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My Environment, My Film: Viral Video Making Competition with Darklight, European Commission in Ireland and Cultivate
Attention all budding filmmakers! Make a short film on the Environment and you could win a state of the art HD camera and have your work screened at this year’s Darklight Festival! There will also be a FREE VIRAL [...]

Small Arts Festivals Scheme 2011, round one, closing date 10 September 2010
The Small Arts Festivals and Events Scheme is open to organisations that organise and promote festivals or events with a clear artistic purpose that will take place in the calendar year 2011.
A festival may represent one artform or may include a wide [...]

The 18th annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, renamed the GAZE Film Festival, will run for five days over the August bank holiday in the Light House Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin. This year’s event offers a wealth of features, documentaries and shorts from countries such as Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Ireland, Norway, [...]

The Kerry Film Festival (KFF) has partnered with a number of film festivals in Spain, Italy, Sweden, Canada, the UK and America in an effort to promote the best of Irish short films.
The Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2010, one of KFF’s partner festivals which is based in London, takes place from 21–30 July and will [...]

Dysart’s Sail In Film Festival is a Flagship Project for celebrating Fife 2010 and is looking for entries to their short film competition.
A short film competition on the theme of celebrating Fife will give local and international filmmakers the chance to see their work projected onto a huge screen on a harbour cliff wall in.
The [...]

Darklight has announced the details of this years movie making challenge, Sony Ericsson’s ‘Free Your Film’. Following on from the successes of Darklight’s previous film making challenges, ‘Dublin: The Movie’ and ‘Hotel Darklight’, this year’s will be the best yet.
Sony Ericsson are collaborating with Darklight to find 3 aspiring filmmakers. They’re offering a budget of [...]

The 11th annual Kerry Film Festival is now accepting submissions of films. To apply, download the application form at www.kerryfilmfestival.com and send it, along with a preview copy of the film and the relevant paperwork to:
Kerry Film Festival
The Old Presbytery
20 Lower Castle Street
Tralee
Co. Kerry
Or alternatively films can be submitted via Withoutabox.
The 2010 festival will run [...]

Nisi Masa, the European network of young cinema, is organising an online video contest about multilingualism. Filmmakers are asked to submit their short to win a place aboard Polyglot – on the way to Turku, an itinerant filmmaking event traveling across the archipelago of Turku, Finland.
They are looking for film submissions in two categories, Video [...]

The 15 Second Film Festival commission, exhibit and distribute micro-short films all over the world through film festivals and prestigious arts events using ‘The Mini Mogul’ Cinema (a unique 2-seater art deco picture palace). The Festival is now seeking submissions.
A filmmaker can submit a completed bespoke film that they have independently made to enter the [...]

‘(An) Other Irish Cinema’ is the work of three independent filmmakers based in Ireland who have been making films over the past decade with the liberty of experimentation that low-and-no budget production can offer.
Although the films of Donal Foreman, Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain are very different, they are linked by the use of [...]