FARO 1540 - La Asociación para la Defensa y la Promoción del Patrimonio Ambiental y Cultural de Faro, tras el éxito de las últimas ediciones de FARCUME - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Faro, organiza la 11ª edición de este Festival que se celebrará en la ciudad de Faro del 26 al 28 de septiembre de 2025.
Esta 15ª edición de FARCUME pretende exhibir y promover obras de la sección de cortometrajes de hasta 18 minutos de duración, divididas en tres categorías: Animación, Documental y Ficción.
En este festival, todos los ciudadanos nacionales y extranjeros pueden participar, individualmente o en grupos, simplemente cumpliendo con lo estipulado en el reglamento, llenando un formulario de inscripción y enviando sus obras a la organización antes del 11 de julio de 2025, sujeto a preselección.
El objetivo principal de este Festival sigue siendo el mismo: dar a conocer y dar a conocer nuevos talentos, así como promover de cerca del público los excelentes trabajos que se realizan en este ámbito, pero que no siempre cuentan con la promoción deseada y merecida.
En otras palabras, FARCUME, en un ambiente informal, de buen humor y distendido, pretende premiar y reconocer la dedicación, el compromiso, la creatividad y el mérito de los directores, actores y equipos técnicos que, con medios modestos, pueden desarrollar obras de gran calidad.
Dados los principios y objetivos de «FARO 1540», que incluso tiene el estatus de ONG (Organización Ambiental No Gubernamental), el Festival seguirá teniendo una gran preocupación y sensibilidad ambiental, alertando a los participantes para que no presenten cortometrajes que denuncien o fomenten la falta de respeto por el medio ambiente, la desigualdad de los derechos humanos o el abuso de los animales. Se desarrollará aún más un Plan de Gestión Ambiental específicamente «diseñado» para este evento a fin de garantizar la optimización de los recursos necesarios para la promoción y realización del evento y la gestión de los residuos generados.
Mission:
A judged film festival described as "Sundance with Fangs" by Newsday Long Island. We provide a venue for showcasing your films within a celebratory & respectful environment, where fans can enjoy the independent films entered by those of you who passionately craft your Strange-ifical, Weird-ifical, Horror-ifical, Sci-fi-tastical, Fantastical and Macabre-licious films. The opportunity to win awards, increase film visibility via press and possibly obtain distribution is always part of the equation with the Macabre Faire Film Festival.
For starters the word "Macabre" is pronounced: Ma-Cob. The "re" is hardly ever heard. What does it mean?
Although it is an adjective meaning: disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury, WE ARE NOT SOLELY A HORROR FILM FESTIVAL but instead a whole lot more than that. We usually approach the Macabre Faire Film Festival with a lighter touch in the sense that, not all of the films screened are horror and instead many may simply be considered a bit on the darker side. Of course, we will add some horror to this festival but, when we hear the word "Macabre" we remember those hauntingly fascinating films that starred legendary greats such as:
Vincent Price & Peter Cushing or those fantastic Gothic horrors like the "Hammer" films. These names in themselves represent what "macabre" means to us. What we are saying is that the word "Macabre" DOES NOT mean we only accept HORROR films but instead that we welcome those films that can tap into our fears through what you don't see or hear. A dark drama, mystery, suspense, thriller or dark comedy can do a lovely job making us feel uncomfortable in the dark. So folks, this is what many of the films selected for the Macabre Faire Film Festival offer. A buffet for any pallet. About the only thing we may have to say "No Thanks" to would be a romantic comedy/drama... unless, there's a monster under the bed during love making or other dark element.
All submitted films are pre-screened by select judges that includes Eileen Dietz, our Festival Ambassador, of the original "The Exorcist" film to ensure the films have followed guidelines and are an overall fit for the festival. Then the films are passed on to another set of judges consisting of more filmmakers, film critics, genre film fans and or seasoned actors to choose the Official Selections. Once these selections have been identified there is an additional judging process in collaboration with the original pre-screening judges to identify the different category nominees. Once you have been notified we insist on having the film festival entry form filled out and submitted back to the festival via email or snail mail within 4 weeks of acceptance. This form can be found on our website or it has been emailed to you as an attachment with your initial welcoming email.
URGENT NOTE: IF THERE IS NO CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE FESTIVAL AND INDIVIDUAL WHO SUBMITTED THE ACCEPTED FILM WITHIN 4 WEEKS FROM INITIAL ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION, WHICH ALL FILMMAKERS RECEIVE FROM FESTHOME BY DEADLINE DATE, YOUR FILM WILL NO LONGER BE AN OFFICIAL SELECTION IN THE MACABRE FAIRE FILM FESTIVAL. So we urge everyone to check their spam folders at all times and or ensure to make contact with the festival within 4 weeks of the acceptance notification. Failure to do so will exclude your film from the festival. Please take the time to ACTUALLY READ all the pages of the submission form which contains mailing address information (if needed) and other very important details which includes getting your discs or film posters sent to the festival in a timely fashion. This does not mean mailing materials in 2 weeks before the event as they will not be accepted.
Moving on...
January's festival always falls on Martin Luther King Jr weekend for easy remembering. This 4 day event start with Thursday and Friday being solely screening days with minimal panels within 3 screening rooms. The festival continues for another 2 days with Saturday screenings starting at 12pm into midnight within 4-5 screening rooms and an intimately sized vendor room with additional panels available for guests. Saturday evening is capped with an elaborate Red Carpet Gala Award Ceremony that offers a glamorous atmosphere filled with Press, Photos, Entertainment, Dinner and Awards! This is NOT to be missed.
Sunday captures the conversations from the night prior winners and more. A perfect day to catch those shorts you may have missed as it usually hosts an encore segment for short films from 12pm until 6pm. Be sure to visit the vendor room before the day is over and sit in on another panel or other special treat before it all ends until the following year.
Several films that have screened at MFFF have received distribution at this time for titles like: Cannibal Diner, Caesar & Otto's Deadly XMas, Caesar & Otto's Paranormal Halloween, Model Hunger, The Perfect House, House of Afflictions, Dead Woman's Hollow, The Long Island Serial Killer, The Ghouligans, Devil Knows His Own, Coyote, and others being discussed at this very moment. Will yours be next?
EIDF, Presented by Korea Educational Broadcasting System. is 12th edition this year.
As an unique documentary festival of which all the selected works are screened at theaters and are broadcast during festival, EIDF has contributed to introduce the excellent, various documentaries to the audeince and develop the quialify of docuemtary making.
ANIMA – Festival Internacional de Animación de Córdoba es un evento de carácter académico y cultural, de alcance internacional, dedicado específicamente al arte y la técnica de la animación. De periodicidad bianual, constituye el principal evento realizado en la República Argentina respecto a la animación, y uno de los más relevantes de América Latina.
En cada edición, ANIMA convoca a una maravillosa comunidad de animadores, cineastas, diseñadores, productores, artistas audiovisuales y visuales; que durante los tres días del festival disfrutan de paneles, seminarios, exhibiciones, proyecciones y muchas oportunidades de socialización.
El proyecto “Ko&digital: Festival Internacional de Cine Solidario” llama a concurso a cortos y documentales (incluyendo animación) que sensibilicen con temas sociales, medioambientales y de solidaridad.
BOSIFEST es el festival internacional de cine documental para y para personas con discapacidad, el único de este tipo en el sudeste de Europa, que organizará este año por decimoséptima vez en Serbia el Hendi Center Koloseum. Como en los últimos dieciséis años, este año se proyectarán en la gran pantalla un gran número de películas, tanto en la parte competitiva como en la no competitiva. Hasta ahora, los visitantes del BOSIFEST han tenido la oportunidad de ver 950 películas que tienen como tema la vida de las personas con discapacidad o que han sido creadas por autores discapacitados.
Además de las proyecciones de películas, el BOSIFEST ofrece programas adicionales en forma de talleres, mesas redondas y mesas redondas.
El Festival Axolotl de Cine Escaparates de la Ciudad de México junto con Cactus Films convocan a los cineastas mexicanos y extranjeros residentes en y fuera del país a participar en su segunda edición que se llevará a cabo del 9 al 13 de noviembre del 2016 en los escaparates de distintos comercios de las principales calles del Centro Histórico.
Los escaparates son pantallas naturales, desaprovechadas, para presentar y recrear nuestra vida y experiencias en la Ciudad de México. Los comercios han dejado de ser lugares de encuentro de los ciudadanos y son espacios que nos separan. creemos que el cine puede generar y promover un sentido de comunidad entre los habitantes y visitantes de la ciudad.
Podrán participar todos los cortometrajes en cine y video que referencien por su tema, personajes, escenario y/o historia a la ciudad de México. Podrán participar cortometrajes tanto los producidos en la ciudad de México, como aquellos producidos en el interior del país y en el extranjero.
Las asociaciones culturales AlchemicArts y Gruppo Augusteo, en colaboración con Tetra Vision Production, se complacen en anunciar el 15º Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes, «CORTISONANTI 2024», conocido por su innovación y sus talleres de cine bien organizados en Nápoles, Italia.
A-TAR: Muestra Internacional de Escuelas de Cine y Medios audiovisuales convoca a institutos, escuelas y centros de enseñanza cinematográfica, medios audiovisuales y animación a inscribir largometrajes, cortometrajes de ficción, documental o animación realizados por sus alumnos y maestros a participar en A-TAR a celebrarse del 23 al 27 de Septiembre de 2019 en la ciudad de Mexicali B.C. México
Ars Independent Festival 2019 will be the 9th multimedia festival of film, animation, video games and music videos. The upcoming edition will take place in Katowice, between the 24th and 29th of September 2019.
The festival is searching for what’s cool in young, debuting, contemporary audio-visual culture. It’s not afraid to watch videos with 27 views on YouTube, it’s missing the “least popular” sorting option on itch.io and considers Festival Scope Pro decidedly “too mainstream”.
The heart of the festival are four international competitions, in which the audience decides about the awarding of prizes. The Black Horse of Film (feature films from all over the world) and the Black Horse of Animation (short features) present the cinematographic debuts by directors from the entire world, often as their Polish premieres. The Black Horse of Video Games and the Black Horse of Music Video are devoted to new games and music videos.
Additionally, every year festivalgoers are treated to: screenings of films, animations and music videos, video game exhibitions, virtual reality and new technologies, discussion panels and Q&As with artists, concerts, live acts and musical afterparties.
In previous years, the festival hosted a variety of artists from all over the world, including Béla Tarr, Nina Menkes, Phil Mulloy, Laila Pakalnina, Bruce LaBruce, Tami Tamaki, Stephen „M.O.O.N.” Gilarde, Jakuba Dvorský, Mariola Brillowska, Piotr Dumała, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Bodo Kox, Łukasz Barczyk, Sos Sosowski, Wiktor Stribog and Władysław Komendarek.
The event is organized by the culture institution Katowice the City of Gardens and the City of Katowice.
To participate in the first edition of "Cefalu Film Festival Pino Scicluna» must register by April 25, 2015 using the special form that is on the page of the competition and also published in the electronic journal 'Cefalunews. "Participation in the competition is free. Each participant will have to get your movie to the secretariat of the "Cefalu Film Festival Pino Scicolone" in digital format, for the projection to the public, by May 31, 2015.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Santo Tomé y Príncipe.
El concurso está dirigido a cineastas de todo el mundo que producen cortometrajes y documentales.
Su objetivo es evaluar cortometrajes y documentales cuyo objetivo sea la expresividad y la divulgación cultural, iniciando un evento cinematográfico en todo el Val d'Intelvi.
¡El Circuito del Festival Inffinito abre inscripciones para sus ediciones en 2020!
El Circuito Inffinito es una acción pionera para promover Brasil en el mercado internacional, a través de festivales de cine. Es una referencia en la difusión de productos y servicios brasileños, además de construir una plataforma efectiva para el intercambio de negocios y la promoción de los destinos turísticos del país.
A lo largo de nuestros 24 años de experiencia en la organización de festivales en el extranjero, hemos celebrado 82 festivales en 13 ciudades. Presentamos 62 conciertos de reconocidos artistas de la música brasileña y exhibimos 865 películas nacionales. Confirmamos el interés del público extranjero en conocer mejor Brasil, su cultura, costumbres, productos y destinos turísticos.
PROGRAMA 2020
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14º Braff Nueva York - 21 al 27 de junio de 2020
24 Braff Miami - 12 al 19 de septiembre de 2020
14º Festival de Cine Brasileño de Nueva York - 21 al 27 de junio de 2020.
Braff NY es un evento oficial en el calendario cultural de Nueva York y es conocido como una poderosa herramienta para la visibilidad y promoción de Brasil en los Estados Unidos.
24º Festival de Cine Brasileño de Miami - 12 al 19 de septiembre de 2020.
BRAFF Miami es un festival oficial del condado de Miami Dade, las ciudades de Miami y Miami Beach y el gobierno de Florida. El Festival de Cine Brasileño de Miami (BRAFF) es el pionero y el Festival de Cine Brasileño más largo del mundo. Celebrado durante 24 años consecutivos, desde la reanudación del cine brasileño. Su compromiso y dedicación para exhibir películas brasileñas en el extranjero han conquistado a un público más fiel que espera el evento anual para una visión actualizada del cine brasileño. El Festival ha demostrado ser un recurso fundamental y valioso para presentar las mejores nuevas producciones brasileñas al público estadounidense, un escaparate natural para la promoción, además de ser un entorno empresarial con un extraordinario potencial económico para la cadena de producción brasileña.
We screen the best documentaries from around the world at the Roxie Cinema, the oldest art house theater west of the Mississippi. Many of our titles end up with calendared runs at the Roxie later in the year. We get great press coverage in San Francisco, the second largest film market in the country, plus industry reviews.
San Francisco is a very receptive town for documentaries and our fest has built a passionate following over the past 24 years.
LAST YEAR'S PRESS COVERAGE: https://sfindie.com/press-coverage
SF DocFest is an annual festival devoted to documentary cinema. Since 2001, this event has brought the most weird and wonderful aspects of real life to the big screen.
"What makes the scrappy San Francisco Documentary Film Festival a treasure to SF Bay Area filmgoers is its willingness to take that extra step to show films a little more out there than bog standard documentaries." - Peter Wong, Broke Ass Stuart
“Docfest offers a zippy blend of politics, music, social issues and youth-oriented subcultures. The good news is that DocFest promotes documentaries as a vibrant, irreverent form of entertainment to a younger demographic, blasting the notion of educational films to smithereens. There’s no room for anything approximating — watch it, I’m about to blaspheme – the obsessively measured and utterly somnambulant musings of Ken Burns.” – Michael Fox, KQED
“Since its inception, DocFest (May 31-June 15 at the Roxie and the Vogue, with opening night at Alamo Drafthouse) has compiled a colorful scrapbook of genuine characters in contrast to the current events survey, educational seminar or social-issue forum that defines many documentary series… There are one or two people in Off the Charts you won’t soon forget, which could be said about nearly every film in DocFest. That’s one of the pleasures of scrapbooks.” – also Michael Fox, KQED
Michael Fox just loves DocFest, here's another:
"Welcome to SF DocFest, the beloved annual compendium of odd, unusual nonfiction films from every nook and corner of our bizarro country and beyond. Waving off the pedigreed, high-profile docs that premiere at Sundance, get theatrical releases (or these days, national virtual releases) and chart a course for the Academy Awards, SF DocFest’s programmers opt for poignant, intimate works that miss the mainstream by dint of their iconoclasm and/or lack of a marketing hook." -KQED
"This week brings the kickoff to the 20th edition of SF Docfest, the rapidly-becoming-venerable nonfiction showcase that nonetheless continues to put the fun in documentary cinema appreciation. While other such showcases tend to be soberly issue-themed, focusing on the environment, activism, or some such, Docfest pursues—though not exclusively—colorful human interest stories, musician profiles, and other subjects on which there will not be a class quiz afterward." - Dennis Harvey, 48Hills
Somos un festival que promueve enfáticamente el cine social independiente, ese cine que narra historias de personas, lugares, condiciones y situaciones comunes al grueso de la humanidad. Dicho de otra manera, historias de carne y hueso, sensibles y veraces.
Por otro lado, estamos convencidos que el cine es la herramienta de transformación social y cultural más importante del mundo; y que los festivales somos medios de comunicación alternativa y ventanas de exhibición, cuya función específica es la interacción dinámica con el público objetivo, en aras de alcanzar niveles de sensibilización profunda para con dichos espectadores.
Por consiguiente, queremos presentarnos ante ustedes señores cineastas, de manera formal y honesta, pretendiendo ser considerados un puente entre quienes ven, interpretan y plasman la realidad de forma distinta y los habitantes de nuestra región; una región ubicada en Colombia, que necesita urgentemente escuchar mensajes de esperanza social y cultural a través del arte, en procura de alcanzar paz interior y lograr cambios radicales para sus vidas.
FESTIVAL IMAGO – CORTOMETRAJES IBEROAMERICANOS desea brindar un espacio de exhibición cinematográfica de calidad a un amplio público de la ciudad de París, proponiéndoles una programación ecléctica y diversificada.
The Hyperdrive Film Festival is a fantastic, fun film festival where visitors can get up close and personal with some of the greatest up-and-comers from the world of Sci-Fi and Fantasy film. The festival will run on the 3rd and 4th October 2015 with filmmakers from across the country coming to show-off their latest productions, answer your questions and, all the while, raise a great big pile of money for a fantastic cause.
The charity that will benefit from The Hyperdrive Film Festival will be the Smile Train (Registered charity number: 057389620, smiletrain.org.uk) who provide thousands of free, often life-saving, cleft lip and/or palate surgeries each year to children in developing countries. For every £150 we raise for Smile Train, another child will receive a cleft surgery that can save their lives and gives them the chance at a normal life, with a smile
We will be hosting the festival at the Hailsham Pavilion (Registered charity number: 1062538, pavilionhailsham.co.uk), a beautifully refurbished Edwardian theatre/cinema. Part of the money raised will go to renting the cinema for the two days of the festival.
The programme for The Hyperdrive Film Festival will be:
Saturday 13:00 to 18:00
Saturday 18:30 to 23:30
Sunday 13:00 to 18:00
Sunday 18:30 to 23:30
Each session will consist of one or two feature length movies (running time dependent) and a selection of short films ranging in length from 3 minutes to 20 minutes.
Kanyakumari International Film Festival
Celebrates its 4th year !
Event Type: Live Screening of Films from worldwide and Connected Programs including Film Making Workshops, Film Seminars, Film Appreciation Camps and Exhibitions.
The call for entries for the film festival is now open!
Screening Categories:
Feature Film Over 60 Minutes
Long Documentary Over 60 Minutes
Long Animation Film Over 60 Minutes
Long Experimental Film Over 60 Minutes
Music Video Over 60 Minutes
Short Film Under 60 Minutes
Short Documentary Under 60 Minutes
Short Animation Film Under 60 Minutes
Short Experimental Film Under 60 Minutes
Music Video Under 60 Minutes
4th INTERNATIONAL CHANGING PERSPECTIVES SHORT FILM FESTIVAL REGULATIONS
ABOUT FESTIVAL
Initiated by Katadrom Arts and Culture and Social Politics Association based in Istanbul- ‘The 4th International Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival’ will be held between the dates of 6th - 8th of May 2016 in Istanbul, to then continue its yearly tour across other cities: Berlin, Yogyakarta, and other cities around the world.
The Festival will screen about 100 short features, short documentaries, short animations etc. of young filmmakers, students and teams who express different perspectives, concepts and imaginations about border.
Festival Date: 6 - 8 May 2015, Istanbul
Deadline for the submission of the films: 28th of March 2016
The topic of 2016 - “Border”
This year, the main topic of the festival will be “Border”. There will be a festival section about 15 films, a photography exhibition and a panel discussion focusing on the main topic.
There are so many different borders: physical borders, geographical borders, social borders, mental borders, political borders, sexual borders, religious borders, imaginary borders – to name just a few.
To be born or to live on one side or the other of a border is often random.
However, it’s not so easy to let go of the constrictions borders create, as our identities are often shaped upon a deep conviction of belonging to one, unique place, country, religion or gender. During the festival we want to explore the different aspects of border providing a platform for all the diverse perspectives on the topic. Besides 2016 thematic-focused program, the festival will also screen films under its traditional sections: Exchange Experience, Cultural Insights, Ridicule, Umbrella.
FILM SUBMISSIONS
Short films which do not exceed 20 minutes – (documentaries less than 30 minutes), music videos, experimental films etc. – all with English subtitles – will be screened during the festival.
• Films should be no longer than 20 minutes
• Documentaries should be no longer than 30 minutes
• Films dealing with the topics mentioned above will be preferred.
• All films in a language other than English must have English subtitles.
• After official selection of a film the festival is qualified to use excerpts from the film, with a maximum of 1 minute for promotional purposes (The total duration of the excerpts is not to exceed more than 10% of the film running time).
• As Changing Perspectives Film Festival is a take-away Festival it should be accepted that films will be screened in different places apart from the festival
Festival Date: 6 -8 May 2016, Istanbul
Deadline for the submission of the films: 28th of March 2016
Statement of agreement
I hereby confirm that I have read all of the rules and regulations listed in the International Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival (icpsff) submission guidelines and the terms and conditions listed in the release form, before submitting my film work mentioned above, to the Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival 2016. I also confirm that I understand and agree to abide by all of the guidelines, rules and regulations posted by icpsff relating to the submission of my work to the Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival in general and in particular.
I understood and agreed that, if my film will be selected for the festival program as a take away film festival, icpsff can screen my film during the year in different cities and countries maximum 5 times at a festival selection from the program. Film makers will just be informed of other screenings by e-mail.
The Festival Committee is responsible for resolving all issues that are beyond the scope of Festival rules & regulations and disputes or disagreements that might occur.
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