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Comfortable Shorts

Comfortable Shorts is a new monthly Short Film Night at Melbourne’s Loop Bar. Running every third tuesday night, it aims to present the best new local and international short films in a fun atmosphere. For more details on programs check it out here Film makers can submit their films to PO BOX 18401, Collins Street, Melbourne, 8003.

Future Shorts

Future Shorts is looking for WA short films to screen as part of our monthly programme.

What: WA films to screen as part of Future Shorts in Perth, Albany, Esperance, Bunbury and Port Hedland (more WA towns to join the network soon).
How long: 20 min or less
Submission cost: free
For: Films made in the last 12 months
Genre: Short films, docos and story based music clips are accepted.
Special bit: All successful films are then considered for international distribution by FS London (a recently successful WA film is current being seriously considered for the global FS programme).

More information here

Over The Fence

Over The Fence is calling for entries in 2012 – our 15th year.
Our festival looks for short films with an excellent sense of humour.
Shorts = under 15 minutes and
or
Long shorts & short series = 15+ minutes

Early Bird deadline is 5 March 2012

More here

Portugal Underground Film Festival

PUFF is calling for submissions for its festival in June 2012 in three different Portuguese cities at the same time
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Late Deadline 5 March 2012

Revelation Film Festival 2012

5 to 15 July 2012. Call for Entries for 2012 is open and we’re looking for your film!
Give yourself and your work some air and send it through early…it’s seriously in your interests.
Download an entry form here

Entries close 31 March 2012

SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2012

Want to be part of next year’s Sydney Film Festival? Entries for our 59th Festival, which will be held 6-17 June 2012, are now officially open.
The Festival is accepting submissions to the main festival program, as well as three prestigious competitions for Australian productions: More information here

Deadline 27 February 2012

Asolo International Art Festival

From 18 to 29 August 2012.

In order to participate, films must have been produced no earlier than the year 2010 and must fall into one of the following categories: Films on Art, Artist’s Biographies, Films on Archtecture and Lanscape, Film on Design and Enterprise, Video Art and Computer Art, Productions by Schools of Cinema.
More information here

Deadline 15 April, 2012

BOFA Film Festival (Tasmania)

$20,000 is on offer to filmmakers worldwide that can capture the “Essence of Tasmania” in a three minute short film. The four winning films will be used by Tourism Tasmania to promote Tasmania through a number of channels, including the increasingly important social media.
More http://bofa.com.au/2011/
Deadline Friday, April 13, 2012

Golden Anteaters Film Festival 2012

April 18 – 21. 2012 in Lublin, Poland
Now calling for entries
More here

Deadline 25 March 2012

Aesthetica Short Film Festival

York, UK from 8 – 11 November 2012
Calling for entries from a variety of genres and filmic styles, including: drama, documentary, animation, comedy, music video, thriller, experimental and artists’ film.
More information here

Deadline 31 May 2012

I’VE SEEN FILMS

International Film Festival
Milano (Italy) – October 10 to 19, 2012 in Milan, Italy.
The competition categories as follows: Fiction, Animation, Experimental, Documentary and Videoclip, which include various sections such as: “Children Are Watching Us”, “Things Women Don’t Tell”, “Dreams and Needs”, “Poor But Beautiful”, “His Master’s Voice”.
More here

Deadline April 16, 2012

Dendy Awards

Sydney Film Festival – Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films
Submission of Australian short fiction films (either animation or live action, less than 40 minutes in length)
More details “here”: http://sff.org.au/public/faq/rules-regulations/.
Deadline 27th February 2012

AEAF Awards

Entries are now being invited for AEAF Awards, an international competition and screening, now in its 16th year with entries from around the world.
More information here

Entry Form here

Deadline 1 June, 2012

Bayside Film Festival 2012

Jump Cut – Call for Entries
JUMP CUT is on again! Young people aged 10 – 26 across Australia and overseas are invited to submit short films for screening throughout the Bayside Film Festival.
More here

Deadline 30 April 2012

Your Film Festival

The global search for the world’s best storytellers.
YouTube and Emirates, in partnership with La Biennale di Venezia (the Venice Film Festival) and Scott Free, announced today Your Film Festival. You have until March 31st to submit a short, story-driven video. There’s no entry fee. It can be any format – short film, web-series episode, TV pilot – and any genre. In June, audiences around the world will vote, sending 10 deserving storytellers to open the 2012 Venice Film Festival where a Grand Prize Winner will be be rewarded with a $500,000 grant to create a new work, produced by Ridley Scott and his world class team.
More here

*Deadline 31 March 2012