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The film festival is a very important part
of the film industry Annual Calendar , many distribution deals come about as
a result of meetings held at film festivals. They are also a place where
many great film collaborations have started. They provide a forum for films
of all genres and nations to be screened and seen by the rest of the
industry and media alike. They also provide a contact point for anyone
wanting to break in to the film industry, along with a place where film
fans, can see great films and meet their creators. Below is a list of the
film festivals for 2007-2008, More will be added as the dates are confirmed.
Many of the festivals are open to the general public, full contact details
can be found for each festival below.
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February |
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Bradford International Film Festival |
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Images of Black Women Film Festival |
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Festival Febuary 29th-March-15th
Deadline: November
Categories: Features, shorts,
documentary, experimental
Requirements: 16mm, 35mm (optical
sound), Beta SP (PAL), DVD. Entries to have been completed during the
previous two years. Contact festival for details
Awards: Competitive
Fees: None
Administrative address: Bradford
International Film Festival, National Media Museum, Bradford, West
Yorkshire, BD1 1NQ UK
Tel: +44 (0)1274 203 320
Fax: +44 (0)1274 203 387;
Email address:
tony.earnshaw@nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
Artistic Director: Tony Earnshaw
Administrator: Ben Eagle
Website:
http://www.bradfordfilmfestival.org.uk
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Festival Febuary 29th-March-2nd
Deadline: January
Categories: Feature films, short
film competition
Requirements: Short competition
requirement: 15 mins max
Awards: See website for details
Fees: None
Administrative address: IBW Film
Festival, PO Box 54145, London W5 9DA, England
Tel: +44 (0)20 8450 4827
Fax: +44 (0)20 8208 3873;
Email address:
info@imagesofblackwomen.com
Co-Director: Sylviane Rano
Co-Director: Betty Sulty-Johnson
Website:
http://www.imagesofblackwomen.com
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March |
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London Australian Film Festival |
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Viva! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival |
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The Birds Eye View
(More
Details) |
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Festival 6th-16th-March
Barbican Cinema
Silk Street
London, EC2Y 8DS
tel: (44-20) 7382-2379
fax: (44-20) 7382-7037
e-mail: cinema@barbican.org.uk
website: www.barbican.org.uk/film
contact: Robert Rider/Moira McVean
deadline: TBA
theme: Australian film
categories: doc, flf, gen, shorts
formats: 35mm, 16mm, Beta SP, Digi-Beta, DVD
no fee
competitive
Fest organizers say: "The Festival provides UK audiences with a unique
overview of Australian cinema with premieres and previews of the latest
Australian productions and the best recent Australian releases."
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Festival 6th-16th-March
Awards: Audience Award
Fees:
Administrative address:
Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Road, Manchester M1 5NH, England
Tel: +44 (0)16 1228 7621
Fax: +44 (0)16 1200 1504;
Email address:
viva@cornerhouse.org
Director: Linda Pariser
Website:
http://www.vivafilmfestival.co
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Festival 6th-13th-March
Deadline: November
Categories: Short films (all
genres), documentaries (any length), silent films
Requirements: Must be female
director
Awards: Non-competitive
Fees: £10 shorts, £15
documentaries + VAT plus SAE for return of tape
Administrative address: Unit 310a,
Aberdeen Centre, 22-24 Highbury Grove, London N5 2EA, England
Tel: +44 (0)20 7288 7444
Email address:
rachel@birds-eye-view.co.uk
Director: Rachel Millward
Website:
http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk |
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Llanberis Mountain Film Festival |
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The 10th Annual Asian Woman Film Festival:
Tongues on Fire (Details) |
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Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
London |
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Festival 7th-9th-March
Deadline: Contact festival for details
Categories: Mountain theme,
shorts, newcomers
Requirements: Films made within
five years before festival, DVD or VHS format (PAL or NTSC) - preview.
Digital Beta, Beta-SP, DV and DVD - screening copy
Awards: Best Film, Best Short,
Best newcomer
Fees: None
Administrative address: LAMFF, Yr
Hen Ysgol, Brynrefail, Caernarfon, Gwynedd LL55 3NR, Wales, UK
Tel: +44 (0)12 8668 5503
Email address:
info@llamff.co.uk
Coordinator: Catrin Ellis Jones
Website:
http://www.llamff.co.uk
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Festival 8th-25th-March
TONGUES ON FIRE, the annual film festival which celebrates excellence,
performance and achievements of South Asian women in cinema, presents its
10th Film Festival across a variety of locations in London with a Press
Launch on Tuesday 19th February at the National Film Theatre (NFT) with
Actress, Writer and Filmmaker Meera Syal at 7 pm.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) will host the
Opening Gala WEEKEND 8th & 9th March with a Q and A with Director Tanuja
Chandra and Actress Mahima Chaudhry -a popular face within Bollywood
audiences. Highlights throughout the festival include a special CELEBRATION
OF THE WORKS OF Meera Syal who will be interviewed by Playwright, Poet and
Critic Bonnie Greer on the 19th March, BAFTA at 7pm.
This year’s exciting festival contains feature films that explore the topics
of displacement; relationships and friendships; social and cultural
prejudices and the subject matter of mental health within South Asian
communities. The festival will also celebrate a Guru Dutt Film Season; a
screenwriter’s workshop with BRICK LANE Screenwriter Abi Morgan and Director
Sarah Gavron; Director’s Workshop with Tanuja Chandra and a Short Film
Competition Awards Ceremony both sponsored by the UK Film Council; seminars
and documentaries and a Photo Exhibition.
Festival Screenings will be held throughout London at the Nehru Centre; SOAS;
Brady Centre, Birbeck College, Rich Mix, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA),
Watermans and at Bafta from 8th – 25th March. For full Programme and
Listings: www.tonguesonfire.com
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Festival 12th-21st-March
The Ritzy Cinema
Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane
Bixton, London SW2 1JG
tel: (44-171) 737-2121
fax: (44-171) 733-8790
e-mail: andersj@hrw.org
website: www.hrw.org/iff
contact: John Anderson, Associate Director
deadline: TBA
theme: Human Rights
categories: ani, doc, exp, flf
no fee (preview cassettes will not be returned)
non-competitive |
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Renderyard Film and Documentary Festival |
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Our World Film Festival (Alternative Guide to
Our World) |
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Global Living Film Festival |
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Festival
21st-23th-March
Deadline:
February
Categories: Feature Film;
documentary; animation; machinamania; script; film score
Requirements: Feature Films 60
mins or longer, Documentary 30 mins or longer, Animation and Machinamania 30
mins or longer, Scripts for films 60 mins or longer, Film Score for films 30
mins or longer
Awards: Renderyard Film Winner and
£250 to produce your next film
Fees: £25
Renderyard Film Festival: 28
Colman Court, Christchurch Avenue, North Finchley, London N12 ODT, United
Kingdom
Email address:
renderyard@mail.com
Director: Mark Reid
Website:
http://www.renderyard.com
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Festival
27th-March
Deadline: See festival website for
details
Categories: Shorts
Requirements: Films must fit the
themes of the current festival
Awards: Variable. Prizes include a
cash prize of £200 for one category
Fees: None
Geography Department: Langtree
School, Reading Road, Woodcote, Reading Berkshire, RG8 0RA, England
Tel: +44 (0)777 2767366
Email address:
mygeographyteacher@googlemail.com
Organiser: Daniel Raven-Ellison
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Festival
TBC-March
Deadline: January
Categories: All welcome
Requirements: DVD, miniDV, VHS
Awards: Global Living Film Award
Fees: None
Administrative address: Global
Occupational Therapy Society (GOTS), Students Union,, Glenside Campus,,
Blackberry Hill, Stapleton, Bristol BS16 1DD, UK
Tel: +44 (0)16 3586 2962
Email address:
amenah.raven-ellison@uwe.ac.uk
President GOTS: Menah
Raven-Ellison
Treasurer GOTS: Dawn Beckett
Website:
http://www.gots.co.uk |
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Lovebytes Digital Arts
Festival |
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Deaf Focus Film Festival |
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The London International
Documentary Festival |
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Festival TBC-March-April
Deadline: Contact festival for
details
Categories: The festival explores
the creative and cultural potential of new technologies. Wide range of
computer art, including film, music, installations
Requirements: Contact festival for
details
Awards: Non-competitive
Fees: None
Administrative address: Lovebytes,
Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX, UK
Tel: +44 (0)114 268 2080
Fax: +44 (0)114 279 6522;
Email address:
info@lovebytes.org.uk
Creative Director: Jon Harrison
Website:
http://www.lovebytes.org.uk
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Festival TBC-March
Deadline:
November
Categories: Films and videos that
have been made by deaf film-makers or that are suitable for a deaf audience.
All genres considered
Requirements: VHS, MiniDV, DVD
(region 2 or region free), Beta SP, 35mm
Awards: Audience award
Fees: None
Festival address: Deaf Focus Film
festival, Flat 7, 4 Yeaman Place, Edinburgh EH11 1BX, UK
Email address:
info@deaf-focus.org.uk
Director: Matt Hulse
Website:
http://www.deaf-focus.org.uk |
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Festival 31st March-5th April
Deadline: December
Categories: Documentaries
Requirements: Films must have been
produced during 2 years before festival
Awards: None
Fees: Shorts £10 Features £18
Administrative address:
PocketVisions, 74 Goodhall Street, London NW10 6TU, England,
info@pocketvisions.co.uk
Email address:
info@pocketvisions.co.uk
Director: Patrick Hazard
Website:
http://www.lidf.co.uk
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London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
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Festival 27th March-10th April
National Film Theatre
South Bank, Waterloo
London SE1 8XT
United Kingdom
tel: (44-20) 7815-1323/4
fax: (44-20) 7633-0786
e-mail: Anna.Dunwoodie@bfi.org
contact: Anna Dunwoodie
deadline: TBA
categories: flf, doc, shorts, ani
no fee
competitive |
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April |
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Belfast Film Festival |
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London Independent Film Festival |
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Hull International Short Film Festival |
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Festival
10th-19th April
Deadline: December
Categories: Features, shorts,
animation, documentary
Requirements: 35mm, Beta SP, DVD,
MiniDV
Awards: Jameson short film
competition, Maysles Brothers Documentary Award
Fees: None
Administrative address: Belfast
Film Festival, 3rd Floor , 23 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FF, Northern
Ireland UK
Tel: +44 (0)28 9032 5913
Fax: +44 (0)28 9032 9397;
Email address:
info@belfastfilmfestival.org
Director: Michele Devlin
Website:
http://www.belfastfilmfestival.org
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Festival-14th-19th
April
Deadline:
March
Categories: Micro-budget; UK film;
Female Director; Sci-Fi / Horror; LGBT; Shorts; Docs; Screenplay
Requirements: Film must not be
distributed
Awards: various
Fees: £25 for features, £15 for
shorts
Administrative address: Studio 63
, 13 Poland st. , W1F 8AX , London, UK
Tel: +44 2081816757
Fax: +44 2081816757;
Email address:
info@londonindependentfilmfestival.org
director: Erich Schultz
coordinator: Bee Barker
Festival address: London's
Southbank
Website:
http://www.londonindependentfilmfestival.org
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Festival
15th-20th-April
Categories:
Shorts: Narrative, Documentary, Animation, Experimental
Requirements: Films must have been
produced during 2 years before festival. Submissions VHS Pal / DVD.
Screening copies 35mm, 16mm, Beta SP (preferred non-film format), DVD,
MiniDV
Awards: International Award,
Regional Award
Fees: None
Festival address: Hull Film,
Danish Buildings, Suite 12, 44-46 High Street, Hull HU1 1PS, East Yorkshire,
England
Tel: +44 (0)14 8238 1512
Fax: +44 (0)14 8238 1517;
Email address:
office@hullfilm.co.uk
Director: Laurence Boyle
Website:
http://www.hullfilm.co.uk
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East End Film Festival |
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Commonwealth Film Festival |
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End of the Pier Film
Festival |
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Festival
17th-24th-April
Deadline: December
Categories: Shorts, features,
docs, animation, experimental
Requirements:
Awards: Audience Award for Best
Short
Fees: Contact festival for details
Administrative address: The Brady
Arts and Comunity Centre, 192 - 196 Hanbury Street, London E1 5HU, United
Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7364 7920
Fax: +44 (0)20 7364 7901;
Email address:
eastend@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Producer: Stephanie Turnbull
Producer: Rachaell Castell
Website:
http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com
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Festival
22nd-26th-April
Deadline: Contact festival for details
Categories: Features, documentary,
shorts
Requirements: Beta, 35mm. Films
must have been produced during 18 months before festival in a Commonwealth
country
Awards: Audience awards for best
feature, best short, best North West short, best documentary
Fees: None
Administrative address: Greenheys
Centre 9, Manchester Science Park, Manchester M15 6JJ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)161 342 0044
Fax: +44 (0)161 342 0055;
Email address:
info@commonwealthfilm.com
Programme Director: Pascale Moyse
Associate Programmer: Eva Nelander
Website:
http://www.commonwealthfilm.com |
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Festival
22nd-April- 3rd-May
Deadline: March
Categories: Short Drama,
Documentary, Animation/Experimental and Feature Presentation
Requirements: DVD, VHS. New and
young film-makers
Awards: Various
Fees: £25 shorts (under 30 mins)
£75 features (over 80mins)
Administrative address: The End of
the Pier International Film Festival, PO Box 213, Bognor Regis PO21 2ZL,
West Sussex, UK
Tel: +44 (0)7719 116 758
Fax: +44 (0)1243 841775;
Email address:
carla@eotpfilmfestival.com
Festival Founder: Bryan Gartside
Festival Co-ordinator: Carla
MacKinnon
Website:
http://www.eotpfilmfestival.com
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Dead by Dawn Scotland's
International Horror Film Festival |
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Cambridge Internatioanl Super 8 Film Festival |
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Romanian Film Festival |
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Festival 24th-27th-April
88 Lothian Road
Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ
Scotland
tel: (44-798) 098-7779
fax: (44-131) 229-6482
e-mail: info@deadbydawn.co.uk
website: www.deadbydawn.co.uk
contact: Adele Hartley, Director
deadline: TBA
theme: horror
categories: ani, flf, hor, shorts
formats: 16mm, 35mm, Beta SP PAL
no fee
competitive
Fest organizers say: "Submission guidelines and forms are available to
download from our site or on request."
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Festival TBC-April
Deadline: February
Categories: Shorts; documentaries;
animation; experimental; music video
Requirements: Must be shot in part
or totally using Super 8 film stock. Films must have been produced during
the last 6 years
Awards: Audience Prize,
International Jury Prize
Fees: None
Administrative address: CS8FF, 17
Sunmead Walk, CB1 9YB , Cambridge, England
Email address:
fest@Strawberry-super8.org
: International Competition
Website:
http://www.cambridge-super8.org |
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Festival TBC-April
Deadline: Contact festival for details
Categories: Feature; shorts;
documentaries
Requirements: 35 mm; Romanian
films (or on Romanian issues)
Awards:
Fees: None
Administrative address: Romanian
Film Festival, Romanian Cultural Centre in London, 54-62 Regent Street,
London W1B 5RE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7439 4052
Fax: +44 (0)20 7437 5908;
Email address:
mail@romanianculturalcentre.org.uk
Director: Ramona Mitrica
Administrator: Mihai Risnoveanu
Website:
http://www.romanianculturalcentre.org.uk/filmfestival |
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Declaration of
Independence Film Festival |
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Sci-Fi Festival London |
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Festival TBC-April
Deadline: January
Categories: Features, shorts,
documentaries, animation
Requirements: North American -
USA/Canadian produced
Awards:
Fees: Shorts US$40, features US$70
Administrative address: 17
Sugarhouse Lane, London E15 2QS, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8534 8146
Email address:
festivalpress@screenrepublic.com
Festival Director: Peter Storey
Festival Coordinator: Julia Delmas
Website:
http://www.declarationfilmfest.org
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Festival 30th-April-4th May
SCI-FI-LONDON
c/o FestivalBiz
2nd Floor
145 - 157 St John Street
London EC1V 4PY
Telephone: +44(0) 20 7871 4555
Fax: +44(0) 20 8983 9426
Email: info@sci-fi-london.com
contact: Esther Hookman or Louis
Savy
deadline: TBA
theme: Sci-fi
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May |
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Mid Ulster
Film Festival |
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Animate the World |
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The Satyajit Ray Foundation
Short Film Competition |
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Festival 2nd-4th-May
Deadline:
March
Categories: Shorts; Documentaries;
Features; Animation;
Requirements: DVD, 16mm, 35mm,
video. Beta, Films must have been produced during 2 years before festival
Awards: None
Fees: £10 after 1 January
Film Submissions: Mid Ulster Film
Festival, c/o Geoffrey Sproule, 126 Peacock Road, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, BT82
9LY
Email address:
geoff@midulsterfilmfestival.com
Film Submissions: Geoffrey Sproule
Website:
http://www.midulsterfilmfestival.com
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Festival TBC-May
Deadline:
January
Categories: Animated features and
shorts for children aged 5-11 years from around the world
Requirements: 35mm, 16mm,
DigiBeta, Beta SP
Awards: Audience Award
Fees: None
Administrative address: Barbican
Cinema, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7638 4141
Fax: +44 (0)20 7382 7037;
Email address:
mmcvean@barbican.org.uk
Festival Producer: Moira McVean
Website:
http://www.barbican.org.uk |
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Festival TBC-May
Deadline:
March
Categories: Shorts
Requirements: Films must have been
completed within two years prior to the award date.
Awards: Best Film (£1,000), Best
Film by an under 18 (£500)
Fees:
Administrative address: Cultural
Diversity Department, British Film Institute (bfi), 21 Stephen Street,
London W1T 1NL
Contact: Cheryl Magowan
Website:
http://www.satyajitray.org.uk
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June |
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Fantastic Films Weekend |
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Edinburgh International
Film Festival |
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Leith Short Film Festival |
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Festival
13th-15th-June
Deadline:
Contact festival for details
Categories: Horror, fantasy,
science fiction
Requirements: 16mm, 35mm, 70mm -
DVD or VHS screeners in first instance
Awards: None
Fees: None
Administrative address: National
Media Museum, Pictureville, Bradford , BD1 1NQ, England
Tel: +44 (0)12 7420 3320
Fax: +44 (0)12 7420 3387;
Email address:
tony.earnshaw@nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
Artistic Director: Tony Earnshaw
Administrator: Ben Eagle
Website:
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/fantastic
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Festival
18th-29th-June
Deadline:
February (Features, Animation, Shorts, Docs), April (Mirrorball)
Categories: Features, shorts,
documentary, animation, music promos, experimental, young person's films
Requirements: 70mm, 16mm, 35mm,
comopt (occasional Beta, DigiBeta, Super 16mm). Films submitted from outside
the UK must have been produced during the two years before festival and
British films during the year before festival
Awards: Awards include: McLaren
award for new British animation, Michael Powell award for best new British
feature
Fees: None (animation and
Mirrorball), £25 (shorts), £75 (features)
Festival and administrative address:
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh
EH3 9BZ, Scotland UK,
Tel: +44 (0)131 228 4051
Fax: +44 (0)131 229 5501;
Email address:
info@edfilmfest.org.uk
Artistic Director: Hannah McGill
Managing Director: Ginnie Atkinson
Website:
http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk
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Festival
TBC-June
Deadline:
Contact Festival for details
Categories: short
fiction,comedy,animation,documentary
Requirements: Films must have been
produced during 2 years before festival
Awards:
Fees: None
See Website:
Email address:
contact@leithshortfilmfestival.co.uk
Festival Co-Ordinator: Paul Bruce
Website:
http://www.leithshortfilmfestival.co.uk |
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East of Center Film Fest |
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RAI International Festival
of Ethnographic Film |
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Swansea Bay Film Festival |
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Festival
TBC-June
Deadline:
April
Categories: All categories
Requirements: Films connected with
Central and Eastern Europe
Awards:
Fees: €15; free for students
Administrative address: Instigator
Media Group s.r.o. / Marika Ley , PO Box 515 , Praha 1, 111 21 , Czech
Republic ,
Tel: +420 731 416 321
Email address:
eastofcenter@gmail.com
Producer: Marika Ley
Director: Margot Buff
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Festival
TBC-June
Deadline:
January 2009
Categories: Documentary,
Anthropology, Archaeology
Requirements: Beta SP, dvcam, DVD
(must been produced with in three years prior to the festival)
Awards: Basil Wright Film Prize,
Royal Anthropological Institute Film Prize, Material Culture & Archaeology
Film Prize, Blackwell Student Film Prize, IntangibleCulture Film Prize,
Audience Award
Fees: £25, £10 (students)
Administrative address: Royal
Anthropological Institute, Film Festival, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT,
UK, festival@therai.org.uk, www.raifilmfest.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7387 0455
Fax: +44 (0)20 7388 8817;
Email address:
festival@therai.org.uk
Festival Manager: Susanne
Hammacher
Website:
http://www.raifilmfest.org.uk
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Festival
TBC-June
Deadline: Contact festival for details
Categories: Features,
Documentaries, Shorts, Animation, CGI, many more
Requirements: DVD
Awards: Tinny Award and Supreme
Tinny
Fees: See Festival web site for
details
Administrative Address: SBFF, The
Dylan Thomas Centre,, Somerset Place,, Swansea SA1 1RR, Wales
Tel: +44 (0)7721 058 404
Email address:
director@swanseafilmfestival.com
Director: Binda Singh
Website:
http://www.swanseafilmfestival.com |
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BLaSt |
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Showcomotion Young People's
Film Festival |
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Festival
TBC-June
Deadline: June
Categories: Animation
Requirements: DVD PAL format, 7
min max
Awards: £100 best animation - as
voted for by audience
Fees: None
Administrative address: Esther
Mars - BLaSt, Unit 1, The Lawns, Church Street, Broseley, Shropshire TF12
5DA
Email address:
press@dogturpie.com
Contact: Esther Mars
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Festival
TBC-June-July
Deadline: March
Categories: Children and young
people 2-19; films made BY children and young people, films made FOR
children and young people, shorts, animation, UNICEF UK AWARDS: films on the
theme of young people's rights
Requirements: 35mm, 16mm, Beta SP,
MiniDV
Awards: UNICEF UK Film Awares for
short films on the theme of young people's rights; Steel City Globe Awards
for films made by children in Sheffield
Fees: None
Administrative address: Showroom
Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX, UK
Tel: +44 (0)114 276 3534
Fax: +44 (0)114 249 3204;
Email address:
info@showcomotion.org.uk
Director: Kathy Loizou
Administrator: Kate Allen
Festival address: Showroom Cinema,
Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX, UK
Website:
http://www.showcomotion.org.uk
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Cambridge Film Festival |
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Nozstock Festival |
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The Angel Film Festival |
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Festival
TBC-July
Deadline: Contact festival for
details
Categories: Features, shorts,
feature-length documentary
Requirements: 16mm, 35mm
Awards: Non-competitive
Fees: None
Administrative address: Cambridge
Film Festival, Arts Picture House, 38-39 St Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2
3AR, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1223 500 082
Fax: +44 (0)1223 462 555;
Website:
http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
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Festival
TBC-July Deadline:
June
Categories: All shorts:
documentaries, animations, experimental, narrative tales, music videos, etc.
Requirements: .mov and .avi
preferable (DVD and miniDV (PAL) acceptable).
Awards: Non-competitive
Fees: None
Administrative address: Nozstock
Cinetent, Rowden Paddocks, Bromyard, Herefordshire, HR7 4LS UK
Tel: +44 (0)7866 451 949
Email address:
toki@nozstock.com
Programmer: Toki Allison
Founder: Pete Nosworthy
Festival address: Nozstock
Festival, Rowden Paddocks, Bromyard, Herefordshire, HR7 4LS UK
Website:
http://www.nozstock.com
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Festival
TBC-July
Deadline: May
Categories: Animation,
experimental, documentaries, narrative; music video
Requirements: VHS or DVD. Less
than 25 mins in length
Awards: Grand jury prize
Fees: None
Festival Address: Angel Film
Festival, 138 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QP England
Email address:
chris@angelfilmfestival.org
Director: Chris Timms
Press: Rick Dickerson
Website:
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Rushes Soho Shorts Festival |
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Britdoc |
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Stamford Short Film
Festival |
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Festival
TBC-July
Deadline:
May
Categories: Short films, newcomer,
music video, animation, title sequences, idents, short documentaries
Requirements: DVD, Beta. Entries
must no be longer than 12 minutes and must have been produced during the 12
months before festival
Awards: Various awards
Fees: None
Administrative address: Rushes
Soho Shorts Festival, PO Box 2868, London W1A 5QL, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7851 6207
Fax: +44 (0)20 7851 6369;
Director: Joe Bateman
Website:
http://www.rushes.co.uk |
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Festival
TBC-July Deadline:
Contact festival for details
Categories: Documentaries -
features and shorts
Requirements: Contact festival for
details
Awards:
Fees:
Administrative address: Britdoc
Events Ltd, PO Box 51376, London N1 6WX, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7033 2564
Fax: +44 (0)20 7033 2568;
Email address:
info@britdoc.org
Director: Beadie Finzi
Festival Manager: Jackie Dickson
Festival address: Keble College,
Oxford
Website:
http://www.britdoc.org
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Festival
TBC-July
Deadline: June
Categories: Short Films
Requirements:
Awards: Various
Fees: None
Stamford Arts Centre: 27 St Mary's
Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2DL, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1780 763 203
Fax: +44 (0)1780 766 690;
Email address:
boxoffice@stamfordartscentre.com
Website:
http://www.stamfordartscentre.com |
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August |
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FrightFest (London) |
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Leith Film Festival |
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Chichester Film Festival |
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Festival
TBC-August
Deadline:
June
Categories: Horror, Fantsay,
Thillers, Sci-Fi
Requirements: 35mm, Digi Beta, DVD
and produced in the year preceeding festival
Awards: none
Fees: none
Administrative address: 10
Wiltshire Gardens, Twickenham TW2 6ND, England
Tel: +44 (0)20 8296 0555
Fax: +44 (0)20 8296 0556;
Email address:
info-frightfest@blueyonder.co.uk
Director: Ian Rattray
Website:
http://www.frightfest.co.uk |
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Festival
TBC-August
Deadline:
May
Categories: Shorts, Features,
Documentaries and Animation
Requirements: Films to have been
completed in last 2 years prior to festival. Video, DVD, Mini DV
Awards: Audience award
Fees: Free to enter, returns only
with pre-paid mailer
Festival Address: Leith Film
Festival, 12 Casselbank Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 5HA, Scotland, UK,
Email address:
festival@leithfilmfestival.org.uk
Director: Justin Hall
Website:
http://www.leithfilmfestival.org.uk
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Festival
TBC-August
Deadline:
May
Categories: International film
shorts competition: comedy, drama, experimental, documentary, young
film-makers
Requirements: 16mm, 35mm, Beta SP,
DVD. Shorts must be under 15 minutes
Awards: £250 per category, plus
trophy. Audience award for best feature and best short
Fees: £20
Administrative address: Chichester
Film Festival, Chichester Cinema at New Park, New Park Road, Chichester PO19
7XY, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1243 78 66 50
Fax: +44 (0)1243 79 02 35;
Email address:
info@chichestercinema.org
Director: Roger Gibson
Website:
http://www.chichestercinema.org |
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Canary Wharf Film Festival (CWFF) |
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Festival
TBC-August
Deadline: June
Categories: Shorts, documentaries,
animation, experimental
Requirements: Films must have been
produced 1 year before festival
Awards: Drama Award, Documentary
Award, Animation Award
Fees: None
Administrative address: ROK
Motion, Unit B01, 10-11 Archer Street, London W1D 7AZ, England
Email address:
enquiries@cwff.org.uk
Website:
http://www.cwff.org.uk
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September |
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Bitethemango |
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Filminute - The International One-Minute Film
Festival |
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Firecracker: London's East Asian Film Festival |
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Festival
TBC-September
Deadline:
July
Categories: International Asian
and black films and television. Features, shorts, documentary
Requirements: 35mm, 16mm, Beta SP,
DVD. Entries to have been completed during the previous two years
Awards: The Golden Mango Award
Fees: None
Administrative address: Bite the
Mango, National Media Museum , Bradford, BD1 1NQ, England
Tel: +44 (0)1274 203 311
Fax: +44 (0)1274 203 387;
Email address:
btm@nmsi.ac.uk
Director: Addy Rutter
Website:
http://www.bitethemango.org.uk
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Festival
TBC-September
Deadline: August
Categories: Feature Minute,
Animation, Documentary and Fan film
Requirements: The film must be
exactly 60 seconds in total running time, including titles and credits.
Quicktime or Windows Media Player format. Submission file size must not
exceed 5MB; screen dimensions: W320 pixels H240 pixels.
Awards: Best Filminute, People's
Choice Award
Fees: None
Festival address:
www.filminute.com
Tel: +44 0721200626
Email address:
john.ketchum@filminute.com
Executive Director, Head of Jury:
John Ketchum
Executive Director: Sabaa Quao
Website:
http://www.filminute.com |
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Festival
TBC-September
Deadline: Contact festival for details
Categories: Features;
documentaries; shorts from across East Asia
Requirements: N/A
Awards: None
Fees: N/A
Administrative address:
Firecracker Media Ltd, 56 Scawen Road, London SE8 5AE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8691 1240
Fax: +44 (0)20 8691 1240;
Email address:
info@firecracker-media.com
Director: Nick North
Director: Erika Franklin
Website:
http://www.firecracker-showcase.com
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International Festival of Fantastic Films |
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Black Filmmaker Magazine International Film
Festival |
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London International Animation Festival (LIAF) |
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Festival
TBC-September
Deadline: July
Categories: Science fiction,
horror, fantasy, animation
Requirements: 16mm, 35mm, video
(NTSC and PAL), DVD. Contact festival for further details
Awards: Best independent short and
feature film
Fees: Contact festival for further
details
Administrative address:
International Festival of Fantastic Films, 'Penrose', 21 Winton Road,
Bowdon, Cheshire WA14 2PE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)161 929 1423/+44
(0)7773 347864
Fax: +44 (0)161 929 1067;
Email address:
gil@manchesterfantasticfilms.co.uk
Director: G. R. Lane-Young
Website:
http://www.fantastic-films.com/festival
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Festival
TBC-September
Deadline: June/July contact
festival for details
Categories: Fiction, animation,
shorts, documentaries, experimental
Requirements:
Awards: Best Film, Script,
Cinematography, Actor/actress
Fees:
Administrative address: BFM
International Film Festival, BFM, Suite 13, 5 Blackhorse Road, London E17
6DS, UK
Email address:
festival@bfmmedia.com
Programme Director: Ionie Richards
Press Officer: Sophia Jackson
Website:
http://www.bfmmedia.com/bfmFestival.php
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Festival
TBC-September
Deadline: January
Categories: Animation
Requirements: 16mm, 35mm, Beta,
other digital formats. Films must have been produced in the last 2 years.
Awards: All categories
Fees: None
Administrative address: c/o The
Film and Video Workshop, Hungerford primary School, Hungerford Rd, London N7
9LF, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7607 8660
Email address:
info@liaf.org.uk
Director: Nag Vladermersky
Website:
http://www.liaf.org.uk
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Optronica |
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UK Brasilian Film Festival |
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Russian Film Festival |
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Festival
TBC-September
Deadline:
May
Categories: Music; animation;
experimental;
Requirements: DVD, DV, VHS (PAL or
NTSC)
Awards:
Fees: None
Administrative address: Optronica,
Omnibus House, 39-41 North Road, London N7 9DP, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7700 0333
Fax: +44 (0)20 7700 0303;
Email address:
mail@optronica.org
Festival Co-ordinator: Francoise
Lamy
Producer: Nick Clarke
Website:
http://www.optronica.org
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Festival
TBC-September
Deadline:
Categories: Features; documentary
and fiction
Requirements: All formats. The
film must have been produced during the last 3 years
Awards: Not competitive
Fees: None
Administrative address: Something
From Brasil, Unit 10- 5 Durham Yard, Teesdale Street, London E2 6QF, UK
Email address:
info@somethingfrombrasil.org
Contact: Rose Chamberlain
Website:
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Festival
TBC-September
Deadline: Contact festival for
details
Categories: Russian features;
shorts; documentaries; animation
Requirements: Russian films
produced no longer than a year before festival
Awards:
Fees:
Administrative address: Academia
Rossica , 151 Kensington High Street, London W8 6SU, England
Tel: +44 20 79375001
Email address:
films@academia-rossica.org
Director: Svetlana Adjoubei
Coordinator: Alissa Timoshkina
Website:
http://www.academia-rossica.org/films
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October |
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Belfast Festival at Queens' |
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Black International Film
Festival |
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International Festival of
Fantastic Films |
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October-TBC-2008
Deadline:
July
Categories: Irish films, features,
shorts (this is the film strand of the annual Belfast arts festival)
Requirements: 16mm, 35mm
Awards: Non-competitive
Fees: None
Administrative address: 8
Fitzwilliam Street , Belfast BT9 6AW, Northen Ireland
Tel: +44 (0)28 9027 2600
Email address:
a.mcGrath@qub.ac.uk
Director: Graeme Farrow
Website:
http://www.belfastfestival.com
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October-TBC-2008
October-TBC-2008
Deadline:
Contact festival for details
Categories: shorts; documentaries;
animation; music video
Requirements: 35mm, DVD
Awards: MVS Awards
Fees: none
Administrative address: 60 Regent
Place , Birmingham , B1 3NJ
Tel: 0121 236 1960
Email address:
ashley@vtelevision.co.uk
festival manager: Ashley Simmons
Website:
http://www.biffestival.co.uk |
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October-17th-19th-2008
Deadline: July
Categories: Science fiction,
horror, fantasy, animation
Requirements: 16mm, 35mm, video
(NTSC and PAL), DVD. Contact festival for further details
Awards: Best independent short and
feature film
Fees: Contact festival for further
details
Administrative address:
International Festival of Fantastic Films, 'Penrose', 21 Winton Road,
Bowdon, Cheshire WA14 2PE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)161 929 1423/+44
(0)7773 347864
Fax: +44 (0)161 929 1067;
Email address:
gil@manchesterfantasticfilms.co.uk
Director: G. R. Lane-Young
Website:
http://www.fantastic-films.com/festival
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cinem@tic |
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Wildscreen International
Wildlife & Environmental Film Festival |
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The Compass of Resistance
International Film Festival |
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October-TBC-2008
Deadline: August
Categories: Shorts; Drama; Animation; Documentary;
Experimental
Requirements: All films to be submitted with a completed
registration form found on festival website
Awards: Overall Festival Winner, Category Winners
Fees: None
Administrative address: Technology Innovation Centre,
Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham B4 7XG, UK
Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5400
Fax: +44 (0)121 331 5401;
Email address:
cinem@tic.ac.uk
Festival Co-ordinator: Nina Parmar
Website:
http://www.tic.ac.uk/cinem@tic
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October-TBC-2008
Deadline: See website for details
Categories: All film and
television productions on wildlife and environmental issues
Requirements: Beta SP, digital. No
restrictions on length. Productions to have been completed during the 18
months prior to the festival. Contact festival for further details
Awards: Awards include WWF Golden
Panda Award for the film judged to best express the aims of the festival;
BBC Newcomer Award, Outstanding Achievement Award, Campaign Award, News
Award, Earth Sciences Award, Craft Awards
Fees: £100 per entry (£35
newcomers)
Administrative address:
Wildscreen, PO Box 366, Bristol BS99 2HD, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 328 5950
Fax: +44 (0)117 328 5955;
Email address:
info@wildscreen.org.uk
Festival Manager: Sarah Mitchell
Physical Address: Wildscreen,
Ground Floor, The Rackhay, Queen Charlotte Street, Bristol BS1 4HJ, UK
Website:
http://www.wildscreenfestival.org
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October-TBC-2008
Deadline:
Contact festival for details
Categories: International feature
films and shorts within the theme of 'resistance'
Requirements: Preview DVD, 35mm or
DigiBeta for screening at festival
Awards: To be confirmed
Fees: None
Administrative address: 19 Albany
Road, Montpelier, Bristol BS6 5LQ , England
Tel: +44 0117 927 6444
Email address:
info@compass-film.co.uk
Director: Sam King
Director: Tara Sachdeva
Main Festival address: Watershed,
1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX
Website:
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Signals International Short
Film Festival |
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Edinburgh Mountain Film
Festival |
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Africa In Motion |
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October-TBC-2008
Deadline: Contact Festival
Categories: Shorts
Requirements: DVD, Beta SP, Mini
DV, Produced in last 2 years
Awards: Grand Prix
Fees:
Administrative address: Victoria
Chambers, St Runwald Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1HF, UK
Tel: +44 (0)12 0656 0255
Email address:
tim@signals.org.uk
Festival Coordinator: Tim Redford
Website:
http://www.signals.org.uk
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October-TBC-2008
Deadline:
June
Categories: Shorts; documentaries;
mountain sports; adventure; wilderness; exploration
Requirements: Initial submissions
on DVD please
Awards: Best Film; Best Climbing
Film; People's Choice
Fees: None - we pay directors a
small fee for all films we screen
Administrative address: Edinburgh
Mountain Film Festival, c/o Wilderness Scotland, 3A St Vincen | |
