Welcome to the third edition of MiraBan UK Film Awards (MUFA), a yearly London-based, diversity-driven independent Film Festival, entirely founded by fans, followers, and subscribers of MiraBan Ltd, a creative content company specializing in art contests and management of art exhibitions and film festivals.
MUFA's first mission is to draw worldwide attention to both emerging and experienced independent filmmakers, scouting for artistic excellence while giving exposure to high-quality, diversity-driven, British and International movies.
On the 7th December 2018, MUFA I Edition premiered at the stunning venue, the Electric Cinema, designed by architect Gerald Seymour Valentin and opened in Portobello on 27th February 1910. It was one of the first locations in Britain supplied by electricity and designed for motion picture exhibition. It was also originally a club of independent pioneers of filmmaking.
The festival is for and by independent filmmakers. The organizers of the MiraBan UK Film Awards brought a team of active film practitioners.
MUFA accepts submissions in many categories:
International Feature Films, UK Feature Films; International Short Narrative (Comedy or Drama); UK Short Narrative (Comedy or Drama); Short Comedy; Short Drama; Documentary; Experimental; Animation; Editing; Screenplay and Film Score; Acting Performance; Film Script, and more.
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The Ooty Short Film Festival is produced and executed by the Nilgiris Film Club (nfc), a pioneering film club in the mountains of the Western Ghats. NFC promises film buffs a rich fare of meaningful and entertaining films from across the world; masterclasses and interactive sessions with directors, producers, and actors; retrospectives; and much more through our weekly screenings and film festivals (Ooty Short Film Festival and John Abraham International Short Film Festival).
The 'Ooty Short Film Festival’ is a platform for high-quality short films made by talented short film filmmakers from around the world.
This short film festival is being instituted with the larger aim of:
# Recognize excellence in contemporary short filmmaking and production around the world.
# Provide opportunities to connect the short film-making community through networking and collaborative projects.
# Provide an opportunity for Indians to experience the best work of international, Indian, and local film-making talent.
# To build an audience for the work of short filmmakers. Increase opportunities for filmmakers and provide a place to meet and share ideas and resources.
Latitudes Cinema is a NYC-based itinerant microcinema committed to its communities, its artists, and their shared experiences. Our purpose is to be a space that promotes creative dialogues and human connections through the magic of cinematic storytelling.
We champion world and diasporic cinema while empowering artists from often overlooked backgrounds in the film industry allowing them to have a safe exhibition venue in NYC to present their work, to engage directly with their communities and to develop new audiences.
Latitudes Cinema currently presents a fully curated and community centered seasonal program with in-person and online activities. Through post-screening discussions, we provide and facilitate a direct interaction between artists and audiences.
Latitudes Cinema is a space of impactful exhibition and meaningful encounters. We are inspired by the diverse communities of NYC, its often-overlooked landmarks, and its unique film exhibition spaces. Recognizing the cooperative nature of films, we create partnerships with grassroots organizations to advance community engagement and to strengthen collective efforts on all fronts. Our aim is to serve as a bridge of connection and understanding through authentic storytelling with the purpose of developing a more harmonic society that embraces dialogue, the richness of cultural diversity and the broadness of humanity.
At Latitudes Cinema we have a community-centered approach to all what we do.
The Festival will take place in Alicante from November 13 to 17, 2023.
Short film productions may participate exclusively with Smartphone.
The festival is free themed.
International Environmental Film Festival is a festival dedicated to short films (Ficton & Documentary) which treat the subject of the environmental such climate change, global warming, extinction of species...Peace Corps actions....Activism...
We are 100 % environmental film festival and our goal is to educate through entertaining and to raise awareness, using audiovisuals as a tool and language.
The IEFF is an annual film festival which takes place in Sidi Wassay-Massa village in the South of Morocco (60 km far from Agadir City).
International African Film Festival in Argentina 2024 / FICAA.
Call for entries is open until 30 February 2024.
We call on film directors and video artists to send material that would contribute to show new depictions on Africa. We are receiving: independent films from African countries or regarding Africa, its people and its diaspora.
The received material will be selected for a new edition of the International African Film Festival in Argentina, which will take place in August 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Starting in 2007, Observatorio Sur undertook the “Mirrors and Mirages” International Film Series on and from the African continent. In each edition we have selected films based on different subjects to show and debate on history and actuality in the African world.
This year we are organizing a mixed version: online and physical Location. Thus, we are also aiming to reach new audiences, beyond the participants from the city of Buenos Aires who usually come to the cinema.
ARACNEA FILM AND BOOK FESTIVAL is organized by the Cultural Association ARACNEA - APS CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC CENTER, will be held in Castellaneta (Ta), for the length of 3 days, on the first weekend of November.
It is an independent festival, entirely dedicated to cinematographies and cultures from all over the world.
The organization of events subsequent to the date of the Festival is foreseen, involving schools and experts in the local sector, all linked by the common thread of audio-visual training for the youngest and by the concrete link with the territory.
CALL FOR ENTRIES:Juree Awards Asia Invite Creators To Share Original Short Films
The Juree Awards Asia is back for its second-year running to celebrate storytelling excellence and discover talents from the region. The Juree Asia Awards invites all creators from Asia to submit their original short films across all genres from 1 January 2021 onwards.
The Vertical Storytelling Award is also back and designed exclusively for creators under 35 years old. Vertical stories have become popular among young creators through its captivating narrative for digital audiences.
Audiences can also participate and cast votes for their favourite stories till 13 November 2023. For more information on Juree Awards Asia 2023, please visit https://jureeasia.viddsee.com
Submission Period: 21 August 2023 to 17 September 2023, entries close 2359 SGT
Announcement of Finalist: 30 October 2023
Audience Choice Voting Period: 30 October 2023 to 13 November 2023
Awards Announcement: 4 December 2023
Acid'Animé Fest is an Paris international short-film competition. Our mission is to bring international independent animated short films to the widest possible audience in Europe and beyond. We want to give this opportunity to young filmakers and animators.
Stories and storytellers surround us despite that, most stories go unheard and cannot reach their audience.
UGIFF is India's first underground film festival.
UGIFF is the festival, promising to bring stories that struggle to reach and garner independent cinema.
Festival of Global Artists, Storytellers, and Audiences.
Come, witness the disruption, be a part of the movement.
Celebrate Cinema| Promote Art | Support Artists'
Our goal is to give you an appreciation of a wide variety of genres, from horror, sci-fi, and fantasy to comedies, thrillers, and music-related films. Besides finding great films, we intend to showcase and promote talented local and international storytellers.
We intend to present a wide range of work exploring the various definitions and interpretations of the concept of 'Underground'.
Bringing innovative and challenging selections that challenge and appease the interests of all film lovers, we aim to support and contribute to the globally thriving arts community.
Archeocinema Tiriolo:
Opening up archaeological assets to the local area, making them more attractive by hosting cinematographic activities, cultural activities, events, music, theatre, virtual installations. All of this, of course, in full respect of the sites and monuments. Thinking of parks and archaeological sites not only as an area dedicated to the fruition of archeology, but as an attractive place to host initiatives, programs, festivals with a strong cultural and identity impact. This can be a new challenge for a region like Calabria, rich in ancient remains, which needs to work to promote its culture and image.
The event takes place annually, is open to all producers, directors and film and television authors, in the field of archaeological, historical, paleontological, anthropological research and in any case whose purpose is the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage, with particular attention to museums, superintendencies, and all bodies managing archaeological sites.
The festival is open to short films and documentaries, no longer than 30 minutes, in any language, provided they are presented with Italian subtitles. The participating works will be selected by a committee appointed jointly by the organizers of the event.
THE PROGRAM
Archaeological cinema days 7-8-9 September 2023
The idea is to put public awareness of the value of cultural heritage at the heart of the Festival. The choice of Tiriolo is due to its historical archaeological vocation, testified by the current excavations in the Giammartino area, whose inauguration has rekindled interest in the history of this ancient center of the Province of Catanzaro.
The "Festival Cortos para Tiempos largos" is a proposal for the training, creation and circulation of audiovisual content carried out by young Colombians since 2020 with a clear purpose, to connect people and stories. The festival is not looking for winners, it is conceived as a space for the dissemination and visibility of audiovisual products, carried out for academic and non-profit purposes, where all those who wish to be part of a great story can participate.
BARDI FILM FESTIVAL is a festival dedicate to shortfilms that takes place in Bardi , an ancient village in Emilia Romagna, Italy.
Indèp En Tarn (Indie In Tarn) is a festival which aims to highlight independent productions with zero or low budget.
this festival was created by Chocolatine Production, an association located in the southwest of France, specializing in the creation, technical support or screening of independent projects such as fictions, reports.
The manifestations of the screenings and awards of the XVI Edition of the International Film Festival Competition "PUNTODIVISTAFILMFESTIVAL2023" will be held in Cagliari and in itinerant form in various municipalities of Sardinia in the months of November and December 2023 and include the screening of short films and commercials selected and reported by the Artistic Commission among all those received.
The Sci-Fi, Terror and Fantasy Film Festival 2024 is an event of showing and spreading the culture of this genres in Bogotá, with some spaces of showing between 16 and 20 of July of 2024.
