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Festival
Links
South
African Film Festivals
- www.encounters.co.za
Encounters is a film festival focusing on documentary films
and gives young documentary filmmakers a platform to showcase
their
work.
- www.oia.co.za
Out In Africa, the South African Gay and Lesbian film festival,
is South Africa’s longest running film festival.
It provides a platform for international and South African
gay and lesbian
themed stories.
- www.cca.ukzn.ac.za
The Durban film festival is a large film festival held in
one of South Africa’s less publicised regions. It represents
the coming alive of arts in some of South Africa’s
most culturally desolate places.
- www.3continentsfestival.co.za
The Three Continents Festival brings together films from
three of the worlds most disadvantaged but most promising
continents – Africa,
Asia and South America.
- www.sithengi.co.za
Sithengi is an annual film festival and market that takes
place in Cape Town. It represents a networking and purchasing
platform
for local and international delegates. And is a film showcase
for the entire African continent.
- www.nwff.co.za
The North West is one of the poorest regions in the country
and this Film Festival brings film to impoverished people
to stimulate
and nurture a passion for film in people who would not
normally have access to it.
- www.wildtalkafrica.com
Durban Wild Talk Africa is a film festival that brings together
the cream of the nature documentary making crop in the
beautiful location of Durban to share their films and experiences.
- www.films-for-africa.co.za:
Apollo Film Festival - Victoria West, Suidooster Film Festival
and KKNK.
International Documentary
Only Festivals
- Academia Film Olomouc - Annual festival of documentary
and popular
scientific films & multimedia.
- Amnesty International
Film Festival
- Australian International
Documentary Conference - Held in early November.
- Denver
Jazz on Film Festival - Won't
be a venue for most documentary filmmakers, because this
festival only
shows films about jazz,
but if your film meets that criteria you should get
in contact with them. They show historical jazz footage
and documentaries.
A must for any jazz fan with the time and the money
to get to Denver in mid-February when this festival occurs.
- Docfest - New York International Documentary Festival. An annual
international non-competitive event spanning
5 days of screenings
in New York City. docfest is held in late April,
early May. All screenings are held at The Directors Guild
of America Theater
110 West 57th St., New York City.
- Doclands - Ireland's
documentary film festival and market.
- DocSide Film Festival - Put on by the Documentary Film Project this documentary-only
festival will
be held
in San Antonio,
Texas in August. No web site. Contact: docfilmproject@excite.com
- DoubleTake
Documentary Film Festival This competitive festival
is held in May at the Carolina Theatre
in Durham, NC, with
a submission deadline in late December.
- Doxa:
Documentary Film and Video Festival - Canada based festival
held in May.
- Fairfax Documentary Film Festival - No entry
fee. The festival is regional and only
features filmmakers
working
in northern
California. No web site. Contact Weinsoff@ix.netcom.com.
- Festival
dei Popoli - International documentary film festival in Florence.
- Hot
Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival - A competitive
festival,
held in early May in
Toronto, featuring Canadian
as well as International documentaries.
- The Hot Springs Documentary
Film Festival - Held in October,
Submission
Deadline
April 30.
- International Documentary
Film Festival, Amsterdam - Held in late
November.
- International Documentary Film Festival (DOCtober)
- Jackson
Hole Wildlife Film Festival
- Margaret Mead
Film & Video
Festival - Held in early November in New York, submission
deadline early May. No entry fee.
No restriction on subject matter, length, or year of production.
Each year a selection of titles from that year's Mead Festival
travels to independent film and community centers, museums,
and
universities throughout the nation. Since 1997, the Traveling
Festival has been featured at international sites as well.
Held by the American Museum of Natural History.
- The Museum of Television & Radio's Television Documentary
Festival - A non-competitive festival showcasing the most
interesting and notable television documentaries of the previous
year --
and of the year to come.
- One
World International Human Rights Film Festival - People in Need Foundation, a relief and humanitarian
organization,
puts
on the first and largest Central European human rights
international documentary film event. The One World festival
is widely
regarded as one of Prague's most important cultural and
media events.
It takes place in early April.
- queerdoc - Billed as the
world's first lesbian & gay
documentary film festival when it started in 1998, it
has continued to host
an annual festival dedicated entirely to documentaries
that are about, of interest to, or made by queers: transsexual,
transgender,
bisexual, lesbian or gay. The festival is held in early
September.
- Samos Mediterranean Documentary Film Festival -
Atene (Grecia) Info. Tel : 30.1.8253065 Fax : 30.1.8253065
- Sheffield International Documentary Festival
- SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery
Channel Documentary Festival -
June festival held in Silver Spring, Maryland.
- Sunny Side of
the Doc - An international market for documentary professionals
including independent producers, distributors,
buyers, commissioning editors, and institutional partners
specializing in documentaries. The market screens more
than 100 documentaries
each year. Held in mid-June in Marseilles, France.
- Thessaloniki
Documentary Festival - Annual film festival founded in 1999
and held in Greece. Screens films from
around the world
with an obviously large number of Greek filmmakers represented.
The festival draws a large audience, and a real effort
is made to get as many people as possible to see the
documentaries presented.
- United Nations Association Film Festival
- Yamagata International
Documentary Film Festival
Still more Festivals with deadlines at
Sasfed Member Organisation, NPO Number :51-722, National Association
Founded 2007
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