♫ CALL FOR INDEPENDENT, EXPERIMENTAL WORKS OF ALL GENRES ♫
Applications for the Winter 2026 edition open on June 17! Winter 2026 edition will stream from December 13 to 21 on our website.
Pebbles Underground film and video art platform is focused on showcasing experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget independent films and video art projects from all over the world.
If you're making slow films, performance films, dance films, experimental docs, essay films, hybrids, non-films of an absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, queer, political, or something no one has the name for yet – we're here for you!
The artists selected for the programs keep ALL the rights.
Attention! We will never include your work in the screening without your permission. If your work is selected, you will receive a lengthy email containing details regarding the program, and asking for your permission to screen the work.
Attention! The selection process is continuous, we don't wait for the last day to watch all the submissions, we watch them as they come in.
✧ FORM/GENRE CRITERIA:
~ Experimental, expanded, artistic documentaries, and mockumentaries (any topic)
~ Experimental, avant-garde, underground, surrealist films, animation, cgi, video art, and mixed techniques (any topic)
~ Screendance, experimental dance, video performance (any topic)
~ Web-based experimental and/or interactive projects; e.g. interactive films/videos, games (any topic)
~ Experimental works 30 minutes and over, any of the above mentioned category (any topic)
✧ NOTIFICATION STATUS EXPLAINED:
~ Selected - your film is selected and will be included in the online screening (after receiving your permission)
~ Semi-Finalist - your film was not selected to be included in the online screening, but it was competing to be in the final selection.
~ Not selected - this makes us just as sad as you, but...
✧ DRM ENCRYPTED ONLINE FORMAT OF THE SCREENING
~ We are using a video hosting service with DRM encryption, to prevent illegal download of your films during our online screenings, and subtle watermarking. We are not using youtube, or vimeo.
✧ ADDITIONAL INFO
~ All online programs will be FREE TO WATCH
~ If you are a filmmaker from Palestine, Sudan, Georgia, Iran, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, Belarus, North Korea, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, please write to us for a submission discount or a fee waiver code. In your email, please include the link to the work you are planning to submit.
For questions: pebblesunderground@gmail.com
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✧ ABOUT US
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. The main funding comes from personal donations from artists-humans organizing the project and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, the filmmakers, and the public.
