Festivals
HollyShorts Film Festival
An Academy Award Qualifying Festival, HOLLYSHORTS is an organization devoted to showcasing the best and brightest short films from around the globe, advancing the careers of filmmakers through screenings, networking events, and various panel and forums. The HollyShorts Film festival showcases the top short films produced 40- minutes or less. Categories include Short Animation, Short Live Action, Short Documentary, Music Video, Webisode, Commercials, Youth Film and Digital Microbudget.
Studio City Film Festival - Winner of Social Justice Award
The mission at the STUDIO CITY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is to present cutting-edge films that will entertain, provoke, and inform it's audience members. THE TAMPON was selected as a winner for their Donald E. Lacy J. Social Justice Award.
Taos Film Festival
TAOS brings global, world-class cinema to Taos and keep the cinematic arts thriving in our eclectic community. We provide filmmakers with a venue to showcase their work, participate in workshops, panels, and network with fellow filmmakers, media companies, producers, and distributors. They are a forum that unites short films and filmmakers with the community, with the belief that films have the ability to change peoples lives. Their festival strives to exceed in quality. They select short films that have compelling and thought provoking subject matter and are of a technical excellence.
Garoa Awards - Winner of Best Production Design of Narrative Film
Garoa Awards is a Monthly Film Festival of São Paulo is a unique festival that aims to promote independent filmmakers from all around the world. Each and every film will be judged very carefully by professional filmmakers. All films are treated with dignity and respect as a piece of art. The festival was established in the city of São Paulo, the largest capital in Latin America, known for concentrating cultures from different countries of the world in the same city.
Brazil International Monthly Independent Film Festival - Honorable Mention: Outstanding Filmmaker
BIMIFF (Brazil International Monthly Film Festival) is an Online Competitive Film Festival created to give opportunity for filmmakers from all around the world to showcase their projects to great online audiences, while interacting with other great artists and independent filmmakers!
Montreal Feminist Film Festival
The mission of the Montreal Feminist Film Festival is to move, inspire and represent a wide variety of femininities and feminisms in order to increase their visibility. We strongly believe in intersectionality and strong female characters who challenge gender norms. We are a trans-inclusive, queer festival and accept films directed by everyone regardless of their gender, and strongly encourage marginalized people to send us their work. More than a festival screening films about women or made by women (which is not trans-inclusive), the FFFM wants to showcase activist works that have a strong feminist message.
Bowery Film Festival
The Bowery Film Festival in NYC is determined to bring about a cinematic revolution unseen since the 70’s, striving to discover a new wave of renegade filmmakers creating raw, gritty, funny, and bombastic art in one of the most culturally rich and progressive neighborhoods in New York City. Their mission is simple: to showcase works from filmmakers of all walks of life regardless of gender, race, age, creed, sexual orientation, or political affiliation and provide them with a platform to jumpstart their careers.
Defy Film Series
DEFY is driven by the desire to showcase unknown talent from around the world and to program with focused intention for a unique experience. It's this cinematic experience that we are determined to bring our Nashville audiences.
“We call it Defy for a reason. The festival showcases unique filmmakers and introduces audiences to work that they won’t see anywhere else. We’re always looking for submissions that are a little bit different and one-of-a-kind. We’re about something new and fresh. When you see that spark of innovation and bold intention, that’s what really turns me on about film.” - Dycee Wildman, Festival Director
Festival Angaelica
Angaelica is an arts and ecology nonprofit. Their passion is connecting creative communities through films, festivals & farms. For over 15 years they have been growing Angaelica and their annual mentorship festival encouraging and empowering filmmakers combining; traditional theater venues, school auditoriums, local libraries, gallery exhibition spaces, outdoor screenings, community events, camping, outdoor adventures and events across the nation including Washougal, WA where they started to OR, CA, MN and FL. They hosted a virtual trial with the same mission, same passion, different platforms including; insights from industry mentors, filmmaker conversations, pitch projects, alumni updates, learning from their audiences to grow with them and support their local communities more meaningfully.
Detroit SheTown Film Festival
Established in 2018, the Detroit SheTown Film Festival screens short films in the following genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Documentary, LGBTIQA+, Music Video, Short Episodic, and Thriller/Horror. Their emphasis is female-driven independent short form cinema in performances, stories and key filmmaking production positions. They showcase important creative works of female directors and filmmakers from Michigan and around the world. They continually rank among the FilmFreeway "Top 100 Best Reviewed Film Festivals".
Moorepark Film Festival
The Moorpark Film Festival is committed to promoting and continuing education in both the cinematic and performing arts while raising awareness about international fundraising efforts. The festival is organized by the nonprofit Moorpark Morning Rotary Club and is hosted by the nonprofit High Street Arts Center. In 2020 the festival will serve as a fundraiser to support research towards Childhood Diabetes and other local charities.
Kalakari Film Fest
Kalakari is an exclusive event of INDIA for upcoming artist and thinkers, an award function, exhibition & artwork Kalakari of NGO HELPING HANDS. On every film entry they give 5 food package to needy peoples. Kalakari is the most prestigious Awards for the animation, visual effects, photography segment across the Indian sub-continent and beyond. Kalakari by Rishi Nikam event has grown from strength to strength and has become a springboard to showcase talent.
Clermont Short Film Market Selection
Participated in the Clermont Short film Market with over 2,400 participants.
Nevertheless Film Festival
Nevertheless Film Festival elevates the work of womxn filmmakers, as every film in the program has at least 50% womxn filmmakers in leadership positions. The Festival does not define filmmaker as meaning only “director” -- in order to qualify, filmmakers can be producers, editors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and more.
Inspired by “Nevertheless, she persisted,” the rallying cry for barrier-breakers everywhere, the Festival was established in response to the rising conversations about equal representation in the film industry, as well as personal experiences by founder Meredith Finch. Meredith spent several years working in film and commercial production, and only once did she find herself surrounded by primarily womxn on a film crew.
Nevertheless Film Festival amplifies the voices of womxn filmmakers, inspires audiences of all ages, and engages the community in conversation about the power of equal representation behind the camera.
Katra Film Series - Finalist
Katra Film Series is dedicated to the discovery, exhibition and promotion of quality emerging cinema, providing a platform for independent filmmakers to showcase their work in front of a live audience and to network with likeminded industry professionals. Every season they curate a selection of quality films, web series and digital works where the audience votes for one project to advance to the final rounds.
Past alums have landed theatrical distribution deals and have gone on to write, produce and direct feature films and TV shows for HBO, FOX, Netflix, Showtime, ESPN, Vice Media including festival stops at Sundance, Tribeca, Berlin and Cannes Film Festival.
Latino Film and Arts Festival
Filmmaker Danny Hastings created the Festival in 2015, in response to the lack of Latinx representation in Hollywood films and TV shows. Their mission is to showcase, nurture and support the emerging creative Latinx filmmakers who produce, direct and/or write their films in the United States.
Santa Monica International Film Festival - Honorable Mention
Santa Monica International Film Festival ® is a premier showcase for U.S. and international independent film, held annually in and around Santa Monica, CA. Santa Monica Film Festival screens new, innovative and compelling films and provides programming that values short filmmakers and significantly highlights short films.
Santa Monica International Film Festival (SMFF) is produced by the non-profit Malibu Film Foundation (established in 1997). The Festival is organized by professional filmmakers that actively make films, television and other entertainment based content.
Film Girl Film Festival
A society of women who shape the world with their imagination, FILM GIRL FILM FESTIVAL was inspired by Andrea Thompson, who became inspired whene people in the local film community and Hollywood insiders alike started having in-depth discussions of the obstacles and disparate treatment women in the industry continue to endure. As the festival grew, Andrea decided to rename it the FILM GIRL FILM FESETIVAL to foster partnerships across the worldwide community while featuring and supporting the Milwaukee arts scene.
Female Voices Rock Film Festival
Female Voices Rock is dedicated to supporting diverse female storytellers in the entertainment industry. Their mission is to incite and inspire change that builds a foundation of equality and diversity, ensuring that every voice is heard and championed. Female Voices Film Festival is committed to creating a platform for female artists to be able to share their work. The event features short films by women, Q&As, educational panels, and a closing Award Ceremony. Their industry panel of judges includes Emmy award winner and Oscar-nominated producers. They celebrate films that empower female directors, writers, producers, and protagonists.
Hollywood New Directors Film Festival
HOLLYWOOD NEW DIRECTORS celebrate filmmakers who challenge the conventional way of filmmaking and aim to discover new talents whose works are bold, daring, and reinvent and push the frontier of cinema. They focuson films made by new directors of all backgrounds, with unique vision and fresh voices. The mission of the festival is to create exposure for bold and daring creative works that might otherwise go unnoticed, and bring them onto the big screen in Hollywood.
LA Underground Film Forum
LA Underground Film Forum (LAUFF) is Los Angeles's premier showcase of experimentation in film, video and audio based mediums. It focus on avant-garde, art-house, independent and no/low budget filmmaking.
Their program provides a venue for filmmakers to reinvent and explore new approaches, to foster new forms of media art and to build an audience for such work. They aim to present a wide range of work exploring the many definitions and interpretations of the concept of “underground”.