December updates

Here are some upcoming deadlines for December 2023.
best of luck,
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Slim Cinema Film Festival currently accepting submissions, festival postponed
Create a visual piece shot in Vertical Composition that tells a narrative. Content can be shot using your equipment of choice (i.e. SLR, red, smartphone, etc.), but aspect ratio must be 9:16 for any submissions to be considered.  We want to challenge your creativity to tell an original narrative through vertical visual storytelling.

Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS)12/01/23
ITFS is an Oscar-qualifying festival which offers directors, production companies and distributors as well as talent and all further professionals from the animation and games industries a platform to present their films, interactive and transmedia works as well as VR and AR projects to an interested, wide audience and a large number of industry representatives. Submission through shortfilmdepot- one “stamp” to send, but festival does not charge a fee. 

Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln 12/4/23
Germany’s largest forum for women in the film industry and presents outstanding films by women spanning all genres and styles. Eligible are fictional debuts or graduation pieces by women directors with a length of at least 65 minutes. Programme for International Debut Feature Film Competition deadline: 4th December 2023

It’s all true: International Documentary Film Festival  12/07/23
International. This film festival was created to support the genre of documentary films. 

Skeleton Keyframe Animation Festival 12/31/23
Skeleton Keyframe is a unique YouTube channel and virtual film festival dedicated to the promotion of independent animation. Year-round, we collect film submissions right here on our website. Our favorite submissions are uploaded to our YouTube channel and considered for awards come the end of the respective submission season. Our 2023 submission season is NOW OPEN! If you’re interested in submitting your animated film for award consideration, click here. The Skeleton Keyframe Animation Awards show premieres live on our YouTube channel in February. During the live show, we announce the winning films in various categories – including a “best picture” for the overall best in show. Other award categories include best 2D animated film, best 3D animated film, and best stop motion animated film.