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India is a land of art and cultural heritage and it is spread in various forms in our society whether it's dance, drama, music, films, painting, sports, etc. Being a global enterprise, Indian Cinema (Bollywood) is a remarkable example of our cultural diversity and it has the greatest influence on India's national identity. We always celebrate our art and one of the best ways is to do so is film festivals. There are many film festivals in Asia where filmmakers and film lovers alike can celebrate the best and the brightest. We are adding one more precious feather to it and that’s the BOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL (BIFF).
Launched in January 2020, Bollywood International Film Festival–BIFF is founded by some of the best-known actors, directors and film professionals. BIFF intends to provide a place that connects the film lovers and makers around the world.
This film festival promotes new movie makers, looking to get publicity for their films, exchange of knowledge, information, ideas, the culture of India and other nations in their social and cultural ethos.
The festival will host various forums for academic interactions on Filmmaking, Film Appreciation like seminars, Workshops, Master classes etc., for the benefit of film professionals, discerning audience and students on unique aspects of cinema.
We invite filmmakers, people from the film fraternity, film critics, journalists, discerning cineastes from amongst the public & International and National film Institutes; distribution agencies/organisations, to witness the glorious start of BIFF. We sincerely hope the film lovers will use this opportunity to enroll as delegates and enjoy the contemporary world cinema and the classics.
Ibicine Asociación Cinematográfica de Ibiza (IACI) was born out of love for cinema and the island of Ibiza with the firm commitment to provide the island with activities related to cinema as well as a film programme that opens the range of cultural activities on the island to new audiences and thus turn Ibiza into a meeting point for the national and international film sector.
Ibicine, Ibiza Film Festival, is one of the annual activities of IACI, organized by the Association and by the production company Dicho y Hecho Porducciones.
Ibicine is a festival that is committed to emerging national, international and Balearic Island talent, which seeks to enhance emerging filmmakers and generate links with established talents, giving special importance to the short film and its technicians, rewarding by categories the technical and artistic aspects that have a place in these film productions with the Astarté awards. a statuette created and made in Ibiza in honour of the Phoenician goddess who left her mark on the island.
In addition to the Official SOC Short Film Section, the festival also has Parallel Sections, as well as the Official SOL Feature Film Section and the projects in development thanks to the creation of the Ibiza Film Market Project Forum, organized by BIAM (Balearic Islands Audiovisual Market) within the framework of the festival, to promote professional cinema on the island, so that a meeting point is generated with the national and international industry to generate and strengthen relationships within the sector: creators, producers, platforms, buyers, etc.
All these activities come together in Ibiza, a perfect place to disconnect from the routines and stress of the big cities and, in this perfect setting, synergies, new projects and learning take place, closing contracts and thus generating the film industry in an unparalleled environment.
Ibicine has been selected by UNESCO as the representative festival of Spain in the Movie Travel film tourism routes, has received recognition from the Consell d'Eivissa, has been awarded the Business Excellence Award as Best Festival in the Balearic Islands by Acquisition International magazine and Festival of the Year 2023 - Spain by LUXlife magazine.
Since 2022 the Festival has been a collaborator of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain, being part of the list of festivals that qualify for the Goya Awards, in the categories of Fiction, Animation and Documentary, in this 8th edition for the Goya Awards 2026.
In this way, the fiction, animation and documentary short films awarded with the Astarté for best fiction short film and with the Astarté for best documentary short film, will opt directly for nomination for the Goya awards, and those selected in the Official Section of Ibicine will be able to opt to enter the list of qualified for the Goya if they add, along with this selection, six other selections in festivals collaborating with the Academy. ***
To consult the rules of participation in the 39th edition of the Goya Awards
Click on the following link (short films on page 39) : https://www.premiosgoya.com/pdfs/bases-39-premios-goya/
To consult the list of festivals collaborating with the Goya awards:
https://www.premiosgoya.com/pdfs/listado-festivales-39-premios-goya/
In addition, the short film awarded with the Astarté for best fiction short film will be qualified for the Fugaz 2025 awards of Cortoespaña.
Ibicine's selection committee is made up of professionals from the sector from different guilds: editing, directing, scriptwriting, cinematography, acting and production; and works together so that the selection is careful and always responds to the criteria of professional quality, diversity, equality with varied themes and genres, to achieve an annual program that manages to take viewers to enjoy and learn from the seventh art through different stories and perspectives.
The jury of each edition of Ibicine is made up of an average of between five and seven professionals from the film sector, also representatives of the different guilds. The jury is chaired by a professional selected by the board of directors of the Association, who has the power to break the tie in the event of a tie, in addition to attending to the media on behalf of the rest of the jury, it is always made up of a large part of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain, as well as international members.
Ibicine has been sponsored in each of its editions by the actresses Paz Vega, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Nadia de Santiago, Inma Cuevas and Michelle Calvó and sponsored, since the first edition, by the actor and comedian Jon Plazaola, who accompanies us in each edition as a lifetime sponsor of the festival.
To date, we have celebrated and recognized the talent of national and international talents, rewarding their film careers with the Astarté de Honor award to: the actress Terele Pávez, the director Isabel Coixet, the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media CIMA, the actor and director Paco León, the actress Yolanda Ramos, the comedian Eva Soriano, the journalist and film disseminator Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, the international producer and screenwriter Axel Kuschevatzky, the co-founder of FILMIN Jaume Ripoll and the international actor Leonardo Sbaraglia.
Ibicine is possible thanks to the support of island institutions such as the Consell d'Eivissa, l'Ajuntament d'Eivissa, l'Ajuntament de Santa Eulària and l'Ajuntament de Sant Antoni de Portmany, as well as that of sponsoring companies, collaborators and the media dissemination of media partners such as IB3, Diario de Ibiza, TEF, Cadena SER and Periódico de Ibiza. It is thanks to them, the passionate team and the volunteers who join every year, that this cultural meeting in Ibiza is possible and has become an essential annual event for all film buffs.
San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival is a US government approved 501(C) (3) tax-exempt non-profit organization.
Provide an international platform for all film lovers, professional filmmakers and film/media students who love film-making to stand out.
Discover and select potential talents with new technique & skills, who demonstrate the original concept and accelerate their development within the film industry.
Encourage new filmmakers especially young and first-time filmmakers for their new productions. Encourage and celebrate original and insightful screenwriting and new ideas in the film. Accept films in all categories and subject matter.
Make friends and enhance communication through films.
• 2024 The 11th Festival Schedule:
October 30, 2024 to November 10, 2024
The International Film Festival "Piriápolis de Película" is an event that has consolidated itself as an essential space for the meeting of the independent production of national and international filmmakers. It is characterized by exhibiting, completely free of charge, a selection of outstanding audiovisual productions, short, medium and feature films of all genres. It also has an Iberoamerican Short Film Contest, whose objective is to stimulate and disseminate the production of short films in the region and the continent, adorned by an outstanding international jury.
El Grito is the first and only fantasy and horror film festival in Venezuela.
We are a space that promotes reflection, meeting and training through fantasy and horror films, serving as a platform for their dissemination and promotion as genres that go beyond entertainment, highlighting its poetic value and its own tools to move from different narratives, techniques and themes. Under the initiative of the El Grito Casa Audiovisual (www.elgritoproduce.com), this meeting was born in December 2019 in the city of San Cristobal, Tachira State.
We look for works that transcend narrative, aesthetic and technical languages within the genre, using history as the main element in his audiovisual proposal, demonstrating as an author, a search for new ways of showing situations, conflicts and twists of the screw hand in hand with references from different disciplines that feed its concept.
EL GRITO seeks to raise its voice until it becomes a thunderous noise that shakes our city and summons for years all kinds of nightmares and monsters that can strengthen our worn out humanity sensibility.
More information in elgritoproduce.com
Main Program (International competition), which will regularly feature films from all over the world from among a director’s first and second feature films. The idea is to promote new filmmakers who are making a debut or are only just starting their careers.
This program’s goal is to identify and promote relatively unknown filmmakers’ new film stories, giving them a chance at the beginning of their film careers.
The idea for this film festival emanated from the dire need for a wider space to present debut films by many new filmmakers from the region and all over the world.
The International Film Festival KineNova Skopje, therefore, includes activities such as promotion, support, incentives, exchange of experiences, and film awards. It is a venue for new filmmakers to showcase new stories and offer a fresh perspective of humanity and the world we live in.
The festival and the city of Skopje have the honor to be the meeting point for new filmmakers and a springboard for their respective career paths.
The topic of the work will be the violence of gender, in any of its manifestations, its prevention and sensitization against it, being able to present documentaries and short films of plot fiction.
The jury will have special consideration for those works that address this issue by focusing on the youth world.
Cortomontagna prize is exclusively dedicated to short films.
The prize’s main theme is Mountain life, told and documented through a video that expresses the author's point of view and interpretation.
Possible takes on the main theme can range from the narration of sporting activities (skiing, climbing, hiking - for example), to naturalistic-environmental themes, to facts and life stories of communities or mountain territories.
Everyone can take part in this competition.
EVERYTHING RAISED ON THIS PLATFORM IRA TO STRENGTHEN THE SCHOOL OF CINEMA IN C.O.V.I (Solano)
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IMPORTANT: MOVIES MUST CONTAIN SUBTITLES IN SPANISH UNLESS THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE IS SPANISH. Printed in the video image or in perfect sync with the online player attached in the Festhome platform ( YOUTUBE , VIMEO, etc... )
Films that do not complete this regulation will need the subtitles ready to send to the Festival if the film is selected.
HOWEVER, THEIR IS AN ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL SERVICE FOR THE FESTIVAL TO CREATE AND/OR TRANSLATE SUBTITLES FOR YOU FILM. PLEASE READ RULES FOR ADDITIONAL INFO AND PRICES.
Films from the undergound, self-managed, decentralized and free distribution. Environmental and audiovisual tools used for pure joy, happiness, disinformation, emotional connection, television detoxification, collective cooperation, social creation of art, the multiplication of free cinema and more ...
The festival is a social tool viewable and controlled. It is an annual event, managed in a friendly network in cities across the continent, which displays unpublished, experimental or out of the system, linking non-conventional spaces, creating a common grid and a shared mission, fruit of a collective intelligence and the freedom of speech.
The festival is a social tool for visibility and coordination. It is an annual event, produced in a network, in several cities of the continent, which allows to display unpublished audiovisual productions, experimental or outside the industrial system and, in coordination, to contact non-traditional exhibition spaces generating a common grid and a fruit object / text of the collective Intelligence put into operation and manifestation.
This year the festival is not absent, we believe that it is more than ever necessary to maintain the premises for which the festival was created, understanding us as a counter-information tool, during these 14 years the dynamics of the festival has traveled unusual sites for what is understood as the official circuit of film festivals in conventional rooms for projections but in this way we have created walls, floors, cultural centers, neighborhoods, squares, streets, settlements, meeting spaces to see what is happening underneath the surface.
This edition has 2 OBJECTIVES
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It is 16 years to accompany the under scene, this space that changes year after year, which takes new form when it is possible to see what is being filmed accompanying the new languages of this time. This experimental scene began to leave experiences that we were channeling in the conurbano, in the occupation and the promotion, in if in sharing, that nourished something that today is a few steps and that is one of the great objectives that has this edition 2024 .
we are already away from the commercial circuits or day-to-day broadcasting and we are looking for the construction of the cinema school in the Covi neighborhood of Solano, where we hold the film festival and believe that the TRECE will be a great kick for this experience that we support and we have been part since its inception.
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The productions chosen, will be part of the retrospective that we will be projecting in a route that will unite different points of Argentina.
The film festival will become itinerant.
Here we see cinema, we talk about cinema, we make cinema. We experiment with the form and structure of the festival, always. We want to rotate the transparency of the impeccable narratives. We are self-management, we have great reasons to criticize from a clear political position our sociocultural context of audiovisual production. We seek to see that which is hidden beyond the superficial, without red carpets.
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 Esseoesse Cultural Association announces the competition "CortoDino Film Festival Dino De Laurentiis 2024 - XIV Edition", a competition that stems from desire to remember and celebrate, in his native land and in commemorative and propositive terms, the figure and work of Dino De Laurentis. The Metropolitan city of Naples, Vesuvian areas, “Giorgio De Chirico’s Secondary School of Art and Communication”, the others secondary schools of the area and the main cultural associations of the Vesuvian and Campanian areas will collaborate in the event.
So, the main aim of the initiative is to create an opportunity for meeting, confrontation and knowledge of young filmmakers who enter the cinematographic sector, in which the influence left by the illustrious “Torrese” has certainly been significant, promoting cinematographic culture through the inclusion of disadvantaged people and the research and promotion of works by talents from Campania, and also national and international.
The presence of the world of solidarity, cultural associations and of school is the clearest sign of the purpose of connecting in particular with the world of young people.
Cortodino Film Festival XIV edition will take place in November 2024. Cities, places and days of the event will be subsequently communicated.
The 26th Kinoarte Film Festival, to be held from November 14th to December 1st, is receiving applications for its competitive sessions of short films. Films up to 25 minutes long, produced from January 2023 may participate in the Ibero-American, National, Paranaense and Londrinense competitions.
The FICTU is a festival that focuses on short films and seeks to connect the audiovisual production of Boyacá with the current national and world cinema.
The festival has 4 competitions which are:
- Boyacá short films competition
- Colombian short films competition
- International short films competition
- Colombian feature film competition
SMR13 INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
The SMR13 International Independent Film Festival is an annual, IMDb-certified, four (4)-day event held in the second half of November, in Saint-Mitre-Les-Remparts, in the south of France, near Marseille.
First and foremost, it's a physical festival, taking place in "La Manare", a dedicated performance hall with a total surface area of 1000m² and a capacity of 250 spectators.
The 9th edition of the SMR13 international independent film festival will take place from November XX to XX, 2024.
The festival stands out for its highly developed network, passionate members and trusted partnerships. It is a unique showcase for independent cinema, attracting professionals from all over the world.
Since its inception, the festival has been supported by a patron, an emblematic figure in independent cinema. John Carpenter (2018), director, screenwriter and composer (Halloween, The Thing, New York 1997...). Andréa Ferréol (2019), actress (La Grande Bouffe, Le Dernier Métro, La Scoumoune...). Francis Ford Coppola (2019), director and screenwriter (Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Dracula...). Virginie Lemoine (2020), actress (Famille d'Accueil, Nos années parallèles, Oscar...). Sean S. Cunningham (2021), director and producer (Friday The 13th, Spring Break, DeepStar Six...). Patrice Leconte (2022 and 2023), director and producer (Les Bronzés, Les Spécialistes, Maigret...).
The 9th Ajayu International Animation Festival is a cultural event organized by Sapa Inti Studios and the Ajayu Cinematographic Association. For the ninth consecutive year, it stands as the only animation festival in Peru, carrying out hybrid film and educational activities from the highest point of the Peruvian highlands to the world.
This event, which also includes various cultural activities, has become a crucial event for the Animation industry in our country over the years, also promoting the cultural and tourist industry in the southern region of Peru. Additionally, through our in-person activities, we aim to boost tourism in our region by creating a tourist route with a cultural and historical focus.
This year's festival will take place from October 2 to October 5, 2024, renewing the commitment to showcase the artistic expression of animation.
Participants include artists from the animated audiovisual field and other disciplines, from the Puno region, Peru, and various countries around the world, who through their expression make each edition a contemporary Andean experience.
FICDOS was created in 2006 with Jane Chaplin as the guest of honor. It is a contest created for the appreciation, production, production and criticism of world cinema in the Eje Cafetero ("Landscape and cultural heritage of humanity" - UNESCO). It has been declared by the Honorable Municipal Council of Dosquebradas as “… event of utmost importance in the cultural structure of the municipality…” (Municipal Agreement 014 September 2011) and by the Central Western Metropolitan Area as (Metropolitan Agreement, July 2013) .
Colors of Love - Queer Film Festival is a vibrant LGBTIQ community initiative created by filmmakers to celebrate and curate queer short films, documentaries, animations, music videos, and web series. Our mission is to introduce these stories to new audiences in a fun, engaging, and informative way.
We welcome submissions of any short films, documentaries, animations, music videos, or web series that explore LGBTQ+ themes, regardless of when they were made. Please ensure that you hold all the rights to your film, including music, images, and likenesses used in it.
With the success of last year’s event, we’re thrilled to announce that this year we are expanding the length of eligible films from 20 minutes to 40 minutes. Additionally, we are introducing a brand-new LGBTQ Feature Film category to further showcase diverse and powerful queer stories.
Colors of Love Queer Film Festival become the official part of FilmyBees Cine Club, which manages and hosts the festival and associated programs. The last event took place on 22nd - 23rd June during Pride Month, celebrating the diversity of love in Mumbai, the Bollywood city of India.
By submitting your film, you grant us permission to screen it in unlimited live screenings throughout the year.
Additionally, we will host an online event at the end of the year, where all selected films will be screened via our online film streaming partners. This is a non-exclusive agreement, meaning you are free to share your film elsewhere.