Short Short Film Festival 10/1/13
Films must be longer than 1 minute and shorter than 6 minutes, including all credits. All films must tell a story; this excludes public service announcements, trailers, music videos, non-narrative experimental pieces, etc. Whether a piece is truly narrative is at the discretion of the submission review panel. All genres and styles are accepted, including live action, documentaries, animation, drama, comedy, children’s films, science fiction, horror, GLBT, etc. SD-DVD format, PAL or NTSC.  DVD accepted, but prefer electronic submission.

Anima Multi 6/11/13
Our intention is to highlight the best animated films made with multiplatform characteristics: interactive pieces, videogame intros, teasers, animation series episodes or pilots and (why not ?) traditional animation shorts are just a few examples of pieces that may participate in this wide open competition. The important thing is that the piece is able to convey, with the animation language, a communication that is consistent and attractive in every type of media. The contest is open to animated works that may be new or previously made, produced by professional or amateur animators. Works may have a length of 30 seconds minimum and 10 minutes maximum. Submit URL link for sharing the film.

Vilnius Film Shorts 06/01/13
The only international and professional short film festival in Lithuania, presenting the newest short films from all over the world. Every year festival’s line-up is a reflection of what has been happening in the short film world in recent years. Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Experimental. Submit via reelport or filmshorts.lt

Film Festival della Lessinia (Verona) 5/10/13* note: extended deadline
The theme of the Film Festival della Lessinia is: mountains and faraway lands. Eligible for the Festival are both films and videos (features, shorts, documentaries, animated films) that represent, emphasize, and encourage the understanding of social, linguistic, human, economic, environmental, natural, historical, and artistic realities pertaining to the mountains or to other lands far from urban centres, as well as of the traditions, customs, and habits of the people who live in the mountains and in other distant lands. Submit work by DVD or link.

Capalbio Cinema (Italy) 5/15/13
International and Italian films. Upload through festival site.

Doclisboa 5/15/13
A festival dedicated to documentary and to the new possible paths that are being opened for the genre. We are particularly interested on the new modes of relation between the cinematographic and the real, and we are looking for proposals that suppose an implication on the world, facing cinema as a political and artistic practice. We are looking for films with cinematographic qualities bringing forth, as a whole, the point of view of their authors.

Wavelengths Program, Toronto International Film Festival 05/24/2013
Special Program celebrating avante garde film/video works. DVD.

The Deep Fried Film Festival (UK) 5/24/13
Open to all film makers. We screen films from around the globe from film makers of all ages and levels. Send DVD and entry form by post.

CPH:DOX 6/1/13
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival – is a part of The Foundation of the Copenhagen Film Festivals. Submission to the Festival is open to short and feature length documentaries, experimental documentaries and innovative visual documentary productions for digital media. Submission fee is 10.00 EUR. The fee may be waived for: Danish productions and co-productions, Films from developing countries, Experimental and artists’ films. This deadline is for films completed between January 2013 – May 2013.

One Minute- Artist’s moving image 6/7/13
Volume 7 will be the seventh in the series of artist moving image programmes curated by Kerry Baldry. These programmes have been screened worldwide.

Animage Festival (Brazil) 7/26/13
Only Short films in animation up to 30 minutes and released in 2012 are able to participate. HD format, 1920 x 1080. Upload as part of submission process. If not able to upload a file, may send film by post.

Breast Fest- A rethink breast cancer event (Toronto) 7/31/13
We accept films on the following subjects: Breast Cancer, Breast health, Young and youngish adults and cancer, Causes and/or prevention of cancer, Breasts and body image. DVD NTSC format.

Se Ma For Film Festival (Poland) 07/31/13 (International Stop Motion Film Competition)
Submission materials include: Entry Form, copy of the film (DVD),  two stills and photograph of the director (author) of the film. Materials can be sent by e-mail.

Szeged International Super 8mm Festival  (Hungary) 7/31/13
DVD submissions.

CPH:DOX 8/1/13
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival – is a part of The Foundation of the Copenhagen Film Festivals. Submission to the Festival is open to short and feature length documentaries, experimental documentaries and innovative visual documentary productions for digital media. Submission fee is 10.00 EUR. The fee may be waived for: Danish productions and co-productions, Films from developing countries, Experimental and artists’ films. This deadline is for films completed after May 2013.

International Short Film Festival Landau – La.Meko (Germany) 08/15/13
maximum 30 minutes, all genres and formats. DVD submission.

Dubai International Film Festival, DIFF 08/31/13
The Dubai International Film Festival (hereafter referred to as “DIFF”) is a nonprofit cultural event that takes place annually in December in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. DIFF is an event fully owned and organized by the Dubai Entertainment and Media Organisation (“DEMO”) and aims at establishing itself as a major international festival, while continuing to act as a platform for showcasing excellence in Arab, Emirati,  Asia and Africa cinema and simultaneously contributing to the development and growth of the regional industry and talent. DVD or private link.

one minute movie 10/31/13 part of norwich festival
One Minute Movie is the film competition set up and run by Norwich Film Festival. We accept sixty second short films of any genre or style. Films will be judged by our panel of experts with selected films being chosen to be screened throughout the main Norwich Film Festival schedule. The winning film will be chosen to open the Festival. Selected films will also be shown on various other media as chosen by Norwich Film Festival. DVD or link to download file.

Stoptrik International Film Festival (screenings in Slovenia and Poland) 8/15/13
Films submitted to the competition should be no longer than 30 minutes and produced after Juanuary 1^st, 2011. Please, note that we accept films made ONLY in the techniques of stop motion animation (puppet animation, clay animation, cut-out animation, object animation, sand animation, pixilation, mixed). Submit entry Form and DVD by post.

Suffolk Film Festival 6/21/13
The Suffolk Film Festival is an international film festival that takes place July 11^th-13^th at Suffolk One in Ipswich. The Suffolk Film Festival will showcase some the best films made locally, nationally, and internationally. The festival includes student and child friendly workshops run by @One Media, live music, workshops run by industry professionals, film screenings, and art exhibition, and much more. Online submission form, Vimeo or youtube link. *2/28/13 ddl on submission form itself.

There are several submission sites- like withoutabox, that allow filmmakers to upload films and create a package that is easily sent to multiple festivals. While withoutabox has a few festivals listed without an entry fee, short film depot and reelport allow filmmakers to upload a film and fill out an entry form, and many of the festivals are free to enter. You do pay a small fee, at reelport- in “reels”, or in the case of shortfilmdepot, in “stamps”, to send along your film. This seems to be less expensive than  (or equivalent to) postage, and it can streamline the process.

Any thoughts?

-Tracy

Festival Silhouette 2013 (Paris, France) 5/17/13
File upload to: shortFilmDepot or DVD screener submission.

Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival (Brazil) 5/31/13
The São Paulo International Short Film Festival aims to promote a greater exchange between Latin American and International production. Having a cultural and non competitive feature, the festival intends to exhibit films that contribute to the development of the short film concerning its aesthetics, specific shape and way of production. File upload to: shortFilmDepot or DVD submission.

shnit International Shortfilmfestival 6/1/13
a transnational film festival simultaneously taking place in ten cities on five continents worldwide. «shnit» is dedicated to celebrating and sharing with audiences the exciting world of short film. File upload to festival site, withoutabox, reelport or: shortFilmDepot (or DVD submission). Note: there are two categories of entry. Both allow film to be in competition, one has a fee, the other does not. The pro category offers feedback on film, the basic category does not. withoutabox, for example, seems to only allow for the paid category.

Sedicicorto International Film Festival Forti (Forli, Italy) 6/5/13
The Film Festival is divided into 3 competitive sections and accepts submissions of any short film produced after 1st January 2011. The maximum running time allowed is 35 minutes (including credits). MOVIE – International Fiction Films, Documentary Films, ANI&LAB – International Animation & Experimental Films, CORTITALIA – National Films of any genre. File upload to: shortFilmDepot or DVD submission.

Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival (Brazil) 6/7/13
Up to 40 minutes in length, of all film genres, on the final format of 35 mm, 16 mm or a digital media. shortfilmdepot.com.

Off-Courts Trouville (Trouville-sur-mer, France) 6/15/13
All genres are accepted (fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, etc.). All films must be under 40 minutes. shortfilmdepot.com.

Punto y Raya 10/28/13
No representation Only dots & lines! The festival that’s been called the most abstract in the world explores the creative possibilities of the dot and the line in various spheres of art, science and thought. A feast of pure form, color, motion & sound.

Frontale Film Festival (Wiener Neustadt, Austria) 7/26/13
We offer a short film and a mobile phone film contest, which come with prize money of € 1000.- and € 500. In order to submit a film to the competition, you have to perform an online registration first. This done, you can upload the film file to our servers or send it via mail.

Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 7/1/13
The overall theme this year is ‘Time Machine’. It is a concept that was often used in times of transformation, both film and architecture. We are looking for new, serious, funny, unique, classic, experimental, lighthearted or personal films about the built environment: cities, landscape and architecture. Documentaries or feature films that have never been screened on regular TV or in cinema, artistic short films or astonishing animations: films about that one particular city, or that specific building, a personal view on that astonishing architect or inspiring urban story, a comparitive study between cities, a geeky urban horror story, we love it all.