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 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

Call for Submissions: Sundeis

Sundeis, Brandeis University's annual film festival, is welcoming submissions from students all over the world.

"Now in its 7th year, the 2010 SunDeis Film Festival will feature screenings of quality, thought-provoking student films. Professional filmmakers, including some Brandeis alumni, will participate in a panel discussion. On May 1st, there will be an award ceremony to recognize the best of the best. Please join us for the most anticipated SunDeis Festival to date!"

Deadline: April 8, 2010

For more information, visit: http://www.sundeis.org/index.php

Call for Submissions: PixelPops! Film Festival

The 2010 theme for the PixelPops! Film Festival is URBAN REALITIES.

"The selected short films (5 minutes or less) will address issues faced by urban communities in America and aim to include the broadest number of interpretations on the theme. Films that highlight both the challenges and joys of urban life will be shown. In doing so, a balanced portrait of New York metropolitan area will highlight difficulties, and advantages of urban living and of those cities' inhabitants.

The films will be projected onto vacant buildings, idle billboards, crumbling structures such as stanchions, bridges, piers, etc."

PixelPops! 2010 will be held in October in a variety of outdoor locations across the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. This year's curatorial team is: Jeanne Brasile, Hiroshi Kumagai, Polina Zaitseva and Jade Lien.

Deadline: July 31, 2010

For more information, visit http://www.poppingpixels.org/

Calls for Submissions!

SHORT and SAVORY: a mini festival of short films by women directors.

Women directors are invites to submit their work to Short and Savory, a mini festival that will take place in New York on February 24, 2010. Four films will be selected for presentation and cash awards: two fiction and two documentary works. Films must be 15 minutes or less.

Deadline: January 1, 2010

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

NewFest

NewFest has been NYC's premier forum of international LGBT film since 1988.
Submissions of films/videos of any length and in any genre that are by, about, or of
interest to LGBT people are now being accepted for NewFest 2010: The 22nd
Anniversary New York LGBT Film Festival, which will take place June 3-13, 2010.

Early Deadline: January 4

For more information, visit:
http://newfest.org

Seed Grants: National Geographic All Roads Film Project

National Geographic All Roads Film Project offers seed grants for indigenous
storytellers. Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to filmmakers for the
development and production of a film or video that showcases indigenous or
underrepresented minority culture storytellers.

Deadline: March 15

For more information, visit:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=276100002

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.