The First year of the Midnight Soul Film Festival is an event that strives to show the imagination and beauty of Northern Scandinavia. Refreshingly intimate for a festival of its size and scope, the event traditionally combines a range of marquee premieres, international competitions, compelling documentaries, new digital media work, live music performances, and a star-studded red carpet event.
You only need to submit once to be considered for all categories!
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We aim to forge a film festival and screenwriting competition that will ultimately launch the careers of writers and filmmakers.
We are a Sweden based independent film festival company and our event is pending quarantine restrictions.
This year we are adding a Screenplay Competition for the first time!
Our Screenplay Competition includes feature-length screenplays up to 120 pages, short film scripts up to 30 pages, and dramatic television pilots up to 75 pages. All screenplays must be unproduced and written in the English language.
We accept Screenplays written in English, Swedish, Portuguese or Spanish. We also accept screenplays with multiple languages, i.e., English with Spanish dialogues. This is because we have experienced judges from various countries around the world.
We also accept all genres and subgenres. E.g. Drama; Period Dramas; Romance; Comedy; Action/Adventure; Horror; Cosmic Horror; Folk; Slasher; Gothic; Monsters, Zombies and Vampires; Paranormal; Gore; Crime; Science Fiction; Thriller; Fantasy; Coming-of-Age; Spiritual Cinema; Road movies; Western; Musicals and Historical.
Submissions are scored on character development, story, dialogue, structure and originality.
By submitting your screenplay, you are automatically considered for our screenplay competition. For a higher fee, you receive a consultation with script notes from film producers and industry professionals who are currently making films, as well as other writers. Therefore, you will get notes from both worlds, production, and screenwriting.
Please note that we do not have celebrity judges. Many festivals and screenwriting competitions advertise that they do have celebrity judges but upon closer inspection, their “industry pros” are only reading the top five scripts or viewing the top five screenplays. Our judges are artists, writers, filmmakers, and film lovers. We have excellent taste, and we introduce our winners to top industry professionals.
Memorimage, International Film Festival of Reus is a Festival targeting films that use archival moving images.
The 18th edition of Memorimage will be celebrated from the 8th to the 11th of November 2023.
The Beta Festival – ESPM University Audiovisual Award aims to promote and give visibility to short films and other audiovisual projets made by brazilian undergraduate students. The event has reached and showcased over 150 films!
The Festival is organized and produced by ESPM Rio students and managed by the institution's Film Program, with support from the ESPM Rio Film Club and the ESPM Rio Cinestesia Production Company.
In the early hours of December 24, 1858, a meteorite, the largest recorded to date in Spain, fell in Molina de Segura, a historic, industrial and entrepreneurial town in the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia.
This unexpected and lucky collision has become over time one of the hallmarks of the municipality. Giving rise to an amazing legend that still endures. It is believed that the crater left by the meteorite emits a happy, fertile and inextinguishable radiation that explains the disproportionate appearance of artists of all kinds and conditions that today exhibit a relationship, however light it may be, with the locality. Taking this mythological motif as a pretext, 164 years later, “El Meteorito” was born, at the Molina de Segura Short Film Festival. An initiative of the Department of Culture of the Molina de Segura City Council that will form part of the II SEMANA MOLINA ES CINE and that its continuity is guaranteed.
Its ultimate purpose is to select six short films that share the same nature as the meteorite, namely: short stories with an indelible impact on the viewer. But first, it intends to become an obligatory and recurring reference for national short films and arouse the interest and price of a public that is not specialized in this cinematographic modality.
In its final section -October 28, 2022- only the six selected short films will participate, which will be endorsed by the physical presence of their own creators. Reserving the morning of Saturday October 29 for the meeting of these directors and the awards ceremony.
The theme of the festival, whatever the genre and format of the works that attend the Festival, must be of an eminently social nature.
The festival is about LGBTQI+ cinema. We have 3 categories in competition: short films, feature films and documentaries.
We award a Public Prize and a Jury Prize for each category.
nternational Adana Golden Boll Film Festival is one of the most prestigious film festivals in Turkey, which has been running for 28 years. Our guests do not only get the chance to participate in various events, workshops during the festival and meet outstanding filmmakers, screenwriters, actors/actresses; but also see the natural and historical places of the beautiful city of Adana, meet the most warm-blooded people ever and by tasting the most delicious foods of Turkish Cuisine you may put on a few kilograms at the end of the festival.
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.
Cortos en Grande Short Film Festival is an event organized by Fundación Viart and Balmaceda Arte Joven that seeks to promote young creation and give a new opportunity to new generations of filmmakers, highlighting and rewarding their work and talent. Its main objective is to be a platform for dissemination and real support for the development of emerging cinema, providing its filmmakers with a space for the presentation and development of their artistic proposals.
THE FICC -International Cannabis Film Festival- launches its call for editions 2022/23
Open until July 24, 2022 Audiovisual works of any length (short, medium or feature film) of any genre (fiction, documentary, animation, video clip, etc.) are received.
This year the "Other Trips" section opens where we will receive films that present other psychoactive substances in their plot.
Bases and conditions: https://bit.ly/3xIHK4i
Registration form: https://forms.gle/QdAvZoSyJR8XXUJ88
Digital film festival that serves as a platform for the circulation of audiovisual works by creators that tell stories of reconciliation and social resilience, within the framework of vulnerable political, economic or ethnic contexts, to contribute to the social cohesion of the different populations of the world. .
It should be noted that one of the most important components of the festival is that the participating works will be evaluated by the public, who will be able to access them for free through our platform and interact with their contents to generate a greater reach and a culture of consumption around the contents.
Equilibrium Studio Cinematografico organizes the second edition of its "CineFest - Changes".
Equilibrium Studio Cinematografico is a Social Promotion Association based in Palermo, born with the intent to promote the development and diffusion of film culture, a passion shared by the members of our team. This year the festival focuses on the theme of change, today more and more sudden and the reason for a highly liquid society. Nothing is well defined anymore: space, time, body. Everything is always changing and flows quickly.
The association Equilibrium Studio Cinematografico is composed of three women who are experts in cinema and communication, as well as lovers of creative and artistic expression represented through images and videos. The Equilibrium CineFest is, in fact, a means to offer a space of expression to all filmmakers who want to share their thoughts through the short film, a tool that has the power to communicate in a few minutes a message with a high emotional impact.
4th WORLD SHORT FILM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023
FESTIVAL START: NOVEMBER 11, 2023
FESTIVAL END: NOVEMBER 11, 2023
REGISTRATION START: JUNE 04, 2023
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
NOTIFICATION DATE: OCTOBER 01, 2023
DESCRIPTION OF THE FESTIVAL
The CINE MUNDO International Festival has as its sole interest and objective the dissemination of cinema in the short film format. All kinds of productions are accepted, whether professional or amateur, and of any year.
The objective of the Festival is to disseminate and at the same time recover quality short film productions and highlight their values, through a careful selection, to share with the general public in a virtual way and if health conditions allow it, perform functions at the same time face-to-face.
Due to the health characteristics that prevail throughout the world and in the local environment, this festival is online dissemination to be able to carry out the best quality material for people and to avoid their attendance in closed places that can violate your physical health
CINE MUNDO opens its registrations for the official competition 2023, which in its 4st edition and these are its categories:
- Free category maximum 15 min.
- LGTB category and Gender maximum 15 min.
- TERROR category maximum 15 min.
- FICTION SCIENCE category maximum 15 min.
- ANIMATION Category maximum 15 min.
- THRILLER maximum 15 min.
- ECOLOGY Y ENVIRONMENT maximum 15 min.
- HUMAN RIGHTS maximum 15 min.
- HUMOR AND COMEDY maximum 15 min.
FRONTERA SUR, International Non-Fiction Film Festival, is a non-competitive event that exhibits a set of cinematographic, Chilean, Latin American and worldwide works related to the concept of non-fiction cinema.
The sixth edition of the FRONTERA SUR Festival will take place from May 14 to 18, 2024, in the Concepción city, Biobío Region, southern Chile.
La muestra forma parte de las propuestas de difusión y fomento que apuntan a la difusión de la cultura audiovisual en la región norte de la República Argentina de Wayruro Comunicación Popular y de la Red Kalipa TV, y él cuenta con el apoyo del INCAA, de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Provincia de Jujuy, entre otros, y cuenta con el acompañamiento de la Red Focos, el Espacio Norte Audiovisual y CONTAR.
International Animation Festival watching professional and foreign animation will focus on short films and animated series from the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
The international jury of the festival will include professionals in animation art. Experts will award prizes to films and series of different age categories: cartoons for children, schoolchildren, teenagers and adults. Separately will be awarded the People's Choice Award and Award of the Festival Directorate.
The director of the Animur festival is the chairman of the board of the Khabarovsk regional non-government organization for development of animation – Alexandra Dubovskaya. The president is Ilya Kuznetsov, producer of the first animation studio in the Far East, Mechtalet. Program director - film critic Alena Sycheva.
The 34th Message to Man International Festival of documentary, short live-action, animated, and experimental films is scheduled to take place from 18 to 27 October 2024 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
With its history spanning three decades of cinema development, Message to Man was founded in 1989 in Leningrad by filmmaker Mikhail Litvyakov, who now serves as the Honorary President of the Festival.
In 2010, Alexei Uchitel, a renowned director of documentaries and feature films, assumed the role of the Festival's President.
Over the years, the Festival has hosted distinguished figures of world cinema, including Werner Herzog, Ulrich Seidl, Claude Lanzmann, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, Paolo Sorrentino, Alan Berliner, Eric Roberts, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abdellatif Kechiche, Udo Kier, and many others.
The Festival programme revolves around three competitions: international, national, and experimental, providing a platform for both full-length and short films to vie for the Festival's Grand Prix. Message to Man consistently draws thousands of cinema enthusiasts to St. Petersburg each year.
In 2023, the Festival attracted over 10,000 spectators, and its competition and out-of-competition programmes featured around 200 films from across the globe.
“The Festival team was pleasantly surprised by the success of the last year's Message to Man. There is no need to state the obvious that we live in a challenging time, by all measures. Cinema has gained increased significance as a unifying language and as a way to reach out to one another.
We believe that was the reason why in 2023 the Festival attracted so many viewers. So, when people scrambled to get tickets for the screenings, it was, quite honestly, very heartwarming and important. This wasn't just about the sold-out tickets, but about solidarity.
It was equally important to bring together filmmakers from various countries: auteurs from Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Greece, India, Colombia, and Japan visited the Festival, emphasizing its global reach.
Therefore, the Message to Man Film Festival is pleased to announce a new competition in 2024. Our team firmly believes that good cinema is always an invitation to humanity,” says Mikhail Ratgauz, Programme Director of the Message to Man Film Festival.
ITALIANO
Il CPIMFF è un festival cinematografico internazionale mensile nato a Salerno (Italia)
Fondato dal regista e produttore cinematografico Salvatore Martines, Il festival ha come unico scopo quello di valorizzare il cinema indipendente e le sue più larghe sfaccettature promuovendo tramite le competenze distributive della Corsenal Production i migliori progetti in gara.
Il festival, che si terrà mensilmente online sul sito ufficiale della ©Corsenal Production, selezionerà i migliori progetti per la cerimonia finale mensile, per poi premiare i più validi con premi dal valore di 60.000$, i premi infatti, prevederanno importanti contratti di distribuzione sulle migliori piattaforme streaming Tv come: Amazon Prime Video, Tubi Tv, Plex, Xumo, Filmzie e molti altri.
Ogni mese, ogni regista o produttore avrà la possibilità di vincere questi prestigiosi premi annessi ad essi la pergamena del CPIMFF che attesterà la vittoria del proprio film.
Il CPIMFF prevederà diverse sezioni:
°Feature Film (Per registi e Filmmaker di nazionalità italiana)
°International Feature Film
°Short film (Per registi e Filmmaker di nazionalità italiana)
°International Short Film
°Documentary
°Best Director
°Best Director of Photography
°Best Narrative Work
°Best Actor
°Best Actress
°Best Drama Film
°Best Comedy Film
°Best Horror Film
°Best Thriller Film
ENGLISH
The CPIMFF is a monthly international film festival born in Salerno (Italy)
Founded by the director and film producer Salvatore Martines, the sole purpose of the festival is to enhance independent cinema and its broader facets by promoting the best competing projects through the distribution skills of Corsenal Production.
The festival, which will be held monthly online on the official website of © Corsenal Production, will select the best projects for the final monthly ceremony, and then award the most valid with prizes worth $ 60,000. best TV streaming platforms such as: Amazon Prime Video, Tubi Tv, Plex, Xumo, Filmzie and many others.
Each month, each director or producer will have the chance to win these prestigious awards attached to them the parchment of the CPIMFF which will attest to the victory of their film.
The CPIMFF will have several sections:
° Feature Film (For directors and filmmakers of Italian nationality)
° International Feature Film
° Short film (For directors and filmmakers of Italian nationality)
° International Short Film
° Documentary
° Best Director
° Best Director of Photography
° Best Narrative Work
° Best Actor
° Best Actress
° Best Drama Film
° Best Comedy Film
° Best Horror Film
° Best Thriller Film
° Best Soundtrack
The "Golden Flower Award" Beijing International Children's Film Festival, supported by the Children's Science Education Committee of China's largest children's culture and art promotion association, started in 2018 and has been running for 4 years. Due to the global epidemic, it will be suspended from 2019 to 2020, with a new third edition in 2022. 2023 will see the 4th edition of the festival in Beijing
The Beijing International Children's Film Festival is a non-profit film festival that will soon become the largest international children's film festival in China. 2022's festival is open to films from around the world and is in competition. Over 100 films have been screened, with over 5 million online viewings by young people and children, and "child-friendly" offline screenings have been held in selected cinemas, schools, and art centers across China.
Media personalities, international guests, and celebrities will attend the festival and hold interactive workshops with children. It is also supported by government and social organizations such as Shanghai Radio and Television, Haha Dazzle TV, Beichuan Youth League Committee, and the China Red Cross Foundation.
In 2020, the total box office of Chinese films reached 20.417 billion RMB, surpassing North America and becoming the annual box office champion of the global film market. We will be introducing all the shortlisted films to distributors and streaming platforms across China.
We want to see the best children's films in the world and recommend them to families and markets in China. To strengthen family culture.
