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Faces of Austin

DEADLINE EXTENDED: January 22, 5 PM
The FACES OF AUSTIN, a multimedia program of the City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division, is conducting a call for entries to exhibit short films on-demand on the widescreen video displays in the Atrium of City Hall. Featured works highlight Austin’s unique sense of place and diverse cultural identity and [...]

Toronto Documentary Forum

Deadline: January 15 ($45)
Project submissions are now being accepted for the 11th
annual Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF), running May
5 & 6, during Hot Docs. North America’s essential
market event for the international documentary
industry, the TDF is a two-day, limited-seating event. Focused around
a slate of pre-selected international project presentations showcased in
front of a round table of commissioning editors, [...]

Talking Pictures Festival

Deadline: January 22 ($35), February 1 ($45)
The Talking Pictures Festival invites independent films and videos of any genre or length to participate in its 2010 edition. Any film that is challenging, intriguing, entertaining, personal, thought-provoking, or unique in perspective will be considered.  From dramatic films to hard-hitting documentaries, comedic shorts, experimental films, or music videos,  [...]

Harry Ransom Center Fellowship

Deadline: February 1 ($0)
The Harry Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum, has announced its 2010-11 Research Fellowship program.
The Ransom Center annually awards fifty fellowships to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. Applicants must demonstrate [...]

Off-Centered Film Festival

Deadline: March 1 ($0)
Dogfish Head and Alamo Drafthouse present the Off-Centered film festival 2010. Taking place April 16th and 17th at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, the festival will give independent-minded, aspiring filmmakers the chance to let their freak-flags fly by making [...]

Sundance Documentary Fund

Deadline: February 9 ($0)
The Sundance Documentary Fund, a program of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, is dedicated to supporting U.S. and international documentary films that focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression, social justice, civil liberties, and critical issues. In supporting such work, the fund seeks to encourage the diverse exchange of [...]

Silverdocs Festival

Deadline: January 15 ($35), March 12 ($45), March 19 ($55)
Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival is a six-day international film festival and conference that honors the creativity and passion of independent, non-fiction filmmakers and the power of the moving image to alter our perspective and expand our world-view. Anchored in the Nation’s Capital, where important global and [...]

Noise Pop Film Festival

Deadline: December 18 ($20), January 11 ($25)
The Noise Pop Film Festival began in 2000 to expand the week-long Noise Pop Music Festival which began in 1993 in San Francisco. The Film Festival accepts any kind of film or video narrative feature, documentary, short, animation, experimental or music video, that explores a connection to music, either [...]

Hill Country Film Festival

Deadlin January 5 ($20), February 5 ($25), March 5 ($40)

The Hill Country Film Festival’s mission is to celebrate independent film and filmmakers in the Texas Hill Country, while showcasing it’s host city of Fredericksburg. The festival welcomes films in the form of features (between 90-120 minutes) and shorts (under 20 minutes), along with documentaries in [...]

Santa Barbara Minute Film Fest

Deadline: November 30 ($15), January 30 ($20), February 15 ($30)
The Santa Barbara Minute Film Festival’s goal is to provide a showcase for a wide spectrum of filmmakers to exhibit very short form video and film works. Both experienced and novice directors, writers, animators, artists, designers and producers are encouraged to submit 60-second films and [...]