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Call for Submissions for ‘Patrick Lives On’ Showcase
Submissions for Chicago’s beloved Patrick Lives On film festival will run from December 1 to February 15, 2023. Open to anyone from the Chicago film community, entries can represent any genre but should not contain gratuitous gun violence. Select works will screen during the sixth annual Patrick Lives On Showcase & Fundraiser, sponsored by and...
Call for Submissions for Chicago Underground Film Festival
The Chicago Underground Film Festival, the longest running underground film festival in the world, is an internationally recognized program providing a venue for documentary, experimental and avant-garde narrative film and video. The festival’s mission is to select and screen film, video and related works presenting a diverse line up of moving image programming focusing on...
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah, Salt Lake City, and at the Sundance Resort, and is the largest independent film festival in the United States.
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Call For Entries: The 2023 AICP Awards
Entries are now being accepted for the 2023 AICP Awards – encompassing the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the Commercial, The AICP Next Awards, and The AICP Post Awards. Click here for full information about this call for entries!
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Black History Month
February is dedicated as Black History Month, honoring the triumphs of African Americans throughout U.S. history. Click here to enjoy articles in SCREEN Magazine's Diverse Voices Section.
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Crown Point International Film Festival
Crown Point International Film Festival (CPIFF) is a monthly competition for filmmakers all over the world with a public screening event in North West Indiana every year (less than an hour from Chicago, IL). Our mission is to promote and celebrate films and filmmakers from all around the world and be another step forward to...
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Annual Festival of Films from Iran
Established in 1989, the Annual Festival of Films from Iran endures as a showcase that has brought the innovation, resilience, and humanism of one of the world’s great national cinemas to Chicago audiences over three decades. Now, more than ever, the voices of Iranian artists need to be heard in exploring our shared humanity through history,...
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Central Michigan International Film Festival
The Central Michigan International Film Festival is designed to broaden the range of films available for public screenings in mid-Michigan and on the Central Michigan University campus. Independent, foreign, and documentary films are the focus of the festival. Local filmmakers are also highlighted. Both shorts and feature length films are exhibited.
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Door County Short Film Festival
The Door County Short Film Festival is a grass roots, community driven event with goals of: encouraging the creation of moviemaking; establishing and hosting a winter event in beautiful Door County Wisconsin; entertaining and benefiting residents, visitors and businesses. Door County is a great place to "get away from it all" in the middle of...
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Black Italian Film Showcase at Facets
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago in collaboration with FACETS presents Black Italian Film Showcase, a film series to celebrate Black History Month. Black Italian Film Showcase is the first celebration of Afro-Italian talents in film, showcasing new features, documentaries, and short films and illuminating the historical, social, and cultural aspects of Black life in...
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True/False Film Festival
True/False offers a heightened long weekend of creative placemaking in which filmmakers, artists, musicians and others remake the mid-sized college town of Columbia, Missouri, into a one-of-a-kind utopia. The transformative, rambunctious, ecstatic experience of T/F creates a cathartic journey that invites participants to do nothing less than to re-imagine reality. Creative placemaking means the festival...
Chicago Irish Film Festival
Annual festival of the best independent films created in the past year by Irish filmmakers working around the world and filmmakers working in Ireland. For over two decades the festival has strived to create a program of inclusion that supports and celebrates diverse voices of Irish storytelling in animation, documentary and live action in both...
Oneota Film Festival in Iowa
Held among the spectacular rivers and bluffs of the Driftless Region in Northeastern Iowa, the Oneota Film Festival, OFF, brings compelling, innovative, and inspiring films and filmmakers to Decorah, Iowa, from around the globe. Through films that illuminate the human condition, OFF aims to engage a large and diverse audience in the critical issues of...
Sojourner Truth Festival for the Arts
Four decades later, The Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts, 2023 will commemorate the 1976 festival with a nine-week screening series, held in conjunction with Professor Allyson Nadia Field’s winter 2023 course on Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s, and a two-day symposium about the original festival and the tradition of Black feminist filmmaking. Course...
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MidWest WeirdFest
MidWest WeirdFest's main venue is the Micon Downtown Cinema, located in the welcoming college town of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. From the founder of Australia's leading genre film festival - A Night of Horror International Film Festival - comes a cinematic celebration of all things fantastic, frightening, underground, paranormal, off-beat, and just plain weird... to the...
Coastline Children’s Film Festival
Competition categories include Narrative/Live Action, Documentary and Animation. Films will be judged on creativity, originality and artistic/technical mastery. A one hour screening program will be curated from all qualifying submissions—with awards going to the top 3 films. In addition, an Audience Favorite Award will be presented to the filmmaker that receives the most votes during...