The New Urbanism Film Festival is a film festival with a purpose. We want to encourage audiences to think about how they can make their cities and towns a better place. If your film addresses issues in that area, we'd like to see it.
We give awards for the best short film in each of these categories
-Architecture
-Bicycles
-Economic Development
-Healthy Cities
-Street Art / Public Art
-Tactical Urbanism
-Urban Design
-Walkability
The Top Prizes are
-Best of Fest (Best Film (feature or short) explaining New Urbanism
-Emerging Ideas (Workshop, Installation, Presentation, or Event held during the festival)
After the screenings, audiences are invited to dialogue with leading urban thinkers about the issues raised during the movie and discuss current local projects.
The festival also offers lots of special events, workshops, tours and classes that help audiences take lessons from the film and apply them to their hometown. We strongly encourage filmmakers to attend the festival.
This festival attracts filmmakers, artists, street artists, architects, urban planners, political leaders, bicycle advocates, faith-based community leaders, and fans of the urban environment. Here's a list of some of our past guest speakers.
Melissa Balmer, California Bike Coalition
Howard Blackson, president California Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism
Andy Boenau, host Urbanism Speakeasy,
Chris Bruntlett, director, Vancouver Cycle Chic
Diego Cardoso, L.A. Planning Commission, Director of Planning at LA METRO
Rick Cole, Los Angeles Deputy Mayor for Budget & Innovation,
Tim Deegan, former Chair of the Mid City West Community Council
Chris Elisara, board member, Congress for the New Urbanism
Scott Epstein, chair Mid City West Community Council
William Fain, architect and urban planner, partner Johnson Fain,
Dawn Finley, co-founder, Feminist Library On Wheels
Nat Gale, LA Great Streets Program Director, Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti
Debra Gerod, Partner, Gruen Associates,
Dean Haglund, actor, the X-files,
Tim Halbur, director of communications at Congress for the New Urbanism
Karney Hatch, director, Plant This Movie
Eric Jacobsen, author, Sidewalks in the Kingdom
Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director The Garden
Colin Marhsal, host of Notebook on Cities and Culture
Kellie Morris, author, We All Ride Bikes
Bob Nesson, director, Power to the Pedals
Taylor Nichols, Mid City West Communit Council Transportation committee co-chair
Marquis Olison, community organizer
Moncho1929, street artist
Neal Payton, West Coast director of Torti Gallas Partners,
Stefanos Polyzoides, architect & urban planner MoulePolyzoides
Peter Quintanilla, Prince’s Foundation for Building Community
Thomas Rigler, producer of the KCET series CITYWALK
Rebecca Autumn Sansom, director, Trainsforming America
Meghan Sahli-Wells, Mayor of Culver City, co-founder of the Culver City Bike Coalition
Scott Schultz, creator, BUSted True tales from people who ride the bus in LA
Kyle Sears, New Parish Collective
Maria Sipin, co-host of Women Talk Bikes
Ryan Swanson, founder The Urban Conga
Barry Taylor, Art Center Professor of Advertising & Marketing
J. Keith Van Straaten, host, Beat the Geeks,
Mike Wells, producer, American Makeover: Fresno
Will Wright, AIA-LA honorary, Government affairs liaison
Awards & Prizes
Prizes include:
Award Certificate
Gifts from our sponsors and media partners
Free submissions for life
All Access Pass to NUFF2015
I film accettati saranno cortometraggi, medi e lungometraggi prodotti in video digitale; categorie di documentari, fiction, sperimentali o di animazione; film sugli sport di montagna, l'avventura o la spedizione; film che contribuiscono alla conoscenza e alla protezione dell'ambiente; film sulla cultura della montagna o sullo stile di vita all'aria aperta.
Il London International Animation Festival mette in mostra con orgoglio l'intero spettro dell'animazione creativa, dimostrando che l'animazione è adatta a tutti.
Fondata nel 2003, la LIAF mira a dissipare il malinteso popolare secondo cui l'animazione è solo cartoni animati per bambini, proiettando la più ampia gamma possibile di film attuali intelligenti, divertenti e provocatori provenienti da tutto il mondo, oltre a retrospettive e sessioni specializzate provenienti da paesi e animatori che normalmente non suscitano tale attenzione.
Il nostro Festival annuale di 10 giorni include anteprime di gala, retrospettive, domande e risposte con registi, workshop, voto del pubblico e proiezione del Best of the Festival.
The Outlet Dance Project is an annual festival of artists who identify or have identified as women, sharing their vision through film, site-specific dance, and work created for the stage. It is one of the largest, most popular, and well-attended dance festivals in New Jersey. In partnership with Grounds For Sculpture – an internationally renowned contemporary sculpture park – the festival celebrates the intersections of visual and moving arts, exploring relationships between sculpture and dance, between place and movement.
FRICINE aims to display, publicize and reward audiovisual works, ideas and actions that by their artistic form and the relevance of its content contribute to promote the overcoming of problems that disturb the Peace of Humanity and threaten Life on Earth.
Opting to go against primarily commercial interests, FRICINE's biggest prize is to give the public access to the debate on the main problems that the human being and it ecosystem face today.
FRICINE 2019 will highlight HUMOR,in its most diverse forms, for its extraordinary ability to stimulate us to disarm our fears and prejudices in search of a world more loving, healthy and just for all.
The Neyyar International Film Festival aims to set an internationally-recognized standard of excellence in film production.
The festival strive to support the work of talented and dedicated filmmakers by showcasing international films of the highest quality and awarding prizes in multiple categories of production formats and genres.
The festival also provides professional forums to enable quality films to gain increased distribution and access to wider audiences.
The Neyyar International Film Festival is produced and presented by Neyyar Film Critics Society, a leading national not-for-profit media arts organization.
The year-round programs of Neyyar Film Critics Society reach in the areas of exhibition, seminar and education of independent and art films.
The Inaugural Neyyar International Film Festival will take place in Neyyattinkara, Kerala, India from September 01-10, 2017.
Filmmakers participating in the Festival attend numerous screenings of films and other special events designed to allow interaction between filmmakers and audiences.
Filmmakers from around the world are invited to submit films.
About NYIFF
Founded early last year 2016, New York World (International) Film Festival (NYIFF) is a young and vigorous film festival eager to raise the profile of films from all across the globe. NYIFF is rooted in its mission to strengthen the art of cinematic storytelling by celebrating film at an international level and boosting the film industry on a global scale.
NYIFF hopes to discover films that preserve their own angles, speak for those underrepresented or reveal types of philosophies that have not been understood before.
This organization is grounded in the belief that film has the power to incite dialogues between different people, groups and nations, so that multiple perspectives can be understood amongst wide audiences.
About NYIFF 2017
NYIFF 2017 is a 4-day program, September 21st – 24th, which is comprised of:
Opening ceremony and red carpet
In-competition screening
Spotlight (non-competition screening)
Forums
Panel discussions
Closing awards ceremony
NYIFF 2017 is calling for entries, starting October 1, 2016 through December 30, 2016. Selected entries will be competing for these awards:
Feature (fiction)
Best Director
Best Actor in a leading role, Best actress in a leading role
Best Actor in a supporting role, Best actress in a supporting role
Best original screenplay
Best original music score
Feature (documentary)
Best Director
Best story
Documentary Short
Narrative Short
Short Screenplay Competition
Feature Screenplay Competition
Each year, NYIFF will select a spotlight theme to accompany the program to enhance the dialogue. Two jury awards will be given for the selection spotlight films.
Jury award for best narrative
Jury award for best documentary
Experimental Forum is an international performance, film and video art festival showcasing experimental film and artists’ moving image from new directors and innovative video artists from around the globe, with the third edition taking place in Los Angeles in November 2018. Our aim is to provide a supportive platform for the exciting and challenging work that is outside the scope of mainstream film festivals and art galleries.
We welcome experimental cinema pieces (abstract, narrative or documentary), video art works, essay films, artists’ moving image and media art, as well as documentary and narrative films that seek to expand, redefine or reconfigure the means and ends of their respective fields. Experimental Forum exists to provide access to, and develop audiences for, artists’ moving image work and is committed to engaging local audiences with new and/or unheard voices in film.
We are particularly interested in works made by early stage filmmakers and artists whose work is underrepresented. We provide a collaborative platform for moving image works made for the gallery and for the cinema with the aim of building a community across disciplinary and institutional faultlines.
FROM THE HEART OF HOLLYWOOD, SINCE 2015, WEB SERIES FESTIVAL GLOBAL, CELEBRATING GREAT CONTENT
WEB SERIES – PILOTS – SCRIPTS - TRAILERS - STUDENT - ONE PAGE FEEDBACK
SUBMIT TODAY! $5000.00 in awards
10th Annual Web Series Festival Global
September 8, 2023 Online Screenings & Awards with presenters from around the globe.
• All Genres accepted
• For A Global Community Of Content Creators
• Helping Creatives Shape the Future of TV
• Entries considered for Grand Prize or Category Winner $5000.00 in Awards
• We accept links to view online
• IMDB official event http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0003670/
SUBMISSIONS & AWARDS
A great opportunity for anyone wanting to
gain more exposure for their web series. There are four
categories that will be judged in this competition which are
Web Series Scripts (all lengths and formats)
Web Series
Pilot
Trailers
Student
One Page Feedback
Content can be submitted with or without distribution.
All submissions will also be considered for the grand prize. $5000.00 in Awards!
You could be the next Award Winner! Submit today. Screenings & Awards are from the heart of Hollywood. For our global community of creators, online screenings & awards.
Genres include but are not limited to: Drama, Comedy, Action, SyFy, Documentary, LGBT, Script, Animation, E/I, Horror. Experimental, Social and more.
• All award wins must be used within one year of festival win date.
Submit early and save.
“We saw the other winners, and there are some truly great series, congratulations!” – Rose of Dolls
“We would like to express our gratefulness for recognition and acknowledgement.” – Cedra Wal
“The biggest prize was just being accepted and considered and I’m entirely grateful for the experience.” – V. Carubia
"Web Series Festival Global is a very well run festival with great
communications with a group of prestigious judges that I’ve found to be more than fair in their selection processes.
I highly recommend this Film Festival to any screenwriter looking to have their Web Series take a major step in the right direction." -
Charles Petrilla
"Good communication. Nice people. Great selections." -Christopher Ramsey
LA Underground Film Forum (LAUFF) è la principale vetrina di Los Angeles di sperimentazione nei media cinematografici, video e audio. Si concentra su cinema d'avanguardia, d'arte, indipendente e non a basso budget, con la quinta edizione che si terrà a luglio 2020, Los Angeles.
Il nostro programma offre ai registi una sede per reinventare ed esplorare nuovi approcci, promuovere nuove forme di media art e costruire un pubblico per questo tipo di lavoro. Il nostro obiettivo è presentare una vasta gamma di lavori che esplorano le numerose definizioni e interpretazioni del concetto di «underground».
Cerchiamo film realizzati con passione, ossessione e spinta; film che vadano oltre le aspettative e il genere; film, progetti video e audio che si sforzano di superare i confini della forma e dei contenuti accettati. Un forte senso di paternità è un must.
LAUFF accetta tutte le forme e generi: dal dramma, documentario, sperimentale, cult, art-house, lingua straniera, commedia, horror, fantascienza, animazione, LGBT, indigeni, erotici, cinema lento e video arte...
Women in Focus emerged in 2009 with the aim of encouraging the promotion and protection of women's rights through film, through the dissemination of films that allow give visibility to the violation of their rights and encourage debate. In this way he sought to create an open standard for men and women around the world space where open dialogue between genres and promote the active participation of the whole society to defend the full exercise of human rights, with a focus on the situation women in the world. They worked on a broad call, unlimited sex, age or origin, and with the conviction that change is possible only from the inclusion of attention.
The axis of Women in Focus is on the woman and her history of violations, to disseminate and denounce the naturalization of the unjust conditions they are facing, and give visibility to the diversity of social, cultural experiences and forms of organization, aiming thinking about other possible worlds. Through films about women also understand and discuss the construction of gender and how it is all of society we seek.
The Curtas Fashion Festival is exclusively dedicated to the promotion of short-film audiovisual works with a fashion theme - highlighting the know-how of industry and handicrafts in this segment.
The Festival exhibits works finalized in digital supports, with a maximum duration of 3 minutes, and is competitive and informative.
The programming of the 1st edition of the Curtas Fashion Festival 2017 will be made up of the "O Saber Fazer do Moda" and Most Cena 1. Showcase with the main objective of promoting the exhibition, promotion and production of the short-lived audiovisual work of the fashion universe. In addition to the screening of films, the Festival also promotes workshops, lectures and debates.
Films for the competition at the Mostra Saber Fazer Fashion competition are free.
Organized by Associazione Culturale “NO_NAME” with support of the Municipality of Pedara (Sicily, Italy), SICILY INTERNATIONAL SHORT LEAGUE, is a festival totally dedicated to short movies from all over the world, included in the annual program of “Via dei Corti - Festival Indipendente di Cinema Breve”.
The 9th edition of Sicily International Short League will take place among 8th and 22th of July in Pedara.
Foreing authors are invited to send their short movies with italian subtitles. Info: shortleague@viadeicorti.it
IL FESTIVAL
Il Comune di Gravina di Catania e le associazioni Gravina Arte e No_Name ormai da sette anni cercano di promuovere il territorio attraverso la cultura. Una cultura che trova una sinergia particolare nel rapporto tra cinema e creatività. In un momento come quello di oggi, dove l’arte e soprattutto il cinema rischiano di essere sopraffatti dall’apatia generale, manifestazioni di questo tipo hanno il presupposto di convogliare le energie innovative in qualcosa di artistico e universale. Ecco perché il Festival è aperto a tutti senza distinzione di età e nazione.
Dopo le diverse iniziative degli anni passati che hanno visto protagonisti i cortometraggi nelle tematiche più particolari e diverse, nel 2015 nasce l’evento “Via dei Corti” - Festival Indipendente di Cinema Breve che oggi è giunto alla sua X edizione che avrà luogo a Gravina di Catania, presso l’Auditorium Angelo Musco dal 27 al 30 novembre 2025.
Meraki International Film Fest aims to promote culture Film world through audiovisual works, discovering those innovative proposals in this field.
Dal 2009, il Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest è il primo e più grande festival a tema LGBTQ (lesbiche, gay, bisessuali, transgender, queer) nella regione dei Caraibi. Stiamo cercando film da tutto il mondo da proiettare alla dodicesima edizione del Festival a maggio 2024, oltre a proiezioni speciali.
Breaking away from traditional norms, Frame by Sound presented by Vents Magazine offer patrons a unique and groundbreaking experience of its own kind. By taking it online, FxS reaches audiences around the world in an effort to bring a personal film and music festival in the comfort of their own home. Various ways to experience are via computer, mobile, ROKU/APPLE TV.
Film enthusiasts can get live backstage access and interviews and interact with panelists in special online Q&A sessions, workshops, panels featuring filmmakers, cast members and entertainment industry professionals. Check a little recap from last year here http://ventsmagazine.com/2016/12/25/vents-frame-sound-festival-announce-date-2017-edition/
This particular year (2017) we count with a very interesting jury board. More names might come later on:
-Screenwriter Javier Gullon (Enemy, Darren Aronofsky produced film Glare, HBO's Glare)
-Director of Photography Nicolas Bolduc (Enemy, Aloft)
-Film and Music Critic Patrick O'Heffernan (Spirit Awards)
-PR Angie Burns (D Films Corps, includes The Neon Demon, The Wall...)
-Actor Brandon K. Hampton (Better Call Saul)
-Music Composer Zack Hemsey
We also count with full support of Chilean international page Mundo Peliculas (530+ likes and counting)
Lo scopo del festival si riferisce alla consapevolezza sia dei filtri esterni sullo schermo, inclusa la censura (commerciale, ideologica, estetica), sia dei filtri interni della percezione e della proiezione dello schermo, inclusa l'autocensura. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO è un'esplorazione dell'estetizzazione e della mercificazione nell'arte. Il prossimo obiettivo del festival è quello di esporre la complessità, la molteplicità e la varietà del cinema.
NEFILTRAVANAE KINO è un festival cinematografico organizzato dallo Short Movie Club, la piattaforma per progetti cinematografici. NEFILTRAVANAE KINO è un festival qualificato per l'ADAMI Media Prize. L'International Film Studies Conference si svolge contemporaneamente al festival cinematografico. In questo modo, la teoria e la pratica cinematografica sono integrate insieme al NEFILTRAVANAE KINO.
Originariamente il festival si svolgeva in Bielorussia, ma a causa della repressione politica e delle posizioni contro la guerra dichiarate pubblicamente, proiezioni ed eventi possono essere organizzati in diversi paesi. Prima di tutto in Lituania (Vilnius). Ad esempio, la decima edizione di Nefiltravanae Kino si è svolta a Berlino, Vilnius e Helsinki l'anno scorso. Sono stati selezionati 63 film per 12 programmi cinematografici. https://shortmovie.club/programmes/10-2024/
Il concetto del NEFILTRAVANAE KINO (Unfiltered Cinema):
PROBLEMA DI ALIENAZIONE
Viviamo in un mondo di centri commerciali e cinema multisala. Vediamo che il cinema indipendente e l'arte non commerciale vanno alla periferia dell'attenzione del pubblico. Le attrazioni primitive sostituiscono la cinematografia. Il pubblico di Escape si sente alienato dietro il grande schermo. Quindi il cinema mainstream moderno fa parte di uno strumento di manipolazione che porta alla società dell'alienazione. Quindi la tendenza è che il cinema indipendente diventi più illeggibile per il vasto pubblico. Dovremmo capire il contesto del regista per comprendere il cinema indipendente. Ecco perché il concetto di NEFILTRAVANAE KINO implica la presenza fisica dei registi.
PROBLEMA DI SELEZIONE DEI FILM
I registi girano milioni di film. E migliaia di festival di cortometraggi organizzano proiezioni in tutto il mondo ogni anno. In media, diverse migliaia di film vengono presentati a un festival cinematografico. Quindi vari buoni film possono essere trascurati per qualsiasi motivo. Spesso selezionare la probabilità è come vincere alla lotteria. Di conseguenza, i registi non hanno alcun feedback. È un paradosso che nessuno possa sentirti nell'era di Internet! La cultura tradizionale predilige le attrazioni e la visione informale.
Inoltre, questa idea si basa sul problema della selezione dei film. Forse non sorprende che una persona, vale a dire il direttore del programma nella migliore delle ipotesi, o anche gli studenti delle scuole di cinema prendano una decisione preliminare sulla selezione di un film. La concordanza tra giudici o spettatori è più rara della differenza di background e gusti. Quindi la selezione o il giudizio possono essere unilaterali o superficiali. Non è male perché il direttore del programma ha un buon gusto e una sensibilità estetica, ovviamente. Ma abbiamo scoperto un'altra concezione di «cinema non filtrato». L'abbiamo confrontato con il metodo «il meglio del meglio». Questo modo aiuta a percepire l'idioma cinematografico senza il dettato dei curatori d'arte.
CELEBRAZIONE DEL CINEMA INDIPENDENTE
Quindi l'Unfiltered Cinema Film Festival cerca di evitare il «meglio del meglio» ma non lo ignora completamente, certo. Il festival seleziona sezioni di finzione, animazione, documentario, sperimentale e realtà virtuale. Una giuria premia il miglior film in ogni sezione. Il festival organizza le proiezioni nelle sale cinematografiche, nel Centro nazionale per le arti contemporanee e negli spazi artistici.
Il nostro obiettivo è riunire le persone nell'arte, dialogare per essere felici con una comunicazione intelligente. Il cinema è arte ma non sport. Il punto chiave del nostro progetto è stabilire una comunicazione tra il regista e il pubblico.
Per favore, leggi la storia del festival attraverso il link al sito web del festival. http://shortmovie.club/history/
Lo Short Movie Club si occupa della costruzione di CineMaVan (vedi https://www.behance.net/gallery/33392769/Cinema-van-Mobile-library-Amphibia).
Experimental Forum is an international performance, film and video art festival showcasing experimental film and artists’ moving image from new directors and innovative video artists from around the globe, with the third edition taking place in Los Angeles in November 2018. Our aim is to provide a supportive platform for the exciting and challenging work that is outside the scope of mainstream film festivals and art galleries.
We welcome experimental cinema pieces (abstract, narrative or documentary), video art works, essay films, artists’ moving image and media art, as well as documentary and narrative films that seek to expand, redefine or reconfigure the means and ends of their respective fields. Experimental Forum exists to provide access to, and develop audiences for, artists’ moving image work and is committed to engaging local audiences with new and/or unheard voices in film.
We are particularly interested in works made by early stage filmmakers and artists whose work is underrepresented. We provide a collaborative platform for moving image works made for the gallery and for the cinema with the aim of building a community across disciplinary and institutional faultlines.
