Cinema is an art form that needs to be simultaneously nourished and challenged and ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival provides the perfect arena for indie filmmakers to express authentic cinematic storytelling in the most compelling ways possible.
As one the World’s truly stand out independent film festivals, ÉCU embraces innovation and creativity and allows directors in competition to showcase their films to audiences who appreciate and love independent cinema. Filmmakers who are selected into ÉCU’s Official Selection join an active community of creatives who continually push the boundaries of indie cinema.
"It is always an absolute joy to present one's work at ECU. The team are fantastically helpful, the jury extremely competent, and the selection of the highest quality. I would recommend participating to anyone who's in love with indie filmmaking!" - Celina Liesegang, producer of Viscera: Autopsy of a (non)human body, ÉCU 2022 Official Selection
"It's always a pleasure having our films at ÉCU, especially this year with our awarded short film "Useless"! The communication has been great during the whole process and our filmmakers are so excited to be part of this competition. See you again next year with new projects!" - Marta Salvador Tato, distributor of USELESS, the winner of the Best European Independent Dramatic Short award 2022
Since its inception in 2006 ÉCU has forged a path for independent film and the scope of its presence has grown to a global scale with the festival often being referenced as the European equivalent of Sundance, an honour that we don’t take lightly.
Spring is not only a fabulous time for Paris but an exciting time for ÉCU because that is when we showcase roughly around 100 of the World’s very best independent films. Although ÉCU emphasises European talent, it also recognises the genius of international filmmakers with several categories allocated to non-European films.
The next ÉCU, the 19th edition, will take place on the 19th, 20th and 21st of April, 2024 in Paris, France.
ÉCU isn’t just all about screening an amazing slate of films over its three-day event in Paris in April. There are also professional workshops led by experts in the industry, Q&A’s held with the attending filmmakers after every screening session and a chance to network with fellow filmmakers, producers, agents, industry representatives, prospective film buyers and, of course, the cinema-loving public. At ÉCU, there is a continual dialogue celebrating and critiquing the world’s best indie cinema of today.
Though ÉCU’s main event IS the three-day festival in Paris each spring, there is even more! Thanks to our over 50 partner festivals, partner organizations, film centres and film commissions, ÉCU’s goes on an annual world tour called ÉCU-On-The-Road, which gives award-winning films (as well as many of the Official Selection films) the opportunity to have their films screened to a broader, global audience. ÉCU-On-The-Road showcased films in over 80 countries around the globe in 2016 - 2023 at special ÉCU mini-festivals, partner festivals, cultural institutions and film schools, including an amazing seven day special festival in São Paulo, Brazil. The event was made possible through the support of Caixa Cultural, São Paulo and was a huge success. ÉCU also held special events in Berlin (Germany), Cannes (France) and was part of festivals in Lebanon, Italy, Russia, USA, Romania, Austria, Denmark and other countries. This gives ÉCU filmmakers great exposure to audiences that they may never have reached.
Since 2006, ÉCU has helped the careers of literally hundreds of independent filmmakers, actors, DPs, editors, screenwriters and is honoured to be firmly established as one of the World’s eminent indie film festivals.
Above all, we are proud to be a filmmakers’ festival!
We are a collective of filmmakers at Logroño, Spain, our target it is to fight against hate and racism with our festival, open to shortfilms and videoclips.
The Iquique International Film Festival was founded in 2009, finding to create a platform of cultural cooperation.
This is a free event and we try to expand the cinema to people that do not have access to commercial cinemas.
During these 13 years, we have created a place where the audience can access to see a different kind of films, assist in workshops, and lectures with authors, filmmakers, producer, scriptwriter, and all kind of audiovisual workers.
The city of San Giovanni A Piro, Il Varco and Aedon, are proud to announce the fourth edition of Mondi Lontani Film Festival, formerly known as Scario Short Film Festival.
Mondi Lontani Film Festival in its last screenings saw more than 600 people attending in the main square of the city plus an uncountable number of passerbys on the most populated street of the city during the summer nights.
Our goal is to bring works of art from distant worlds to the heart of Cilento, showing different cultures. We believe in artistic and cultural dissemination as an instrument of education and emancipation of people. We believe that showing distant worlds is the best way to bring everyone closer.
We’re developing a bigger fourth edition thanks to the collaboration with the institutions, planning to show a larger number of quality films in a three-days long event, with a new hybrid format both online and offline:
We are hosting four seasonal calls that will end with an online screening on our platform, selected by our artistic director. The winning films will qualify for the outdoor screening in the main square of San Giovanni a Piro in the summer of 2022 and will compete for the victory of the various prizes, including the cash prize.
Three days of cinema with the best shorts received through this call for entries that we'll select from all over the world, thanks to the collaboration with the staff from cultural associations Il Varco and Aedon. The artistic director is, director and filmmaker whose work has been featured in
- The competition is divided into 4 seasonal editions. At the end of each edition, the 5 selected short films and the 4 selected scripts will be announced and the films will be screened live on our website;
- We will pick two short films and one script among the selected works which will compete in the live event in Scario in the summer of 2022 for all the main prizes;
- The deadlines of the seasonal editions are as follows:
Autumn edition: 19 October 2021 - 11 December 2021
Winter edition: 19 December 2021 - 25 February 2022
Spring edition: 7 March, 2022 - April 28, 2022
Summer edition: 18 May 2022 - 30 July 2022
Live Edition: 26-28 Aug 2022
The city of San Giovanni a Piro is famous for the quality of its waters and its landscapes and for its position in the Gulf of Policastro. Many tourists from all over the world come here on vacation to enjoy the beautiful beaches carved in stone, only accessible through boat service. Clear and transparent water like in a tropical paradise.
Join us for an experience of sea, nature, cinema, art and culture.
See you in San Giovanni a Piro.
The topic of the work will be the violence of gender, in any of its manifestations, its prevention and sensitization against it, being able to present documentaries and short films of plot fiction. The jury will have special consideration for those works that address this issue by focusing on the youth world.
Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre (BARS) is an international film festival devoted to the genres of HORROR, science fiction and fantasy.
Born in 2000 to put focus on independent genre film, and since 2004 in the form of a competitive festival.
The 14th version of the Festival has as its central theme ¨Community Cinema as a generator of Social Change and Progress¨, the jury prioritizes content that has this focus, however the reception of audiovisual pieces is not closed exclusively to said theme, for Therefore, other types of content will be widely accepted.
¨Community cinema is not only an art form, but also a powerful tool to promote fundamental values of a progressive society, such as gender equality, social justice and citizen participation. It facilitates debate, plurality and solidarity, and offers a means of expression for the different groups and identities that make up the social, cultural and identity fabric of Colombia, at local, regional and national levels. ¨
It is for this reason that the Comuna 13 Film and Video Festival, The Other History in its 2024 version has decided to generate spaces for dialogue and exchange of knowledge around community cinema, encouraging the participation of the most prominent groups in the country in this modality in order to share experiences, methodologies and knowledge with the academic sector of our city (Audiovisual creation network, technical media, peace schools among others)
The Muriaé Film Festival (FCM) is a cultural event that seeks recognition and dissemination of national and regional audiovisual productions. Throughout its editions, face-to-face and online versions were built, allowing the permanence of this cultural action.
In its 7th edition, the Muriaé Film Festival reinforces its commitment to the dissemination of the Brazilian audiovisual scenario, innovating through the construction of a hybrid event (online and in person), with access to all corners of the country.
SCHEDULE:
- Registration: August 10 to September 15, 2023
- Awards: October 07, 23 (Live broadcast on the website: https://festivaldemuriae.com.br/)
- Film screening: October 5st to 15th/22
Mecal Pro, the Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival, will celebrate its 26th edition. The long history of MECAL PRO has consolidated it as one of the most important short film festivals in Europe and the world, thus receiving the support of local, national and international institutions. We have screened in 2023 more than 300 short films in 29 sections that we program.
Mecal is strongly committed to promoting the exhibition and dissemination of audiovisual creations in the short format, not only with the public, but also in having creators and distributors meet through different activities. Mecal is also devoted to foster emerging talent, by holding events and awards specially aimed at young creators. In this sense, it also works as a short film dissemination network, organising screenings both at a national and an international level, collaborating with festivals, embassies, and institutions around the world.
Berriozar Films Kultural “Lantzeluze” announces the “15th International Festival of Social Themed Short Films” that will take place in Berriozar.
The Mix Brasil Festival is an annual cultural event with a focus on films related to sexuality in its various forms of expression.
In 2020, an estimated audience of 176k people attended the screenings, theatre and music performances, conferences, and debates promoted in the festival's 28th annual edition.
Mix Brasil is held in November at prestigious movie theaters across São Paulo and takes full advantage of the diversity of the city to host a variety of innovative events. After São Paulo, Mix Brasil tours abridged programs to other Brazilian cities.
The event is carried out by the Associação Cultural Mix Brasil, a non-profit organization that seeks to promote the freedom of expression of sexual diversity by looking at new and different ways that this is achieved.
** IMPORTANT – COVID-19 ALERT **
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Festival Mix Brasil 2021’s edition will take place online, on a secure platform, with a limited number of attendees in each screening. If the guidelines of the local public agencies allow this the Festival may also take place in movie theaters.
It is thus concluded that your submission at Festival Mix Brasil / Festhome means that you agree that, if selected, the film will also be shown online.
WomenTime! II Festival de cine Femenino de Canarias, is a film festival online (through FIlmin) and in person (Tenerife and Madrid), which aims to visualise women as filmmakers.
This project vindicates the current situation of gender inequality in our society by highlighting women as filmmakers. WomenTime! is a festival of short films, under 15 minutes long. Directed, produced or scripted by women. Short films with gender or feminist themes are accepted, but will not be entered into the competition. Accepted in all languages, but with Spanish subtitles for the screening (English subtitles are accepted). The selected short films will be screened for one month on the Filmin platform (during the duration of the festival).
Showcase your film in MALLU FILM MARKET !
Call for submission is now open.
There is no submission fee, registration fee or hidden charges.
Submission Process is 100 % Free of cost.
From submissions a selection panel appointed by the organizer will select some films for audience poll and will be listed in www.MalluFilmMarket.com portal.
HIGHLIGHTS
+ Chance to Sell Films at MALLU FILM MARKET
+ International Wide Promotions for all selected films
+ 30 Days of Online Festive Celebrations
+ a dedicated web page for your film in www.MalluFilmMarket.com portal.
BASIC DETAILS OF THE EVENT
• Event Name: MALLU FILM MARKET – SEASON ONE
• Event Date: 2021 SEPTEMBER 01 – SEPTEMBER 30
• Event Mode: ONLINE
• Event Platform: www.MalluFilmMarket.com
• Event Website: www.MalluFilmMarket.com
• Email Address for communication: MalluFilmMarket@Gmail.Com
• Phone Number for communication: +91 9539150050
• Event Manager: BARTER SOCIETY (INDIA)
• Submission Fee/Entry Fee: FREE
• Deadline for Submission: 2021 May 25
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Film Market showcasing Fiction and Non-Fiction Films including Feature Films, Children’s Films, Short Films, Documentaries, Music Videos, Web Series, Commercial Advertisements, Film Trailers, Film Teasers, Experimental Films etc. These films are in various forms like Animated, Non-Animated and Mixed over 30 days of festive celebrations attended by eminent guests from around the world.
The event is committed to the promotion of knowledge, life and culture, as it comes through from films and documentaries, made by people worldwide.
There are several things you should know about the MALLU FILM MARKET:
1. MALLU FILM MARKET has one mission - to find and recognize cinematic gems and unique perspectives in film and video. Whether you are an industry insider or new to the craft, we don’t care, we invite you to send us your best, original work our way!
2. MALLU FILM MARKET is a unique hybrid, not a traditional film festival. We’re different. Different is more fun and entertaining!
3. MALLU FILM MARKET creates publicity for filmmakers by announcing the list of award winners to our 80,000+ email list of industry professionals and influential insiders.
The submission deadline is coming up, and the submission fees are free.
Be sure not to miss out on this fantastic opportunity, and submit your film now!
CATEGORIES IN THE MALLU FILM MARKET – SEASON ONE
• Feature Films (Non-Animated Fiction)
• Feature Films (Animated Fiction)
• Children’s Films (Non-Animated Fiction)
• Children’s Films (Animated Fiction)
• Short Films (Non-Animated Fiction)
• Short Films (Animated Fiction)
• Children’s Short Films (Non-Animated Fiction)
• Children’s Short Films (Animated Fiction)
• Feature Documentaries (Animated/Non-Animated/Mixed)
• Short Documentaries (Animated/Non-Animated/Mixed)
• Music Videos (Animated/Non-Animated/Mixed)
• Web Series (Fiction/Non-Fiction)
• Advertisement Films (Commercials/Trailers/Teasers)
• Experimental Films
SELECTION STATUS
• All selected films will be listed in www.MalluFilmMarket.com before the event.
• Submitter will get personalized information about selection.
AWARDS / BENEFITS FOR SUBMITTER
• All selected films will get a free screening space in www.MalluFilmMarket.com.
• A panel will select a best film from each category in the Mallu Film Market – Season One.
• All winners will get award letter.
• All winners will get award laurel.
• All winners will get opportunity for film sale in leading OTT Platforms.
• All winners will get opportunity for free participation in our partner film festivals without any entry free.
• All selected films will get Official Selection Certificate from Mallu Film Market.
• All selected films will get Official Selection laurel from Mallu Film Market.
• Total monetary prize: $ 10,000 USD
DETAILS OF SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
• Feature Films (Non-Animated Fiction)
Non-Animated Fiction Films with a minimum duration of 40 minutes.
Maximum Duration: 3 hours.
• Feature Films (Animated Fiction)
Animated Fiction Films with a minimum duration of 40 minutes.
Maximum Duration: 3 hours.
• Children's Films (Non-Animated Fiction)
Non-Animated Fiction Films specially made for children with a minimum duration of 40 minutes.
Maximum Duration: 3 hours.
• Children's Films (Animated Fiction)
Animated Fiction Films specially made for children with a minimum duration of 40 minutes.
Maximum Duration: 3 hours.
• Short Films (Non-Animated Fiction)
Non-Animated Fiction Films with a maximum duration of 40 minutes.
Minimum Duration: 1 minutes.
• Short Films (Animated Fiction)
Animated Fiction Films with a maximum duration of 40 minutes.
Minimum Duration: 1 minutes.
• Children's Short Films (Non-Animated Fiction)
Non-Animated Fiction Films specially made for children with a maximum duration of 40 minutes.
Minimum Duration: 1 minutes.
• Children's Short Films (Animated Fiction)
Animated Fiction Films specially made for children with a maximum duration of 40 minutes.
Minimum Duration: 1 minutes.
• Feature Documentaries
Animated or Non-Animated or Mixed Documentary Films with a minimum duration of 40 minutes.
Maximum Duration: 3 hours
• Short Documentaries
Animated or Non-Animated or Mixed Documentary Films with a maximum duration of 40 minutes.
Minimum Duration: 1 minutes.
• Music Videos
Animated or Non-Animated or Mixed Videos with music and without dialogues.
Maximum duration: 40 minutes.
Minimum Duration: 1 minutes.
• Web Series (Fiction or Non-Fiction)
Animated or Non-Animated or Mixed Videos with at least 2 episodes.
Maximum duration: 40 minutes.
Minimum Duration: 1 minutes.
• Advertisement Films (Commercials/Trailers/Teasers)
Animated or Non-Animated or Mixed Commercial Videos or Film Trailers or Film Teasers.
Maximum duration: 5 minutes.
Minimum Duration: 30 seconds.
• Experimental Films
All Animated or Non-Animated or Mixed Videos which may not included in the above categories or the submitter didn’t wish to submit in the above categories.
Minimum Duration :1 minutes.,
Maximum Duration: No Limit
BUDAPEST FILM AWARDS celebrates the art of independent cinema. We are not afraid to take creative risks and nurture new talent, something rarely seen in this age of austerity and conformity. We aim for diversity and accept short films in all genres across the globe.
Our mission is to discover talented filmmakers from all over the world. We will help them promote their short films, expand their contacts, and give the best of them a possibility to further their filmmaking knowledge in our program.
The winners of our prominent categories will receive an invitation to our joint filmmaking program. Besides meeting fellow artists, we will also give the winners a free of charge opportunity for learning from established filmmakers from the industry.
We know how hard it is for filmmakers to produce and distribute their works, especially if those are short films. BUDAPEST FILM AWARDS is a useful tool for every filmmaker, in order to further showcase their films, and get their deserved public feedback and recognition. The films selected in the festival competition are further on promoted, screened and evaluated by a team of experts in the industry.
The Budapest Film Awards is organized by the BUDAPEST FILM ACADEMY along with EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY, Department of Film Studies (Budapest) and LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, School of Film and Television (Los Angeles).
* * About Us * *
The BUDAPEST FILM AWARDS is an internationally highly regarded independent short film festival held in the heart of Budapest.
It is a great opportunity for filmmakers to showcase their short films and expand their careers. We nurture new talent and for the best of them we give an unparalleled opportunity. (See more at the Awards section.)
The BUDAPEST FILM AWARDS are held twice in each year: the end of July and mid-December. Our special awards are given to high quality projects. (See more at the Awards section.)
The Festival is managed by the BUDAPEST FILM ACADEMY along with EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY, Department of Film Studies (Budapest) and LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, School of Film and Television (Los Angeles).
BUDAPEST FILM ACADEMY has designed a curriculum from practical film courses and provides extensive cross platform education training in all the major fields of filmmaking. In these varied courses, students receive a theoretical and a hands-on education at the same time. They obtain practical skills in screenwriting, cinematography, directing, creative producing, editing, sound recording, and more. Students wrote, produced, directed and shot short films which so far won several prestigious international film festival awards. See some of these films at https://cinepartners.net/budapest-film-academy-practical-film-courses/
EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY (ELTE) is the oldest continuously operating University in Hungary. At the present the department offers five degree programs (two undergraduate and two postgraduate) in Film Studies: BA in Practical Filmmaking and BA in Liberal Arts with optional specialization in Film Theory and Film History, and MA in Practical Filmmaking, MA in Film Theory and Film History, and a PhD program in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture.
BUDAPEST FILM ACADEMY and ELTE joined forces offering practical film studies to students who aspire to become industry professionals. This partnership provides students with high quality, comprehensive filmmaking training. BUDAPEST FILM ACADEMY film courses can be claimed as practical courses towards ELTE – BA / ELTE – MA degrees.
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY (LMU) School of Film and TV is ranked 7th among best film schools in the United States. Located in Los Angeles, LMU SFTV offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in production, animation, screenwriting, and recording arts. State-of-the-art facilities and equipment and an extremely knowledgeable professional staff provide students with an immersive hands-on experience using the most current industry-preferred tools.
In 2016 BUDAPEST FILM ACADEMY became the European partner of LMU. Since then, US students join regularly the film academy’s study abroad program. They are accompanied with a writer/professor from LMU who teaches screenwriting courses at the BUDAPEST FILM ACADEMY.
The Mostra Curta Vazantes: cinema in community, aims to contribute to the inclusion and social and cultural promotion of the residents of the Vazantes Community, Aracoiaba district, Ceará (Brazil) and neighboring locations through the exhibition of films produced anywhere in the world. world with the idea of understanding, observing and making visible the social and cultural processes that are developing both in the south and in the north of the planet.
The International Short Film Festival of Cali, with the opening of its call, is to be a space for the exhibition of professional and university short films from the city of Cali and the world to serve as a meeting point between the new filmmakers and the professionals of the short film.
The XV International Short Film Festival of Cali will take place from September 12 to 16 of 2023, in the city of Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
The call for the competitive categories of the festival will be open from May 8th of 2023 and we will close the registration period at midnight of July 8th of 2023 Colombian local time (UTC-5).
Films sent to the following categories: National Official Selection, National Official University Selection, International Official Selection and International Official University Selection must have been completed after January 15, 2021.
The results of the call for the competitive categories will be announced on the festival’s official website www.cortoscali.com by August 8th, 2023.
It's The 3rd ANNUAL COWPOKES INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - from the founders of the 6th Annual Sunny Side Up Film Festival (SSUFF) & the 7th Annual Wild Bunch Film Festival (TWBFF).
Join us online, June 23rd - 25th 2023 for a family fun weekend, and experience our virtual film festival competition.
Cowpokes Int'l Film Festival is a competitive event for filmmakers and screenwriters, as well as authors, songwriters, musicians, photographers, poets and more!
Also visit us at cowpokesfilmfestival.com
The annual Merlion Film Festival Singapore (MFFS) is an inspirational event bringing together all the film organisations, storytellers and artists in Singapore, to celebrate their efforts towards a sustainable future and accelerate their impact. The festival hopes to foster more collaboration, raise awareness & ignite a public passion towards independent talent film makers and artists around the world!
The Merlion Film Festival Singapore showcases a selection of world films, giving local audiences a taste of world’s diversity and creativity. Films screened are recent and have encountered success in their country of origin.
