If you love brand new and classic horror, cult, extreme fantasy and Sci-fi movies then GRIMMFEST is for you. We pride ourselves on bringing you the very best in new genre film from around the world.
Movie premieres, special film makers and celebrity guests and a selection of genre classics on display. Now in its sixth year, Grimmfest has quickly become the premiere UK festival of genre film outside of London.
FesticineKids 26 est un festival international de films pour enfants et adolescents à Cartagena de Indias. Il s'agit d'une compétition cinématographique qui oriente ses efforts vers le renforcement de la production et de la distribution de films colombiens, latino-américains et mondiaux destinés aux enfants et aux jeunes.
En 2024, FesticineKids fêtera sa 26e édition avec le même esprit de mise en valeur et de célébration du cinéma pour les filles, les garçons et les jeunes. La phrase a été choisie comme slogan : UN REGARD SUR L'OUEST COLOMBIEN. À partir de ce concept, il est destiné à inviter les enfants et les jeunes à prendre conscience de la responsabilité qu'ils ont d'être des agents du changement dans leur environnement. Les enfants et les jeunes sont l'avenir qui devrait encourager à prendre soin de notre planète Terre, des êtres humains qui les entourent, des animaux et des plantes, ainsi que des lieux qu'ils visitent. La tendance aux films afro et aux films orientés vers les peuples autochtones.
Dans la construction du profil du FestiCineKids 26, l'écran est problématisé en tant que point de confluence des filles, des garçons et des adolescents. En postulant le cinéma comme ce scénario dans lequel les sentiments, les émotions et les croyances sont exprimés, on entend que les filles, les garçons et les adolescents, comprenant ce que le cinéma les évoque, ce qu'ils en extraient et ses significations, s'interrogent sur la place que le cinéma occupe dans leur vie, dans leur environnement, parallèlement à la place qu'ils veulent et dont ils rêvent.
C'est également l'occasion pour les adultes, les parents, les enseignants, les autorités culturelles et cinématographiques, de réfléchir à la nécessité de renforcer leurs capacités à être des formateurs en tension et en interaction avec les médias audiovisuels, notamment le cinéma.
WHY THIS AWARD PRIZE NACIONAL DE CORTOMETRAJES "JAIME OSORIO GÓMEZ"
Community of Viterbo Caldas, has not been sufficiently fair or not had taken seriously the importance that has for a municipality that one of their children has such an impact in a trade, or art, and even more so at levels that managed it to do the Mr JAIME OSORIO GÓMEZ, who was born in ViterboCaldas, on March 7, 1947 and studied law at the Autonomous University of Colombia.
In the 1970 began to conduct business and to court political documentaries, such as Chile does not surrender, hell. He was a professor at the National University of Colombia and the school of cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba, in addition to representing the Colombian producers in the Board of Directors of Proimágenes in motion. He directed the medium-length films all rights reserved, ceremony of the Benkuna and life or death, where are already insinuating clearly the characters of confession to Laura. In the 1980 was the producer of tropical snow, the Emberá and my Macondo and was Assistant Director and production of two films by Lisandro Duque: Visa USA and miracle in Rome. In 1990 he participated in the lab of the Sundance Institute directed by Robert Redford with the confession project scripts to Laura, which a year later became his debut film. In 1991 he was general producer of Nazca, series television Española, shot in 21 countries of Latin America, in addition to production of the film l'enfant du Bont du Monde for French television. But would miss more things: was the co-producer of the Virgin of assassins, Barbet Schroeder; Producer and actor of Maria full of grace of Joshua Marston and also produced La Sombra del caminante of Ciro Guerra. At the time of his death he was working on multiple film projects in various stages of production, such as Satan, directed by Andi Baiz; Child's play, directed by Carlos César Arbelaez; The taxidermist, directed by Luis Alberto Restrepo; the project colors of the mountain, also of Carlos César Arbelaez, and the feature film time of the Lions, written by himself and Jaime Escallón Buraglia. "Those who had the pleasure to shake his hand, understand the size of the huge loss that took the Colombian cinema with his departure" one of the people who have contributed most to our film to reach the upper echelons; for all the above we got in the task of creating the "Prix national of short films JAIME OSORIO GÓMEZ". Posthumous and well-deserved tribute to the mentioned in question.
2nd edition
Aug 04 - Sep 12, 2014
München, Germany
Open Call Open to Public Competitive Market Special Fees
Festival type Real Venue Festival
Types of films Any type, Animation, Docu-feature, Documentary, Experimental, Hybrids, Industrial, Multimedia, Narrative fiction, Student, Web
Film length Full length, Mid-length, Short
Genre Adventure, Alternative, Art, Avantgarde, B-Movie, Biography, Burlesque, Classics, Comedy, Crime, Culture, Dance, Dark comedy, Drama, Environmental, Fantastic, Fantasy, Film noir, Hip Hop, History, Horror, Human rights, Independent, LGBT, Live Action, Microcinema, Mockumentary, Musical, Mystery, , Parody, Post modern, Realism, Reality, Road Trip, Romance, Science fiction, Silent movie, Surreal, Transgender, Underground, Urban
Mission / description MUFF:
The Munich Underground Film Festival, MUFF began in December 2012, when two college friends Heike Mohler & Erika Rahner, decided to organize a totally independent festival in Munich and the two organizers had internet creativity and only then decided to put together a team of friends and some German filmmaker and made MUFF first in 2013, totally haphazardly and rebellious spirit that caused controversy and some processes. The festival takes place every year. Through the festival's official website, online, group discussion and interaction among participants. Through the controversies that hovered the festival, the impact was so great that several support and partnerships were closed with the festival organization. The MUFF is consolidated in the second edition as one of the most respected underground film festivals in Europe.
L'association culturelle Esseoesse annonce le concours « CortoDino Film Festival Dino De Laurentiis 2025 - XV Edition », un concours né du désir de commémorer et de célébrer, dans son pays natal et en termes commémoratifs et propositifs, la figure et l'œuvre de Dino De Laurentis. La ville métropolitaine de Naples, les régions vésuviennes, « l'école secondaire d'art et de communication de Giorgio De Chirico », les autres écoles secondaires de la région et les principales associations culturelles des régions vésuvienne et campanienne collaboreront à l'événement.
L'objectif principal de l'initiative est donc de créer une opportunité de rencontre, de confrontation et de connaissance pour les jeunes cinéastes qui entrent dans le secteur cinématographique, dans lequel l'influence laissée par l'illustre « Torrese » a certainement été significative, en promouvant la culture cinématographique à travers l'inclusion des personnes défavorisées et la recherche et la promotion d'œuvres de talents de Campanie, mais aussi nationaux et internationaux.
La présence du monde de la solidarité, des associations culturelles et de l'école est le signe le plus clair de l'objectif de se connecter en particulier au monde des jeunes.
La XVe édition du Cortodino Film Festival aura lieu en septembre-novembre 2025. Les villes, lieux et jours de l'événement seront communiqués ultérieurement.
Soyons curieux ! Et ouvrons-nous à cet univers de créativité, d’inventivité et de diversité qu’est le court-métrage toujours peu présent sur nos écrans, petits ou grands !
Plus de 200 films seront présentés pour vous faire rire, vous étonner, vous indigner, vous surprendre et vous plonger dans la richesse du court-métrage! Des films venant de 45 pays, aussi bien que de toute la France et de la Région Midi-Pyrénées, de réalisateurs reconnus ou en voie de le devenir.
Torremolinos International Fantastic Film Festival has become in a few years in one the most important events at Costa del Sol (Spain). Place in the Torremolinos' exhibition and conference centre: theaters with 240 and 460 people capacity. Organized by the Cultural Association "Cinefans", the festival it's now a reference of innovate and transgresive ideas. It starts at Halloween (with its own Halloween night) and it includes galas, shows, horror movies marathons, charitable sessions, guests and honored films for their anniversary.
ONLY FOR LATINAMERICAN FILMMAKERS / SOLO PARA CINEASTA LATINOAMERICANOS
The short films taking part in the competition must necessarily tackle a social topic, since the Festival aims at raising awareness on contemporary issues such as social exclusion, migration, gender violence, unemployment, fundamental rights, etc. Any short film which shows these or other social issues will be accepted in the Festival, notwithstanding the main topic of the short films may not have a particularly social nature.
Brainwash, since 1995, has delighted audiences with a selection of the bizarre, the unique, and just plain old well-made movies from independent producers all over the world. With an eye toward the abstract, the innovative and the weird, Brainwash saluted it's 25th Silver Anniversary in the 2019 season, and, we're still going strong. We have consistently attracted entries we curate to be able to display some of the most cutting edge cinema from up and and coming directors, actors, producers and crews consistently year after year. So please send us yours this year!
Étant donné que le festival international de courts métrages « Ciudad de Soria » considère à tout moment le cinéma de courts métrages comme un capital et considère comme essentielle la diffusion de la culture, notre objectif est de promouvoir en tant que moyen d'expression audiovisuelle, la contribution à la reconnaissance et à la diffusion. Ce format doit faire partie intégrante de CINEMA.
Some call it the “Lady Tickler,” “Lip Spinach,” or even, the “Cookie Duster.” Formally, it is known simply as “The Moustache.” In all of its forms it represents a man’s individuality and inner strength. Whether a full, furry and lustrous lip warmer or a smooth, sleek line of suave sophistication weaving it’s way across a dude’s upper lip, a man’s Moustache is an indication of his robust heart and the very soul of his being.
As part of the annual Facial Hair Fest—a celebration of facial hair in Portland, Maine—we are now looking for submissions for the International Moustache Film Festival (IMFF). Films will be screened in several venues throughout the week of March 21 through March 28, 2015,.
The Facial Hair Fest features all sorts of delightfully hairy good times, including the 8th annual Stache Pag (a moustache pageant), the Facial Hair Farmers Market, the Can-Am Beard and Moustache Competition, and of course, the IMFF. A number of IMFF screening blocks will be held, each dedicated to a different kind of stache. And despite the official name of the festival, beards are welcome. They are, after all, the less refined cousin to the moustache.
Films will be selected based on two criteria. First, we want good films. Second, we want films that highlight conspicuous, outstanding, and awesome facial hair. It's that simple.
Past years have seen the IMFF covered in the global press, including: Movie|Line, EW.com, The Guardian, BBC, Reuters, The Huffington Post, Boston.com, Yahoo.com, The Times of India, Buenos Aires Herald, DownEast Magazine, The Tribune, American Mustache Institute, The Beard Club and Stuff.Co.NZ.
Have a main character with a nice stache? Send us your film.
A documentary about hippies with beards? That's good to.
A film about Salvador Dali or Jesus? Totally qualifies.
A film about any of the following:
Hippies. Prophets. Musicians. Mountain Men. Cops. Robbers. Firemen. Old Fashioned Strong Men. Cowboys. NFL Quarterbacks. Private Investigators. Scientists. Political Leaders. Pirates. Canadians. Wizards. Dwarves. Dads. Cavemen. You. Your friends. Your enemies.
So send us some films, and please consider attending the International Moustache Film Festival!
The Unreal Film Festival is an annual film competition held in September in Memphis, TN. The festival accepts both short and feature length films from all over the world, but only films that fall under the horror, sci-fi, and/or fantasy film genres.
The year 2015 by can be easily termed as the ‘year of intolerance ‘in Indian socio-political and cultural milieu. This was coming all the way from the time the right wing party was voted to rule the country. It began with re-writing Indian history and text books for schools, colleges and academic institutions, running down Gandhiji, the architect of free India as also the free thinkers, eliminating rationalist, outspoken intellectuals and scholars, isolating artists and film makers, taking control of Central Board of Film Certification by forcing the eminent men and women constituted that body to resign en-mass. The right wing people have taken charge of all public art and cultural organizations.
People from the minority communities have been lynched and killed for suspecting to have eaten beef. Cow slaughter has been banned in states like Maharashtra taking away food from the tables of minority communities as well as daliths and increasing the burden on the farmers already bending backward with debt and are committing suicide. Those who protested the beef ban have been beaten up in Kashmir, in Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi. When the public very clearly understood that the general response of the government to these problems were dismissive as something that is done by antisocial elements people began to take action. The prominent scholars, writers, poets, actors, film makers and theatre personalities started returning the awards they received from the government. There were protests across the country, from politicians and eminent citizens.
Another aspect of this intolerance is manifested in witch hunting NGOs like Green Peace for very prominently taking up environmental issues and challenging the implementation of economic projects without proper environmental impact assessment. Those NGOs on the hit list of the government is harassed in every possible ways including cancelling their FCRA numbers and freezing their accounts. Fortunately so far the justice system was very fair in their judgments which has given much relief to the NGOs under the government scanner. Generally NGOs these days are seen by the politicians as people ‘against development’.
These very arrogant postures of the government was downsized by the people of India through democratic resurgence. First they lost a very high pitched assembly election in Delhi to Aam Admi Party and later in another high pitched assembly election in Bihar the right wing lost to an alliance of democratic forces represented by Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar the local leaders. In all these instances the media was very pro-establishment. Were they too scared to investigate issues and inform the public?! While we hope that the people will elect democratic and secular parties in the Assembly elections happening now in April/May 2016,we need to nurture grass root level democratic practices which is one of the major objective of the festival. Whatever work we are engaged in now is from a very diminished public sphere. We do not know what the future holds for us but for now we belong to the breed of marginal citizens of this country.
As for our experience in this specific field is concerned, Bangalore Film Society was the South India coordinator of Tri-continental Film Festival "Human Rights in Frames from 2007 to 2009 organised by an NGO called Breakthrough. An average 5000 to 6000 people used to attend this festival in Bangalore in three days and the event had become very popular. Apart from this, we used to take these films to academic institutions as well as film societies in all South Indian States. However, the tricontinental film festival closed after 2009 and at present to the best of my knowledge we don't have a human rights film festival of that magnitude.
In the present Indian context, Bangalore Film Society wish to start an International Human Rights Traveling film festival from December 7th to 10th or from 9th to the 12th 2016 (depending on the availability of the auditorium) and organise a conference on freedom of speech and the right to dissent. The films selected will address major international human rights concerns such as refugees, lgbt sexuality, boarders, women, socio-political conflict, communal conflicts, child labour/abuse and so on The emphasis on the impact it should create. Once the festival is over these films will be circulated for screenings in educational, media institutions and film societies across India.
Le 9ème Festival International du Film de Toyama aura lieu en juin 2020 dans la préfecture de Toyama. Nous avons eu un tel succès l'année dernière, que nous sommes ravis de partager une fois de plus les visions des cinéastes du monde entier avec cette petite communauté. Inscriptions seront ouvertes jusqu'au 15 mai 2020.
Le 2ème Festival International du Film de Toyama s'est déroulé dans la préfecture rurale de Toyama, au Japon. Commencé par quelques professeurs d'anglais dans la région, nous espérions atteindre de nombreuses personnes, pas seulement au Japon, mais dans le monde entier. Et nous l'avons sûrement fait. Le festival a connu un franc succès avec plus de 100 inscriptions provenant de 30 pays différents. Un pas à pas de seulement 10 inscriptions dans notre première année. Nous espérons poursuivre cette démarche au cours de l'année à venir dans l'intérêt du Japon.
Le 1er Festival International du Film de Toyama a eu lieu dans une petite pièce à l'intérieur d'un centre commercial, avec une capacité d'environ 70 personnes. L'année suivante, l'événement a eu lieu dans la ville de Toyama dans un lieu indépendant local, Bodegas-Mambo, avec environ 80 à 100 invités venus voir les films. Cette année, nous espérons prendre de l'expansion et offrir un lieu encore plus grand aux participants et à la communauté du cinéma au Japon.
Cette année, nous avons pris la main au reste du monde et nous avons lancé un défi à chacun de produire des courts métrages au profit de la charité et de contribuer à la création d'une culture cinématographique dans la préfecture de Toyama.
Remarque : En raison de contraintes de temps, nous ne pouvons pas accepter les films d'une durée supérieure à 10 minutes. Cependant, tout genre de court-métrage sera considéré pour l'exposition.
Dallas Videofest est l'événement majeur présenté par la Video Association of Dallas, qui se consacre à promouvoir une compréhension de la vidéo comme un moyen créatif et une force culturelle dans notre société, et à soutenir et faire progresser le travail des artistes du Texas travaillant dans la vidéo et les arts électroniques. Grâce à ses programmes et à ses services d'information, l'Association de la vidéo entend éduquer et informer les artistes, les étudiants, les éducateurs, les critiques, les producteurs de vidéos et de films et le public intéressé afin qu'ils puissent mieux comprendre, apprécier et évaluer les possibilités créatives du support vidéo. Il offrira également un forum pour le travail des vidéastes régionaux, afin de stimuler l'excellence dans leur travail et de fournir l'occasion de dialogue et de discussions critiques.
