All filmmakers, anywhere, are invited to submit your short or feature film -- drama, comedy, documentary, animation or experimental work. It must have been completed since January 1, 2008.

EARLY DEADLINE DATE: August 15, 2009 (Other deadlines: 10/1/2009, 11/15/2009. and 12/01/2009)

ENTRY FEES: Vary by short or feature and increase with each new deadline date

Go to our website -- kcjubilee.org -- for complete details, entry form, and pay fee online. You may also submit through WAB.

Check out our special CinemaJAZZ division if you have made a work (short or feature) inspired by JAZZ

Send your screener (DVD-region 1), check, entry form to: KC Jubilee, 4826 W. 77th Terrace, Prairie Village, KS 66208-4321

Kansas City FilmFest is scheduled for April 14-18, 2010 at the all digital AMC Mainstreet. Visiting filmmakers and jurors will be announced soon.

If you have any questions - call 913-649-0244 or email: kcjub@kcjubilee.org.

Copper Pot Pictures has paired with the Picture Book Project and Schools for Salone to hold an online art auction to benefit the schools featured in its documentary, BROWNSTONES TO RED DIRT.  The auction includes over 150 pieces created by some of the top names in animation as well as children’s book, graphic novel and comic illustration, including Oscar-winning director Chris Wedge, Toy Story 3 Art Director Daisuke Tsutsumi, renowned illustrator Peter DeSeve and legendary Sesame Street puppeteer Caroll Spinney.

Each artist was given a birchwood postcard and asked to create a unique work based on the theme, “PEN PALS.” The completed pieces will be available from March 6-13 on eBay.  All proceeds will be used to build a school for war orphans in Freetown, Sierra Leone and to develop a library for at-risk youth in Brooklyn.

BROWNSTONES TO RED DIRT follows the growth of the children in Sierra Leone and New York when they are paired together as pen pals.  Fundraising efforts inspired by the film have raised $24,000 of the $100,000 needed for the two schools.

TRICKY WOMEN 2010 – International Animation Film Festival
March, 4th – 8th


Tricky Women is the first and only festival of animated film in Europe that is dedicated exclusively to animation by women. With its international competition, retrospectives, presentations by renowned film schools, its special programmes and its forum Connecting Animation, Tricky Women offers a unique, up-to-date overview of animated filmmaking around the world.
Since 2007 it has been held annually in Vienna each March.

The festival offers an international competition of animated short films realised by female artists and produced in 2008 or 2009. Each filmmaker, producer or distributor may submit as many films as they like. Each film submitted must be accompanied by an entry form and sent on a separate tape or reel. No films entered in prior Tricky Women Festivals shall be admitted.

The deadline for applications for the preliminary selection is October 30, 2009!!

Awards are presented in the following nominations:
• Tricky Women Award of the City of Vienna worth 4,000 Euro.
• 3-month scholarship in the artist-in-residence programme of quartier21/MQ.
• Synchro Film & Video Material Prize worth 1,500 Euro.
• Hubert Sielecki Award worth 500 Euro (for an Austrian animation).
• Audience Award.

Each year the Sundance Film Festival selects 200 films for exhibition from more than 9,000 submissions. More than 50,000 people attend screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah. In addition to discovering filmmaking's newest talent through the Festival's program of documentary, dramatic, and short films, Festivalgoers experience live music performances, panel discussions with leading filmmakers and industry figures, cutting-edge media installations, parties celebrating the Festival community, and more.

 

The 2010 Slamdance Film Festival will be held January 21-28, 2010, headquartered at the Treasure Mountain Inn - 255 Main Street, Park City, Utah.

As the preeminent festival whose sole mission is to nurture, support and showcase truly independent works, Slamdance has established a unique reputation for premiering new films by first-time writers and directors working within the creative confines of limited budgets.  Slamdance’s goal is to strengthen its year-round efforts in support of these artists and to leverage its name and reputation for the further development of other Slamdance media components.

As a year-round organization, Slamdance serves as a showcase for the discovery of new and emerging talent and is dedicated to the nurturing and development of new independent artists and their cinematic vision.

Started in 1995 by a group of independent artists, the Slamdance Film Festival continues to be organized and programmed exclusively by filmmakers, for filmmakers.  This is just one of many elements that make Slamdance a pioneering standout among its festival counterparts. Slamdance lacks much of the red tape and bureaucracy that can convolute the process that independent creators come to festivals for in the first place – a chance to show their work. At Slamdance, the link between artist and festival – and, subsequently, artist and industry – is a direct and cohesive one. Slamdance alumni are recruited to serve as programmers, so first-timers are represented and assisted by Slamdance veterans.  It’s what put Slamdance on the festival map to begin with, and what’s made it the viable, big-time contender it is today.

With its renowned film festival as its core, Slamdance has expanded its ventures to include the popular Slamdance.com website, writing competitions for features, shorts, teleplays and horror scripts; the Anarchy Online Short Film Competition; and a $99 Special short film production project.

CARTOON, European Animation Film Association has chosen EXPOTOONS, the most representative international animation festival in Latin America, as a strategic partner in that region to organize CARTOON CONNECTION, the first meeting between European and Latin American animation professionals. The most representative animation event in Latin America. It hosts selected films, conferencists, trainers, production and distribution companies, buyers and more! This year more than ever it's becoming a bridge to Europe and Asia. And since 2008 it is allied with Annecy Animation Festival. Competitive categories are: Full-length film, Short, TV Series, Advertising and Graduation Short Film There's no entry fee. For further information info@expotoons.com and www.expotoons.com.

Films permitted for submission are those dealing with the theme “Tomorrow we will see,” in accordance with the description of the competition. The length of the film contributions must not exceed 10 minutes. In the case of longer films, an excerpt of up to 10 minutes may be submitted.

Films can be submitted until 31st August 2009. The competition is open for students, apprentices and graduates from sectors like, e.g. TV, film and media production, media design, animation and multimedia as well as media technology may participate. The competition is also aimed at young professionals and job starters with work experience of up to 2 years.

The winners can look forward to cash prizes totaling to 1,500 as well as various non-cash prizes. The prizes will be awarded during the "exground" film festival in Wiesbaden, Germany on 15th November 2009. To submit a film online, filmmakers can register at Reelport.com. There is no entry fee.

6th ?stanbul International Animation Festival is going to happen in 13th-22nd of November 2009. Who Can Apply? Everybody can apply. Only films completed after 1st of January 2008 will be accepted. Categories IAF Grand Prize: The best blended short film about story and animation technic. Feature Film: Animation film longer than 40 min. Turk Short Best short film made by Turk animator or animators. Student Film: Animation short film made by student. First Film: Animation short film made by a person's first experience. Music Video: Music video which includes one or more animation technic. Schedule Application deadline: 4th of September 2009 Friday until 18:00. Announce date of accepted films: 28nd of September Monday. Film which recieve us after deadline, aren't accepted by festival commitee. Application # There is no application fee. # Entry form is had to fill completely and sent with film copy. # One entry form is had to fill for every film. # Sending cost is paid by competitor. # Attendance can join with any number of product. Separate attendances should be made for each product. # Film copy have to be DVD, miniDV,16mm or 35mm. High resolution film will be preferred, because of screening in big screens. Rules # The product that takes place in the competition must belong to attended person or group. If it's proved that the product doesn't belong to attended person or group it will be disqualified automatically. # It is free to use film ma

The Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, is accepting entries for the 2009 festival, to be held Oct. 31-Nov. 7. Featuring the best in independent, innovative and influential film from around the world, the annual festival presents a full range of cinematic creativity from both award-winning professionals and emerging student filmmakers. Features, documentaries, professional and student shorts, both live action and animated, will be considered. All entries must be postmarked by July 6. The Savannah Film Festival regularly screens award-winning films before their national release dates at the beautifully restored Trustees Theater, a 1946 cinema house, and the Lucas Theatre for the Arts, a former Vaudeville venue. Savannah becomes a film lover's paradise during this weeklong event, which also features workshops, panel discussions and presentations by well-known artists and filmmakers. Films screened at the festival have come from Scotland, the U.K., Vietnam, Australia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Israel, China, Germany, Canada, the United States and Ecuador, and special guests in attendance have included Malcolm McDowell, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Peter O'Toole, Kathleen Turner, Danny Glover, Milos Forman and Alec Baldwin. Paperless entries submitted via Withoutabox's International Film Festival Submission System are preferred. Visit www.scad.edu/filmfest for the link. Entries will also be accepted in prepaid and packed containers; contestants should submit work for preview on DVD or NTSC for Region 0 and 1. Entries must either be in the English language or subtitled in English. To be eligible for the festival, feature films must be no less than 40 minutes long, and short films must be 5-25 minutes long. Submitted films and materials will not be returned unless a self-addressed, postage-paid return envelope is included with the submission. Regardless of original format, all competition films screen on DigiBeta, Beta SP format or 35mm for festival presentation. Incomplete submissions or "works in progress" will not be considered. A screening committee will view all entries, and a select panel will choose films for the festival competition. The Savannah Film Festival and the Savannah College of Art and Design do not assume liability for damage to entries due to mishandling or poor packaging during shipping. For more information about the festival and film entries, contact the SCAD box office at 912.525.5050 or visit www.scad.edu/filmfest.

The San Francisco Film Society has announced that the inaugural Cinema by the Bay festival, a celebration of the passion, innovation and diversity of Bay Area filmmaking, the intelligence and probing spirit of local directors and the incredible depth and breadth of America's film and media frontier, will run October 23-25. The three-day festival will feature new work produced in or about the San Francisco Bay Area and provide a compelling window into Bay Area film culture and practice at its best. The call for entries for narrative features, documentary features and short films is open now through July 15. From 1984 to 2005, Film Arts Foundation programmed the Bay Area's most dynamic showcase of local independent filmmaking with its Festival of Independent Cinema. Last August, the Film Society underwent an organizational transformation and through an agreement with Film Arts Foundation became stewards of its programs that serve filmmakers directly. Building on the momentum of its now thriving Filmmaker Services programs, the Film Society continues the tradition of showcasing the entertaining, dramatic and courageous work from one of the most dynamic independent film communities in the country with a dedicated film festival. This is by no means new territory for the San Francisco Film Society, which has long celebrated films produced in the creative heart of the West, given Golden Gate Awards to Bay Area documentaries and shorts and three years ago inaugurated a dedicated Cinema by the Bay section in the San Francisco International Film Festival. The most recent edition of the International featured 22 local narrative and documentary feature and short films, capping a total of 113 local films showcased over the past five years. With the advent of Cinema by the Bay, the Film Society will provide Bay Area audiences the opportunity to focus their attention solely on the engaged and eclectic nature of the region's film cultures. HOW TO ENTER Works in all genres (narrative, documentary, experimental and animation) and lengths will be accepted June 22 - July 15, 2009. CBTB requires a San Francisco Bay Area premiere for feature length films only. There is no entry fee to submit works. Films can be entered online at https://sffs.wufoo.com/forms/cinema-by-the-bay-festival-entry-form. Films submitted to SFIFF52 are already under consideration and need not be resubmitted. However, filmmakers with new cuts of a previously submitted film can send a screening copy on DVD to the San Francisco Film Society, 39 Mesa Street, Suite 110, San Francisco, CA 94129, Attn: Audrey Chang. Note on the DVD that it is a new cut.