Action movies, despite being one of the most watched genres in the world, still does not have the respect it deserves, and has always been underestimated at the most important festivals and award ceremonies, which is why TACFEST born, we want to pay homage to the genre that has given us more action heroes to admire than any other.
TACFEST is organized by the ACCM (Cinema Association of Castilla La Mancha).
Welcome to SYS’s Six-Figure Film Festival and Screenplay Contest!
The Film Festival
This year we’re spearheading a new initiative to assure that all filmmakers get exceptional value from our festival…
100% of the films that get accepted will be screened in Los Angeles at the festival in October. If your film is NOT accepted, we will refund 100% of your submission fee, removing all risk from the filmmakers. If your film is not accepted you pay nothing, if it is accepted you get a screening in Los Angeles. It’s that simple.
From founder and filmmaker Ashley Scott Meyers: “As a filmmaker myself I’ve been incredibly disappointed with the film festival circuit lately. Most of the time I’ve sent money for submissions, gotten back a half-baked rejection letter or worse, been accepted to a festival but still didn’t get to screen my film. With SYS’s festival we aim to remove all financial risk from the filmmakers by only charging the films we accept and screening all the films in a high quality theater here in Los Angeles.”
All accepted feature films will receive 50 complimentary tickets to their screening. All short films will receive 10 complimentary tickets to their screening.
This festival is an IMDb qualifying festival.
The festival will take place October 6th - October 15th 2023 in Los Angeles.
We will be screening both shorts and features. We are looking for fiction, documentary, experimental, animation and all genres of filmmaking which can entertain, inspire and challenge us. But all entered films must have been produced for less than $1million USD ($1,000,000).
We’ll be giving out awards in all major categories. You do NOT have to pay multiple submission fees to be eligible in each category. Every accepted film will be eligible in every applicable category.
The Screenplay Contest
What’s this contest all about?
Do you have the next great low budget screenplay? SYS is trying to find great screenplays in any genre that could be produced for less than $1,000,000USD (one million). In other words, scripts that could be produced on six-figures or less.
Our goal with this screenplay contest is simple: find the best low budget screenplays on the planet and present them to the industry, which will hopefully lead to options, sales, and productions.
We’ve assembled a great group of seasoned writers, directors, and producers (see list on our website) to help judge the entries, as well as a great group of readers to handle the first round of reads.
How’s it going to work?
Each script submitted will be read by a minimum of two professional readers in the first round. The scripts that stand out in the first round will move into the second round (roughly 20% of all screenplays entered). The second round screenplays will be vetted further with more assessments from the SYS readers. The top scripts from the second round will be selected and moved into the quarter finals, where we will pitch those screenplays to the industry judges. Finally, after all the scripts have been graded by the judges, we will choose a winner and make the announcement in October 2023.
How will scripts be graded?
Each professional reader will fill out an SYS Script Assessment form for each screenplay that they read. The SYS script assessment is a quick way for the reader to grade the screenplay. Each screenplay will be graded based on seven key criteria: Ability to be produced for less than $1M, Concept, Characters, Structure, Marketability, Tone, and Craft. For a small additional charge ($10) you can receive the two assessments from the first round readers (and possibly a 3rd assessment from a second round reader).
WHO ARE WE?
Io non ti conosco is a cultural and theatrical association, composed by teen between 16 and 30
years that share the passion for acting. The name, taken from the first show, is a provocation towards technological innovation that makes it difficult, if not impossible, to really know each other. "Io non ti conosco", therefore, is not a simple name but an invitation to get to know each other better, without barriers.
1. ORGANIZATION
Io non ti conosco film festival is a film festival founded in 2022 by the Io non ti conosco with the aim to spreading the film culture to an audience of all ages, to grow in them the love of acting. The idea comes from the constant desire to make films, to confront other realities of this sector and to give anyone the opportunity to compete and to show their work.
2. CONDUCT
The festival will take place in Sant'Antonio Abate (NA) in June 2022. The planned place is the municipal library located in via Kennedy 22. Morever, the event will be broadcast live on our pages Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Twitch, in order to ensure any person to follow the entire event. The festival, besides the Competitions for the different Film Sections, also offers Reviews, Retrospectives and side activities (Exhibitions, Conferences, Round Tables, etc.), as a contribution
to the dissemination of Italian and International Cinema’s story. In the evening, prizes will be awarded to the winning films and awards to important personalities in the artistic, social and cultural fields.
Espacio habilitado para la promoción, difusión y distribución internacional de los cortometrajes más recientes y destacados de nuestra industria.
Organized by the Frontera Films Corporation of the city of Cúcuta.
6th Norte de Santander International Film Festival
We welcome the participants to this sixth version 2023, we are looking for amateurs and professionals in the audiovisual world who want to participate in the call to participate in the 5th Norte de Santander International Film Festival.
The 6th Norte de Santander International Film Festival is organized by the Frontera Films Corporation. Born from the need to create a film industry in the region, from the Colombian-Venezuelan border and from a pedagogical and training field, our objective is to promote cinema in the Norte de Santander department and the border region, being the most important festival in the Northeast Colombian.
With the aim of projecting Cúcuta as a new city that enters the audiovisual dynamics and creation of world cultural content, taking into account the new restrictions on social events due to the situation we are going through worldwide due to COVID- 19, we will have hybrid, blended events in the city of Cúcuta and virtually. For this reason, like last year, the festival will have screenings of short films via STREAMING for free on facebook live and in person in the city of Cúcuta, respecting social distancing measures and respecting the measures of government and state regulatory entities.
CONVERSATORIES AND JURIES:
-There will be talks and talks with professionals of the national cinema.
-The juries will be suitable and professional people in the world of national cinema and delegates of the festival organization.
-The other events will be announced soon.
İstanbul International Spring Film Festival (IISFF) is an annual film festival & film competition with a public screening event held in Beşiktaş / İstanbul.
We invite submissions of films from all around the world which demonstrate excellence in cinematography and other aspects of filmmaking. We urge filmmakers from all over the world to join us: We are OPEN FOR OPEN MINDS!
All submitted projects are evaluated by a team of experts from the film industry. First, a preliminary jury of 25 people from the film industry will asses the works applying for the competition, after the preliminary assessment, the finalist will be subjected to a second and final assesment by a 9 people main jury.
The main jury includes prominent names from cinema, theater, and literature to different branches of art in Turkey.
Each year, IISFF will award the best projects through public screenings at ZUBEYDE ANA KULTUR VE SANAT MERKEZI in İstanbul.
Each candidate can compete in multiple categories in order to increase their chances to receive an award.
The Lecce Film Network is an International film festival with four seasonal competitions and an annual public Screening and Awards ceremony held in Lecce (Italy).
The Lecce Film Network offers emerging talents and established filmmakers from around the world the opportunity to showcase their work to celebrate their creativity and bring new voices and new ideas to audiences.
The festival is open to any film in any genre and length.
The 33rd International Documentary, Short and Animated Film Festival Message to Man will take place on September 22 –September 30, 2023 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The history of Message to Man Festival spans three decades of documentary films, short feature films and animation. The Festival was founded in 1989 in Leningrad by director Mikhail Litvyakov. Today, he is the Honorary President of Message to Man. Alexei Uchitel – director of documentary and feature films, People’s Artist of Russia – became President of the Festival in 2010.The Festival brings thousands of spectators to the city’s cinemas. Three competitions constitute the central part of the Festival’s programme. Full-length and short documentaries, feature and animation films compete on equal footing for the Grand Prix of the International Competition.
“The 32nd Message to Man International Film Festival, held in October last year, demonstrated the most important thing: our audience remained loyal to us, and it even increased. It may seem that tens of thousands of viewers in a multi-million city is not that much. But then again, you don’t need much salt to get the taste right. And if the salt loses its potency, how do you make it salty? Pardon me for the lofty quote, but let’s not forget the evangelical meaning that our festival’s founder, documentary filmmaker Mikhail Litvyakov, put into the word ‘message’.
There are still people in Russia for whom it is important to feel that they and their city are part of global cultural process. And there are artists who combine originality with the ability to see universal things in local matters. Such as director Alexei Fedorchenko, who was awarded our prize for artistic contribution. Or Larisa Sadilova, who became a member of the international jury. And there are people in the world who are willing to support us, such as Chairman of the Jury, Vuk Mitevski; from the hands of Aleksey Uchitel he accepted a prize on behalf of the Mitevski family clan – the leaders of European auteur cinema.
After screenings, many viewers said: ‘We did not believe that was possible.’ In fact, we did not believe it ourselves. Yet, the possibility remains,” – says Alexei Medvedev, programme director of the Message to Man Film Festival.
Submit your Animation Short Film and get it showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. 6 film festival dates a year in Los Angeles and Toronto. Screenplay Readings every SINGLE month.
All festival dates have been relegated to private screenings with the same Audience FEEDBACK videos made for the short & feature films, and recorded script readings performed by professional actors for the screenplays. This is our way of showing community over distance so everyone around the world can experience our Audience Feedback videos.
Read Daily Testimonials: https://feedbackanimationfestival.com/?s=testimonial
Go to the site and see what just took place and what's happening:
https://feedbackanimationfestival.com
Festival geared to showcase the best of new animation films and screenplays from around the world.
Hear what the audience has to say about your work. All positive and used to promote your art to enhance your career.
The 13th edition will take place on June 26th 2023, for an online summer edition, with a jury in Paris.
GOSH! A DAMN GOOD FILM FESTIVAL
Independent & International Film Festival in Paris, GOSH! is dedicated to international short films screenings. The festival aims to bring to Paris films loved all around the world or brand new talents!
GOSH! loves all genres of independent cinema: short films, documentaries, animations, any language and any genre accepted. All equal for good cinema.
IMDB certified and screening to our usual audience, each edition GOSH! tries to provide a unique experience to the audience.
- IMDB certified awards
- Media partner "Cinéma des Potes" reporting the event
- International jury, lead by wellknown artists such as Pierre-Emmanuel Barré, Vikash Dhorasoo or Laura Satana
- Text interview for winners, on our website
- original certificate for award winners
- Individual feedback for all the movies in competition
- French subtitles by GOSH! (if English SRT file available)
- A damn cool festival!
PROCESS
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Each film is seen and rated by a committee of three persons, including Gosh Film Festival organizers: Magali Souart and Fabio Soares.
All the movies are seen by the committee, there is no “pass by” accepted.
Members of the committee can’t be involved in any way, in movies taking part of the official selection.
JURY
The jury is composed by professionals from TV & Cinema, the list and CV of GOSH! Jury are available on our website.
The jury takes in Paris and decide about the awards, except the audience award, given by the audience.
GOSH! Film Festival organizers do not take part to the jury and respect their final decisions.
MEDIA
GOSH! Film Festival screening is covered by our media partner "Cinéma des Potes", and several media with special accreditations.
The Galician Freaky Film Festival is an international freak and underground festival, which admits films belonging to the horror, fantasy, science fiction, comedy, freak or B series genres.
Vintage Film Foundation Present
5th Vintage International Film Festival, 2023
Considering the historical and ancient background in the field of cinema from this cultural city like Kolhapur, the Vintage Film Foundation came into existence. New artists entering this field of cinema can get a huge platform through short films and documentaries, so these artists need exposure to the film industry through such platforms but looking for future perspectives they don’t get a proper platform to showcase their talent. This talent mustn’t be restricted to their local level, so we are providing them a chance to showcase it at the international level.
This historic city has given birth to many famous and prestigious artists like Baburao Painter, V. Shantaram, Master Vinayak, Master Vithhal, Bhalji Pendharkar, etc., who have great contributions in Marathi as well as World cinema, who are still rising and becoming successful. By looking forward to these artists as an idol, the upcoming youth of Kolhapur are chasing their dreams.
Here 5th Vintage International Film Festival gives them a chance to showcase their efforts at the international level to express their ideas, thoughts, and innovations in front of national and international artists and audiences.
Similarly, we have decided to organize a workshop to provide exposure and knowledge about minute details, and techniques of filmmaking to groom the new artist.
To promote audiovisual projects that encourage the understanding and transformation of reality.
To show films and videos that, from a social and liberating perspective, can upset the system, the empire, the elites.
To serve as a platform for committed filmmakers and video activists eager to change the world.
That is the goal of the Carlota Political Film and Video Festival, which celebrates its first edition in 2023.
This festival is held in Vienna (Austria). In other countries (Mexico, Palestine, Rojava, India) we have partner organizations and collectives that will show the selected films.
The 2nd Garopaba International Environmental Film Festival aims to promote socio-environmental cinema in one of the most beautiful regions of Brazil. The Festival is based on the diversity of themes, film formats, team, in the search to embrace the diversity of socio-environmental cinema produced in Brazil and in the world. The comprehensive curatorship will denote an equally comprehensive program, with specialists from the most diverse areas of knowledge to promote exchanges during the event and that translate into interventions in reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRBnNH8MaWg
General regulations
International Festival Screen Culture “Thelovetcheskoje Kino” (hereinafter - Festival) is held among collectives (groups) of youth production in different forms of art, connecting with cinema, television, photography and different digital technologies.
Festival events are directed to formation and evaluating new global culture of production and reproduction age-diverse communicative samples of generations interplay and provides conditions of establishing new information community (environs), new culture of information society, where social-noetic (immaterial) factors of evaluating are information and knowledge. Festival holding promotes establishing of screen culture as a part of general information culture of present society.
General guiding of Festival methodology and organization is brought into action of Educational Complex “Nasha Shkola” (Russia, Novosibirsk).
Time, conditions, place and procedure of organization and holding of regular Festival are annually established of special document – Standing Order of Holding.
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Caostica is an International Shortfilm an Videoclip Festival that takes place in Bilbao (Basque Country) with these sections: Videozinema (Fiction Shortfilms), Animation and Videoclip (Music Video).
All prizes are given by a professional jury except of Bizarre Prize. The Caostica Association will award the Bizarre Prize to the participant whom best represents the fresh, innovative, quirky, irreverent, Martian, jokester, weird, risky, brave and daring spirit that characterizes this festival, regardless of the section in which he or she is registered.In addition to this the Festival will award a prize to the best film in basque language, independently of the section in which its signed up.
MWFIFF is an International Film Festival, which promotes new filmmakers, students, professionals by exchanging of knowledge, information, cultures, through movies. This will be 2 days Event with LIVE Screening & Award Ceremony along with Entertainment Programme in the heart of Mumbai city, India.
All Categories, All Genres All Languages are Accepted from All Continents including the Music Videos.
*English Subtitle is Compulsory.
*DCP / J2K File would be Compulsory if the film is selected for Screening in the Film Festival or Extra Cost would be charged if the filmmakers wants us to convert the file for the same. Extra Cost For the Film Conversion Would be $25 per movie.
We will be screening ONLY selected movies. Final Winners will be Awarded with Lady Trophy and Certificates. Nominated, Participants will be receiving Certificates ONLY. All the Awards and Certificates will be given by our Panel of Jury listed on our website and also by the Chief Guest, Bollywood Celebrities, VIP's guest etc present on the day of the Event. FOR more Updates please visit our websites: www.mwfiff.com
Juries
We have Jury From Radio Mirchi 98.3fm , World Famous Singer, Film Producer, Director, Choreographer International TV fame Personality and many more on the list.
Film or music video can be submitted directly through our website : www.mwfiff.com , www.festhome.com/f/4015 , OR (youtube / Vimeo, / Google Drive, like platforms) and sending us link ( and password if protected ),
In case of using submission platforms like Festhome, or any other platforms Press Kit, Film Posters, DCP file etc MUST be E-mailed to - contact@mwfiff.com, in order to complete submission.
Other Requirements :
Crew & Cast List including the technical team, Filmography of the Film director.
1. ( One Photograph of Director ).
2. ( Two Posters of film in JPEG format COMPULSORY (300 dpi, 768 x 1169 - pixel size) and (300 dpi, 3508 x 4961 - Pixel size)
Your film's trailer link not more than 1 minute in duration (Optional, for promotion & publicity purpose)
Direct Online i.e. submissions through our website : www.mwfiff.com
Step 1- Submit your film or music video through our direct online page available on our website : www.mwfiff.com/submission then share the link of your film or music video ( e.g. youtube, Vimeo, Google Drive etc) which is protected with the password, you will be required to mention the URL of your project in our direct online form.
Step 2- E-mail the "FILM PRESS KIT" to - contact@mwfiff.com ( NO HARD COPIES, ONLY SOFT COPIES TO BE E-MAILED )
Step 3- Pay the Appropriate Entry Fee to complete the registration.
Other Requirements :
Crew & Cast List including the technical team, Filmography of the Film director.
1. ( One Photograph of Director ).
2. ( Two Posters of film in JPEG format COMPULSORY (300 dpi, 768 x 1169 - pixel size) and (300 dpi, 3508 x 4961 - Pixel size)
Your film's trailer link not more than 1 minute in duration (Optional, for promotion & publicity purpose)
Direct Online Downloadable Film or Music Video Form i.e. submissions through our website by downloading form : www.mwfiff.com/submission
Step 1- Submit your film or music video by downloading the entry form through our website : www.mwfiff.com/submission
Step 2- Fill the form and email it to- contact@mwfiff.com along with "FILM PRESS KIT" ( NO HARD COPIES, ONLY SOFT COPIES TO BE E-MAILED )
Step 3- Pay the Appropriate Entry Fee to complete the registration.
Other Requirements :
Crew & Cast List including the technical team, Filmography of the Film director.
1. ( One Photograph of Director ).
2. ( Two Posters of film in JPEG format COMPULSORY (300 dpi, 768 x 1169 - pixel size) and (300 dpi, 3508 x 4961 - Pixel size)
Your film's trailer link not more than 1 minute in duration (Optional, for promotion & publicity purpose)
Award Ceremony Event Venue :
Balgandharva Rangmandir ( Sheila Gopal Raheja Auditorium ) 24th and 32nd Road, near to Patwardhan Udyan, Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400050
Film Screening Venue :
INOX Metro
Mahatma Gandhi Road, Dhobi Talao, New Marine Lines, Junction, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400020
DEA OPEN AIR International Film Festival is a product of MultiMedia Studio "Nositi".
The Festival will take place in the Capital city of Tirana.
10th Annual International Student Film Festival 2021 Opavský páv
Opavský páv is an International Student Film Festival in Opava.
Opavský páv is a project of Institute of Movie, Television and Broadcast Creation at the Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava.
Festival is a nonprofit, entrance to all screenings is free.
