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  • AFI Digital Content Festival

    The Year's Best iTV, Wireless and Broadband Entertainment

  • Asian American International Film Festival

    Founded in 1978, AAIFF is proudly known as 'The First Home to Asian American Cinema.' It was the nation's first festival dedicated to screening works by media artists of Asian descent and continues to be a leading showcase for Asian American film and video.

  • Chicago Underground Film Festival

    CUFF presents alternative, underground, independent and experimental films.

  • Cinematexas, Austin, Texas

    Since its inception in 1995 as a tiny student showcase, the festival has grown rapidly, mutating with each new edition. Our competition program is a forum, an ongoing argument, a free zone for celebrating and exchanging stories, for collaborations and for exposing audiences to brave and radical forays in cinema.

  • Con-Can Movie Festival, Tokyo, Japan

    An online international short film festival connecting creators and viewers all around the world. See Application Guide link at the bottom of the screen.

  • Crossover Australia, Encounter Bay, Australia

    Crossover Australia brings together accomplished Australian artists, filmmakers, game developers, web designers and screenwriters, for five days. The goal is to develop ideas for projects that combine the storytelling skills of independent filmmaking with new kinds of interactivity made possible by emerging technology.

  • Darklight Festival, Dublin, Ireland

    Darklight is Ireland's premier festival for filmmakers, animators and artists whose work explores the convergence of art, film and technology. Our mission is to nurture new talent and to create new possibilities for the imagination.

  • European Coordination of Film Festivals, Brussels, Belgium

    ECFF is a network of 250 audio-visual festivals with strong roots in the regions of Europe. Member festivals are dynamic, cultural events which have made a commitment to promote the diversity of the European moving image.

  • Film Festivals Entertainment Group, New York, New York

    An online entertainment destination dedicated to showcasing film festivals around the world and fostering new film and filmmaking talent. See "Call for Entries" link under each listing.

  • Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, New York

    The Film Society of Lincoln Center produces The New York Film Festival (NYFF), New Directors/New Films (ND/NF) and Scanners: New York Video Festival. Entry into our festivals is open to all filmmakers. You are encouraged to submit to any festival for which you feel your work is appropriate. All lengths and all genres are considered for our festivals.

  • FilmLand Film and Video Festival Calendar

    This listing contains over 400 film festivals, markets, expositions, and communications industry conventions.

  • IMDb Film/Video Festivals and Events Worldwide

    A comprehesive listing of festivals and events around the world.

  • New York International Independent Film and Video Festival

    The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival was founded in 1993. NYIIFVF has been recognized by the film and entertainment industry as one of the leading film events on the independent festival circuit. The festival hosts film, music and art events in the two entertainment capitals of the United States: New York and Los Angeles.

  • Portobello Film Festival, London, England

    The Film Festival was created in 1996 as a reaction to the moribund state of the British film industry, to provide a forum for new film-makers and give exposure to movies on different formats.

  • The Images Festival, Toronto, Canada

    In addition to independent and experimental film, video, installation, performance and new media IF also presents MOMENTUM a cross-disciplinary symposium featuring international media artists, cultural workers and theorists interacting on key themes that have emerged from the festival.

  • The Independent Film Festival of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

    IFFBoston shows films that people might not get a chance to see anywhere else, films that are both innovative and crowd-pleasing. It offers the chance to meet the filmmakers at post-screening parties, and to ask them questions both after the films and at festival panels.

  • The Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, London, England

    Over the past seven years, it has taken its place at the forefront of the international short film festival circuit, with free daily screenings of all short-listed films in bars, cafes and cinemas throughout the West End, concentrating on Soho, the centre of the UKs filmmaking and creative industries, sell-out film seminars and a star-studded awards night. The event is totally non-profit making - there are no entry fees and attendance at screenings and seminars is also free.

  • Tulsa Overground Film Festival, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    An annual nonprofit, non-competitive film and music festival showcasing the freshest, most innovative artists from around the world. A cinematic grab bag of first-time filmmakers, student directors, professional lensers, and big name auteurs.

  • Videonale, Bonn, Germany

    Founded in Bonn in 1984, Videonale is the organizer of one of the oldest video festivals in the world. Since then the festival has grown steadily, and has developed in this field into a leading institution for current video art. Since 2004, Videonale has been using the premises of the Kunstmuseum Bonn, making a meaningful complement to the video pioneers from the bequest of Ingrid Oppenheim, who as an art collector and patron of the arts laid the ideal foundations of today's VIDEONALE in the late 1970s.

  • World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    WWVF is an international media art festival. Founded in the early 1980s, it is one of the pioneering events in a now internationally respected field of visual art.

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