Call for Entries: Atlantic City International Film & Music Festival

Harrah's Entertainment and its Atlantic City properties will play host to the inaugural Atlantic City International Film & Music Festival, taking place September 8-12th throughout various venues in Atlantic City, New Jersey. ACIFMF offers attendees a jam-packed schedule of events, including film and music offerings, meetings, seminars, and entertaining nightlife, giving attending filmmakers and musicians plenty of opportunities to showcase their work and make valuable connections.

Deadline: July 12, 2010

For more information, visit: http://acifmf.com/

Call for Entries: 6th Annual Brooklyn Indie House

Brooklyn Indie House is an independent film festival held every Spring and Fall. The BIH was created to show the best Black and Latino indie films in the classic theater environment.

Every year they select up to 8 shorts and 4 features to participate in the Brooklyn Indie House. Each movie will have red carpet opening night and a total of 6(six) screenings at specially selected theaters in Brookyln, New York. At end of the season they count up the tickets sales and share the proceeds with the filmmakers.

Early Submission Deadline Friday May 28, 2010 - $10 Entry Fee

Official Submission Deadline Friday June 25, 2010 - $15 Entry Fee

Late Submission Deadline Friday July 16, 2010 - $25 Entry Fee

For more information, visit: http://blackandlatinofilm.com/blfc_brooklynindiehouse.html

Call for Submissions: Cinesonika

CINESONIKA: The First International Film and Video Festival of Innovative Sound Design

"The theme of this international film and video festival is to celebrate the soundtrack. Usually in cinema festivals there is a fixation on movie stars, or captivating imagery, or the literary qualities of screenplays, or the abstract concepts of film theory. Sound tends to be relatively unvalorized in moving-image making. The intent of the festival is to give attention to innovative work in the creation of film and video soundtracks, and to give due credit to the importance of audio in audiovisual media.

This first annual festival will showcase international works of film and video with fascinating soundtracks, idiosyncratic sound design, eclectic scoring and innovative approaches to the sound-image relationship."

Deadline: September 1, 2010

For more information, please visit http://www.cinesonika.com or e-mail info@cinesonika.com

Calls for Submissions!

Extremely Shorts 13 Film Festival

Aurora Picture Show’s annual Extremely Shorts Festival features three-minute or shorter films and videos by artists, filmmakers, culture jammers, students, moms, security guards, and anyone with a camera and a vision.

Entrants may submit up to three titles. Each title must run three minutes or shorter including titles and credits. NO exceptions. All genres accepted and considered: experimental, animation, documentary, music video and narrative.

Early deadline: April 30, 2010
Late deadline: May 10, 2010

Kansas International Film Festival

The 10th Annual Kansas International Film Festival is accepting submissions for animated shorts, feature-length narratives and documentaries, with a special emphasis on documentaries that explore issues of social justice.

Late deadline: April 27, 2010

For more information, visit: http://www.kansasfilm.com/

For more information, visit: http://aurorapictureshow.org/files/408_es13_entry_form_and_guidelines.pdf

Angelus Student Film Festival

The Angelus Student Film Festival, which takes place in the Directors Guild of America building in Hollywood, CA, is now accepting dramas, comedies, documentaries and animated works that "explore the complexity of the human condition with creativity and compassion and "respect the dignity of the human person." Entrants must be undergraduate or graduate students in film schools or universities.

Past Angelus winners include Patricia Cardoso (REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES); Tony Bui (THREE SEASONS); 2010 Academy Award nominee in the Best Live Action Short category, Gregg Helvey (KAVI); and 2009 Academy Award nominee Reto Caffi (AUF DER STRECKE).

Early Deadline: May 1, 2010

For more information, visit: http://www.angelus.org/index.html

Call for Submissions: Electric Shadows

Electric Shadows is a multi-platform film and music venture designed to promote and produce film and music in Beijing.

Their goal is to host communal cinema events where people can come together to experience local and international film and video works.

Each month, they present a new program of shorts, placing the emphasis on alternative and avant garde works, as well as curating one off events promoting longer films and translating and subtitling all films screened into Chinese.

For more information, or to submit a film, please e-mail electricshadows.bj@gmail.com

Scene: Brooklyn

Check out new shorts, animation and documentaries by Brooklyn-based filmmakers during the Brooklyn Arts Council's Scene: Brooklyn flagship event this May. For tickets and more information, visit: http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/44

Call for Submissions: Strawberry Shorts

The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2010 is seeking short film submissions by local, national and international filmmakers. Submissions should be less than 20 minutes. There is no fee to submit a film. The film festival will take place in July, exact dates still TBD.

Deadline: May 14th

For more information, visit: http://www.strawberry-fair.org.uk/film.php or e-mail cabaret@simonmullen.com

Because the internet is where it's at...

Submit your short film to BIGSTAR.tv's online film festival!

Hosted by the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, this is an international online film festival. Finalists will have their films judged by celebrity judges.

There is no limit on how many films you can submit, but each submission does require a $25 fee. Films must be 5 minutes or less. One film will win a $50,000 cash prize.

Deadline: Dec. 31, 2010

For more information, visit: http://www.bigstar.tv/bigstar-online-film-festival

Extended Deadline: Storyline Transport Call for Submissions

Storyline Transport: Shadow and Light Festival is seeking video submissions for a mobile festival occurring in Chicago in late August 2010.

The mobile festival will visit multiple locations over the course of three days, aiming to engage arts oriented audiences as well communities in Chicago for whom access to the arts is limited. Through the use of converted trucks and vans we will transport a shadow and light themed video screening, three artists run workshops, and a public-collaborative mobile installation to multiple locations throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.

Submissions should address the festival's theme of shadow and light, but creative interpretations of this theme are encouraged. Any genre of video work is acceptable including fictional narrative, animation, documentary and video art.

Deadline: April 20, 2010

For more information visit: www.shadowandlightfestival.blogspot.com

Call for Sumissions: Extremely Shorts Film Fest

Aurora Picture Show’s annual Extremely Shorts Festival features three-minute or shorter films and videos by artists, filmmakers, culture jammers, students, moms, security guards, and anyone with a camera and a vision.

Entrants may submit up to three titles. Each title must run three minutes or shorter including titles and credits. NO exceptions. All genres accepted and considered: experimental, animation, documentary, music video and narrative.

Early deadline: postmarked by April 30, 2010

Late deadline: postmarked by May 10, 2010

For more information please visit
http://aurorapictureshow.org/pages/extremely_shorts_film_festival_154.asp

Call for Entries: Woodstock Film Fest

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES

The 11th annual WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL (Sept 29-Oct 3, 2010) is currently accepting submissions in all categories. Entry fee range from $10 - $50.

The Woodstock Film Festival is a uniquely intimate, casual and friendly event, where highly respected industry "movers and shakers" mingle freely with emerging filmmakers, providing excellent networking opportunities in a fun and stimulating environment. Honoring quality, the Maverick Awards are presented for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Film, Best Student Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Animation. Cash, prizes and/or services valued at $50,000 are given out. Audience Awards are presented for Best Feature and Best Documentary.To see 2009 details and jurors, visit: http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/awards2009.htm
Early deadline: May 21.
Final deadline: June 21.

For more details, visit: http://woodstockfilmfestival.com/entryform/index.htm or e-mail office@woodstockfilmfestival.com

Call for entries: JT3 Artist Awards

Young filmmakers from Brooklyn, NY and Washington, D.C. are encouraged to apply for the 2010 JT3 Artist Award.

They seek aspiring screenwriter/directors who demonstrate talent, passion, work ethic and a
deep-seated need to make art, but have room to grow and need this grant to help make
that growth possible. At least one $2,000 JT3 Artist Award will be awarded, and the
winning films screened at the annual JT3 Art Celebration of Young Filmmakers.

To apply, go to: http://www.jt3art.org/foundation.php

Deadline: May 7, 2010

For questions or additional information, please e-mail JT3AwardInfo@jt3art.org.

Call for Entries

The Munich International Short Film Festival focuses on exploring and introducing
extraordinary short films from countries all over the world with the hope of
assisting up-and-coming filmmakers on the path to making quality, feature-length
films. From June 17 - 23, the 5th edition of the MUNICH INTERNATIONAL short film
festival will showcase the world's contemporary short films at the historical Gloria
Filmpalast in the heart of the Bavarian capitol.

Deadline: March 14

For more information, please visit http://www.muc-intl.de/

Call for Submissions: Young Directors Awards

The Commercial Film Producers of Europe (CFP-E) and Shots magazine announce the opening of submissions for the 12th annual Young Director Award (YDA).

Divided into two sections (European and non-European), the YDA includes 5 categories:
Broadcast commercials
Web films
Branded short films
Film school commercials
Test commercials

You can enter your film online at: www.youngdirectoraward.com

Entry Deadline: April 15th, 2010

For additional information, visit their website, or e-mail Hannes Jakobsen at hannes@youngdirectoraward.dk

Call for Submissions: Aesthetica

Call for Entries: Aesthetica International Short Film Competition

Aesthetica Magazine

The Aesthetica Short Film Competition is now open for entries. Leading the search for filmmakers who are driving the genre of short film forward through inspirational and innovative works the competition provides an opportunity for both new and experienced filmmakers to have their work broadcast to an international audience. All genres of film are being accepted: drama, artists’ film, documentary, music video, animation, satire and comedy.

This award offers winners and runners-up a fantastic international prize package, including:

• Screenings of your film at: The National Media Museum (Bradford, UK), Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival (London, UK), Glasgow Film Festival (Scotland), Kerry Film Festival (Ireland), Project Space (Leeds, UK) and on the Aesthetica website.
• £500 (apx$800 first prize, £250 (apx $400) runner-up.
• 12 months membership with Shooting People.
• Collection of film books from Wallflower Press.
• Winner and runners-up to be included on a DVD that will go to Aesthetica's readers.

Films should be up to 25 minutes long.

Deadline: 30 April

For more information, visit: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/film_submissions.htm

More Calls for Entry

Canadian Short Screenplay Competition

Enter your 1-15 minute screenplay (no more than 15 minutes in length). The winning script will be produced by Year of the Skunk Productions.

Visit http://www.screenplay-competition.com/ for more information.

Half-time Deadline is November 30th.
Final Deadline is December 31st.

L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival

Submit your short comedic film (under 30 minutes) to the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival. The L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival is the largest comedy film festival in the U.S. Moviemaker Magazine's recently named it one of “25 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee.”

Visit http://www.lacomedyshorts.com/lacs2010/about.htm for more information.

Absolute last Deadline: December 18th

Call for Short Film Submissions!

Submit a short film to The Coolidge Shorts Film Festival. The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA is launching a new short film festival to support established, emerging, and student filmmakers from all over the world. Films should be under 5 minutes in length, and the selected films will play before feature films screened at the theatre before a monthly audience base that totals more than 16,000.

The first deadline is September 25th.