Arizona Underground Film Festival is Arizona’s only premier underground cult film festival! Celebrating our 15th year, we make it our sole mission to showcase the work of filmmakers with defiantly independent visions. We are on a quest to represent every genre of independent film from across the world celebrating the artist, and their work. We will cover categories from Narrative, Horror, Documentaries, Experimental, Animation, and Exploitation. Join us in the underground!
Many of the films that have screened at the festival over the years have gone on to receive distribution from the festival screening, or attention from press and other festivals. We have been the World Premiere for many films over the past 10 years, and we will continue to premiere films, and showcase the best of independent cinema.
WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT AZUFF
“It’s got the vision and confidence of fests that have been around a lot longer.” - Filmmaker Magazine
“Prestigious festival” – The Huffington Post
“Unbeatable!” - Arizona Daily Star
“Truly Amazing” - Tucson Citizen
“AZUFF shed(s) light on the underground network… bringing independent films into the lime-light” - Yahoo News
“A Top-Notch Film Festival” - Trashwire
“A Real Powerhouse of a Festival” - Underground Film Journal
“A Wild Ride to the Edges of Visionary Independent Cinema” - Film Festival Examiner
Transhumant Festival is an engaged cinema event to do the social transformation.
It aims to reach audiences far away from culture, both geographically and by social circumstances to make them participants and show topics that concern society and that are not sufficiently disseminated in movie theatres, media or usual audiovisual distribution channels.
It will showcase national and international cinematographic works and photojournalism reportages that focus on:
- Social, political, environmental, mountain, journalistic or historical research.
- Showing some form of activism in favour of human rights and respect for the environment.
- Valuing positive human relations and diversity of cultures.
- Valuing the equity between women and men.
The Elche Film Festival, organized by Mediterraneo Foundation's main objective is to offer a cultural space to filmmakers and moviegoers.
In a constant commitment to the promotion of culture and supporting emerging values of cinema, focusing on innovation, public conversation with the authors and the elimination of technological compete when barriers and vote.
FECIR - Rengo International Film Festival has nineteen editions and years of history, offering filmmakers from Chile, Latin America, and around the world a space for the dissemination, exhibition, and exchange of experiences and ideas. It promotes the creation of high artistic quality in cinema and audiovisual arts in all its forms, providing the commune of Rengo, the Sixth Region, and the country with a space for the appreciation, reflection, creation, training, and enjoyment of the art of cinema.
The Oiasso Roman Museum and the City Council of Irun organize the International Archaeological Film Festival of the Bidasoa.
The aim of the Festival is to present archaeology to the general public, through the diffusion of audio-visual material resulted from the work made by archaeologists, assuring the promotion and the spreading of these films.
The Festival is being celebrated since the year 2001 and from the year 2004 it has four prizes: the Grand Prize of the Festival, the Special Audience Prize, the Educational Values Prize and Arkeolan Prize for Contribution to Science. Since 2006, it’s inside Fedarcine, the European network of Archaeological Film Festivals.
For the upcoming sixth edition of the RabbitFest, Associazione culturale SKUNK is pleased to announce the 2016 contest for animated short films coming from all over the world. All themes and animation techniques are accepted: submissions to the contest will be divided in three different categories.
CATEGORIES:
NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
This section is dedicated to narrative short animated films with a running time of no longer than 20 minutes.
KIDS
This section is dedicated to short animated films specifically for an audience of children, with a running time of no longer than 20 minutes.
OFF
This section is dedicated to experimental and non-narrative works, with a running time of no longer than 20 minutes (experimental short films, motion graphics, video game cinematic trailers, advertisements, abstract, videoclips)
Dieciminuti Film Festival was created in 2005 by IndieGesta. It was able to quickly become one of the events dedicated to short films most important in Italy.
The Festival, whose first 19 editions attended by more than 18,000 short films involving a total of nearly 23,000 spectators, is structured in various competitive sections: Official Selection (for short films up to 10 minutes released after the 1st of January 2024), Extralarge (for shorts between 10 and 15 minutes released after the 1st of January 2024) Animations (animations for up to 10 minutes released after the 1st of January 2024), Doc10 (documentaries for up to 10 minutes released after the 1st of January 2024), Music Videoclip (videoclips for up to 10 minutes released after the 1st of January 2024), Visti da Vicino (for short films up to 10 minutes released by directors coming from the province of Frosinone after the 1st of January 2024).
At the Competitive sections, joins the Dieciminuti Academy, a school of cinema that brings young people of our province to create from scratch a short fiction or animation. The thing that is unique about the festival on the national scene is to be a real school for young people who want to explore the world of cinema. It ‘s also very much appreciated the Section Esplorazioni, which allows viewers to get in touch with the short film coming from a different country each year. During last years, the festival has hosted the short unpublished masters of Japanese animation by Studio Ghibli, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, the animated short films of the Tehran Film Festival, the short films of Georges Méliès, the avantguardes, the web-series. During the 13th edition was opened also the Futurama Section, dedicated to masterclasses for students.
Call for fiction, documentary or animation productions,carried out after january 2017.
Projects will be received between July 1 and September 30, 2019.
2024 Festival 8-12 May. New entries 20th of Oct 2023 (FILM SUBMISSIONS OPEN)
____________________________________________________________________Västerås Film Festival is an international film festival held in autumn every year since 2015. The festival will be moved to April 2024. Västerås film festival shows films in different genres from around the world. We have prizes in different categories. The festival also contains workshops, lectures, debates, film cafés and exhibitions. Västerås Film Festival is one of the most interesting festivals in northern Europe.
Västerås Film Festival 2024 becomes a genre film festival, there will be changes in prices.
Welcome to 15th Cinefantasy!
We´ve created the CINEFANTASY - INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL. Encouraging, debating and divulging fantastic cinema and their universe. We present in these fourteen editions 1.336 films, 73 training activities, 5.595 films and an audience of more than 90 thousand people.
The 15th CINEFANTASY will happen at São Paulo, September 15th to 23th, with a program divided into exhibitions, parallel shows and training activities.
We hope you toast and celebrate the magic of this wonderful and fantastic universe with us!
Night Terrors Film Festival is a genre festival for short films horror, thriller, supernatural, absurd - anything you can think of. Now open for submissions for the eight season in 2023.
We do not give out waivers and do not accept unsolicited submissions!
Films selected will be screened in Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark on two seperate occasions - unless COVID-19 prohibits it in which case a later date will be found. It is a great opportunity to have your short films screened for a Scandinavian audience that might not have other ways to experience your work. We accept short films with a max of 20 minutes. The screenings will have a lot of guests from outside Denmark aswell, so it must be either English language or have English subtitles provided.
Please note that if your film is selected we cannot provide travel and expenses in case you wanna visit the festival. We are not in this to make money, the low entry fee is only there to cover expenses the arrangers will have and to ensure the seriousness behind your work.
ZINEBI
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM OF BILBAO
It got started in the year 1.959 and organized by the Cultural Department of Bilbao City Hall, ZINEBI will celebrate its 66th edition from the 8th up to the 15th of November, 2024.
It is the only international Class A festival in Spain in the documentary and short film category recognised by FIAPF since 1974, recognised by the Hollywood Academy as a qualifier for the Oscars among the short films from the official palmares and qualifier as well by the Spanish Academy for the BAFTA Awards and the GOYA Awards.
ZINEBI is a festival which holds all the most current forms and formats, innovative and suggestive and that is making a steady bet for the emerging authors. The line-up of the international schedule (documentary, animation and fiction) and its section ZIFF-ZINEBI FIRST FILM, dedicated to first works, are their really distinguishing mark. Honour Mikeldis are also remarkable, which recognise the prestigious career of distinguising international directors and the strict selections of its sections BEAUTIFUL DOCS, dedicated to the most relevant contemporary features and BERTOKO BEGIRADAK, a section dedicated to the Basque documentary feature films from a recent production. Besides, every year it´s celebrated the profesional encounter entitled ZINEBI INDUSTRY- NETWORKING, dedicated to promote the audiovisual Basque industry.
Lo Cercacurts is a short film festival that takes place during the second weekend of July in the small town of Montornès de Segarra.
Since 2003 the international Festival SIGNES DE NUIT is active in Paris, Berlin, Saarbrücken, Bankok, Quito (Ecuador), Tucuman (Argentina) and now Urbino, as also with special screenings world wide. The festival in Paris actually presents some Hundrets films over the year coming from around 60 countries.
The Festival is searching films, which reflects new views, original imagery and critical approach to the crucial points of the modern human existence. It is a place for cinema that expands its own boundaries, that is astonishing, different, potentially free from the pressure of tradition, ready to give itself to the unpredictable experimentation.
The minor costs of digital production makes an independant- from comercial influences and any kind of censorship- production possible. These independant productions create an alternative, an artistic space very subtle and accessible to all, in contrast to what mass media offer.
This opposition and the preservation of the free cultural space is the goal of the International Festival Signes de Nuit, which has realized screenings and interventions in 23 different countries including Algeria, Australia, Chile, Cuba, Lebanon, Lithuania, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Peru, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States beside the screenings in main festival in Paris.
FesticineKids 26 is an international children's and youth film festival in Cartagena de Indias, it is a film competition that orients its efforts towards strengthening the production and distribution of Colombian, Latin American and world cinema for children and young people.
In 2024, FesticineKids reaches its 26th, edition with the same spirit of highlighting and celebrating cinema for girls, boys and young people. The phrase has been chosen as the slogan: A LOOK TO THE COLOMBIAN WEST. From this concept it is intended to invite children and young people to be aware of the responsibility they have to be agents of change in their environments. Children and young people are the future that should encourage the care of our planet earth, the human beings that surround them, animals and plants, as well as the places they visit. The tendency to Afro movies and ones oriented to indigenous people.
In the construction of the profile of the FesticineKids 26, the screen is problematized as a point of confluence of girls, boys and adolescents. By postulating cinema as that scenario in which feelings, emotions and beliefs are expressed, it is intended that girls, boys and adolescents, understanding what the cinema evokes them, what they extract from it and its meanings, wonder about the place that cinema has in their lives, in their environment, in parallel to the place they want and dream of.
It is also an opportunity for adults, parents, teachers, cultural and cinematographic authorities, to think about the need to strengthen their capacities to be trainers in tension and interaction with the audiovisual media, especially the cinema.
VALENTINE FILM FESTIVAL now accepting romantic films.
With five days of film screenings and networking events for filmmakers, Valentine Film Festival is an event not to be missed.
The festival program is divided into the following categories:
• Special Category of World Premiere
• Special Category of Indian Premiere
• Feature Narrative Films (Fiction)
• Long Documentaries (Non-Fiction)
• Feature Animation Films (Fiction & Non-Fiction)
• Long Experimental Films
• Short Films (Fiction)
• Short Documentaries (Non-Fiction)
• Short Animation Films (Fiction & Non-Fiction)
• Short Experimental Films
• Music Videos
• Retrospectives, Tributes, Country Focus, Premieres
• Technical Workshops and other Interactive Sessions
• Film Seminar
• Exhibition of Film Posters
• Exhibition of Film Related Photographs
• Exhibition of Film Related Paintings
• Releasing of Film Studies Books
Showcasing a broad range of genres by international directors, Valentine Film Festival brings the best of fresh romantic film making to film-loving audiences.
Submission Categories:
• Short Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Short Documentaries (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Short Animation Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Short Experimental Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Music Videos (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Long Documentaries (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Feature Animation Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Long Experimental Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Music Videos (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Long Documentaries (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Feature Animation Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Long Experimental Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Music Videos (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
Special Submission Categories:
• Special Category of World Premiere (First Screening of the Film)
• World Premiere of Short Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• World Premiere of Short Documentaries (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• World Premiere of Short Animation Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• World Premiere of Short Experimental Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• World Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• World Premiere of Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• World Premiere of Long Documentaries (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• World Premiere of Feature Animation Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• World Premiere of Long Experimental Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• World Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• World Premiere of Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• World Premiere of Long Documentaries (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• World Premiere of Feature Animation Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• World Premiere of Long Experimental Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• World Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Special Category of Indian Premiere (First Indian Screening of the Film)
• Indian Premiere of Short Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Short Documentaries (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Short Animation Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Short Experimental Films (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: Under 60 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Long Documentaries (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Feature Animation Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Long Experimental Films (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Feature Narrative Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Long Documentaries (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Feature Animation Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Long Experimental Films (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Indian Premiere of Music Videos (Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes)
• Exhibition of Film Posters
• Exhibition of film related Digital Paintings
• Exhibition of film related Photographs
• Presentation of Research Paper
Submission Opening Date: October 20, 2016
Deadlines:
EARLYBIRD DEADLINE: JANUARY 08, 2017
REGULAR DEADLINE: OCTOBER 08, 2017
LATE DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 08, 2017
EXTENDED DEADLINE: DECEMBER 08, 2017
Notification Date: JANUARY 08, 2018
EVENT DATE: FEBRUARY 04-08, 2018
EARLYBIRD SUBMISSION PERIOD: From OCTOBER 20, 2016 To JANUARY 08, 2017
SUBMISSION FEE FOR EARLYBIRD DEADLINE:
Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 20 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 40 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 60 USD
REGULAR SUBMISSION PERIOD: From JANUARY 09, 2017 To OCTOBER 08, 2017
SUBMISSION FEE FOR REGULAR DEADLINE:
Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 30 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 50 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 70 USD
LATE SUBMISSION PERIOD: From OCTOBER 09, 2017 To NOVEMBER 08, 2017
SUBMISSION FEE FOR LATE DEADLINE:
Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 40 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 60 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 80 USD
EXTENDED SUBMISSION PERIOD: From NOVEMBER 09, 2017 To DECEMBER 08, 2017
SUBMISSION FEE FOR EXTENDED DEADLINE:
Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 50 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 70 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 90 USD
SUBMISSION FEE FOR GUARANTEED SPECIAL CATEGORIES:
SPECIAL CATEGORY SUBMISSION PERIOD: From OCTOBER 20, 2016 To DECEMBER 08, 2017
Special Category of World Premiere:
(Guaranteed Film Screening for Every Submissions in this Special Category)
Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 100 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 200 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 300 USD
Special Category of Indian Premiere:
(Guaranteed Film Screening for Every Submissions in this Special Category)
Film Duration: Under 60 minutes - Fee $ 100 USD
Film Duration: 61 minutes to 120 minutes - Fee $ 200 USD
Film Duration: 121 minutes to 180 minutes - Fee $ 300 USD
• Exhibition of Film Posters: $ 5 USD per Poster (Guaranteed Exhibition of Film Posters for Every Submission in this Category)
• Exhibition of film related Digital Paintings: $ 5 USD per Painting (Guaranteed Exhibition of Digital Paintings for Every Submissions in this Category)
• Exhibition of Film Related Photographs: $ 5 USD per Photograph (Guaranteed Exhibition of Photographs for Every Submissions in this Category)
• Presentation of Research Paper: $ 25 USD per Presentation (Maximum 2500 words) (Guaranteed Presentation of Research Papers for Every Submissions in this Category)
Awards & Prizes
Awards for all deserved film makers.
Rules & Terms
All films must have English subtitles.
Only digital submissions will be accepted.
Entries must be received before the Deadline.
Earlybird Deadline: JANUARY 08, 2017
Regular Deadline: OCTOBER 08, 2017
Late Deadline: NOVEMBER 08, 2017
Extended Deadline: DECEMBER 08, 2017
All films which are selected / nominated for the Festival, will be informed by emails & listed on our website www.valentinefilmfestival.webs.com
The list of selected films will be available on Valentine Film Festival‘s website from January 08, 2018.
If Applicants are unable to upload a screener, Valentine Film Festival will accept a private Vimeo link or a private Youtube link emailed along with the submission tracking number, to valentinefilmfestival@gmail.com
Enquiries: valentinefilmfestival@gmail.com
Webpage: www.valentinefilmfestival.webs.com
“Il Circo dell’Arte” Cultural Association, based in Venosa (PZ), Italy in Piazza Q. Orazio Flacco n. 24, in collaboration with Artistica Management (www.artisticamanagement.com), announces the 2nd edition of the short film Contest Five Continents Film Festival, as part of the 12th edition of the Five Continents Festival (www.cinquecontinentifestival.com).
The Five Continents Festival is, in its nature, a place for diverse cultures and people to meet, where comparison is stimulated, diversity is praised, dialogue is preferred, awareness is promoted, multiculturalism is celebrated. Through short films, the Five Continents Film Festival offers to share with the public traditions and customs of people from all over the world and their cultural expressions.
The Five Continents Film Festival will consist of multiple film screenings and will take place at different times and locations from July to September 2016. It will conclude with a final event, at a date to be determined in the fall of 2016, in which the winner of the festival will be announced. The calendar and times of screenings will be published on our website and on the Five Continents Festival program.
The 11th Annual Toyama International Film Festival will take place in June of 2024 in Toyama Prefecture. With such great success in previous years, we are excited to once again share the visions of filmmakers from all over the world with our local community in the countryside of Japan.
Submissions will be open until April 14th, 2024.
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The Annual Toyama International Film Festival (TIFF) began in the rural prefecture of Toyama, Japan. Started by a few English teachers in the area, we hoped to reach people not just in Japan, but around the globe.
The first TIFF took place in a small room inside of a shopping center, where about 70 people watched the 10 films we had received. The following year was a tremendous success with over 100 submissions from different countries, quite a step from our first year. The event was held in the city of Toyama at a local independently-owned venue, Bodegas-Mambo with around 80-100 guests coming to view the films. Every year since, we hope to expand even further and provide an even larger venue for participants and the movie-going community in Japan.
Today, with over 1200 submissions each year from countries around the world, TIFF has become a highly-anticipated annual event and a staple of Toyama's international community.
Note: Due to time constraints, we cannot accept films that run over 10 minutes. However, any genre of short film will be considered for exhibition.
