Sorry about the flurry of posts yesterday. I have been really busy, but I finally had a chance to update. From now on I will try to consolidate all the new posts!

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Short of the Week (ongoing)
Short of the Week Presents is a non-exclusive promotion program for great filmmakers looking to build an online audience. You make the film—we build the audience. We defined the online launch strategy with the success of our own film, The Thomas Beale Cipher which earned over 200,000 views, articles in Wired, Fast Company, and Motionographer, and drew industry attention from the major studios and talent agencies.

Kyiv International Short Film Festival (Russia) 02/01/13
The aim of organizing Kyiv International Short Film Festival (KISFF) is presenting the wide range of short films from all around the globe, created by professional filmmakers as well as by filmschool students or independent filmmakers, and to develop a space for presentation Ukrainian cinema and for communication and experience exchange between Ukrainian and International directors and artists. DVD or upload link for wetransfer.com or dropbox.

MakeDox (Macedonia) 02/01/13
MakeDox is an International Creative Documentary Film Festival organized by the citizen’s association MakeDox. It will be held in June 2013 in Skopje, Macedonia and as a Traveling Cinema Caravan through 6-10 Macedonian municipalities during August 2013. MakeDox aims to promote creative documentary film production in Macedonia and to support documentary story telling in general. MakeDox focuses on creating a stimulating environment for the exchange of experience and knowledge of documentary creation and promotion of films with cinematographic quality, offering the creative point of view of an author, both in terms of content as well as in form. DVD submission by mail. postmark deadline.

Jeevan Music Video, Animation & Short Film Festival 02/04/13
Create a film with a mobile or any available camera. Jeevan Music Video, Animation & Short Film Festival is being organized in Guwahati alongside Feb 24 Jeevan Kite Festival on the Brahmaputra riverbank. Beyond the barriers of auditoriums, this festival will be held in makeshift arrangements, informal environment and open air. Best of each category shall be awarded. Entries need be of max 10 mins, produced after 01.01.2010, with English subtitles if not made in Assamese or Hindi or English. Suggested (but not necessary) themes are: celebration of life, kite, desire to fly and good news. Send entries to: jeevan.initiative@gmail.com or Jeevan, 2nd Floor, 22 Rajgarh bylane 2, Guwahati 781003.

The international short film festival 20min|max (Ingolstadt) 02/04/13
For the 7th time 20min|max announces an international competition for cinematic expressivity, autonomous formal style, impressive stories – ergo: artistic synthesis of direction, montage and rhythm, sound and light will be presented and awarded. All genres are admitted, from experiments to fiction, from animations to documentaries, music clips and video art – do as you like – only don’t exceed 20 minutes! option of reelport entry or by mail.

The Festival of Amateur and Independent Film KAN, advertising and music videos (Wroclaw, Poland) 02/06/13
For the upcoming finals of XIV edition of The Festival of Amateur and Independent Film, we introduce a new, fresh element – review of advertising and music videos! Do you direct music videos? Or maybe you create TV or web commercials? If that is the case and you would like to present them to the wide audience of KAN Festival, submit them to us. Your work can be submitted either for Music Video Review or Advertising Video Review.

Kimera International Film Festival ‘13 – The Night of The Living Shorts XI (Italy) 02/14/13
Categories: Animation, Fiction and Socially committed shorts. The festival is open to competitors from all-over the world, with no exceptions. DVD submissions.

AyIFF (Ayvalık Uluslararası Film Festivali) (Turkey) 02/15/13
We want SHORT FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES, ANIMATIONS AND EXPERIMENTALS from all over the world.
Our only limitation is max 40 min for short films,max 60 min for documentaries. Send submission by mail or email. Email will require scanned application form and link to uploaded file.

Nontzefilmak Cinema and Animated Short Films competition 3/22/13
In  collaboration of Bilbao’s Fantastic Film Festival (FANT). two shorts categories: cinema and animation. The animated shorts will be realized with any kind of technique (Flash, 3D, stop-motion…) The organisation would appreciate that the films are submitted beforehand to be shown on nontzefilmak.com for the entertainment of the Internet users.

Molodist: Kyiv International Short Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine) 07/01/13
“Molodist” is one of the greatest specialized cinema events in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, according to the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF). It is a priority platform in the region for presenting the latest and the most up cine products and covers the most high-profile events of modern cinema ­– both mainstream and experimental. The main objective of the festival is to promote young professional cinema. As forty years ago competitive program represents professional and amateur movies of debutants. The main sections – student, the first short film (fiction, animation, documentary) and the first feature film. Geography of contest entries includes countries from almost all continents. So we seek and find – and thus provide an opportunity for young talents to take their place in modern cinema.

BANG Awards, International Film Animation Competition 12/31/13
Welcome to the BANG Awards – International Film Animation Competition! These awards are a Luso-Brazilian production, rewarding the creativity of participants and establishing an online discussion and exhibition forum which offers the best of this ever-changing cinematographic genre. The work entered for BANG should be based on one of the following themes: “CrossWorlds” or “Open theme”. Entries for the category: “CrossWorlds” must include references to, mentions of or personalities linked to the story and / or cultures of different peoples who, by working together, overcame hardships and resolved issues arising from the challenges facing them and managed to construct their own ways of life (see supporting material on the website). Entries for the “Open” category, as is evident from the name, give the participant the freedom
to create and present work based on any subject matter. Upload Entry. Fill out online entry form.

I decided to restructure the site so that the listings for each month will be easily available from the main site structure. From now on, as I add new information, I will post it to the main blog, and also add it to the list for that month. This way, the new information will go out, but there will always be a way to check a particular time frame. I hope this makes sense.

Please send me an email or post in the comments if you know of a festival that is not on my list. As well, if you encounter a festival from my list that charges an entry fee, please let me know that as well. From time to time I find festivals that have begun to charge an entry fee, and, rarely, festivals that don’t mention a fee until you are in the submission process.

Thanks for visiting my site and I hope you find it useful.

best of luck,

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2nd International Student Film Festival (Mexico) 02/01/13
Animation, Fiction, Documentary, Short Film. The festival will only accept short films (duration of 1 to 30 minutes) made by students of high schools, universities and film institutes of any part of the world. The film can be done in any digital format or in 35 mm. The delivery that is through Internet must be in digital format.

2013 Sehsüchte Film Festival 02/15/13
Sehsüchte is the largest international student film festival in Europe. As well as an audience-centric festival and meeting point for upcoming international filmmakers.Every year, Sehsüchte is a centre of attention for filmmakers from all over the world. Our goal is not only to offer young, upcoming filmmakers a forum for their films, but also to stimulate exchange amongst each other, as well as with top professionals from the film and media industries. Over a hundred films by young filmmakers, panel discussions and master classes, a diverse supporting program consisting of professional workshops, parties and other events: Sehsüchte offers many chances for intercultural exchange. Submissions are open to films and videos produced between 2012 and 2013 by film students or amateur filmmakers.

Dokfilm (Norway) 02/01/13
The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival. We accept films from 2012 and 2013. In our programme for foreign films we want films with a distinct style and substance that provide other perspectives than the Norwegian films. Online submission form. (unsure of submission for preview copy)

UNG film (BERGEN, NORWAY) 05/01/13
Ung Film is a film festival for youth by youth. Our focus is to give youth, aged 13-25, a platform where they can screen their films. We also want to give them an opportunity to learn and grow together with the always expanding creative industry. Today our focus is to become recognized both nationally and internationally as a film festival that offers quality screenings, professional guest speakers and workshops. We welcome all genres. The filmmakers should be aged between 13 and 25, and the films should normally not exceed 15 minutes in duration. (However, we… might make some exceptions for special screening programs, so feel free to send us your film even if it does not fit with all the criteria listed.) Link on main page to SUBMIT FILM.

Social Impact Media Awards 01/21/14
SIMA 2013 is an international documentary and educational impact media competition honoring members in the independent film and global humanitarian industry. Our objective is to champion and promote the stories of independent filmmakers, journalists, aid organizations and grassroots change-makers that too often remain overlooked, and to provide a springboard for creative media that exemplifies excellence in its potential to inspire change. We are pleased to invite all filmmakers, journalists, TV producers, activists and non-profit organizations who would like to take part in the SOCIAL IMPACT MEDIA AWARDS competition. Upload submissions.

Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival 02/01/13
Now accepting entries for its 16th edition, which will run from 23 – 27 April 2013. KICFF is looking for high quality shorts, long shorts, features and documentaries to be screened in our main section and numerous side bars of Norway’s largest festival for films for children and youth. Our target audiences range from 3 – 20 years. Digital version of the film (link to e.g. Vimeo, ftp access or Dropbox ) or a DVD screener. We prefer to receive screeners digitally. A synopsis of the film, maximum 50 words. A digital photo from the film. 300 dpi. (please upload via web form). The festival accepts 35 mm prints, Video (Beta SP PAL or DigiBeta), DCP, Blu-Ray Disck and digital file (Prores 4.2.2 / 4.2.2HQ) as screening formats. English subtitles are required.

Indie Boots Film Festival (Chicago) 2/01/13
We show independent films that are a little unruly, films with different perspectives on whose stories are worth telling, what’s funny, and how the world works. We show films that are micro-budget, or queer, or about activists, or women, or people of color, or deal with class, or disability, or the environment, or gender, or living outside the mainstream, or, well, you get the idea. No entry form. Submit via email or mail. Any genre (narrative, documentary, music video, experimental, comedy, drama, etc). Any shooting format. Any country of origin or language (English subtitles are appreciated). This year we are are unlikely to show films over 20 minutes (Shorter films are especially encouraged). Filmmakers may submit more than one film.

Phoenix ComiCon (US) 1/31/13
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Fantasy, Horror, Music Video, Science Fiction, Short. Two (2) copies of each film must be submitted in a DVD Region 1 format. If you need to do a digital submission, please contact filmfestival@phoenixcomicon.com. If you have a film or web series that will tap into the collective subconscious of the teeming masses, Phoenix Comicon–the signature pop-culture event of the Southwest–needs you! Did you and your friends make a steampunk music video? Are you looking for a festival to screen your studio’s latest horror flick or gaming documentary? The Phoenix Comicon Film Festival celebrates all that is pop culture and we’d love to see your submissions! We accept films of any length (from shorts to feature length), type (documentary, fan film, narrative, web series, etc.), and almost any genre (science fiction, steampunk, horror, fantasy, etc.).