THE BUDDHA International Film Festival - Last date of Submission : 3rd Apr / 14th May 2019

ABOUT THE BUDDHA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

THE BUDDHA International Film Festival's main objective is to provide the opportunity for filmmakers from all over the world to excel, and to have the best work selected and showcased in a celebration of cinema, as well as to give filmmakers a platform to network amongst fellow professionals and cinematic artists. TBIFF is looking forward to fostering these relationships and to helping extraordinary filmmakers get their projects seen by global audiences. TBIFF unites cinematic, cultural, educational more over Inspirational objectives by presenting its film discoveries.

The TBIFF is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative films while fostering the next generation of filmmakers. It is a strong advocate for social change, and encourages cultural diversity and understanding between nations. It strives to foster the movie art of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema and promoting meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.

The BUDDHA International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the spirit, passion, and skill of the best new filmmakers from around the world for audiences around the world.

We are also including and actively supporting not only the finest examples of classic moviemaking, but works that are experimental, breaking ground in new non-narrative forms and crossing over into the video arts. All films will be reviewed as they are submitted, and the best in each category will be chosen to screen at the festival. A jury of industry professionals will then view the finalists and choose the winning selections.

Filmmakers planning on attending should notify the film festival as soon as possible, so their names may be listed in the scheduled program at the venue where their film will be shown.

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Pune Short Film Festival - Last date of Submission: 30th May'19

Pune Short Film Festival is conducting a innovative international short film festival and invites participation from aspiring and upcoming independent filmmakers. A unique short film Festival, focusing on opportunity creation for global filmmakers.

Awards & Prizes

Best Film

Second Best Film

Best Director

Second Best Director

Best Screenplay

Best Camera Work

Best Editing

Best Sound

Best Creative Concept

Best Animation

Best Original Score

Best Background Music

Best Poster Design

11th CMS International Children’s Film Festival-2019, Lucknow - Submission Date : 30th Oct'18

The Festival is being organized by the management of City Montessori School in Lucknow, India.

The Festival aims at providing a common platform for the producers of Children films to project their views for proper development of children’s potential through meaningful educative films; and also for promoting friendship and co- operation among people of the world. 

Awards & Prizes

(i) Best Children Feature Film - The director gets a Golden trophy, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs.1,25,000/- and the producer gets a certificate and a cash prize of Rs.1,25,000/-

(ii) Best Animation Feature Film - The director gets a Golden trophy, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs. Rs.1,25,000/- and the producers gets a certificate and a cash prize of Rs.1,25,000/-

(iv) Best Short Animation Film - The director gets a silver trophy, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs. 85,000/- and the producer gets a certificate and cash prize of Rs. 65,000/-

(v) Best Short Film - The director gets a silver trophy, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs. 85,000/- and the producer gets a certificate and cash prize of Rs. 65,000/-

(vi) Best Short Documentary film- The director gets a silver trophy, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs. 60,000/- and the producer gets a certificate and cash prize of Rs. 40,000/-

(vii) Special Jury Award - Dr Jagdish Gandhi & Dr Bharti Gandhi award

The director gets a Silver trophy, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 60,000/- and the producers get a certificate and cash prize of Rs. 40,000/-

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Lucknow, UP 226001

India

http://www.cmsfilms.org/icff/

6th Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival, Guwahati - last date for submission is 30th Sept'18

Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival is our homage to the rich culture of Northeast India. It is dedicated to the film fraternity of the Northeastern region of India. This initiative aims to build a platform for the new as well as professional filmmakers to come together and rediscover different aspects of movie making.

The film festival has been able create a niche for itself in the Northeast and is very rightly considered as the most popular film festival of the region after having successfully completed 5 editions since 2013. Previous editions of the festival were attended by nationally renowned film personalities like Farhan Akhtar, Rajkumar Hirani, Anurag Kashyap, Shoojit Sircar, Imtiaz Ali, Prakash Jha, Vishal Bhardwaj, Gauri Shindey etc. as well as many film enthusiasts.

Last Date of Submission:

The last date for submission is 30th September 2018

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Tattva Creations

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Guwahati, Assam 781022

India

http://www.bvff.in/

The 16mm Film Festival, Mumbai - Submission Deadline Nov 15, 2018

Harkat is back with the second edition of the 16mm film festival.

The 16mm Film Festival, conceived with a view of re-connecting with the cinematic medium through it's celluloid history, drew an amazing response last year. We screened some very impressive works done on film and had workshops and contests, all around working with film. With very generous support from Kodak, the festival has been working it's way through re-building and supporting infrastructure for filmmakers and artists who want to work on film since the past year. We also did a beginner workshop on working with film in collaboration with Kodak as part of Christopher Nolan and Tacita Dean coming to India for 'Reframing the Future of Film' series.

This year, the festival has gathered much more support from Kodak, industry professionals and most importantly, LaborBerlin, who Harkat is collaborating with to bring an advanced workshop to the city and to establish a small diy artist run lab in Mumbai.

Apart from the usual fare of bringing films made on film to the film capital of India, facilitating the production of 5 one minute films by young film makers and conducting beginner and advanced workshops, the festival will be announcing a year long slate of engagements and facilitation in the realm of film.

Another big announcement is that we have loosened our guidelines to also accept films shot on film but with their final prints on digital mediums. Though we will, and always, give preference to films shown on film.

The Harkat 16mm Film Festival is organised by Harkat, an alternative arts space and a film production company based in Mumbai and Berlin.

http://16mm.harkat.in/

7th Smita Patil Documentary and Short Film Festival, Pune : Extended Submission date 31st Oct'18

The aim of the festival is to showcase short and documentaries from across the world and promote storytellers.

Started in 2012 the upcoming festival marks the seventh year of the event.

You may watch the trailers here https://youtu.be/-jT4n8rz6p0

Awards & Prizes

Best Short Film Rupees 15,000 /- and 10,000/-

Best Documentary Rupees 15,000 and 10, 000/-

Best Short Film Director Rupees 8,000/-

Best Documentary Director Rupees 8,000/

Rules & Terms

7th Smita Patil Documentary and Short Film Festival will be held from December 8 - 9, 2018 in Pune. It is organized by Arogya Sena, to know more about Arogya Sena please visit www.arogyasena.org

CMS VATAVARAN - Environment and Wildlife Film Festival, Delhi - Last date for Entries - 22nd March'19

Dear Filmmakers,

On behalf of CMS VATAVARAN team, I am glad to personally welcome you the 10th edition of CMS VATAVARAN – International Environment and Wildlife Film Festival, scheduled for November 2019 in New Delhi.

CMS VATAVARAN is a pioneering international festival of films on environment and wildlife, initiated in 2002. Using films as a window to delve into nature, the festival showcases the best of Indian and International films and documentaries, presenting nature stories from all over the world, stories on critical ecological and developmental challenges faced today, some of the most compelling practices, as well as enchanting snippets on the diversity of our planet. Do go thru our website for more details and for visiting our previous festivals and efforts to enhance understanding of the natural world and its conservation.

This edition of the festival is focusing on theme “Celebrating Himalayas” in an attempt to highlight the importance of the spectacular mountain ecosystem in the current climate change discourse and action. We encourage Film makers to further explore this theme and make films to showcase the spirit and serenity of this majestic region.

By sending your film to this unique festival, you get a unique opportunity for showcasing your films across a wide variety of platforms and stakeholders. Nominated films of CMS VATAVARAN travel across India and the world to various other festivals, seminars, theatres, universities, television channels and forums. The aim is to not only to showcase these films among film lovers, critics, buyers, broadcasters, but also to policy makers, scientists, experts, media, students and communities interested in participating in efforts to conserve and preserve our environment or to address contemporary environmental issues.

CMS VATAVARAN is also respected widely for the high standards it has set in the judging of films – the impartiality of the process and involvement of eminent personalities from across a wide spectrum. Selection of your film in this festival will therefore be an acknowledgment of your creativity and ingenuity, in addition to opening doors to new learning and opportunities.

We look forward to receiving your film to this acclaimed film festival and hope your film is nominated, and also wins the prestigious CMS VATAVARAN Awards.

Do join us in New Delhi for an exciting, vibrant and fruitful festival in November 2019. I am sure you will really find participation in this festival worthwhile and inspiring.

Thank you for being part of this green movement for influencing policy, perception and practice!

Ms P N Vasanti

Director General, CMS

www.cmsindia.org