Manchester Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Festival, Northeast Film Festival – Film Festival Guide for April 21
Manchester Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Festival, Northeast Film Festival – Film Festival Guide for April 21 from FilmsGoneWild.com
These festivals have been screening for at least 5 years, supporting diverse genres, run times and celebrating indie film.
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Manchester Film Festival
“Manchester Film Festival is an A Class festival in all respects. It has a unique filmmaker led approach and there is a strong sense of community fostered through the various networking and drinks events that take place throughout the week. The festival is also exceptionally well organised and the film program is intricately curated with a clear thematic focus running throughout each day’s lineup of movies. I honestly couldn’t recommend attending, or submitting to, MFF enough.” Dan Pringle, Director, Die Before You Die.
Manchester Film Festival is proud to be a BAFTA Qualifying Festival for British Short film and a BIFA qualifying festival for both Shorts and Features and one of the Top 10 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway.
The festival celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2025 with remarkable success, featuring sold-out screenings throughout the week.
https://filmfreeway.com/ManchesterFilmFestival
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Cannes Short Film Festival
Founded in 2014 in the world’s most important film destination, the Cannes Short Film Festival celebrates the best of international indie short filmmaking. CSFF brings together filmmakers from around the world for an amazing presentation of cinematic excellence and exciting innovation. Screening over at the Cinema Varietes in Nice and the Genesis Cinema in London, the 2025 CSFF is will be the 11th sensational annual event dedicated to short filmmaking, in September 2025.
With an emphasis on new talent, discovery, and low-budget innovation, Cannes Shorts’ vibrant programme of films combines a commitment to independent cinema’s ideals with a sound understanding of indie filmmaking possibilities.
https://filmfreeway.com/CannesShortFilmFestival
Womens International Film Festival
Our flagship event is our annual Women’s International Film Festival, which allows us to showcase and honor the work of established and emerging independent filmmakers who are predominately women, that tell women’s stories of faith, courage, hope, determination and fortitude. We also sponsor screenings of independent films of social relevance throughout the year. For our 2025 Women’s International Film Festival we are especially interested in films that explore social justice issues. We welcome creative, experimental and fresh approaches to story telling, looking to include stories of contemporary issues including migration, human sexuality, child marriage, violence against women and achievement, as well as narratives that tell fresh stories of relationships, self image and resilience. Our criteria is flexible, so please submit your work!
https://filmfreeway.com/WIM-NFilmFest14
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Northeast Film Festival
the Northeast Film Festival showcases top independent films from filmmakers, as well as new talent. The diverse array of films, selected by a committee, includes features and shorts from all genres, as well as documentaries and screenplays. The festival is hosted in Teaneck New Jersey at the historic Teaneck Cinemas; with planned parties to kick off the festival in style and spirit. In addition, we offer an atmosphere for the film enthusiast to interact with filmmakers as well as filmmakers being able to interact and network with each other and industry professionals.
The festival includes after parties, to offer opportunities for interacting and networking with other filmmakers, actors, and film festival goers. In past years, Harry Lennix, Lloyd Kaufman, Danny Roebuck, Matthew Modine, Vinnie Pastore, David Harris, Robert Clohessy, Brian O’Halloran, Fatima Ptacek, Gianni Russo, Duane Whitaker, Jefferson White, producers from NBC, among many others attended the festival’s after parties (and festival).