Shooting Wall  3/25/14
Shooting Wall wants films that are bold, experimental, inventive, formal, difficult, challenging, avant-garde, new, radical, and daring. If you are making films to get a deal in Hollywood, we don’t want your film. If you are not attempting to push yourself or cinema in a new direction, we don’t want your film. Shooting Wall wants films that the mainstream refuses to play or accept. Films under 30 minutes. Email us for submission info at shootingwallzine(at)gmail.com.

 

Hi all!
It has been a while since I have written a gargantuan post of newly added festival deadlines, so here it is. I hope all is going well for everyone in the new year. I have gotten such great comments and responses from festival directors and filmmakers over the past year, so thank you! I have been told that this site generates an outpouring of quality films, so thank you to the filmmakers! There have been festivals that have experienced growth and started kickstarter campaigns after postings on my site, which I find very exciting.

A belated new year wish to all!

best of luck,

tracy miller-robbins

Cortoons International Short Movie Festival of Rome (Italy) 02/28/14
download entry form, submit by mail with dvd

Minute Festival (Brazil) 2/28/14 online submission
Free Theme or Animation. One Minute Festival was created in 1991 and has inspired the breeding of over 50 “one minute festivals” all around the world. Since 2007, the Festival has become permanent and online. The Festival lanches themes and monthly rewards the best works. All the vídeos are evaluated by a team of curators. The trusteeship’s grade is expressed through the number of little clocks and the public`s grade is shown by the number of stars. One Minute Festival also could be called Ideas’s Festival, once idea is the most relevant criterion used in the vídeos evaluation.

CinemaJove (Valencia, Spain) 02/28/14
The Valencia International Film Festival Cinema Jove, which will take place in Valencia from June 21st to 28th, 2013, aims to promote young filmmakers. Online upload site, MOVIEBETA does charge a small fee.

Docville International Documentary Film Festival, Belgium 03/01/14
For many years DOCVILLE organizes a national and international competition. Filmmakers can submit a documentary film by completing the entry form. Films can be submitted via dvd or online link. Submission by DVD or downloadable link.

La brigade des images festival 03/01/14
THE SECOND SEX: call for submissions, short films. Brigade of Images is calling for artists’ videos and short films.  We are looking for films dealing with the situation of women today in relation to “The Second Sex”. Maximum 10 minutes. DVD.

Animator International Animation Festival (Poland) 03/03/14
Open international animated films competition; Thematic sections and special screenings. Apart from competition screenings, retrospectives of selected artists, highlights of animated film studios and festivals production, along with screenings for children will be presented. Panel discussions, seminars, meetings with artists, outdoor screenings, concerts, workshops, exhibitions and promotions will enrich the Festival scene. DVD submission or online submission using wetransfer or vimeo.

Skip City International D-Cinema Festival (Japan) 03/03/14
Digital filmmakers know no boundaries – always displaying their talents in fresh and inventive ways. The SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL is designed to discover and reward the next generation of digital filmmakers. Running time must be 70 minutes or longer.

Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 03/03/14* earlybird deadline- free
All features and short films selected are eligible for audience and juried awards, and will receive plenty of attention from Seattle’s famously film-loving community. Juried awards come with a cash prize for: Best Feature Film, Best Documentary Film, Best Short Film, and Most Innovative Short Film. WAB submission.

Athens Video*/Art Festival (Greece) 03/10/14 Submit online or by post.
Athens Video Art Festival is an International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media. It celebrates digital culture through an annual gathering that brings together a global community of artists and audiences. Athens Video Art Festival aims to encourage, stimulate and promote all aspects of digital creation by investing in local as well as international artists and communities.

Ohio Shorts (Columbus, OH) 3/14/14
Wexner Center.One entry per person. DVD, Vimeo or YouTube link and entry form. Pieces must be independently produced, no longer than 20 minutes, and produced in Ohio within the last 18 months.

Ohio Youth Shorts (Columbus, OH) 3/14/14
Wexner Center. Emerging artists 18 and younger, send us your masterpiece for this video short competition that attracts youth from all over the state of Ohio. Videos must be 5 minutes or less in length and posted online (on Vimeo or YouTube—entries can also be submitted on a flash drive) Send us your Claymation or animation, live action film, infomercials, documentaries, comedy spoof, music video, mini horror movie, remix or mash-up—whatever you can dream up.

Sardinia Film Festival (Italy) 03/15/14
Sardinia Film Festival accepts works by filmmakers without gender restriction, theme and format. Send DVD and application form by mail.

Anima Mundi 03/17/14
Anima Mundi is the International Animation Festival of Brazil. A festival that aims to inform, train, educate and entertain by using the infinite possibilities of the language of animation. Submit DVD.

Media City Film Festival 03/21/14
Media City is an annual international festival of film and video art presented in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan since 1994. Submission by mail.

The Ocean County Library Student Film Festival 03/21/14
The Ocean County Library Film Festival supports emerging artists and creative film visionaries. Our goal is to create an audience and forum for talented students that allows them to express their creativity through film. The Ocean County Library FILM Festival ties in to the library system’s mission of “Connecting People…Building Community”. Submissions are NOT restricted to Ocean County students.  You must attach or include application (coming soon!) Email youtube link to: OCLFilmFest(at)gmail.com. Three DVD’s to: OCLFilmFest c/o Jeannie Collacott, 101 Washington Street, Toms River, New Jersey 08753

Student Academy awards 03/21/14 domestic deadline
The Student Academy Awards is a film competition conducted by the Academy and the Academy Foundation. Four categories: Animation, Documentary, Narrative and Alternative. Maximum running time is 40 minutes, Electronic submission.

Concorto Film Festival (Italy) 03/31/14
Concorto Film Festival is an exhibition intended for lovers of cinema, both audience and professionals. The purpose is to promote and circulate short films and to and to generate contacts among audience, young directors and professionals.

One Country One Film (Apchat, France) 03/31/14
All categories : Documentaries, fiction, animation, and experimental films (no music videos, commercials or corporate films), All genres (except pornography). All durations : from short films to feature lengths films. DVD must arrive by deadline. Although we prefer submissions by regular mail, we now accept free online submissions. Deadlines are earlier than regular submissions. Please contact us: contact(at)onecountryonefilm.com and we’ll explain to you the procedure. Make sure you indicate in your email that you wish to submit online.

A Film for Peace Festival 03/31/14
A FILM FOR PEACE Festival intends to promote peace and dialogue among all people and social groups.  Films, documentary or fiction, must focus on the theme of peace, wartime conflict, civil war or human rights. DVD submission.

Fonlad Online digital arts festival (Portugal) 3/31/14
The Festival is open to all national and international artists working at the level of digital arts and new technologies; Includes video and animation category. CD/DVD or wetransfer.com

Student Academy awards 04/01/14 foreign deadline
The Student Academy Awards is a film competition conducted by the Academy and the Academy Foundation. Four categories: Animation, Documentary, Narrative and Alternative. Maximum running time is 40 minutes, Electronic submission.

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (Korea) 4/30/2014
Short Film. Types of films Animation , Documentary, Narrative fiction. Genre: Fantastic, Horror, Mystery, Phantasy, Science fiction, Thriller

Jaxon Film Fest 9/30/14
As the Jaxon Film Fest enters its third year,  it is growing, learning, re-inventing itself, learning and developing ideas that have proven successful. As we enter our third year, we have waived all fees for submitting films.  In fact, as we are now requesting either youtube.com or vimeo links (only),  we have eliminated the expense of mailing films/DVDs, packaging, etc. (at least until such time as we announce your film has been selected.)    And we will not accept films via dropbox, or other file transfer services.  The theme for our 2014 festival is Love, Redemption and Salvation (although not of Judeo-Christian standards.) 

Colchester Film Festival (UK) 06/01/15* free until midnight on this date
An international film festival dedicated to discovering and showcasing the best filmmaking talent from around the world. Colchester Film Festival accepts any genre of film in following categories: Narrative and Documentary Feature (all over 60 minutes, including credits). Narrative and Documentary Short (all under 26 minutes, including credits). Experimental film, music videos and film trailers are not eligible. Films must either be English language or have English subtitles. Filmmakers may submit more than one film. Online submissions. (filmfreeway)

Animatricks (Finland) 1/31/14
Animatricks Animation Festival invites filmmakers around the world to participate in our international competition for Animated Shorts. As the only animation film festival in the country, Animatricks has been presenting new Finnish and international animation since 2000. Now for the first time, alongside with the competition for Finnish animated shorts, Animatricks launches an international competition. We are looking for animated films with unique storytelling, style and technique. Online form, submit screener by online link or DVD.

Little Rock Film Festival 4/1/14
Films in the Best of Arkansas Competition can be Narrative or Documentary films of any length and genre as long as the film was made in Arkansas. All films must be Arkansas Premieres to be in consideration for the award. WAB submission. *note: free entry only for films that are made in Arkansas.

Odense International Film Festival 4/1/14
A Danish short film festival with a long and successful tradition. Since its first appearance in 1975 OFF has strived to be the cosiest, most courageous and adventurous short film festival. Reelport submission platform.

Neighbours together to Friends – Nachbarn bei Freunden 1/30/14
Neighbours together with friends is an international Short film Festival, which aims to draw the attention on short films of independent movie makers from Eastern and Western Europe. Also, the festival is meant to be a platform for international contacts between Europe’s independent film makers and furthers the understanding between the cultures in Eastern and Western Europe. Submit by mail.

KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 1/31/14
is the first and only LGBTQ film festival in India to be held in a mainstream theater and the only queer festival to receive clearance from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Submission options: digital file by email or file share such as wetransfer.com, online link such as Vimeo, or by mail.

11mm International Football Film Festival 1/31/14
Film makers and production companies from around the world are invited to submit their football films to the world’s leading football film festival to win the Golden 11 and 11mm shortkicks awards! DVD or online submission.

KALIBER35 Munich International Short Film Festival 1/31/14
KALIBER35 Munich International Short Film Festival will showcase 35 short films from all over the world, presented in five categories named after the five tastes SWEET, SOUR, BITTER, SALTY and UMAMI according to their tone. Submissions accepted through Reelport only.

Festival Internacional de Cinema D’Autor de Barcelona 1/31/14
An international panorama of the finest contemporary auteur cinema, combining the discovery of emerging new talents and cinematographies with internationally established directors and films that have traditionally received rough treatment from our country’s commercial distributors. Short films are not accepted. Send DVD, Blu-Ray or digital file.

Love Ke Side Effects 1/31/14
Love! The most amazing feeling in the world or just another four letter word? Whether you’re a full-time Aashiq or frustrated Romeo, pick up that camera and show us what love means to you-good, bad, ugly, all aspects of it! Submit a short film less than 10 minutes on either LOVE or its SIDE EFFECTS, as you perceive them. Submit online or by mail.

Tahoe Film Festival (US) ongoing
An international film festival that is 100% volunteer based charity fund-raiser that raises money and awareness for lake, forest, and ocean preservation.  There are no employees and all profits are donated directly to select environmental non-profit organizations.  The Tahoe Film Festival showcases films from around the world in all film genres each year in the “Tahoe” area in northern California. Tahoe Film Festival^tm is accepting film and screenplay/teleplays digital submissions free of charge, 365 days of the year. Online submission.

London Asian Film Festival ongoing- but next festival is in March 2014
Our criteria for consideration is that your film have a connection or link to South Asia. Feature Film, Short Film and Documentary categories, Short films can be any genre including narratives, animations, music videos, documentaries among others, 15 minutes or less, and submitted with a brief synopsis of the film. Short films must be about Asian issues or be made by an Asian (written, producer, directed, main cast etc.) All films must be in English or with English subtitles. DVD by mail.

Inconnu Festival (Paris) 1/20/14
Anyone can submit one short film or more. There is no subscription fee, no genre or theme restrictions, and we will accept amateur, scholar or professional works from any country. There are only two restraints: the movie has to be produced after January 1st 2012, and its length cannot exceed 20 min for fiction/animation/experimental and 26 min for documentary. DVD-Video or Vimeo link or download link (file up to 800 MB).

Festival Del Documentario D’Abruzzo Emilio Lopez 2/10/14
Documentaries of any length. The Festival will be divided in the following sections: ABRUZZODOC, ITALIAN PANORAMA, International Competition CLOSE UP, dedicated to documentaries from around the world, ITALIAN OPERA DIGITAL, OPERA DIGITAL INTERNATIONAL and Video Competition ACADEMIES, dedicated to single-channel video made ​​by students of the Academy of Fine Arts. Submit by mail.

Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival 02/15/2014
The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is the only festival of its kind in the United States. It is our vision and our hope to not only screen important films, but also create an environment of cultural, enrichment through conversation, presentation, and cinematic celebration. Going into our fourth year, it is our ultimate aspiration to not only help shape and define the genre of but in doing so preserve a collection of films which will someday serve as a dynamic and textured survey of the great philosophical questions of our time as explored through the visual arts. Online or DVD screener.

Tabor Film Festival  (Desinic, Croatia) 02/15/14
International short film festival. You may submit any type of film (fiction, animation, documentary, experimental) completed after January 1st, 2011. Films of 30 minutes or less are eligible. submit online, send link by email. May choose to send dvd.

Wellington Underground Film festival 2/16/14
Wellington Underground Film Festival provides a platform for the screening of underground film and video, especially single-author, which might otherwise be unrecognised and unavailable to the general public. We are interested in presenting the best in artistic, experimental, original, political and visionary film and video work. Online form, submit by link.