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Festival Description - The IDFA takes place in the Amsterdam Paradiso during November. The Forum is Europe’s largest gathering of television commissioning editors and independent documentary producers. In total, IDFA programmes some 200 documentaries, divided among more than ten festival programmes. The festival has three competition programmes. Apart from these competitions, IDFA presents five regular programme sections, recurring annually, complemented by special sections. These special programmes focus on specific countries, directors and/or themes.
Festival Description - December will prove to be another hot time in the cold town of Anchorage, Alaska. With over one million square miles and just one film festival, we've developed a unique event where people from every corner of the earth come to experience and celebrate a provocative showcase of some of the best independent film and video from around the world.
Festival Description - 10th annual ashland independent film festival: April 7-11, 2011. The ashland independent film festival is a non-profit that puts on five days of the highest quality independent film in this historic town The Washington Post called "a dream you'll never want to leave." Every Spring, Southern Oregon is buzzing with the excitement of the AIFF. Over 6000 film lovers gather at the art-deco Varsity Theatre downtown to watch over 80 films in five days. Filmmakers of the documentaries, features and shorts come from around the world come to engage with the audience after each screening and at the festival’s Opening Night Bash and Award Celebration parties with local wine, beer and gourmet food. Special guests have included Helen Hunt, Albert Maysles, Bruce Campbell and more. The film festival is one of the reasons Ashland is included in the popular travel guide A Thousand Places to See Before You Die. The Oregonian newspaper's Shawn Levy, said the AIFF "offers movie lovers that same sense of being in a magical place...Southern Oregon doesn't have anything else like it -- nor, in fact, do most places on Earth."
Festival Description - The Atlanta Film Festival features premiere screenings of independent film and video, informative seminars, panel discussions and guest appearances by filmmakers, video artists, and media professionals from around the world. Festival jury members award over $100,000 in cash and in-kind prizes. Academy Award® qualifying narrative shorts competition.
Festival Description - The Australian International Documentary Conference is Australia’s premier documentary industry event
The three-day event, which includes the Australian DocuMart, will be held at the Esplanade Hotel in the historic port city of Fremantle from 26-28 February.
The AIDC is highly regarded for its dynamic sessions and relaxed atmosphere. It is a showcase for documentary production, a marketplace for buyers and sellers and a forum for discussion and debate on craft, content and future directions of the industry.
The AIDC attracts key industry creatives, buyers, sellers, academics and agencies from all over the world.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE
Refugees in the World: The numbers grow each year, governments make it harder for the refugee, and film makers to keep telling stories of the individual who is the person behind the name – refugee. Do their films make any difference?
One Hour TV Documentaries: ”Thinking Inside the Box“ Has the international conservative push, which is pressuring civil liberties, also resulted in increased government interest and interference in what is being screened on TV in Australia and overseas?
Turning the Tables: Time for the development agencies and broadcaster to pitch their dream projects to a panel of film makers for their decisions.
BYO Documentary producer: Cameras and editing systems are like dishwashers – household items today. So where are the costs in documentary production when production costs should be going down?
Post-production: How do producers and editors use contemporary post production technology? Is the “underground” movement of documentary makers, who distribute on DVD or on the Web, as strong as it is overseas?
Documentaries - What’s new? Are audiences really watching the same TV show for 20 years? Has anything really changed in the TV guide between 1984 and 2004? Is Steve Irwin a recycled Harry Butler?
Different ways of measuring: Audiences are measured in ratings. But a single documentary program can alter a person’s life forever. How do you measure that? A look at the impact of some documentary programs on people’s lives.
Festival Description - CIFF will bring together the most talented, creative, inventive and cutting edge filmmakers from the US and around the world. The festival will exhibit feature length films, shorts, documentaries,animation films. And showcase music videos and musical artists from all over the Caribbean. While helping promote awareness and raise funds for Beast Cancer research.
Festival Description - The Berlin International Film Festival established in 1951, is held during each year during February. US productions competing just prior to the Berlinale in the Sundance Film Festival will be accepted for submission to the competition of the BIFF. Each year the BIFF attracts over 3,500 journalists from about 70 countries.
Festival Description - Beverly Hills Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing and promoting some of the most auspicious non-studio films and screenplays to the entertainment elite. Designed to bridge the world of premiere independent cinema with the renowned community of Beverly Hills, the festival is an entertainment event with world class screenings.
Festival Description - Since 1981, the annual Black Maria Film and Video festival has been fulfilling its mission to advocate, exhibit and reward the poetic, expressive, and insightful vision of independent film and video makers. The festival is known for its national public exhibition program, which features a variety of bold contemporary works drawn from the annual collection of 50 award winning films and videos. Over 70 institutions welcome the Black Maria Festival, and each individual program is custom tailored, ensuring an accessible and meaningful experience for varied audiences at theaters, museums, colleges, libraries, film societies, microcinemas, and community organizations from coast to coast. There are no category restrictions, and the Black Maria is recognized by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Academy Award qualifying festival for short films (animation and live action).
Festival Description - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival presents the best of world cinema. Official competition "EurAsia" includes new features from Europe and Asia. Informative programmes include retrospectives and a focus on a country. Animated shorts, student films as well as children and youth films are screened in competition in specialized sub-festivals.
Festival Description - The Black Point Film Festival is a celebration of independent film, music, and art that takes place at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. In it's debut year of 2002, BPFF screened 57 quality features and shorts.
Festival Description - Founded in 2002 by a small group of filmmakers and media artists, the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival (BUFF) is an outlet for emerging and radical new voices from around the globe. Annually, the Festival hosts over 90 films from around the globe and has capacity crowds of 2500 plus.
Festival Description - One of Europe's biggest genre festivals, acknowledged by the FIAPF, founder member and general secretariat of the EFFFF, "official tourist ambassador" of the city of Brussels.
Competitive: an International Long Feature Jury, an International Short Feature Jury, 3 National Jury’s (European Long Features, 7th Orbit, Audience Award). Attributed prizes: - long features : 1 Grand Prix (the Golden Raven) and 2 Special Prizes of the Jury, the Silver Raven, Best European Fantastic Film (the Silver Méliès), The 7th Orbit Award, Audience Award (the Pegasus); - Short Features: 5 attributed prizes.
Sections: - long features : Fantastic premières outside competition, Competition (Fantastic), Thriller, 7th Orbit, JapAnimation, Focus (Germany in 2008), Retrospectives and Tributes; - short features: International Competition, Panorama of Belgian shorts. 86 long features presented, of which 19 International premières, 12 European premières and 54 Belgian premières.
+/-100 guests, +/-400 accredited journalists, among whom+ /-100 from abroad. More than 60.000 spectators. Additional sections: Facial Make-Up Competition, Body Painting Contest, "Fantastic Brussels" Workshop (3 short features realized during the festival), Live Shooting Platform (1 short feature realized during the festival). Exhibitions of sculptures and paintings, Vampire Ball (some 2000 participants), daily theatrical animations, concerts.
Festival Description - Now in its 12th year, the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival is the premier venue for the exhibition and promotion of short film in North America. Taking place from June 13th to 18th, 2006 the WSFF will present over 250 films from more than 30 countries. Offering one of the largest prize packages for short film in the world, top WSFF winners are eligible for both Academy Award® and Genie Award consideration. The WSFF Short Films, BIG IDEAS Symposium offers renowned professional development, while the Universal Studios Business Centre is home to the largest short film marketplace in North America. For more information on tickets and programs please visit: www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com .
Tickets and event passes are available at the website, at the Manulife Centre box office (55 Bloor Street West) or by phone (416.967.1528).
Festival Description - Cine Las Americas Media Arts Center presents the 8th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, showcasing contemporary films from North, Central, South America and the Caribbean. Works made by or about Latinos and Indigenous groups of the Americas are eligible. Categories include Narrative Feature, Documentary, Short Film, Animation, and Youth Films. The festival has a competiition
Festival Description - The Cinema Novo festival was founded in 1984. CN has acquired a stake in the cultural world, its own venue in De Republiek and the cinemas Lumière and Liberty. CN has never forgotten its initial aims: to offer chances to the wide range of non-western authors’ movies to reach ever growing audiences. It relies on a motley crowd of highly motivated volunteers and a few eager salaried cooperators, all of them convinced of the necessity of the festival.
Festival Description - The Damah Film Festival is unique in that it focuses on exploring the spiritual dimension of life through the art of the short film. We desire to encourage an emerging generation of filmmakers from diverse perspectives and to provide a forum for these artists to voice the spiritual aspect of the human experience. We seek to emphasize: 1. The inspiring and disruptive power of redemptive metaphor. 2. Eloquence and entertainment in the crafting of story. 3. Integration of the arts in community and relationship. 4. Encouraging new voices in the development of art.
• We feature films from any genre and they can be submitted in any acquisition format. The only requirement is that films must be no longer than 30 minutes.
• We have awarded $45,000 in prize money and received 641 film submissions from 20 countries over the past three years.
• Our past festivals have featured Screenings, Panel Discussions and Workshops, Interactive Screenings and Q&As – all designed to stimulate discussion and provide a platform for spiritual expression.
Festival Description - The earliest film directors recognized the immediacy and emotional power of dance.The two arts, dance and film, have enjoyed a passionate, sometimes stormy marriage ever since. Dance Films Association, Inc. (DFA), a non-profit,tax-exempt, membership organization, supports all these efforts by promoting excellence in dance films and video and public awareness through festivals, screenings, publications, grants, and workshops.
Festival Description - Annual film festival honoring independent directors aspiring to the same excellence as festival inspiration Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Independent, International and Student Film competitions. Festival focus is on the director.
Festival Description - This year heralds Docaviv, the 7th Tel-Aviv International Documentary Film Festival. Docaviv is a showcase, an Israeli premiere of some of the finest documentary films from Israel and around the world.
Festival Description - The Fayetteville FilmFest is a literal celebration of international and independent short films. Since it began, the annual festival has become so important to the local cultural environment that Mayor Dan Coody proclaimed Jan. 19-26 an official “Fayetteville Film Week.”
Festival Description - The Miami International Film Festival brings the best of world cinema to South Florida and plays a leading role in maintaining and further enriching its film culture. MIFF uses the unique geographical and cultural position of Miami to be a premiere venue for the exhibition of international and US films, with a special focus on Ibero-American cinema.
More than 60,000 people attended the Festival in 2005, a 275% increase since 2002. In addition, more than 220 filmmakers, producers, talent, and industry representatives from around the world attended the 2005 Festival to introduce their work to Miami audiences and industry professionals. During the last three years, under the direction of Nicole Guillemet, the Festival has presented films from more than 50 countries, including 125 East Coast, US, and world premieres, scores of Oscar winners and nominees, and many international prizewinners.
Festival Description - Flickerfest is Australia’s premiere international short film festival and was awarded academy accreditation in 2003. The Festival consists of a main competitive program, a short documentary competition & an Australian competition in addition to our special programs and forums out of competition. Following the Sydney Festival, the films in the main competitive programs will go on tour around selected cities and regional centres of Australia. Last year saw a record 980 entries from all corners of the globe.
Festival Description - The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (formerly known as the DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival) is considered by many, including the New York Times and indieWIRE, as the premier documentary film festival in the U.S. We welcome filmmakers and filmlovers from all over the world for four days of films, panels and parties.
Festival Description - Gen Art's Film Program began in 1996 with the launch of the Gen Art Film Festival. Gen Art invites rising independent North American filmmakers to participate in these programs which draw a high profile audience including film industry members, press and celebrities. Our film programs are supported by a wide range of influential members of the film community ranging from producers and directors to studio acquisition executives.
Festival Description - The festival is a cultural and educational endeavor organized to use film and video as a tool for education. Each year the festival features a professional whose work is recognized during the three-day event and who, with Lindsey, speaks at various events and interacts with participants. Entries are sought from professionals, faculty, college students, high school students and kindergarten through 8th grade students.
Festival Description - The Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF) is held annually in Los Angeles, CA. The festival is a 6 day celebration of black cinema drawing together established filmmakers, popular film and TV stars, writers, directors, industry executives, emerging artists and new audiences from around the world. A Record-breaking number of U.S. and international films screened at HBFF 2003 including 48 short films, 13 documentaries, 8 features, 9 student productions, 3 World Cinema shorts and 5 animation projects.
Festival Description - Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival, will present its 12th annual edition from April 22 to May 1, 2005. A final selection of 100+ documentaries from Canada and around the world will be presented to Toronto audiences and international delegates from over 25 countries. Hot Docs will also mount a full roster of professional development and market events for documentary practitioners, including the renowned Toronto Documentary Forum, running April 27-28, 2005.
Festival Description - The Istanbul International Film Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, was first realized in the Summer of 1982. Since the beginning of the Festival, a total of 2,065,000 spectators attended the screenings of 2,330 films from 72 different countries.
Festival Description - Lucid Underground was created to promote and celebrate truly independent film and video on the cutting edge of artistic expression. LUMAF strives to showcase artists who's work presents a grassroots, experimental, and/or punk tenacity to the art of filmmaking.
Festival Description - The Malibu Film Festival is a showcase for independent films from around the world. The Film Festival programming staff views more than 1,000 submissions each year to select approximately 30 feature-length documentary and dramatic films and 20 shorts for presentation to an audience of more than 20,000. Agents and Distributors are admitted free of charge to all screenings. Each year several films and filmmakers are picked up for distribution and representation after screening at the Malibu Film Festival.
Festival Description - The NYUFF exists to support and promote films that push boundaries and break new ground -- that challenge, entertain and provoke. When selecting films for exhibition, we seek to go beyond what mainstream venues show to present works of an innovative, experimental, subversive, uncompromising, and adventurous nature.
Festival Description - The One Take Film Festival is an international festival of films shot in one take, that is films shot without interruption, from the moment of turning the camera on to the moment of turning the camera off.
Festival Description - Film and video projects should illustrate PETA's guiding principle that „animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. We want pieces on veganism, vivisection, fur, leather, circuses, anything related to animal rights.
Festival Description - Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival is an annual film festival that presents features and shorts touching upon the facts and mythology surrounding mental health and addiction. Each program focuses on a different theme.
Festival Description - Now in its ninth year, the Rhode Island International Film Festival celebrates the independent spirit in film and has become a haven for independent filmmakers from throughout the world. In 2004, the Festival presented 38 World Premieres and 25 US Premieres to sold-out houses. Films came from 60 countries and 34 states. Attending the Festival were more than 200 filmmakers, producers, cast and crew. The festival is recognized as a qualifying festival for the Short Films category for the Annual Academy Awards. RIIFF is also a Grammy nominating Festival for best film score.
Festival Description - Held annually in May in Rochester, NY's George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. We are the longest running short film festival in the country, showcasing dramas, comedies, animations & documentaries from all over the world. 48th Year
All entries are prescreened by MOAS Committee.
A personal critique letter is sent to each entrant.
Festival Description - Horror films have been thrilling audiences for almost a century. The Salem Amateur Horror Film Festival is looking for the new wave in terror. With a history shrouded in fear, due to the tragic witch trials of 1692, the city of Salem, Massachusetts now celebrates its past during the Halloween season. The Salem Amateur Horror Film Festival showcases the talents of amateur filmmakers using the horror genre. This is the festival's second year and is already finding itself at home in this beautiful, haunting city.
Festival Description - The San Diego Latino Film Festival was initially started ten years ago. Over 60,000 people have attended during the past ten years and 600 feature films, shorts, documentaries, and experimental videos from across Latin America and the United States have been screened.
Festival Description - The San Francisco International Film Festival is presented each spring by the San Francisco Film Society. A showcase for approximately 200 new features, documentaries and shorts, the festival is dedicated to highlighting current trends in international film and video production.
Festival Description - The Santa Fe Film Festival is dedicated to providing a showcase for excellent cinema from around the world, surveying the best in contemporary cinema, and paying homage to the contributions of veteran film artists through select tributes recognizing their body of work.
Festival Description - Over the past four years, the Deep Ellum Film Festival has worked to become a world-class event, screening the most innovative works of today’s emerging filmmakers. This year, we expand the horizons of the festival as we take over the reigns of the Santa Monica Film Festival and work to create a celebration of film, music and art as DEFMAN (Deep Ellum Film, Music, Art and Noise) heads to the beach.
Festival Description - 11. SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, 19 – 27 August
It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 11th Sarajevo Film Festival taking place from 19 to 27 August 2005.
Visit us and share the passion for films and the creative energy of our Festival. This is a place were you can meet and socialize with international, regional and local film professionals within the remarkable atmosphere of the city of Sarajevo.
Beside its focus on regional film production, Sarajevo Film Festival offers you great selection of world film production, Co-production market - CineLink and numerous sidebar programmes such as gatherings, panels, cultural events – promotions, concerts and late night events.
SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL IN ITS 10th EDITION
In terms of the number of films screened and the number of film professionals and guests that paid a visit to Sarajevo between August 20th and 28th, the Sarajevo Film Festival, in its tenth anniversary edition, once again confirmed its status of the largest and most influential Festival in the region.
Within its 12 programmes held at 7 different locations, the Sarajevo Film Festival screened around one hundred and eighty films from all over the world. This year’s Festival was opened by the world premiere of the Bosnian film “Days and Hours”, directed by Pjer Žalica. The 10th Sarajevo Film Festival was attended by close to 600 regional and international film professionals. The Festival was covered by over three hundred fifty accredited local, regional and international journalists from two hundred media agencies, with the number of viewers reaching one hundred thousand people.
Together with numerous regional guests, 10th Sarajevo Film Festival was visited by many international stars: John Malkovich, Gerard Depardieu, Carol Bouquet, Anthony Minghella, Enki Bilal, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Joshua Marston, Gaspar Noe, Dušan Makavejev, Jessica Hausner, Danis Tanović, Lone Scherfig, Coolio,...
Festival Description - The Shadow Festival offers documentary-makers from all over the world the chance to show their work in a personal framework, where the contact and dialogue between filmmaker and public is highly cherished. The festival is a forum that focuses on the magic of the documentary. In addition to the programming, lectures and workshops will examine closely special features of the genre.
Festival Description - Belgium’s greatest International Short Film Festival "Leuven Kort" , is held during the first week of December annually. Presents an European competition for live-action short films and a non-competitive program for digifilm and music video’s. Screening formats accepted are: 35 mm, 16 mm and Beta SP. Maximum length of the films is 30 minutes.
Festival Description - The country's premiere horror film festival.
Held annually at the prestigious Tribeca Film Center in lower Manhattan.
The NYCHFF is competitive with awards given in eight categories:
Best Feature,
Best Short,
Best Cinematography,
Best Screenplay for a submitted film,
Best Special Effects,
Best Actor,
Best Actress,
Audience Choice.
With special screenings, panels, parties, celebrity guests and a ton of free giveaways, this is one of the best horror industry events of the year!
Festival Description - FAMA (Foundation Art & Media Albania) with the initiative of Agron Domi and Ilir Butka will organize the 2-nd edition of Tirana International Film Festival. As a unique cinematographic event in Albania, TIFF will be supported by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of Albania and the the Municipality of Tirana. For seven days in a row, there will be screened short films from Balkans, European and worldwide directors, categorized in fiction, documentaries, animations and experimental. During the festival everybody has the chance to take part everyday in press conferences, seminars, workshops, retrospectives screenings,etc.
Festival Description - The WYSIWYG Film Festival has developed over the years into an internationally recognized event for wholesome, family cinema entertainment. The festival showcases a diverse cross section of the industry from feature films to independent short subject entries. In addition there are workshops and networking opportunities for directors, actors and film makers. Entry fee is only $25 for filmmakers. Entry fees for student film makers are waived and the festival is open to the public with special emphisis on children's films on Saturday.
For entry and attendance information go to www.wysiwygusa.com
Festival Description - The festival aims to promote films directed by women on subjects of their choice, and to allow for better understanding of the situation and evolution of women and their cinema in each country represented.
Festival Description - UpOverDownUnder is a London festival of short films shot by Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans in video format. This year it will run over five nights and feature short and feature films previously unseen in the UK, and of course, the competition films, which will be showcased on the final evening.
Festival Description - HDFest is "the world's only high-definition film festival" and screens projects shot exclusively with high-definition. HDFest has brought together filmmakers and technological innovators from all over the world. Events have brought high-def feature films, documentaries, shorts, television shows, animations, and music videos to audiences- allowing them to see high-def at work, often for the first time.
Festival Description - Over the past 10 years, the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival has become a favorite destination for the international film community as a place for industry veterans and newcomers to meet, discuss, and evaluate the current state and future of filmmaking.
Festival Description - Celebrating independent film and video from Texas and beyond. Screening winning film/video competition entries and indie films. Win cash and prizes. Hosting panels on acting, FX, animation, screenwriting and more. Past speakers: Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator); Kelly Asbury (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron); Tina Andrews (Why do Fools Fall in Love?); Frank Reynolds (In the Bedroom); Michael Miner (RoboCop, Book of Stars); and FX expert Steve Wolf (Castaway, The Client, The 25th Hour). Network with indie filmmakers and jumpstart your career.
