Updated: Film Fest Guide Deadlines — January 6 2025
Updated: Film Fest Guide Deadlines — January 6 2025 from FilmsGoneWild.com featuring some of the biggest and best film festivals around the United States and around the World.
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Film Quest
Welcome to the 12th annual FilmQuest Festival, the world’s #1 best reviewed film festival on FilmFreeway!
Gaining legendary raves as one of the very best festivals on the planet, genre or otherwise, for its high quality of selections, great events, bevy of attending filmmakers, the highly coveted and prestigious Cthulhu Trophy, and twice as one of MovieMaker Magazine’s “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” (2024 & 2023), “50 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World” (2021 & 2019) and six-times named one of their “Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017, 2015), as well as one of Dread Centrals “Best Horror Festivals in the World” in both 2022 and 2021, and Utah’s 7x Best of State film festival (2018 – 2024), FIlmQuest celebrates the majesty and might of genre filmmaking in the realms of fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and the beyond (including action, thriller, western, kung-fu, and more). The 2025 season will continue this grand tradition of celebrating the world’s greatest genre filmmaking in our beautiful home of Utah!
FilmQuest has been designed specifically to cater to the empowerment of the filmmaker through various events, awards, swag, connections, and more. In creating the festival, we thought long and hard about what it is that makes a festival great. We asked ourselves the tough questions. What we’ve come up with is, we believe, a festival experience that is the kind most filmmakers dream about.
The Juries will award our filmmakers in over 45 individual categories. Our selection committee is also made up of a group of industry professionals from various fields, such as directors, actors, producers, professors, writers, animators, casting directors, and more.
Want more? We will also be hosting exclusive parties, panels, and more! So get involved today and consider becoming a part of one of the most exciting film festivals to emerge on the circuit in years! We look forward to seeing your submissions!
We encourage you to explore our website (www.FilmQuestFest.com) for new information and updates as it comes, including more info on what to expect, the celebrities who will be involved with FilmQuest, our events, parties, workshops, panels, and more!
Prepare for Fantastic at FilmQuest, one of the world’s most exciting and beloved genre film festivals!
https://filmfreeway.com/FilmQuest
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Scriptapalooza
This year we are awarding over $50,000 in cash and software prizes.
Our First Place Winner will receive $10,000 Cash and all our 7 Genre Winners will receive $500 Cash.
Check out our trailer here:
Every script that is entered into Scriptapalooza is read by either a producer, manager or agent. We do not use “readers” or “regular people” because they cannot do anything with your script. We go right to the source – a producer, manager or agent, they can make a difference, they can option your script, buy it, set-up a meeting or go straight to the studio with it.
Now when you enter Scriptapalooza, you have the opportunity to get feedback. Your feedback will include a logline, a synopsis and your feedback totaling 4-5 pages of notes. Get the best feedback in the industry.
But the most important prize of all is that Scriptapalooza will promote, pitch and push the Semifinalists and higher for an entire year. We have relationships with producers, managers and agents that are actively looking for material.
https://filmfreeway.com/ScriptapaloozaScreenplayCompetition
Nevada City Film Festival
Since 2001, the Nevada City Film Festival (NCFF) has brought top independent film, music and comedy, along with attracting thousands of attendees, international filmmakers, and industry guests to the beautiful historic town of Nevada City, California.
Nevada City is known for its supportive arts and cultural scene, and makes screening a film here a positive, encouraging and exciting experience.
NCFF is often referred to as the “Sundance of the Sierra” for its emphasis on fiercely independent cinema that showcases innovative, progressive and exciting new voices in film. Our festival focuses on shorts and short filmmakers, with features peppered throughout. We love supporting first time or mid career filmmakers.
In 2023, NCFF was named “One of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals” by Moviemaker Magazine, and voted the #9 film festival in the USA by 10Best USA Today. In 2024, NCFF was named for the fourth time by Moviemaker Magazine as one of the top 50 film festivals in the world worth the submission fee for filmmakers.
This year’s festival kicks off June 19-22, 2025 in historic downtown Nevada City. This year’s festival features film screenings, panels and workshops for filmmakers and festival attendees, filmmaker Q&A’s and coffee talks, after-parties, nature hikes and outdoor excursions, and other special events.
NCFF is known for recognizing and supporting new talent including independent filmmakers such as Jonathan Krisel (Portlandia, Baskets), Jason Sussberg (Bill Nye: Science Guy), Patrick Brice (Corporate Animals, The Overnight), Greg Finton (Dazed & Confused, The World According to Dick Cheney), Augustine Frizzell (Never Goin’ Back), David Zellner (Damsel, Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter), Christina Choe (Nancy), Blackhorse Lowe (Reservation Dogs, Fukry), and animator and performance artist Miwa Matryek, among others.
In previous years NCFF has hosted filmmakers such as Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks), Mike Mills, Terry Zwigoff, Wesley Allsbrook, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (Cartoon Networks Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), Bill Nye (the Science Guy), and comedians including Beth Stelling, John Early, Kate Berlant, Maria Bamford, Tig Notaro, Nick Kroll, Natasha Leggero, Eric Andre, Kyle Kinane, and Marc Maron.
Past NCFF judges have included award-winning producers and directors, plus writers from The Huffington Post, New York Times, McSweeneys, San Francisco Chronicle, Rolling Stone Magazine, NPR, Film School Rejects, and Pop-Up Magazine.
Professional, student, and amateur filmmakers are invited to submit short and feature length films in a variety of genres including, but not limited to, documentaries, animation, narrative, comedy, multi-media, experimental, and music videos.
https://filmfreeway.com/NevadaCityFilmFestival
Junction North International Documentary Film Festival
Congratulations to all finalists in-competition at this year’s festival. Thank you to all filmmakers who submitted their fine projects. See you in Sudbury April 18-21st.
Canadian Screen Awards- Qualifying!!
Junction North brings Northern Ontario non-stop screenings over 4 days of the year’s outstanding stories from around the world. Starting as a showcase of Hot Docs favourites in 2013, Junction North became its own entity in 2017 running a curated programme of features with the years’ best from top tier festivals such as Sundance, TIFF, Hot Docs, and Berlinale.
Now Junction North is expanding to a world wide call-out for new non-fiction works with the expectation of hosting Canadian, North American and some World premieres. We will be thrilled to welcome presenting filmmakers to experience the festival, and participate in artists talks, Q&As, and Industry-specific events.
https://filmfreeway.com/JunctionNorthInternationalDocumentaryFilmFestival
Film Fest Guide Deadlines — January 6 2025 from FilmsGoneWild.com