This festival promotes both amateur and professional, independent films. This year's festival will take place at JAIPUR (INDIA). Submission forms and Submission guidelines are available on its website www.pbisff.com. This Festival has been organized by Gravity Group
* Season 4, will be held in February 2021 in Jaipur (INDIA)
The competition section provides an opportunity for upcoming filmmakers to showcase their work to a global audience. Over 25 films will be showcased during the festival. The festival is not just about unique films; it's also a wholesome package of entertainment. In Season 4th, there’ll be a special focus on children's films and women-oriented films.
Awards & Prizes
Available on its website www.pbisff.com
Rules & Terms
Regulations
1. All films/documentaries shot on film or Video or Mobile (Analog / Digital format) before 31st August 2020 within a running duration of 30 seconds to 30 minutes (as per category) are eligible for the festival.
2. Entries of all films/documentaries/music videos/ and/or other videos (hereafter collectively called Films) shall be accepted only in DVD/BLURAY format.
3. If the language of the film is other than English/Hindi or Rajasthani, if the film is other than these languages, it must be dubbed or subtitled in English.
4. Films may be entered by any individual producer or director, organization, production house, or agency.
5. PBISFF reserves the right to reject any film that it determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, contains prohibited content or is offensive, inappropriate, or otherwise unacceptable.
6. All entries must be postmarked by 31st December 2020 to be eligible.
7. All eligible entries received by PBISFF will be judged by the PBISFF selection committee.
8. By submitting your film for consideration to the PIGGY BANK INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Season-IV), you agree to allow PBISFF to screen your film if it is an official selection of the festival and, therefore, are obligated to your commitment.
9. Transportation and insurance costs of DVDs/Blu-Rays, related documents, photographs, and publicity materials from the country of origin to the Festival Office shall be borne by the applicant.
10. PBISFF would be allowed to use all photographs, films, and publicity materials received along with the Entry and the same will not be returned to the entrants.
11. Student/Diploma films/videos cannot be considered as Director's First film.
12. Censorship will not be applicable to any films/videos entered in the festival.
13. The Festival Authorities will have the right to screen in different cities of India including Jaipur.
14. For promotional/publicity purposes, the film entered in the festival may be shown on any Television network/Internet or related media.
15. Entry Forms with incorrect/inadequate/illegible/ambiguous particulars will not be considered.
16. DVDs submitted for selection will be considered as final and no changes will be entertained after submission. It is the sole responsibility of the applicant to submit DVDs without any physical/quality defects.
17. Prize and certificate will be awarded to the director (s) or producer(s) of the film.
(For any duties, fees and charges accrued from the transporting of the trophy will be covered by the recipient, not the Festival organizers.)
18. All eligible entries will receive a certificate.
19. Anybody can submit one or more than one entry. There is no limit for submission.
20. Films once submitted for the festival will not be allowed to be withdrawn under any circumstances.
21. Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these Regulations.
22. Decisions of the Festival Authorities regarding all matters not expressly provided for in these regulations or which require interpretation of the clauses mentioned above shall be final and binding on all parties.
The following points may please be noted/check before submission/sending the entry:
1. Complete entry form online
2. 2 DVD’s of the film or the Download link
3. Synopsis of the Film -150 words
4. About Director (Bio Data)-150 words
5. Photograph of Director of the film
6. Still photographs of the film (minimum two)
7. Production still (minimum two)
8. Poster (if any)
9. Censorship (if you have a censorship certificate from Govt. of India, please attach)
10. A customs invoice should be included in this consignment which should be clearly marked:
'FESTIVAL MATERIAL - CULTURAL VALUE'
Important Dates:
a. Feb 1, 2020: Opening Date
b. March 31st, 2020: Earlybird Deadline
c. June 30, 2020: Regular Deadline
d. August 31st, 2020: Late Deadline
e. December 31st, 2020: COVID 19 Special Deadline
f. February 01, 2021: Notification Date
g. February 20-21, 2021: Event Date
NOTE: Festival office will confirm the delivery of parcels which are included in your confirmation email.
AWARDS
Available on its website www.pbisff.com
NOTE:-
Please submit and updates us about your submission at info@pbisff.com your submission is for which film festival above.
Jury-Season-IV
As per festival policy the jury details shall not be announced before Award Ceremony.
SUBMISSION FORMATS:
DVD in PAL region 0 or 1. Please preview your DVD before submitting it, to make sure it plays correctly!
INFO NEEDED: Film title, director name, genre, the total running time of the film (TRT), logline, and your contact info.
RUNNING TIMES:
Short and Documentaries – up to 30 minutes,
Music Video/Advertisement Films – up to 7 minutes,
Animation – up to 30 minutes.
Films not in the Hindi/English/Rajasthani language must have English subtitles. No dubbed films will be accepted.
All submissions will be acknowledged via email. Include the emails for all individuals named on the entry form who may be interested in learning the results of the competition.
SELECTION:
Submissions are reviewed, judged, and selected under the following criteria:
Quality of narrative and production values
Independent nature of the project
Unique story, well-told
Cinematic & Entertainment value
Audience, producer & distributor interest
WINNER, FINALIST & SEMI-FINALIST ANNOUNCEMENT :
Contest winners will be announced prior to the festival event, and awards will be presented to the winners during the Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival awards ceremony. The winners will also be announced on the Piggy Bank official website. No individual e-mail or letter announcements to finalists or winners will be sent out. It’s up to you to check the website for the status of your submission.
NOTIFICATION:
Piggy Bank endeavors to complete all selection procedures in January 2021, and to inform all submitter, via the Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival's website, If your film submission is selected for screening at the film of the festival, you will be contacted by e-mail with a request for a Blu-ray or DVD back-up, more details, screening time, venue, time and date, and how to make the most of participating in the festival.
FILMMAKERS, PLEASE NOTE:
SELECTED FILMS FORMAT:
Selected filmmakers MUST provide a DVD/Blu-ray promptly when requested, in order to be screened at the Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival, as well as a backup Blu-ray or DVD. All films will be screened at the film festival event in DVD/Blu-ray format.
PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND THE FILM FESTIVAL EVENT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A SHORTLISTED OR FINALIST OR WINNER IN ANY CATEGORY, AND/OR YOUR FILM IS BEING SCREENED!
All submitted entries will receive a digital certificate via email within one month of the Film Festival.
It is mandatory to carry an official submission acceptance email’s printout at the time of receiving the certificate at the festival award ceremony.
Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival officials reserve the right to decline to select a semi-finalist, finalist, or winner in any category and at any stage of the judging if there are no acceptable winning, finalist, or semi-finalist entries in that category.
All filmmakers may register as a delegate to attend the festival. Hospitality charges are applicable for filmmakers & attendees, which include lunch, tea/coffee with cookies.
Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival (Season-III) does not take any type of financial commitment for the expense incurred on the correspondence by the participant. All Travel, Lodging & Boarding, and other miscellaneous expenses will have to be borne by the participant himself for attending the festival. No request for the same will be entertained.
Once the film submitted can’t be withdrawn in any circumstances, however, the festival director reserves the right to disqualify any film on certain grounds.
By submitting the movie to Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival (Season IV), the Filmmaker/Producer takes the whole responsibility of copyright issues of music, script, and other creative and technical aspects of the film.
Submission fees are non-refundable.
Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival reserves all rights of submitted films to showcase these films on any platform without taking additional consent from the submitter.
By submitting your film, it is understood that you accept all terms and conditions of the Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival.
(*© All rights reserved with Piggy Bank International Short Film Festival.)
www.pbisff.com
GEHT short contest is a human rights shortfilm contest to be held in Ordizia.
This shortfilm contest, is a part of the overall project Eskubideak Giza Herrira / Bringing human rights to the people. GEH is a project to raise awareness of human rights is taking place in this town of about 10,000 inhabitants located in the Goierri region (Gipuzkoa).
Cine Pobre is a self-funded filmmaking genre without a set of stylistic criteria nor format boundaries, involving many geographically separated creators with at least two things in common: a strong desire to tell their story and to do so with their own resources.
Cine Pobre builds bridges based on the belief that film becomes art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. Since 2002 the 100% cartel-free intersection of culture and capabilities curating the world's best self-funded films.
The Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS) is the main broadcasting, diffusion, and competition event for documentary cinema in Chile and Latin America.
Focused on the promotion of dialogue and reflection, as well as in training audiences towards the appreciation of documentary film in a context of permanent transformation, FIDOCS seeks to explore the multiple paths available in documentary making as well as in the drifts proper to nonfiction works. In its program, FIDOCS incorporates the works of both experienced and emerging directors in order to address the question of “THE REAL”, and in doing so, it considers the various dimensions, disciplinary frontiers, and tensions that the question “what is real?”, as well as the documentary genre itself, has to offer us.
Throughout its history, FIDOCS has positioned itself as one of the most distinguished documentary film festivals in Latin America, standing as a privileged platform to screen contemporary cinema and to promote critical thinking. Year by year, under its selective curatorial approach, FIDOCS no only calls for important exponents of national and international audiovisual sectors to exhibit their work in Santiago, but also, in using this city as a film hub, it calls on such exponents to question, interpret, and re-write the status of contemporary documentary film practice today.
For the promotion, positioning, and exhibition of Chilean and International films, FIDOCS displays two main competitions. These sections include: International Feature Film Competition and Chilean Feature Film Competition.
In addition, FIDOCS has the main industry activity, FIDOCS FIRST CUT, for national and Latin-American works in progress where the jury, in addition to choosing a winner, feeds the filmmakers to carry out the post-production of their films and encourage their diffusion and transmission.
The festival also includes important training and extension activities, such as ESCUELA FIDOCS, where the most prominent film school students from Santiago receive private exhibition classes from the main festival’s international guests; Master Classes open to the public; FIDOCS editions, among others. Moreover, given its interdisciplinary scope, FIDOCS also seeks to accompany the screening of documentaries with other artistic interventions, such as installation works, exhibitions, performances, or theater plays, all of which are in constant dialogue with the notion of the documentary itself by their own expressive means.
The AMERTA ART International Film Festival , which takes place in Turkey, and is now in its first year, aims to encourage greater global attention on documentary film and social movie and to promote quality films focusing on diverse civilizations and cultures from across the world. The festival considers itself a valuable resource for distributing and developing world content.
AMERTA ART encourages the submission of films from all countries. We look for films with a focus on our changing world that express unique perspective, that highlight innovation or perhaps capture a dying tradition. Culture is a broad topic, replete with multiple interpretations and we promote the examination and expression of all. Our aim each year is to produce a program that provides our audiences with meaningful and thought-provoking questions about the world we live in.
The Organizing Committee also engages in the market, connecting filmmakers with opportunities for distribution as well as produces an annual industry forum where projects in development are linked with possible funding or co-production. Please see our website for more details on project submission and lab participation.
The Impactfilm Festival for Sustainable Development inspires people to act in a sustainable and more responsible way. This is based on the 17 sustainability goals agreed by the United Nations in the Agenda 2030 for the transformation of our world.
Creative and emotional impact films (short spots of 17-170 seconds) are produced for the festival, which reach a broad audience. After the online voting and jury evaluation, the Impactfilm Award 2020 for the best films will be presented on November 14, 2020 in Munich.
Films must be submitted in German language or have German subtitles.
INPUT is a professional discussion platform for film and video creators that have no analogues in the world professional community.
This is an opportunity to exchange creative experience with representatives of the profession from many countries of the world, get acquainted with their works, with new trends in the development of audiovisual arts.
Over the past twenty years, more than 100 authors from Russia and CIS countries have participated in international conferences.
We are committed to the future of humanity through Science Fiction Films and Science-based documentaries. We honour those who are committed to creating visions and concepts that inspire future generations. We also are very welcoming to horror and fantasy films under our leviathan category.
The Los Angeles Science Fiction Film Festival is open entrants from all over the world. Based in the film industry capital of the world, we endeavor to showcase the great talent in both the Science Fiction and Horror genres.
Anything science-based, or has a good sense of story-telling is always welcome. Also especially interested in art films.
We are excited, fresh and new, and open to your entries. Being that we are new, your chances of winning are good.
The International Choreographic Festival of Blois will take place in Blois, France, from June 30th to July 4th, 2021
The Festival aims to bring the art of dance to the Loire Valley Region in France and to democratize this art form by offering performances, dance short-film screenings, master classes, performance workshops and community outreach events.
The past edition of the festival welcomed 2.200 audience members.
There will be 2 film screenings of an hour each in a theatre of over 250 seats.
It is a unique festival that aims to feature choreography for the camera, dance documentaries and any short-film that emphasizes movement.
We encourage every dance and/or movement related short-film to apply.
Interactive Festival where the public enjoys Short Films, theater, music and surprises.
The public participates in an active way during the event.
We accept any gender except Horror. The fundamental issue is that the story treats "Love" in one way or another. Open to all types of filmmakers, whether professional or amateur.
The festival will be held in the town of Gavà, Barcelona (Spain), in mid-February. The III Edition will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2020.
MiTS (Movement & Social Transformation) is a Social Video-dance Festival which explores the interrelation between video and dance as a tool to bring about powerful discussions and visibility to all kinds of diversity: diverse identities, diverse bodies and territories to discover.
AAO TV, India’s first home grown, independent and indigenous OTT platform, encourages the growth of independent cinema and fresh talent.
People from different walks of life made it big on our platform with their creative exploration so can you!
What's Your Story? !!!
Now, that the line between regional and exterritorial content is getting blurred, the time is ripe to create a platform to bring independent voices in cinema to the mainstream audience. Aao TV Creative Collective Short Film Festival is the first step in this journey.
A story told meticulously, mirrors reality and fills the audience with inundated emotions. If your story has translated into a film, then we give you the platform to showcase it. Participate in Aao Creative Collective Short Film Festival and win cash prizes worth Rs. 2 lakhs.
No entry fee, language no barrier. Simply download and subscribe to Aao TV app. Your Subscription ID is your ticket to entry.
The 21th Kinoarte Film Festival, to be held in november, is receiving applications for its competitive sessions of short films. Films up to 25 minutes long, produced from january 2018 may participate in the Ibero-American, National, Paranaense and Londrinense competitions.
Actrum is a non-profit Cultural Association that works in all areas of the artistic sector.
This year it is organizing its first online film festival.
In this festival, the selected works will be screened online and it will be open to the public, who will have to vote through our website for their 3 favorite shorts from each section to award the public prizes.
Do not hesitate to register your project, we accept any gender.
We proyect movies at public park, shortfilms
we use a bug beettle volkswagen purple, it adventured on the road, closer to mayan zone in communities without access to theathers .non profit proyect
The International Film Festival "Piriápolis de Película" is an event that has consolidated itself as an essential space for the meeting of the independent production of national and international filmmakers. It is characterized by exhibiting, completely free of charge, a selection of outstanding audiovisual productions, short, medium and feature films of all genres. It also has an Iberoamerican Short Film Contest, whose objective is to stimulate and disseminate the production of short films in the region and the continent, adorned by an outstanding international jury.
Welcome to New York True Venture Film Festival, an event dedicated to empowering independent filmmaking.
NYTVFF is a New York based film festival that shares the dedication and passion of bringing to the big screen independent short and full feature films. We believe that by giving the opportunity to the new ideas of intelligent and unique creators, we would give the audience the chance to appreciate their art.
The New York True Venture Film Festival screening will be held on September 3rd and 4th where the festival will screen award-winning films.
The red carpet award presentation ceremony and performance show will conclude on September 5th.
Please be advised, filmmakers that attend have the first priority in the film screening schedule. We are a screening festival and a filmmakers supported festival. There are no free comps. Filmmakers attending will have a Q & A after their screening.
ISFFI is being organised by a charitable non profit organisation- Vikas India Trust, whose mission is to cultivate and promote the art and science of film through education and audience participation.
ISFFI Director being himself a filmmaker and also Director of India's oldest film Association (IMPPA) Indian Motion Picture Producers Association since 2010 has taken the initiative along with the group of passionate filmmakers.
It is a very sincere and humble attempt to add our expertise of film making and distribution to provide another unique platform for younger generation filmmakers.
ISFFI is being celebrated in Mumbai the film capital of India Bollywood, also the financial capital of India, the home of topmost Industrialists, of top Film actors, producers, Investors and distributers. The filmmakers will have a great chance to interact with these film fraternity during festival event.
FRAME OF MIND is an innovative attempt by Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF) a non-governmental organization working in the field of mental health for over 25 years to promote healthy attitudes and increase awareness about mental illnesses and related issues. The primary aim of FRAME OF MIND is to counter the stereotypes and clichéd portrayals of mental illnesses in movies and to promote positive and realistic depictions. To encourage this competition section for short films on various themes related to mental health has been included in every edition of FRAME OF MIND. This is open to students and potential film makers or anyone with a keen interest in the issue.
