California
Independent Film and Video Festival
Where: Livermore, California
When: October 25-39, 2006
Background: Get ready for the Annual California Independent
Film Festival. Four Days of Great Films, Great Wine and Great
Guests.
Tel: 925.552.7335
FaxL 925.552.8188
Email: info@caindiefest.com
Web: www.caindiefest.com
Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival
Where: Toronto, Canada
When: June 13-18, 2006
Background: The Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film
Festival presented by Sunlife Financial is an annual event featuring
the best in Canadian and International shorts, competition screenings,
retrospetives, galas, special scrennings, a Symposium and Marketplace.
Tel: 416.445.1446 xt: 815
Email: shortfilmfest@cdnfilmcentre.com
Web: www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com
Canyonlands Film and Video Festival
Where: Moab, Utah
When: October 2006
Background: This festival focuses on indie film and video and
provides a certain down-home feeling.
Tel: 801.259.9135
Email: cfvf@moab-utah.com
Web: www.moab-utah.com/film/index.html
Carolina Film and Video Festival
Where: Greensboro, North Carolina
When: February 22-25, 2006
Background: Each year the CFVF highlights some of the best up
and coming independent and student film and video work.
Tel: 336.334.4197
Fax: 336.334.5039
Email: cfvf@uncg.edu
Web: www.uncg.edu/cbt/cfvf
Caroline's On Broadway Presents Funny Film Shorts
Where: New York, New York
When: July 1, 2003(last known date)
Background: Caroline's On Broadway has successfully revived
its acclaimed Funny Film Shorts series, hosted by Demetri Martin
with special guest Kevin Meaney. Past contributors have included
Oscar Winner Michael Moore, Oscar nominee Bill Plympton, Tom
Schiller from SNL, and comedians Judah Friedlander, Jeffrey
Ross, and Ray Romano, to name but an esteemed few.
Tel: 212.956.0101
Fax: 212.956.0197
Email: contact@carolines.com
Web: www.carolines.com
Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski
Where: Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
When: Sept 25-Octo 2, 2006
Background: The only Franchophone fest for children in America,
the festival also offers workshops in which kids can help create
a short film and participate in classes and workshops with film
proffesionals.
Tel: 418.722.0103
Fax: 418.724.9504
Email: cifr@quebectel.com
Cascadia Festival of Moving Images
Where: Powell River, British Columbia, Canada
When: Last week of May
Background: This festival of student films and video screens
the works of everyone from fourth graders on up.
Tel: 604.886.3269
Email: bcfa@canisle.net
Web: www.stargate.ca/cmia/festival/index.htm
Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival
Where: Cedar Rapids , Iowa
When: April 7-8, 2006
Background: We like to think of Eastern Iowa as just like Hollywood,
but without the pollution, crime, long commutes, overcrowding
and egos. This rich region possesses some of the country’s
most creative, talented, intelligent and hardworking filmmakers.
Tel: 319-721-7465
Email: info@crifilms.com
Web: www.crifilms.com
Central Florida Film and Video Festival
Where: Orlando, Florida
When: Ten days in late September and early October
Background: Despite the fact that the winner of the Best of
Show award here receives a HammerCam award, which the festival
boasts was created by the artist who designed the NCAA Dick
Butkus Award.
Tel: 407.895.4999
Fax: 407.839.6045
Email: festival@cffvf.org
Web: www.cffvf.org
Channel Island Indie Film Festival
Where: Oxnard, California
When: September 16-18 & 22-25, 2005(last known date)
Background: A competitive festival in its 6th year, we are accepting
submissions for features, shorts, docs, experimental, animation
etc...
Tel: 805.469.6523
Email: cifilmfestival@yahoo.com
Web: www.channelislandsfilmfestival.com
Chapel Hill Hi Mom! Film Festival
Where: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
When: June 9-10, 2006
Background: The festival got started back in the fall of 97
when a group of film students at UNC decided that Chapel Hill
needed a short film festival with prizes and revelry.
Email: himomfilmfest@yahoo.com
Web: www.himomfilmfestival.org
Charlotte Film and Video Festival
Where: Charlotte, North Carolina
When: First week of May
Background: This fest has premiered Zeinabu Davis's Mother
of the River, and Melissa Hacker's documentary about the
Kindertransport, My Knees Were Jumping; and Mary Harron's
I shot Andy Warhol.
Tel: 704.337.2019
Fax: 704.337.2101
Email: film@mint.uncc.edu
Chattahoochee Film and Video Competition
Where: Columbus, Georgia
When: June 17, 2005(last known date)
Background: Entries are now being accepted for the Chattahoochee
Film and Video Competition, to be held at the Columbus Museum
in Columbus, Georgia, USA.
Email: hspope@mchsi.com
Web: www.columbusfilmsociety.com
Chicago Asian American Film Festival
Where: Chicago, Illinois
When: March 31 - April 13April, 2006
Background: FAAIM’s mission is to promote film, video,
and other media by and about Asian Americans, and to support
the artists who create them.
Tel: (312) 758-4983
Email: tim@faaim.org
Web: www.faaim.org
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
Where: Chicago, Illinois
When: October 19-29, 2006
Background: CICFF is the largest competitive festival of kids'
movies in the United States.
Tel: 773.281.9075
Fax: 773.929.5437
Email: kidsfest@facets.org
Web: www.cicff.org
Chicago
International Film Festival
Where: Chicago, Illinois
When: October 5 - 19, 2006
Background: CIFF is the oldest competitive film festival in
North America. Each year the Festival showcases more than100
feature films and 40 shorts from more than 40 countries.
Tel: 312.425.9400
Fax: 312.425.0944
Email: info@chicagofilmfestival.com
Web: www.chicagofilmfestival.com
Chicago Latino Film Festival
Where: Chicago, Illlinois
When: April 21- May 3, 2006
Background: An excellent festival, arguably the best-run one
in Chicago.
Tel: 312.431.1330
Fax: 312.360.0629
Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival
Where: Chicago, Illlinois
When: November 2-12, 2006
Background: Also known as "Reeling," is a very strong
festival of shorts, festures, documentaries, and experimental
works.
Tel: 773.384.5533
Fax: 773.384.5532
Email: reeling@filmmakers.org
Web: www.reelingfilmfestival.org
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Where: Chicago, Illlinois
When: August 17-24, 2006
Background: A sort of cross section of the New York Underground
Film Festival, Slamdance, and a sci-fi convention, this fest
screens everything from great unsung indie features to splatter-tripe
to excellent experimental shorts and documentaries.
Tel: 773.3273FILM
Fax: 773.327.3464
Email: info@cuff.org
Web: www.cuff.org/sub/cuffguide.html
Chlotrudis Awards Short Film Festival
Where: Brookline, MA
When: October 3, 2005(last known date)
Background: The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film is a
non-profit organization the buildes audiences for independent
film, helps people experience the world through independent
film and encourages discussion and discourse about film and
the world.
Tel: 781.526.5384
Fax: 781.231.4169
Email: info@chlotrudis.org
Web: www.chlotrudis.org
Chris Awards
Where: Columbus, Ohio
When: November 9-13, 2005(last known date)
Background: We have been conducting competitions under the name
of the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, aka
"The Chris Awards" continuously for 51 years. The
Chris Statuette is a highly respected award, and is proudly
displayed in the offices of many of the leading film and video
makers around the world.
Tel: 614.841.1666
Email: info@chrisawards.org
Web: www.chrisawards.org
Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival
Where: Park City, Utah
When: January 17 - September 30, 2004(last known date)
Background: The Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival begins
with the submission of a short film and ends with one eligible
filmmaker winning a million-dollar feature film production and
distribution deal from Chrysler, Hypnotic and Universal Pictures.
Web: www.chryslermdff.com
Cinecon
Where: Glendale, California
When: August 31-September 4, 2006
Background: This is a great place for nostalgia and cinema history
buffs.
Tel :1.800.411.0455
Email: membership@cinecon.org
Web: www.cinecon.org
Cinefest: The Sudbury Film Festival
Where: Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
When: August 2-3, 2006
Background: The festival is known primarily as a mining town,
the festival draws approximately 25,000 people per year for
its screenings of largely Canadian but also European and American
cinema.
Tel: 705.688.1234
Fax: 705.6881351
Email: cinefest@cinefest.com
Web: www.cinefest.com
Cinemareno
Where: Reno, Nevada
When: November 3-6, 2005(last known date)
Background: CINEMARENO is proud to present a unique motion picture
event you won't want to miss -- "The Atomic Film Festival"
at the Nevada Museum of Art, a weekend of movies relating to
nuclear energy and atomic warfare.
Email: cinemareno@excite.com
Web: www.cinemareno.org
Cinequest Film Festival
Where: San Jose, California
When: February 28 - March 11, 2007
Background: Cinequest is Northern California’s premier
motion picture institute that presents a soul-stirring and personable
festival of international films and digital media forums for
movie lovers, maverick film artists, and film students. Recently
named one of the Top 10 Film Festivals in the world by the Ultimate
Film Festival Survival Guide.
Tel: 408.995.5033
Fax: 408.995.5713
Email: info@cinequest.org
Web: www.cinequest.org
CineVegas - Las Vegas Film Festival
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
When: June 9-17, 2006
Background: CineVegas' featured segments of American Independents
and morning conferences with celebrated writers, nine nights
of sponsor events and a one-of-a-kind poolside opening night
gala make CineVegas not just a festival, but a total entertainment
experience.
Tel: 702.992.7979
Fax: 702.898.5191
Email: info-cinevegas@cinevegas.com
Web: www.cinevegas.com
Cinevent Classic Film Convention
Where: Colombus, Ohio
When: May 26-29, 2006
Background: One of the best place for films geeks of all persuasions,
screening classic and seldom-screened films and offering an
annual vintage poster art auction and other assorted posts for
trading memorabilia.
Tel: 614.229.3555
Email: steve@cinevent.com
Web: www.cinevent.com
Cine Golden Eagle Competition
Where: Washington, Washington D.C.
When: April 18, 2006
Background: The CINE Golden Eagle Film and Video Competitions,
held each spring and fall, involve hundreds of volunteer media
and content specialists who judge entries in several moving-image
genres. The CINE Golden Eagle Award acknowledges high quality
professional production in a variety of content categories,
as well as in student and amateur works.
Tel: (202) 785-1136
Fax: (202) 785-4114
Email: info@cine.org
Web: www.cine.org
Cine Las Americans International Film Festival of the
Americas
Where: Austin, Texas
When: April 19-23, 2006
Background: Our mission is to promote cross-cultural understanding
and growth by educating, entertaining and challenging our community
through the media arts. We create a vehicle in which the ability
to communicate competently in all media forms, print and electronic,
as well as to access, understand, analyze and evaluate the powerful
messages that make up our contemporary mass culture is available
for all underserved voices
Tel: 512-841-5930
Email: info@cinelasamericas.org
Web: www.cinelasamericas.org
Cleveland International Film Festival
Where: Cleveland, Ohio
When: March 15-25, 2007
Background: Five hundred dollars awards are offered in African
American short, Best Womens's Shorts, and Best Documentary
Short.
Tel: 216.623.0400
Fax: 216.523.0103
Email: cfs@clevelandfilm.org
Web: www.clevelandfilmfestival.com
City of Lights City of Angels Film Festival
Where: Los Angeles, CA
When: April 3-9, 2006
Background: City of Lights, City of Angels (COL-COA) was founded
in 1995. The Festival is committed yearly to introduce and
promote the best current of French Cinema in Hollywood and
the United States. City of Lights, City of Angels is funded
by the Franco-American Cultural Fund – a unique collaborative
effort among the Writers Guild of America (West), the Directors’
Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association of America
and France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Editors
of Music (SACEM).
Tel: 310.652.6123
Email: info@colcoa.com
Web: www.colcoa.com
Coney Island Film Festival
Where: Coney Island, Brooklyn
When: Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2006
Background: Step right up and see the Spectacular, the Wonderous
and the downright Odd. The CONEY ISLAND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
presents Freaks! Wonders! and Cinematic Curiousities! Two
Thrilling Days! Eight Amazing Programs! Seventy-Five Sensational
Films!
Tel: 212.696.6689
Fax: 347.710.0980
Email: indiefilmpage@yahoo.com
Web: www.indiefilmpage.com/coneyfest.html
Council On Foundations Film & Video Festival
Where: Toronto, Canada
When: April 29 - May 1, 2007
Background: The Film & Video Festival showcases foundation-funded
productions and the strategies by which grantmakers use film,
video and television productions to advance their program
goals. Held in conjunction with the Council on Foundations
Annual Conference, the Fall Conference for Community Foundations
and the Family Foundation Conference, the festival promotes
foundation support of creative, high-quality productions that
expand the boundaries of the use of media for charitable purposes.
Tel: (202) 466-6512
Email: fundfilm@cof.org
Web: www.fundfilm.org
Cut and Paste Skateboarding Film Festival
Where: Iowa City, IA
When: May 2-3, 2003(last known date)
Background: The Cut and Paste Skateboarding Art and Film Festival
is now in its third year and is open for submissions.
Email: dave@capff.org
Web: www.capff.org
Crossroads Film Festival
Where: Jackson, Mississippi
When: March 29 - April 1, 2007
Background: The Crossroads Film Festival is held in Jackson
with entries accepted from around the world. About 60 films,
which range from two minutes to two hours will be shown at
New Stage Theatre and Parkway Place Theatres. The films are
divided into eight categories being features, shorts, student,
youth, documentary, experimental, animation and a new Mississippi
category.
Tel: (601) 366-3829
Email: questions@crossroadsfilmfest.com
Web: www.crossroadsfilmfest.com
Crystal Reel Awards
Where: Florida
When: November 11, 2006
Background: The Crystal Reel Awards have been created to honor
outstanding achievement in the Motion Picture, Television,
Recording and Digital Media industries in the State of Florida.
Tel: 321.632.7488
Email: cferrill@cfl.rr.com
Web: www.fmpta.org
Cucalorus Film Festival
Where: Wilmington, North Carolina
When: November 8-11, 2006
Background: The Cucalorus Film Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit
organization. As such, Cucalorus relies on the continued support
of sponsors, filmmakers and the local community in order to
prosper and survive. Cucalorus was the brainchild of a Wilmington
based group of filmmakers calling themselves Twinkle Doon.
The spirit of the festival has been carried on by a small
group of creative minds, who continue to insist on a non-competitive
atmosphere for the celebration and screening of independent
films.
Tel: 910.343.5995
Fax: 910.343.5227
Email: mail@cucalorus.org
Web: www.cucalorus.org
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