Aaiff Americas` - The All Americas` Independent Film Festival (3)

`Aaiff Americas - The All Americas` Independent Film Festival



Deadlines

26 Aug 2026
Call for entries

14 Mar 2027
Early deadline

11 Apr 2027
Standard deadline

09 May 2027
Late deadline

06 Jun 2027
Extended deadline

7
mths

02 Jul 2027
Notification date

13 Aug 2027
15 Aug 2027

Address

46 Altamirano,  01090, CDMX, Ciudad de México, Mexico


Festival description
Short film festival
Feature film festival


Festival requirements
 Film festival
 Fiction
 Documentary
 Animation
 Fantastic
 Terror
 Experimental
 Music Video
 Other
 Any Genre
 Any Theme
 Has submission fees
 Continental Festival
 Online and Physical Location
 November 2025
 Production countries: Required
 Shooting countries: Any
 Director nationalities: Any
 Debut Films 
 School projects 
 Short Films 
 Feature Films 
 AI Tools 
 Any language
 Subtitles 
English Spanish
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Spanish
English


Festival start: 13 August 2027      Festival end: 15 August 2027

AAIFF Americas' 2027 offers 20 awards in 12 categories including Americas' Best Independent Film Director 2027 and America’s Best Independent Film 2027.

As the sister film festival of ÉCU—the European Independent Film Festival, which has been held in Paris for 22 years, the AAIFF Americas' has the ability to harness the rock-solid reputation of the ÉCU Film Festival Group as being one of the World’s foremost independent film festivals groups and to help bring global attention to Americas’ independent filmmakers.

Our objective is to offer excellent opportunities for all the Americas' independent filmmakers to find audiences for their films, to connect with peers, distributors and talent scouts – and importantly to provide them unforgettable film festival experience.

Prizes range from year to year.

The awards for the 2027 edition are:

Best Independent Film From The Americas’ 2027

Best Independent Film Director From The Americas’ 2027

Best Independent Animated Film From The Americas’ 2027

Best Independent Comedy Film From The Americas’ 2027

Best Independent Documentary From The Americas’ 2027

Best Independent Dramatic Feature From The Americas’ 2027

Best Independent Dramatic Short From The Americas’ 2027

Best Independent Environmental Film From The Americas’ 2027

Best Independent Experimental Film From The Americas’ 2027

Best Independent Music Video From The Americas’ 2027

Best Student Film From The Americas’ 2027

Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Film From The Americas’ 2027

Best Independent Horror Film From The Americas’ 2027

Best Cinematography 2027

Best Editing 2027

Best Actor 2027

Best Actress 2027

Best Short Script From The Americas' 2027

Best Feature Script From The Americas' 2027

Mexican Students Special Award 2027

Films should be independent in spirit and original in perspective.

Open to all films made with less than 50% participation by a major studio or television broadcaster.

Films may be submitted in any language. However English speaking films must have Spanish subtitles, Spanish speaking films must have English subtitles, and any other film language must have Spanish and English subtitles.

Appropriate subtitles are required to ensure the best screening for our audience.

A synopsis of no more than 180 characters in English, Spanish and Portuguese, a screenshot from the film and a short director's biography also in English, Spanish and Portuguese are requested upon submission.

The films must be completed since 1st of November 2025.

The films must be from one of the countries in the American continent. (North America, Central America, and South America)









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