Toronto Urban Film Festival 5/15/16* note, this early deadline is for free submissions
10th Annual Call for Entries is NOW OPEN!  TUFF, North America’s longest-running commuter film festival turns 10 this September and is getting ready to celebrate 10 years of outstanding one-minute films from Toronto, across North America and around the world. Take Up the Challenge. Make a Minute that Counts. Share it with Millions. TUFF accepts all genres of silent, one-minute film, video, and animation.
TUFF Ten will take over all 346 digital subway screens, replacing all regular content, from 10:00 am – 4:00pm on Saturday, September 10, 2016. Starting September 11th, TUFF will be seen daily at five-minute intervals from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m., on all subway platform screens across Toronto, entertaining an audience of over 1.2 million daily commuters.One Minute. Ten Years. Endless Imagination.

XII Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema 7/24/16
The 12th edition of the Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema, a festival that will take place between November 9-16, 2016, at Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. International competition for short and feature films. Films must be completed after January 2015 and subtitled in English (when the language is other than English). Online submission.