FEATURE FILMS
The Official Section. All feature films whose content might be considered as belonging to such the horror or fantastic genre can take part in the competition.
SHORT FILMS
Participation in the competition is on an international level.
Only one work per director will be accepted. Short films must not exceed 20 minutes in length (including credits).
All Short films must have been produced after January 1st 2023.
All films must be presented in their original language, with spanish subtitles. By "original language" is meant the language in which a film is or will be exhibited in its country of origin.
The Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival is a cinematographic event socially and
culturally minded and by choice, free for anyone to access. FICCI constantly reads the particular
circumstances of our country and our world to produce every year a world class version of our
festival, guided by the preservation of freedom and the amplification of the cultural conversation
through films and academic events that are relevant, humane, subtle, sophisticated and act as a vehicle to enhance human consciousness, expand democracy and help create free, progressive
and inclusive societies.
The Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival (FICCI) is the oldest and most permanent
forum in the Americas for Colombian, Ibero-American and world cinema. Being an active part of the world cinema map since 1960, in the 63rd edition, it will continue to provide spaces for memory, reflection, diverse voices, and as always, for the best
cinephilia.
The Festival values the creative freedom of the world’s filmmakers and has space for films of any
format, length, nationality, theme, genre or technique, that meet the highest standards of quality, take on narrative risks, and propose contents of great human and cinematic relevance, pertinence, and sustainability.
COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Circolo ImmaginAzione for film culture, as part of Laceno D’Oro Film Festival 2022, announces two international contest categories: feature & medium-length films, and short films.
Furthermore, there will be a competition called SPAZIO CAMPANIA, including works by authors from Campania and produced in Campania only.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The call is open to movies produced and shot in any video format, regardless of the genre and nationality, and completed after January 1st, 2021.
Works already distributed in Italian theatres will be excluded, as well as works already released in Italy on streaming platforms. National Previews will be prioritized.
COMPETITION CATEGORIES
1) CONCORSO LACENO D’ORO 47: full-length and medium-lenght films, both fictional and documentaries, with a running-time over 30 minutes.
Works which will stand out for their experimental and fresh approach will be taken into further consideration.
2) Short-movies competition “Gli occhi sulla città”: short-films not exceeding 30 minutes, including credits.
Each work will have to stand out for the way they deal with issues related to urban spaces, to the environment and to the landscape. This topic can be explored with the outmost freedom. Each work, however, will have to ponder how moviemaking can tell, depict, or even “predict” the changes of urban spaces and contemporary landscapes. All authors will deal with this topic in their own creative and original way.
3) SPAZIO CAMPANIA, for all works - with no length or genre restrictions - created by authors from Campania or produced in Campania.
To be valid, all movies must be submitted, according to the submission details included in this call, no later than September 12th, 2022.
AUDIOVISUAL AND FILM FESTIVAL AQP 2022 PRESENTIAL - VIRTUAL in its seventh edition.
Festival organized by the company JOPE ART VIDEO S.R.L.
The AQP AUDIOVISUAL AND FILM FESTIVAL, in its seventh edition, will take place in person/virtually from November 11 to 18, 2022, where we will pay tribute to the creator of the AQP Audiovisual and Film Festival, artist and filmmaker Jorge Luis Fernández Zegarra.
¡Hola! We are BARCIFF • Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival, an international film festival with monthly screening events from Barcelona, Spain, and member of the IBERIFF • Iberia Indie Film Festivals, which celebrates and showcases new productions and independent artists from all over the world in Madrid (MADRIFF), Barcelona (BARCIFF), València (VALÈIFF), Seville (SEVIFF) and Lisbon (LISBIFF), that you can also find them here in Festhome.
BARCIFF promotes the selected films on its official website www.iberiff.org and social media channels, where the nominees can share their nominations with their followers. Fiction, animation, documentary and experimental films of any genre and subject are welcome!
Accepted films will be short, medium and feature length films produced in digital video; categories in documentary, fiction, experimental or animation; movies about mountain sports, adventure or expedition; films that contribute to knowledge and protection of the environment; films about mountain culture or outdoors lifestyle.
Promoting short films and documentaries culture in a country where commercial cinema has always ruled the roost is not an easy task. Delhi Shorts International Film Festival is one such successful effort started in year 2012 by Miniboxoffice with successful 2012 to 2022 editions. The festival brings thoughtful, highly creative & engaging short films from around the world to fulfill the cinegoers' appetite of the capital city of India. The festival aim is to establish a short film industry which runs parallel to commercial cinema.
12th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival-2023 is meant to grow many folds. The inaugural year 2012 was a big success followed by super successful 2012 to 2022 editions & enjoys the credibility of one of the most trusted short film festival of India. The festival was not only embraced by the short filmmaker’s but regarded by the media & industry members also.
The festival objective is to boost-up the short film market & providing exhibition platform to short filmmakers. The festival gives the professional networking opportunities & at the same time introduces the latest trends in cinema to the filmmakers. 12th DSIFF-23 is a unique platform here you can share, learn, showcase, observe & do many more thing to polish your creative & technical skills. We hope that this festival will turn a milestone in your filmmaking career.
El Lugar Sin Límites, está considerado entre los cuatro mejores festivales de Cine del Ecuador y es una de las actividades más importantes de la comunidad LGBTI ecuatoriana, adicionalmente es calificado como uno de los Festivales de Cine LGBTI más relevantes de la región.
Todos los trabajos deben estar doblados al español o con subtitulos en español, cuyo tema principal sea sobre LESBIANAS, GAYS, BISEXUALES, TRANS E INTERSEX.
El Festival de Cine Colombia Migrante (FCCM) es una apuesta por visibilizar, generar lazos y crear un espacio de difusión, apoyo y creación de productos cinematográficos y audiovisuales que narren de alguna forma, la complejidad de los fenómenos de migración de los colombianos al interior de su territorio y al exterior. Como también lo que significa para algunos extranjeros migrar a Colombia.
La complejidad de los fenómenos del movimiento y la migración humana nos abre la posibilidad de considerar distintos factores, procesos, lugares, representaciones y prácticas en torno a estos. Por esta razón y para poder generar una visibilidad efectiva, una comunicación acertada y poder apoyar la generación de nuevos proyectos, este festival se centrará en que cada edición tenga una línea temática única. Para nuestra primera edición la temática central es: El Exilio.
The Caracas Film Criticism Festival is conceived as a space to reflect and reward the expression of significance of film criticism in various national and international works. From In this way, it seeks to encourage, promote and disseminate Venezuelan cinema, as well as the analysis depth of the cinema made in Venezuela in comparison with the international cinema awarded in the
festivals in Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, San Sebastián and Venice.
The Caracas Film Critics Festival is designed as a space for reflection which aims to reward the best national and international works, according to the standards of film criticism.
In this way, we seek to carry out an in-depth analysis of the cinema made in Venezuela and abroad.
Of it, as well as encourage, promote and disseminate the cinematographic act. From a point of view external, thanks to the participation of foreign collaborators.
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
The SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is a specialized, competitive fantastic genre Festival in accordance with the regulations established by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations). The Festival has also been declared a “Qualified Festival” by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® in the United States. This means that those shorts winning the awards for “Best Short Film” in the Official Fantàstic Selection and “Best Short Film” in the Anima’t category will automatically be taken into consideration by the Hollywood Academy Awards® selection committee.
Calling all independent filmmakers! Screamfest® Film Festival is back for its 24th annual 10-day event, showcasing the best in horror cinema from around the world. Held this October at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Los Angeles, our festival is a must-attend event for horror fans and industry professionals alike.
Don't just take our word for it - some of the biggest horror publications have dubbed us the 'Sundance of Horror.' Our festival has also been featured in Moviemaker Magazine's lists of 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee for 2023, 50 Best Genre Fests in the World 2021, 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee & 13 Film Festivals to Die For, and 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World 2019.
As the largest and longest-running horror film festival in the United States, we have a proud history of discovering and showcasing groundbreaking films. Paranormal Activity, for example, was discovered and premiered at our festival in 2007.
Join us for a spine-tingling lineup of new genre films and premieres, including past hits such as Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, Dead Ant, Trick 'r' Treat, 30 Days of Night, The Human Centipede, and American Mary. And don't forget to check out our YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/2MYvdFt, where you can view past Screamfest® short films. Submit your work now for your chance to be a part of the legacy!
The Festival has a double value and is proposed as a meeting point between directors, authors and producers to develop future initiatives and the presentation and promotion of films of all nationalities, genres and lengths that address the themes of feelings.
The Feelings that have always been described in novels and leave the pages transporting the reader to different worlds between the pages of literature are the common thread of classic literary narratives but feelings are not only the fruit of literary imagination.
Describing feelings in film shoots is much more difficult but not impossible and in films where this happens masterpieces are born.
What we would like to see is the development of these films, their conception, creation and development.
Positive feelings such as love, admiration, respect or negative feelings such as hatred, aversion, indifference in cinema.
Born in 2009 in order to highlight and encourage artistic expression, film and cultural identity of the region. Promoting the permanence of cultures and strengthening the cultural policies of the city as a mechanism for citizen and community participation; thus supporting the development, exhibition and dissemination of film and the visual arts in the city of Guadalajara de Buga and Valle del Cauca; proposing dialogue between the various expressions of art today and their participation mechanisms mainly in the youth population. This festival seeks to create spaces for discussion, artistic and audiovisual creation in a participatory manner.
The festival became the first event of its kind in this area, for display, training, capacity building and collective on the subject of film and visual arts in Guadalajara de Buga and Valle del Cauca.
What is Claqueta Emérita?
Claqueta Emérita is a national short film festival that favors the production and promotion of audiovisual works made by national creators. Without losing the regional essence of its first years, Claqueta Emérita gives great value to the professional work made in Spain and Extremadura, as well as to the work made by young creators who have in the educational centers their most fervent reflection.
Claqueta Emérita is made up of several activities/actions:
● Short Film Contest aimed at individual or collective filmmakers who hold Spanish nationality.
● Workshops, meetings and audiovisual screenings carried out the days prior to the celebration of the Final Gala in Mérida or in towns of Extremadura.
● Final awards ceremony with the collaboration of students and recent graduates of the Audiovisual and Entertainment Production training cycle of the I.E.S. Extremadura.
of the I.E.S. Extremadura.
Organized by the cultural association Esmérarte, Claqueta Emérita has counted with the financing of the Consejería de Cultura, Turismo, Jóvenes y Deporte in its last editions, and with the collaboration of the Consejería de Cultura, Turismo, Jóvenes y Deporte in its last editions.
and with the collaboration of the City Council of Mérida since its beginnings.
Short film contest.
Among the activities to be carried out within Claqueta Emérita VII, there is a short film contest for Spanish filmmakers and creators.
