Nantucket Film Festival
Where: Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
When: June 14-18, 2006
Background: The Nantucket Film Festival (NFF9) has established itself as a premiere U.S. film festival that provides an intimate forum for screenwriters, producers, agents and development executives to interact with and enjoy the notable films presented on the island.
Tel: 212.708.1278
Fax: 212.654.4784
Email: info@ackfest.org
Web: www.nantucketfilmfestival.org

Nashville Independent Film Festival
Where: Nashville, Tennessee
When: April 20 - 26, 2006
Background: The festival's top prize entitles the winning 35mm feature to a week's run in a Los Angeles Regal theater qualifying the film for Academy Award consideration. First prize in the Short Film and Animation qualifies for Academy Award consideration.
Tel: 615.742.2500
Fax: 615.742.1004
Email: info@nashvillefilmfestival.org
Web: www.nashvillefilmfestival.org

National Student Film and Video Festival
Where: Regina, SK, Canada
When: May 13-15, 2004(last known date)
Background: The National Student Film and Video Festival is Canada's only national student-run film festival. Held annually in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Tel: 306.585.5386
Email: studentfilmfestival@hotmail.com
Web: www.studentfilmfestival.com

Native American Film and Video Festival
Where: New York, New York
When: One week in mid-April
Background: Showcasing about and by the native Americans, the festival is presented by the Film and Video Center of the National Museum if the American Indian in Harlem.
Tel: 212.283.2420
Fax: 212.491.9302

Newark Black Film Festival
Where: Newark, New Jersey
When: February 2006
Background: The Newark Black Film Festival is known as the longest running black film festivals in the United States. To-date, the Festival continues to provide a progressive forum for writers, directors, and film buffs who enjoy African American/Diaspora cinema.
Tel: 973.596.6550
Fax: 973.642.0459
Web: www.newarkmuseum.org/nbff/

Newport Beach International Film Festival
Where: Newport Beach, California
When: April 20 - 30, 2006
Background: Located in beautiful Newport Beach, California, the Newport Beach Film Festival strives to offer an inspiring balance of international contemporary films and classics. The eight-day event also offers a Short Film Festival, seminars and galas.
Tel: 949.253.2880
Web: www.newportbeachfilmfest.com

New Directors/ New Films Festival
Where: New York, New York
When: March 22 - April 2, 2006
Background: An international showcase of roughly three dozen fiction and documentary features and shorts from up and coming directors from around the world.
Tel: 212.875.5610
Fax: 212.875.5636
Email: sbensman@filmlinc.com
Web: www.filmlinc.com

New England Film and Video Festival
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
When: July 2006
Background: This festival spotlights independent filmmakers in a variety of categories.
Tel: 617.536.1540
Fax: 671.536.3576
Email: bfvf@aol.com
Web: www.newenglandfilm.com

New Hampshire Film Expo
Where: New Hampshire
When: October 2006
Background: The New Hampshire Film Expo (NHFX) is a festival for filmmakers by filmmakers. NHFX is the state's largest independent festival featuring screenings, workshops, auditions, a script competiton and much more!
Tel: 603.647.6493
Email: info@nhfx.com
Web: www.nhfx.com

Newport International Film Festival
Where: Newport, Rhode Island
When: June 6-11, 2006
Background: The Newport International Film Festival seeks to bring innovative, original, yet still accessible American and International films to the people of Newport, Rhode Island.
Tel: 401.846.9100
Fax: 401.846.6665
Email: info@newportfilmfestival.com
Web: www.newportfilmfestival.com

New Jersey International Film Festival
Where: New Brunswick, New Jersey
When: May through July
Background: This small festival with its sporadic screenings has nevertheless brought films from India, Vietnam, Europe, and Australia to hte state, along with programs of independent American and specifically New Jersey filmmakers.
Tel: 908.932.8482
Email: njmac@aol.com
Web: www.rci.retgers.edu/nigrin

New Orleans Film and Video Festival
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
When: October 12-19, 2006
Background: The New Orleans Film Festival is dedicated to bringing the best of independent & art house films & videos to an interested and active audience in New Orleans. We plan to present an abbreviated 2005 festival in early 2006, and with your help, we will present a full festival in the fall of 2006.
Tel: 504.523.3818
Fax: 208.975.3478
Email: admin@neworleansfilmfest.com
Web: www.neworleansfilmfest.com

New Orleans LGBT Festival
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
When: June 10-12, 2006
Background: The Lesbian and Gay Community Center of New Orleans is a multi-cultural anti-oppression organization which strives to provide information and referrals, cultural and social services, crisis intervention as well as a safe haven to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered populations in the greater New Orleans area.
Tel: 504.945.1103
Email: coord@reelidentities.org
Web: www.reelidentities.org

New York African Film Festival
Where: New York, New York
When: July - August 2006
Background: African Film Festival (AFF) has been introducing African film and video to audiences in America, Jamaica, and Brazil for the past decade with our partner the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Tel: (212) 352-1720
Fax: (212) 807-9752
Email: nyaff@erols.com
Web: www.africanfilmny.org

New York Asian Film Festival
Where: New York, New York
When: June 16- July 1, 2006
Background: The annual New York Asian Film Festival (popularly known as Asian Films Are Go!!!) is Subway Cinema's flagship event, and it's the only film festival in NYC where you can be sure that every single movie rocks. The only showcase of its kind in the world, we watch hundreds of recent Asian films and pick the fifteen or twenty that make the earth move and bells ring. Rowdy audiences pack these screenings from sun up to sundown -- they watch the movies, they win the prizes, they come back for more! The only criteria a movie has to meet to be in this festival? It has to be the best.
Tel: 212.369.0975
Email: grady@subwaycinema.com
Web: www.subwaycinema.com

New York City Independent Horror Film Festival
Where: New York, New York
When: October 2006
Background: This festival is competitive, we'd like to urge everyone out there to continue supporting all the films shown at this years event. If you saw a film and liked it, tell a friend, post at a message board, write a review and when the films are released, buy a copy!
Tel: 201.666.6729
Email: moodudefilms@aol.com
Web: www.moodudefilms.com

New York Comedy Film Festival
Where: New York
When: November 8-11, 2000(last known date)
Background: The goal of the New York Comedy Film Festival (NYCFF), the first and only festival in North America devoted to comedy filmmaking, is to produce an outstanding annual event celebrating the people who make us laugh.
Tel: 212.691.6000
Fax: 202.633.1292
Email: nycff@nycff.org
Web: www.nycff.org

New York Expo of Short Film and Video Interactive Multimedia
Where: New York, New York
When: December 13-14, 2003(last known date)
Background: For over 37 years, the New York Expo has celebrated the art of independent short film and video. Last year's Expo featured 90 films from 30 countries!
Tel: 212.505.7742
Fax: 212.873.1353
Email: rswbc@cunyvm.cuny.edu

Web: www.nyexpo.org

New York Gay and Lesbian Experimental Film and Video Festival
Where: New York, New York
When: Ten days in mid-November
Background: This fest bills itself as the oldest of its type in New York City and screens films in everything from 35 mm to Super-8 to interactive digital technology.
Tel: 212.539.1023
Fax: 212.501.2309
Email: mix@echonyc.com
Web: www.echonyc.com/mix

New York Independent Feature Film Market
Where: New York, New York
When: September 17-21, 2006
Background: This marketplace premieres hundreds of completed features and works in progress annually and turns Greenwich Village into its party central headquarters as film companies, festivals, distributors, and the like attend parties, lectures and seminars.
Tel: 212.465.8525
Web: www.ifp.org

New York International Children Film Festival
Where: New York, New York
When: August 5-6, 2006
Background: "Making children's movies means presenting the very essence of a complicated world. Children understand the complexity and uncertainty of things almost with their skin. They can't be underestimated."
Tel: 212-349-0330
Fax: 212.528-0500
Email: info@gkids.com
Web: www.gkids.com

New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film
Where: New York, New York
When: Ten days in mid-June
Background: The festival offers a decent, mid-sized selection of new and classic gay cinema with some cleverly programmed series.
Tel: 212.807.1820
Fax: 212.807.9843
Email: newfest@idt.net
Web: www.newfestival.com

New York International Independent Film And Video Festival
Where: Los Angeles, CA and New York, New York
When: September 14-21, 2006 in Los angeles and November 9-16, 2006 in New York
Background: The largest independent festival that shows film, video, screenplays in NY and LA. Also reps in Cannes.
Tel: 212.777.7100
Fax: 212.387.0873
Web: www.nyfilmvideo.com

New York International Latino Film Festival
Where: New York, New York
When: July 25-30, 2006
Background: The New York International Latino Film Festival is a premiere film festival presenting the works of Latino artists and people of Latin American descent. The festival braids together Latinos in Hollywood and independent film industry, along with aficionados and students of film and the arts.
Tel: 212.265.8452
Fax: 212.307.7445
Email: info@nylatinofilm.com
Web: www.nylatinofilm.com

New York Underground Film Festival
Where: New York, New York
When: March 8-14, 2006
Background: The NYUFF exists to support and promote films that push boundaries and break new ground -- that challenge, entertain and provoke.
Tel: 212.614.2775
Fax: 212.614.2776
Email: info@nyuff.com
Web: www.nyuff.com

Nextframe
Where: Philadelphia, PA
When: January 2007
Background: NextFrame is the UFVA's touring festival of international student film and video. NextFrame surveys and exhibits the very best in current student production worldwide, emphasizing independence, creativity and new approaches to visual media.
Tel: 215.923.3532
Fax: 215.204.6740
Email: ufva@vm.temple.edu
Web: www.temple.edu/nextframe

Nickel Independent Film and Video Festival
Where: St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
When: July 18-22, 2006
Background: This festival was created by filmmakers for filmmakers. We accept shorts, features and documentaries. The festival takes place every July in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Tel: 709.722.3456
Email: nickelfestival@yahoo.ca
Web: www.nickelfestival.com

Nihilist Film Festival
Where: Santa Monica, California
When: December 2006
Background: Disturbing and amusing films and video of 30 minutes or less. "If you've made a video that has appalled and offended other film festivals," says Nihilist Film Festival organizer Elisha Shapiro, "we're looking for you."
Email: nihilist01@aol.com
Web: www.nihilists.net/film.html

Nodance Film Festival
Where: Park City, Utah
When: Janaury 18-24, 2003 (last known date)
Background: The independent Nodance Film Festival, the world’s first DVD-projected film festival, has invited twenty-five feature films, shorts, music videos and documentaries to screen as part of its seven day event. Returning to its headquarters on Main Street in Park City, Utah, Nodance celebrates the best in alternative digital film.
Tel: 323.512.7988
Email: info@nodance.com
Web: www.nodance.com

Northampton Film Festival
Where: Northampton, Massachusetts
When: March 19-April 9, 2006
Background: Northampton Film Festival showcases innovative, independent films and videos from around North America - shorts and feature films - narrative, documentary, animation and experimental.
Tel: 413.586.3471
Fax: 413.584.4432
Email: filmfest@nohofilm.org
Web: www.nohofilm.org

Northampton Independent Film Festival
Where: Northampton, Massachusetts
When: November 8-12, 2006
Background: The Northampton Film Festival is now accepting shorts and full length films and video's. Categories include: narrative, documentary, gay, lesbian, animation, foreign and student works.
Tel: 413.582.1832
Email: niff@verizon.net
Web: www.niff.org

Northwest Documentary Film Festival
Where: Seattle, Washington
When: Three days in early November
Background: The festivals offers a good selection of documentaries with an accent on filmmakers from the northwest United States.
Tel: 212.682.1770
Fax: 212.682.4158
Email: wch@humanities.org

NSI FilmExchange Canadian Film Festival
Where: Canada
When: March 1-4, 2006
Background: Each winter Winnipeg hosts Canada's only all Canadian Film Festival, featuring a line up of the best feature and short Canadian films. NSI FilmExchange is a sizzling celebration of Canadian film and filmmaking in one very cool city.
Tel: 800.952.9307
Email: info@nsi-canada.ca
Web: www.nsi-canada.ca/filmexchange