Upcoming Deadlines - Film Festivals
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  Link   Africa World Documentary Film Festival
africa-world-documentary-film-festival Fourth Annual
Africa World Documentary Film Festival -

November 1, 2010
Regular Deadline
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  Link   Ann Arbor Film Festival
ann-arbor-film-festival tandard Deadline --- October 4, 2010
$40 Shorts / $50 Features
(Must arrive in office by October 11, 2010)

Late Deadline --- November 4, 2010
$50 Shorts / $60 Features
(Must arrive in office by November 11, 2010)

he Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year's festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 160 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid and performance based works.
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  Link   Big Sky Documentary Fest
big-sky-documentary- Final Deadline - October 15, 2010

10-day event, the 1100-seat venue that houses Montana's largest screen, and plays host to the visual immersion into a world where reality plays itself. With packed audiences of avid moviegoers, most films are accompanied by Q&A with their respective filmmakers. Special Events include nightly parties with great music, panel discussions, informal gatherings and the Big Sky in Schools Educational Outreach Program.
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  Link   Cleveland International Film Festival
cleveland-international-film-festival October 31, 2010
Late Deadline

November 30, 2010
Extended Deadline
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  Link   Ethnocineca Austria
ethnocineca-documentary-film-festival Last deadline submission - January

The ETHNOCINECA is a unique film festival in the city of Vienna which is dedicated to anthropological themes and topics.The ETHNOCINECA intends to provide a platform for all media-artists and filmmakers, who concentrate on anthropological issues like home, otherness, migration, oppression, liberation, poverty etc. to introduce their works to a broader audience. A public discussion about the visually presented issues shall be stimulated and facilitated.
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  Link   Full Frame
full-frame- REGULAR DEADLINE: October 15 - $40.
LATE DEADLINE: November 30 - $60

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. Each spring Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham, North Carolina for a four-day, morning to midnight array of over 100 films as well as discussions, panels, and southern hospitality. Set within a four-block radius, the intimate festival landscape fosters community and conversation between filmmakers, film professionals and the public.
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  Link   Peace on Earth Film Festival
peace-on-earth-film-festival Extended Deadline:
October 1 through October 31, 2010


Peace on Earth Film Festival (POEFF) has been established to celebrate and encourage the work of independent films from around the world on the themes of peace and nonviolence. POEFF is a not-for-profit film festival whose primary objective is to raise an awareness of peace, nonviolence, social justice and an eco-balanced world, as possibilities, by bringing attention to independent films from around the world. Through the power of motion pictures, POEFF endeavors to enlighten and empower individuals, families and communities to step out of the ignorance of conflict, violence and divisiveness into the light of communication, compassion and understanding.
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  Link   RiverRun International Film Festival
riverrun-international-film-festival Postmarked by November 1, 2010 (late deadline $40US)

Postmarked by December 17, 2010 (extended late deadline/ $60US)

The RiverRun International Film Festival is one ofthe premier film festivals in the Southeastern United States. Located inWinston-Salem, North Carolina, home of the nation's first Arts Council, thefestival showcases a rich blend of works by independent, international andstudent filmmakers.

The festival was created as a forum to encourage filmmakersand provide them with suitable venues for their work. RiverRun is dedicated toexhibiting the work of talented filmmakers from around the world and to theexhibition of new, independent, and foreign-language dramatic and documentaryfeature-length and short films. In addition to premiering new films, RiverRunalso invites to Winston-Salem critically acclaimed works featured at theSundance, Berlin, Toronto and Cannes film festivals.

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  Link   Sheffield Doc/Fest
sheffield-doc-fest Last Deadline - 18 October 2010

Sheffield Doc/Fest presents an international programme of over 90 documentaries from the
1200 submissions it receives.
The industry conference at the festival attracts British documentary makers
and executives in British television. The delegate mix of around 900 includes documentary and
factual producers, directors, buyers, commissioners and distributors.
Sheffield Doc/Fest offers a marketplace for producers to secure the deals for the year
through the meetings held with the many broadcasters from the UK and the world attending
the festival.
In cooperation with The Grierson Trust, three awards are also during the festival.
Read more Grierson Awards as another entry in our directory.
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  Link   Slamdance Film Festival
slamdance-film-festival October 29, 2010
Late Deadline Regular Discounted
Standard Fee 100.00 95.00

Started in 1995 by a group of writer/director/ producers, Slamdance continues to be organized and programmed by active filmmakers. Now in its tenth year as a festival that runs simultaneous to the Sundance Film Festival, Slamdance has established a unique reputation for premiering independent films by first-time directors working with limited budgets.

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. For the 2010 Festival, Slamdance received a record number of over 5,000 submissions. Slamdance lives by its mantra: "By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers." No other festival is fully programmed by filmmakers. Slamdance counts among its alumni many notable writers and directors who first gained notice at the festival, including Christopher Nolan, Marc Forster and Jared Hess. Oren Peli’s PARANORMAL ACTIVITY originally acquired from Slamdance went onto to gross over $100 million at the Box Office. New filmmakers and writers today realize Slamdance is a great place to launch their careers.

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  Link   Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival - Japan
yamagata-international-documentary-film-festival-japan Works completed by October 31, 2010 = December 15, 2010

Works completed after November 1, 2010 = April 10, 2011


The YIDFF is taken place every two years. One of its missions is "To illustrate the current state of documentary cinema, by collecting radical documentary works from around the world and focusing on this genre, which continues to follow its own distinctive direction even as cinema has become established as a common global culture."
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