OPPORTUNITIES / CALL FOR ENTRIES / FESTIVALS / EVENTS: BFI Future Film Festival 2015: Documentary

Are you a documentary filmmaker aged 16 to 25?

Would you like one of your short films to be considered for inclusion in the eighth Future Film Festival, in February 2015?

We’re inviting IdeasTap documentary filmmakers to submit their work to the Future Film Festival, the British Film Institute's annual film festival for young people, held at BFI Southbank in London. IdeasTap will host a special screening at the festival for the five winning documentary shorts, alongside a masterclass Q&A with an industry expert and judge.

Selected shorts may also be given additional screenings at the BFI Southbank during the festival – and you could even be nominated for a Future Film Award.

If successful, you and a guest will be invited to attend the Future Film Awards at BFI Southbank, and you’ll be allocated a limited number of tickets for screenings of your film for contributors, family and friends.

Your documentary must be 10 minutes or under in length, have been produced in the last two years, and be an interesting and original concept, with good production values and an entertaining subject matter.

Good luck!

Supported by The Chapman Charitable Trust.

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EVENTS: New York Int'l Children's Film Festival

New York Int'l Children's Film Festival

February 27 - March 22, 2015

Final Deadline for Shorts Oct 6, 2014 - Final Deadline for Feature Films Nov 10, 2014

New York Int'l Children's Film Festival is North America's film festival for children and teens. Each year the Festival presents 100 animated, live action and experimental shorts and features from around the world plus retrospectives, filmmaker Q&As, workshops, audience voting, and an annual Awards Ceremony.

We are looking for creative, original, non-formulaic short and feature films that support our mission to create a more dynamic film culture for children and teens. We often program films that were not created with a young audience in mind, but are received passionately and enthusiastically by attendees ages 3-18 nonetheless. We are not shy about showing films with mature themes, subject matter, language or sensibilities.

Members of the Festival jury include Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Bill Plympton, Christine Vachon, James Schamus, Henry Selick and Gus van Sant, among others. The Festival is an Academy®-qualifying festival.

SUBMIT NYICFF's blog

Website www.gkids.com  

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: YOUKI film festival

YOUKI, Austria's biggest up-and-coming media festival, is looking for your films again.

Follow these links to view the competitive conditions of YOUKI 16 and to find our film submission form.

For any further questions concerning International Film Competition, please contact submission(a)youki.at.

CALL FOR ENTRIES / FESTIVALS: 11th Roma Festival "Golden Wheel"

The 11th Roma Festival "Golden Wheel" will take place in Skopje, Macedonia in April 2014.

The festival is dedicated to the production about the Roma population worldwide. All video production (documentaries and TV films) produced by Roma or non-Roma producers are eligible for applying.

The deadline for submitting films is March 25^th, 2014.

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B. Regulations for the 11th Roma Film Festival “Golden Wheel” - 2014

1.    General Festival screening and playing requirements

Documentaries and TV films treating Roma issues that have been or haven't been screened or broadcasted before on other festivals

It is strongly recommended that the programs are not longer that 30 minutes

Videos can only be shown either if they have English commentary and / or English dialogues, or if the original version is subtitled in English

"Golden Wheel" festival accepts the following screening formants: DV CAM PAL, Mini DVCAM PAL, SVHS PAL, VHS PAL and DVD-s.

There is no limit for the number of submitted programs - every producer, production house or TV station can submit as many programs as they think is appropriate

Once submitted documentary cannot be redrawn.

2.     How to enter your program

 "Golden Wheel" festival must receive the tape/CD for film’s screening/playing, completed and signed entry form with a VHS preview cassette (PAL)/CD as soon as possible. We will highly appreciate if you enter your programs as early as possible

The preview tape/CD as well as the tape/CD for screening/playing has to have English voice-over and/or dialogue and/or subtitles

The following information must also be provided at the time of entry:

·         English script of the program

·         A title- list of the languages (Roma, Macedonian and English)

·         A biography of the director(s)

·         A filmography of the director

·         Short history of the production house

·         Promotional materials (photographs, posters etc)

·         Dialogue list in English

·         If you want to enter two or more programs at the festival, make a copy of the entry form for

        each one of them

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Entries, preview tapes / CDs and documentation materials, as well as all correspondence should be addressed to:

TV BTR Nacional

 

376 Street, No.108,

1000 Skopje, Macedonia

tel./fax: + 389 2 3216 000

e-mail: tvbtr@tvbtr.com.mk  (for  “Golden Wheel - 2014 ” film festival)

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: Children's film festival seeks entries (TAIWAN)

Creators of dramas, documentaries, animation and television programs for children can participate.

The Taiwan International Children's Film Festival (TICFF) is seeking entries for its competition. TICFF aims to screen quality productions for children under 12, while furthering children's multicultural education and media literary.

The categories include dramatic feature or short, documentary, animation and television program. The length of drama, documentary and television program must be 10 to 95 minutes; animations can be 1 to 95 minutes.

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NEWS: Qatar unveils plans for two new film festivals

The Doha Film Institute (DFI) has announced that it is expanding its festival format to include two new cinematic showcases: the Ajyal Film Festival for the Young and the Qumra Film Festival.

The Qumra Film Festival, to be held over eight days in March 2014, will focus on first and second time filmmakers – of both short and feature length films.

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