A celebration of film and music, Film Score and the Scruffy City Film & Music Festival features:
- Narrative Features and Shorts
- Feature and Short Documentaries
- Music Videos
- Animated Shorts
- Live music on three stages
- Daily filmmaker mixers
- Panels, Workshops, and Q&As
– Closing Night Awards Ceremony
In 2017 we screened over 40 films from 10 countries which were selected out of nearly 300 submissions from 40 countries. FILM SCORE celebrates the musical heart and soul of film and the composers and artists that make films sing. The 2018 Film Score and Scruffy City Film & Music Festival be held July 26-29 in Knoxville, TN, the Scruffy City.
All films submitted to the festival must have a standout soundtrack, score, sound design, or musical narrative to be considered. Each year one outstanding feature film with the Best Score or Soundtrack will be chosen to headline the festival. Also, awards are given for Best Score, Best Music Video, and Best Soundtrack.
All winning short films will receive submission feee waiver codes for Shorts that are Not Pants in Toronto.
All official selections will receive two Filmmaker Passes and attending filmmakers will receive our world famous VIP Gift Bag. Select films will receive complimentary accommodations for visiting filmmakers. Every year several films are reviewed and promoted by the regional media.
If your project has a standout score or soundtrack or you have a stellar music video, please submit your film today!
FILM SCORE CHALLENGE
New in 2018, the Film Score Challenge will showcase films under five minutes long with the best story and score. The winning student and non-student film will be invited to screen at festivals around the US and the world. Film Score Challenge Official Selections will be judged by award winning composers and festival directors.
Judges
- Our film jury consists of festival programmers and directors, award winning filmmakers, sales reps, and music composers.
El Festival Europeo de Cortometrajes Villamayor de Cine nació en 2008 en el encantador pueblo de Villamayor de Santiago, ubicado en la provincia de Cuenca. Su objetivo principal ha sido desde el inicio ofrecer un espacio destacado al cortometraje y dar visibilidad al talento emergente de jóvenes directores.
Cada año, en el mes de agosto, el festival cobra vida gracias al esfuerzo de un equipo formado por más de cuarenta jóvenes profesionales. Bajo la dirección de su fundador, Javier Alonso, trabajan intensamente para llenar Villamayor de Santiago con lo mejor del cine corto europeo.
El prestigioso actor español Jesús Guzmán fue Presidente de Honor del festival hasta su fallecimiento en 2023. Como homenaje, el premio al mejor cortometraje de ficción lleva hoy su nombre, perpetuando así su memoria y su legado artístico.
El encargado de presentar el festival es el reconocido actor y comunicador Luis Mottola, cuya profesionalidad y carisma aportan aún más valor al evento. Mottola guarda un cariño especial por Villamayor, y el pueblo le corresponde con igual afecto. @luismottola
“Cinestrange” is dedicated to the international film. Alongside entertainment, which is clearly in the focus, special attention is devoted to the genre cinema. . “Cinestrange” has taken on the task each year to uncover another facet in the rich range of genre cinema. Besides big premieres, new discoveries and fancy misfits who seek to provide the right mix of ambition and entertainment, it is one of the essential functions of “Cinestrange” to promote the rediscovery of forgotten genres, to put them in the context of a reassessment with public appeal and make them available to everyone.
The festival is a platform for showcasing the best films from around the world, as well as a platform of professional people that helps the growth and form the local film industry.
The festival has two major international competitions, non-competition program, and panorama of documentary films.
"An out of this world" Indie Film Festival for Southern California (LA & OC). Aug 9-10, 2014 at The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana, CA. Join us for pre event mixers, participate in the "Miss Galactic" contest, Cosplay Costume Contest and our Comic Book Contest.
Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) is an award winning organization with its mission being to foster appreciation for different cultures by exploring the lives of people around the globe through independent film. In 2014 AIFF was awarded the Community Recognition Award by the Arlington Martin Luther King Committee, in 2013 the Alan McClennen Community Arts Award by the Arlington Center for the Arts and the Gold Star Award by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Through the founding of AIFF, the mission has also focused on enriching the community and broadening the view of our world and ourselves. AIFF believes that the arts are here to connect us, to communicate across boundaries, and touch our common humanity.
AIFF is open to national and international filmmakers. Whether professional or a first time filmmaker, we welcome innovative, original films with unique perspectives. Many of our selected films have been nominated for Academy Awards; i.e. BOTSO: The Teacher from Tbillisi directed by Tom Walters, Elena directed by Petra Costa, and Documented directed by Jose Antonio Vargas. We Still Live Here directed by Anne Makepeace was chosen by the U.S. State Department to screen around the world.
11th Bangalore Shorts Film Festival-22 es un movimiento para reconocer y popularizar el trabajo de cineastas jóvenes y experimentados de toda la India y del mundo. El humilde viaje de BSFF ha comenzado en el año 2012 para conmemorar los 100 años de celebración del cine indio y para saludar la contribución de la industria cinematográfica kannada al desarrollo del cine en la India. El festival ofrece plataforma a cineastas aspirantes y profesionales para mostrar su talento con oportunidades de networking y marketing en la industria cinematográfica.
El objetivo del festival es crear la cultura de los cortometrajes en la India, la promoción de los próximos cineastas, el desarrollo de fuentes de generación de ingresos para los cortometrajes y hacer de cortometrajes una empresa comercial. BSFF-2012-2021 tuvo un gran éxito con la gran participación de cineastas de todo el país y del extranjero.
El objetivo de BSFF-22 es aún más grande y mejor con la participación de los cineastas. Este año el festival presentará más talleres y clases magistrales. El Miniboxoffice Film Market será lo más destacado para aquellos cineastas que quieren aventurarse en la producción de largometrajes. La programación del concurso de cortometrajes y festivales será una delicia para tratar.
The Anima-Sao - International Animation Festival in São Gonçalo is produced by Studio Alexandre Martins.
The 2015 edition will take place at the Teacher´s Faculty by the UERJ - Rio de Janeiro State University. Teacher Faculty - UERJ
Competitive Exhibition of recent films and videos selected by special committee formed by representatives of the Brazilian cultural sector;
Awards shows with unique competitive trophy "Lollipop Yellow";
Shows graphic arts production drawings-animated national purpose of bringing the public the process of creation and development animation;
Show animations selected by specially commissioned for display in open area and popular themes;
Lectures by professionals from the Animation Cinema - animators, producers, voice actors, writers, etc..
"Colosseum" - Session of animators - professionals, amateurs, students etc - in a relaxed meeting.
The parallel places in the municipality of São Gonçalo .
Official program
Sessions: "School",, "Balaio", "Papagoiaba", "childish" and "Adult"
Colosseum (with special guest lecture)
Debate tables (with two guests and a mediator)
Workshops techniques (2D animation, and pixilation estoriborde)
Parallel Programming
Circus Session (display 50 'in public places of the city)
Exhibits unique arts films in theaters and other
Dear Creator,
The Viewster Online Film Fest (#VOFF) is an international online event that attracts, displays and rewards features, short films, series, web-series and documentaries that are not always as famous as they should be. It’s a community moderated contest where the public audience will create a shortlist out of all qualified entries.
Essentially the Viewster community and your fans will watch, share, discuss and vote for their favorite entries. They will help to curate the entries with at least the top ten moving onto the finals. After that our Jury of Experts - Ted Hope, Nora Tschirner and Timo Vuorensola - will select the winners to be announced December 8, 2014 on http://festival.viewster.com.
The theme for the fourth #VOFF is "Share It Forward." and asks for the issues that are most important to you today.
Shake up our cushy lives, open our eyes, make us laugh, cry or even outraged. For #VOFF 4, show the world the issues that are most important to you today—big or small. You might be passionate about the environment, human rights, public health, politics, social justice or something entirely different that deserves attention. Whether you get your message across through fiction, non-fiction, with humour, in a direct or an abstract way, let's see your passion to influence and make a difference. #VOFF 4 is your chance to bring your message in front of millions of viewers, who will discuss, support and share your cause. We want to take it one step further this time. In addition to the juried awards, we will contribute to an organisation making a positive impact by the choice of one of the projects.
Why Participate?
• Chance to win a piece of the cake with a cool first prize of $50,000
• Chance to donate $20,000 to an organization of your choice
• Gain publicity and awareness for your content
• Chance to connect with other creators online content
Cinema Blue es un Festival Nacional de Cortometrajes y Música de Cine que se llevará a cabo del 3 al 7 de octubre de 2016 en Sevilla. Un Festival innovador, con nuevas perspectivas y nuevas ilusiones que harán que se viva la magia del cine como nunca antes se había vivido.
Talleres a coste reducido de formación audiovisual, cortometrajes, fotografía, música y diversión serán los motores de esta cita a la que no puedes faltar.
Este año es AZUL
¡Cinema Blue!
Now in its 16th year, the OJAI FILM FESTIVAL continues to grow in importance and prestige as one of the country’s premier destination festivals. The seven-day event has a reputation for showcasing the best new films from emerging and established filmmakers, and has helped launch a number of careers over the last decade. Since 2000, 14 alumni have received Academy Award nominations, two have won an Oscar, and numerous others have gone on to gain distribution and win prestigious awards.
The festival makes the most of its unique location, only 75 miles from Hollywood - yet comfortably removed from the typical industry hustle and bustle. With its relaxed atmosphere and breathtaking beauty, Ojai is an ideal spot for filmmakers to mingle with visiting industry guests, artistic colleagues, and distributors.
Among other perks, attending filmmakers receive free lodging and passes to the Ojai Film Festival's Awards Ceremony, where winning filmmakers are presented with several prizes, including trophies, cash awards, best-of category honors, and a Panavision camera rental package worth $60,000 USD for the Best Student Film.
Anibar International Animation Festival is the only event of the kind in Kosova, and one of the greatest events in the country. Since the beginning, the festival is organised and held in various settings in the city of Peja.
Anibar screens animated films coming from different places around the world, that in five cinemas, three of them set outdoors. Except the screening of the films during the festival, workshops, lectures, debates and additional daily activities (concerts and camping) are organized.
Year by year, the festival endeavors screening qualitative films, in both, technical and artistic aspect of the view. The selection of entries is made in accord with a criteria deriving from a limited staff of professionals who aim balancing the audience, artistic reviews and the market.
Anibar has also socially influenced the youth community in Peja, and further, enclosed with the film screenings and other events, before, during and after the festival, a wide group of youngsters are engaged in helping and working with the idea and preparations of the festival, meanwhile they gain an experience which as a matter has been truly acknowledged by a vast support of different local and national institutions (private and public).
La Agrupación Cultural PROA, aglutina a una veintena de integrantes de la mas variada actividad profesional, desde profesores y periodistas, arquitectos y empresarios hasta artistas plásticos, músicos y albañiles, todos ellos con un claro interés en la educación, el medioambiente, la cultura, las artes y la democracia.
Uno de nuestras actividades emblemáticas es la muestra de cine Latinoamericano en Punta Arenas que ha brindando un evento comunal de exitoso resultado, de gran prestigio nacional e internacional, y que se enmarca todos los años en los festejos municipales del Carnaval del Invierno.
Este Festival de Cine Internacional es una expresión que viene a llenar un vacío en la comuna en lograr ver cine diferente, de difícil distribución comercial, y de ver, a través de una ventana audiovisual, las mismas pasiones, sueños y problemas de otros habitantes del continente americano.
La 14° edición del Festival de Cine Estudiantil de Uruguay (FENACIES) abrió sus inscripciones el 1° de abril de 2024, y permanecerán abiertas hasta el 10 de junio. Como cada año, todos los estudiantes del mundo (desde Primaria hasta Universidad) podrán inscribir sus cortometrajes de manera totalmente gratuita, que luego serán exhibidos en Montevideo del 9 al 15 de septiembre.
FENACIES es una organización sin fines de lucro fundada en el 2011 que comenzó con la iniciativa de crear un festival de cine específicamente para jóvenes, en donde la competencia sea justa y se valore la creatividad y el esfuerzo de ellos.
Desde un principio el Festival fue Declarado de Interés Educativo por el Consejo de Educación Primaria, de Interés Cultural por el Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, y de Interés Turístico por el Ministerio de Turismo y Deporte. Además, desde 2015 cuenta con el Auspicio Institucional de la UNESCO.
El principal objetivo del festival es fortalecer la educación audiovisual en los más jóvenes, y que a través de la realización de cortometrajes puedan expresar sus ideas para que luego se puedan ver reflejadas en la pantalla grande.
Durante la semana del festival se van exhibir los cortometrajes que queden seleccionados. El domingo 15 de setiembre se darán a conocer los ganadores en la ceremonia de clausura.
Detroit’s Trinity International Film Festival. The festival takes place August 20-23, 2020 in beautiful Downtown Detroit at The Marlene Boll Theater, 1401 Broadway, Detroit, Michigan and The Carr Center Gallery. The 4-day event themed “FILM YOUR FUTURE” features an array of independent films, screenplays, workshops, The Future panel discussion and filmmakers from around the world. We are also hosting a Best screenplay competition, 2nd Annual Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey 100 Proof! Red Carpet Award ceremony. We expect an audience of over 4500 people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds to attend. This event will give your company a distinct marketing opportunity with this population in Detroit.
The TI Film Festival has hosted industry professionals locally and nationally to share their knowledge and expertise in various workshops and industry discussions. Special guests have included famed Actress and Producer, Tangi Miller, Syndicated Radio Host and Film Producer, Russ Parr, Former BET Executive Producer, Ralph Scott, currently with the Aspire Network (Owned by Magic Johnson), film segment producer/head of production for more than 100 episodes of SNL, Tanya Ryno and Writer, Director, Qasim Basir, “Destined,” and Actress/Singer Deborah Joy Winans of the acclaimed TV series “Greenleaf,” which airs on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network.
The highlight of this event over the years has been all of the innovative work we've showcased by indie filmmakers and our audience that supports Detroit's TI Film Festival.
2020 Festival Schedule (Screening Schedule Coming Soon)
