Poppy Jasper International Film Festival

Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy, Hollister and San Juan Bautista, United States

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Deadline
31 Oct 2022


Published: 21 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


The Poppy Jasper International Film Festival (PJIFF) has been entertaining audiences in the greater San Francisco Bay Area for more than 15 years. We promote inclusion, diversity, and women empowerment; educate people of all ages about filmmaking; and encourage everyone to “find their voice through film.”

In 2021, like many other festivals, Poppy Jasper’s annual festival turned all-virtual. For the first time, our wide variety of films, panel discussions, and filmmaker conversations was available worldwide. We have as a result forged a stronger bond with the international filmmakers whose films made up 2/3 of the festival’s 2021 offerings. Circumstances permitting, we anticipate a hybrid festival in April of 2022.

PJIFF is based just south of Silicon Valley in the towns of Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Hollister, and San Juan Bautista. The festival’s name is drawn from a semiprecious mineral found only in this region. We look forward to once again welcoming visitors to the historic downtowns of our host communities, where local restaurants, breweries, and wineries join in making festival visitors feel right at home.

PJIFF was honored to receive “Best of the Fest” honors at the 2019 Fest Forum in Santa Barbara, and we are thrilled to be one of MovieMaker Magazine’s Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee for 2021.

Before You Submit

Please submit your film to the category in which you would want your film to be considered for selection and “Best Of” honors.

If submitting in a Student or Local category, your film will be considered for selection for Student or Local day. Remember to include proof of student status or contact address with California zip code. If as a student or local filmmaker you prefer to be considered for selection and honors in the main festival, please submit in a genre / type specific category instead.

We are committed to inclusion and diversity, and strive to select films that honor that ethic. Half of our selected films will be from women directors. We typically have a program of shorts and a few feature-length films. English closed captioning and audio description are encouraged but not required. Foreign-language films must have English subtitles.

Learn more about our communities by visiting their websites: https://visitgilroy.com/ , https://www.visitmorganhill.org/ and http://www.discoversanbenitocounty.com/


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Indy Film Fest

Indianapolis, United States

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Deadline
01 Feb 2023


Published: 20 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


Indy Film Fest was founded in 2004 to celebrate the art of cinema and to create a shared experience around film in Indianapolis. We are a non-profit, international, independent film festival programming both features and shorts. Our all-volunteer staff strives to bring the best films the industry has to offer to our community from home and abroad. Our programmers aim to foster new talent and help filmmakers connect with the global industry. We are also dedicated to educating and developing audiences for international and independent cinema in Indy, screening the kind of innovative, visionary work that may not normally achieve distribution in this area.

Indy Film Fest is looking for the best independent features and shorts no matter the category or genre including: live action, animated, drama, comedy, narrative, documentary, horror, sci-fi, and experimental. Our annual festival spanning over 10+ days typically programs around 25 features and 100 short films, with over 90% from submissions.

Always growing and adapting, the Indy Film Fest began as the three-day Indianapolis International Film Festival in 2004. We quickly expanded to our current 10-day format in 2006, moved our festivities to the summer in 2009, changed our name to the Indy Film Fest in 2014, and since 2018 have been back home in our original spring timeframe. Due to COVID-19 our 2020 and 2021 festivals were primarily virtual and our 2022 and 2023 festivals were hybrid 5-day in-person festivals followed by virtual availability and concluding with award-winner in-person screenings on the final weekend. That format is our goal for the 2024 festival and before selection decisions are made filmmakers will be informed of any changes to dates or format and given the opportunity to request their submission fee be applied to a future festival if those changes are not acceptable.

Alumni of the Indy Film Fest (and Indianapolis International Film Festival) are eligible for a reasonable number of free submissions. Films with significant ties to Indiana are eligible for drastically reduced submission fees. Examples of eligibility include the director or writer being a current Indiana resident or native, or the film being primarily shot within Indiana. Please contact submissions@indyfilmfest.org to see if you are eligible for either of these opportunities.


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Cinema Nahualli: Film and Video Contest

Mérida, Mexico

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Deadline
30 Oct 2022


Published: 20 Sep 2022
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Short films


Galería Nahualli en su segunda edición del Festival de Cine y Video, convoca a cineastas, artistas visuales, antropólogos y/o aficionados de la imagen en movimiento radicados en la península de Yucatán.


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Sombra- 13th Murcia European Fantastic Film Festival

Murcia, Spain

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Deadline
09 Jan 2023


Published: 20 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
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The European Fantastic Film Festival of Murcia SOMBRA is a project that aims to spread and serve as a reference to fantasy films produced in Europe, as well as support European, national and regional production of gender.


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Cortisonici International Short Film Festival

Varese, Italy

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Deadline
31 Dec 2022


Published: 20 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


International short film festival - MX 15 min.


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Blows Up Queer Film Festival

Coimbra, Portugal

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Deadline
02 Nov 2022


Published: 20 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
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The BLOWS UP Int. Film Festival showcases films about eroticism and sexualities. We search from multiple perspectives and offers a selection of culturally relevant, transcending the established, commonplace and stigmatized approaches we are all familiar with. We select works that show a specific angle on the vast and diverse states of love, eroticism, and queerness.


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RIOCCE FRIGHT FILM FEST

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Deadline
30 Sep 2022


Published: 20 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
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FEATURES
BEST FILM
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST SCREENPLAY

SHORTS
BEST SHORT
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST SCRENPLAY


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MiTS

Barcelona, Spain

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Deadline
15 Nov 2022


Published: 19 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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. 


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Cine Jardim - Festival Latino-Americano de Cinema de Belo Jardim

RECIFE, Brazil

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Deadline
05 Oct 2022


Published: 18 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
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Only for Latin American filmmakers.


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Smallmovie Festival

Calcinaia, Italy

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Deadline
02 Nov 2022


Published: 18 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films


PURPOSE
The Festival aims at promoting expressive and artistic short film’s form giving visibility to new authors, enhancing and promoting the products of the film industry and foster the exchange and comparison of experience among filmmakers.

PLACE & DATE
The festival will take place on November 11, 2023 at Calcinaia (Pisa – Italy).

SECTIONS

Smallmovie Festival is an International short film competition that provides 3 sections:

A) Short: Section open to short films of any kind and subject,
with a maximum duration of 20 minutes, opening credits and closing credits included.

B) Under 35: Section open to short films of any kind and subject, with a maximum duration of 20 minutes, opening credits and closing credits included, made by directors who, at the time of the expiry of this announcement, have not yet turned 35

C) Tuscany: Section reserved for short films directed by Tuscan directors with a maximum duration of 20 minutes, opening credits and closing credits included.


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Janjira International Film Festival

Murud, India

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Deadline
25 Dec 2022


Published: 18 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
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Murud janjira beach festival (Murud janjira paryatan mahotsav) is held every year in murud janjira.

This festival is celebrated with enthusiasm for last 20 years. this year we are including a film festival for the first time.

This is our effort to take the film festival to the same level as the Murud beach festival, And we aim to take the tourism of Murud Janjira to international level.

Janjira International Film Festival will be conducted in the 4rth week of December every year at the picturesque and adorable city of Murud - Janjira in Maharashtra.being one of the most beautiful tourist destinations, Murud-janjira sets the right arena for JIFF. JIFF welcomes film makers, artists and technical crew, journalists and all those are associated with film industry and film making to come and participate in this festival.


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AVANCA - International Meeting of Cinema, Tv, Video and Multimedia

Avanca, Portugal

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Deadline
28 Apr 2023


Published: 18 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
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AVANCA Film Festival was awarded first place in 2011 contest of the support film festivals sponsored by ICA / Ministry of Culture.

An additional thematic programming has happened over all these years, giving space to screening of significant works of contemporary cinema appropriately framed in concerns and / or well-defined objectives.

The AVANCA is known as a space for workshops led by personalities of world cinema, and being more than a "master class", has allowed a unique cinema practice. Every year we have workshops, bringing together participants from all over Europe. The media have written that this is the largest European area of professional workshops in the field of cinema.

AVANCA is the only festival that congregates a Cinema International Competition, works from the television area, video and new supports of multimedia, with a special concern of exhibit the best world productions done in each category.

Since the first edition, the festival only accepts unprecedented films in Portugal.

The World Premiere competition is unique in our country and was only possible because Avanca became a passage point of unpublished authors and movies with great quality. Films that have their world premiere in the festival, independently of the submitted category, are also participating in the World Premiere Competition.

AVANCA is the Portuguese festival with the highest percentage of worldwide unpublished movies that find here their first showing.

Since 2010, we have organized the international film conference AVANCA | CINEMA, becoming the most important conference in the field of cinema in the Iberian Peninsula. This conference brings together speakers and participants from around the world.
Thematic exhibitions, editions of books, bibliographic presentations and various projects have marked these last 10 years of AVANCA with the quality that compels the festival and the participants obviously require.


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FEST - New Directors | New Films Festival

Espinho, Portugal

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Deadline
19 Mar 2023


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films

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FEST - NDNFF #20
24th June - 1st July 2024 | Espinho, Portugal

FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival is an all-encompassing celebration of the new tendencies of world cinema. The event focuses on a competitive and non-competitive showcase of the most promising new figures and works from around the globe.

The 20th edition of the festival will take place between the 24th of June and the 1st of July 2024, in the seaside town of Espinho (Portugal).

The selection is divided into several categories which include Feature Film and Short Film competitions in the Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Experimental Non-Narrative formats, as well as also content adequate for children and teenagers. The event also includes non-competitive sections that range from retrospectives, national and regional showcases, open-air beach screenings and the exhibition of Transmedia and Virtual Reality content, only to name a few.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are accepting films under the following formats:
A) Fiction and Non-Fiction feature films (minimum length is 55 minutes) from directors who are on their first or second feature-length project, regardless of age.

B) Fiction, Documentary, Animation, and Experimental Short films (up to 54 minutes of duration) from directors who have completed no more than two feature films, regardless of age.

Candidates must choose one of the available submission categories. Do not worry if your film fits different categories (Ie: Hybrid productions), as all submissions will be considered for the different competitions. If your film is also eligible for the NEXXT competition (focused on academic productions) but you wish the film to be considered for all other competitions please mention in the comment section of the submission the academic institution where the film was produced. If you have any doubts at all please do not hesitate to contact us at films@fest.pt.

Throughout the years' FEST has selected for its feature film competitions films such as Ainhoa Rodríguez´s "Mighty Flash"; Teodora Mihai´s “The Civilian”; Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid with "Enforcement"; Julie Lecoustre, Emmanuel Marre´s “Zero Fucks Given”; P.S. Vinothraj “Pebbles”; Eugen Jebeleanu´s “Poppy field”; and Valdimar Jóhannsson´s “Lamb”, all of this on the fiction side, then in the Documentary side, Karima Saidi´s "A way Home", Michał Edelman´s "Last Knights Of The Right Side", Franz Böhm´s "Dear Future Children" among many others.

FEST’s Short Film sections are known for its wide variety of styles and filmic visions, having been throughout the years a platform for the launch of new artists such as Govinda Van Maele (Luxembourg), Christos Massalas (Greece), Mati Diop (France), Adriano Valerio (Italy), Patrick Vollrath (Germany), Ninja Thyberg (Sweden), Manuel Abramovich (Argentina), Daria Belova (Russia), Simon Mésa Soto (Colombia), Aga Woszczynska (Poland), Jela Hasler (Switzerland), as well as hundreds of other up-and-coming filmmakers.

FEST also includes a series of other activities that run parallel to the festival, in particular, FEST – Training Ground (one of Europe’s largest film forums) and FEST – Pitching Forum (film project competition), and others. For more information please visit our website at www.fest.pt


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New York True Venture Film Festival - NYTVFF

New York, United States

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Deadline
25 Mar 2023


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


Welcome to New York True Venture Film Festival, an event dedicated to empowering independent filmmaking.

NYTVFF is an IMDb Award Listing Qualifier and a New York-based film festival that shares the dedication and passion for bringing independent short and full feature films to the big screen. 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 from June 5th to June 8th, where the festival will screen award-winning films.

The red carpet award ceremony and performance show will conclude on June 8th, 2024.

Please be advised that filmmakers who attend have 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.


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Rabat-Comedy International Film Festival

Rabat, Morocco

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Deadline
15 Apr 2023


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
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Feature films


The Rabat-Comedy International Film Festival is among the biggest festivals exclusively dedicated to comedy. The festival offers an opportunity for unique feature and short comedy films from around the globe, to compete and share their messages in front of an live comedy lovers audience and a prestigious international jury. In addition to the screenings, meetings with film the directors, actors and other professionals are also organized
. The festival offers also special screenings, training sessions and masterclasses related to comedy in cinema.



(En français)

Le Festival International du Film Rabat-Comedy est parmi les plus grands festivals exclusivement dédié à la comédie . Dans ce sens, le festival offre une opportunité unique pour des longs et des courts métrages de comédie, provenant du monde entier, d'être en compétition et de partager leurs messages devant une audience de cinéphiles amoureux de films de comédie et d'un jury international . En marge des projections de la sélection officielle, le festival organise des rencontres avec des réalisateurs, acteurs et autres professionnels.

Le festival organise aussi des projections spéciales, des formations professionnelles et des master classes qui traitent du cinéma de comédie.


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Grenoble Street Art Film Festival

Grenoble, France

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Deadline
15 Apr 2023


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
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The Street Art Movie Fest was created as part of the Grenoble Street Art Fest, one of the largest festivals dedicated to street art since 2015. The Street Art Movie Fest is intended to all producers who deal with street art in every kind of formats, from feature films to web formats such as animated gif. In partnership with the Cinematheque of Grenoble (CNC Labelled), it allowed us to build up an archived collection of the best audiovisual documents, each time translated and subtitled for works in a foreign language. The six categories of formats are: feature films, short films, documentaries, animated films, time lapses and animated gif.


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D A - Barcelona Film Festival

Barcelona, Spain

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Deadline
15 Dec 2022


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films

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The D'A - Barcelona Film Festival is a competitive film festival that offers an extensive review of current world cinema, screening an international panorama of the finest contemporary auteur cinema, combining the discovery of emerging new talents and cinematographies with internationally established directors and films.

The 13th Barcelona Film Festival will run from March 23rd to April 2nd, 2023.


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DAGANZO TRASCÁMARA 2023

Daganzo, Spain

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Deadline
01 Mar 2023


Published: 16 Sep 2022
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


Only for Spanish filmmakers.


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Festival de Cine social ManzanaREC

Manzanares, Spain

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Deadline
31 Oct 2022


Published: 16 Sep 2022
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Mario Cervantes ha organizado el XI Festival de cine social ManzanaREC que tendrá lugar en marzo de 2024 en la localidad de Manzanares (Ciudad Real).

Los trabajos serán exhibidos en la Sala de la Casa de Cultura de Manzanares.


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La memoria de los muertos

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Published: 16 Sep 2022


My favorite Jean-Luc Godard film is not any of his feature films, but a small 11-minute essay entitled Lettre à Freddy Buache (Letter to Freddy Buache, 1981). In that film, Godard wonders, quoting Wittgenstein, whether "we have made a mistake by calling blue green." And in the search for that conceptual error he will continue to make films all his life, just as Alain Tanner sought the error of time that passes in Dans la ville blanche, or Louis Malle sought the error of individuality in Le feu follet, or Eric Rohmer sought the error of geometric thinking in Ma nuit chez Maud.

Seeking imperfection and error, these masters, among others, have moved away from formal and discursive perfection to find a deeper understanding of the world, and that is a debt we can never pay them back. With the deaths of Godard and Tanner just 3 days ago I have been overwhelmed by a sense of orphanhood, perhaps because the history of cinema is a cemetery. But it is one inhabited by the most beautiful corpses that speak ghostly to us day after day. Thus, Godard and Tanner have found the error of death.


 


 
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