The end of the year is coming up fast. :)

best of luck,
{tmr}

Reel Shorts Film Festival (Alberta, Canada) 12/12/2016
The Reel Shorts Film Festival celebrates short films and the filmmakers who make them by screening gems of storytelling brilliance from around the world, across Canada, and here in the Peace Region. Submit online through short film central, send link to password protected Vimeo file.

Melbourne International Animation Festival 12/12/16 (International)
The Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) is one of the largest animation festivals of its kind in the world. It usually screens around 350-400 films each year in competitive, student, curated & retrospective programs.

Academia Film Olomouc 12/23/16
AFO is currently one of the most important European festivals in the area of popular science film. It aims to present science as an attractive, dynamic and diverse sector through films charting natural, humanities and social science disciplines. Each year, hundreds of documentary films and television programs enroll in the competition sections of the festival. Online form/DVD submission.

Go Short – International Short Film Festival (Nijmegen) 12/23/16
The European Competition will consist of shorts that have been made in (geographical) Europe from all genres. The films are eligible for the Go Short Award for Best European Short in the four different categories. The Dutch Competition is a selection of films made in the Netherlands, from which the best film will be awarded with the Go Short Award for Best Dutch Short. From these two competitions a selection of films will be made which will form the Youth Competition, and which are eligible for the Go Short Youth Award.Online form/DVD submission. *films completed in nov. or dec.  or works in progress.

International Film Festival of Panama 12/23/16
The International Film Festival of Panama (IFF Panama Foundation) is a non-profit organization created to support the realization of IFF Panama and promote the cultural & educational activities that are an integral part of the event’s structure.Online

Hey,
If you have created a film on your cell phone, or want to- give this festival a try.

best of luck,
{tmr}

Cell Phone Cinema (Asia) 1/7/17
The entries for the competition will revolve around the realm of: Fiction / Music Video (up to 3 Minutes ), Reality / Electronic News Gathering (up to 3 Minutes ), Still Image

Hi all-
Some more opportunities.
best of luck,
{tmr}

For all who celebrate- Happy Thanksgiving!
For those of you with holiday shopping, I want to suggest that you consider buying items from those in the arts. :)

With that in mind, for those of you who are artists, animators, filmmakers, creative types…
I would like to send out an email blast to your creative sites. If you have a “shop” that sells your dvds, original art, prints, etc. post in the comments or send me a link at noentryfeefestivals@yahoo.com

best to you,
tmr

Hi all- These were submitted to my blog recently. I am taking it on good faith that they have no entry fee. If you notice a fee, donation or other aspect that I might not have noticed, please let me know. Also- I am still receiving film links from individuals to distribute films. Unfortunately, I cannot promote, distribute or submit these to festivals for you for free.

best of luck,
{tmr}

9th Budapest Architecture Film Days 11/15/16
Do you live in a building? Do you watch movies? Good reasons to join us on the first weekend of March! Do you have a film on architecture or the city? Send it to us! The Budapest Architecture Film Days is now accepting submissions for its 9th edition, to be held in Budapest in March 2017. We are looking for works in all genres, forms and lengths related to design, architecture and built environment. The mission of the film festival is to generate a dialogue between architectural practice that finds inspiration in cinema, and cinema borrowing its subjects from architecture and the city.

Hi all-
Hope you are having much success in the festival circuit.
best of luck,
{tmr}

ClujShorts International Short Film Festival 11/30/16
A cultural event that takes place annually in Cluj Napoca, Romania. ClujShorts  is an event fully owned and organized by Persona Association and aims at establishing itself as a major international festival, while continuing to act as a platform for showcasing excellent works from around the Globe, and simultaneously contributing to the development and growth of the regional industry and talent. Online file transfer: weTransfer, dropbox, etc.

backup festival (Germany) 12/01/16
students or alumni from art, media or design schools.

Days of ethnographic film festival (DEF) 12/01/16
Organized by Slovene ethnological society in cooperation with the Slovene ethnographic museum and Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The festival has following programs: Student films, Regular program and a Special program. All films and videos dealing with ethnology, anthropology, sociology or cultural studies in a wide sense, made not more than two years before the actual festival DEF, are eligible.

Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 12/01/16
Online submission. Categories: International Competition (Short film competition), Young Animation (Student film competition), Tricks for Kids – shorts and series (Competition for short films and TV series for children), Cartoons for Teens (Competition for animated series, anime series and cut scenes from computer games) and AniMovie (Feature-length film competition)”

Holland Animation Film Festival (Netherlands), 12/1/2016
The Holland Animation Film Festival organizes the following competitions. The competitions for features, shorts, European student films and Dutch films

Roanne animation short film festival (Roanne, France) 12/1/16
Cine-court anime. The main goal of the Festival is to promote the national and international animation films in short format and to allow all the directors and the producers of short films to participate wherever they come from. PAL DVD by mail.

$100 Film Festival 12/01/16
The $100FF welcomes submissions of short films (under 22 minutes) that are finished to Super 8 or 16mm film. We are looking for new (finished after Dec 2013) innovative, thought provoking film from any genre that keeps the practice of celluloid filmmaking alive. The $100FF has also expanded to include offsite installation works.

Video Festival Imperia (Italy) 12/5/16
National deadline. Animation, Digital, Documentary, Independent. Four competitive categories divided in fourteen different sections for professionals, amateurs, international, schools and the new category Explorer.

Melbourne Queer Festival 12/9/16* no submission fee for Australian films
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival invites submissions rom Australia and around the world. As Australia’s longest-running and largest queer film festival, MQFF is Australia’s premier queer film event. Films can be of any length and should be of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer or transgendered communities.

Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival 12/15/17 note: There is no submission fee for entries from East European (non EU) and “Third World” countries. The festival promotes documentary cinema with a special emphasis on new films, videos or interactive media (published after 1.1.2009) dealing with socio-cultural processes in a wide sense of the term. The festival is open to all filmmakers, but especially those coming from an anthropology, sociology, folklore, history etc. background . It provides a great opportunity for international exchange of ideas and co-operation in documentary filmmaking.

ALFILM – Arab Film Festival Berlin 12/20/16
ALFILM presents feature films, documentaries and short movies coming from or produced in Arab countries at different venues in Berlin – many of which are German or European premieres. The OFFICIAL SELECTION gather a selection of new releases (fiction, documentary and short movies) from the last three years. DVD or Vimeo link.

Upcoming deadlines….
best of luck,
{tmr}

Imagine Film Festival (Netherlands) 12/31/16
Imagine calls on filmmakers working within the fantastic genre to submit their work. Rough cuts and works in progress are accepted.

We Care Film Fest 01/02/17
The WE CARE Film Fest is held annually to raise awareness about disability issues, dispel misconceptions and prejudices about persons with disabilities and drive attitudinal and behavioural change. This year, the selected short films and documentaries will also be screened in France, Iran, Kuwait and Oman.

International Animation Festival Chilemonos  (Chile) 01/06/17
Animations made with traditional techniques, vector, 2D, 3D, cut out, stop motion, mix or experimental. The shortfilm must be Spanish spoken or subtitle to Spanish, for the preselecting stage. DVD or Vimeo link.

Animafest Zagreb 2/1/17 *opens november 1st
World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb invites you to submit your films.
Short and feature animated films are eligible to apply via an online application form.