Vinilonga is a film festival made by filmmakers, changing its costume every two months.
We organize themes according to the trends of the works registered to our open call. Based on the concept of each program, we call on professionals from the film industry, musicians, and experts from different areas to propose dialogues.
We aim to be an international platform that unites filmmakers and creators of different formats for their promotion and that of their work. The selected works and artists will have the opportunity to show their work, which will also receive professional reviews and an open and eager audience.
We want to showcase what makes you feel is worth telling. It can be a comedy, drama, a true story, a zombie story...We don't feel very strong about categories in film, so we are giving you the chance to take them lightly. Is it Animation? Documentary? Experimental Fiction? Surprise us!
The “Flor Azul” Short Film Festival is held through the 25 de Febrero Cultural Center (Caballito, Capital Federal, Argentina), on October 9, 10 and 11, 2020.
In its 2020 edition it will have an audiovisual sample dynamic for the reasons of public knowledge worldwide.
InterContinental Music Awards is here to evaluate music beyond billboard standard grounds from a global and ethical perspective. By submitting your music to the awards, not only will you present your ethnic and country’s culture but you will also attend a high profile songwriting contest in LA where you will be heard by music judges who are Hollywood music executives and active music industry professionals.
By being approved by the judging panel you’ll get valuable coaching directly from them and will get publicity on the the major press channels.
(You are welcome to enter the awards both as an original songwriter/composer or performing artist.)
The 5th Ajayu International Animation Festival, which will be held for the anniversary celebrations of the city of Puno. Due to the situation our country and the world are going through, this year its new virtual edition will be held, taking into account all the health and safety measures proposed by the state.
This year with its fifth edition, it continues to be a showcase that shows the artistic expression of animation, through cultural exchange embodied in animated productions and cultural manifestations of the Andean world.
In this festival, audiovisual animation artists from differents countries will participate, as well as artists from other disciplines of the Puno region, who through their expression will make this virtual edition a contemporary Andean experience.
Ajayu is recognized and awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Peru, organized by SAPA INTI Estudios and the Ajayu Cinematographic Association, it will take place from November 11 to 14, 2020, a broadcast that will take place from the shores of the Sacred Lake of the Incas.
The Los Llanos Film Festival reaches its 10th edition after having started in 2011, today it continues with its main objective, to seek and strengthen spaces for the diffusion and Venezuelan cinematographic training, incorporating for the first time in this denomination to all the Latin American and Ibero-American cinematographies.
2021 Submissions Now Open
2020 Fest has been postponed
- Online advance screenings (completed)
- Awards 20/12/2020 (Pending)
- 5th Edition Cinema screenings TBD
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is a popular and beloved institution and has grown over the last 6 years to become an important and essential Australian film festival, showcasing the world's best and most innovative cutting edge documentaries. If accepted you are guaranteed to be part of an incredible, world class line up. Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is a forerunner event in July before Melbourne's premier event Melbourne International Film Festival which starts is in August. Join us as we make the comeback, the fightback against Covid-19 and bring business back to Melbourne in 2021 for the inevitable and triumphant return to cinema. Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is a festival where you and your documentary are the star of our festival! Which thousands and thousands and thousands of people attend each year.
What We Are Looking For:
International and Australian Features, Short, VR documentaries, Video Essays and Documentary Web Series to showcase in our competition in Melbourne, Australia in 2021.
About The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival:
- Premiered over 500 documentaries in Australia
- 4 x Best in the World Documentary Film Festival - Film Daily
- 1 x Best in the Southern Hemisphere Documentary Film Festival - GuideDoc
- In 2020 we created the Southern Hemisphere's biggest online documentary film festival with over 102 documentaries showcased
- Australia's first competitive documentary film festival to go online
- The biggest documentary film festival in the southern hemisphere on Facebook and Twitter
- The only documentary film festival in the world to raise money for charity
- Has brought hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Melbourne economy over the last 5 years
- Thousands of dollars of travel subsides paid out over the last 5 years
- Thousands of dollars hiring out local venues, cinemas and art spaces in Melbourne, Australia
- Thousands of dollars in screening fees paid out over the last 5 years
- Thousands of dollars in prize money paid out over the last 5 years
- Thousands of dollars raised for local, Australian charities over the last 5 years
- Thousands of dollars supporting Australian Radio Stations, Australian Film Critics and Writers over the last 5 years
- Thousands of dollars supporting Filmmakers and Volunteers to attend the Australian International Documentary Conference
Thousands of dollars putting on Masterclasses, parties and functions for Filmmakers and Volunteers to attend.
Over the course of the past 5 years, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival has become established as a rare treasure in the crowded and increasingly homogenous festival scene, without remaining in the slipstream.
Our sixth edition of our young, though quite well-known film event in the circuit promises also to add again to our own line-up of discoveries
Our festival might still be new, but it’s quickly rising to become one of the most well-respected and thought-provoking festivals in the world. Curating features from the world’s biggest and most prestigious global showcases, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival provides a leading platform for the most inventive creative nonfiction films of today.
We are currently recruiting for the world's finest documentary filmmakers + video essayists and the world's best documentaries/video essays to go head-to-head in our festival competition in Melbourne, Australia in 2020. We are looking for exclusive World, Australian or Melbourne premieres. for feature documentaries to showcase in our competition. Let our 45 media partners, and publicist get behind and help promote YOU and YOUR project Down Under and get just the right momentum and exposure behind your project launch in Australia.
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) is currently ranked for the 5th time in the top 2% of all film festivals in the world # 1 Documentary Film Festival in the World for the 2nd time on Film Daily and is unofficially Australia's best indie documentary film festival and proudly independent. Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is the only documentary film festival in Australia to have a short documentary featured in the festival picked up by Netflix our selecting the documentary directly contributed to this short becoming a Netflix Original. Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is also now the biggest documentary-only festival in the Southern Hemisphere on Facebook and Twitter.
VR:
VR coming in 2020! MDFF is excited to announce we have partnered with Melbourne's Virtual Reality Cinema to offer - VR / 360 Degree and Augmented Reality docos in competition in 2020!
The Hottest Postcode:
Melbourne, Australia has consistently been voted one of the worlds happiest and most livable cities. Our competition represents a great opportunity and reason to visit Australia. This year we had 41 guests to our festival from overseas and across Australia. Which was a combination of the festival paying for the filmmakers to attend, filmmakers paying for themselves to attend, consulates, embassies and film commissions paying for filmmakers to attend and people crowd funding to attend. The festival is a great networking opportunity.
The Coolest Cinemas:
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is currently part of the Cinema Nova family of festivals including Transitions Film Festival, Melbourne Queer Festival, Monster Fest. Cinema Nova is one of Australia's best cinema's and is the southern hemispheres largest independent cinema with 16 screens in inner city Melbourne and one of the coolest cocktail bars around. All feature, shorts, video essays and documentary web series in competition will be played in DCP on a 4k projector at 24 FPS in Dolby surround sound. The cinema's we will be utilizing for the competition will be 147 to 240 seat capacity. All Q&A's will be conducted by a Film Critics Circle of Australia or Australian Film Critics Association member. We even have curated cocktails at the cinema bar and unmissable parties and networking events.
The Virtual Reality Cinema is Melbourne's dedicated VR cinema and allows us to showcase VR, 360, Augmented Reality and potentially installation documentaries.
The Toughest Competition:
Go head-to-head in Melbourne, Australia and test your mettle with the worlds best, and most prestigious documentary film schools and film festivals like Tribecca, Sundance, Sydney Film Festival, TIFF, Venice Film Festival, American Documentary Film Festival, Raindance, Slamdance, Sheffield Doc Fest, Hot Docs, New Zealand International Film Festival, Traverse City Film Festival Doc NYC, SXSW, CPH:Dox, IDFA and many more. You're in it to win it.
What We Offer:
Masterclasses, Awards and panel discussions are all free to attend for our filmmakers. All successful filmmakers are free to watch any documentaries in the festival at no cost and unsuccessful filmmakers get a complimentary double pass to any documentary session in the festival.
Make it Australian:
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is an encouraging and supportive platform for local filmmakers and commits to playing at least 40% Australian content in our 2020 fest to support the local industry. Screen Australia, Film Victoria, Create NSW, Screen West, Screen QLD, Screen NT, Screen Tasmania, Documentary Australia Foundation, AIDC, Goodpitch Australia productions are encouraged to apply. MDFF wants to have the very best Australian competition we can from local industry and indie talent. SBS, NITV and ABC productions are also eligible to apply to compete, provided that the production submitted contains new material and is effectively a directors cut.
Melbourne Stories:
We are looking for high quality feature, shorts, VR, web series and video essays made in Melbourne by Melburnians, telling Melbourne stories to showcase in our 2020 competition. The festival represents a great opportunity to attend masterclasses, meet, network and compete against the best local Australian talent.
Points of Difference:
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is a modern and progressive take on documentary and is the only Australian documentary film festival to have VR / 360 Degree documentaries, Documentary Web Series, Documentary Photography and Video Essay in competition. Our Doc Challenge is an inter-university film school competition and a first for an Australasian doco fest.
A Fantastic Prize Pool:
Total prize pool for 2020 in cash and prizes will be over 10k. With one documentary session that will be used to raise money for a specific cause or charity TBD. As well as winning Melbourne's top honors.
Go To Festival
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is a go to festival for The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Curiosity Stream, Al Jazerra, ESPN to premiere their documentaries in Australia
The Finest Talent:
Each year the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival features documentaries that have been directed, produced, narrated, starring or distributed by the likes of Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola, Leonardo Di Caprio, Alex Winter, Jack Thompson, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Kopple, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Susan Sarandon, Grace Jones, Madonna and Sharon Stone. Where all the cool documentary filmmakers premiere.
Music Documentaries:
Over the last 4 years we have showcased music documentaries about Men at Work, Tommy Emmanuel, Placebo, Grace Jones, The Sonics, Agnostic Front, George Michael, Van Duran, Terry Pendergrass, Ronnie Wood, the Velvet Underground, Strange Tenants, Head Like a Hole, Swans amongst many others.
The Best Festival:
Five times now, The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival has been rated as a Top 100 film Festival and has consistently been ranked in the top 2% of the over 7,000 film festival in the world over the last 5 years.
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is currently rated as the Documentary Film Festival of the Year (2018) and (2019) by FilmDaily.
https://filmdaily.co/craft/best-documentary-film-festivals-in-the-world/
Named Top Documentary Film Festival in the Southern Hemisphere on Guide Doc
https://guidedoc.tv/blog/southern-emisphere-represented-top-5-documentaries/
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival premieres, screens and showcases more quality local Australian and International documentaries each year than any other documentary only film festival in Australia and gives more talented Indie Filmmakers a chance to compete and screen to a big, receptive audience in Melbourne, Australia. The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is consistently featured on SBS, ABC, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, Time Out, Concrete Playground, and Weekend Notes and had additional short documentaries featured in Federation Square.
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival presents a unique opportunity and supportive platform to showcase YOUR documentary, down under in one of the coolest and most liveable cities in the world, Melbourne, Australia.
What matters to us most is that documentaries are well-made, compelling, thought provoking, passionate and relevant to Australian audiences. The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is very much a filmmaker’s film festival.
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is one of the world newest documentary film festivals and one of the most fun and interesting stopovers on the international documentary film festival circuit. All our international guests genuinely have a good time at the festival, as well as seeing the sites of Melbourne.
Our mission is to discover and promote independent Australian documentaries, and to showcase the best international documentaries to Melbourne audiences. The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival provides a public forum and encouraging and supportive platform to allow emerging filmmakers to showcase their work.
Our values:
We want to highlight and promote all documentaries, but in particular:
• Documentaries from Women in Film
• Aboriginal and Indigenous documentaries
• Asian cinema
• LGBTI documentaries
• Against Ageism
• Against Bullying
Screenings at the Festival:
84% of films screened at the festival are from film submissions
16% are from distributors
Fee waivers
We offer 30 free fee waivers per season at our discretion.
Masterclasses:
Each year we programme, Masterclasses, Panel Discussions, Seminars and Talks geared towards helping Documentary Filmmakers get ahead. Previous classes have included:
1: History of New Zealand documentary a personal journey with Costa Botes
2: Asian documentary with Nick Torrens
3: VOD and distributions with Beama Films
4: Crowdfunding for documentary with Pozible
5: Self-Distribution with Fanforce
6: Making the Great Australian Music Documentary
7: Making a Personal Documentary
8: Making LGBTIQ and Aboriginal Documentaries
Success:
Over the last 5 years we have seen documentaries that we have featured go on to be picked up by the following:
9 Feature documentaries picked up by Netflix
9 Feature documentaries that became Oscar eligible
5 Documentaries that had limited theatrical runs in Australia
5 documentaries on iWonder
4 Documentaries picked up by Redbull.TV
2 Documentaries picked up by Sky Television in NZ
2 on Qantas inflight entertainment
2 on Emirates inflight entertainment
2 Documentaries picked up by ABC Compass
1 Documentary picked up by National Geographic
1 60 Second Documentaries
1 Great Big Story
1 SBS ondemand
1 Short Documentary picked up by Netflix
1 Documentary on West Jet inflight entertainment
1 Amazon Prime
The money we raise through sponsorship and submissions goes back into the Melbourne economy as a direct subsidy helping venues, printers, hotels and media partners that rely heavily on events like ours and plays a vital role in generating business and supporting local bars, restaurants and cinemas over the quiet, winter months.
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival aims to feature the freshest and most innovative documentaries from around the world, from short docs right through to feature length, award winning films. The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival looks to promote the best quality independent documentaries cinema has to offer.
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival team looks forward to bringing you a diverse, challenging slate of documentaries that will entertain, educate and inform, providing our audience with a memorable experience, so lets go make some Melbourne film history together.
At this stage we are still working towards our July festival dates and will make a final decision whether to screen in late May or whether we will instead postpone the festival until December. If there are any questions, feel free to email us at info@mdff.org.au
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is the ONLY Australian documentary film festival open for 2021. If due to Covid-19 or any other such event in 2021 we will postpone the festival and do one online screening and one cinema screening when it is safe to do so the documentaries would be geo-blocked to Australia and online for no longer than a month.
FCC is a festival focused on presenting the best short films from different parts of the world.
Our goal is to create a space for filmmakers to premier their shorts, receive their deserved recognition within their community, and gather and comment short films. FCC is an open network built to share this form of art and welcomes all sorts of cinema, from amateur to professional work.
Our venue is located in an outdoor park in the heart of Barcelona, which is why we provide our attendants with headphones. For this reason we pay special care to the sound design from the short films we select.
FCC contains a wide variety within its selection in which our understanding of cinema doesn't divide it as "genres", but tries to find the hidden meaning which might have been intended by the filmmaker. The only rule is on its duration: from 2 to 10 minutes.
The Festival is dedicated
to short films about human rights and/or films that collaborate in the struggle for minority rights.
The competition will be in two phases. In the 1st phase: online audiences watch and vote for "Best Film", the winner adds 1 point in October 1st. In the 2nd phase: On October 9st, at 8:00 p.m., in the Theater da Rua Eliza the audience will vote, the winner will add 1 point. If there is a tie, the curatorship of the festival gives the final vote.
This festival promotes both amateur and professional, independent films. This year's festival will take place at JAIPUR (INDIA). Submission forms and Submission guidelines are available on its website www.pbisff.com. This Festival has been organized by Gravity Group
* Season 4, will be held in February 2021 in Jaipur (INDIA)
The competition section provides an opportunity for upcoming filmmakers to showcase their work to a global audience. Over 25 films will be showcased during the festival. The festival is not just about unique films; it's also a wholesome package of entertainment. In Season 4th, there’ll be a special focus on children's films and women-oriented films.
Awards & Prizes
Available on its website www.pbisff.com
Rules & Terms
Regulations
1. All films/documentaries shot on film or Video or Mobile (Analog / Digital format) before 31st August 2020 within a running duration of 30 seconds to 30 minutes (as per category) are eligible for the festival.
2. Entries of all films/documentaries/music videos/ and/or other videos (hereafter collectively called Films) shall be accepted only in DVD/BLURAY format.
3. If the language of the film is other than English/Hindi or Rajasthani, if the film is other than these languages, it must be dubbed or subtitled in English.
4. Films may be entered by any individual producer or director, organization, production house, or agency.
5. PBISFF reserves the right to reject any film that it determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, contains prohibited content or is offensive, inappropriate, or otherwise unacceptable.
6. All entries must be postmarked by 31st December 2020 to be eligible.
7. All eligible entries received by PBISFF will be judged by the PBISFF selection committee.
8. By submitting your film for consideration to the PIGGY BANK INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Season-IV), you agree to allow PBISFF to screen your film if it is an official selection of the festival and, therefore, are obligated to your commitment.
9. Transportation and insurance costs of DVDs/Blu-Rays, related documents, photographs, and publicity materials from the country of origin to the Festival Office shall be borne by the applicant.
10. PBISFF would be allowed to use all photographs, films, and publicity materials received along with the Entry and the same will not be returned to the entrants.
11. Student/Diploma films/videos cannot be considered as Director's First film.
12. Censorship will not be applicable to any films/videos entered in the festival.
13. The Festival Authorities will have the right to screen in different cities of India including Jaipur.
14. For promotional/publicity purposes, the film entered in the festival may be shown on any Television network/Internet or related media.
15. Entry Forms with incorrect/inadequate/illegible/ambiguous particulars will not be considered.
16. DVDs submitted for selection will be considered as final and no changes will be entertained after submission. It is the sole responsibility of the applicant to submit DVDs without any physical/quality defects.
17. Prize and certificate will be awarded to the director (s) or producer(s) of the film.
(For any duties, fees and charges accrued from the transporting of the trophy will be covered by the recipient, not the Festival organizers.)
18. All eligible entries will receive a certificate.
19. Anybody can submit one or more than one entry. There is no limit for submission.
20. Films once submitted for the festival will not be allowed to be withdrawn under any circumstances.
21. Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these Regulations.
22. Decisions of the Festival Authorities regarding all matters not expressly provided for in these regulations or which require interpretation of the clauses mentioned above shall be final and binding on all parties.
The following points may please be noted/check before submission/sending the entry:
1. Complete entry form online
2. 2 DVD’s of the film or the Download link
3. Synopsis of the Film -150 words
4. About Director (Bio Data)-150 words
5. Photograph of Director of the film
6. Still photographs of the film (minimum two)
7. Production still (minimum two)
8. Poster (if any)
9. Censorship (if you have a censorship certificate from Govt. of India, please attach)
10. A customs invoice should be included in this consignment which should be clearly marked:
'FESTIVAL MATERIAL - CULTURAL VALUE'
Important Dates:
a. Feb 1, 2020: Opening Date
b. March 31st, 2020: Earlybird Deadline
c. June 30, 2020: Regular Deadline
d. August 31st, 2020: Late Deadline
e. December 31st, 2020: COVID 19 Special Deadline
f. February 01, 2021: Notification Date
g. February 20-21, 2021: Event Date
NOTE: Festival office will confirm the delivery of parcels which are included in your confirmation email.
AWARDS
Available on its website www.pbisff.com
NOTE:-
Please submit and updates us about your submission at info@pbisff.com your submission is for which film festival above.
Jury-Season-IV
As per festival policy the jury details shall not be announced before Award Ceremony.
SUBMISSION FORMATS:
DVD in PAL region 0 or 1. Please preview your DVD before submitting it, to make sure it plays correctly!
INFO NEEDED: Film title, director name, genre, the total running time of the film (TRT), logline, and your contact info.
RUNNING TIMES:
Short and Documentaries – up to 30 minutes,
Music Video/Advertisement Films – up to 7 minutes,
Animation – up to 30 minutes.
Films not in the Hindi/English/Rajasthani language must have English subtitles. No dubbed films will be accepted.
All submissions will be acknowledged via email. Include the emails for all individuals named on the entry form who may be interested in learning the results of the competition.
SELECTION:
Submissions are reviewed, judged, and selected under the following criteria:
Quality of narrative and production values
Independent nature of the project
Unique story, well-told
Cinematic & Entertainment value
Audience, producer & distributor interest
WINNER, FINALIST & SEMI-FINALIST ANNOUNCEMENT :
Contest winners will be announced prior to the festival event, and awards will be presented to the winners during the Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival awards ceremony. The winners will also be announced on the Piggy Bank official website. No individual e-mail or letter announcements to finalists or winners will be sent out. It’s up to you to check the website for the status of your submission.
NOTIFICATION:
Piggy Bank endeavors to complete all selection procedures in January 2021, and to inform all submitter, via the Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival's website, If your film submission is selected for screening at the film of the festival, you will be contacted by e-mail with a request for a Blu-ray or DVD back-up, more details, screening time, venue, time and date, and how to make the most of participating in the festival.
FILMMAKERS, PLEASE NOTE:
SELECTED FILMS FORMAT:
Selected filmmakers MUST provide a DVD/Blu-ray promptly when requested, in order to be screened at the Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival, as well as a backup Blu-ray or DVD. All films will be screened at the film festival event in DVD/Blu-ray format.
PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND THE FILM FESTIVAL EVENT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A SHORTLISTED OR FINALIST OR WINNER IN ANY CATEGORY, AND/OR YOUR FILM IS BEING SCREENED!
All submitted entries will receive a digital certificate via email within one month of the Film Festival.
It is mandatory to carry an official submission acceptance email’s printout at the time of receiving the certificate at the festival award ceremony.
Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival officials reserve the right to decline to select a semi-finalist, finalist, or winner in any category and at any stage of the judging if there are no acceptable winning, finalist, or semi-finalist entries in that category.
All filmmakers may register as a delegate to attend the festival. Hospitality charges are applicable for filmmakers & attendees, which include lunch, tea/coffee with cookies.
Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival (Season-III) does not take any type of financial commitment for the expense incurred on the correspondence by the participant. All Travel, Lodging & Boarding, and other miscellaneous expenses will have to be borne by the participant himself for attending the festival. No request for the same will be entertained.
Once the film submitted can’t be withdrawn in any circumstances, however, the festival director reserves the right to disqualify any film on certain grounds.
By submitting the movie to Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival (Season IV), the Filmmaker/Producer takes the whole responsibility of copyright issues of music, script, and other creative and technical aspects of the film.
Submission fees are non-refundable.
Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival reserves all rights of submitted films to showcase these films on any platform without taking additional consent from the submitter.
By submitting your film, it is understood that you accept all terms and conditions of the Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival.
(*© All rights reserved with Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival.)
www.pbisff.com
GEHT short contest is a human rights shortfilm contest to be held in Ordizia.
This shortfilm contest, is a part of the overall project Eskubideak Giza Herrira / Bringing human rights to the people. GEH is a project to raise awareness of human rights is taking place in this town of about 10,000 inhabitants located in the Goierri region (Gipuzkoa).
Cine Pobre is a self-funded filmmaking genre without a set of stylistic criteria nor format boundaries, involving many geographically separated creators with at least two things in common: a strong desire to tell their story and to do so with their own resources.
Cine Pobre builds bridges based on the belief that film becomes art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. Since 2002 the 100% cartel-free intersection of culture and capabilities curating the world's best self-funded films.
The Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS) is the main broadcasting, diffusion, and competition event for documentary cinema in Chile and Latin America.
Focused on the promotion of dialogue and reflection, as well as in training audiences towards the appreciation of documentary film in a context of permanent transformation, FIDOCS seeks to explore the multiple paths available in documentary making as well as in the drifts proper to nonfiction works. In its program, FIDOCS incorporates the works of both experienced and emerging directors in order to address the question of “THE REAL”, and in doing so, it considers the various dimensions, disciplinary frontiers, and tensions that the question “what is real?”, as well as the documentary genre itself, has to offer us.
Throughout its history, FIDOCS has positioned itself as one of the most distinguished documentary film festivals in Latin America, standing as a privileged platform to screen contemporary cinema and to promote critical thinking. Year by year, under its selective curatorial approach, FIDOCS no only calls for important exponents of national and international audiovisual sectors to exhibit their work in Santiago, but also, in using this city as a film hub, it calls on such exponents to question, interpret, and re-write the status of contemporary documentary film practice today.
For the promotion, positioning, and exhibition of Chilean and International films, FIDOCS displays two main competitions. These sections include: International Feature Film Competition and Chilean Feature Film Competition.
In addition, FIDOCS has the main industry activity, FIDOCS FIRST CUT, for national and Latin-American works in progress where the jury, in addition to choosing a winner, feeds the filmmakers to carry out the post-production of their films and encourage their diffusion and transmission.
The festival also includes important training and extension activities, such as ESCUELA FIDOCS, where the most prominent film school students from Santiago receive private exhibition classes from the main festival’s international guests; Master Classes open to the public; FIDOCS editions, among others. Moreover, given its interdisciplinary scope, FIDOCS also seeks to accompany the screening of documentaries with other artistic interventions, such as installation works, exhibitions, performances, or theater plays, all of which are in constant dialogue with the notion of the documentary itself by their own expressive means.
The AMERTA ART International Film Festival , which takes place in Turkey, and is now in its first year, aims to encourage greater global attention on documentary film and social movie and to promote quality films focusing on diverse civilizations and cultures from across the world. The festival considers itself a valuable resource for distributing and developing world content.
AMERTA ART encourages the submission of films from all countries. We look for films with a focus on our changing world that express unique perspective, that highlight innovation or perhaps capture a dying tradition. Culture is a broad topic, replete with multiple interpretations and we promote the examination and expression of all. Our aim each year is to produce a program that provides our audiences with meaningful and thought-provoking questions about the world we live in.
The Organizing Committee also engages in the market, connecting filmmakers with opportunities for distribution as well as produces an annual industry forum where projects in development are linked with possible funding or co-production. Please see our website for more details on project submission and lab participation.
The Impactfilm Festival for Sustainable Development inspires people to act in a sustainable and more responsible way. This is based on the 17 sustainability goals agreed by the United Nations in the Agenda 2030 for the transformation of our world.
Creative and emotional impact films (short spots of 17-170 seconds) are produced for the festival, which reach a broad audience. After the online voting and jury evaluation, the Impactfilm Award 2020 for the best films will be presented on November 14, 2020 in Munich.
Films must be submitted in German language or have German subtitles.
INPUT is a professional discussion platform for film and video creators that have no analogues in the world professional community.
This is an opportunity to exchange creative experience with representatives of the profession from many countries of the world, get acquainted with their works, with new trends in the development of audiovisual arts.
Over the past twenty years, more than 100 authors from Russia and CIS countries have participated in international conferences.
We are committed to the future of humanity through Science Fiction Films and Science-based documentaries. We honour those who are committed to creating visions and concepts that inspire future generations. We also are very welcoming to horror and fantasy films under our leviathan category.
The Los Angeles Science Fiction Film Festival is open entrants from all over the world. Based in the film industry capital of the world, we endeavor to showcase the great talent in both the Science Fiction and Horror genres.
Anything science-based, or has a good sense of story-telling is always welcome. Also especially interested in art films.
We are excited, fresh and new, and open to your entries. Being that we are new, your chances of winning are good.
The International Choreographic Festival of Blois will take place in Blois, France, from June 30th to July 4th, 2021
The Festival aims to bring the art of dance to the Loire Valley Region in France and to democratize this art form by offering performances, dance short-film screenings, master classes, performance workshops and community outreach events.
The past edition of the festival welcomed 2.200 audience members.
There will be 2 film screenings of an hour each in a theatre of over 250 seats.
It is a unique festival that aims to feature choreography for the camera, dance documentaries and any short-film that emphasizes movement.
We encourage every dance and/or movement related short-film to apply.
Interactive Festival where the public enjoys Short Films, theater, music and surprises.
The public participates in an active way during the event.
We accept any gender except Horror. The fundamental issue is that the story treats "Love" in one way or another. Open to all types of filmmakers, whether professional or amateur.
The festival will be held in the town of Gavà, Barcelona (Spain), in mid-February. The III Edition will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2020.
MiTS (Movement & Social Transformation) is a Social Video-dance Festival which explores the interrelation between video and dance as a tool to bring about powerful discussions and visibility to all kinds of diversity: diverse identities, diverse bodies and territories to discover.
