recognition given to feature films.
The heart of the festival is the quality and scope of extraordinary film programming to enthusiastic audiences in the vibrant filmmaking enclave of New York City.
LA Shorts International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world.
The festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences OSCAR®, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT) presenters of the Canadian Screen Awards and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain (Goya Awards).
We are proud to have 66 filmmakers from LA Shorts earned an Academy Award® nomination.
Now in its 28th year, LA Shorts is the longest-running short film festival in Los Angeles. The festival screens over 350 films and attracts over 10,000 attendees each year including Hollywood industry professionals and emerging independent filmmakers.
LA Shorts is an official qualifying event for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA short film awards. Award-winners at the festival are eligible to win BAFTA Awards.
LA Shorts is recognized by The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT) presenters of the Canadian Screen Awards.
Those who have been honored at the festival include directors, Jon Favreau, Paul Haggis, Bryan Singer, Jan de Bont, Shane Black, and actors Gary Oldman, James Woods, Martin Landau and Richard Dreyfuss. Many recognizable directors and actors have screened films and attended the festival such as Scarlett Johansson, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Courteney Cox, Tim Burton, Sofia Coppola, Jason Reitman, Terry Gilliam, Spike Jonze, Eva Mendes, Jessica Biel, Rachel Weisz, Hilary Swank, Josh Brolin, Kirsten Dunst, Rita Wilson, Ralph Macchio, Ricky Gervais, Vin Diesel, John Stamos, Matthew Modine, Dean Cain, Robin Wright, George R. R. Martin and many many more.
The film programming screens all genres from a wide spectrum of categories with high to low-budget films 40 minutes or under. From recognizable directors and celebrity actors to students from the finest film schools and high school teenagers- they're all here to celebrate the art (and business) of short-form cinema!
NeuroScope Films is where storytelling, big tech, and AI collide. Every month, we spotlight groundbreaking shorts, wild FX, music videos, animations and video art from around the world. It's not just a festival—it’s the frontier of creativity and tech.
Got something bold and boundary-pushing? Submit your work and join the future of filmmaking.
Submitting is simple. You can send us your project through Festhome or directly on our official website. Submissions stay open year-round as we curate content for specific events across different cities. Don’t stress about deadlines—if your project isn’t the right fit for our LA screening, it might be perfect for our event in Dallas or elsewhere. When selected, Just keep an eye on notifications, and we’ll let you know how and where your work will be curated.
