Pendance Film Festival, Foyle Film Festival, Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood, Finger Lakes Film Fest – Film Festival Guide for August 11
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Foyle Film Festival
Foyle Film Festival delivers a year round programme of feature films, workshops, short films, competition screenings, outreach and special events.
The 2025 Foyle Film Festival will take place from Wednesday 19 November to Sunday 30 December in Derry-Londonderry.
Over the last 38 years, the Foyle Film Festival has become renowned for attracting top industry professionals to Derry-Londonderry. Past guests have included Richard E Grant, Ray Winstone, Thelma Schoonmaker, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Christie, Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan, Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears to name but a few.
Foyle Film Festival is one of only a handful of International festivals with Oscar® affiliation, BAFTA and BIFA recognition. The festival offers filmmakers, animators and artists a unique platform to screen their films, network with industry professionals and gain access to the international market.
The prestigious Light In Motion (LIM) competition, sponsored by City of Derry Crystal, will reopen to filmmakers and animators across the world on Monday 10 March 2025
The competition categories under Foyle Film Festival Light in Motion Awards 2025 are:
· Best Irish Short
· Best International Short
· Best Animated Short
. British Short Film
British Short Animation
Recipients of the LIM Awards in Irish Short, International Short and Animated Short Film qualify for consideration in the Live Action and Animated Short Film categories of the Academy Awards® without needing the standard theatrical run.
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Pendance Film Festival
The Pendance Film Festival brings together the brightest emerging talents and original storytellers in the world every winter in Toronto. With packed and energetic audiences, a relentless filmmaker-first attitude and top-notch programming, Pendance has quickly become one of the fastest growing film festivals in the world.
Supported by some of the top filmmakers, studios, and sponsors in the world, the festival features top-industry members on both shorts and features juries, and draws in mid-tier distribution companies and sales agents each year. Curated with love, and organized with filmmaker support and experience always in mind, Pendance is a must-stop for independent filmmakers around the world.
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Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood
The goal of the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood is to recognize and award talented independent filmmakers and Writers, therefore helping them to increase their distribution and project funding opportunities.
The LACFH is here to provide independent filmmakers with the opportunity to have their work recognized, judged and awarded. We’re a traditional festival looking to showcase entertaining domestic and international materials from talented independent filmmakers. Multiple awards will be up for grabs between the 9 categories.
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Los Angeles International Film Festival
The Los Angeles International Film Festival is a film festival for truly independent shorts and features, and is fast to becoming a headline event for micro-budget and no-budget films in North America. LAIFF offers a fantastic opportunity for undiscovered filmmakers to showcase their achievements in the center of the movie making industry.
We’ll screen over 60 features and shorts over 5 days at the Secret Movie Club in downtown LA.
LAIFF leverages the strength of LA’s independent filmmaking community to put on a fantastic festival complete with networking events and educational sessions. It’s an indie film festival by and for indie filmmakers.
Finger Lakes Film Fest
Held in New York’s gorgeous Finger Lakes Region, the Finger Lakes Film Festival is an annual celebration of the film and video artists who have stories to tell and the passion to tell them.
The Finger Lakes Film Festival highlights diverse voices that advance the field through innovation and an unflinching commitment to the art of cinematic expression. We welcome films from all over the world, and are especially excited to screen work from upstate New York – the home of the Finger Lakes Film Festival. We encourage submissions from filmmakers at any stage of their careers or level of experience: students to experienced filmmakers; emerging artists to established professionals. It is our mission to connect creative voices with an eclectic audience of film lovers for a one-of-a-kind evening unlike anything else in the Finger Lakes.
This year, we invite filmmakers to submit their short works (20 minutes maximum) in any genre, including but not limited to: animation, documentary, live action narrative, and video essay. There will be two categories for submission: Student and General. Please see below for detailed submission guidelines.