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 Antimatter
Festival of Underground Short Film & Video - Victoria, BC, Canada
Held in September - Annual festival, produced by Rogue Art, seeks
imaginative, volatile, entertaining and critical works which exist outside
the mainstream, regardless of subversive or dangerous nature of their
content, stylistic concerns or commercial viability. Antimatter is anti-Hollwood
and anti-censorship -- dedicated to film and video as art.
Artsfest
Film Festival - Harrisburg, PA
We are looking for independent, avant-garde, personal, experimental, or
any other form of creative filmmaking that challenges the masses and the
"Hollywood" aesthetics.
Axlegrease
- New York City/Buffalo
Various screening venues for media artists: funding/employment/residency/festivals,
etc, including Axlegrease public access cable show. Deadline: ongoing
Balagan
Experimental Film & Video Series - Somerville, MA
Ongoing programming - We program a variety of shows based on theme,
geography, gender, etc. so don't hesitate to contact us. We are also putting
together a few thematic programs for the spring that still have space
for more works. Deadline: ongoing
Black
Harvest International Film and Video Festival - Chicago, IL
The Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video is Chicago's
annual showcase for films of the African diaspora. The Film Center is
looking for new short films by American or international directors of
African heritage. The
Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The
Blinding Light - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Microcinema presenting ongoing screenings, specializing in alternative,
underground and obscure film and video screenings. Operates 6 nights a
week.
Deadline: ongoing.
Formats: 16mm, Super 8 and VHS. If you have other formats or unconventional
screening set-ups that you wish to pursue, let us know what you have in
mind. We are always very interested in any live components to screenings,
so keep that in mind!
Carolina
Film and Video Festival - UNCG, Greensboro, NC
The Carolina Film and Video Festival is open to any length film or
genre. Entries from high school, college, and independent ranks are all
invited. Cash prizes.
Cinematexas
International Film Festival - Austin, Texas
Acknowledged as one of the world's foremost short film festivals, Cinematexas
includes a juried international competition (awarding over $10,000 in
cash and services annually), and a separate juried competition of work
by University of Texas film, as well as curated programs dedicated to
exhibiting new work by infectious artists and retrospectives of seldom-seen
work by masters of the short film format. We also offer four major sidebars,
each a mini-festival in its own right: Parallax View, our explosive media
activism laboratory; Terra Cognita, a series of moving image installations
by established and emerging artists from around the world; Cinemakids,
screenings of youth-made films complemented by free filmmaking workshops;
and Austin Eye+Ear, a concert series featuring some of the most vital
artists working in the field of contemporary music and performance from
around the world.
Discount Cinema
- Chicago
Deadline: Ongoing, Entry Fee: None.
Formats: All, Preview on VHS.
We screen a wide range of work and follow our screenings with live musical
performances. Discount Cinema actively seeks musicians, media-makers,
filmmakers, and interactive artists working in all genres for shows throughout
Chicago and beyond.
Extremely
Shorts - Houston
Juried screenings of film and video works 3 minutes and under.
 Hi
Mom! Film Festival - Chapel Hill, NC
Highlighting films by "filmmakers with deep thoughts and shallow
pockets."
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Independent
Exposure - San Francisco
Ongoing - Independent Exposure is a participant in the International Microcinema
Network, a syndicate of exhibition venues that program unique media in
alternative venues around the world. Deadline:
ongoing
LA
Freewaves Celebration of Experimental Media Arts - Los Angeles
Held in - November - Media art works including video and film (experimental,
narrative, documentary, art, animation, etc.), CD-ROMs, DVDs, audio art,
web sites, online, multimedia performances and installations, public art
media projects (especially electronic billboards), youth media, proposals
for video bus tours, community media activities and others.
 MadCat
Women's International Film Festival - San Francisco and Berkeley,
CA
Held in September - MadCat was founded to give a voice to the vast range
of experimental and independent films directed by women.
 Ms.
Films - A Festival of Movies by Independent Women - Durham, N.C.
Held in February, the festival includes two days of screenings of
woman-made movies from all over the world, as well as workshops and panel
discussions all about filmmaking presented by women filmmakers.
Nomad
Videofilm Festival - Berkeley, CA
Traveling Screenings - The NOMAD non-mainstream bias favors work of audacity
and poetic immediacy. Winning entries receive written audience response
from each show. Docs, narratives & animations also encouraged.
DISCONTINUED 2002
 Ocularis
- Brooklyn, NY
Ongoing - not-for-profit organization that provides a forum for innovative
work by emerging independent, experimental and documentary video and filmmakers,
combined with international and repertory cinema. Deadline: ongoing,
Seattle
Underground Film Festival - Seattle
Held in October - dedicated to bringing Seattle the very best in new,
compelling film and video works from around the world by giving a voice
to the truly independent filmmaker whose maverick exuberance and limited
resources transcend the pedestrian glut of mainstream cinema.
 SILVERDOCS
AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival
June 13 - 18, 2006
International
Documentary Conference
June 15-17, 2006
Silver Spring, MD
SILVERDOCS seeks to
expand the audience for, and broaden the impact of, documentary film.
The International Documentary Conference runs concurrently, June 15-17,
allowing Filmmakers the opportunity to attend all Conference panels and
workshops. The Conference also includes Silver Sessions - small group
meetings with industry pros that connect filmmakers with decision-makers:
program executives from Discovery, IFC, ITVS, HBO, PBS, and more. Networking
opportunities abound at the Cinema Lounge, the hub of the Festival social
life. Awarding over $40,000 in combined cash and prizes to filmmakers
in 2006 & showing in a state of the art digital projection at the
technologically advanced, beautifully renovated art deco AFI Silver Theatre,
The
United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival - Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ
Held in February - The Festival encourages any genre (animation, documentary,
experimental, fiction, personal, etc.). All works will be screened by
a panel of judges who will award $ prizes.
 The
Vinegar Hill Film Festival - Charlottesville, VA
Held in April - shows the latest in Virginia's documentaries, narratives
and experimental films.
 The
Virginia Film Festival - Charlottesville, VA
Held in October - another great Virginia film festival.
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