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Festival deadlines in February 2010

Monday, February 1st, 2010

It is never too late to apply to these festivals. All have a deadline this month. Here we have our suggestions for February.

Krakow Film Festival
Krakow, Poland
Entries must be received by 11th Feb 2010

Krakow FF promotes the documentary, animated and short films. More than 350 films are presented during KFF every year. In 2007 a new competition section was held – for feature-length documentary films.

International ShortFilmFestival Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Entries must be received by 15th Feb 2010

In 1985 the festival started under the title No Budget Festival as a small festival that mainly screened super 8 films. Over the years it grew bigger and bigger and is nowadays one of the most important shortfilm festivals in Europe that lures everyyear up to 14 000 spectators into the word of short films.

Funchal International Film Festival – Madeira island
Funchal, Portugal
Entries must be received by 19th Feb 2010

The Festival will explore new trends in art film; main category is the International Official Competitive Section for fiction features and shorts produced between 2008 and 2009.

Titanic Film Festival
Budapest, Hungary
Entries must be received by 20th Feb 2010

The aim of the Festival is to present a wide variety of daringly new, original and trend-breaking motion pictures from every possible corner of the world, be it dark comedies, emotionally charged dramas, genre films, or documentaries.

Munich International Short Film Festival
Munich, Germany
Entries must be received by 28th Feb 2010

MUNICH INTERNATIONAL showcases a variety of talent from all over the world by presenting new ideas, new stories, new visions, new techniques, new styles and new trends in filmmaking. These short films offer the rare opportunity to view a medium that encourages innovation and originality in filmmaking, thus giving something very special and enriching to the viewer.

Maremetraggio
Trieste, Italy
Entries must be received by 28th Feb 2010

The Festival main section, Maremetraggio, is a “Best of the Best” of European shorts, where only the winners of other Festival in the previous year can be selected. It has also the CEI prize for shorts from eastern European countries and a debut work section only for Italian movies.

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Cinetrain 2. is Calling for Participants

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Cinetrain is a unique filmmaker’s workshop which first took place in September 2008, when
18 young filmmakers from 13 countries organized in 6 film crews traveled across Russia from
Moscow to Vladivostok and successfully shot 6 short documentaries.

On August 2009 Cinetrain will get back on tracks from Moscow to Astana, through Russia,
Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. To fill up the train compartment, we need 24 young filmmakers who
would love Central Asia, developing their professional skills, making new professional contacts,
and shooting altogether 8 short documentary films.

The theme of 2009 Cinetrain is “Cultural Neighboring”. 20 years after the disintegration of
the Soviet Union, new identity and cultural questions arise in those new independent republics.
They were once collaborators who were building an ideal together; they now became “just
neighbors”.

The train will stop in 7 cities with very different identities and cultural background: Moscow

(Heart of the “Russian empire”), Samara (Russian provincial city), Orenburg (sang by Alexander
Pushkin), Bukhara (an ancient Muslim town), Tashkent (modern Uzbekistan capital-city), Almaty
(business and cultural center of Kazakhstan), Astana (Kazakhstan capital).

3 COUNTRIES, 7 CITIES, 8000 KM, 25 DAYS, 8 FILMS, 24 TALENTS… WANT TO APPLY?
Before applying for Cinetrain project please read ATTENTIVELY following information:

The 8 short films made during the workshop will compose a full-length documentary which will be
premiered during “Eurasia” film festival in Astana.

Participants must be professional filmmakers or film school alumnies under 30 years old. You can
apply as director, cinematographer, sound director or editor.

Food, accommodation and transportation from Moscow to Astana and back are provided by MiruMir
Studio.

Participants will be required to pay their own travel costs (planes and visas) from their home country
to Moscow and back.

There will also be a participation fee of 150 euros per participant.

The deadline for application is the 25th of April 2009.

Download application form from www.cinetrain.ru

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Clermont Ferrand: Deadline is Coming!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

clermont.jpgInternational Short Film Festival in Clermont Ferrand is waiting for your film till the 15th of October.  The only way you are able to apply is via Shortfilmdepot. (We at Daazo are always happy to realize the tight relation between the ‘online world’ and the ‘world of shorts’.)

This film festival itself is maybe the coolest (short) film festivals, it used to say that it is the ‘Cannes of short films’. It was the world’s first International short film festival which originated in 1979. This festival which brings thousands of people every year (137.000 in 2008) to the city is the second French film Festival after Cannes in term of visitors, but the first one regarding the number of spectators (as in Cannes visitors are not allowed in theatres, reserved to professionals). This festival has revealed many young talented directors now well-known in France and even internationally such as Mathieu Kassovitz, Cédric Klapisch or Éric Zonka.

In 2009, the festival will celebrate its 31th anniversary and will present three competitions mixing film and digital medium, thus bringing greater diversity to the short film format – diversity being its basic principle, its source of uniqueness and vitality.

So apply, go there, send your stories and photos to the World of Shorts magazine!

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Pitch Your Short!

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

shortpitch.jpgAfter a successful first and second edition, the European network NISI MASA proposes to carry on for the third time the European Short Pitch project from 15th of February to the 22nd of February 2009 in Andé (France).

The aim is to develop a European production of short film through promotion of projects starting from the phase of writing, by meetings between scriptwriters/directors and producers on the European level.

Deadline for application is the 31st of October 2008.

Applications – to be sent at joanna@nisimasa.com – should include:

-a CV
-a motivation letter
-the application form filed (attached)
-a script (maximum 20 000 characters).

As the organizers say:”if you have a very good short film project you would like to develop, “European Short Pitch” is for you!

Find more info on Nisi Masa’s home page!

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FlashFilm Fest

Monday, August 25th, 2008

In the framework of Pécs2010 program and with the support of NKA, Film.hu Kft. launches a flash animation competition. Prize money will be awarded to the top ten competitors.

Topic of the competition

According to competition terms 10 selected creators/workshops will have the opportunity to make 10×1 minute long flash animation films. At the end of the almost one and a half month long process all animation films will be linked by competition organizers into one 10 minute long film entitled Pécsi Flash.

First round, there can be only ten.
Competitors may nominate their animation films made in the past five years. The best 10 creators/workshops will be selected by viewers and the jury. Competition parameters are defined at the official website, see here.

Second round
There is only one criterion: the opening and closing scene must be based on a venue photo and a 1 minute long music selection must be included, too. The music selection and the photo gallery of venue photos will be available on the safe website of the competition before the start of the second round.

The result of a total prize money of one million HUF competition, a ten minute long film entitled Pécsi Flash will be presented at the Hungaroflash Festival taking place from 17th to 19th October 2008.

Jury
András Wahorn artist, musician, head of the jury, Balázs Gróf graphic artist, director of animation movies, Márton Hegedűs graphic artist, director of animation movies, Lazin Igor director of animation movies, producer, Géza M. Tóth director of animation movies, professor of the Moholy-Nagy University Of Art And Design Budapest.

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Online scriptwriting course on Cineuropa.org

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

From July 2008, Cineuropa.org proposes an online scriptwriting course in English, French, Italian and Spanish. The training formula is based on a direct and personalised contact between the participants and the teacher. Participants will therefore be able to read the lessons at their leisure time and communicate privately with the teacher at any moment. Following the first trial lesson, which is available, free of charge, on the website, the course is structured in eight lessons over sixteen weeks. These lessons’ aim is to offer participants the essential theoretical and practical notions in scriptwriting, while highlighting the differences between cinema scriptwriting and other creative forms. The follow up with the tutor and the practical aspects provided by the exercises are at the core of the project. The course fees amount to 465 euros + VAT. For further information, please visit www.cineuropa.org

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TCM Classic Shorts competition: Finding the film-makers of the future

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

TCM Classic Shorts 2008 is open for entries!

Why Enter?

  • First prize – £5,000; Second prize – £3,000; Third prize – £2,000
  • Promotion of your work on movie channel TCM across Europe, the Middle East and Africa as part of a special on-air TCM Classic Shorts season in November
  • Be part of one of the most prestigious and long standing short film competitions in Europe
  • Judging panel made up by some of the most prominent names in the film and media industry
  • International media coverage of the competition, now in its ninth year, held in conjunction with The Times BFI London Film Festival
  • The 6 finalists will be screened as part of The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival at the awards ceremony and on film channel TCM
  • Past winners have gone on to win BAFTAs, make feature films and TV programmes, and screen their work at other festivals such as Cannes with the encouragement and assistance of TCM

More info and details: http://www.tcmclassicshorts.com/

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7th European Script Contest for Short Film Scripts

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Organised from the 15th of April to the 31st of July, the NISI MASA contest takes place simultaneously in all its member countries in Europe .

For this 7th edition, the new theme is: Escape.

The contest is open to every youngster from 18 to 28, living in one of the organising countries. Each participant must write a short-film script of 20,000 characters maximum on the assigned theme, in one of the official languages of the contest.

In January~February 2009 the three new awarded scriptwriters plus 12 of the European finalists, will be invited by NISI MASA to take part in «European Short Pitch», a scriptwriting workshop organised at the Moulin d’Andé~Céci in France, followed by pitching sessions in front of European producers.
Then, the 3 European winners will be supported by NISI MASA in the production and distribution of their films.
From the script to the screen, NISI MASA is keen on contributing to the development and circulation of innovative short films from all over Europe.

All information about the contest can be found here:

http://www.nisimasa-scriptcontest.eu/

Application Deadline:
31. July 2008

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CineTrain is Calling for Participants

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

cinetrain_2.jpg

Our friends (Nisi Masa, Moviement) launched a very interesting project indeed. If you are fancy to make a documentary on and about the Russian railways, apply to CineTrain workshop, and cross this enormous country with your camera!

Organising an itinerant cinema event; NISI MASA old-timers have been nurturing this crazy idea ever since the origins of the network. It took the arrival of the Russian association Moviement, for the dream to become reality. Our enthusiastic Moscow-based colleagues intend to bring up-to-date a unique working method, invented by Russian documentary filmmakers in the 1930s. It was called the ‘Cine-Train’.

Film crews, under the guidance of Aleksandr Medvedkin, used to travel through the Soviet Union in specially equipped wagons. Although they were filming the industrial achievements of the regime, the underlying goal was to give the power of speech to people who didn’t normally have the opportunity to get their voices heard.

In 2008, the international workshop will hopefully ensure the legacy of this spirit, but will focus its interest on the notion of borders. “Did we just cross the European border?” 18 young filmmakers will constantly ask themselves along the 9 302 km of the mythic Trans-Siberian railroad track. Where does Europe ‘end’? What concrete expressions or feelings of this border can be found? From Moscow to Vladivostok, NISI MASA and Moviement want to offer the participants (rallied into 6 shooting crews) the possibility to answer these questions in a stimulating atmosphere, supported with professional tutors, far away from clichés and preconceived ideas.

A three-week adventure, this Euro-Asian workshop planned for September 2008 certainly is an ambitious project, supported by the European Cultural Foundation and the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the 6th Vladivostok International Film Festival.

CineTrain is going to be held from 1th September to 21th September.
Application deadline: 31th of March

Preparatory films should be uploaded onto Daazo!

For further infos visit:

http://www.moviement.livejournal.com/

http://www.nisimasa.com

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Festival of Very Short Films

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Tres Court Film FestivalParis based short film festival is open for filmmakers, who have short films under the length of 3 minutes. This festival has a very nice atmosphere. If your film is selected it will be screened in more than 40 cities all around as the festival runs a franchise system. So here we go:

The festival of Very Short is about fifty films in an international selection, screened in only one meeting of a little bit more than two hours. It is also a competition, with four prices awarded by the Jury, and of course the price of the public awarded by you. It is also screenings organized simultaneously in forty cities in France and all around the world as well…

A new edition is actually in preparation and the festival of Très Short is more than ever present in about 40 cities to propose to you the best and undoubtedly the shortest of the international audio-visual film production.

Trés Court Film Festival
Deadline for registration: 12th February, 2008

Find more info here: Trés Court Film Festival

Register your film here: Register form

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