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!
Da das Festival des Internationalen Kurzfilmwettbewerbs „Ciudad de Soria“ den Kurzfilm stets als Kapital betrachtet und die Verbreitung der Kultur als unverzichtbares Mittel ansieht, ist es unser Ziel, den Beitrag zur Anerkennung und Verbreitung als audiovisuelles Ausdrucksmittel zu fördern. Dieses Format muss im Wesentlichen und grundsätzlich Teil von CINEMA sein.
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.
Das 9. jährliche Toyama International Film Festival findet im Juni 2020 in der Toyama Präfektur statt. Wir hatten im vergangenen Jahr so großen Erfolg, dass wir uns freuen, die Visionen von Filmemachern auf der ganzen Welt wieder mit dieser kleinen Community zu teilen. Die Einreichungen sind bis zum 15. Mai 2020 geöffnet.
Das zweite jährliche Toyama International Film Festival fand in der ländlichen Präfektur Toyama, Japan, statt. Begonnen von einigen Englischlehrern in der Gegend, hofften wir, viele Menschen zu erreichen, nicht nur in Japan, sondern auf der ganzen Welt. Und das haben wir sicher. Das Festival war mit über 100 Einreichungen aus 30 verschiedenen Ländern ein großer Erfolg. Ein ganz wichtiger Schritt von nur 10 Einreichungen in unserem ersten Jahr. Wir hoffen, dies im kommenden Jahr zum Nutzen Japans fortzusetzen.
Das erste jährliche Toyama International Film Festival fand in einem kleinen Raum innerhalb eines Einkaufszentrums mit einer Kapazität von etwa 70 Personen statt. Im darauffolgenden Jahr fand die Veranstaltung in der Stadt Toyama in einem unabhängigen Lokal statt, Bodegas-Mambo, mit rund 80-100 Gästen, die sich die Filme anschauen. In diesem Jahr hoffen wir, noch weiter zu expandieren und den Teilnehmern und der Filmgemeinschaft in Japan einen noch größeren Veranstaltungsort zu bieten.
Dieses Jahr haben wir den Rest der Welt erreicht und alle herausfordern, Kurzfilme zum Wohle der Nächstenliebe zu produzieren und dazu beizutragen, eine Filmkultur in der Präfektur Toyama zu schaffen.
Hinweis: Aus zeitlichen Gründen können wir keine Filme akzeptieren, die länger als 10 Minuten dauern. Jedes Genre des Kurzfilms wird jedoch für die Ausstellung in Betracht gezogen.
Dallas Videofest ist die große Veranstaltung, die von der Video Association of Dallas präsentiert wird, die sich der Förderung des Verständnisses von Video als kreatives Medium und kultureller Kraft in unserer Gesellschaft widmet, und der Unterstützung und Förderung der Arbeit von texanischen Künstlern, die in Video und der elektronischen Kunst arbeiten. Mit ihren Programmen und Informationsdiensten will der Video Association Künstler, Studenten, Pädagogen, Kritiker, Video- und Filmproduzenten und eine interessierte Öffentlichkeit ausbilden und informieren, damit sie die kreativen Möglichkeiten des Videomediums besser verstehen, schätzen und bewerten können. Es wird auch ein Forum für die Arbeit regionaler Videokünstler bieten, um Exzellenz in ihrer Arbeit zu fördern und die Möglichkeit für Dialog und kritische Diskussionen zu bieten.
Ars Independent Festival 2019 will be the 9th multimedia festival of film, animation, video games and music videos. The upcoming edition will take place in Katowice, between the 24th and 29th of September 2019.
The festival is searching for what’s cool in young, debuting, contemporary audio-visual culture. It’s not afraid to watch videos with 27 views on YouTube, it’s missing the “least popular” sorting option on itch.io and considers Festival Scope Pro decidedly “too mainstream”.
The heart of the festival are four international competitions, in which the audience decides about the awarding of prizes. The Black Horse of Film (feature films from all over the world) and the Black Horse of Animation (short features) present the cinematographic debuts by directors from the entire world, often as their Polish premieres. The Black Horse of Video Games and the Black Horse of Music Video are devoted to new games and music videos.
Additionally, every year festivalgoers are treated to: screenings of films, animations and music videos, video game exhibitions, virtual reality and new technologies, discussion panels and Q&As with artists, concerts, live acts and musical afterparties.
In previous years, the festival hosted a variety of artists from all over the world, including Béla Tarr, Nina Menkes, Phil Mulloy, Laila Pakalnina, Bruce LaBruce, Tami Tamaki, Stephen „M.O.O.N.” Gilarde, Jakuba Dvorský, Mariola Brillowska, Piotr Dumała, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Bodo Kox, Łukasz Barczyk, Sos Sosowski, Wiktor Stribog and Władysław Komendarek.
The event is organized by the culture institution Katowice the City of Gardens and the City of Katowice.
Das Arizona Underground Film Festival ist Arizonas einziges führendes Underground-Kultfilmfestival! Wir feiern unser 15. Jahr und machen es uns zur alleinigen Aufgabe, die Arbeit von Filmemachern mit trotzig unabhängigen Visionen zu präsentieren. Wir sind auf der Suche, jedes Genre des Independent-Films aus der ganzen Welt zu repräsentieren, das den Künstler und seine Arbeit feiert. Wir werden Kategorien aus Erzählung, Horror, Dokumentarfilmen, Experimental, Animation und Ausbeutung behandeln. Begleite uns in den Untergrund!
Viele der Filme, die im Laufe der Jahre auf dem Festival gezeigt wurden, wurden von der Festivalvorführung oder Aufmerksamkeit von Presse und anderen Festivals verbreitet. Wir waren in den letzten 10 Jahren seit vielen Filmen die Weltpremiere und werden weiterhin Filme premiere machen und das Beste aus dem unabhängigen Kino präsentieren.
WAS KRITIKER ÜBER AZUFF SAGEN
„Es hat die Vision und das Vertrauen von Festen, die es schon viel länger gibt.“ - Filmemaker Magazine
„Prestigeträchtiges Festival“ — Die Huffington Post
„Unschlagbar!“ - Arizona Tagesstern
„Wirklich erstaunlich“ - Tucson Citizen
„AZUFF beleuchtet (s) das unterirdische Netzwerk... bringt Independent-Filme ins Kalklicht“ - Yahoo News
„Ein erstklassiges Filmfestival“ - Trashwire
„Ein echtes Kraftpaket eines Festivals“ - Underground Film Journal
„Ein wilder Ritt an die Ränder des visionären Independent Cinema“ - Film Festival Examiner
Her Point of View has entered into a partnership agreement with the Community Education Department of Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in Nashville TN. The Nashville festival will be held at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in September 2015. Specific dates are being finalized and will be released soon. Stay tuned! New programming developments occurring every day.
Empowering current and future generations of artists currently underrepresented in front of and behind the camera, Her Point of View, a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization, launches this year and will present arts and entertainment created from a woman’s point of view in Nashville, TN with screenings in Atlanta GA. New cities are added everyday.
In each city, Her Point of View will conduct a four (4) day international film festival complete with workshops, panels, independent and studio films, fine art gallery, live music events, industry parties and plenty of networking mixers. Filmmakers, film, TV, music, art and entertainment executives and celebrities are invited to participate in the event developed to highlight women artists from around the world.
"Sundance South of The Border!"
-Spotlight Magazine
"One of the Top 25 Festivals in the world "
-MovieMaker Magazine
"A new star is born in the Film Festival Universe"
-IndieRocks!
Rahway International Film Festival is an international film festival and networking event based in Rahway, New Jersey, U.S.A, only 40 minutes away from New York City. It was first held in June of 2013 in an effort to create a warm and welcoming home for independent filmmakers and fans of film in the Tri-State Area. We annually showcase short films, feature films and music videos while offering networking and workshop opportunities to those interested in the film industry.
This year’s event will take place over the course of a full weekend from Friday, August 28, 2015 - Sunday, August 30, 2015. As we enter our third year, we are expanding to a three-day weekend event. This means more films (including both features & shorts), more workshops, more seminars, more filmmaker Q&As, and much more!
Neue NAMEN, neue GENRES, neue CINEMO-TRENDS auf einer großen Leinwand mitten in Sibirien!
Das Internationale Kansk Video Festival (Russland/Sibirien) ist kein konventionelles Filmfestival. Es ist ein Experiment in Zeit und Raum. Die kleine sibirische Stadt Kansk, wurde im Internet durch Zufall gefunden und ausgewählt, wie sein Name korreliert mit dem Cannes Film Festival, Kansk in der russischen Sprache wird die gleiche wie Cannes ausgesprochen.
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Seit 2002 findet das Festival in den Tiefen Sibiriens jährlich statt. Weit weg von der Côte d`Azur zum schweren Taiga-Klima, 7000 km von London, 4500 km von Moskau und 300 km von Krasnojarsk mit der „Eisenstraße“ und der Transsibirischen Eisenbahn. In einem Gebiet voller wunderbarer und mutiger sibirischer Menschen, Pelmeni, Zedernnüsse, sogar Busse erinnern an die alten Schulbusse eines längst verlorenen sowjetischen Ort voller Magie.
Das Kansk Video Festival ist seit 2002 unermesslich gewachsen, jedes Jahr beherbergt es eine internationale Jury aus Industrie und Kunstgemeinschaften, die internationale Film- und Videokunstwettbewerbe mit einem speziellen Vorführprogramm und einer Bank von Ideen für weitere 150 Jahre der Festivals veranstaltet. Zukunft. Das Festival fördert neue Namen unabhängiger und kompromissloser Video- und Filmemacher, neue Genres, neue Kino-Trends.
FESTER is a regular film series in Los Angeles showcasing “Mindfuck Movies,” films that crawl inside your head and stay there like the memory of a fever dream.
Did you make the next Primer or Donnie Darko? Did other festivals think your film was too weird or complex or out there? Want to show your Mindfuck Film at a cool venue in LA? Submit!
We want the best plot-twisting, genre-bending, mind-fucking movies unfindable on TV, Netflix, iTunes, or anywhere else outside our monthly screenings. No restrictions on year of production or previous festival appearances!
Rural FilmFest, member of Green Film Network (GFN), is an international itinerant film festival, which offers a current overview of international documentary film, fiction and animation in a short, medium and long format related to the rural world, ecology, sustainability and natural and cultural resources. Rural FilmFest is not a common film festival, it is a unique and unrepeatable event. It is a summer camp, with excursions, multi-adventure, geocaching awards ceremony (Yes, you read that right. As a filmmaker you will have to find your trophy at the closing gala via GPS coordinates), international coexistence, dance, party and lifelong friendships. It is the experience of your life and if you attend, you will not want it goes over and you will want to return next year... If you have a fiction film, animation or documentary whether it is a short film or a feature film, do not hesitate to submit.
