Raindance Film Fest, Dances with Films and more — Film Festival Guide for January 13 2025
Deadlines are coming up for Raindance Film Fest, Dances with Films, Malibu Film Fest, Dawson Film Fest, and more in this week’s Film Festival Guide from Films Gone Wild.
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Raindance Film Festival
Submissions are open for the 33rd Raindance Film Festival
London, 18 – 27 June 2025
To be eligible for Raindance 2025, films must be completed on or after January 2024.
Since 1992, Raindance has supported the new generation of creative and innovative filmmakers in the UK and worldwide. The Raindance Film Festival takes place in Central London, allowing international filmmakers to enjoy a West End premiere and a truly London experience.
The festival welcomes 16,000+ visitors annually, including buyers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers, producers, press, and film lovers.
Raindance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the UK. It is officially recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences USA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the British Independent Film Awards. Winners of Best Animation Short/Best Documentary Short/Short of the Festival) categories will qualify for Oscar®, and selected shorts will also be for BAFTA consideration.
Find out more about the festival and submit your film today at the link below:
https://filmfreeway.com/Raindance
Film Festival Guide : January 13 2025 from Films Gone Wild
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Dances with Films
2024 COOLEST FILM FESTIVALS by Moviemaker Magazine and a TOP 10 NORTH AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL by USA Today – and the only one in Los Angeles and consistently in the top 10 best reviewed film festivals on FilmFreeway.
DANCES WITH FILMS is an established national (bi-coastal) film festival. Our 28th year in Los Angeles, DANCES WITH FILMS (DWF:LA) will unspool this June 2025 at the famed TCL Chinese Theatres. DANCES WITH FILMS (DWF:NY) will launch next December at the incredible Regal Union Square in Manhattan.
DWF is an original on the festival circuit (and the largest indie film festival in Los Angeles), hailed by Indiewire as “widely recognized as the premiere showcase of innovative independent cinema, presenting amazing undiscovered talent to an industry audience in Hollywood,” “the future of Independent Film,” by Huffington Post and as “An innovator and leader in positioning raw and new talented directors,” by CNN and voted one of Moviemaker Magazine’s Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals on the planet (and the only one in Los Angeles to make the list in the only year it was actually voted on by filmmakers across the globe), Dances With Films presents more than 250 films each year to the LA Filmmaking and Film-going community.
Find out more about the festival at the link below:
https://filmfreeway.com/DancesWithFilms
Malibu Film Fest
The 25th annual Malibu Film Festival ™ is set to take place from May 24-31, 2025, hosted again at the prestigious DGA Theater Complex, additional locations may be announced. Continuing the success of previous online editions, the festival will also offer a virtual experience accessible to everyone through the film festival streaming platform.
ABOUT MALIBU FILM FESTIVAL
Established in 1997, Malibu Film Festival ™ is a premier showcase for U.S. and international independent films. Malibu Film Festival is produced and staffed by members of the Director’s Guild of America (DGA); Television Academy (Emmys); Producer’s Guild of America (PGA) and IATSE.
Since 1999, Malibu Film Festival has been recognized as a premiere festival for discovering emerging directors. Honorees and Filmmakers who first presented their work at the festival are now amongst the biggest names in the industry include Academy Award® winning director, James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic, Terminator); Academy Award® winning director, Bryan Fogel (Jewtopia, Icarus, The Dissident); and, Academy Award® winning director, Ari Sandel (West Bank Story).
ABOUT PROGRAMMING
Malibu Film Festival programs high quality new films from emerging filmmakers. Malibu Film Festival provides audience members, filmmakers, festival programmers and industry professionals an opportunity to network and discover the next generation of creative talent.
The festival program is selected entirely from a blind submissions pool. No films are given special treatment based on who made them or who they know. Malibu Film Festival programers are comprised of award winning filmmakers, festival alumni, and working union members including DGA, SAG/AFTRA, IATSE and WGA.
Find out more about the festival and submit your film today at the link below:
https://filmfreeway.com/malibu
Film Festival Guide : January 13 2025 from Films Gone Wild
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Dawson Film Fest
The Dawson City International Short Film Festival’s (DCISFF) mandate is to promote, exhibit, and disseminate contemporary independent film and media works by regional, national and international emerging and professional artists. We accept films of all genres. We welcome films by Indigenous, BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ creators.
The festival gratefully takes place on the lands of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in.
Find out more about the festival and submit your film today at the link below:
https://filmfreeway.com/DawsonFilmFest
Horror Fest International
Since the early 2000s, HorrorFest has been scaring the pants off of horror lovers in Southern Utah. This beloved fest has certainly evolved since making its debut in 2002. What started as a showcase for legendary horror films of the past in a theatrical setting has swelled into a 4-day showcase of independent horror films–shorts and features–from all around the world.
Sure, we still throw films of the past into the mix–after all, it’s the old guards who paved the way for the current horror climate–but this is ultimately a springboard for contemporary horror storytellers from across the globe.
So…If you’ve crafted a film of the horror variety that you’re proud of, submit it! Additionally, HorrorFest International hosts a screenplay competition so you can send your short and feature scripts in as well.
Our team of expert horror curating programmers will sift through all the terrifying goodness you can dish out in an effort to put together the ultimate lineup for the spine-tingling festivities that await you in fall of 2025.
Find out more about the festival and submit your film today at the link below:
https://filmfreeway.com/HorrorFest
Film Festival Guide : January 13 2025 from Films Gone Wild