Alcine is calling for entries
The European Short Film Competition is now open for entries to any short film made, produced or co-produced in the continent of Europe, completed after January the 1st 2012 and with a maximum running time of 30 minutes. Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid Film Festival from 9th to 15th of November 2013 Spanish short films must...
The Cinéast festival is now calling for entries
The 5th Central and European Film Festival is now accepting submissions to it’s programme. The festival is held in October in Luxembourg from the 11th to the 28th. The festival accepts films from the following countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia (works by directors from Bosnia...
New is good: New Directors/New Films this March for the 42nd time in NYC
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has always been the most prominent place in the world to promote emerging talent. They made a revolution by introducing auteur cinema to the Hollywood-based audiences and they still do it, never stopping. As they say, before Sundance and SXSW(South by Southwest, a prestigious festival held right now in...
WOSH – Small is beautiful
There’s a definite feeling, both in the UK and spreading into Europe and across the great ponds, that there’s a bit of a heyday in short filmmaking at the moment. Despite global economic meltdown and tough times all round, innovative and mould breaking shorts are proving to be the order of the day. Despite the...
Euro Connection at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
European Short Film Co-production Forum. 31 January – 1 February 2012 This new initiative in favour of short film co-production is a must-attend event for European producers, commissioning editors and financial partners. Some twenty exciting new projects with a European creative and audience potential will be presented. Euro Connection is the marketplace for short film...
Engange 2012: seeking dynamic new European filmmakers
Opening doors to international collaboration for producers, screenwriters & writers/directors. Engage 2012 is a training programme for new and emerging writers, writer/directors and producers, producers, designed to foster international creative collaborations. Engage 2011 brought together 24 participants from several European countries to develop new fiction, documentary and animation feature projects. Engage 2011, with support from...
Call for applications: Torino Film Lab – Interchange
Interchange is a programme for teams of writer/director and producer from Europe or the Arab world working at a fiction feature film and film professionals interested in script editing training. The programme is also open to 3 trainee script consultants from the Arab world. The Interchange 2012 call for applications is open, apply now! Deadline...
EFA Short Film Selection 2011 completed
As announced at the International Short Film Festival in Drama (Greece), the Italian fiction short THE WHOLLY FAMILY by Terry Gilliam has been selected by the jury for a nomination for the 24th European Film Awards. The annual cycle is completed with this fifteenth short film nominated for European Film Academy Short Film 2011, an...
How To Make it With A Short Film In Europe
by Elliot Grove Using a short film, or a series of short films has always been considered a viable and useful way to demonstrate one talent to the industry powers-that-be on route to building a career in features, or in commercials and pop promos. Here are the routes novice filmmakers are using in Europe. Many...
Participate in the third edition of FILMINI
The third edition of FILMINI International Short Film Festival will take place in October 13-18, 2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Filmini is committed to showcasing international short films. The Festival’s primary goal is to present young cinema of the world and independent films, and to become a platform for short filmmakers. A special focus of the...
Etiuda & Anima Festival’s call for Animation
Etiuda & Anima Festival will have a competition of animation,equally professional, independent as well as the student’s one. For this year’s edition of the competition there will be chosen the films made in 2007- 2009 and they shall not exceed 30 minutes of duration. The films will compete for the following Prizes -Grand Prix —...
Winners of the 49th Krakow Film Festival
Having watched all the competitive films The International Competition Jury of the 49th Krakow Film Festival consisting of: Zbigniew Rybczyński – chairman (Poland), Christoffer Olofsson (Sweden), Eduardo Chapero-Jackson (Spain), Chris Tidman (United Kingdom), Leo Kantor (Sweden) has decided to award the following prizes : The Golden Dragon to the film “Pizza in Auschwitz” /“Pizza be...